Ruth Holliday

🎥_ More than 250,000 people wearing red flooded the streets of #Amsterdam today in a massive demonstration in support of #Palestine

#Gaza

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

Biggest arms exports ever to Israel from the UK in last 2 months.

Ugh. £70 disappeared from my account to Patreon, they won’t tell me what it’s for, there’s no record on my subscriptions, it’s not one of my card numbers, but there seems no chance of getting it back. Been emailing them for a week now! 😥

Just received this and very much looking forward to reading it! Thanks for the recommendation @robertpralat.bsky.social!

Shabana Mahm... X.com @ShabanaMahmood Hope to see lots of you tomorrow at the National Demonstration for #Gaza tinyurl.com/o8s8kzw in #london

Hmmm. I guess Gaza isn’t such an important issue now as it was in 2014 🤷‍♀️

I will be your light!

Like something out of Brass Eye

Well, I for one, feel a lot safer now she’s off our streets!

Even in the post-war UK in the 1960s Oswald Mosley was knocked down as he attempted to sow his hate and division.
Farage got some milkshake on his suit last year and people yelled “waaah, where will this terrible violence end…” 🙄

Wikipedia. Not unproblematic, but still perhaps the greatest thing to come out of internet utopianism and optimism about collective behaviour. And they want to destroy it.

Transgender Hampstead Heath swimming ponds considering limiting transgender users’ access Trans swimmers currently able to use a mixed pond or either of the segregated ponds for the gender they identify as

Reading the story in the Guardian about the consultation on the Hampstead Heath ponds and I don't know how the anti-trans side could make it any clearer that they want to drive trans people out of public. The ponds have allowed trans people to swim, the transphobes have tried to block it and been

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

Every time you use stupid ChatGPT, a thing that I once saw get a long multiplication sum wrong, it uses ten times as much electricity as searching the same thing on Google and the server cooling systems mean each use consumes half a litre of water.

REMINDER: Israel may temporarily accept Trump’s proposal to pause attacks until the captives are released, but is expected to resume its genocide on Gaza afterward. Meanwhile, it is likely to focus on intensifying attacks and targeting areas across the West Bank.

iweekend Revealed: Tory plot to replace Badenoch with Jenrick » His allies are collecting no-confidence letters from Conservative MPs, The i Paper learns

Tory-yawnathon update:
Jenrick’s lot plots to oust Badenoch. Badenoch plans to scrap Climate Change Act and leave the ECHR. And it feels unbelievably tedious to even comment. This Tory party is over. Their brand is fucked. They reek of too much failure to be taken seriously. Plot away.
No one cares.

It’s impossible to speak the truth when you have to please all your donors. It’s why the Labour message is incomprehensible.

Zack Polanski: There is no contradiction between condemning violence against British Jews and condemning violence against Palestinian families.

The Labour Party: 🤮

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

🚨 BREAKING | Starmer would LOSE leadership election if Andy Burnham challenged him for the leadership.

🔴 Andy Burnham – 68%
🔴 Keir Starmer – 32%

(Source: @YouGov)

Sarah Mullally has really broken the stained glass ceiling.

Did you hear about these Right Wing terrorist attacks that were prevented?

No I doubt it.

But now you have.

Solidarity with the Greens 👏✊

Big win for feminists!

The attack on the Manchester Jewish community is devastating.

No ifs, ands or buts.

People being killed through hateful violence is abhorrent.

My heart goes out to the victims, their families & everyone living in fear because of this cruelty.

Grief must bind us closer not drive us further apart.

UK Electricity price 2023 - Highest in the World
UK Electricity price 2024 - Highest in the World
UK Electricity price 2025 - Highest in the World

Energy is the most profitable Industry in the UK making £130bn, ahead of Banking on £82bn and Landlords on £80bn

You pay for it all

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Top cop warns of 'distraction' from threat facing women — Sky News Helen Millichap told Sky News that the

Rape crisis centres are closing due to lack of funds. Violent misogyny is skyrocketing online and off. But gender based violence is only weaponized against migrants and trans women, never tackled and taken seriously in its own right. apple.news/AjjROSc0kSGS...

Perfect response!