When you hear about “record NHS spending”, remember that all the dodgy contracts like Mone’s faulty PPE and Dido’s half-arsed Test & Trace were all included in the NHS budget - even though we received none of those funds.
Afghanistan is the ONLY country in the world where millions of girls are BANNED from going to school or university.
This artwork had been sent to me by a young woman, who used to be an Art teacher at a secondary school.
Today, she is locked up at home — alone and heartbroken.
For a decade of Tory leadership, austerity has been the centrepiece with health & social care absolutely drained. This was intentional: undermining the public sector NHS means that the lucrative healthcare market can be sold off to private companies and billions can be made.
470 days since the Taliban BANNED teenage girls from school and 13 days since the Taliban BANNED women from university.
The women of Afghanistan have lost everything. This is gender apartheid. Plain and simple. We must speak up.
Horrendous news for Afghan women and girls. The Taliban have announced the closure of universities for women in Afghanistan, according to a letter by the higher education minister. It is expected to take effect immediately
Striking what's happened to public vs private sector pay since 2010.
Using inflation-adjusted average weekly earnings, total pay in public sector today is around 5% lower (£597 vs £626), having been 6% higher 12 years ago...
Rishi Sunak has claimed that to pay a 10% pay rise to all public sector employees will cost each household in the UK £1,000. This is what I call CRAp - which stands for a ‘completely rubbish approximation’ to the truth. Let me explain…a thread…
Rishi Sunak is working on tough new anti-strike laws
If you will do everything you can to stand against this please reply with a ✊
Let's send this Government a message!
#RightToStrike
I’m not that shockable these days but seriously @ukhomeoffice?
This international student was held in a detention centre for TEN DAYS after his uni confirmed he had a place & had paid his fees?
He’s missed his enrolment & has to fly home out of pocket https://t.co/D0m0oKNsmd
This is horrifying. The Iranian parliament votes overwhelmingly (227-63) to execute the 15,000 protesters they already arrested.
These were peaceful protestors simply seeking the right to basic justice and autonomy. Unacceptable and barbaric.
https://t.co/7mMd2hIwTb
If you think this Government have no idea what they are doing, it’s because they don’t -minister admitting they don’t know how many of your rights their retained law bill will delete, but hope to tell us after it’s been passed - so no chance of stopping. Last count it was 4,000…