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Sam Lister

@sam-lister.bsky.social

Policy Lead at Chartered Institute of Housing and chair of trustees for Worcester and Herefordshire Citizens Advice. Views my own.

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Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · yesterday

I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Flags on the Abingdon Road
Alasdair Mackenzie@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · yesterday

Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.

Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened

Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset

theguardian.com

Caroline Russell@carolinerussell.bsky.social · 3d ago

After the cruel impact of changes to the skilled worker visa scheme, there’s another hostile action from the Home Office, this time directed at EU citizens granted right to remain after Brexit. These life shattering letters disrupt peoples’ lives built in the UK and are are utterly shameful.

Image of a lorry reminding Eu citizens to apply for settled status after the UK exited the EU. A red bus and tower block in background. Red text: immigration and asylum Black headline Vote t: EUcitizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given “in error”. Black smaller text: after years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain.
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Alix@stuckonaredrock.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yeah for sure, it would have been better to put more people at risk and made life harder for medical staff 🙄 It’s so easy to say stuff like this now. But a more legitimate question might be why it’s acceptable that so many people died in the UK and why so many millions of pounds were wasted?

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5d ago

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif as follows: Top left: on a black background, a central band delineated by an upper and lower white line contains evenly-spaced dark-orange circles. Each orange circle is outlined by a white line. Above and below the central band are swirling white vine-like lines. Top right: on a black background, a large white spiral on the front of the cup and beside it a dark-orange oval with stylised white petals at each end which looks like a wrapped sweet! Middle left: a central band of white and dark orange diagonal lines runs around the cup. Above and below the central band are alternating black and white diagonal shapes, the black ones look like shark fins Bottom left: a central reddish-orange band delineated with a white line. Above the central band are swirling, spiralling white lines against a black background, and below the central band are alternating white and black diagonal lines. Bottom right: A central band delineated with white lines contains white 's'-shaped diagonal white stripes. Above the central band a row of red dots outlined with white circles. Below the central band a single white line on the black background. This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.
Tim Morton@timmorton2.bsky.social · 5d ago

“If you destroy nature, you destroy the core on which our economies depend. And that got people's attention. This is not some kind of a flower-power, tree-hugging exercise. This is core economics. This is core financial stability, core price stability." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’

Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy

theguardian.com

Resolution Foundation@resolutionfoundation.org · last wk.

Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 11.1 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 1.1 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen by 0.9 per cent of GDP since 2012-13 ⤵️

chart showing Social security spending as a proportion of GDP, by category: GB
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 2w ago

The proposals aren't about "controlling immigration", "rewarding contribution", or encouraging integration. Burnham and Labour have opportunity to - belatedly - reject the ethnonationalist remigration agenda of Reform/Conservatives. They need to take it. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Labour MPs eye chance to scrap Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reforms

If the home secretary Shabana Mahmood becomes chancellor MPs say they would use the change to try to kill off the controversial settlement rules

thetimes.com

Neil Goodrich@ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 3w ago

Did this in the form of fixed term tenancies & introductory tenancies in the 2010s, was a mess and a logistical nightmare. Best way to make housing more affordable is to build more of it. Also need to reverse the view of social housing as a tenancy of last resort, that wasn't its original purpose.

Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻@andy-pearce.com · 3w ago

… social housing is intended to solve – that is to provide housing for those who would be unable to pay a private rent alongside other essentials. I would support a periodic reassessment of means (say, every 5 years), and cancelling the right to buy, which erodes social housing stock. (2/3)

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3w ago

Traders at Brixton market fight back against private equity takeover of the site, want community ownership. PE will kill the market, currently owned by a Texas billionaire. Once it is gone, it's gone forever. Solidarity for resistance to big business, PE and financialisation of everything.

‘It’s like home’: Brixton market traders fight to stop site being sold to big business

Campaign hopes to buy site for community, fearing it could go same route of corporate gentrification as Camden and Old Spitalfields

theguardian.com

Neil Goodrich@ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's amazing how little the thinking on welfare has changed in the couple of decades. Even if the mode, and means, if delivery have.

Dean Hochlaf@dhochlaf.bsky.social · last mo.

I know I'm a broken record on this, but consistently referring to it as the "welfare bill" demonstrates such a poor understanding of how important social security is as a fiscal tool to protect basic living standards and stimulate demand in the face of persistent economic shocks

Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@phillm.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Many groups across the US advocating for the pause on data center construction have frequently cited concerns surrounding the use of local water and energy infrastructure. Now, both concerns have been legitimized."

BeingHelpish@beinghelpish.bsky.social · 4w ago

“A bill currently making its way through Congress seeks to force tech giants to pay for the energy they use…” Um, why wouldn’t tech companies pay for the energy they use? www.techradar.com/pro/a-very-v...

Anthony Zacharzewski@anthonyzach.be · 4w ago

Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.

Absolutely shit map of a country roughly the shape of Belgium with three regions, and Brussels in the middle but absolutely nothing else is right.
Natalie Sedacca@nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 4w ago

Nearly 80 Labour MPs sign letter urging Andy Burnham to retreat on Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reforms, warning voters in Makerfield did not talk about “making it harder for care workers and nurses to settle here” and raising serious concerns over hostile rhetoric 👏🏼 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Burnham faces first Labour mutiny over Mahmood's hardline immigration reforms

Labour backbenchers are demanding a change in direction over immigration and asylum policies

inews.co.uk

Neil Goodrich@ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 4w ago

What I cannot understand is why and how this Government managed to get itself so detached, not only from its base but also the reason people voted for it: change. They were sick of a Tory Government. Tory-lite aping Reform was never going to work. And obviously so.

Will Cooling@willcooling.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is the thing. If you could nab a meaningful number of moderate or cross-pressured Tories/Reform voters by adopting some somewhat socially conservative positions then clearly it would be worth doing. But you can't, so it isn't.

Satbir Singh@satbirsingh.bsky.social · 4w ago

Every project of ethnic cleansing has aimed not only to destroy a population but to destroy its soul, its power to create or experience joy and the spaces in which those who survive trauma can experience normality. Another terrible, tragic day in Gaza. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Palestinians mourn Gaza World Cup screenings organiser killed in Israeli strike

Aid worker Mohammed al-Wahidi had become a prominent humanitarian figure during the Israel-Hamas war.

bbc.co.uk