Why would you rush to release an offender kept off the streets for the victim's safety, when you *know* they're an active threat to the victim, you know you are giving them permission to reoffend, and you even know whom they'll target? So much for tackling #VAWG? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What kind of society fast-tracks early release for domestic abusers? This is gambling with women’s lives | Joan Smith

Andy Burnham inherited the crisis in our prison system – but the solution cannot be to further endanger the women and children who have survived violence, says writer and campaigner for women’s rights...

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WARNING⚠️If you get a social media message from a connection that asks you to vote for them to host a Spotify & Google or whatever podcast, DON'T click on ANY link. *Report the message as spam* (it's phishing) That should stop the sender (who has been hacked) messaging you again. Also delete. E.g.

On the eve of the election, I interviewed @bevcraig.bsky.social, along with my colleague @jackdulhanty.bsky.social. She’s very different to Burnham - more comfortable with detail, less comfortable making TikToks and selling a vision. But she’s NOT David Moyes. manchestermill.co.uk/bev-craig-wa...

Bev Craig wants to succeed Andy Burnham, not imitate him

Labour’s candidate for mayor won’t rely on ‘10-second TikToks’ but says she can win on substance

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Did you know that 20% of Disabled people are carers for another Disabled person? The government is carrying out a consultation on supporting unpaid carers at work. Find out more, and have your say: buff.ly/MHHN9WU Alt text: 'Have your say.' Icon of a megaphone.

The Greater Manchester mayoral election count has begun. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... Very much looking forward to when the manufactured narrative finally dies a death that the very shady Reform outfit is any sort of serious proposition.

Greater Manchester election live: PM faces first test at ballot box

It is the largest by-election in British history, with more than two million people across the 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester eligible to vote

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Where #DisabilityEmployment actually starts. Reasonable Adjustments — a guide. Please read and keep, please share #ReasonableAdjustments www.equalityhumanrights.com/guidance/bus...

Scientists and healthcare workers have saved millions of lives throughout the pandemic and in return have received relentless attacks and harassment. If we don’t support those who work hard to protect us, what exactly do you think will happen next time there is a deadly global outbreak?

So SARS-CoV-2 is a lethal engineered bioweapon that's also just a common cold that was never real but is treated with pool scrub and horse dewormer since it's harmless but the deadly vax made from babies! 😵‍💫 Welcome to Snake oil salesmen v Dr Fauci, the witch trial. Release the #EpsteinFiles?

Why are "hard questons" and "tough choices" always "how much can we take from the weakest"? That's like a bully asking: "Shall I beat you up some more for your lunch money?" The tough choice would be not to be a sidekick, to stand up to a bully and to get your own money to buy your own lunch.

Compassion, a🧵 Every day, the media feeds us a diet of outrage. Daily hate. Immigration is down, so the next target is disabled people. If it hadn't been them it would've been someone else. It used to be single mothers. What if we refused to play and engaged compassion instead?

Too bad that the #SocialCare review is starting with prejudice & mistrust towards disabled people, DWP having to correct Baroness Casey that a voluntary questionnaire on disability "is not the same as the definition applied to eligibility for DWP disability benefits”. www.lbc.co.uk/article/baro...

'Even I would qualify as disabled,' Baroness Casey says as she calls for tough questions on welfare | LBC

Government troubleshooter Baroness Casey has insisted 'even' she would qualify for disability benefits under DWP criteria, as she called for 'difficult questions' to be asked about welfare reform.

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WOW, new finds from the Ice Age! Two absolutely stunning Ice Age figurines from the Swabian Jura were found, dating back around 40,000 years. The tiny carvings, about the size of a thumbnail, depict two birds, rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Snow grouse, buzzard, or...🧵1/2

"water companies were wasting five times more water through leaky pipes than even a nationwide hosepipe ban could save" Since privatisation, the money that should have paid too fix this has been siphoned into the pockets of CEOs and shareholders www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Half of England officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought

Environment Agency names seven regions affected by unusually hot and dry weather and shortage of water

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Covid causes brain inflammation and has been shown to knock off IQ points. We've done this to ourselves and to our children by not protecting them from (repeated) infections. 🔺We aren't the first, the Romans dented their IQ with lead 🔻The Romans had mad rulers too, and their civilisation fell

Vocational skills in the curriculum is good news in my book. Life takes many turns, and any vocational skill you get is a gift, a way of making a living. So long as we don't tell working class kids they aren't good enough for university. But a working class Cambridge graduate should understand that.

Always reinventing the wheel: study finds that fatigue-related physical exhaustion and cognitive complaints caused by long covid did not improved after psychotherapy. Neither do cancer or diabetes, but you do not push psychotherapy as cure there. Fatigue due to illness is not independent of illness.

Tatiana Trifan #FBLC@tatianatrifan.bsky.social · last wk.

"Fatigue-related physical exhaustion and cognitive complaints were the most prominent symptoms. No significant efficacy of the psychotherapeutic group intervention over TAU was observed for SSS-8 [] comparing post-treatment outcomes in the IG with post-waiting outcomes in the CG."

@labouruk.bsky.social, if you collected the uncollected #tax (it's mostly corporation tax) for just one year, you could pay that year's #disability #welfare bill in entirety and have £0.5bn to spare. And you wouldn't need to say mean things about disabled people — 1 in 4 voters — to justify cuts.

Scribbler Pen@scribblerpen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Would HMRC failing to collect £46.8bn in #tax last year have anything to do with the hate fest against #disability #welfare (which cost £46.3bn in 2025 — by collecting this tax, there'd be £0.5bn to spare)? Oddly, the the same people who don't like to pay taxes lead these hate fests.

‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton

Being institutionally disableist (e.g. as a party) is not OK — same as being institutionally antisemitic isn't OK. Perpetuating disinformation and tropes isn't OK. Stigmatising physical, neurological or mental health conditions to justify shuffling Treasury costs isn't OK. #Ableism #UKpolitics

Please support this www.change.org/p/save-jodre... because of this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Jodrell Bank has lost its finding and is facing closure. #savejodrellbank

Sign the Petition

SAVE JODRELL BANK – Protect a national treasure of science, heritage and inspiration

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Imagine if we just believed disabled people? If we trusted that they were the experts in their bodies? If we listened when they said they could do something, and supported them when they said they couldn’t. If we gave accommodations and assistance without judgment? That’s true inclusion.

This isn’t a policy, it’s antiscience.

Karam Bales@karambales.bsky.social · 2w ago

UK restricts Autumn boosters to 80 year olds JCVI noted in their cost-benefit analysis that willingness to pay privately increases with age open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Ignore the haters. The evidence is clear: crime is falling and London remains one of the safest big cities in the world.

Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse

Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse

Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence Most people arrested during violent protests after the sentencing of Henry Nowak’s murderer had previously been reported to the police for domestic abuse, the Guardian can disclose. Data released by Hampshire police under freedom of information laws shows that 22 of 37 people (59%) detained in Southampton after Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life have also been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence. Continue reading...

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'This looks absolutely rubbish’ Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin on Palantir and the NHS www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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This could very well be the most important story in politics for the last decade and a half. Please read and share this equally harrowing and illuminating account by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of just how dark the money in politics pit really goes. Absolutely mind blowing.

Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial

The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...

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Compassion and decency go a long way. If you treat people with compassion, decency, dignity, everything else falls into place: the economy, the finances, because society functions. The instant you start competing on cruelty and division, it all falls apart — for reference, see the past decade plus.

We can't afford to let Covid rip. I am sorry, but a government has a public health duty. This is what this virus is doing to our children and our adult population. If you care about working people, working families and the NHS as you claim @labouruk.bsky.social, it's time to show it, with action.

Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP@davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The absurdity of UK politics is illustrated by the fact that a US law firm that had represented a prominent paedophile is now fighting the extradition of two pimps hailed as "an important voice for young men" by a crook whom main parties try to copy by threatening welfare, pensions and immigrants.