🚨Thames Water is on the brink of collapse. 🙋We asked its customers what should happen next. 54% think the water regulator Ofwat should put it into special administration. And over two thirds (68%) believe that Thames Water should be run in the public sector. Read the full results here.

Love is an unarmed intruder A thoughtful and uplifting read.

In our blood. In our water. In our babies. 🩸☠️💧Ask @EmmaReynolds to stop the poisoning of Britain, and ban #ForeverChemicals immediately! 🚫 Join the @38_degrees consultation submission to #BanPFAs👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...

Opposing genocide is not terrorism. Make your choice. www.wedonotcomply.org

Good to see 'Belonging' is still being reviewed ten years after it came out. thebadgeronline.com/2025/11/belo...

Hey! Festival, Newhaven UK, 18th October. One afternoon of creative events: poetry, writing workshops, art & music, & me and Ahmed Alnaouq, the co-founder of @wearenotnumbers.bsky.social talking about the work we do mentoring young writers in Gaza. www.instagram.com/reel/DPje6wc...

And the song …. Just had to be Rubber Bullets - 10cc youtu.be/-tqSIpr0T0w?...

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3

A British academic is tracking all Trump's authoritarian actions under different categories to cut through the deliberate confusion created by "flood the zone with shit". A fantastic resource. Take a look www.trumpactiontracker.info?

Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Please sign the urgent petition to Keir Starmer - don't offer Donald Trump more giveaways to US Big Tech companies: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ke...

So true.

I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up. Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.

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PLEASE ACT NOW. Israel plans to take over Gaza City. Starmer says their plan is wrong & they must rethink it, but the UK is still supporting Israel with arms sales, training, RAF surveillance flights & more. Sign the petition: tell Keir he MUST end this support: 38d.gs/hwpb?utm_cam...

Younger generations, you need to dust off this Bob Dylan song from 1964 because it's just as applicable now as it was then. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS7a...

Who Did You Think You Were Fooling? open.substack.com/pub/ahmadibs...

This is very good. dredfern.substack.com/p/the-real-s...

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

A Trump-era trade deal could wipe out 7,000+ green jobs in the UK Ministers are on the fence! Let’s give them the public push they need to save UK bioethanol before it’s too late: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Starmer's comment about the 'pot of weapons' that we contribute fighter parts to was mind-boggling. He told the questioner scornfully she 'didn't understand the detail'. Do any of us? Shouldn't we? www.thenational.scot/news/2518081...

Speaks for itself. theintercept.com/2025/05/25/h... If you want the real picture, go to wearenotnumbers.org

I have nothing to add to this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoMS...

Seriously? 38d.gs/dlqc

I grew up at a time the world seemed like it was changing for the better. We wanted, peace and a 'melting pot' in which everyone belonged whatever their race/sex/gender. Most of the world leaders now are of that generation. What happened? Did aliens take them over? Are they lizards under the skin?

One of my young Gazan writers needs help. wearenotnumbers.org/search/?_kws... Her articles are so beautiful & moving. Please read them. Her brother is wounded, and today she was trying to find him some painkillers. Thank you if you can donate but even sharing makes a difference. gofund.me/82fd908b

NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

EXPOSED: Fake water nationalisation tag would still save £3 billion a year. University of Greenwich research shows how taking back control of our water delivers a better deal for the public. Sign our petition to bring water into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets...

Meta has scraped my novel without permission to train AI. If you love books and the arts, please help to protect artists and creators by signing a petition to protect creators' copyright here: www.change.org/.../protect-.... .

🚨 The UK Government is still arming Israel which has resumed a brutal military assault unleashing more suffering on Palestinians. Contact your MP and demand an end to UK complicity. Share this post, raise awareness, be part of the movement. allytoatrocities.com #AllyToAtrocities #JusticeForPalestine

Macmillan Publisher’s response to the arbitration order filed by Meta regarding our book Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, which released Tuesday.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

#writing Looking forward to this. I haven't done an author event since before the pandemic, and this one is about resilience. Most of my characters are very resilient. They have to be, living through times very much like these.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Nominations please for whom Kafka might apply this to now: "A. is terribly puffed up, he considers himself very advanced in goodness, since he feels himself magnetically attracting to himself an ever greater array of temptations, from quarters with which he was previously wholly unacquainted...

“But UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad; they have to be tested in the country in a certified lab of which there are now none.” I mean… ffs… Brexit never gets any less idiotic or ruinous, does it? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

For the narcissists in your life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUYB...

#Poetry #Storytelling www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#Palestine #Gaza Moving and beautiful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDf2...

Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...