IMPORTANT 🧵 We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US. But it could happen in UK too. It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim. Read on! 1/11

Private finance has been a disaster for our public services. ❌ Say no to new #PFI in our #NHS. 🏥 Join us at #Labour conference to urge the government to change course ahead of their final decision in their autumn budget on 26 November. Or you can email your MP today 👇

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Starmer's thrown Sadiq Khan under the bus at least once before. He'd do it again in a heartbeat

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FALLEN WORLD FOR RECOGNIZING THE PALESTINIAN STATE; NOW MAY THEY RECOGNIZE THE PALESTINIAN HUMAN BEING.

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Recognition is no doubt significant but it will be a hollow gesture if the UK does not also seek to end Israel's genocide, illegal occupation, and system of apartheid against the Palestinian people. 🧵1/3

LANDMARK MOMENT - the Greens now have more members across Great Britain than the Lib Dems! Let's keep it going! 👇🏼👇🏾👇🏽 join.greenparty.org.uk Latest stats available: 85,800 @greenparty.org.uk (England & Wales) + @scottishgreens.org combined membership 83,174 @libdems.org.uk (a single party across GB)

My TV licence is up for renewal at the end of the month - I'm going to cancel it. Whatever the merits of BBC Drama and Radio and I can't justify giving money to BBC News any more. It's been pushing the country towards fascism for 15 years now - and I won't fund it any longer

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

I've plugged this before but the first episode of Dan Hall's series of interviews with people with HIV is out now and it's with Jonathan Blake. I'm interviewed later in the series - and yes, I'm going to plug it again then podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

Green policy reflects what the public wants! Want public ownership then we’re the party to join!

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

This should have been a moment of profound national learning - about the corruption that serves our elite - but the Cabinet Office which ran the VIP Lane sought to close the discussion down and Labour unaccountably let them. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Yep, and this is why politicians who think they can safely placate racists by stressing their own opposition to only “illegal” immigration are really just helping the far right move the Overton window

“It’s time to change the narrative. Tommy Robinson does not represent the majority of Britons. We aren’t afraid. We’re angry. And we won’t be defeated.” The power we need coming from @sangitamyska.bsky.social here www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

How Morgan McSweeney lobbied to get Murdoch invited to banquet They sat next to each other Very interesting given the airing of the first episode of The Hack on ITV this week mol.im/a/15118175?i...

Labour/centrism doesn't have a comms problem it has a morality problem. It's ideologically hollow and so has no high ground to stand on and say this stuff is racist and immoral.

In 1917, Britain denied Palestinian national rights, paving the way for over a century of dispossession. Recognition is long overdue - but it alone won’t end Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, which continue unabated with the UK's complicity.

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

Anything not specifically relevant to the interests of cishet white men is "identity politics nonsense"

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine. And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide. Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

If I'd written a book on the Holocaust that the Auschwitz museum disavowed, you'd never see me in public again.

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

I’m immediately closing my account with Nationwide and moving my savings elsewhere. My partner is doing the same. I would recommend everyone who is not a fascist to do the same. Plenty of other options.

"My door is always open for conversations with Jeremy and Zarah, two people committed to making our country fairer who I really respect. All my energy is focused on what I can do towards that end, and that’s to keep growing @greenparty.org.uk" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As a woman I feel much safer in a country that accepts refugees than a country that allows racists to express their racism.

I’m 70. I was a member of the Labour Party for over 40 yrs until resigning earlier this year. I have never felt as angry, despairing and betrayed as I do today, for which I entirely blame Starmer. He has been a disaster from day 1, has squandered a massive opportunity and has harmed the UK.

Your Party is now mostly notable for its open transphobia and the internal struggle of five men to stop one woman talking. I think we can say your historic opportunity is done lads. As one of your MPs told her: sit down.

- @zarahsultana.bsky.social is wasting her time with YP. Being shackled to that level of ineptitude is holding her back, substantially, when she could do immeasurably more good in uniting the political left by joining the Greens, before she becomes too tainted by perceived poor judgement. 2/

Starmer and Trump have a lot in common

Happy publication day to THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY! 🎉 I’m beyond thrilled to see my new book baby – a follow-up (but not a sequel per se) to This Arab Is Queer and published by Saqi Books – finally make its debut in the world 🫶 📚 saqibooks.com/books/saqi/t...

If I had a nickel for every time the hosts of mega-hit podcast "The Rest Is History" said rape allegations weren't credible because everyone else said he was such a nice guy, then I'd have almost as many nickels as the hosts of mega-hit podcast "The Rest Is History"

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

Completely predictable. (And I say that as someone who joined the Labour Party because of Corbyn). Your Party are a transphobic, misogynist mess. A boys club that will take forever to do nothing until it's far too late. Join the Greens

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is one of the biggest cons created by Tories, expanded by Labour. For every £1 of private investment in public assets govt repays £6, resulting in higher debt/taxes. Cheaper for govt to borrow or it can create money But govt is reviving PFI. Must change policy.

Big US tech company Nvidia saying they're gonna build data centres in the UK and we have to burn more gas to power them? Uh, no. British people shouldn't be paying higher bills and suffering accelerated climate change for your bottom line.

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

The Conservatives started this experiment. But Labour are fully on board too. No 10 refuse to comment or take action - but we're all paying the price for corporate greed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Seventh Doctor being iconic

We are horrified and saddened by the death of our colleague Hussein Alnajjar who died yesterday in #Gaza. His death was due to shrapnel injuries caused by an Israeli airstrike near his tent five days earlier.