Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
❤️🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.
The serious danger is giving credence to the lies of very wealthy men who may, or may not, pay taxes in the UK - but create & perpetuate falsehoods- straight from the Trump playbook
Farage? Tice & now Zahawi. A representative democracy? Really. Never
The challenge ? How to counter their lies
It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
Remember, remember, 5 November:
A new alliance says the media system is broken and is building a movement to fix it from the ground up, starting with what they are calling Media Liberation Day | Ben Dickenson
@benjitoon.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk
Join @clancyfirefox.bsky.social & Cilla Ross plus Nick Mahony
Promises to be excellent
Exactly this:
Event on 26-9 to feature and discuss film made by @jeremyclancy.bsky.social
Join us to learn about activism in The Valleys & generations learning from one another
#adulteducationforachange
Join us at our next research circle on Friday 26 September
Would be great to listen to your contributions in discussion with others committed to #emancipatoryadulteducation
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It's a remarkable coincidence how many people on the same road seem to have had overnight access to box fresh flags, 10 foot ladders and the necessary equipment to attach them to lamp posts all at the same time, isn't it?
The Trump administration withholds over $6 billion intended for education and community programs, impacting crucial resources like afterschool, summer programs, English language, and adult literacy.
Image of 3 people sitting in a row with placards that say Disabled rights = Human rights They say cut backs we say fight back personal independence payments are vital for our survival All Disabled lives matter Stop the cuts #TakingthePIP (ruils) A strong society lifts everyone!
Image of a large group of protestors sitting in Parliament square
Reporting live from the protest outside Parliament💥
Disabled lives should never be up for debate - we are not a financial loophole to be closed and we refuse to be silenced! #WelfareNotWarfare
🚨DPOs Criticise Institutionalised Ignorance From Ableist State in Pandemic and Say Nothing Has Changed
'In light of our learnings from the pandemic, I can't see this as anything but a complete disregard for the continued survival of Disabled people'👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...
Young Disabled people on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) move over to PIP once they are 16. A Disabled person who turns 16 in October 2026 will apply for PIP under the current rules. Another Disabled person, who turns 16 just one month later in November 2026, will be assessed under the new 4-point rule.
The Government's welfare bill concessions will create a two-tiered system.
In real terms:
Two Disabled young people could be born just one month apart - and one would be assessed under the new 4-point rule, which makes it much harder to qualify for PIP daily living component.
'Reducing funding for adult learners is “harming social outcomes, health and wellbeing, economic growth and individual opportunity”'
The need for an increase, not decrease, in funding adult education is made startling clear by @learnworkuk.bsky.social report. Read @feweek.bsky.social article below👇
@clancyfirefox.bsky.social
Thanks @richardhull54.bsky.social Totally agree. Too little priority & too narrow a vision #AdultEducation #Lifelonglearning
Good morning.
Please do support your local library.
Libraries are essential, magical places of discovery.
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Canvas on an easel showing a greyscale painting of two apples, one light, one dark. In background a green and red apple, the subject of the painting, sit on a low paticle board table about two feet wide draped in a brown cloth. A light on a stand stands to one side and somewhat closer to camera, giving objects three-quarter shadows.
Greyscale painting of a starched napkin that looks like it has been dropped onto a table and was frozen there before it settled down, so it has quite a high peak in the middle with various creases and folds falling away from that point. The folds are painted hyper-realistically with subtle gradations of light and dark.
Painting of a still life with an ugly green martini glass, apparently plastic in front and offset from a large ,highly-polished silver teacup which just contains a red apple. The apple, the stem and bottom of the martini glass, and the teacup's own handle are all reflected on its curved surfaces.
#ArtAdventCalendar Day— I started art lessons to improve my digital art, never expecting to fall in love with the brush. My first #oilpainting, March 2017, when I was almost 50. By Nov I was up to the "napkin drill." Then a year of still lifes, learning different materials/tools like palette knife.
This thread excellent starting point for thinking critically about ‘missions’ and ‘targets’. But is missing from Govt? Early Years ? ✅
Why no mission to increase participation of adults in all forms of learning? Measure improvements in indiv
health & health of communities- not just skills for work
Adult, Further and Higher education can change lives, build democracy and transform communities.
I was delighted to contribute to
'Harnessing the power of post-compulsory education' co-written with Howard Stevenson & John Holford and published this week by @ucu.org.uk
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1373...
How important was the music to the classic era of Film Noir? For a look at the contribution of Herrmann, Waxman, Steiner, Raksin, Adolph Deutsch and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, join me and John Leman Riley / @lemanriley.bsky.social at Tipping My Fedora.
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Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
Another of your excellent articles outlines his social media presence compared to other parties bylinetimes.com/2024/07/03/n...
Today was fun. My current project with Centre Space Arts launched as part of the opening of the brilliant and HUGE new Furniture Mine @emmausnorthstaffs.bsky.social. Really good event with Terry Waite, Stoke's Lord Mayor and Stoke Community Choir. Well done all involved.
Council funding to be redirected from England’s rich areas to most deprived👍
