The number of people suffering mental distress up significantly in England. 22.6% of 16- to 64-year-olds have a common mental disorder. Poverty, insecurity, anxiety in everyday life key factors NHS poorly equipped. Years of austerity, wage/benefit cuts take toll. No govt deals with root causes.

NHS at risk of ‘system failures’ as demand for ADHD and autism care soars, inquiry finds

England-focused review led by Prof Peter Fonagy returns stark warning and calls for shift to ‘needs-led’ system

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Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions? www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings

Silicon Valley radicalization escalates

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Strong Message Here - Super Intelligence (with Stewart Lee and Carole Cadwalladr) - BBC Sounds

A look at the rebrand of AI. Is it really super?

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I thought I had seen it all, but this is an astonishing new low, putting the US in the company of Iran, Afghanistan and N Korea. I abhor the death penalty. The idea that kids, including my own, might see such an execution shocks me to the core. Abhorrent, barbaric, sick, warped, cruel and twisted.

E. Lee van Cleef@workerbee3.bsky.social · 6h ago

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A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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Here we go again.

Tories totally unfunded tax cut for the wealthiest latest: they’ve hugely underestimated the cost of their policy and therefore the borrowing splurge their plans would cause. This is absolutely mad approach to economic policy making - totally giving up on fiscal credibility

Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · 20h ago

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

Billionaire press... 'When the Sunday Times broke the news that David Reuben, one of the richest men in the UK, had fled to Monaco, Labour’s tax regime was blamed. However, research by TaxWatch has found that Reuben has been a tax resident in Monaco since 2014.' www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left

TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus

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The Local Government Association protests that the cost of supporting children in care rise by £1 billion a year but cannot bring itself to mention profiteering. www.local.gov.uk/about/news/c...

Costs of supporting children in care rise by £1 billion a year

Spending on providing support for children in care is rising at a rate of £1 billion a year, according to new analysis by the Local Government Association.

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Tory IHT cut could cost £11bn - almost twice the advertised price

Our modelling suggests Badenoch’s inheritance tax cut could cost £7.7bn-£10.9bn a year and shift £60bn-£110bn from savings and investments into housing.

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Each should contribute according to their ability and take according to their need. This is why we expect so little from Vance.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

Since it was sold to a private equity organisation Boots has closed 700 branches and sacked 9,000 staff.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 7d ago

US private equity owner of Boots to sell it to a Canadian private equity firm for $9bn (£7bn). NHS prescriptions are a major money makers. Otherwise its prices are high. No UK tax levied on dividends paid by Boots to its foreign owners.

Now public executions in America, so people can gawk at someone dying. Sick.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

Hegseth on Nidal Hasan: "He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be. We'll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it's public. Because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things."

This man is a fucking weirdo. Why are we handing his company contracts? He's literally stated his disdain for liberal democracies.

Politico@politico.com · 14h ago

Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures politi.co/4zs3LTb

Oh pls

Hayden Field@haydenfield.bsky.social · 15h ago

Exclusive: Anthropic is updating its usage policy for the first time in over a year. The new rules prohibit sustained "abusive or cruel behavior" towards Claude & add new restrictions about propaganda campaigns, surveillance & weapon development. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

In Hampshire, over 12,000 people waited over 12 hours in A and E fit to sit areas last year. The winter crisis comes around every year, yet action is always promised. The Liberal Democrats tabled an amendment to end corridor care in a year, with a dedicated inquiry to be launched into the Departmen

'Ominous signs' of winter pressures as NHS waiting list grows

NHS winter pressures appear to be building already, with rises in waiting times for planned surgery.

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In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 20h ago

Visa applications to study in the UK fell by 10.3 per cent for the key recruitment month of September, new Home Office figures show. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #highered #visas #internationalstudents #edusky https://ow.ly/3LSs50ZVPAE

Number crunching: “the poorest in our society” From the new Private Eye, out now.

I think in reality what socialism actually means in the American context is that trillionaire Elon Musk got $38 billion from the U.S. government and you got rejected trying to buy a $1 soda on SNAP benefits.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

It's GOOD The debate about children’s social care is increasingly focusing on private profit. But capping profit IS NOT the same as ending it. The goal must be to make sure that public money is being spent on care - not generating returns for private investors.

Autumn Budget 2026: LGA submission

From delivering new homes, to promoting economic growth or improving the life chances of the most vulnerable in our society, councils are the key to solving our biggest local and national challenges. Our submission sets out the steps the Chancellor should take in his Autumn Budget to ensure councils are able to play their role in tackling these issues and challenges to the full.

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If protesting didn't work, would those in power be doing everything they can right now to vilify protestors and crack down on free speech? Activist and author Annie Leonard offers an important history lesson on why protest is so important — and why it's needed now more than ever.

Q on Politics Live: Why is inheritance tax so unpopular, despite so few paying it? Answers offered: Double taxation; against aspiration; something something British psyche. Answer not offered: Media owners, pundits, politicians (i.e. everyone in that studio), and pollsters would be caught by it.

Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · yesterday

🔹 KEMI-DETACHED 🔹 New show: 🍸 Badenoch goes back to the 80s 🤷‍♀️ But to whom will it appeal? ⏰ Timely god less America With @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @pimlicat.bsky.social ! 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

On this day in 1942, an 11 year old Dutch Jewish girl arrived at Auschwitz with her mother and sister (14) where they were murdered. Her father perished in 1943. Her name Betje Sara Creveld Support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

It should come as no surprise that a mean, angry man married to an unpleasant kook is not in favor of allowing other people to be in happy marriages. But Christian Nationalists are notorious busybodies.

Trump is fueling a culture of misogynistic impunity. My latest for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/06/trump-cornell-misogyny-sexism

Trump is fueling a culture of misogynistic impunity | Robert Reich

The allegations against seven men at Cornell University come amid a climate of belligerent sexism

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This was a choice. Remember this.

For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?