Patricia Murphy

Petition: Call a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy We are concerned about reported Israeli state-linked and pro-Israel lobbying activity in UK politics. We believe it is important to determine the scope and impact of any such influence campaigns.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

VOTE PALESTINE LET'S MAKE PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS AN ELECTION ISSUE A non-partisan campaign galvanizing Canadian voters to raise Palestinian human rights in the federal election.

votepalestine.ca

Do something useful today and sign the pledge .
Free , free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

YouTube video by Björk's Joyous Tunes Björk : w/PJ Harvey - I Can't Get No Satisfaction 1994 BRIT Awards

Satisfaction.
I can’t get any.
And I try
I try
I try
And I try
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Trump has pulled the US out of the World Health Organization – here’s why that’s sheer hypocrisy | Devi Sridhar There’s a lesson here for the UK and the anti-WHO Nigel Farage – Trump attacks it in public, but in private he knows he still needs it, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

Trump has pulled the US out of the World Health Organization – here’s why that’s sheer hypocrisy | Devi Sridhar

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Excellent piece by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social on Epstein's intellectual circle and how it pushed racist, misogynist and intellectually vacant arguments into the political mainstream.

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Yvette Cooper- Proscribe the IDF The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics use...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/yv...

BREAKING - WE HAVE WON!

Following a successful Judicial Review brought by Huda Ammori, and a sustained campaign of defiance by defend our juries leading to almost 3,000 ‘terror’ arrests, the ban on Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful in the courts.

Strong Message Here - U-Turns and Turncoats (with Stewart Lee) - BBC Sounds Can politicians use language to convince us they have changed their minds?

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Peter Mandelson apologises for Epstein association in sudden U-turn Former ambassador to US had earlier declined to give apology for keeping in touch with sex offender after his conviction

But his victims did know what he was doing, their voices were not heard and I am truly sorry I was amongst those who believed him over them.”
Genuine self reflection or just greasing the wheel. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Mandelson is the perfect ambassador for the system he blames for brutally crushing the spirit of women and girls
Craven, arrogant, selfish , self pitying , unruffled and entitled.
Why the fuck would a man like that have regrets.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC Revisiting Election Night

Before the celebrations on November 4, there were hours of anxious waiting as we watched the numbers come in. Here's a glimpse of the stress and joy alike. Thank you to every New Yorker who believed in this fight for working people. I am so proud to be sworn in as your Mayor.

youtu.be/s_hR4A1_sew

Scrap the Bathroom Ban 🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

A lot has happened recently with the EHRC's bathroom ban.

We've updated our MP email template with @transactualuk.bsky.social. Give your political representatives the gift of democratic engagement this Christmas 🎁

actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

The six

This is becoming a very very shameful episode - and a tragedy for these young and courageous people and their friends and families

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The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project

Me, in The Guardian today:

"This is a moment that requires bravery in standing up for what is right. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand."

One of the first cases following the Supreme Court’s decision on the definition of sex under the Equality Act has found it didn’t decide which changing room a trans person should use.

Reflections on the Peggie case by a specialist discrimination law KC:
https://goodlaw.social/32xs

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman head and shoulders looking down, the figure has cropped hair

Remembering Shuhada Sadaqat aka Sinead O'Connor on her birthday. Here in 1992 by photographer Jane Bown #WomensArt

How Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into the age of technofeudalism | Yanis Varoufakis Amazon Web Services owns the basic infrastructure for other businesses to operate online, turning even governments into its serfs, says the leader of MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis

A MUST-READ‼️ Amazon is a technofeudal rentier owning the digital infrastructure on which privateers, states and societies depend. Thankfully, there are signs of a pushback. The campaign that brings workers and citizens together every Black Friday – Make Amazon Pay – recognises this transformation.🔥

Write to your MP about Israel's use of cluster munitions

palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/clustermunit...

Strength in unity .
Great choice 😀

Hard to believe that some people shat the bed over the graffiti at Canterbury cathedral .
A handful of decals devoid of the danger, dynamism and defiance of street art left me as cold as the stone walls themselves.

Reduced and locked into being a 'side' the Palestinian struggle requires a paradigm shift and reframe.
Jeff Halper speaking at Friends House in Canterbury this evening.

Whilst Trump and Netanyahu take a victory lap their Jedi mind trick will only work on the weak minded .
The rest of us see you and won’t forget so easily.
Free 🇵🇸

YouTube video by Page75 Investigates REQUIEM FOR PROTEST

youtu.be/v3xfy3SO8IY

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the human rights abuses fuelling the fury now being directed at the likes of Louis CK and Dave Chappe...

“Evil, amoral grifting bastards”. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

YouTube video by Age&Opportunity Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape Manchán Magan

RIP Manchàn 💚 ☘️ 🇮🇪 youtu.be/7IGH-iHOc5k?...

My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens.

My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same.

It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.