Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids Martin Shipton A Reform UK Senedd candidate shocked those attending a hustings meeting by suggesting that women should stay at home and look after their children instead of going out to work. Mark…

Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids

Margaret E Ward: ‘Saving the family’ is really about putting women back in their boxes An unholy trinity of conservatives, Christian nationalists and tech bros are planning to strip American women of their rights

authoritarians use five consistent mechanisms: controlling women’s bodily and reproductive autonomy; blocking equal access to the workplace and public life; reducing penalties for domestic and sexual violence; and reinforcing strict gender and sexual hierarchies’.

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Later in the 1970s, Roger Freeman — a key educational adviser to Nixon then working for the reelection of California governor Ronald Reagan — spelled out quite precisely what the conservative counter attack was aimed at preventing: "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on the we allow to go through higher education. If not we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people." The two most menacing institutional sources of the same described by Freeman were obviously those two great public university systems charging no tuition: the University of California and the City University of New York. Governor Reagan was able to wipe out free tuition at the University of California. Source: Vietnam and Other Fantasies, by H Bruce Franklin

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite!"

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Another get no work done view..
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Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public 'The peak of fear mongering.'

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.

HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

Facial recognition to be 'rolled out' across UK after human rights challenge fails Minister says 'law abiding citizens have nothing to fear' after judges rule in favour of police use of live facial recognition technology in London.

Facial recognition to be 'rolled out' across UK after human rights challenge fails
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We’re in the truly weird position where McSweeney had to go for giving the PM the advice to appoint Mandelson and Robbins had to go for not stopping him.

correction, these fascists are stupid, but the refusal to answer isn't stupidity, it's greed and cowardice, the wrong answer cuts you off from the gravy train that is the mass looting club currently in govt

Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes hit oil facilities and ships in the region, with experts warning of an impending environmental catastrophe. https://cnn.it/3Ovxzwk

New university free speech complaints system to come into force this year Universities could face fines of £500,000 or 2% of their income if they are found to have failed to protect free speech.

This reporting suggests Bridget Phillipson's legislation will muzzle those of us who want to protest against Far Right speakers who say our Black family are intellectually inferior and our Trans family are all potential sex offenders and are mentally ill.

What an unbelievably terrible Government.

Jerusalem Post: Despite a “ceasefire” the IDF is giving orders to open fire on everyone in Southern Lebanon trying to go home — “Even if the person is unarmed… based on the idea that there are no civilians left in Southern Lebanon.”

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Insane corruption.

And if Lutnick is profiting from the end of tariffs you can bet Trump is getting a taste.

Windywalls, Graemsay, Stromness, KW16... 2 bed detached bungalow for sale - £195,000 K Allan Properties - Highlands & Islands present this 2 bedroom detached bungalow for sale in Windywalls, Graemsay, Stromness, KW16 3NG

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The name probably says it all...
Neighbours? There are only 20 permanent residents on the island.
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The Oa 5 bed detached house for sale - £550,000 Stewart Balfour & Sutherland - Campbeltown present this 5 bedroom detached house for sale in The Oa

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ALL the outbuildings...
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Suleskerry, Skipness, Tarbert, Argyll... 8 bed detached house for sale - £695,000 Savills - Glasgow present this 8 bedroom detached house for sale in Suleskerry, Skipness, Tarbert, Argyll and Bute, PA29

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Perhaps a little on the large side....and I'd need them to leave all the bookshelves..
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Genuinely one of the most preposterous things I've heard in in this whole affair.

Maybe stop outreforming Reform & people will stop calling you out on it.

Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says Election pledges say Reform would ask museums to present history chronologically.

Reform UK will tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says

So this article from the latest Private Eye states that Teesside Freeport is going to close down.
I have said all along that free zones are Ponzi schemes for the asset classes in rip-off Britain.
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Britain sidelined in talks on Carney-backed defense bank The U.K. Treasury has expressed little enthusiasm for an initiative to provide lower cost loans to finance the armed forces.

Further evidence of a lack of deep thinking in government about the reality of the world. Or even waist-high thinking.

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Here are the cast announced SO FAR-

This catalogue page features a collection of women's fashion, including suits, strollers, and coats in various colors like turquoise, navy, beige, and tweed. The items are tailored in different styles and materials, with size charts and prices provided for each. (+5 Ft. 3 In. Turquoise French Beige Stroller Navy Worsted Petrol Coloured Worsted Suit Turquoise Alpaca and Tweed Stroller)

1960: Ladies Fashion and Petite Fashion from Bollin House

(+Petrol Coloured Worsted Suit; Navy Worsted; French Beige Stroller; Tweed Stroller; Turquoise Alpaca; and 5 Ft. 3 In. Turquoise)

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

"We accidentally made an animated graphic for Reform and then did a party political broadcast for them by mistake."

Protesters install 10-foot wind turbines on Donald Trump's Scottish golf course

Activists have built a windfarm on one of US president Donald Trump’s Scottish golf courses in a pro-renewables protest

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)