@averybowser
Social Worker. Fostering Services Manager, Action for Children NI. BASW NI Committee. Co-author 'Social Work & Co-production' - ESSA shortlist 2022. 'If adoption is the answer, what was the question?' in The Future of Children's Social Care (eds Sen/Kerr)
"This Labour government can still build consensus for an alternative, but it must do so urgently.
We need a national commission on electoral reform"
✍️ Beccy Cooper MP & Tim Roca MP
#Democracy
@drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social @timrocamp.bsky.social @politics.co.uk
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Great to see these tenders live. Will make a big difference to the work of Joint Forum. Keen to see the focus on Fair Funding - a long term issue for the voluntary & community sector & a recommendation of Jones Review of Children's Social Care Services.
#Reimagine
Care Day Awards Social Action Champion presentation
Delighted to be sponsoring this award. Congratulations to the highly commended and the winners - brilliant examples all #CareDay26
I'm at the Care Day Awards in the magnificent Ulster Museum and we're about to get underway #CareDay26
This was a ridiculously good show. Bowie was steeped in rock n roll -sometimes I could almost hear Jerry Lee. Listening to Modern Love I wondered why Madness and Roxy Music never had a crack at covering it.
🔑 Key takeaways:
📊💥 Record political fragmentation has broken First Past The Post
📉 Public distrust is driving the public towards populist parties
‼️ FPTP may now harm Labour and the Conservatives
🗳️ Westminster needs a National Commission on Electoral Reform
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Doonesbury cartoon from 2004 about Donald Trump on The Apprentice which shows that not much has changed
2004 people. He told us who he was. Hasn't changed.
Continuity Conservatives
Latest @theguardian.com cartoon
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No wonder we keep getting governments that most of the public want gone.
"Only a fifth of the eligible electorate actually voted for the current majority government."
Under First Past the Post, that's enough for a "landslide".
@robfordmancs.bsky.social for @ukandeu.bsky.social 👇
I'm not saying Trump is a Russian asset, just that I can't think of anything he'd be doing differently if he were.
🚨BREAKING: Parliament is going to debate the petition Calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy on 9 February.
This is why it’s so important👇
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This has been the plan all along.
- Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN
- Implement the Insurrection Act
- Declare Martial Law
- Suspend elections
Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
Little Sparrow please
Sounds brilliant
Stylised painting with two crows in a golden field, in the background a white hare sprints left
In certain folklore, the hare is a mystical creature symbolizing fertility, rebirth, speed, and the moon, often linked to goddesses. Artwork by Catherine Hyde #WomensArt
A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.
Fucking hell. The cherry on top of this hideous confection of race-baiting brutality is, of course, immigration agents targeting Native Americans. Say it slowly: Native Americans.
This isn't about immigration. It isn't even about immigrants. It's all raw white supremacy.
Another absolute belter. Love these deep dives with biographers who really know their stuff accompanied by a carefully curated play list. Again, when I was at school Another Brick in the Wall was on Top of the Pops. Imagine.
Snow covered countryside
Snow covered farmyard
So is South Derry
The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks.
The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.
It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
This was brilliant too. Many bands would consider a Beatles outtake their greatest work.
This was a great show with instant playlist. How crazy to have been alive when music like this was actually in the charts. I well remember being at a pre social media school gate and someone announcing that The Jam had gone straight to No 1
It was
Cover of For and Against a United Ireland by Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride
This is an excellent and timely book. Makes an important contribution now but will continue to be a primer for the conversation going forward. Most importantly it makes you think. Also, readable and well written.
How does Moscow view Donald Trump at the end of 2025? One Russian paper today: “The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World…he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold to be destroyed…” #ReadingRussia youtu.be/7EwZNk6KgHU
Total cakeism: people know that current state pension systems are unaffordable but they don’t want to pay more or work longer. No wonder democratic government is failing. Anyone telling the truth loses the election.
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'a brilliant, luminous work that blends the mystical and the contemporary, interrogating power, gender, and transformation with precision and lyric grace.’ - @elainefeeney.bsky.social, Sunday Independent, on @jesstraynor.bsky.social's New Arcana. @independent.ie
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