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Posts by Ruth Holliday

Politico and New Statesman lamenting lack of Labour vision on Ch4News, claiming Thatcher and Blair had one but only Reform has one now.

Thatcher, Blair, Starmer & Reform’s vision is all same failed privatization and tax cuts for rich.

GREENS have a different vision. But media can’t even say it đŸ˜„

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Putin has a PR problem. His myth is crumbling
Growing criticism and declining approval ratings demonstrate the diminishing of the Russian President's personal authority

Putin has a PR problem. His myth is crumbling Growing criticism and declining approval ratings demonstrate the diminishing of the Russian President's personal authority

Literally no one wants a perma-war that puts ordinary citizens at risk and makes them poorer. Only the oligarchs want war to enrich themselves.

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I see Reform/ UKIP is promising to cut bureaucracy to give £millions to the NHS again - oh, and give tax cuts to the rich 🙄

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Testifying to MPs at parliament's foreign affairs select committee on Tuesday, Olly Robbins said he had several conversations with No 10 about finding a role for Matthew Doyle, who was later suspended as a Labour peer after it emerged he had campaigned for a friend charged with possessing indecent images of children.
Robbins said he had been asked not to mention the idea to David Lammy, who was foreign secretary at the time.

Testifying to MPs at parliament's foreign affairs select committee on Tuesday, Olly Robbins said he had several conversations with No 10 about finding a role for Matthew Doyle, who was later suspended as a Labour peer after it emerged he had campaigned for a friend charged with possessing indecent images of children. Robbins said he had been asked not to mention the idea to David Lammy, who was foreign secretary at the time.

What have Starmer appointees Peter Mandelson and Matthew Doyle got in common? They both defended pedophiles 😬

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Virtual lecturers to be overseen by academics at AI university New model that will see students taught by AI tutors set to launch in June after being given stamp of approval by regulator

For an industry paper, this is a very incurious article about an organisation that was incorporated 7 years ago as "Geeks College Ltd" and whose website lists 6 MSc degress and four (4) faculty, all adjunct. Fees are ÂŁ9900. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/virtual...

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Mysterious deaths and disappearances raise 'national alarm' after 11 nuclear scientists either die or vanish — LBC Lawmakers are demanding an investigation into a number of mysterious deaths and disappearances of top US scientists who held top security clearance.

Uh oh!

apple.news/A1QWShipSSdK...

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interesting that some ideas need legislative support to be heard when they've continually died in the "marketplace of ideas"

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Yes is winning on 58%

Yes is winning on 58%

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.

Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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I totally agree. Education should be free. And definitely the benefits should also be shouldered by employers (though lots of graduate employers are public sector orgs). But before we win that battle there’s just a chance blue Labour might go for a graduate tax.

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My uni’s marketing department: we won’t advertise your course. It’s not a ‘hero’ course.
Management: you haven’t recruited. We’re shutting you down.

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Management: design a course that contains 40% of what you teach now.
Also management: report to us on Wednesday to find out how many of you we can now sack.

(50% is my guess, and there’s no way they’ll pass up the opportunity to fire a union caseworker).

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A graduate tax (that would be much lower for the average graduate than the current load repayments) is the only sensible way forward. It would bring a public sector ethos back to UK HE and make those who benefit the most pay the most. Right now those that earn the most pay the least!

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I felt it was more malevolent than Aslan. Maybe the bluebells are like the poppies in the wizard of oz! đŸ˜±

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Public service announcement

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White fluffy cat, sitting on a tree stump in a sea of bluebells.

White fluffy cat, sitting on a tree stump in a sea of bluebells.

Back in the woods yesterday, only to be confronted by a terrifying wild beast.

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Must be hard for Trump being caught between Putin and Netanyahu. And Melania warning him about all that kompromat 


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But will Nigel Farage bring it back?

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So we’ve heard JD Vance’s statement on why the talks failed. Why haven’t we heard what Iran says about the talks? Why do we hear only one side of the story?

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Old and new

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Bluebell wood!

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The Iran economic shock is coming. How to protect yourself
The Iran economic shock is coming. How to protect yourself YouTube video by Garys Economics

I wonder if Rachael Reeves ever listens to Garyseconomics?

She should.

We don’t need subsidized oil. We need nationalized wind farms.

youtu.be/Oi265I48MdI?...

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Richard Tice tweeting, in respect of the approval of a large solar farm: "Disgraceful appalling decision 

We @reformparty_uk will do our best to stop this being built or connected."

Richard Tice tweeting, in respect of the approval of a large solar farm: "Disgraceful appalling decision We @reformparty_uk will do our best to stop this being built or connected."

Reform won't be happy until the world lies in cinders.

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The Lebanese Health Ministry says Israeli strikes have displaced more than one million people.

That’s more than a sixth of the entire population.

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Donald Trump says 'a whole civilisation will die' ifIran ignores demands

Donald Trump says 'a whole civilisation will die' ifIran ignores demands

Trump threatens another genocide in the Middle East. Will world leaders do anything to try and stop this one? Or will they just look on and close down criticism like they did last time?

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Might be better not to think of your whole job as a bullshit job. Just about the amount of bullshit work you have to do.

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The UK will refuse US requests to use British bases for strikes on Iranian bridges or power plants, The i Paper reports.

UK officials argue targeting civilian infrastructure would be a war crime.

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‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

Yesterday in the media we saw ÂŁmillions leeching out of UK universities to management consultants. Today it is student agents delivering international students to the highest bidding universities.

This is where marketization and commercialization leads.

www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

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Starmer attacks Greens, saying vote for Labour rivals puts new workers’ rights at risk PM also criticises business figures and opponents of changes, many of which come into force on Monday

"Unite's general secretary, Sharon Graham, has described the Employment Rights Act as 'a shell of its former self'."

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