tomseasman

Public health doctor.

[Henry Curr @ecurrnomics]

If the ageing population was the first budget shock for which British politics was unprepared, the next is the loss of the peace dividend:

[Lucy Fisher @LOS_Fisher]

NEW: Andy Burnham faces Labour backlash over support for Waspi women

One government figure decried Burnham’s hint about a major compensation spending pledge as “pathetic”, adding: “He can’t say no to anyone.”

A Starmer ally suggested Burnham’s move was Corbynite, adding: “Keir literally won by not being this version of the Labour party.”

https://t.co/J2IMe6jLW2

[tomseasman @tomseasman]

When I signed up for a student loan, I don’t remember the government telling me interest rates would be hiked up in order to pay for welfare initiatives…

[Family Education Trust @FamEdTrust]

Chief Treasury Secretary Lucy Rigby has defended the Government’s decision to not reduce interest rates on student loans, saying the money is being used to fund benefit schemes including ‘free breakfast clubs’ and lifting the two child benefit cap.

Trapping graduates in a lifetime of debt in order to fund breakfasts for children whose parents should be feeding them at home is not beneficial to anyone - children, families or young adults starting out in life.

[Poppy Coburn @kafkaswife]

Ash described the 2011 riots that saw an Ealing pensioner punched to death by a looter as “taut, tense, purposeful” and added that they showed the “explosive power that can be unleashed when marginalised people see themselves reflected in each other’s struggle”.

I suppose it’s ok to torch people’s homes, as long as it’s done by marginalised people?

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Man taken to hospital with 'serious injuries' after stabbing https://t.co/QrQVLvxssq

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

South Wales Police has instructed officers to log comments they feel are beyond "legitimate" criticism of Islam.

This is, exactly as I warned, a blasphemy law through the back door.

Nobody voted for this.

My letter to the Chief Constable👇🏾

[Maurice Cousins @MDC12345678]

Blame Net Zero

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

UK tax has gone up significantly over the last 25 years

But the tax paid by the average UK worker has not

This apparent miracle was achieved by taxing “other people”: higher earners, capital, property, banks, etc

The strategy has run out of road

A 🧵 on what happens next.

[LBC @LBC]

'Do we blame Farage or do we ask why people are so willing to believe what he's saying?'

Caller Katie wonders whether Labour's 'reluctance' to discuss immigration is what could be pushing people towards Reform.

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

I’ll save you the time:

Treat everyone with respect.

Love who you want to love.

Worship who you want to worship.

Love,

A Gay Christian whose right marry was secured with the vote of the Muslim Mayor of the best city in the world.

👇🏻 🚮

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I asked a local councillor if the russian refinery here in Ireland should be sanctioned.

He said yes, if it was supplying Israel.
But Russia? No.

This is Ireland’s sanctions hypocrisy in 90 seconds.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Narinder is proving my exact point.

Is it wrong for me to say we should not assume racism is the problem, but we should look for the evidence?

Is it wrong to say we should be driven by facts not ideology when considering health or crime or education?

What a mad response.

[⚽️ Kyle Sheldon @kylesheldon]

Is this the best World Cup team photo of all time?

Bravo, Norway 🇳🇴⚔️

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

The German word sonder can give you an extreme competitive advantage in life.

It means this: every person you pass on the street has the same complexity of life that you do.

Their own love interests, their own family, their own concentric rings of relationships and history radiating out from them.

Most of the time we just walk by people like they’re objects in our field of vision.

Sonder is the practice of actually feeling that about the people around you.

The paradox is that the more you dial into that, the less significant you feel, nd the less significant you feel, the happier you get.

The moment you make everything about yourself, you stop getting satisfied.

But when you realize you’re just another cog in the wheel doing your best alongside everyone else doing theirs, people sense it.

People will relax around you. That’s when real connection happens.

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

You called for riots in all 50 states in my country after George Floyd died.

Dozens of people died in those far-left riots you encouraged.

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

Kate McCann and Stig Abell react to policing minister Sarah Jones “not wanting to engage” on whether there has been an “over-correction” in policing guidance.

“It’s not as simple as saying you should treat everybody the same.”

@KateEMcCann | @StigAbell

[Alison Wallis @alisonwallis60]

Lucy Powell bragging that she could run the country.

Imposter syndrome is well and truly dead.

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Breaking:

Kemi Badenoch accuses Nigel Farage of 'grandstanding' and 'reinforcing the difference' after he claimed Britain has become a two-tier country in the wake of Henry Nowak's murder

She tells @GMB 'we are descending into tribalism' and that Nigel Farage's intervention has angered here. 'We can't solve it by whipping people up, we can't solve it by making them angry'

'I have a nine-year-old boy - in 10 years he will be about that age. He is half black, he is half white. I bring him up to believe this country is one where he belongs and he should never worry about how he will be treated. You see that video and think how can we tell our children these things? I want that to be the reality

'What Nigel Farage is doing is reinforcing the difference. We need to find what we have in common. Not what separates us.

'I don't want to hear about black lives matter. I don't want to hear about white lives matter. We all matter. Enough of this nonsense where we keep separating everybody and splitting people into different groups. We are descending into tribalism

'What I do not like is seeing Nigel Farage jump on this issue when he doesn't do any work, he doesn't turn up to Parliament, he doesn't take things seriously but he sees this as an opportunity to grandstand

'I'm not making this about white people or black people. It was wrong for him to do that. A backlash will come. If you encourage people to think about themselves as being part of a group defined by their skin colour we will encourage everyone to do that

'We should not make this about Nigel Farage. This is about Henry Nowak. I listened to his father and it was absolutely heartbreaking.

'This morning I watched that bodycam footage and just kept thinking if that was my boy his last moments were spent in handcuffs. He knew he was dying. He could see the confusion, his attacker claiming he had been a racist. It's an awful, awful way to die.

'What Nigel Farage is saying completely misunderstands that politicians wait until the sentencing before we say what we think. That case shows something has gone very horribly wrong with policing. I think we know why

'That case shows that something has gone very horribly wrong with policing and I think I know why. I think in 2020-2021 there was a response to the George Floyd murder that has over-corrected. I think everyone matters

'We need to bring back common sense. You don't need to be trained in racism or anti-racism to have seen what Henry was experiencing and know that he needed help. Something has gone wrong with the policing'

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

The video is a study in how #BeKind ultimately dehumanises. Because of how officers have been trained to respond to racism accusations, they ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears – meaning the last thing this poor boy ever hears is his ‘rights’ being slurred at him by a goon

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

"I've been stabbed"
"I don't think you have, mate"

Words that should live in infamy