Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

George Monbiot endorses alternatives such as Zack Polanski, "As long as they give us hope that our country gets better for the people who live here"

Please, for God's sake, put aside petty differences and practice some solidarity. We desperately need coherent and effective alternatives.

“You can’t bomb the truth away” My full speech at Wembley Arena tonight, in London, to 12,000 people at the Together for Palestine concert, paying tribute to murdered Palestinian journalists and their bravery, and calling out the silence and complicity of Western media.

Benedict Cumberbatch reciting powerful words by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish at the Together for Palestine concert at Wembley, London. Happening right now and live streamed (link below).

Privileged and honored to be speaking tonight at Wembley Arena at the Together for Palestine (@T4Plive) concert, alongside some big names from across the world, at 7pm UK time. You can watch live on YouTube. www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...

The brilliant @georgemonbiot.bsky.social at Stop Trump tears into this government. ‘By bringing the fascist in chief here, they dishonour us, and they dishonour themselves. By rolling out the red carpet for Trump, they roll out the red carpet for Farage.’

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The far-right is in its pomp. We will have to fight for our values like never before. iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...

The Irish health service has initiated a process to develop a clinical guideline for ME (#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis). I am honoured to be part of its Steering Group The process so far has been extremely progressive I am hugely optimistic that a world-leading guideline will be produced #pwME #MECFS

@simonforstroud.bsky.social please could you support this EDM.

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.

@simonforstroud.bsky.social I and a lot of fellow sufferers from severe #ME bedbound etc, would be so grateful if you could find the time to attend this APPGME and add your first hand knowledge and expertise to this urgent situation.

From LIVES WE CANNOT LIVE showing at Oxo Tower Gallery from, 24/9/25 I asked people to respond to their photographs with written thoughts. This is from Ash, photographed in his childhood bedroom. #PwME #MECFS #invisibleillness #documentaryphotography #photography #millionsmissing #photocollage

1. Out of curiosity, I went through the feeds of some habitual tuna tormentors. I found they’re big on: - fox hunting - Reform UK - antagonism to asylum seekers. In other words, the same few antisocial (psychopathic?) men, turning up in all the bad places. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 🧵

Printed tee shirts, totes etc all profits to Medical Aid for Palestinians, The Hands Up Project & 4 Gazan writers. Poems by @ZaffarKunial & others rwag.teemill.com

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

Pleased to share a new article, co-authored with @dalupton.bsky.social, just published in the journal Sociology: '"Most People with Long COVID Are Their Own Doctors": Self-Tracking and Online Patient Groups as Pathways to Challenging Epistemic Injustice'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2

By continuing to provide weapons to Israel — and bolstering the profits of America's military contractors — the U.S. is complicit in the genocide unfolding in Gaza. There is no moral justification in wreaking vengeance on innocent women, men, and children. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

It took me years to understand that seeing friends and family caused me to crash. The balance between mental health and physical health can be very cruel for #ME patients. Incredible that seeing people we love can wreak havoc on the bodies of ME patients. The loneliest of illnesses.

The people of Gaza are literally starving to death while the world simply watches or switches off, ‘nothing to do with me’. If people don’t care now they never will and future generations will be totally appalled that we let this happen.

If you’re a newly qualified #GP take some time to study everything you can about #ME (ME/CFS) including new research from @DecodeMEstudy There are very few ME aware Drs in the UK and no consultants at all. It’s a yawning gap that needs filling for over 400,000 patients plus many #LongCovid patients

Alice Oswald, pacifist, mother, poet was arrested today for supporting Palestine Action. Such courage, as our politicians hide indoors under their meaningless soundbites.

This is a terrorist? What a shameful day. A few hundred MPs voted that this would be a good idea. It wasn’t in the government’s manifesto that they would blindly support Israel whatever they do regardless of human rights or common humanity. This is the end of Labour.

This has been my lived reality for 32 years in this one room. Severe #ME. No treatment because there has been no serious research funding. The psych/behavioural lobby make sure of this despite ample proof of physiological damage. How many more generations will live in dark rooms alone and ignored?

Clip: BBC Scotland - Professor Chris Ponting explains why large-scale genetic research into #MECFS didn’t happen sooner — despite its prevalence. He says the field was “hugely stigmatized” and “held back… in part because this disease is very strongly female biased.

The Management Team are delighted to announce DecodeME’s initial DNA results & discuss what this means for #pwME & future research. A huge thanks to all our participants for giving their time, energy & DNA to the project. Learn more about our findings: shorturl.at/XOVJ1

1) The DecodeME study compared DNA of ca. 15,000 ME/CFS patients and 250,000 controls and found significant differences in 8 regions of our genome. The Manhattan plot below shows the genes and chromosomes involved. Let’s unpack the results 🧵

We are not liars. We are not depressed. We are not anxious. We are not thinking the wrong thoughts We are not work shy We are not benefit frauds. We have #ME We spat into test tubes and filled a detailed questionnaire to prove we were seriously ill. The results 👇 www.decodeme.org.uk

A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky

"It's just fields and fields of gray ash." www.instagram.com/reel/DM8H5L2...

Read her words. Isla was already suffering age 8 at the hand of the UK health care systems. Last year, she died from ME, despite her parents best efforts to protect her from this system. So now the system has arrested Isla's mum... @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social your plan is not fit for purpose.

From Sarah Boothby, Maeve’s mother “please boost on other platforms. We are scrambling for lawyers to get the sister out as the top priority. I am speaking with national print media this morning.” @swiftsandswallows.bsky.social has been arrested. #ME

📢 Our Campaign Guide is out! It deals with common media traps that we need to know how to deal with 🗣️ Part One covers the ‘Bait & Switch' tactic: ‘Its not ALL in you Head But…’ Easy-to-read download & audio included 💌 Help us shift the paradigm and share away!

Adil Ray recounts the testimony of a doctor who explains IDF soldiers play a game where each day they decide to shoot Palestinian boys in a different part of their body Flint: "Israel is a functioning democracy. It is understandable when you have Hamas in control.." #GMB

Sean O’Neill on Times Radio talking about the new government delivery plan for ME/CFS “I’ve never seen a plan that lacks detailed quite such as this. I think it you couldn’t really call it a plan at all, it’s a kind of wish list.”

This is the political video I've been waiting to see. I have no party affiliations, but if I were in the Greens, I would vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Dr Alexis Gilbert’s proposal for a revamped Delivery Plan for #ME. Despite being severely ill himself Alex continues to work for pwME from a place of great expertise. 👇 is radical!

Today we’re celebrating a year to the day since @karenlhargrave.bsky.social & @emmagl.bsky.social launched #ThereForME! We had a busy day yesterday responding to the Delivery Plan release. It’s clear how much more our campaign has left to do - but today we’re reflecting on what we’ve done so far

I long for a day when there is a department of medicine into which we fit. At the moment #ME is homeless, no speciality fits us and there are no specialist Drs in the NHS thus we are pushed around a medical establishment where no one really wants us nor understands us. We are orphans.

The DHSC Delivery Plan for #ME at last. www.gov.uk/government/p...

It's performative. If Steve Reed were really "furious" about water bills, he wouldn't have ruled out renationalisation, or forbidden the Independent Water Commission to recommend it. He enables the filthiest, most parasitic capital to defeat the public interest. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

More from @Bridget_OShea, who died last week, on Substack in 2023. I wish, so much, that those who hamper real research and education about #ME would acknowledge that they are responsible for an ever growing list of deaths from the illness.

Being an #ME patient of all levels of severity is like screaming under water until we drown and still we are not recognised. There are millions of us screaming at huge detriment to our slivers of health. No response…ever.

This arrived today. Poems by Palestinians. A publishing initiative by Alice Oswald, Robert Macfarlane, Zaffar Kunial and Max Porter. (My favourite poets and writers) A poem by 17 year old Saleh in Gaza.

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I've read many condemnations of Keir Starmer, but none as damning as this.