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Left wing, psychiatrist

[T @bIack_eye]

Hi @ProfLAppleby what's your response to the different in data presented here about the suicide of trans children? https://t.co/eiTjz9TIw0 your report showed ten times less. Were your criteria too strict?

[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

The economic duplicity of this so-called Labour govt is off the scale. Contrary to the propaganda peddled by the political class and corporate media, taxation does NOT pay for govt expenditure.

Raising the basic rate of tax will not ease austerity, it will exacerbate it by taking money out the pockets of millions who are already struggling to afford monthly household bills.

Furthermore, reducing the income of ordinary workers by increasing income tax will have a negative impact on economic growth because it will diminish aggregate demand in the economy.

The principle purpose of taxation is to control inflation. But it can, and should also be used to address the grotesque levels of economic inequality in the UK, and that won't be achieved by raising the basic rate. Taxes can also drive consumer spending choices and taxes generate a value for the currency because taxes have to be paid in pound sterling.

What the govt should do to end austerity is:
▪︎ reduce the basic rate of income tax
▪︎ introduce a higher minimum wage
▪︎ scrap the two children benefit cap
▪︎ increase social security payments
▪︎ start a massive council house building programme
▪︎ regulate private sector rents
▪︎ remove the private sector spivs from the #NHS and every other public service
▪︎ renationalise all the utilities
▪︎ invest in modernising our crumbling infrastructure

The political propaganda merchants and the economically illiterate commentariat will say, "How will you pay for such an ambitious programme."

The flip answer to that question is, "with money." But what do I mean by that. Well, the govt owns the Bank of England and therefore has access to all the money it needs because it issues the currency.

The only restriction on the programme I have set out above is the availability of real resources in the economy. In others the availability of workers, raw materials, machinery, and land etc. As long as that constraint is observed, there is no inflationary pressure from govt spending.

So a good society is achievable, it just requires political will. As Tony Benn used to say, "If we can afford the money to kill people, we can afford the money to help people.

Tragically, this govt's priority is on killing people by throwing money at prolonging NATO's proxy war in #Ukraine and increasing military spending at home.

We deserve better.

https://t.co/a8XLUE7qSS

[T @bIack_eye]

@hereforthebooks @veggieequallife 80% of 48 is 38.4. I work 80% LTFT and it's (depending onto the month) often longer than someone working "full time" on 37.5 hours a week.

[David McNab @[email protected] @DavidMcNab17]

The tragedy of it all is that we did it to ourselves, in response to Thatcher’s biggest lie: the UK relies on tax-payers’ money.

Before that moment in 1983, Keynes was the accepted authority: If we can do it, we can afford it.

The UK govt is not a household.

[T @bIack_eye]

@dandouglas This is perfect timing, I'm going to go and get some today. I love this freak shit

[uncle Monstrous Carb @lowerformofwit]

It's funny really how the Overton window has shifted to such an extent that a bunch of people roundly mocked by activists for doing somewhat tepid, ineffectual political stunts are now considered beyond the pale

[T @bIack_eye]

@djjmilner Also people plan their lives around transport routes, buses are unreliable not just in the moment (though they are that) but also long term because of that flexibility

[Millenarianism Identifier @facebookvillain]

when I see a video like this, I think of one of Frantz Fanon's case studies. detailed in Wretched Of The Earth, he treated a French policeman and an Algerian freedom fighter that the policeman had tortured, and wrote what transpired when they encountered one another at the clinic

[T @bIack_eye]

@megannn_lynne This is lovely but that's a diabolical tea preference

[Sian Berry @sianberry]

Paid a visit to the London arms fair today...

Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display.

Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains?

These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Reform is led by Londoners who haven’t had a lifetime of using railways in the North.

So I suppose it’s no surprise that they think it’s fine for us to be stuck with a second-class railway while the south gets modern, high-speed lines.👇🏻

We have higher ambitions for the North.

[T @bIack_eye]

Can we extend the idea of being a jobsworth to people like this - more than my jobs worth to ask to be paid enough so I can sleep 8 hours a night, yes sir, thank you sir.

[T @bIack_eye]

@MrHreviews @martinrw @tomhfh There's a free market in transport, you can set up a bus company, rent cars, or build your own tube line at your leisure

[Dr Shivam Sharma @DocShivSharma]

Why is the GMC, a registered charity, holding £51.7m in reserves?

What could they possibly even do with that money?

Why are we paying £463 a year to the GMC for them to run such a huge surplus?

[T @bIack_eye]

Effective altruists be like: I see all the problems in the world, but imagine how much more suffering there will be when a trillion artificial intelligences war with a billion humans on our mars colonies. I'm therefore devoting all of my time and money to my new crypto AI comp...

[ada🔸 @Adellama_]

effective altruists be like: i see all the various problems in the world. i'm gonna fix the worst ones. and then once i do that, i'll fix the second worst ones. and so on, until the world isn't as broken as it is anymore.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK leads homelessness across OECD countries

Outcome of real wage/benefit cuts, austerity, sale of council homes, emasculation of local councils, lack of affordable/social housing, corporate profiteering, no rent controls, appeasing corporations/rich.
https://t.co/Yg1uqCV2FO

[Louella Vaughan @DrLKVaughan]

Here is an example of what is coming.

The whole of Medicine, broken down into tasks and tiers.

No need for knowledge. No need for expertise.

Brought to you by HEE.

Lets take a look at the new(ish) Framework for Asthma (May 2025).🧵
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[T @bIack_eye]

@mralistairgreen

[T @bIack_eye]

This seems so incredibly dangerous, that not only could the "person" someone's reaching out for help to be an AI language model that gives useless advice and doesn't share the fact this person is at risk, but that it also seems to actively discourage talking to others about it

[Warren Commission Test Skull @conzmoleman]

fuckin hell man. this kid was crying out for help.

[T @bIack_eye]

To order bruger