The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media). Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc. I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber) 1/2

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This is a very enjoyable thread. If you want to tax the multi-millionaires properly: join.greenparty.org.uk

I just listened to @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Radio 4 's P.M. Programme. I'm welling up! I've never heard a politician articulate so well the case for a compassionate and equal society. So if you haven't already, then: join.greenparty.org.uk

Three people who’d be expected to be Your Party bigwigs have largely walked away from Corbyn’s project: former NE mayor Jamie Driscoll, former Labour MP Beth Winter, and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein. I have some new intel on the fall-out, if you’re interested in that sort of thing… 🧵

This petition will be mentioned in Parliament now that it has reached over 10,000 signatures. Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

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Keir Starmer: Please explain how donations are NOT bribes Examples: Keir Starmer from Robert Latham amount £100,000 Boris Johnson from Christopher Harborne £1,000,000 Yvette Cooper from Gary Lubner £210,000 There are 1000's of other equally illuminating examples search.electoralcommission.org.uk

Interesting that in attempting to challenge @zackpolanski.bsky.social about how much money would be raised by a wealth tax, @vicderbyshire.bsky.social gave three examples of Western European democracies where wealth taxes are working: Spain, Switzerland and Norway.

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

Make hope normal again.

The Starmer government is REALLY running scared of this petition, now at 2.75 million, to the extent that it has responded 3 months early, in a transparent attempt to spike it. So please, under no circumstances should you sign it and share it widely. Starmer & his boss McSweeney would not like it.

My Thames Water bill has risen from £51 a month to £71. Without warning. My usage hasn't increased. What is going on? We need to end this farce and nationalise water now.

Very sorry to hear of Brian Patten's death. He was the first contemporary poet I can remember reading and the magical clarity and simplicity of his voice was a revelation. Rest in Poetry.

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Pleased to have persuaded my local shop to stock Gaza Cola.

I'm relying on Blusky to correct me if I'm wrong: in the UK, an employer needs an employee's National Insurance number to ensure they send the correct deductions to HMRC. So why do we need ID cards? Just properly enforce the existing system.

The Green party now has over 76,000 members 🔥 The Green Revolution is coming, but we need you 🫵 Step 1: Join the Greens 👇 join.greenparty.org.uk Step 2: Repost this message! 🔄 Step 3: Get one friend or family member to pledge to vote Green! 💚

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

People travelled from prehistoric times: some traded, some travelled, perhaps for family or love... or perhaps because things might be better elsewhere. Why this is such a surprise never ceases to amaze me - we can see them move through ideas, things, techniques, boats & tracks... People move.

' university is in some sense an education in the ineffectivity of ideas. There is plenty of exposure to ideas, but the unwritten subtext of this exposure and education, is "do not take any of this seriously." via @jasonread.bsky.social www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/04/two-... #MarxistMonday

Reform just tell people whatever they think you want to hear. And of course that includes former Tory Ministers turned Reform. We must hold them to account. Every. Single. Time.

I'm so happy that you are there to articulate what so many of us feel and so rarely hear on our televisions or radios. Migrants are our friends and colleagues. Migrants are humans. End austerity, provide safe routes, allow all migrants to work and contribute.

What is most shocking is the tiny amount of land devoted to horticulture - orchards & fruit and veg These are foods critical to health when our society is riddled with obesity & malnutrition... Thx @sambentley.bsky.social for this UK Land Use graphic

Gutted it wasn't gonad.

Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s praise for men who “protect their wives and daughters” from asylum seekers reflects the point in my column. “It’s an extension of the centuries-old racial prejudice ethnic minorities are a sexual threat to white females - and the white males who claim possession of them.”

I can't wait to read this!

Victoria Derbyshire, "Do you think Yvette Cooper is lying?" Sir Jonathan Porritt, former advisor to King Charles, who was arrested on Saturday, "When Yvette Cooper implies that Palestine Action has done violence to people, we know the Home Secretary is not revealing the whole truth"

Oh it's #MarxistMonday, it soon comes around. Day to day more people are talking to be about Marxism, it ain't niche, sectarian or academic. Instead it is about a society that puts people and the rest of nature first. Away with the billionaires, forward with a better future.

The Centre for Migration Control? A “Think Tank” ran seemingly by one guy called Robert Bates, a Senior Reform Campaigner in the Channel 4 Documentary released last year ‘Undercover inside Reform’s campaign’. His data is wrong and purposely misleading. #news #uk #politics

Big thanks to Lewis for debunking the dangerous misinformation going around about nationality and sexual assault statistics. Bottom line - the big headlines over the last few days have no basis in the facts. Irresponsible reporting from major news outlets stirring up fear.

It's incredible that all of the people who would shit on Wikipedia as a source because "lol anyone can edit that" are now 100% reliant on asking questions to the lying robot machine that no human has any oversight over

inews.co.uk/culture/book... This is my friend Ben. Please read his work: he's an amazing writer.

Very happy to have voted for @zackpolanski.bsky.social for @greenparty.org.uk leader! #backzack 💚💚💚

@greenparty.org.uk question: Will I be able to vote for just leader tomorrow and have time to decide on deputy and GPEX once I've caught up with their statements, or do I have to complete the ballot all in one go? Thank you to anyone who can answer this 💚

During PMQs, Starmer said there were two hospitals in Badenoch's constituency. She "corrected" him. Except, I looked it up. Her constituency is North West Essex. There is Broomfield Hospital just outside Chelmsford and Saffron Walden Community Hospital. Why is she so inept?