#johnbird — Public Fediverse posts
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'I came into Parliament to dismantle poverty - we need a new government ministry'
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The pursuit of kindness seems to have been abandoned
John Bird 06-03-2025
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/kindness-community-abandoned-john-bird/?ref=ActivityPub -
The UK's political map is changing almost overnight. Starmer will have to get tough
John Bird 05-27-2025
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/uk-political-map-change-reform-labour-keir-starmer/?ref=ActivityPub -
The modernisers of postwar Britain forgot one vital ingredient
John Bird 05-13-2025
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/britain-post-war-class-system/?ref=ActivityPub -
I've written over a million words about poverty here's what I've learned
John Bird 05-06-2025
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/john-bird-words-about-poverty/?ref=ActivityPub -
Why working as a butcher's boy made me feel like an earlier version of AI
John Bird 04-08-2025
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/back-when-meat-machine-early-ai/?ref=ActivityPub -
Social opportunity should take the place of social security
John Bird 04-01-2025
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/social-opportunity-place-social-security/?ref=ActivityPub -
This diagram shows exactly where the government is going wrong on poverty
John Bird 03-11-2025
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/poverty-prevention-emergency-coping-cure-pecc/?ref=ActivityPub -
Paying off your landlord's mortgage can't be right in this day and age. There must be a cleverer way
John Bird 02-04-2025
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/renters-rights-bill-landlords-tenants-public-housing/?ref=ActivityPub -
This time 60 years ago I was walking around in a Christmas card
John Bird 12-18-2024
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/walking-around-christmas-card/?ref=ActivityPub -
Times have changed since Big Issue launched and this is how we've moved with them
John Bird *** 12-11-2024
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/homelessness-prevention-christmas-homeless-cure/?ref=ActivityPub#JohnBird #BigIssue #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ & #StreetRoots #English
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Whether you're angry at the United States or not, we still owe them a great deal
John Bird *** 11-13-2024
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/united-states-election-anger-donald-trump/?ref=ActivityPub#JohnBird #BigIssue #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ & #StreetRoots #English
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Boris Johnson and David Cameron are not sticking knives into human beings. So what stops them?
John Bird *** 11-06-2024
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/knife-crime-poverty-prevention/?ref=ActivityPub#JohnBird #BigIssue #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ & #StreetRoots #English
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People have the power to fight back against rampant capitalism we just need the right tools
John Bird *** 10-30-2024
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/capitalism-poverty-power-pension-funds-john-bird/?ref=ActivityPub#JohnBird #BigIssue #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ & #StreetRoots #English
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Poverty is the UK's biggest growth industry and people are the collateral damage
John Bird *** 10-23-2024
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/poverty-growth-industry-uk-prevention/?ref=ActivityPub#JohnBird #BigIssue #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ & #StreetRoots #English
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Rachel Reeves should see that ending poverty is fiscally responsible. Here's why
John Bird *** 10-20-2024
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/rachel-reeves-autumn-budget-poverty-john-bird/?ref=ActivityPub#JohnBird #BigIssue #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ & #StreetRoots #English
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The story of my life in 62 pubs
John Bird *** 10-09-2024
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/story-of-my-life-john-bird-pubs/?ref=ActivityPub#JohnBird #BigIssue #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ & #StreetRoots #English
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This is the first thing I would do to finally end poverty
John Bird *** 10-01-2024
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/end-poverty-social-audit-john-bird/?ref=ActivityPub#JohnBird #BigIssue #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ & #StreetRoots #English
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Art the hard way: The role of art in liberation and the transforming power of creation
John Bird *** 09-25-2024
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/rogues-gallery-art-liberation/?ref=ActivityPub#JohnBird #BigIssue #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ & #StreetRoots #Portland #PDX #English
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‘Do You Sincerely Want to Smash Capitalism and Have a Full Sex Life?’: Big Issue Founder John Bird’s Debut Novel Optioned By Genesius Pictures
#News #BigIssue #GenesiusPictures #JohnBirdhttps://deadline.com/2024/09/john-bird-book-big-issue-genesius-pictures-1236077682/
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John Bird Dreaming Award
(Australian haiku award)Reminder: submissions for the 2nd running of the John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku close on the 1st March 2023.
Shares / boots / retoots are appreciated to ensure maximum visibility to Australian poets and haiku writers.
For full details, including how to submit, refer to the original notification here: https://australianhaikusociety.org/2022/10/31/john-bird-dreaming-award-for-haiku-2022/
#Haiku #AustralianHaiku #FreeHaiku #JohnBird #HaikuOz #DreamingAward @freehaiku
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Ohhh, #RIP John Bird, 86, totally brilliant satirist. John Bird & John Fortune together perfectly portrayed, in the 90s and noughties, the absurdity and self-important, pompous fatuousness of so many white male businessmen, management consultants and of course government ministers
#Comedy
#JohnBird
#Bird&Fortune
#BremnerBird&Fortune
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/28/john-bird-actor-and-comedian-dies-aged-86 -
“Lord knows, satire has missed them this last decade and now that loss is permanent,”
Too true. Such a loss.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/28/john-bird-actor-and-comedian-dies-aged-86
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