Repost this everywhere we can ✌️

I like this surge of clarity and hope. It is desperately needed right now. But I will also be keen to see details of policy and manifesto pledges and timescales from @greenparty.org.uk particularly on Brexit before I cast any vote.

It’s not been thought through at all. It’s back of a fag-packet hate stuff, that’s all. Incompetent as well as viciously horrible.

🚨Another Veteran of the USAF has been violently arrested by ICE - at 0600, in Portland, OR. This time, the arrest was on Veteran’s Day. If anyone has any information about anyone seen in this video, please follow up with the account on IG. 1/2

Rail worker who protected passengers during mass stabbing on Huntingdon train discharged from hospital Samir Zitouni was described as "incredibly brave" by the managing director of LNER after he was seriously injured trying to protect passengers during the attack.

🚨 BREAKING Great news for the weekend - hero rail worker Samir Zitouni seriously injured saving passengers from a British Knifeman has been released from hospital

He’s a Muslim Algerian Migrant..

Reforms Alexander Jones posted on FB "reports suggest that the individuals involved are not English"😬

‘Bereavement penalty’: people who lost partners hit by insurance premium rises Campaigners claim AI algorithms are behind hefty increases in renewal quotes for home and car cover

Rip-off Britain.

'Bereavement penalty’: people who lost partners hit by insurance premium rises.

Newly bereaved customers pay more as many insurers regard a single policyholder as higher risk.

Divorced and separated couples are also affected.

Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers Taylor Wimpey chief Jennie Daly calls for revival of help-to-buy equity loan scheme to revive property market

Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers.

Not a word about cutting profit margins, ever rising profits, gobbling previous stamp duty support, building substandard homes, builders secretly exchanging data to hike prices.

Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few

The rule of law for whom?

Private equity managers taxed at lower rates.

NHS drugs prices be hiked by 25% to appease companies.

Bankers' bonus cap abolished.

Chancellor ready to override Supreme Court judgment, cut compensation to victims of car loan scandals.

Bank frauds not investigated.

Nazir Afzal: Cowardice and inaction left children to be a... Professionals tasked with safeguarding young people chose inaction. They permitted rape rather than risk controversy

Cowardice and inaction left children to be abused
My opinion piece in the Observer

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Image of Lady Justice outside the Old Bailey, with dark clouds behind the statue. Covered with the headline of a Bylines Newtwork exclusive article: When Power Is Untouchable

BYLINES NETWORK SPECIAL
For 30 years, survivors of abuse by Mohamed Al Fayed have been silenced, threatened and blocked from justice. Their voices must be heard.

Isabella reveals the barriers they face and the vital changes that need to happen.

Read it at sussexbylines.co.uk & bit.ly/LegalAbyss

One of the greatest social media follows for anyone genuinely interested in practical law and policy is @mentalhealthcop.bsky.social.

Posts like this explain why.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

RT @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social :
“Please, please, please take 20 minute to watch this incredibly powerful film about the fatal recklessness of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio’s aid cuts.

Children are dying from these cuts. This is one of the many, many stories - a South Sudanese refugee child in Uganda.”

"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."

New analysis by @lgilbert.co

ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system

1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK

2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc

3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Someone who loves New York, it’s extraordinary diversity & energy is its new Mayor
Someone who loves London, it’s extraordinary diversity & energy is its Mayor
Both overcame racist & anti-Muslim campaigns agst them fuelled by the very rich & privileged
Congrats to #ZohranMamdani

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

Waking up, terrorizing, and ziptying little children! This is ICE! ( Btw, they’re American citizens) if we tolerate this, we share collective guilt for such inhumanity

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

Dominic Cummings pushed for Covid tech contracts to be handed to a company run by a Trump-supporting billionaire after holding a secret meeting with him alongside Boris Johnson.

Officials were lobbied to ignore official procedures and bypass ministers in order to get the contracts signed

Gee it’s almost as if people had been waiting for someone* to step out there, say the truth and offer a brighter future instead of hateful bits

*whose party did not have a questionable legacy

'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....

Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.

It's time for Proportional Representation.

www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...

♥️ Billie Eilish announced that she would be donating $11.5 million of earnings from her "Hit Me Hard & Soft" tour to various organizations dedicated to food equity, climate justice, reducing carbon pollution, & combating the climate crisis. www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainmen...

🇳🇱🇺🇦 The Netherlands is allocating €25 million to support Ukraine's energy system, according to Foreign Minister

These funds will be used to purchase gas and equipment, as well as emergency repairs.

en.royanews.tv/news/63437
Actor Charles Dance said Britain had "f***ed up" the region with the 1917 Balfour Declaration and asserted that peace would not be achieved until France and England apologized and the declaration was "unpicked"

YouTube video by Reagan Library President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

National renewal isn't just moving money around. It's about completely rewiring the state and the economy.

Is the Prime minister subtweeting me?

Tax wealth. Not work.

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On the edge My week in the NHS

New post just out:

"On the edge"

On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.

(Free to read)

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