#Welfare

I'm not one for critical tweets, but I'm astonished. Yesterday I got an email about exams from #Oxford Universities Pro-Vice Chancellor. His closing line:"I wish you every success with your
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Observer leads with @Keir_Starmer demanding that PM delivers on promise of all children back at school, no ifs, no buts etc. I'm a retired primary school teacher who taught for
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Huge Surprise! #IlhanOmar is said to be 'working for Qatar'. Per testimonies in a Florida court, the Democratic Congresswoman who was recruited by and received funding from Qatar, passed sensative
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The key to understanding why discussions of wealth in the US are so strange: you are fabulously wealthy *long* before you're truly safe from poverty, because our safety net is
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(Long thread--but worth reading)I received lots of pushback (including some pretty nasty comments) on my tweets re. the most recent “Nobel Prize” in economics. I believe that most comments reflect
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Yesterday, I got a call from a friend, she was upset.I asked her what was wrong, and she said she was hungry.I was like, "okay, go make some food..."She started
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A thread about e-tests. I'd like @NACAC @CollegeBoard and @ACT to listen. And I'd like you to speak up. Both of The Agencies have confirmed that they will deliver their
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#LabourDoorstep I was invited into an elderly gentleman’s home as it had a bad fall and broken a couple of ribs,45 minutes later I could not be more proud to
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Basically none of this true. I hate this so much.https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/iraq-invasion-slow-burn-intro.html “All these shitty centrist rags in the early 2000s that promoted ‘race science’, Zionism, super predator s
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Anyone who wants a Britain free of injustice should wish @Keir_Starmer well - and support his promises to hike taxes on the rich to invest, promote public ownership, expand the
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Here is a thread on the financial situation of Tamil Nadu. State has total tax and non tax revenues of around 1.34 lakh crores. Salaries, pensions and interest on debt
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This maize discussion. This is another time to share my article on Buhari/Emefiele's disastrous food self-sufficiency mantra. We produce poverty faster than we produce food locally with this anti-food imports
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This lockdown is a doddle compared to the almost nine years I spent being a full-time carer, with one free week every two months; Limited social contact and very restricted
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Yes. But liberal & left are different things. As a LIBERAL leftist, I will agree with liberal rightists on matters of liberalism but as a liberal LEFTIST, I will agree
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And just like that. British farming is ended. By Dominic Cummings and his wrecking ball. Chickens so diseased they have to be drenched in chlorine, pigs rammed with ractopamine, dairy
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As a psychologist and a student of how people get their news and form their views, I wanted to take a few tweets to respond to this common question in
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