Patricia Murphy

Patricia Murphy

@mspmurphy.bsky.social

CBT therapist she/her Limitless appetite for stories Hard to believe that some people thought the Irish didn’t eat fish during the famine because they didn’t like the taste. www.canterburyforpalestine.org.uk/ www.patricia-murphy.uk

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C4P were honoured to support the Discovery5 during their trial these past 2 weeks. Today at Canterbury Crown Court they were ALL acquitted Brave young people trying to charge the world . Defend our juries and free, free 🇵🇸 🍉🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸

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As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

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This weekend at my indie bookstore, they were collecting blankets for the unhoused community and donations for a local prison literature project. At checkout, when chatting with the bookseller about their event lineup, they told me I could get $5 off at the local brewery with my receipt.

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"Thiel believes in the role of elites—if you don’t keep people under an authoritarian regime, episodes of violence will occur. He believes there is an elite of visionaries like himself who should lead the world & the tech companies that created AI should operate freely, w/o regulation or limits.”

english.elpais.comPeter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the AntichristThe PayPal founder is probably the most influential figure in the technology industry in decades. He spreads conspiracy theories, but he is not an eccentric divorced from reality: he saw Trump’s rise ...

At #CURZONRiverside to watch a screening of #NAZA and a couple have just sat next to me with pizza , nachos & red wine. How do they have the stomach for it?

Today I walked in the shoes of a 90 year old Australian man & listened to his story . A promising athlete whose trajectory was disrupted by war and time spent as a Japanese POW . A story of loss, resilience, horror, friendship , reconciliation , empathy and love . #CanterburyFestival #empathy

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The Dept for Health and Social Care told us to take down our spoof video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract. We checked with our lawyers, and we’ve not done anything wrong. So we’re reposting it, in case you missed it 👀

The actual state of Robert Jenrick on R4 this morning bullishly deploying whataboutery as his only defence to the racist , misogynistic cesspit that is Reform.🤮

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This is the largest weapons factory in London since World War 2. Isembard, a new weapons manufacturer, has opened its latest site in Southwark, which is producing components for drones, jet engines, submarines, and more.

How to keep on. Active resistance & boycotts & mass strikes & mutual aid & protecting neighbors & strangers – people taking seriously that there must be ongoing practices of resistance and connections to build upon, and that have been built upon for years.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comHow to escape our collective paralysis in ‘these uncertain times’Author Natasha Lennard discusses how to disrupt the ‘certainties’ that don’t serve us and how to fight back

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BREAKING Professor Peter Hallward has just been arrested on the National March for Palestine for holding a banner with a factually accurate legal statement on it. “In the UK it’s a crime to say I support Palestine Action” Help end the absurdity: www.wedonotcomply.org

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The #NobelPeacePrize for 2026 goes to a person who with exceptional courage and integrity has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order. This year’s laureate Navi Pillay has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.

“I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people: we hear you, you were right,” #EdMiliband OK great, now lift the proscription of Palestine Action and start calling what’s happening a genocide. 🇵🇸🇵🇸

I’ve just signed Greenpeace’s petition calling on the UK Foreign Secretary to stop selling arms to Israel. British arms are fuelling the killing - can you join me and call for a ban?

#C4Dispatches Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed Genocide , the word the UK government cannot bring themselves to say. Yet. “One day everyone will have always been against this”, Omar El Akkad 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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C4 Dispatches tonight exposes what UK govt knows about Israel's crimes Among other things, the Dispatches trailer suggests that the show has evidence of the Foreign Office's explicit knowledge of Israel's genocide www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

thecanary.coC4 Dispatches tonight exposes what UK govt knows about Israel's crimesAmong other things, Dispatches trailer suggests that the show has evidence of the Foreign Office's explicit knowledge of Israel's genocide

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Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comNaomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascismIn a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other

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(1/2) Adham is a young boy in Gaza. He walks through the streets to fetch water for his family. His mother stands at the door and waits. She reminds him to watch out for the cars. She counts the minutes until he's back. "Well done my brave boy," she tells him when he returns.

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Here’s Canterbury4Palestine holding our bi-monthly stall on a balmy mid-September day. We had just one woman angrily suggest that we should all be ashamed of ourselves. It was the Saturday shoppers walking by who challenged her. Empaths 1 : Angry’s 0

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What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.

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“A Jewish Foreign Secretary Just Announced a Trade Ban on Israeli Settlements. Give Ed Miliband Credit, as the Bad-Faith Attacks on Him Escalate” In which I argue that allegations of antisemitism don’t work against the new UK foreign secretary. Sorry Israel!

zeteo.ukA Jewish Foreign Secretary Just Announced a Trade Ban on Israeli Settlements. Give Ed Miliband Credit, as the Bad-Faith Attacks on Him EscalateMiliband’s biographer, and Zeteo’s editor-in-chief, argues that allegations of antisemitism don’t work against the current foreign secretary, which is why pro-Israel critics are losing their minds.