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Fraser Parry
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@WombatLiberalsm @Tom_Gann Yes - but not at the British Library. Mostly students, academics, writers, freelancers
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@Tom_Gann In the US the biggest library users in terms of time spent at the library are the most precarious, there to use the computers or just be somewhere they don't have to pay for. Is that the case in Britain
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This is bleak. Looks like a lot of British Library users need to sort themselves out. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…
Arbeitology@Arbeitologist
Given that the British Library has been the infrastructural home holding up Marxist writing since quite literally it’s inception, I think it’s basically incumbent on all attendees to Historical Materialism to go to this and show solidarity
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@Nick_Dampier1 @jeremycorbyn Why are you writing like an anime villain?
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Mr. Corbyn, your words ring with the hollow piety of a man who has long ignored the tides of history. You speak of threats to those who have "built a life" here, yet you overlook the strain upon the very fabric of this nation...its culture, its resources, its identity. The rivers of this land, are swelling with forces that threaten to overwhelm it, and your lamentations do not stem the flood.
Reform UK's resolve to safeguard our sovereignty echoes a truth you refuse to face: a nation cannot endure when its borders are but a suggestion, its welfare a charity for all the world. The statistics speak plainly. Half of one community remains outside the workforce, while others claim a disproportionate share of our housing and benefits. This is not hatred to name it; it is wisdom to address it.
You, who have fraternized with those who would see our way of life undone, dare to decry danger? The danger lies in your complacency, in your refusal to see that Britain must be for the British first. The time approaches when this must be asserted, not appeased. Prepare yourself, sir, for the political reckoning is nigh.
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I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country.
They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends.
We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.
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@LadyJ4650827287 @WajahatAli #Groyper_War" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers#…
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People will be learning a lot about Helldivers 2, Groypers and Nick Fuentes.
Republicans will have to look in the mirror.
America will as well.
"One of us"
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@SaoirsedT @michael_chessum Left wingers should take opposition to settler colonial ideologies. If we're focusing on Corbyn - he does. So what's the issue?
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@farserparty @michael_chessum I'm absolutely not, I feel like I made my point very clear. Why shouldn't left wingers take opposition to settler colonial ideologies? The left should be proud anti-Zionists
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Anti-Zionism means different things to different people. As a red line in a broad project, it makes no sense.
Jeremy Corbyn has dedicated his life to fighting injustice. But if he doesn't use the right words, he gets piled on. What's the next test? It ends up as purity politics.
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@SaoirsedT @michael_chessum You're equating "does not self-describe as an anti-Zionist when prompted to by a stranger with a camera" with "supports the Israeli government", despite Corbyn's long history of supporting the Palestinian cause. This is purely semantic, no?
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@michael_chessum The logic doesn't follow - why shouldn't support for a genocidal ethnofascist ideology predicated on ethnic cleansing be a red line in a left wing project?
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@PhilipProudfoot But the argument isn't about whether or not people support Palestinian liberation. It's about whether or not people choose to publicly self-describe as 'an anti-Zionist'. Personally I don't think the latter particularly matters provided people do the former.
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As well as, of course, morally dubious and ethically untenable. Nobody would make the same argument for any other genocide — ever.
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Those who made their beds with the genocidaires will attack us no matter what — you cannot escape it — this is the defining crime of our time, which will have such astronomical implications for the international order that the very idea you shouldn’t be clear now is foolish.
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No disrespect to Philip, who seems like a good lad to me. But. Look.
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@ollyp3 @Annemarieward @ClaireRattee What are the costs to families, childcare, police, hospitals and businesses associated with methadone treatment?
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It is so wrong. I will never fathom the absolute determination to keep people reliant on an alternative expensive drug paid for by the state or worse, street drugs. The cost to family life, childcare services, police, hospitals and businesses via crime has got to exceed the cost of proper recovery and life anew.
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Same sleight of hand in Scotland. We learned so much from Canada on how to spin this. Same tactics, same outcomes = more deaths. Thanks @ClaireRattee Keep up the great work !
Claire Rattée@ClaireRattee
🚨‼️ Trust me, you’ll want to watch this. The government keeps claiming they’re investing in treatment — but the numbers tell a very different story. Out of 2,136 publicly funded beds in B.C., only 806 are actual treatment beds. The rest? Supportive recovery, not clinical care. We’re in the middle of an overdose crisis, and this government still can’t deliver real treatment for the people who need it most. #bcpoli #TreatmentNotTalk #MentalHealthMatters #AddictionsCrisis #SafeBC #skeena
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For those panicking about the purported oxycodone pills found in flour bags in Gaza— Here is some basic education on illicit drug markets that might help.
1. By definition, you cannot become addicted to OxyContin, or oxycodone after taking it once. Period. The definition of addiction is continued use of a drug over time despite escalating consequences. So someone who accidentally consumes a couple of oxy pills will not become addicted. Addiction risks increase when people take Oxy over a prolonged period of time and even then the iatrogenic addiction rate (accidental addiction resulting from a medical mistake) is only 4-6%.
2. Risk of overdose of Oxycodone when taken in small doses is low for adults unless they take large amounts or mix the drug with other drugs such as benzodiazepines (which they don’t have access to in Gaza). It is of course important that small children do not ingest the drugs.
3. Pressed pills that are smuggled are dangerous because we don’t know what is in them unless they are tested. And no— the number stamped on it doesn’t tell us anything. Most pills that are smuggled are counterfeit pills and yes people who manufacture drugs also stamp their supplies. So, in sum, unless the pills are tested, we don’t even know that they are oxy.
4. People who deal drugs, make drugs, or smuggle drugs do not give drugs away for free. So the pills found in the flour bags were not meant to be distributed to the public. From what I have seen in other cases, this looks to me like someone or some entity in Israel has been trying to smuggle the pressed pills into Gaza likely to the organized crime syndicate that Israel has been funding and arming. Why don’t I think it is purposeful contamination of the flour supply? There are plenty of cheaper, easier, & more lethal ways to contaminate flour than to put oxy in it and flour isn’t eaten raw. It is cooked, which would change the drug makeup. Basic chemistry.
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@NoTime2Heel @scepticpost @Annemarieward You're attributing a kind of magical quality to drugs that doesnt exist. Drug induced psychosis can present in exactly the same way as other forms of psychosis. In any case, people who experience psychosis pose a far greater risk to themselves than to others. You're fearmongering
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@farserparty @scepticpost @Annemarieward 2.
Psychiatric facility, largely it will depend on whether the hospital will be able to handle and secure you or not.
Psychosis itself isn't a personality altering illness, it is the drug toxicity which does that. One may try to punch you, the other will try to kill you.
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It is neither kind, compassionate, nor progressive to establish drug consumption rooms like the one opening in Glasgow. These facilities, often framed as harm reduction measures, are a superficial and deeply flawed response to the drug crisis that betray the very values they claim to uphold. True compassion is about empowering people to overcome their struggles, not creating spaces where their suffering is normalised and perpetuated.
There is nothing kind about offering people a place to continue destructive behaviors that keep them trapped in cycles of chaos, compulsion, and despair. Addiction is not just about substances—it’s about trauma, poverty, and broken systems that fail to provide hope or opportunity. By focusing on consumption rather than recovery, these rooms communicate a devastating message: “We don’t believe you can get better.” That is not kindness—it is surrender.
Compassion involves challenging the status quo, fighting for real solutions, and providing the tools and support people need to rebuild their lives. Residential rehabilitation, peer-led recovery services in the communities where people are suffering, and holistic care offer genuine pathways to healing and hope. But instead of investing in these life-changing services, more and more millions are poured into facilities that are caught up in the delusional idea that they are managing addiction without addressing its root causes.
It is also far from progressive to normalise and institutionalise dependency. Progress is about lifting people out of addiction, not accommodating it. Drug consumption rooms offer no escape from the cycles of poverty and trauma that addiction creates. Instead, they perpetuate dependency on both substances and the state, eroding personal agency and the potential for lasting change.
The evidence from places like Canada, where similar approaches have been championed, paints a grim picture. Drug deaths continue to rise, communities are strained, and the promised benefits of these facilities have failed to materialise. If this is what progress looks like, it is progress in the wrong direction.
True progress requires courage, courage to invest in recovery-focused services, to demand accountability, and to believe in the potential for change. Drug consumption rooms are not a solution; they are a symptom of a system that has given up on its most vulnerable.
Scotland deserves better, and so do the individuals and families caught in the grip of addiction. Compassion and progress lie in recovery, not in facilities that are supposed to make suffering more comfortable.
Annemarie Ward 💜@Annemarieward
The allocation of £8.3 million to Glasgow's Enhanced Drug Treatment Service (EDTS) and the newly established drug consumption room highlights the deeply flawed and ideologically driven reliance on harm reduction strategies to address the drug crisis. These initiatives, while reducing immediate harms for a small group of individuals, are built on the delusional premise that addiction can somehow be managed or controlled. If addiction could be managed, it wouldn’t be addiction—it is, by its very nature, a condition of chaos, compulsion, and dependency that defies control. This philosophy underpins a system that perpetuates dependency rather than offering individuals a genuine way out. Let us break down the figures to illustrate this stark imbalance that Glasgow's health and social care partnership @GCHSCP is spending: @GlasgowCC @NHSGGC £6 million on the Enhanced Drug Treatment Service (EDTS), which provides pharmaceutical-grade heroin (diamorphine) to individuals for supervised injection. £2.3 million on Scotland’s first drug consumption room, designed to facilitate safer drug use under supervision. (keep and eye on these costs as they will be much higher than quoted here) £8.3 million total to support services that help people continue using drugs, maintaining their dependency. In comparison, Glasgow currently funds just 23 residential rehabilitation beds: 7 beds at Phoenix Futures at a cost of approx £364,000 per year (£1,000 per bed per week). 16 beds at Rainbow at a cost of approx £665,600 per year (£800 per bed per week). (Note: prices may have gone up with inflation as these prices are from a 2 years ago) Combined, these 23 beds cost just over £1 million per year. For the same £8.3 million being spent on harm reduction services, Glasgow could fund its 23 rehab beds for over eight years. Yet, the ideological dominance of harm reduction over recovery-based approaches means that far more money is being spent enabling continued drug use than offering a path to freedom from addiction and the wider dependencies it creates, such as poor health, unemployment, and broken family relationships. This imbalance is emblematic of an ideologically maligned system that prioritises harm reduction measures at the expense of recovery-focused solutions. Harm reduction may address immediate risks, but it does nothing to help individuals escape the cycles of dependency that addiction creates. Instead of empowering people to rebuild their lives, the system traps them in a revolving door of dependency, with few or no opportunities to achieve lasting recovery. Addiction is not just about substances; it is about the broader web of dependencies that keep people trapped in cycles of poverty, trauma, and hopelessness. A system focused solely on harm reduction cannot provide freedom from this cycle. Without significant investment in recovery-focused services—such as residential rehabilitation, peer-led recovery communities, and holistic care—individuals are left without the tools and support necessary to break free. The Scottish Government must urgently rethink its approach. Recovery is not just about abstaining from substances; it is about addressing the social, economic, and personal factors that fuel addiction. @FAVORUK UK continues to advocate for the Right to Recovery Bill, which seeks to ensure everyone in Scotland has access to the full spectrum of treatment options, including recovery-based services that prioritise freedom from dependency over its maintenance. The people of Scotland deserve better than a system that spends millions managing addiction while neglecting the life-changing potential of recovery. It is time to abandon the flawed notion of 'managing' addiction and invest in solutions that save lives, restore families, and build healthier, more resilient communities." @GrahamGGrant
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@NoTime2Heel @scepticpost @Annemarieward Many people I worked with also used drugs. Many didn't. People who have never used drugs but experience psychosis can behave in very violent and unpredictable ways. What the fuck are you talking about?
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@farserparty @scepticpost @Annemarieward 1.
Normal psychosis will have somebody behave in line with their character, but drug-induced psychosis has the aggravated factor of somebody behaving according to how drug toxicity alters their character.
It's the same in alcohol. You can be a peaceful sober person while being a
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@NoTime2Heel @scepticpost @Annemarieward I've worked in multiple residential facilities for people who experience psychosis and none had a "harm-proof room". The people involved have been working with people who use drugs for decades and many have been dependent drug users themselves.
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@scepticpost @Annemarieward 3.
Out of an episode. But as to whether it can be violent, the answer is definitely, and even at the most extreme of ways.
That building doesn't even have a secure harm-proof room. The people who designed it have no idea what they're getting into.
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rich people actually do way more drugs than homeless people they just do them inside.
KTLA@KTLA
Homeless crisis blamed for brazen drug use, graffiti in Tarzana neighborhood trib.al/m51EfZ7
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Bastani on the Spiked journey, Walker on the Guardian columnist journey
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Snitch-tagging Elon Musk is so funny
Allison Pearson@AllisonPearson
The story so far. 1. I am not a racist. 2. I didn’t post a racist tweet. 3. My tweet did not incite violence against any protected characteristic. 4. My fairly innocuous tweet was deleted a year ago. 5. Senior lawyers say my tweet does “not come near the threshold for criminal prosecution”. 6. But Essex Police upgraded the accusation from Non-Crime Hate Incident to offence under the Public order Act. Why? 7. Essex Police visited my home but refused to specify either the accusation or the accuser. 8. Under pressure, Essex Police deployed the terrorist-fighting Gold Command to investigate a solitary Welsh journalist 5ft 4 inches who still believes in freedom of speech. Weird, I know. 9. This is all nonsense. Deeply sinister, frightening nonsense and wholly disproportionate police over-reach if you ask me. 10. Last night, I realised I no longer feel safe in my own country. A terrible moment. As Elon Musk said, “This must stop.” It really must. @elonmusk
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Every reply and quote tweet is wrong. They are either rightists or left-wingers.
Sridhar Ramesh@RadishHarmers
We need a leftist right-winger.
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@DavidHTower @heraldscotland When you say "hasn't changed anything", what do you mean? Methadone treatment has saved countless lives, both people who stay on it long term and people who use it to come off opiates altogether.
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@heraldscotland Druggies swill methadone in my local Boots. Hasn't changed anything. Can't imagine taking actual heroin is going to do much.
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'The idea of people going into an organised public place to take drugs takes some getting used to.'
Mark Smith: Check your prejudice – Glasgow’s drug room is the start of something new
heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…
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@bencsmoke Also saying "I don't accept tenants who claim HB/UC" despite this being unlawful
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reminder that jas athwal still has labour whip despite tenants in his property empire being subjected to ant infested, black mould ridden flats + told to ‘go elsewhere’ when they complained so you’ll forgive me if i struggle to believe they’ll actually deal with rogue landlords…
BBC Breakfast@BBCBreakfast
'We are going to fundamentally overhaul the regulation of the private rented sector' Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook spoke to #BBCBreakfast about plans to ban "no-fault" evictions in England as part of a Renters’ Rights Bill bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Release is proud to support the launch of the London Harm Reduction Collective (LHRC) along with other brilliant orgs.
LHRC is a coalition of individual experts + groups campaigning to reduce drug harms in our communities in the midst of a drug-related death crisis. 1/6
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