Lib Dems mark Carers Rights Day by calling for £20 a week hike in Carers Allowance, and for unpaid carers to get over £1,000 in Cost of Living payments. Carers get less than £70 a week in government support - and many more fall through the cracks
Word of the day is ‘quafftide’(16th century): a one-word announcement that it’s time for a drink.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1593671745445269507
The Elephant in the room, time to talk about #Rejoining the #EU
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JonWorcesterMan/status/1593860595262304256
This guy is justice minister & deputy PM, with a big public salary. We’re in recession, NHS crisis, social care crisis, children dying of mould & war on our continent.
But he thinks planting in his constituency is the best use of his time 🙄
“This guy is justice minister & deputy PM, with a big public salary. We’re in recession, NHS crisis, social care crisis, children dying of mould & war on our continent. But he thinks planting in his constituency is the best use of his time 🙄 #Patronising #Tokenism #RollOnGE”
The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.
People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.
These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.
This Twitter fiasco is a reminder of who is *actually* critical to the survival of our economy & society.
Twitter worked before the billionaire got here. Now that workers are gone, Twitter is collapsing. Workers made Twitter work—a billionaire broke it.
Workers > Billionaires
"If you cut that [spending] too much you actually make it worse"
Economist Ha-Joon Chang warns against austerity, saying that Britain has failed to invest in "productive capabilities" over the past 25 years
#Newsnight | https://bbc.in/2Ps915G
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1591203593335738368
Jeff Jarvis
Mario (@mariom on the bird)
Will Oremus
Luke LeBrun
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Carol Hedges