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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 4h

Again proving: 沒有最差只有更差
There is no 'the worst', only 'even worse'

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 10h

Interesting idea. A entire news market will get a public editor.

Indianapolis will be the first local media market to get its own Public Editor, who will monitor all the newsrooms in town. tinyurl.com/2s44zxe8

Poynter launches public editor project to serve news audiences in Indianapolis - Poynter

Partner newsrooms will publish the editor’s independent analysis of local news coverage across the market.

tinyurl.com

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 10h

I wonder how many Brits have A-level standards of English ...

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 12h

Timely and important.
There are too many knee-jerk approaches to China one way or the other.

Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 16h

My new piece for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social on EU-UK co-operation on China policy. Tl;dr: if you say a country is a systemic rival, or that competing with it may have huge consequences for your citizens, you need more serious policy responses than either the EU or UK have offered so far.

Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 17h

China’s rise, its support for Russia’s war effort in Ukraine & the unreliability of Trump’s US have sharpened the dilemmas in European policy towards China. 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇬🇧

New @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social policy brief by @cerianbond.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/EJXAsaz

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 13h

I agree it's immoral.
It's also a false economy.
Some will die, but still more will become disabled, chronically ill, suffer long-term health impacts (including cognitive ones).
All while the govt sets rigid targets for school attendance and squeezes disability payments.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 14h

I’ll find something and I can afford the £80, but many cannot afford to go wherever it is let alone afford the £80.

Again: they changed criteria just a few weeks ago. All to avoid spending money on essential care. People are going to die as a direct result of this.

It’s immoral. 4/4

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 14h

a man in a suit says " too simple sometimes naive in english "

Alt: a man in a suit (late Chinese president Jiang Zemin) says " too simple sometimes naive in English "

media.tenor.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 17h

"A provider told me last week they had 80 applications for a job they were advertising and not one person turned up for the interview.”

Carers - who are overwhelmingly racialised - are too scared to even show up for interviews - and the UK has 130,000 job vacancies.

Do the math.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18h

'Staff working with elderly and disabled service users have been advised to travel to work in racially mixed groups and carry panic alarms....It comes against a backdrop of charities also warning of growing intimidation, racial abuse and threats of violence towards staff and beneficiaries.'

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 1d

Just read a thread where someone criticising protesters for using pop culture references such as Andor etc (corporate media, after all) and then cited Lei Feng as a real-life person whose real-life deeds inspired true causes and I just don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 1d

Not exactly subtle, is it?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

UKIP's new logo looks a bit Far Righty.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The NYT, Atlantic, WaPo, CNN, Guardian and others have all refused to sign Pete Hegseth new rules on reporting from the Pentagon. As far as I can tell only OAN has signed it. I guess this is Hegseth waving goodbye to their access to the Pentagon and other DOD facilities.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 1d

This is not the way, folks.
I reject model minority arguments.

Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 1d

“If Britain has no space for a group like the Hongkongers, then our national panic over immigration will surely have gone too far. This country needs some immigration, and if it is not the productive & educated exiles from Hong Kong, to whom we also have a moral duty, then who will we let in?”

Hong Kong’s migrants are the ones we need

Tightening the rules makes life harder for 160,000 highly educated and employable refugees

www.thetimes.com

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 2d

This is so important and so overlooked.
I was really annoyed when a BBC long feature I read earlier about teenage girls who were terrorising a local high street failed to mention this.

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 2d

傑佬

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The Bar Council @thebarcouncil.bsky.social · 2d

The Bars, Faculty and Law Societies in the UK have come together and accused politicians of "irresponsible and dangerous" language that is putting lawyers at risk.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Lawyers warn of death threats after Reform and Tories' 'two-tier' claims

In an unprecedented intervention, six legal bodies, representing 250,000 lawyers, expressed “grave concern” over the language being used toward legal professionals

www.mirror.co.uk

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 3d

New article from the disability news service mentions Wessely’s appointment

John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · 4d

The government’s decision to commission a review of “over-diagnosis” of mental health conditions and neurodivergence has caused alarm among many disabled people, with fears it will allow ministers to justify further sweeping cuts to disability benefits.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/alarm-over-g...

Alarm over government’s choices to lead ‘over-diagnosis’ review that could help ministers cut benefits

The government’s decision to commission a review of alleged “over-diagnosis” of mental health conditions and neurodivergence has caused alarm among many disabled people, with fears that it will all…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 3d

Agree, except there is a fair bit of illness going around...

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 4d

Throwback Friday.
So, I was reminded that this happened six years ago.

Screenshot of an FB post that reads: S is teaching her classmate, C Cantonese
C: Yeah, man
Teacher: why are you saying Yeah, man?
C: It means evening in Chinese

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 4d

A reminder:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 4d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confuci...

Confucius Peace Prize - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 4d

Much needed corrective.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d

What if this tale of graduate-specific woe is off-beam, based on a misguided analysis of the data? What if the accompanying narratives that seek to explain why the most educated are faring especially badly are focused on a mirage? on.ft.com/47igZ9B

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 5d

Not a word or place name: Kung Hei Fat Choy

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 6d

What are the "five left-wing attacks" and which is the "single right-wing attack"?

screenshot of text that reads: From 1994 to July of this year, there were 495 right-wing terror attacks and plots, and 68 left-wing ones, according to data from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think-tank.

But there have been five left-wing attacks this year, compared to one right-wing incident.

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 6d

And jailing feminists ...

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 6d

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 6d

Important thread and Wesseley alert

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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