Mark Trewin

Bizzare and very long article in the @theguardian.com that is only relevant for Americans because they don’t have a decent publicly funded health system and refuse to vote for one. Not sure the rest of us need this advice! www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Forever guilty on all counts.

Chris Wormald - the balance sheet. In favour: 1. vastly experienced (much, much more than Case). Run two v big budget depts. also held senior role in what is now MHCLG; done time at the centre as head of EDS and heading Clegg office. former head of policy profession.

Day 5 of Georgia protests. Much focus has been on Tbilisi, where 200,000 have been gathering in recent days. However, this is in Batumi, Georgia’s second largest city. Huge numbers now gathering. Pro-EU, anti-government/anti-Russia protests growing across the country. (🎥Irakli Gogua on Instagram)

Israel is allying to ISIS affiliated criminal gangs to starve Gaza. You can read about this in the Israeli press. Why isn't this splashed on front pages in the West? New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-all...

Horrific pictures from Beirut overnight after Israel apparently dropped multiple ‘bunker buster’ missiles into residential apartments. The attack appears to have happened without any warning, around 4am while people and families were sleeping. (📸Credits in ALT text)

This is massive, and still a work in progress. 639 references so far, and counting. More are being added as we speak. Enough reading for a lifetime. This isn't just a blatant GENOCIDE, it's the BEST documented one in History. There's no coming back from this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_ge...

Israel is plotting to colonise Gaza. This is all being openly discussed in the Israeli media. It is a damning indictment that Israeli newspapers offer more details of what's actually happening than newspapers in, say, the US or UK. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israeli-me...

Evil vaccines, saving people's lives.

Israeli forces have, on average, killed three Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank every week since October 7, 2023, according to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). 🔴 LIVE Updates ⤵️ aje.io/azth2v

Fourteen years of austerity, incompetence, indifference and corruption

Fabulous wintry walk on Ilkley moor today 🥶

A reminder today, as US politicians including the President fall over one another to attack the ICC over arrest warrants and defend Netanyahu…

John Prescott knew how to deal with shouty entitled Tory farmers! 🤣

Wish this got as much coverage as the landed gentry having to pay some tax ... Child poverty is at its highest ever level - but yeah let's interview whinging millionaire landowners about their 'hardship' ...

Huge respect and affection for #JohnPrescott. A brilliant MP and politician from a time when the Labour Party actually represented working people

The Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall admits to MPs that the department's own modelling has found cutting winter fuel payments will push 100,000 pensioners into poverty. Ministers previously denied any kind of impact assessment had been done on the policy

More Israeli war crimes

🔴 Gaza’s Civil Defence has released a statement detailing the extensive damages and losses it has suffered in Israeli attacks: 🔺87 personnel killed 🔺304 staff injured 🔺21 detained LIVE Updates ⤵️

#AssistUsToLive All of our services are being sold off & privatised. NHS contracts handed to private providers & charities. 15 years of austerity has seen 334,327 human beings die prematurely because of impact of austerity Link: www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive... Labour will continue with austerity

The multi-millionaire who bought farmland to avoid tax… And the man who decimated farming to progress his own career …are now the self-appointed saviours of farming On today’s pod we discuss how people have lost their damned minds. Listen on link below…

The 'farmers' protest is a good time to remind people of the Just Stop Oil protestors who got 21 years, just for planning a protest. Two tier justice indeed.

This week's newsletter is about how the 'swing' to Trump amongst male Black voters is overblown, and how you wouldn't really know that from most of the headlines. Includes a 'hear me out' plug for Bluesky. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...

No, Democrats should not respond to their election defeat by throwing minorities under a bus. Instead, they should offer a compelling economic vision for struggling Americans, which forces the Republicans on the defensive. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As Israel tightens aid restrictions amid mass hunger, Palestinians in southern Gaza's Khan Younis wait in long queues for bread. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lvp7pu

More war crimes?

Israeli war crimes

Anyone who supports and extends this genocidal conflict is complicit

Benjamin Zephaniah "If you didn't have troublemakers, most women wouldn't have the right to vote, a black person wouldn't be talking to a white person and I'd be back in slavery. We need troublemakers to challenge the establishment. I want to be one of those people."

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

We’re calling on the government to implement a small levy on ticket sales at large arena and stadium concerts — paid for by large corporate sponsors — to save Britain’s grassroots music venues. ✍️ Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/MusicForTheMany #MusicForTheMany

The DWP assessment on how many pensioners will be pushed into poverty as a result of the Winter Fuel Payment cuts will not make good reading for Labour MPs : assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673caa...

Around 100 protesters have blocked staff from entering the Collins Aerospace factory in Canada, demanding the company stop selling weapons components for military aircraft bound for Israel, according to a statement released by activists. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

Family includes everyone! ❤️

This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

UNRWA warns there is 'no plan B' if Israel blocks the agency from providing vital humanitarian aid to over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/1jgvai pic.x.com/GhUC02L8it

Powerful open letter, signed by 30 of the UK’s leading journalists, on leaving X. “…it is no longer a useful tool for objective reporting, but a weapon being wielded by a narrowing ideological set. Bluesky is becoming a new hub for political discussion…we encourage other UK journalists to join.”

Farmers and how only the super rich, less than 100 a year will be taxed, and still at only 20%.

Blue sky I really like you but stop suggesting I follow Ian Dunt! I came over here to get away from his nonsense!🤣🤣

I do get that the two child limit and and welfare cap are popular with the public (and I get why). But the consequences of this are not popular and ultimately matter more both in the real world and electorally.

I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this. Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

I wrote the foreword for Runnymede's excellent report on Islamophobia, published today. www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...

Shades of Nagasaki & Hiroshima..... Never again they said about the Holocaust Then they allowed Gaza to be destroyed.... And still it goes on... #Gaza

World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say

Anyone seen a good starter pack for centre left commentators yet?

🔴 Israel continues its bombardment on Gaza while launching its "most violent" attacks on Lebanon's Nabatieh amid escalating regional tensions. Follow our LIVE coverage ⤵️ aje.io/v3v04w

Did you know that Sky are one of the few well known brands still advertising on GB News? Take action: actionstorm.org/petitions/cu...

This is very welcome. Anyone remotely interested in this issue should read in full - it’s a real page turner - Sir Andrew McFarlane’s excoriating judgment in this case. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH.... If I had to pick one reason why the last government deserved to lose power, this was it.

It seems that Lebanese footballer Celine Haidar has been killed by the IDF. Another war crime by Isreal.