If you’re interested in this technique then I strongly recommend the below report from Larger Us. It digs into the evidence on the impact of these conversation-based approaches, why they work and the factors that make them more likely to be successful.

How conversations drive social change: New research report — Let's Talk Climate

Can casual chats move the political needle? Explore new research by Luisa Melloh on the power of structured conversations to change hearts and minds.

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This highlights a profound impact of Trump — the further normalization of violence against women. Trump got elected in spite of his long history of violence against women. He is not held accountable when he continues to abuse women. 1/2

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

Max Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."

@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social: NEW: FT confirms our story revealing - Reform treasurer given schedule to repay £1m to Richard Tice (as part of leadership deal) - Tice paid & received six-figure sums from party "on same day" In reply to Qs he told @AnnaSophieGross the FT is "boring"

Reform repaid Tice loan on same day £1mn donated by mother of Farage aide Cottrell

Transactions fuel criticism of the party’s lack of transparency over its financing

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Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 12h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

Gordon Brown is right. Make time to read this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

After five brutal years of Taliban rule, Afghan women and girls need our help – and I have a plan | Gordon Brown

Even in the face of appalling repression, girls yearn to fulfil their educational potential. We must set up a global fund to help them, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

theguardian.com

“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

I hate that my work is relevant here, but if you want to read an autopsy of the process of imagining fake women, go read the first chapter here, "Impossible Women", it's open access Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDF - University of California Press share.google/rGRTskbSYmmz...

Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDF

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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She's a perfect example of why people need to study history because no one who knows anything about Dunkirk would dream of writing something so insulting and wrong.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · yesterday

The war. It always comes back to the war. That happened long before they were born.

French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. You’re only diminishing yourself with comments like this.

The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.

A former neo-Nazi activist with convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP has been selected as a Conservative candidate for a local election in Somerset www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

theguardian.com

The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.

There is always a Tweet! #FarageBoats

Welcome to the 2026 version of the Conservative Party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

theguardian.com

There are many issues with Reform’s proposals for Royal Navy operations against small boats but chief among them is the fact it has already happened and didn't achieve the government's stated aims Operation Isotrope ran from 2022-23 as Channel crossings peaked inews.co.uk/news/world/n...

No, Farage, the Royal Navy can't stop small boats. This is why

Critics are already tearing apart Reform's plans to deploy British warships to intercept migrants in the Channel

inews.co.uk

How is it that this story still hasn't appeared in the New York Times?

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns

The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...

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“Successive governments have neglected the adult social care sector, or failed to deliver on their commitments to meaningful reform – as our Performance Tracker 2025 explores” This is a must-read but lengthy IfG article: extracts follow. Source: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...?

Since the early 2000s, Section 106 agreements have become an increasingly important means of delivery of affordable homes. Between 2015-16 & 2024-25 private developers contributed 244,000 homes (45% of the 542,000 total). Read more on how Andy Burnham can boost affordable housing: buff.ly/mvyhrC0

The BBC and its chair Samir Shah deserve enormous credit for fighting Donald Trump’s attempts to extort money from the British public Piece from me on how Shah’s bravery contrasts with US broadcasters’ cowardice

Praise the BBC’s fight against Trump’s gangsterism

Samir Shah: Hero of liberal democracy!

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This is one of those insanely encouraging things that most people just refuse to believe. It's either open green space untouched by man for eternity or solar/data center/tar pit (all the same)

Suw@suw.bsky.social · 3d ago

Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...

According to Luke Tryl on Radio 4 disillusioned Reform voters think Farage is “just the same as the rest” on the corruption front. But he isn’t is he? He’s exponentially worse. And his grifter tendency has been obvious for a very long time.

“Yusuf says Britain is being 'invaded', accusing Tory and Labour governments of offering 'a free ferry service and free hotels'” Absolutely no mention of the fact that small boat arrivals are 43% down. This policy will not attract new supporters, it merely panders to the existing no-hopers.

John Springford@johnspringford.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ah, so Immigration Week is Stupid Week, as expected

They don’t want it to be true. If the crossings stopped they’d be subsidizing them to embarrass Labour. Reform and Restore NEED the small boat crossings

Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · 3d ago

Andy Burnham correctly points out in an interview that small boat crossings are massively down this year compared with last. The comments in the post are filled with people suggesting he is lying about this very clear, data-evidenced fact. It’s almost as though they don’t want it to he true…

The evidence is clear: neighbourhood crime is falling across London. There have been 35,000 fewer offences in the last year thanks to record investment in the Met, more officers on our streets and targeted action to tackle robbery, burglary and vehicle crime.

Neighbourhood crime plunges in London as mayor slams 'dystopian hellhole' narrative

‘Neighbourhood crime’ falls 14% with 35,000 fewer offences in a year

standard.co.uk

Reform UK's deputy leader Richard Tice is being investigated by the parliamentary standards watchdog over an allegation he failed to declare an interest. The investigation was opened on Tuesday 28 July and was published on the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner website on Monday

Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog

Reform's deputy leader is being investigated about an allegation he failed to declare an interest.

bbc.co.uk

“Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice is under investigation by the standards commissioner over a failure to declare his direct interest in Israel, when he spoke in an antisemitism debate in Parliament” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Richard Tice faces standards probe over 'failure to declare an interest'

Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice is under investigation by the standards commissioner over a failure to declare an interest, it has emerged today

mirror.co.uk

For days, Reform politicians claimed that significant numbers of migrants who surged into Ceuta would be heading to Calais and onwards to Britain Not only have most already returned to Morocco, but Moroccans have made up just 0.07% of small boat arrivals since 2021 inews.co.uk/news/no-thou...

No, thousands of migrants won't come to the UK from Ceuta - here's why

Fears of a new migration crisis impacting the UK are misplaced despite the chaotic scenes witnessed in Ceuta, an expert has said

inews.co.uk

Worth posting in context as it is bang on topic.

The Labour party has been politically stuck on immigration. That has to change – here’s how the new PM can break out of the trap ✏️ @sundersays.bsky.social

Next year, Britain will experience emigration. What can Burnham do about it?

The Labour party has been politically stuck on immigration. That has to change – here’s how the new PM can break out of the trap

thenewworld.co.uk

We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.

Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d ago

And why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?