#Govt

In the 1930's the US Govt employed a program known as "Mexican Repatriation" where 1.8 million Mexican-Americans were raided & deported, MOST OF WHICH WERE US CITIZENS.The Hoover administration used
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Some people seem to be confusing Self ID re the GRA with Self ID re accessing female-only spaces. Currently any provider can offer single sex provisions on a Self ID
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An overwhelming torrent of criticism coming towards Wuhan-based female writer Fang Fang because of her decision to publish her Wuhan Diary in English and Germany. The criticism can be summarized
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Incredibly proud and humbled to be asked by @Keir_Starmer to join the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. I know just how big a brief
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A submarine strategy.- Labour aim is to ask questions, esp on trust & process. - Don't want to commit to 'too fast' (or 'too slow') general Labour view of policy.
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MOST peculiar that Van Tam is bloviating about “cases”. He must know that Govt has realised that the PCR test has a much higher false positive rate than the prevalence
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Look this Gallery kerfuffle. To summarise, lots of people are unhappy with the conduct of political journos at the PM’s briefings. And journos are saying “don’t watch if you can’t
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One last note than I have to go:Some health workers reached out, hospital and LTC nurses and paramedics, to share graphic details of their personal, extreme suffering during pandemic.They just
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Deeply suspicious of this “astroturf” story - what proof do we have that it isn’t a foreign power trying to embarrass our own government by making it look like they
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Disconnect from ground, ambiguities and deficiencies galore in the APMC Bypass Bill 2020. *farmers' freedom was not curtailed earlier either in state APMC Acts* trader to trader transactions are being
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As co-chair of another org, am not gonna get super involves in Momentum's internal politics, but sruggling a bit to understand @ForwardMmtm. Seems to have the right values (democracy, community
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Nursing is an undervalued profession, this arises from sense of complacency because everyone thinks they understand what nurses do. The reality is very different & poorly understood, nursing is a
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1/ Today in pictures/graphics which "speak a thousand words" about Brexit. A short thread.First up is Fisheries Minister (and MP for the coastal constituency of Banbury) "catching mackerel". If, as
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This thread is a must read for those who think education is in any way synonymous with wisdom.This almost reads like parody, given that he wrote it *while riots are
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All it takes is a speech from Modi, a kind of speech he's made countless times, for some people to get excited enough to say the coming decade belongs to
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There's been a lot of heat and fury around football, wages, morals, obligations, leadership & responsibility in recent days. IMO, lots of people, not least players, and the PL, do
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