Simon Duffy

Today is International Democracy Day - and we need a real democracy more than ever. Today @citizennetwork.bsky.social @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social @compassoffice.bsky.social @henrytam.bsky.social shared our 8 step plan for rebuilding a renewed UK democracy. citizen-network.org/library/demo...

🔍 Want to shape the future of self-directed support? Join “Big Questions, Shared Priorities” with Laura Mudde, Bevin Croft & Teresa Nguyen! Connect, share ideas, and help set research priorities. Register: https://ow.ly/Vl9l50ZVYyW #SelfDirectedSupport #Research #Inclusion #Rights #Disability

Over-assessment of students (or anything in fact) is like constantly digging up a sapling to check its root growth.

This is great. The time is right to attack the corporations that are destroying our society. We may be dependent upon them… but with a little imagination and organisation they’re all replaceable.

David Graeber perfectly captures the essence of why UBI is essential: it gives us back our agency.

In August 2013 Anthropologist David Graeber launched an article on the phenomena of nonsense jobs that even the people doing them secretly knew didn't need to exist. The subject absolutely took off. youtu.be/dClQB-Fgsq8?...

🌟 Announcing our amazing Supporters for the Individual Service Fund Summit in Sheffield in November! Huge thanks to Dimensions UK, The University of Sheffield, EQUALD & NIHR SSCR. Free tickets for disabled people & families: https://ow.ly/3o1G50ZYReP #SelfDirectedSupport #Inclusion #AdultSocialCare

I’m really excited to be opening the second half of DanceSyndrome’s special performance of ORIGIN on 19th November at The Lowry, Salford Quays. Read the full article: Creating special moments – In Jen’s own words ▸ https://lttr.ai/AuDKO #LivingLife #Thinkingdifferently

We're thrilled that Sheffield has been shortlisted to become the next UK City of Culture 🥳 Here at Opus, we were proud to work on the bid as Lead Engagement Partner. We spoke with artists, institutions and practioners across our city to find out what they wanted from our year as City of Culture.

Basic income is a top issue this BC election. Almost half of British Columbians have a Green candidate who signed our pledge to work towards guaranteed basic income if elected. This would be a generational investment in BC's future.

I stand with President Zelenskyy 👇

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Excellent argument for use against dangerous Reform UK Islamophobic illogic via Simon Mathews

Chaos in Washington The new Private Eye is out now.

What if protecting nature starts with income security for communities? Two-year basic income pilot with 211 Indigenous people in the Amazon found improvements in food security, savings and wellbeing. Nearly 90% adopted environmentally beneficial practices. zurl.co/FbYoE

UBI let kids stay in school longer. Massive Harvard study made it clear.

Thanks for always having my back ❤️ see you on the campaign trail.

We even realise in London. Not enough world leaders are standing up to Trump at the moment and if Lula is replaced by Bolsonaro Jr then we are in much worse shape.

With poverty you're either paying to address it one way, or paying to address it another. Letting it play out costs even more. Better to address it up front in a way that is most effective, dignified and inexpensive. Welcome to basic income. bsky.app/profile/scot...

Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas. He wants our land, he wants our water, and he wants his own personal U.S. senator. He’s trying to buy Texas. But on November 3rd, we’ll deliver a clear message to the world’s first trillionaire: Texas is not for sale.

Lovely lunch with @simonduffy.bsky.social talking Neighbourhoods of Care and Community Catalysts and all things in between! citizen-network.org/library/neig...

An entire industry asked to be saved by UBI -- fishermen Irish farmers already get a "basic income support for sustainability" that pays per hectare farmed. It plays a key role in guaranteeing food security, and for farmers, income resilience and a fair standard of living.

We are being robbed. Of our homes, our healthcare, our retirements, our recreation, our very futures. They lay off 1,000s and use the saving to buy back stocks. Aren't you tired of these thieves taking money out of your pockets?

A Sunday indulgence… I picked this little book up yesterday and read it today… it’s about one of my favourite albums: Sandinista! Striking how controversial its size and diversity were. It seems to get stronger and stronger over time to me. And a great political education.

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

Write to your MP and ask them to support Early Day Motion 329 on the future of General Practice. Seeing your NHS GP must always be free at the point of use.

This programme is outstanding. A really revealing look at the experience of growing up in care from an unexpected angle #screenshot www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

17 October 1927 | French Jewish girl Yvette Achach was born in Oran. In February 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy. She did not survive.

awaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fP...

As Dean Peter Elliott of Vancouver's Christ Church Cathedral explains we need to start with a guaranteed basic income, not as a panacea because nothing ever is, but just to help bring people's incomes up to a better level to match current costs.

"UBI is necessary, was necessary, will be necessary" Yang was, is right, will continue to be right.

That's easy - money. Universal Basic Income - that would probably do it.

Massive South Korean rally asking for a share of AI profits to be shared. The demands for common wealth AI dividends are going to get louder.

Natalie Bennett, Green member of the House of Lords, pledges to use her position to keep speaking up for Scotland's right to self-determination

One of the knock-on benefits of Universal Basic income, would be that people would not need to waste time on forms, and could use that time for projects, growing vegetables and many many more things.

I've written to the govt about a concern causing real frustration across North Herefordshire: the practice of "farmwashing," where supermarkets use misleading marketing to suggest produce comes from British family farms - when it has actually come from overseas.

Just signed the AI Pledge for Humanity. The next time someone says AI will require UBI without doing anything about it, send them this. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...

South Korea's 49th PM knew AI should fund UBI. This is common sense policy now that all technologically advanced societies should adopt. "I am considering the idea of combining the massive wealth that will arise in relation to the AI great transformation with basic income." UBI works.

It's not just a climate crisis. It's a crisis for national and international security. And governments need to treat it like one.

Which is worse? a) Tories still seeking to blame the poor for poverty, with added stigma b) Media treating propaganda as news and thereby legitimising the stigma The bully or the bully’s friend… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thames Water has long passed its notice period. Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.

Attempted murder? There was obviously an attempt to cause death or serious injury. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

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Watching a US TV series where the London scenes were clearly inauthentic… everything was too dilapidated. So I asked the internet where they were filmed. Yep, my beloved North of England. (Not telling you where, we have our pride even if they’ve taken our money.)

Genius - thank you Norway

Nearly 200 years ago ordinary folk in the UK organised a petition for profound democratic reforms that mobilised millions. We need the same pressure for change now. What are your 6 Demand? @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social @compassoffice.bsky.social citizen-network.org/news/a-new-c...

And thus true individual freedom cannot exist without unconditional basic income and universal healthcare.