Graham Mellors

Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

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Truly astonishing. Labour are a lost cause.

Sheffield Nablus live-link concert October 2025 Hi. Did you come last year?

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Massive Attack: "Kneecap are not the story. Gaza is the story. Genocide is the story" Massive Attack have issued a statement on the ongoing Kneecap controversy, stressing that “Gaza is the story” and “genocide is the story”.

Kneecap are not the story.
Gaza is the story.
Genocide is the story. ✊️

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Block Trump from addressing Parliament I've just signed 38 Degrees' petition calling on Trump to be banned from addressing the UK Parliament during his state visit later this year. Will you join me and add your name too?

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5. If you listen only to corporations, you’re a dupe. Of course, they'll justify the harmful things they want. Of course, they'll tell you that rules are too onerous, taxes too high and subsidies too low. It takes spectacular political naivety to take them at their word. ...
Oh, hello Mr Starmer.

4. Forgive me if I'm wrong about this, but I have a vague memory of hearing about a political system that enacts the will of the people, not the will of corporations. I have a feeling there was a name for it, perhaps beginning with D? But it all seems a long time ago, so I might have misremembered.

3. Why not? Well, Keir Starmer has been so good as to explain it: these policies came about as a result of his "conversations with leading CEOs”. This is a bill for corporations, not for us. How long will it be before we discover that it was drafted by a Tufton Street junktank?

2. It's an extraordinary thing, this bill, drafted with no input whatever from anyone with environmental expertise. In fact, inputs from professional bodies and scientists working on environmental issues appear to have been systematically struck down. The government does not want this scrutiny.

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In Manchester now

The 2017 manifesto was pretty much typical of mainstream European left parties.

Ha Andrew’s blocked me. Calling him on Palestine was obviously a step too far!

Anyway I’m ducking out of this now Andrew but any time you want to apologise for dismissing support for Palestine as a preoccupation, feel free.

More fool them. It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy. Don’t support someone, they don’t win, you blame them. The reason why he faced an unprecedented largely fabricated personal hate campaign by the media, the RW, centrists is because they were worried about him winning. And you all got Boris instead.

I don’t know where to start with that one 😂. What on earth is national unity? Brexit garnered a lot of ‘national unity’. Putting that to one side and whether it was even an option, ‘nobody’ meaning who exactly?

Many centrists remain more obsessed with corbyn than his supporters at the time. I didn’t vote for him in 2017 or 2019. I voted for the manifesto and a progressive left govt. Unfortunately we’re back 2 a LP that is only successful when the Tories are so bad even their supporters won’t vote 4 them.

Yes because the Lib Dems in really stormed it in 2019 didn’t they? It was a brexit election. Any LP leader, left, right or centre would have been faced with the same damned if you do/don’t dilemma and would have lost. It’s delusional to think a pro -European centrist proposition would have won.

You miss my point. People were fed-up with austerity and the LP’s austerity lite but the alternative proposition was never properly tested because of, in part, the viscous anti corbyn propaganda, some of which you repeat. To call support for Palestine a ‘preoccupation’ is plain disgraceful btw.

There are too many people in power in the Labour Party who won’t entertain and will actively undermine the possibility of a progressive left government, as the Corbyn experience clearly demonstrates. And most of those would describe themselves as centrist.

Activists and students across countries in the Middle East and North Africa organised protests in support of Palestine, as Israel continues its attacks on Gaza.

Majority of Israelis Support Trump’s Proposal to Relocate Gaza’s Population to Other Countries Approximately seven out of ten Israelis support the idea that "Arabs from Gaza should relocate to another country." Most Jewish Israelis believe this is a "practical plan that should be pursued." Most...

Majority of Israelis Support Trump’s Proposal to Relocate Gaza’s Population to Other Countries
Some 70% Israelis support “Arabs from Gaza should relocate to another country.” Most Jewish Israelis believe this is a “practical plan that should be pursued.” Most Arab Israelis oppose it
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It’s not a’complete relocation’. It’s ethnic cleansing.

Poor coverage of Gaza at the BBC: failures of journalism A BBC report on the ceasefire in Gaza fails to fact check Israeli violations, while obscuring key context – this isn’t journalism, it’s neglect

A BBC report on the ceasefire in Gaza fails to fact check Israeli violations, while obscuring key context – this isn’t journalism, it’s neglect | Steve Pottinger

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It pains me to say this as the son of a Holocaust survivor who has lectured on genocide prevention at Auschwitz where my mom lost dozens of her family, but Israel is seeking ‘lebensraum’ to create a Greater Israel & is using genocide & ethnic cleansing to do so with the active support of the West
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It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

Israel is using the cover of a supposed "Ceasefire"
to prepare for its next ethnic cleansing onslaught

Exclusive: Almost one in ten teachers working in some of England’s largest multi-academy trusts are unqualified, new analysis by Education Uncovered reveals today.
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Bit surprised there hasn't been more interest in the below, especially given the current academies debate. And this seeming to be a part, as the piece and recent investigations argue, of "a move of spending away from classrooms, and towards highly-paid managers".