When shame left the room: racism, immigration, and Britain’s moral retreat
Britain is sliding backwards into open racism, fuelled by political silence and immigration narratives. Can we reverse this tragic shift?
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I think it would be quite nice for me to be able to wake up in the morning and think about my plans for the day, and more broadly about my own little life, instead of immediately having to ponder the overnight actions of The Guy Over There
The world should be alarmed. A lunatic is president of the United States and no one is challenging his impulses to make himself an emperor.
This sums it up rather well.
Emma Runswick talking sense on #BBBreakfast. Why are we turning away doctors when the NHS is crying out for them? Why has Wes Streeting refused to negotiate with the BMA for months?
Let's be very clear what's happened: the BMA has been trying to negotiate with the govt for months (when there was no flu epidemic). As late as November the BMA were trying to get round the table & wrote a letter to Wes Streeting. He didn't bother replying.
Lack of funding for nursing workforce puts global health targets ‘out of reach’
A lack of investment in the global nursing workforce is putting international healthcare targets out of reach, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has warned. #nursing #nurses
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"I wouldn't want to take away the right to strike at all but..."
Govt minister Sarah Jones defending a group of workers not being allowed to strike and attacking another group of workers for striking in order to restore their pay.
Jones is an MP for the party of organised labour.
The poorest 20% Britons pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth, bottom 20% has 0.5%.
Can't reduce child/household poverty and relieve suffering without equitable distribution of income/wealth.
The Palestine Action case is really simple.
What terrorism have Palestine Action committed?
None.
Case Closed.
Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices | Cliff Mitchell
Once again, not a single member of the press corps stands up for their female colleague being verbally abused by the President.
Trump is a historic disgrace, but every single person in that room standing in compliant silence is complicit.
The UK state pension, worst in the world.
Labour Party seems to have moved from:
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
This is what I have lived my entire life in Europe. Why I never moved to the US, been offered many jobs, but the lack of proper health care, and the thought of my children being killed by some gun loon in school, kind of put me off. Proper health care is a human right, not a luxury.
"we keep hearing conversations about tough choices, but these always seem to be tough choices for children in poverty, for disabled people, for working class communities, when are we going to see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires?"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on #GMB
Dismantling the myth that we live in a meritocracy is one of the most urgent changes needed".
Poverty inflicted on the masses whilst wealth and power is concentrated in few hands.
50 families have more wealth than half of the UK population.
Political system bought by the rich.
Tax the rich.
Thames Water bidder offering £1bn extra cash injection.
30%+ of the customer bill covers interest payments.
Any private owner would want profit, dividends, sewage dumping will continue, customers will be fleeced.
Must end the profit motive. Nationalise water industry.
Its a scandal that hospices have to rely on charity for most of their funding. What we need is a publicly funded & fully resourced hospice system within the NHS.
This document is the product of a broken administration, motivated by cynicism, immune to human decency, with a weak-to-non-existent understanding of the policy area they wish to legislate in.
Investing in nurses has knock-on benefits for doctors, suggests study
Hospitals with better nurse staffing levels and working environments are not only better for nurses but are also associated with less burnout among doctors, according to researchers.
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‘Why anatomy and physiology are the heart of nursing’
Deepthi Thankachan explains why learning about anatomy and physiology is fundamental to a career in nursing. #nursing #anatomy #physiology #career #nurses #anatomyandphysiology #nurse #education #healthcare
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Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.
Government to ramp up deportations by overriding ECHR in fresh immigration crackdown
I would never have believed we would see a headline like this under a Labour government
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Alongside @bma.org.uk, we've written to the Secretary of State for Work & Pensions urging Long COVID and severe post Covid-19 complications be recognised as an industrial disease.
This change would ensure health and social care workers with Long COVID can access the financial support they need.
We've done some maths on NMC spending on major external suppliers over the last couple of years.
#NMCnotfit
#NMCCultureChange
#NMCstillfailing
‘I must warn you that this blog won’t be an easy read’
#nursesky #NMC #nursing #primarycare
Important all UK nurses feedback. As a mental health nurse, I feel the NMC has no vision for the field, and would be happy to let it silently die. It is difficult for me to donate to a cause which I do not believe supports the work I do #MHDeservesBetter
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This is really desperate and underlines why such incredibly important care services should not be funded through charity 😢
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Its not as if he doesn't understand that the system is increasingly rigged in favour of his elite business class.
Part of the problem with how this is embedded into peoples minds is that it isn't this called out by our media / journalists.
They must part of the same rigged system...
