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Will a single American reporter ask Vance if he’s considered invoking the 25th Amendment, and if not, why not? Given the state of US journalism, don’t hold your breath.

Inclusion shouldn’t mean erasing difference. When all conditions are framed as “disability” in the same way, those with profound, irreversible physical impairment can become less visible. Equity requires nuance, not a single flattened category.

Severe anorexia can be disabling, yes. But blurring illness and disability risks losing clarity — and obscuring how society’s response to disability contributes to that suffering.

Agreed - I think the issue is still around ‘can be’ - my ongoing concern is merging different definitions is not helpful to either deserving but different disadvantaged group.

Not necessarily- severely disabled from childhood. Took until my early 30s but just do everything at a different pace (very different often) and different paths! Now there’s online as well - I’ve been married; had kids; have a profession I started at 35 - but isolation can be a issue though

As someone with lifelong physical disability, this matters: anorexia is a serious illness, but not disability in itself. The real issue here is disabling social attitudes. Blurring that line risks diluting both disability rights and clinical understanding.

It’s hard today to get heard Liberal values debated or get airtime. The reductionist simplistic way we now debase representative parliamentary democracy is sad and scary. Even the positive impact the LibDems had in Coalition is reduced & ignored. Post coalition Tory should have been evidence of it!!

GB News has turned into the Reform channel.

After a New World investigation found hundreds of breaches of the rules on accuracy and impartiality, Ofcom has failed to do its job and act.

We've seen what Fox News has done to politics in the US. We can't let it happen here.

Shadow justice secretary says mass prayer in Trafalgar Square is ‘Islamist act of domination’

So this is what The Tory party now represent - ignorance and bigoted attitudes - not great from the REFORM supporter down the pub - but shadow Justice Secretary ??!

I’m glad that masks are almost 100% great protection for infection control - OK it’s bacterial meningitis so very effective. But at last the anti mask, freedom to choose mob are quiet. And we seem to react with in a week to infection spread not months. Maybe it’s as they’re young and not old ?

I agree of course and obviously it’s irrelevant in the wider context, but at 75 and disabled all my life the freedom of access I had as an EU and UK citizen is devastating personal loss. luckily my children are still UK/EU citizen but, yes maybe selfishly, I still have had my last decades stollen.

The issue is we just need to start the road to rejoin - the longer we wait the worse it will be. Also the alignment narrative is about business and investment, but actually I just miss the freedom to live as an individual citizen in all EU - give me back my EU citizenship that was ripped from me.

It’s just tells us that we think the figures like Caligula are a thing of the past but …..

Russia is a terrorist state!

Reminder: while Jeffrey Epstein operated in plain sight, Florida’s top law enforcement official was Pam Bondi. Power wasn’t absent. Accountability was. The question isn’t conspiracy—it’s why the system chose silence over justice.

🇺🇦Zelenskyy: We are ready for real compromises. But not compromises at the cost of our independence and sovereignty.We are ready to speak about compromises with the US. But not to get ultimatums from the Russians again and again. They are the aggressor. Everybody has recognized it. It hasn’t changed.

KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge as demand soars Wingstop, Burger King, and others have walked away from an industry commitment to avoid using fast-growing chickens

Speechless ! Never mind the issue of animal welfare and cruelty what about the health of the human population ! But I guess we are basically force bed S**T so other can make lots of ££$$€€

KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And how the tentacles of influence and manipulation weave a net that has multiple touch points of the super rich and those who crawl and beg at their coat trails -The Trump administration to Putin’s Mafia State via the world wild various actors - name and shame as few will ever be prosecuted

Thinking of you all every day as the crimes against you pile up. I feel both ashamed and angry all europe hasn’t done more !

How does he manage to escape the scrutiny and exposure of these connections !?

💥 GOOD.

Because that £240 million contract gifted to Palantir, with no competition…

…after Starmer had an off-the-books meeting with Mandelson and Palantir…

…while Mandelson was officially LOBBYING FOR Palantir and so personally financially benefiting from such links and contracts…

Stinks.

It’s that moment when you look around the room as your taking and realise you probably the oldest one in the room - by far !

Another chilling shooting by a federal agent in Minneapolis, this time of a nurse. My heart goes out to Alex Pretti's family.

We cannot let Nigel Farage and Reform import Trump’s dark politics to the UK.

Immigration numbers don’t change overnight.
They reflect TORY earlier visa rules and labour demand, not instant ideology.

High legal immigration has long been used by the right to avoid investing in skills, housing & services.

Blaming Labour or backing Reform UK confuses timing with cause.

question:

Which countries lead on happiness, health & longevity —
the ones with coalition governments, high taxes and strong public services,
or the ones chasing Reform / Trump-style “strong leaders” and culture wars?

The data isn’t subtle !

Untrue but yes high still but under Tories in 2022 - 45,774 Labour 2025 - 41,500 - then dips in 2023 and 2024 (29,437 & 38,816) largely due to Albania deal & French help) - But its not just UK - so policies have little impact in the face of world wars & economic chaos -REFORM rhetoric is no answer

Yes, immigration matters to people. But why is it blamed for problems caused by under-investment & neoliberal economics. immigration has often been used by the right as an economic lever, not created by the left.

Blaming migrants, then voting REFORM is voting for a harder neo-liberal nationalism

I am not sure I count Blair as left of centre - centre at bedtime right of centre in that he embraced Thatcher and neoliberal economics especially with ppi etc. indeed you can see immigration policy as part of that economic model

So - WHY is REFORM the answer ! It’s totally counter logic

Genuine question for Labour & Brexit voters drifting to Reform:

If the UK hasn’t had a left-of-centre government for 40+ years,
how did “the left” break the country?

And how does going further right fix right-wing policy failure?

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