#Government

THREAD: the government's Domestic Abuse Bill went through its last stage in the House of Commons today. Throughout the process, amendments have urgently been needed to create a Bill that
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The monthly EU Settlement Scheme stats are out! What did we learn?Application volumes have never been lowerApplication decisions have never been fewerThe Home Secretary said a few weeks ago that
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We don’t have the luxury of purity right now. This is about survival.If you’re a supporter of @RLong_Bailey / @jeremycorbyn sniping at @Keir_Starmer you’re only helping #BorisTheButcher and #Covid19Screw your
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UK-Japan CEPA again.The DTI have published this guide. A few points.Obviously, first of all, it's not "reduced" as from now to Dec 31, it's 0% due to the EU EPA.
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NEW FROM ME: Internal federal government documents reveal the assumptions & estimates agencies are using to sketch out the future of the #COVID19 pandemichttps://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/federal-documents-more-than-30
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White people seem to only understand racism when they think it’s happening to them. All these hot takes about: disenfranchisement and poverty and how it “radicalized” those white men they
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Not everybody flies and yet everybody pays - Talk of Air Passenger Duty being suspended is a concern Flying is not something that everyone does and yet, since the Second
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Great and open article from @PrairieDogBeer on what it takes to re-open a restaurant for dine-in in the COVID re-opening.All restaurant, pub, brewery etc owners and managers should read this.https://www.prairiedogbrewing.ca/challenges-reope
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This piece correctly identifies the major reasons why the state share of China's economy stays high: the political pressure to keep growth high, and the resulting push of resources into
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Really brilliant and informative thread. I see Irish people daily defending Boris and it makes me sick to my stomach. He along with Trump has failed the people they’re meant
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When I was unsure about what I was being told by the mainstream media regarding the attack on the police station in Mariupol, I headed out to the location myself.
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What these pronouns-in-bios “communist” LARPers want isn’t Marxism, it’s woke capitalism, woke imperialism, woke colonialism, woke wars, woke oppression.An -actual- class-based Marxist movement would push their identity politics to
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Actually, to be brutally honest, that mask will will not protect you from getting infected. Neither will the gun.https://twitter.com/pcbrynn/status/1258845146491338754 I’ll keep saying it because it’s true and also because it’s
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this morning, i’m thinking about what will be used to make people care about my life in the event that I’m murdered by state-sanctioned violence. this might be a thread.
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There should be exactly *zero* attacks on Perdue and Loeffler in Georgia right nowIf Republicans lose the Senate, you would have unified government, a packed Supreme Court, and DC/Puerto Rico
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So the NHS Covid-19 app has nothing to do with Serco. It was created by NHSX, although some third-parties did the coding (this is pretty standard practice – it’s not
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