mhamlin1

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Writer, reader, music, arts & film fan. Rooted in education - lifelong teacher now a trustee but still interested in most things.
Strictly own views here.
mhamlin1May 5, 2023
Good point - from an ex-editor of the Sun. It's main influence, and it remains considerable, is in agenda setting for the BBC and other mainstream media outlets, persistently pushing them onto a right wing agenda.....
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RT @davidyelland
The popular press is not popular anymore, its nasty small boats agenda and ‘war on woke’ is not where the people are….. the Brexit editors have lost their audience, lots the plot, lost their argument…
https://twitter.com/davidyelland/status/1654452258300391425
David Yelland on Twitter

“The popular press is not popular anymore, its nasty small boats agenda and ‘war on woke’ is not where the people are….. the Brexit editors have lost their audience, lots the plot, lost their argument…..”

Twitter
mhamlin1May 5, 2023
Good point - from an ex-editor of the Sun. It's main influence, and it remains considerable, is in agenda setting for the BBC and other mainstream media outlets, persistently pulling them into a right wing agenda.....
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RT @davidyelland
The popular press is not popular anymore, its nasty small boats agenda and ‘war on woke’ is not where the people are….. the Brexit editors have lost their audience, lots the plot, lost their argument…
https://twitter.com/davidyelland/status/1654452258300391425
David Yelland on Twitter

“The popular press is not popular anymore, its nasty small boats agenda and ‘war on woke’ is not where the people are….. the Brexit editors have lost their audience, lots the plot, lost their argument…..”

Twitter
mhamlin1May 4, 2023
Interesting. After voting today, I made a complaint against voter ID and was given the slip below by one of the officers, allowing me to 'express concerns'. However, friends tell me that other voting stations know nothing of such slips. Perhaps you might like to fill one in?
mhamlin1May 4, 2023

RT @broderly
In 2020, Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski had to apologise for attending the NatCon in Rome, which a Tory party statement called "unacceptable". This month's version of the same conference in London has Braverman, Gove, and Rees-Mogg speaking.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/06/daniel-kawczynski-tory-mp-told-by-party-attendance-at-far-right-event-unacceptable

Tory MP told by party attendance at far-right event 'unacceptable'

Backbencher Daniel Kawczynski apologises after appearing at conference in Italy

The Guardian
Show threadmhamlin1May 4, 2023

compulsory Voter ID from this election onwards.

Personally, I have ID coming out of my ears but then I am a home-owning, driver with a senior bus pass, who occasionally travels abroad.

In the same queue as me there was a young, partially sighted woman who had none of the above.

Show threadmhamlin1May 4, 2023
She had missed the deadline for a postal vote and her only recourse was to go for an emergency proxy vote before 5:00 this evening. As a consequence she will probably not vote. 
This is blatant voter suppression which should be abolished immediately!
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mhamlin1May 4, 2023
When voting today ask for a Voter ID complaint slip. The stewards should have one but they might have run out! Anyway, the relevant email is [email protected]
I replied as follows:
I wish to express my grave concern at the totally unnecessary introduction of
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mhamlin1May 4, 2023

Excellent report from @Channel4News ...........
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RT @Channel4News
Teachers in England are leaving 'in droves' according to the National Education Union.

Our Data Correspondent @C4Ciaran looks at the numbers behind the headline.
https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1653476583628259346

Channel 4 News on Twitter

“Teachers in England are leaving 'in droves' according to the National Education Union. Our Data Correspondent @C4Ciaran looks at the numbers behind the headline.”

Twitter
mhamlin1May 3, 2023

RT @miss_mcinerney
At some point we have to accept that it isn’t going to be possible for young people to pay out of standard wages:
- Student loans
- Housing costs
- Pensions
- Childcare

So the bottom two will go. Which just punts a worsening problem further down the road. https://twitter.com/gmb/status/1653666974927405056

Good Morning Britain on Twitter

“The country is about to face the biggest change to student finance in a decade. @MartinSLewis outlines the three main changes that are coming in for new university starters in England in September.”

Twitter
mhamlin1May 2, 2023
RT @Sarah_Woolley
Never heard of the Post Office scandal? It isn't (as this piece argues) because of 'cancel culture' on Twitter or the 'culture war.' It's because British journalism is run by Hetties and Hugos with little interest in labour journalism.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/02/post-office-horizon-scandal-inquiry?CMP=share_btn_tw
Hundreds of lives ruined. Not a single person held to account. And still: silence on the Post Office scandal

Horrific detail piles on horrific detail as the inquiry rumbles on, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian