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🏘️ ‘High rents and rising mortgage costs are hitting families hard'
Around 4 in 10 renters are in poverty once housing costs are taken into account, Lead Analyst @jelliott94.bsky.social explains.
Around 4 in 10 renters are in poverty once housing costs are taken into account, Lead Analyst @jelliott94.bsky.social explains.
January 30, 2026 at 1:25 PM
🏘️ ‘High rents and rising mortgage costs are hitting families hard'
Around 4 in 10 renters are in poverty once housing costs are taken into account, Lead Analyst @jelliott94.bsky.social explains.
Around 4 in 10 renters are in poverty once housing costs are taken into account, Lead Analyst @jelliott94.bsky.social explains.
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He thinks everyone and everything can be bought. Because that's been his entire life.
January 20, 2026 at 8:05 PM
He thinks everyone and everything can be bought. Because that's been his entire life.
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The Trump disbelief that the Norwegian govt doesn't control the Nobel process is deeply indicative of his thinking. He can't conceive that an institution could (or should) be genuinely independent of coercion or political power. That's the change he represents.
Trump: "I should have gotten the Nobel prize for each war...I saved millions and millions of people...and don't let anyone tell you that Norway doesn't control the shots. It's in Norway. Norway controls the shots. It's a joke. They've lost such prestige.“
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 PM
The Trump disbelief that the Norwegian govt doesn't control the Nobel process is deeply indicative of his thinking. He can't conceive that an institution could (or should) be genuinely independent of coercion or political power. That's the change he represents.
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Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world.
January 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world.
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It's not ok to care more abt bloody russian money than the lives of Ukrainian children.
It's not ok to reward an aggressor with lands and people.
It's not ok to normalize all of this.
So many things happening around are utterly wrong, pushing the prospects of real peace further away.
It's not ok to reward an aggressor with lands and people.
It's not ok to normalize all of this.
So many things happening around are utterly wrong, pushing the prospects of real peace further away.
January 19, 2026 at 6:21 PM
It's not ok to care more abt bloody russian money than the lives of Ukrainian children.
It's not ok to reward an aggressor with lands and people.
It's not ok to normalize all of this.
So many things happening around are utterly wrong, pushing the prospects of real peace further away.
It's not ok to reward an aggressor with lands and people.
It's not ok to normalize all of this.
So many things happening around are utterly wrong, pushing the prospects of real peace further away.
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It's not ok to watch an entire nation being bombed into freezing in brutal subzero t°.
It's not ok to pretend russia wants peace while it targets homes, hospitals, and energy grid, aiming to destroy Ukraine.
It's not ok to delay air defences while civilians sleep in cold shelters and darkness.
It's not ok to pretend russia wants peace while it targets homes, hospitals, and energy grid, aiming to destroy Ukraine.
It's not ok to delay air defences while civilians sleep in cold shelters and darkness.
January 19, 2026 at 6:21 PM
It's not ok to watch an entire nation being bombed into freezing in brutal subzero t°.
It's not ok to pretend russia wants peace while it targets homes, hospitals, and energy grid, aiming to destroy Ukraine.
It's not ok to delay air defences while civilians sleep in cold shelters and darkness.
It's not ok to pretend russia wants peace while it targets homes, hospitals, and energy grid, aiming to destroy Ukraine.
It's not ok to delay air defences while civilians sleep in cold shelters and darkness.
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Question in Copenhagen: why is Trump focussed on a Russian threat that doesn't exist (in Greenland) as opposed to one where it does (Ukraine)?
January 19, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Question in Copenhagen: why is Trump focussed on a Russian threat that doesn't exist (in Greenland) as opposed to one where it does (Ukraine)?
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Why America’s first amendment model doesn’t fit Britain
How far do we need to draw a line between free speech and hate speech? The US doctrine - only excluding imminent violence - tries to duck the core question. My column in October on that Oxford debate
www.easterneye.biz/uk-freedom-o...
How far do we need to draw a line between free speech and hate speech? The US doctrine - only excluding imminent violence - tries to duck the core question. My column in October on that Oxford debate
www.easterneye.biz/uk-freedom-o...
Why America’s first amendment model doesn’t fit Britain
How far do we need to draw a line between free speech and hate speech? The US doctrine tries to duck that.
www.easterneye.biz
January 19, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Why America’s first amendment model doesn’t fit Britain
How far do we need to draw a line between free speech and hate speech? The US doctrine - only excluding imminent violence - tries to duck the core question. My column in October on that Oxford debate
www.easterneye.biz/uk-freedom-o...
How far do we need to draw a line between free speech and hate speech? The US doctrine - only excluding imminent violence - tries to duck the core question. My column in October on that Oxford debate
www.easterneye.biz/uk-freedom-o...
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The Free Speech Union - tactically, I would guess - would not try to protect holocaust denial on campus (because it is free speech against the spirit of universal rights and anti-discrimination). But Toby does not feel that applies to monkey chanting, (illogically)
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Monkey chanting is a clear example - with racist & homophobic slur words - of something the US first amendment protects that most people here would exclude. That Free Speech Union's (pro-ECHR!) argument why FSU would not defend holocaust denial covers the monkey chanting example & racial slurs too
January 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM
The Free Speech Union - tactically, I would guess - would not try to protect holocaust denial on campus (because it is free speech against the spirit of universal rights and anti-discrimination). But Toby does not feel that applies to monkey chanting, (illogically)
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Today, it’s not your vote that determines whether the government brutalizes you or sends officers to your door. It’s your neighbors’ vote.
If you’re ok with this happening to Minnesotans, don’t get comfortable. You won’t be exempt for long.
In the end, a lawless administration comes for everyone.
If you’re ok with this happening to Minnesotans, don’t get comfortable. You won’t be exempt for long.
In the end, a lawless administration comes for everyone.
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Today, it’s not your vote that determines whether the government brutalizes you or sends officers to your door. It’s your neighbors’ vote.
If you’re ok with this happening to Minnesotans, don’t get comfortable. You won’t be exempt for long.
In the end, a lawless administration comes for everyone.
If you’re ok with this happening to Minnesotans, don’t get comfortable. You won’t be exempt for long.
In the end, a lawless administration comes for everyone.
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The likes of Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch back ICE-style raids.
What’s happening in the US shows why this should never become a reality in Britain.
https://news.sky.com/story/minneapolis-clashes-in-us-city-after-second-ice-shooting-in-space-of-week-13494453
What’s happening in the US shows why this should never become a reality in Britain.
https://news.sky.com/story/minneapolis-clashes-in-us-city-after-second-ice-shooting-in-space-of-week-13494453
Minneapolis: Clashes in US city after second ICE shooting in space of week
Minneapolis has become a major flashpoint in the backlash to Donald Trump's immigration enforcement, with the fatal shooting of a woman in the city having led to competing narratives about the conduct...
news.sky.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:16 PM
The likes of Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch back ICE-style raids.
What’s happening in the US shows why this should never become a reality in Britain.
https://news.sky.com/story/minneapolis-clashes-in-us-city-after-second-ice-shooting-in-space-of-week-13494453
What’s happening in the US shows why this should never become a reality in Britain.
https://news.sky.com/story/minneapolis-clashes-in-us-city-after-second-ice-shooting-in-space-of-week-13494453
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‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village
‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village
Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja is a small community of about 135 families – and the only one remaining in this part of the Jordan valley
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:04 AM
‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village
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Has there ever been any poll showing the public this united? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
January 13, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Has there ever been any poll showing the public this united? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
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Mandelson claims he was “kept separate” from Epstein’s crimes because he’s gay.
Yet stayed in touch until 2016 & on the eve of Epstein being jailed for child sex abuse charges, wrote: “I think the world of you & I feel hopeless & furious”, urged him to “fight for early release”, & offered support.
Yet stayed in touch until 2016 & on the eve of Epstein being jailed for child sex abuse charges, wrote: “I think the world of you & I feel hopeless & furious”, urged him to “fight for early release”, & offered support.
January 11, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Mandelson claims he was “kept separate” from Epstein’s crimes because he’s gay.
Yet stayed in touch until 2016 & on the eve of Epstein being jailed for child sex abuse charges, wrote: “I think the world of you & I feel hopeless & furious”, urged him to “fight for early release”, & offered support.
Yet stayed in touch until 2016 & on the eve of Epstein being jailed for child sex abuse charges, wrote: “I think the world of you & I feel hopeless & furious”, urged him to “fight for early release”, & offered support.
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(3/3) @jamesbowes01.bsky.social analysis, on which the Times article is based, explains the numbers and why the government's "earned settlement" proposals are a disaster economically as well as morally. [end]
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ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe
James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.
ukandeu.ac.uk
January 10, 2026 at 3:57 AM
(3/3) @jamesbowes01.bsky.social analysis, on which the Times article is based, explains the numbers and why the government's "earned settlement" proposals are a disaster economically as well as morally. [end]
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
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The immigration doom loop in full swing.
Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically.
(1/3)
archive.ph/pyVLg
Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically.
(1/3)
archive.ph/pyVLg
January 10, 2026 at 3:52 AM
The immigration doom loop in full swing.
Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically.
(1/3)
archive.ph/pyVLg
Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically.
(1/3)
archive.ph/pyVLg
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Entirely predictable/predicted: I wrote this almost two years ago
"If this government – or the next – does indeed succeed in reducing migration very substantially below projected levels, it will have a large fiscal cost, with consequent impacts for tax and spending."
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"If this government – or the next – does indeed succeed in reducing migration very substantially below projected levels, it will have a large fiscal cost, with consequent impacts for tax and spending."
ukandeu.ac.uk/has-higher-i...
Has higher immigration saved the Chancellor again? - UK in a changing Europe
Jonathan Portes explores the impact of immigration on the UK economy in light of the Budget and the OBR's analysis.
ukandeu.ac.uk
January 10, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Entirely predictable/predicted: I wrote this almost two years ago
"If this government – or the next – does indeed succeed in reducing migration very substantially below projected levels, it will have a large fiscal cost, with consequent impacts for tax and spending."
ukandeu.ac.uk/has-higher-i...
"If this government – or the next – does indeed succeed in reducing migration very substantially below projected levels, it will have a large fiscal cost, with consequent impacts for tax and spending."
ukandeu.ac.uk/has-higher-i...
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“Over a three‑year period, across 382 public authorities in England - including local councils, NHS trusts and domestic abuse refuges - only four formal complaints were recorded regarding trans women using facilities such as toilets, hospital wards or shelters.”
Transphobic panics are manufactured.
Transphobic panics are manufactured.
New data shows only four complaints about trans women in single‑sex spaces
A major Freedom of Information investigation by advocacy group TransLucent has revealed that concerns about trans women in single‑sex spaces are vastly overstated. Over a three‑year period, across 382...
www.scenemag.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM
“Over a three‑year period, across 382 public authorities in England - including local councils, NHS trusts and domestic abuse refuges - only four formal complaints were recorded regarding trans women using facilities such as toilets, hospital wards or shelters.”
Transphobic panics are manufactured.
Transphobic panics are manufactured.
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‘Spat at, pushed, punched’: medics tell of soaring levels of violence in hospitals
‘Spat at, pushed, punched’: medics tell of soaring levels of violence in hospitals
Doctors and nurses blame inaction by police and the NHS for mounting toll of physical and sexual abuse
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NHS staff face ‘national emergency’ as patient violence hits 285 incidents a day
A Guardian call-out to NHS staff in England to share their experiences of violence in hospitals has revealed that doctors, nurses, paramedics and managers are being overwhelmed by a torrent of physical assaults and sexual abuse by patients.
Most respondents said they had little faith in the NHS to tackle the scale and severity of this abuse, which included being attacked with weapons, including knives and chairs. Many staff felt there was no point in reporting physical or sexual harm because perpetrators faced no real comeback from the NHS or the police. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:03 PM
‘Spat at, pushed, punched’: medics tell of soaring levels of violence in hospitals
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This is why the Government's strategy is doomed. The British public's view of immigration is completely disconnected from reality, and copying the last government by pursuing increasingly vicious crackdowns on legal migration is delivering the same outcome.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds
Exclusive: Voters say they have little confidence that government can control borders despite sharp falls in net migration
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:50 AM
This is why the Government's strategy is doomed. The British public's view of immigration is completely disconnected from reality, and copying the last government by pursuing increasingly vicious crackdowns on legal migration is delivering the same outcome.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Strong recommend for this short 2020 essay,which links at least 2 other great ones, eg
≈per Shirin Ebadi & other female Nobel laureates “the foundational autocratic bargain” promises “restoration of private privileges of men & elites, in exchange for tolerance of erosion of democratic freedoms.”≈
≈per Shirin Ebadi & other female Nobel laureates “the foundational autocratic bargain” promises “restoration of private privileges of men & elites, in exchange for tolerance of erosion of democratic freedoms.”≈
January 7, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Strong recommend for this short 2020 essay,which links at least 2 other great ones, eg
≈per Shirin Ebadi & other female Nobel laureates “the foundational autocratic bargain” promises “restoration of private privileges of men & elites, in exchange for tolerance of erosion of democratic freedoms.”≈
≈per Shirin Ebadi & other female Nobel laureates “the foundational autocratic bargain” promises “restoration of private privileges of men & elites, in exchange for tolerance of erosion of democratic freedoms.”≈
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I wonder if anyone will revisit their charitable interpretations of Elon’s definitely-not-a-Nazi-salute
January 8, 2026 at 1:36 PM
I wonder if anyone will revisit their charitable interpretations of Elon’s definitely-not-a-Nazi-salute
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In case you missed it, Nigel Farage said Reform would vote against scrapping the two-child benefit cap because some of the families who will benefit include people who are “foreign-born”.
Imagine being so racist that you would rather keep 450,000 children in poverty.
Imagine being so racist that you would rather keep 450,000 children in poverty.
January 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
In case you missed it, Nigel Farage said Reform would vote against scrapping the two-child benefit cap because some of the families who will benefit include people who are “foreign-born”.
Imagine being so racist that you would rather keep 450,000 children in poverty.
Imagine being so racist that you would rather keep 450,000 children in poverty.
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Alex Davies-Jones MP, the Minister for Violence against Women and Girls has posted this today to Elon Musk. This is about a future law the government proposes.
There is also a compelling case that X is breaching *existing* legal duties under both the Online Safety Act 2023 and the 2010 Equality Act
There is also a compelling case that X is breaching *existing* legal duties under both the Online Safety Act 2023 and the 2010 Equality Act
January 2, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Alex Davies-Jones MP, the Minister for Violence against Women and Girls has posted this today to Elon Musk. This is about a future law the government proposes.
There is also a compelling case that X is breaching *existing* legal duties under both the Online Safety Act 2023 and the 2010 Equality Act
There is also a compelling case that X is breaching *existing* legal duties under both the Online Safety Act 2023 and the 2010 Equality Act