Mark Robinson
@mr.place
Chair of Fellows at Radix Big Tent - OSP student @lsepbs.bluesky.app - #ABI survivor - urbanist Writing about later life learning and being a padawan "pracademic" https://markisalwayslearning.substack.com
Forget the journalistic frustration for people like me and Carole that most ignored the Banks revelations, Russian links and Cottrell PayPal ruses, 7 or 8 years ago. More important is that Farage doubled up with his double dealings in the years since, because of sense of impunity
With Christopher Nolan's #TheOdyssey hitting cinemas across the country - Vicky Pryce will pose the question to @sturdyalex.bsky.social 'what Homer can teach us about Andy Burnham's own political homecoming' 🗓️ Tuesday 11th August (Tomorrow) ⏰6pm 👇 www.radixbigtent.org.uk/events/ithac...
Ithaca to Number 10: What The Odyssey Can Teach Us About Andy Burnham's Homecoming
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If Mrs Wizard actually cared about LadySafety maybe she should sue travelodge for their "give rapists keycards to the rooms of sleeping women" policy instead of trying to destroy the NHS for letting Trans people have a piss
The more you run stories with codes words like "military aged men" and promote Farage and Co the more you will lead people to think whiteness and ancestory are virtues in themselves. You don't get to choose exactly where the line is.
Just 3 weeks ago, JD Vance tried to use the Marine Two helicopter to send his 9-year-old son to a golf lesson. The helicopter costs between $16K-$25K per hour to operate and is paid for by American taxpayers. He has also used it for multiple recent “house hunting” trips in the DC suburbs.
Vance’s security detail ‘fed up’ with hastily arranged personal and family travel requests
Secret Service sources said the Vance family asks included getting their young son to a golf lesson on a military helicopter.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoJD Vance: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"
This article is as lovely, positive and uplifting as it sounds. Happy Thursday, everyone! theconversation.com/monkeys-keep...
Monkeys keep pets too – animal specialist on the world of interspecies friendship
It’s not just humans who enjoy interacting with other animal species.
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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.
I hate golf and love The Hawk, people who love golf love The Hawk. True comedy writing transcends prejudice #redwinealsohelps
Reform UK are up to their neck in scandal. Serious new information has come to light, opening up yet more questions about donations made by George Cottrell and his associates. Frankly, it stinks. I've written to the Electoral Commission to draw it to their attention.
🔥 New today 🔥 The first publication from The Marshall Plan for Civic Life 👇 Today @kinship.works and @demos-uk.bsky.social have published a Discussion Paper to open a conversation about how to fund a decade of civic renewal. marshall-plan.netlify.app (1/n)
Practical, actionable and effective recommendations from our housing commission.
Radix Big Tent - RBT@radixuk.bsky.social · 2w agoOur Housing Commission has today released it's fourth report, entitled 'Resizing Rightsizing' and it's headline proposal is picked up in The @telegraph.co.uk today by Emma Taggart. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202... (1/5)
Our Housing Commission has today released it's fourth report, entitled 'Resizing Rightsizing' and it's headline proposal is picked up in The @telegraph.co.uk today by Emma Taggart. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202... (1/5)
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A Parliamentary Standards investigation into an undeclared £5m gift. A request for HMRC to investigate if tax is owed. A police investigation into £500K of Reform UK donations by George Cottrell's mother. Reform cry "establishment stitch up". At what point does it become "established pattern"?
Chris Philp breathlessly "reporting" from a beach in Boulogne, about small boats on @thetimes.com radio this morning like a teenage Temu "auditor". Not a look to copy.
Last week, I spoke with ITV News Meridian to discuss why I'm bringing back the Assisted Dying Bill and why I believe terminally ill people deserve a compassionate choice, backed by robust safeguards. Watch the full interview here: buff.ly/vJNEAXA
Two Greeks worth welcoming into your home, bringing the gifts of political insight, cultural commentary and classical knowledge. And it's free! Don't look this gift horse in the mouth. I'll get me coat.... @sturdyalex.bsky.social @radixuk.bsky.social
Radix Big Tent - RBT@radixuk.bsky.social · 2w agoWith Christopher Nolan's #TheOdyssey hitting cinemas across the country - Vicky Pryce will pose the question to @sturdyalex.bsky.social 'what Homer can teach us about Andy Burnham's own political homecoming' 🗓️ Tuesday 11th August 🕐6pm 🎟️ Register below 👇 www.radixbigtent.org.uk/events/ithac...
🟡 Print Edition: Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious… Read the full story…
Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed
The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and hard-right and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why? The post Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed appeared first on Byline Times .
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"We don't solve society's problems by lobbing in the odd cheque...it's about building society together and we should all contribute our fair share." - PMUK's @mr.place
A hot burn…
Austin Powers: Ouch, Baby! Very Ouch!
ALT: Austin Powers: Ouch, Baby! Very Ouch!
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Rob Ford@robfordmancs.bsky.social · 3w agoIf they were skilled political operators perhaps they wouldn’t be on the backbenches, along with their chief, two years into a Parliament which began with a landslide election win?
I like to think he's done this to make political journalists look stupid, and honestly I admire it.
The Extreme Wealth Line project is a transdisciplinary initiative aiming at the introduction of an extreme wealth line (EWL), just like we have an extreme poverty line. The project has now published its two foundational papers, as LSE-III working papers #171 and #172: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
Working Papers
LSE Inequalities Institute Working Papers
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From the top of that stadium you can see most of the territory fought over by the Brits and Americans in November 1776. Forts Washington and Lee, the Hackensack….a treat for the cheap seats.
