Yeah. Who needs English?

Rachel Reeves may lift two-child benefit cap in November budget. The cap affects 1.7m children. This Tory policy should have been abandoned last year. Must redistribute wealth. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. 16m live in poverty. Tax the rich.

Well said by @richardjmurphy.bsky.social eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/sta...

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

We’ve been at the @makethempay.bsky.social march today and patriotic millionaire Julia has a message for Rachel Reeves MP #TaxWealthNotWork #MakeThemPay

Doctors are patients too! #NHS is for all of us, although if you’re healthy & wealthy you may not need it As a society having access to care, free at the point of need, is worth fighting for Why? Because you never know when YOU might be in need! That’s a functioning society

@thetrawl.bsky.social @marina-purkiss.bsky.social “Nobellend Peace Prize” Well done @pimlicat.bsky.social what a brilliant invention! Cheered me up this morning after reading about 100 ways the world is going mad

Why Labour should make Jeremy Hunt the new Liam Byrne. (Reposted with a non sweary post for reasons.)

From refrigerators to dishwashers, many Americans feel that the quality of household appliances has declined significantly over the past few decades. Our Wirecutter expert wondered if companies were to blame and the culprit was planned obsolescence. Instead, she found a much more complicated story.

NHS has a major problem - it has a leak - retention crisis 18,000 UK-trained doctors have left to work abroad That's nearly one in seven UK-trained drs, representing a 50% increase since 2008 Imagine investing £𝟮𝟯𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗲𝗿 dr, only for it to benefit another country That’s UK workforce planning

What’s happened to the @bsky.app algorithm? Why can’t I see the posts of the people I follow where I used to see these? Now it’s just a lot of posts from unknown accounts I have no interest in. Anyone else has this happening?

It's amazing how the same politicians can describe VAT on public school fees as an attack on aspirational parents and then argue that free school meals for poor kids are a waste of money

@mrjamesob.bsky.social you did it again James! The breakup of the century #muskVsTrump happens the week you are away. Can I please ask you never go on a holiday again? 😆 can’t wait for your show when you’re back

You know those labour simulators they sometimes put on men so they can understand the joys of periods and/or childbirth? Sometimes I think we need a version for chronic illness. Too many people don’t “get it” until it happens to them. They’re insistent it’s our fault. We don’t try hard enough

Remember when Britain had 3600 Sure Start centres and no baby banks?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I think you’ll like this analogy #brexit #jamesO’Brexit

A reminder that I made an Indie Sage list to make it easy to see members' posts... bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you want to stop World War Three, think what would have stopped World War Two. Occupation of the Ruhr. Anschluss with Austria. Annexation of Sudetenland. Hitler could have been stopped each time. But fear of war led to war. Don’t repeat the mistake. #SlavaUkraini

When mask mandates were enacted to try and save lives, the right screamed about freedom. When mask bans were passed? They celebrated. Because it’s not about freedom. With vaccine mandates, they screamed about autonomy. When vaccines get restricted, they cheer. Because it’s not about autonomy.

Another day to remind everyone we have zero transparency on Covid. No clean air for a virus that is predominantly airborne, still handwashing advice only in place. No messaging on the seriousness of long covid risks. This is ongoing.

Now open: New €10 million call for organisations under #MSCA4Ukraine. The latest Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions call will provide vital support to displaced Ukrainian researchers to continue their work in EU and Horizon Europe institutions. Learn more → europa.eu/!jfJkGf

This clear warning by Violet Affleck about ignoring mounting threats with our climate and public health is something everyone should read. Using living with ME and PEM as an analogy for how we ignore our societal symptoms & then pay the price is inspired yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

The U.K. fishing industry - weaponised & then betrayed & then abandoned, by Johnson, Farage & the rest of them - is better off under Starmer’s deal than it was under Johnson’s. That’s not an opinion. It’s counting. Anyone claiming otherwise is a liar.

If I was in charge Gary Lineker would keep his job and I would put him on Politics too, so he could talk about Israel's War Crimes in Palestine every day. Laura Kuenssberg, Tim Davie, Robbie Gibb, Fiona Bruce and all the rest of the completely biased clowns, I would fire.

My warmest congratulations to Nicușor Dan on his victory tonight! The Romanian people have turned out massively to the polls. They have chosen the promise of an open, prosperous Romania in a strong Europe. Together, let’s deliver on that promise. Looking forward to working with you.

a society where "bad immigrants" are demonised is a society where no immigrant can truly feel welcome, because aren't we all just one wrong turn or accident away from being unemployed? on disability benefits? unable to care for our children without state help? just no such thing as a safe immigrant

Thanks so much @krishgm.bsky.social and @channel4news.bsky.social for letting me speak about the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines today... We have to do something urgently about hesitancy for these, MMR, and others as more people fall victim to mis/disinformation...

US health advisor’s vaccine views ‘wrong and dangerous’ www.channel4.com/news/us-heal...

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I don’t who is advising the Labour Party at the moment but they are literally handing it to Reform.

I work in the care sector, the government, and media, make it increasingly difficult to hire people already living in Britain by constantly referring to care work as low skilled! I challenge anyone to do this job for a day and still say it is low skilled.

The Covid-19 Inquiry started its hearings today on Test and Trace. Counsel for Covid Bereaved Families cited the witness statements from Prof Deenan Pillay, Prof Anthony Costello and me in his opening statement. All of us highlighted various failures as lost opportunities for pandemic control.

A reminder that Reform is comprised of privately educated millionaires and funded by fossil fuel companies. They’re Tories with added racism. It’s not a fucking protest. It’s continuity. They are the elite. The working classes need to find their self respect and fight the real problem, them.

The best way to honour the generation of 1945 would be to rebuild the NHS and the welfare state they voted overwhelmingly to bring about

Labour must stop pandering to Reform; highlight Farage's role in the Brexit shit-show; & shout that he stands for the same policies as Trump. But they cling to a 'make Brexit work' fallacy & try to cosy up to Trump. UK does not love Trump. Labour, look at the political shift in Canada & Australia!

Exactly!

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Socialism is what they called public power.  Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

The time that Elon Musk got told it exactly as it is.

We have a responsibility to ensure those most clinically vulnerable in society aren't unnecessarily exposed to infection. Whether NHS IPC will admit their mistakes or not, aerosol transmission IS inherent for SARS2 and other diseases. Please sign 👇 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Wow this is soooo amazing, well done Denmark! If only we could do this in the UK, vokuntariky like the Danes, just imagine www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Shut down the youth clubs. Sell off the playing fields. Put up "no ball games" signs. Make public places hostile to teenagers. Then: "Young people, eh? Always indoors looking at their phones."

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.