Social researcher, feminist & novice vegetable grower. Politics, social policy, poverty/inequality. The outdoors & food.Exiled Teessider. Personal views/account
Richmondshire, N. Yorks
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Very good morning everyone! 🙌
Democrats projected to win Senate and take control of US Congress after historic victories in Republican strongholds
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It will never not make me chuckle when the automated station announcement on @lner for stations north of Newcastle gets to Alnmouth. The accent slips from fairly posh neutral to east London/Essex - Alnmouth (Alnmth) becomes ‘Alnmaff’.
😆 every time. #HappyMonday
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Dopamine Chamber by @fontainesdublin is playing constantly at the moment. Feels like a study of modern life with dreamy synth & gorgeous drums. Current favourites incl Japan, Mimesis & Where is Gone.
Go. Listen!
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Everyone talking about or being told about ‘Stand Up To Cancer’ @SU2CUK
Job well done @andyburnham & @MetroMayorSteve #Gogglebox
Dear @netflix, please tell me you filmed series 4 & 5 of #TheDiplomat back-to-back. You’re not really going to leave us very long with that cliffhanger. Are you?
PS you have to keep Stuart.
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Many Tories now seem very upset with the set of circumstances their successive governments were, arguably, the architects of.
Austerity has social as well as economic consequences. We are witnessing them today.
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Would love @FullFact to look at this.
Seems like an outlier case study. Not clear what other conditions the case may have (seems likely given enhanced PIP) & whether in work or not.
Either way, we know people with disabilities face higher costs for same standard of living.
A claimant on combined benefits for anxiety can receive over £27,000 a year, tax free.
To match that, a worker would need to earn over £33,000. That is more than 50 hours a week on the National Living Wage.
6.2 million full-time workers take home less.
State of Dependency: out tomorrow.
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Oven has just broken 😩
But I suppose porridge for supper is better than chips for supper.
Now to sort a new integrated oven out. What a palaver!
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Yes 🙌
A new National Care Service. Greater public control of water, energy, and housing. A National Commission on Electoral Reform. Strengthening our relationship with Europe. Reforming the education and welfare system.
Today I set out a different path for Britain.
You may disagree with some or all of what I have said today. But I have given you what you often say is missing from politics.
Honesty, ideas and a clear direction for the country we all love.
If you agree with enough of what I have said, get behind this plan. And get behind each other.
It's time to draw a line.
To move beyond a decade of drift and division.
To bring a spirit of unity and positivity back to our country.
To unlock the working-class aspiration that is still there in every postcode.
To hope again.
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