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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker

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RAF Regiment Veteran - CEO https://survivorswestyorkshire.org.uk - 26 yrs SV activist - CSA & CEP survivor .. Known to some as 'The Doctor' - BSc MSc Psychology - student Scifi & Zen

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Nov 17

One of the best interviews I've ever done with the help of Jane Mulcahy - if you want to know what I think about sexual violence and recovery- growth possibility for its survivors - enjoy youtu.be/l0on6LvamM0?...

Relationships Matter: a Law and Justice interview with Robert Balfour

YouTube video by Jane Mulcahy

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · 5d

If there is one positive cause at the moment worth a donation this brave young women and her fellow grooming - rape gangs survivors hope for a positive event to celebration their courage in speaking truth to power with an authentic intregity www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/survivors-...

Survivors ball-Healing hearts 💕

At Healing Hearts: Life After CSE, we are raising funds for a Survivor’s ball.

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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · Sep 28

“I'm here to endorse the Labour for a New Democracy call for a National Commission in this parliament - and a manifesto commitment to a system of Proportional Representation to be introduced into Westminster elections in the next Parliament.”

🌹 @andyburnham.bsky.social

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Sep 20

I just signed the @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social petition calling on Labour’s Conference Arrangements Committee to allow party delegates a debate on ending the two-child benefit limit.

We must tackle the scourge of child poverty. Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/la...

Labour must choose differently on child poverty

In a country as wealthy as the UK, allowing child poverty to deepen is a political choice. Labour must choose differently. Sign the petition below calling on the Conference Arrangements Committee t...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Sep 15

All hail VICTOR!!! He's a real-life hero whose selflessness & courage is an inspiration to us all.

Wishing you a complete & speedy recovery.

I salute you, sir! 🫡

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Sep 15

To transform the country and take on the populist right, Labour must heed the voices of its radical realists - and build a principled, practical, popular left alternative.

Join @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social and together we can bring that alternative to life.

www.mainstreamlabour.org/get-involved

Get involved | Mainstream Labour

Mainstream is the home for Labour’s radical realists - united by values, driven by change

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Sep 13

Get involved | Mainstream Labour

Mainstream is the home for Labour’s radical realists - united by values, driven by change

www.mainstreamlabour.org

Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Sep 3

Well 65 orbits completed (not sure how I'm still here 😂 ) But I get to do this one more time ... here's to 66 🖖 youtu.be/V1e5h9YSe_k?...

"Staying Alive" (1983) - The Final Strut

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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · Aug 31

Stunning footage of a rare dark coloured deer, with estimates suggesting they make up less than 1% of all deer.

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 31

This month I will be presenting my perspectives on my academic publication journey using Autoethnography to almost all the leading Professors in the world exploring its possibilities as a tool to understand experience from the inner reality of people experiencing mental health distress. 🖖

Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 25

You're welcome - I really liked your podcast - you might like the following article journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/SW...

Victim–Survivor–Warrior–Healer: An autoethnographic account of a male childhood sexual violence survivor’s activist journey | Social Work and Social Sciences Review

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Ask A Sex Abuse Survivor @askasurvivor.bsky.social · Aug 18

The on demand replay of my play about the healing power of Doctor Who will be available for one week starting today. To get an email with the link, click below and make a small donation in support of the show.

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Ask A Sex Abuse Survivor (on demand replay)

This interactive play is a testimonial to the healing power of Doctor Who.

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Ask A Sex Abuse Survivor @askasurvivor.bsky.social · Jul 6

This interactive play is a testimonial to the healing power of Doctor Who. Survivor Michael Broussard tells the story of the abuse he experienced as a child and of the great solace and strength he later found through his involvement in Doctor Who fandom.

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Ask A Sex Abuse Survivor

This interactive play is a testimonial to the healing power of Doctor Who.

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Jul 20

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Unmasking the mind

“Psychology should be based on empirical evidence and scientific methods,” claimed the founder of its modern form, cognitive psychology. Yet critics argue it's unknown whether psychology really has m...

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Jul 13

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Crisis in the academy

Universities, long celebrated as sanctuaries of free thought and intellectual rigour, have for centuries been regarded as the best way to educate and conduct research. But increasingly, this assumptio...

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Jun 28

Young men have pretty positive views on manhood
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Young men have pretty positive views on manhood

There's too much moral-panicking and blaming going on around young men

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Jun 23

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What is GDP — and why is it so wrong?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Jun 23

Who represents Britain on screen? UK film and TV culture still has a worrying class problem
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Who represents Britain on screen? UK film and TV culture still has a worrying class problem

The narrowness of this field is bad news for diversity – we need greater breadth and depth when it comes to British culture and those who produce it.

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Jun 23

What the new grooming gangs inquiry must do to put victims before politics
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What the new grooming gangs inquiry must do to put victims before politics

Casey’s audit highlights the huge gaps around ethnicity data.

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Rob Balfour: Truth Walker @robdbalfour.bsky.social · Jun 22

"The failure was not in the children. It was in the state. These girls were targeted precisely because the system did not care. " observer.co.uk/news/opinion...