Suzie

A friend of mine working for a council was told they couldn't have a Free Palestine sticker on their water bottle at work because it wasn't 'politically neutral'. Meanwhile the council has a Ukraine flag flying over the town hall for the last year. Shake my damn head 😑

Palliative Care Doctor, Dr Rachel Clarke,

"There are thousands of people suffering unnecessary pain"

"We may be in a peculiar position where we have a state funded dying service but we don't have a state funded palliative care service"

It's international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Free Palestine

Keir Starmer declares war on benefits Britain The Prime Minister uses an article in today's Mail on Sunday to promise changes to try to tame the £137 billion bill for welfare benefits - including a blitz on cheats and those who 'game the system'.

Keir Starmer declares war on benefits Britain.

A war on the poor, sick, old, disabled.

16.1m have disabilities, 2.8m chronically ill, 6.34m await hospital appointments, 16m live in poverty.

No war on corporate welfare, no wealth taxes or redistribution.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

72% of children in poverty live in a working household.

A picture of Dr Adnan Al-Bursh in surgical scrubs saluting and smiling through a doorway. Text says 'Say his name' and 'Dr Adnan Al-Bursh'.

Every chronically ill and disabled person in the country is now wondering if they're one of the 400,000 who is going to be plunged into poverty by a Labour government.
This is terrorism.

And Starmer stood down the LP candidate in Clacton to allow Farage to become an MP.

Farage is a creature willed into being by the utter failure of the so-called "centre". And they will fail and fail and fail again until it's Prime Minister Farage or Home Secretary Farage. And they will smugly never admit, or probably even be capable of understanding, how they are to blame.

Arrest warrants for Starmer and Lammy.

BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer has explained there is no economic reason for his partnership with Blackrock, just like there is no moral reason for his support for genocide, he's just evil x

You always hope they won’t go lower.

I just couldn't believe that there wasn't really a genuine Israeli pro-Palestinian/resistance movement. What an idiot I was. How naive.

I remember asking "surely there are Israelis that stand with you, surely they come out to defend you? Surely not all of them can be ok with this??" she looked at me with pity & some (rightful, weary) disdain. I'd failed to hear what her. She was right. I'm embarrassed I asked the question.

I remember, I think it was in 2022/3 I went to hear some women from Palestine speak, on a Women's Voices from Palestine tour that a friend helped to organise. They took questions from the floor after relating the terrible, traumatic experiences of themselves and their children. To my shame.....

The protests I've seen in Israel have been very limited, very self centred, self pitying, self interested. It's quite shocking. Where is the Israeli resistance?

To be fair she does look like a chicken.

The people best placed to arrest Netanyahu are Israeli. But by this stage I'm wondering if there are *any* good, brave Israelis at all. I guess we'll find out.

There are plenty of issues that I can respectfully disagree with someone on, the Gaza genocide is not one of them. It's not complicated, it's the most clear cut moral issue of our time, and if you get it wrong, that's not a position I'm prepared to respect.

Israel is just the tip of the spear of Western imperialism.

IDF gearing up to remain in Gaza until end of 2025, at least. This is what it looks like ***

Let's be v clear about what we're seeing: Israel is turning Gaza into a series of smaller and smaller concentration camps. 2 million people corralled into so-called "humanitarian zones" of ~20% of the land (& attacked even there). Cut off from food, water, medicine. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

That Irish actor not giving a monkeys about meeting Charles Windsor has cheered me right up.

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.

If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

The death toll is much higher. We should be using The Lancet figures. And even that's probably too low now 😢

Assisted dying, when you've got a broken welfare state, a broken NHS and the demonisation of sick and disabled people on long term benefits, is a big, big red flag.

Graph showing poverty levels including child poverty reaching 36%

Shocking news. 36% of UK children are living in poverty according to the latest Social Metrics Commission research (I am one of the Commissioners)
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Everyday I pray
For the end of the UK.

New Palestinian testimonies reveal horrors of Israel's prisons In-depth: Harrowing testimonies from Tariq Abed and Al-Araby TV journalist Mohammed Arab reveal shocking details of torture, rape, and abuse in Israeli jails.

"Then they stripped him naked, put his body on the ground, and lifted up his buttocks then they brought a fire extinguisher... Then they inserted the fire nozzle into his anus and opened it... and they emptied it inside him"
www.newarab.com/analysis/new...