The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist

The Beveridge Report - Effectiveness of the Labour social welfare reforms, 1945–51 - Higher History Revision - BBC Bitesize For Higher History, revise the Labour reforms that introduced the Welfare State and evaluate their effectiveness.

The Beveridge Report

The post-war Labour government introduced the Welfare State (1945-1951) to address the Five Giants of Disease, Squalor, Want, Ignorance and Idleness.

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Thants for that.

Interesting. Didn’t know that.

Gustave Caillebotte French Impressionist Painter

Gustave Caillebotte French Impressionist Painter

Gustave Caillebotte French Impressionist Painter

Gustave Caillebotte French Impressionist Painter

Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 1894) - French impressionist painter

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Our rights at work are under attack! #StopTheSteal Reform UK has pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters.

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Farage the fraud professes to be on the side of the working class. This is a lie of Trumpian proportions and he’s coming for hard won rights. He will be cribbing from Trumps Project 2025 as well

For those in Scotland, dismantling of Holyrood is also on the agenda

"What Law did he really study"

I think it must be 'Sod's Law' Iris and he's become more than a little expert at it.

Definition: it will always go wrong with the worst possible outcome usually at the worst time.

Ha, ha; very true Michael. I take it all back.

……and that’s not even mentioning his ridiculous Worzel Gummidge barnet.

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Laura thinks it’s less a “darkening shadow” but more a minor flexing of muscles.

The playbook is always the same: control women, protect power.

This International Women’s Day, we want a system that actually protects us. We’re fighting back for Nina, for Liv, and for every woman the courts have silenced.

Join the movement 👇
https://goodlaw.social/33094f

Yes, for Politics it’s Oxford but for espionage it’s very much Cambridge - Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Donald Maclean, and John Cairncross all attended Trinity College or Trinity Hall in the 1930s.

Metaphorically speaking, Ross is “dumped on his erse” often in Holyrood.

With impressive metronomic regularity and benefitting from a voice that carries well.

Jean Béraud French Painter

Jean Beraud French Painter

Jean Beraud French Painter

Jean Beraud French Painter

Jean Béraud (1849 - 1935) - Russian born French painter renowned for his numerous paintings of every day Parisian life.

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Hi Doc - ‘Dodging along’ as they say. I’m sure the toxicity ‘over there’ remains a constant but conversely, ‘over here’ it is a bit timid in contrast albeit there are some impressive contributors.

See you when you decide to spend more time here.

Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 - 22 August 1920) was a Swedish artist who attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist.

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‘No to war’: Sánchez doubles down after Trump threat to cut off trade with Spain PM says his country will not be complicit in growing conflict in Middle East ‘simply out of fear of reprisals from someone’

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This is Spain. Be like Spain.

Wow, that’s a great fact. Yes, would still be considered a new bridge.

The Forth Bridge | UNESCO in the UK Opened in 1890, the Forth Bridge, spanning the Firth of Forth to the north-west of Edinburgh, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015. The world’s first major steel structure…

On this day in 1890 the Forth Bridge, Scotland, was opened.

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Not ”on budget” David - well under budget 😉

How to combat the move to the political right.

You’re right Amy

Most of this thread is above the head of this septuagenarian but I penned below around 12 months ago as introspective thoughts about how impotent the ‘left’ are in combatting the inexorable move to the ‘right‘ and ceding the narrative/agenda

It’s a battle that must not be lost

A clear case of overvaluation by Clive in this instance.

“We’re working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry……” - Hannah Spencer

This is the language that was once common place in the Labour Party. Are you listening Prime Minister? No; thought not.

C’mon Starmer, define “extreme left”

I’m guessing any definition would firmly exclude old Labour titans such as Atlee/Bevan/Benn

Blair ripped the heart and soul out of the Party - you’re tearing the arse out of it

Are you stubborn with a ‘tin ear’ or just politically and strategically inept?

Farage, and his acolytes just cannot help themselves. Their tiny brains are filled with nothing but a collection of hateful sound bites incapable of independent or intelligent thought.

…..but it is how BBC work.

Yes, The Prince Of Darkness is but a mere shadow of the man he once was.

I’ll get my coat.

Are we going to let a fraud, inveterate liar and thin skinned bloviator like Farage privatise/introduce an insurance based system for what is simply the most worthwhile beneficial and innovative system introduced anywhere at anytime in any part of the World

No - and the performative prick can gtf