Dr Lauren Collins

Co-founder and Director of @Cricketcic. Honorary Research Fellow, University of Nottingham. Passionate re social housing & community. Lives in Hackney

[Tory Fibs @ToryFibs]

Starmer announces £70 billion extra cash for war making by 2035.

Source: BBC

[Labour Outlook @LabourOutlook]

Dr Lauren Collins @CubaSolidarity reports on the positive results coming from new drugs that the world hears little about because they are developed in Cuba.

The story is a case study of the impacts of the blockade and of Cuba's medical internationalism.
https://t.co/AVz2Fwejpd

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Israel is starving, beheading and exterminating Palestinians live on camera, whilst destroying every single home, school and hospital, in order to completely erase Gaza from the world map.

But Gary Lineker's tweets are the real problem

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of Nakba Day, and call for an end to arms sales and Britain's complicity in genocide.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Imagine the western reaction if Iran had bombed a humanitarian aid ship trying to feed starving civilians.
Imagine if Russian forces were caught massacring medical workers in ambulances.
Imagine If China bombed an international humanitarian aid convoy in clearly marked vehicles.

[Jack Shenker @hackneylad]

Private developers can build as many blocks of unaffordable flats as they like - it won't solve the housing crisis, whatever this government claims

Now renters across the UK are fighting back and demanding real housing justice - find out more @LDNRentersUnion #RentControlsNow

[Dr Lauren Collins @Beaban]

@SaulStaniforth The ‘least worst’ option.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

This is a shameful hit job on Louis Theroux, published by the Spectator. The magazine is edited by Michael Gove.

@louistheroux

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

British Steel - Chinese
Royal Mail - Croatian
British Airways - Spanish
National Grid - Australian
Yorkshire Water - American
Thames Water - European, Canadian and American
British Telecom - American

And on and on...

[Dr Lauren Collins @Beaban]

@VincentStops And these (and more I couldn’t fit in the photo ) were dumped outside TCR station completely obstructing access to a pedestrian crossing

[Dr Lauren Collins @Beaban]

@MichaelRosenYes Olfactorial analysis. If smell ok it IS ok

[Dr Lauren Collins @Beaban]

Are you safe from Duo this year? #Duolingo365

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

Whilst we're discussing auto-obesity, never overestimate the sheer stupidity and selfishness of vehicles like this within a city.

2.6 tonnes transporting 1 x 80kg person most of the time, then statistically remaining parked for the other 95% of its life.

Tax them to oblivion

[Dr Lauren Collins @Beaban]

Yes people voted for change, but what is needed now is honesty and frankness. The public is sick of being spoken down to, obfuscation, let alone being directly lied to.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Suella Braverman’s parents emigrated (those horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates).

She went to Cambridge for free and didn’t collect £27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger.

She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked.

Horrible.

[Dr Lauren Collins @Beaban]

#Labour must change the fiscal rules so can it can borrow to invest. Relying solely on private investment is not only unrealistic, it is costly. Never forget the damage that PFI did to our public services.

[Dr Lauren Collins @Beaban]

I hate the term ‘spin room’. It’s almost as they’ve owned up that they tell us what to think…

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

People are getting very worked up that state pension is taxable. But the real scandal is that unearned income like dividends and capital gains have special tax free allowances and are taxed at lower rates than earned income, 8.75% and 10% basic rate for example.

[Dr Lauren Collins @Beaban]

@OwenJones84 Depends on the constituency.

[Leanne Wood 💚💛 @LeanneWood]

Solidarity with @faizashaheen & @HackneyAbbott

This is what authoritarianism looks like.