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@riverlorien

Happy escapee from the other place. Mix of interests inc health, welfare & disability policy, media, hospice/palliative care, the environment & animal welfare

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Is this a skit? Deepfake? It's actually embarrassing

11.03.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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11.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Government freezes funding for life-changing housing adaptations, despite minister’s claims The government is freezing the budget of a scheme that funds β€œlife-changing” adaptations to disabled people’s homes, despite a minister claiming he was β€œputting more money” into the programme. Care…

The government is freezing the budget of a scheme that funds β€œlife-changing” adaptations to disabled people’s homes, despite a minister claiming he was β€œputting more money” into the programme.
#AccessibleHousing
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-f...

28.02.2026 08:00 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

In response to a survey on 'corridor care', the RCN received from nurses:

"5000 testimonies of harrowing experience... looking after people in a way that they felt ashamed and…our members voices had to be the wake up call."

"This is not what any of us would want for people in this country."

11.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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11.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 1129 πŸ” 498 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 46
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James Blake on how a lack of community has deepened issues surrounding the manosphere.

The decimation of youth clubs has had very troubling effects on our society.

11.03.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

This vote 'means that current or future govts could restrict content they are ideologically opposed to'.

For example, a Reform govt 'could force ID checks to access LGBQT content...'

'Ministers will not have to demonstrate harm to children.'

MPs also gave ministers the power to restrict VPN use

11.03.2026 00:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"16,000 patients a year are dying in association with long waits in emergency departments."

11.03.2026 12:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reaching net zero by 2050 β€˜cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Report from the Climate Change Committee:

'Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock'

It will 'bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs.'

11.03.2026 12:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes and Jenrick, for one, has already said that a future govt wd politicise selection of the judiciary - ie get rid of 'activist' judges. They hate that juries keep acquitting protesters

11.03.2026 12:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank. Don't look away.

"Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians"

"Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank, writes Diana Buttu for Zeteo. "Don't look away."

10.03.2026 11:00 πŸ‘ 1463 πŸ” 585 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 22

It's such a horrible feeling. Hope you manage to get some rest

11.03.2026 01:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They always want to take even more from the poorest children, seriously ill & disabled people - yet far too many are already going without basic essentials

11.03.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just confirming the total 4d genius of Trump's political & military 'strategy' 🀦

11.03.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This vote 'means that current or future govts could restrict content they are ideologically opposed to'.

For example, a Reform govt 'could force ID checks to access LGBQT content...'

'Ministers will not have to demonstrate harm to children.'

MPs also gave ministers the power to restrict VPN use

11.03.2026 00:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Agree - the plan to scrap jury trials is abhorrent & cd allow a future govt to further suppress protest by politically appointing judges & magistrates (as Jenrick has suggested). I'm strongly against all Blue Labour attacks on immigrants, trans & disabled people. We'll see who caves & who doesn't

10.03.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫑

08.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 5683 πŸ” 1059 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 50

Yes, but said in the clip that she won't support it in future votes without amendments, so we'll see...

10.03.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you

10.03.2026 22:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Winning elections by abandoning your base. Slow hand clap...

10.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Parliamentlive.tv Justice and Home Affairs Committee

At 11.55 here Claude Moraes correctly points out that care workers/dependants are fiscally *positive* every year until about 2045.

In response, the Home Office official misstates the facts & clearly doesn't understand either the point or the actual data/analysis

parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

10.03.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

This case is terrible

10.03.2026 21:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from volatile countries such as Afghanistan

EXCL: Home Office rejected appeal from foreign secretary Yvette Cooper that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world’s most dangerous countries from changes to UK’s immigration system.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

10.03.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 24

This has the clip. It was such a brave intervention

10.03.2026 19:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

🀦

10.03.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iranians living in UK tell Starmer that war will only strengthen Tehran regime Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among more than 100 signatories to letter urging PM not to get drawn further into the conflict

100 Iranians living in the UK, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, have urged Starmer not to get drawn further into the Iran conflict.

"It will entrench the authoritarians and give life to the fiction that has sustained them internally for decades: that they are fighting western imperialism."

10.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

So unlike the Russians to play both sides

10.03.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very powerful and moving speech in opposition to govt plans to cut jury trials

10.03.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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American satellite company Planet is restricting access to its satellite imagery, making it harder for media organisations to report what the US & Israel are doing in Iran.

10.03.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

Please, someone get it through to him that asylum seekers aren't literally seeking asylums! 🀦

10.03.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0