Alison Kriel 💚 @AKLondon UpScrolled

JEDI | Peaceful | Founder @abovebeyondedu | Leadership Advisor | Mentor | Honorary Fellow | Former Executive Headteacher & CEO

[Alison Kriel 💚 @AKLondon UpScrolled @AlisonKriel]

Nothing like a bit of Vivaldi played by The Goede Hoop Marimba Band to bring joy to any day #WednesdayMotivation

[CrimeLine @CrimeLineLaw]

What the government announced today (Tuesday 2 June) is not a screening programme for Black men. It’s an expansion of a research trial.

A landmark prostate cancer screening trial will be expanded so that for the first time, all eligible Black men will be invited to take part.  The government is putting over £20 million into expanding the TRANSFORM trial, with the aim of building the evidence base on which screening strategy works best for the group at highest risk.

There is no new screening programme for anyone yet.

Last week the UK National Screening Committee made its final recommendation, and it recommended against screening all men using the PSA blood test, saying it is likely to cause more harm than good.  The only actual screening it endorsed is targeted at men with BRCA2 genetic mutations, who will be tested every two years between the ages of 45 and 61 if they have a family history of breast, ovarian, pancreatic or prostate cancers.  That group is defined by genetics, not race.

Black men were specifically not recommended for routine screening. The committee recommended against screening other at-risk groups, including Black men, citing ongoing uncertainty about whether screening would cause more harm than good.  The committee’s position was that the data it reviewed had too many gaps to justify a programme.

So today’s announcement is the government’s response to that gap. Rather than launching screening for Black men, it is funding research to find out whether screening would help them. The move recognises that Black men face a higher risk of prostate cancer and aims to build the evidence needed to find the best screening strategy and tackle long-standing inequalities. 

Why Black men and not white men in the trial expansion?

The epidemiology. Around 1 in 4 Black men in the UK will be diagnosed with prostate cancer — twice the rate of white men.  Black African, Caribbean and Black British men are also around 2.5 times more likely to die from the disease than white men.  The trial is being expanded to include them precisely because they are the group at highest risk and the group on whom the evidence is currently thinnest.

So to correct the premise directly: the government has not announced cancer screening for Black men. It has declined to screen them (for now), and instead funded a trial to gather the evidence that might justify screening later — while the only confirmed new screening goes to a genetically-defined high-risk group regardless of race.

[Alison Kriel 💚 @AKLondon UpScrolled @AlisonKriel]

@lambeth_council @Martin_Abrams Excellent news. Congratulations @Martin_Abrams, a huge double victory over Labour

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Peter Mandelson was friends with Jeffery Epstein. Instead of asking him about this, the media asked him about Jeremy Corbyn's supposed 'Antisemitism'.

Emily Maitlis, Lewis Goodall, Jon Sopel, Trevor Phillips, Robert Peston, Andrew Marr & Sophy Ridge hang your heads in shame

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Western leaders allowed Israel and the US to tear up the rules of war in Gaza as they committed genocide.

We shouldn't be surprised they're now rolling out the same playbook in Lebanon, destroying hospitals and vital civilian infrastructure.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

This video of Israel’s latest war crime is being systematically suppressed by Twitter.

I screen recorded the moment the platform removed 19 retweets from the post — evidence of Western war crimes being targeted by Elon’s algorithm.

Minutes later, it removed 21 more retweets👇

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

First Thornberry. Now this one.

They know a reckoning is coming, and they're scrambling to save themselves. But the archives don't forget - and they don't lie.

[Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley]

A senior British police chief was forced into early retirement because he stopped these racists from going on a pogrom in Birmingham.

[Alison Kriel 💚 @AKLondon UpScrolled @AlisonKriel]

@wesstreeting And there we have it in writing - your public declaration that you’re a hypocrite and a liar

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

It’s begun: The Great Rewriting of History by the politicians, journalists, media commentators who stayed quiet over Gaza to keep climbing the greasy pole - while a handful of us who spoke-up were smeared, abused, or fired.

As @Hamza_a96 says, don’t let them do it:

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

This Labour MP lobbied the Home Office to ban political commentators from entering the UK, and Shabana Mahmood complied.

But did you know that David Taylor received money from Labour Together whilst they had an ex-IDF soldier on their board?

Here’s what the paper trail shows:🧵

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Rip off Britain has a toxic combination of high bills and low wages.

We need to move power and wealth from the super rich and put it back into our communities.

We are offering hope and a plan.

Vote Green in Makerfield.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

So the new Mandelson files don't include anything from Mandelson's own personal device - because he refused to hand it over to the government for searching.
Of course, McSweeney's phone was stolen after he'd selected only a handful of messages to turn over to the Cab Office

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Thank you!

My real pride is everyone who's living their life in what can be a difficult world.

We're going to make it better - together.

🏳️‍⚧️🌈

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Brilliant statement from the Fire Brigade Union. 👏🏼🏳️‍⚧️

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

This is the calibre of the MP who pushed for ban on @cenkuygur and @hasanthehun. Accusing @ZackPolanski the only Jewish political party leader of 'laundering' antisemitism.

Oh, and BTW, the UK is still sending F-35 parts to Israel, making it complicit in Israel's ongoing war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza. Not sure what's 'defensive' about helping maintain supersonic jet fighters dropping JDAMS on civilian apartment blocs.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The banning of @cenkuygur from the UK apparently for pointing out genocide is astonishing.
In what warped worldview is he an extremist?

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Labour’s Palantir scandal.

Emails appear to show Peter Mandelson using his position to arrange access to government ministers for Palantir - the US military tech company with access to NHS Data.

We demand to know what access was arranged, what meetings took place, and what was discussed?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Want proof Green politics works?

I spoke with @ernesturtasun, a Green minister in Spain's government, about how Greens in power are making real change to lower people's bills, protect the planet and stand up to Trump.

The change when Greens win!

🎥 https://t.co/1fLVaqu3N3

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Well done Indonesia

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Even the highest mountain on Earth has now become a human rubbish dump