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this whole wise thread 🔥🔥🔥 as just as true for UK as for Ireland — looking at migration within entirely wrong frameworks👇
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#Thread / RANT! In Ireland we are having public debate about migration within a couple of entirely wrong frameworks. I am not talking about the far right here. I am talking about Government and media. The first wrong framework is a scarcity framework-
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Lately it seems like a lot of people feel strongly about women's safety in prisons, and yet the horrible findings of an inspection team at HMP/YOI #Eastwood aren't getting much attention👇
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WATCH Sandra Fieldhouse, lead inspector at our HMP/YOI Eastwood Park inspection, describe the appalling conditions in which some of the most vulnerable women in the prison estate were held.
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Lately it seems like a lot of people feel strongly about women's safety in prisons, and yet the horrible findings of an inspection team at HMP/YOI #Eastwood aren't getting much attention👇
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WATCH Sandra Fieldhouse, lead inspector at our HMP/YOI Eastwood Park inspection, describe the appalling conditions in which some of the most vulnerable women in the prison estate were held.
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if you're gripped by #HappyValley .. you might care about the threatened loss, & efforts to rescue #oldhamcoliseum 👇
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On the news tonight talking about the loss of Oldham Coliseum. There is a massive appetite to save the theatre and awareness of how much it means to Oldham and the Greater Manchester theatre community is the first step. Please be assured that there are conversations going on. X
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The Metropolitan Police force has asked hundreds of retired officers with histories of misconduct records to re-apply for jobs in an effort to boost numbers thetimes.co.uk/article/met-as
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Covid party fines drove whole families into the jaws of loan sharks. #MattHancock enriched his mates, promoted the covid rules, broke them, threw his family under a bus, profited from the publicity. 'I'm only human....It doesn't feel like I got away with it'
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🚨 | NEW: Matt Hancock has said that one of the reasons he didn’t abide by his own COVID guidelines is because he’s “only human”
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How much more Tory corruption remains hidden? Which MPs & ministers are beholden to others to keep their dirty secrets? Here, from , is some of what it took to expose just the #ZahawiTaxScandal There is bound to be more, maybe worse👇
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I'm going to leave the politics to others. The tax part of the Zahawi story, and therefore my role, feels over. But I wanted to sign off by correcting three takes which we’re going to hear a lot of, and I think are wrong. taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/29/thr
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Who or what is being protected here?👇
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🚨 BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL SUPPORTER ARRESTED WHILE GIVING SPEECH IN SUPPORT OF BARCLAYS 7 🔒 Tez Burns, a 34-year-old bicycle mechanic from Swansea, has been arrested by the Met outside Southwark Crown Court while giving a speech in support of the Barclays 7 defendants.
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this, so much so — and not just the Tory cabal. 'liberal' journalism is shot through with dynastic & private school / Oxbridge tribal affiliations 👇
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Do people have any idea how interconnected and narrow the Tory cabal is and how long it goes back in time? Politicians, peers, journalists, SPADs, funders - they are each others’ relatives, spouses, godparents, schoolmates - the connections are simply staggering.
so much preventable horror, loss, pain👇
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Eleven people shot in Monterey Park last Saturday have died. They have now been identified: Diana Tom, 70: My Nhan, 65; Lilian Li, 63; Xiujuan Yu, 57; Hong Jian, 62; Muoi Ung, 67; Valentino Alvero, 68; Yu Kao, 72; Chia Yau, 76; Wen Yu, 64; and Ming Ma, 72. latimes.com/california/sto
'Please stop quoting pasta prices' by —this whole thread 🔥🔥🔥
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Please stop quoting pasta prices. A packet of pasta won't feed a family alone. You never cater for all the sauce ingredients, kitchen implements, cooking gear, energy, time. You fail to budget for competing demands of home heating, rent, water rates & council tax, among others.
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Investigation into Met chief inspector Richard Watkinson, 49, (found dead while facing charges over child abuse images—see /15 in 🧵)...also resulted in charges against 2 retired Met Police officers, Jack Addis, 63, & Jeremy Laxton, 62 /17
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Has anyone done a deep & rigorous Compare & Contrast #Ardern vs May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak — values, policy, rhetoric, personal & party funding & loans, personal conduct & tax affairs etc ?
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Jacinda Ardern resigns: ‘I no longer have enough in the tank’ bbc.in/3XJ4xZ8
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Hello may I suggest put 'Don't Touch My Hair' on your staff reading list ? Despite everything that has been said & written to educate people & explain why such behaviour by schools is racist, ignorant, stigmatising, damaging. . . still happening 👇
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My child is banned from the school playground/canteen for her hair, its neatly braided in a natural colour, I gave them a lesson on the history of black womens hairs cultural significance of braiding, they chose violence, @BishopChalloner has a racist hair policy!!!
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remember Met police #DenizJaffer & #JamieLewis took selfies with murdered sisters Bibaa Henry & Nicole Smallman and shared them for laughs? #DenizJaffer 's phone revealed he'd bragged abt covering up an attack by 3 white men on a group of Asian men. /12
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XR target Michael Gove's office over reckless & ideologically motivated & widely derided decision to open a coal mine in #Cumbria #NotJustLakes #EndCoal
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🚨BREAKING:🚨 XR target Michael Gove's office - Department of Levelling Up, Housing & Communities - over Cumbria coal mine decision. In the middle of the climate and ecological emergency, this will be the UK's first new deep coal mine in 30 years. It's time to #EndCoal.
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Met Police chief inspector Richard Watkinson, 49, facing charges over child abuse images & voyeurism, found dead at home. He kept a hidden room for severe abuse images, sex toys & boys' pants & was schools portfolio lead for neighbourhoods /15
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Hello may I suggest put 'Don't Touch My Hair' on your staff reading list ? Despite everything that has been said & written to educate people & explain why such behaviour by schools is racist, ignorant, stigmatising, damaging. . . still happening 👇
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My child is banned from the school playground/canteen for her hair, its neatly braided in a natural colour, I gave them a lesson on the history of black womens hairs cultural significance of braiding, they chose violence, @BishopChalloner has a racist hair policy!!!
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If ever there was a time to get police out of our schools: see new research from 👋👋👋 /16
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NEW: There are 979 police officers operating in UK schools, revealing that the presence of police in schools is 43% greater than previous figures have suggested. Our children need support and safeguarding, not criminalisation. Read our latest briefing👇runnymedetrust.org/publications/o
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Met Police chief inspector Richard Watkinson, 49, facing charges over child abuse images & voyeurism, found dead at home. He kept a hidden room for severe abuse images, sex toys & boys' pants & was schools portfolio lead for neighbourhoods /15
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says it's reviewing past allegations of sexual offending &domestic abuse against all serving officers & staff No mention of urgently needed deep& wide-ranging review of allegations of racist conduct, improper use of force, stop-&-search 5/
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Police racism, misogyny, homophobia, cover-up, corruption, improper use of force, the IOPC and 'independent' experts lack of independence, coroners granting police anonymity without good cause, CPS reluctance to prosecute, all these things are enmeshed. /13
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What if, over decades, police watchdog IPPC/IOPC had properly investigated allegations of racist policing, & improper use of force, then: change, top-down, shedding bad cops? Isn't culture of police racism, misogyny,homophobia, cover-up,corruption a single can of worms? 10/
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