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bylines.scot
Everyone says neoliberalism is dead, but in practice it staggers on like a zombie ideology | Dr Daniel Gay
@dangay.bsky.social
The strange case of zombie neoliberalism – Part 1 - Bylines Scotland
Everyone says neoliberalism is dead, but in practice it staggers on like a zombie ideology
bylines.scot
October 31, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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thewritertype.bsky.social
It’s Pavlov’s birthday. Pavlov was famous for making his wife, the ballerina Pavlova, salivate whenever he fed his dog a meringue based pudding.
September 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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atrupar.com
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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drpauldorfman.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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helenacdo.bsky.social
Please sign this petition. We need to know what is happening with free zones. Are you living in one without realising? Why is the New Forest in one?
July 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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malmer.com
"Why does political belief not fall under the realm of inclusivity?"

Friend, let me introduce you to Popper's Paradox of Tolerance.
Cartoon titled The Paradox of Tolerance by philosopher Karl Popper. First panel: Should a tolerant society tolerate intolerance? Nazi speech bubble: "You want more tolerance? Respect my ideas." The answer is no. Second panel: When we extend tolerance to those who are openly intolerant, the tolerant ones end up being destroyed and tolerance with them. Third panel: Any movement that preaches intolerance and persecution must be outside the law. As paradoxical as it may seem, defending intolerance requires to not tolerate the intolerant.
July 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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andrewcopson.bsky.social
It is seventy years today since the publication of the ‘Russell-Einstein Manifesto’, containing the immortal words of those two great humanists on the great potential of human science and the great peril of human conflict - words as true today as then.
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress and happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings, remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can do so the way lies open to a new Paradise. If you cannot there lies before you the risk of universal death.
July 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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teedixie.bsky.social
Anyone think #BREXIT has been an unmitigated disaster as well?

Vote in the poll here.
Repost when you’re done.

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Mirror Poll
xd.wayin.com
June 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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asls.org.uk
‘outwith’: preposition: outside; beyond. A term unique to Scotland.

Revising my visa essay,
applying for three more years
here, I read my own scribbled words:

Comparable opportunities for critical study
do not exist outwith Scotland…

—Katie Ailes, “Outwith”
Glasgow Women Poets, Four-em Press 2016
Outwith Katie Ailes ‘outwith’: preposition: outside; beyond. A term unique to Scotland. Revising my visa essay, applying for three more years here, I read my own scribbled words: Comparable opportunities for critical study do not exist outwith Scotland. Outwith: a term unfamiliar, yet scrawled in my own hand, doubtlessly mine, and I wonder: I came here all rude American brass, all trash can, fanny pack, Where’s the castle? Then Glasgow rolled itself under my tongue, a grey marble lolling my mouth open with Os: Glasgow, Kelvingrove, going to Tesco, then thistling my speech wi sleekit lisps, wee packets a crisps, my lips like the lids of those glass bottles of sand I used to collect from every beach: my mouth a shore holding each grain that altered the flow of my speech, my pen flowing ‘s’ into the cursive waves of ‘socialised,’ ‘civilised,’ ‘acclimatised,’ answering Aye! by accident then smiling. I may be from out but I am now with.
May 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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mrianjohnson.bsky.social
This funny 'American Pie' parody bites hard — from a comedy show that went out a few days ago in the UK
April 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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nickreeves.bsky.social
Starmer wrote in the Express that he is against restoring Freedom of Movement.

Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.

We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
March 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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suewilson91.bsky.social
Thank you to those that signed & shared. That's a 50% increase in signatures in just 24 hours, but a long way still to go.
March 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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anthropunk.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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therejoineuparty.com
🇪🇺 🚨 4,286 signatures! 🚨🇪🇺

We are just 5,700 signatures away from forcing Parliament to comment on a Brexit Impact Assessment.
🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺

💙 If you haven’t signed, now is the time.
📢 If you have, SHARE this. Let’s hit 10k!

✍️ Sign here:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

#ExitBrexit #TeamEU
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7001…
March 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
mitchelldrg.bsky.social
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
you.38degrees.org.uk
March 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
mitchelldrg.bsky.social
stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...
Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit
Stop Trump Coalition
stoptrump.org.uk
March 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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nickreeves.bsky.social
Freedom of Movement was robbed from us by a successful Russian influence operation and the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

Please repost if you want it restored.
February 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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harryeccles.bsky.social
I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear.

This man sows hate, lies and division.

He is a grifter and a conman.

He does not represent the vast majority of Britons.

Repost if you agree

P.s. multiculturalism is great.
December 27, 2024 at 9:55 AM