Thank you to the good people of Ireland, who today have again shown that Trump and his politics of hate are not welcome this side of the Atlantic. We stand in solidarity with you! 🇮🇪 www.rawstory.com/trump-irelan...

Humiliation for Trump as Ireland flocks to the streets with enormous and lewd balloons

Enormous and crude balloons cast a dark shadow over President Donald Trump's visit to Ireland on Saturday.Trump landed in Ireland on Saturday to visit the International Golf Links & Hotel, Doonbeg and...

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A damning indictment of where hate leads. RNLI has to warn its volunteers - people who save lives - not to wear branded clothes for fear of being attacked. Absolutely shameful.

RNLI reviews security measures after far-right threats

The charity’s chief executive said the online abuse was ‘wholly unacceptable’

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If your idea of patriotism is calling any member of the RNLI, an entirely voluntary organisation whose crews daily risk their lives to save others, a traitor, then you are beyond hope of redemption.

Great work, @profharryferguson.bsky.social!

Policy Press@policypress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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🎙️ New episode out today 🎧 In this week's episode Matt and Hannah are then joined by Harry Ferguson to talk about his latest book, ‘Making Child Protection Work’, exploring the importance of relational and intimate child protection practice. Listen now on any major podcast platform 💗

If you're excited for universal child care and you know it, clap your hands! 👏🏽

A recap of 2025 at Bristol University Press and Policy Press. Milestones, events, achievements, celebrations and, most of all, a thank you to everyone involved in our publishing. We wish you the best for 2026! 🎉❤️ https://ow.ly/37M350XGhk1

Really good discussion around the power of lived experience in this Messy Social Work podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rich-and-tim-discuss-the-trauma-industrial-complex/id1651861448?i=1000736739275 It really makes me want to read Darren McGarvey’s The Trauma Industrial Complex! […]

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Wonderful to find #Tayto crisps for sale in Melbourne, but at $6 (£3) a packet - THREE QUID😱😡. Australia, how could you 🥲🥲 @jdev65.bsky.social @jojofinchers.bsky.social

Brilliant analysis by @cwarzel.bsky.social of the socio-political dynamics surrounding a blue denim jeans ad campaign and the production of Sydney Sweeney as a cultural object. Applies to how so many cultural moments are confected internet / social media driven spectacles.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote about the Sydney Sweeney jeans discourse and broken informations systems that make talking to each other impossible (in fact it's not even the goal). Context collapse is just how people (and brands!) communicate now. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

🎉 Campaign success! The Scottish Government announces an uplift in bursary support for postgraduate social work students in Scotland! Well done to @scotssocialwork.bsky.social and @swu-uk.bsky.social for all their campaigning on this issue. 🔗 Read more: gov.scot/news/social-work-bursary-increase

A jackpot of £129 million and the “You’ve won” email arrives. … 3 minutes of anticipation as you log in to see the prize, 3 mins of fantasising about all the charities you’d give it to (and ok houses and cars … to buy) And then it happens: “You’ve won £2.80” Closes Rightmove. Buys tissues

My second journal article is out in Culture, Health & Sexuality. It is the final paper of the MANFOKUS project. Our paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691058.2025.2458719

‘How do I really want to be as a man?’ Masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraceptive decision-making – findings from an interview study in Germany

This paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. Through twelve qualitative interviews, three of which were couple interv...

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This is a great paper, based on excellent research that deserves to be widely read by all in social work.

Dr Mark Gregory@swkresearcher.bsky.social · last yr.

My paper on supervisory spaces has hit 1500 views. It's open access so can be used by social workers and supervisors to think about how they engage with supervisory support. #AcademicSky #SocialWorkSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hard to say how disappointing this morning‘s speech really was. Morally AND intellectually. Agree with every line here by @iandunt.bsky.social 👇

Starmer is as bad as those who came before him. What a bitter disappointment

Echoing the far right on immigration, his moral and intellectual stature has fallen away

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Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party. I ask again, what is he playing at?

Spot on Zoe. Just when you think Starmer and this Labour Party/ government can’t lurch any further to the right, injustice and sheer stupidity, they go and unleash a ton more anti-migrant - ‘foreigner’ hate and inflict further damage on adult social care. It’s absolutely sickening.

Zoe Gardner@zoejardiniere.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote an op-ed for @lbc.co.uk about Labour's immigration white paper today & how chasing Nigel Farage will take them nowhere www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

If this is the case, we know this man is on an all fluoride diet.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."

And that is what Adrian should have said, really. The Greens have good, popular policies on taxing the hyper-rich. That is the 1% with actual power, the 1% making us all poorer & using trans people & migrants as wedges to divide us & stop us noticing them. #r4today

I’ve had 2 liver transplants- one in 2004 and the other in 2023. The generosity of my donors and their families has kept me alive. Please support #OrganDonation and let your wishes be known. www.facebook.com/share/p/19Pm...

#NoStateVisit #TrumpOut

Zoe Gardner@zoejardiniere.bsky.social · last yr.

Follow @ukstoptrump.bsky.social to join our movement against the oligarchs 💪💪💪

I'd suggest reading this while wearing your inflatable T-rex costume and eating cookies. You can find The Roots of Buddhist Psychology on Hoopla through your local library. I promise, this lecture series is a profound hoot and a half! therevealer.org/meeting-chao... #psychology #philosophy #Buddhism

Meeting Chaos with Compassion and Humor through “The Roots of Buddhist Psychology” — The Revealer

The 30th anniversary of Jack Kornfield’s famed lecture series on Buddhism and how it resonates today amidst social and political upheaval

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Never thought I’d be applauding Ronald Reagan’s wisdom! www.instagram.com/reel/DIAJLh9...

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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New research on what happens to older people, families and care staff when care homes close - policy and practice guide & training video via www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Wel played, Ikea.

‘Staff assessed the moral worth of families through inspection and case-work, often relying on local gossip and judging families on their ability to keep up appearances. A dirty home meant a deviant family life.’ Mary Hannity on the Waifs and Strays Society: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Mary Hannity · Worse than Orphans: Waifs and Strays

What power does a child have? You could refuse your food or try to run away or escape into your imagination. You could...

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A wonderful life story and extraordinary career by the incomparable Lindsey Hilton - great interview on Desert Island Discs by @laurenlaverne.bsky.social

Drastic cuts to PIP will affect as many as 1 million disabled and ill people, pushing them into severe hardship, worsening physical and mental health, and isolation. There is no credible argument for pulling help from people shouldering the high costs of disability. Cruelty dressed up as reform.

Totally agree John. Little wonder so many disabled people are very distressed about the prospect of being further impoverished. By a Labour government?! It’s appalling.

John Devaney@jdev65.bsky.social · 2y ago

Proposed changes to disability benefits in UK are less about reform and more about rationing. A very limited and myopic approach to a complex issue - reform is needed, but this isn't it. BBC News - At-a-glance: Key changes to benefits in welfare shake-up www.bbc.com/news/article...