I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

buh-bye! NYC doesn't need or want crooked cops.

Zack Polanski is a political breath of fresh air. More of this in politics, please. www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/t...

This whole interview was quite boss

I absolutely understand Starmer has a tightrope to walk with Trump, but it’s fantastic that we can have a mainstream UK politician on CNN! not fearful to speak the truth about the orange PEDOTUS.

When someone says it clearly like this, echoing what everyone says in private, the sycophancy and double-speak of other political leaders becomes all the more intolerable.

Well said NHS Managers play a crucial role in the NHS

Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.

The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.

Thx to Julie Ivory on Facebook for a great meme

Imagine: UK-EU Customs Union takes effect before next election, with guillotine clauses if Farage gets in. Reform's hand would be massively weakened if everyone knew that voting them in would plunge us back into higher prices and business/job insecurity.

Wes Streeting stylishing insisting he's a faithful and condemning Downing Street for trying to "kneecap" him showing why he'd make a better Prime Minister than Keir Starmer. Well done No 10.

I think somehow it's going to take a lot more then that. But yes, that would be welcome.

And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all. Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks. And every day we are growing. Join.greenparty.org.uk

“Fearless journalism is what terrifies politicians, and it must not be cowed." The BBC must stand up to Trump's $1 billion lawsuit - or risk legitimising the president's false narrative of what really happened on January 6 www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/if-t...

"On another occasion, a BBC executive forbade me from writing for the New Statesman, imploring me to ask The Spectator instead, saying that would be perfectly fine." goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

Israelis attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals

Why won't someone think about the poor billionaires???? And the newspapers they own! Join.greenparty.org.uk

All the media organisations criticising the corporation this morning are its competitors.. they all want the end of the BBC. #BBC #r4today

How hypocritical! British journalist Isabel Oakeshott is infamous for speaking out against migrants, refugees &asylum seekers online. When it comes to the Great British Debate, this is something she can only do online at the moment, because she’s a migrant herself (specifically to Dubai)

If this is true - this should have happened a long time ago. The Green Party alongside campaigners have been calling for this - and it's good to see maybe they've finally listened. Will reserve relief for all children being lifted out of poverty until we know it's happening.

If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....

Which one is more English?

Unsurprised to hear any politics that looks to address inequalities, looks to centre the poorest in our societies, anything that challenges the unsustainable status quo, dismissed as 'radical socialism'. Political analysis/commentary is pretty poor globally but in the UK it is in the sewer.

"hard left disruptors." Or just give a crap about people? And want things to be affordable. Join.greenparty.org.uk

"And why at the next election it won't be Conservatives Vs Labour but Reform Vs The Green Party." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What can UK politicans learn from Mamdani win www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social

Sleaze in plain sight. Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres to sell off land Council’s Reform cabinet member for social care owns private care company www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Wow! #Heatpumps

We’re building a community. Shaping a culture of open research where collaboration, transparency, and public involvement become the norm, not the exception. Be part of this growing movement to make research more connected & inclusive #OpenResearch #PublicEngagement

When I said Nigel Farage and Reform have fascistic features and threaten our democracy and minority communities, the press attacked me. Michael Heseltine compares them to Mosley’s fascists and there is silence. The double standard couldn’t be clearer. The left can’t give this media class an inch.

watch to the end!!!

British Culture: Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979. Photo © Virginia Turbett via @britcultarchive.bsky.social britishculturearchive.co.uk/archive-gall...

Zack Polanski is absolutely crushing it right now & he's a voice we've needed on the Left for so long! Here's a #ThrowbackThursday to my chat with him last year before it all went mental. As you'll hear, he had as much fire then as he does now. Up the Greens! ✊️ youtu.be/FN5AHoYd1TY?...

I've written to the Standards Commissioner alongside many MPs, regarding the racist comments made by the MP for Runcorn and Helsby. We are calling for a formal investigation as to whether the MPs' Code of Conduct was breached. Our joint cross-party letter.👇🏾

Thank you to my @libdems.org.uk colleagues, and many Labour MPs for standing up to Farage and Tory calls to leave the ECHR and join Russia on the outside. We’ve seen a Reform politician convicted of taking bribes from Russia, but patriotic MPs today said no to their plan!

A big thank you to our speakers, Dr Natasha Curran, Rashmi Kumar, Dr Jane Stafford & @gjsathyamoorthy.bsky.social, for your warm welcome and valuable insights into involving people in health and care research and engaging London’s diverse communities. #AIRD25 @arc-nwl.bsky.social

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Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55% Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I have a very bad feeling about this...

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The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

yet another notch in the ever lengthening column in support of "friction is essential to a multipolar society" make people want to come outside and want to talk to people and want to establish *real* tangible roots and pride in their communities

#80sTop30 #MusicChallenge 8. Public Enemy - Don‘t Believe The Hype Reposting because I wrote "hip hip" instead of "hip hop" the first time. 😬 I do have reading glasses, I just need to use them more often. Anyway, landmark hip hop track.

Those backing the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans visiting Birmingham were smeared as antisemites. Then Tel Aviv police banned the city's derby after riots. This whole saga is defined by lies and smears. Here's the truth 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/maccabi-te...

The silence of the Westminster lobby as one of their own backs calls for me — an elected Member of Parliament — to be deported is telling. No condemnation, just bootlicking of their proprietors and jostling for Zone 2 dinner party invites. Our media class is rotten to the core.

Solidarity, Zarah.