Bernadette Gallagher

Proud Boltonian and campaigner for social justice

[Sage @Sage_FCB]

🚨 Roy Keane Doesn't Hold Back After Iran's Controversial VAR Heartbreak:

🗣️ “I don't want to hear anyone telling me VAR is making football better after watching that. If that's the standard at a World Cup, we're in trouble.

The whole point of the technology is to stop obvious mistakes. Instead, it's become another way to create them. That goal should never have been taken away if the decision wasn't absolutely clear.

I feel for the Iranian players. They thought they'd produced one of the biggest moments in their country's football history, only for it to be wiped out by people sitting in a room watching television screens.

When you're making decisions that can send one team through and knock another out, you have to get them right. 'Almost right' isn't good enough. Not on this stage.

Football is about players deciding matches, not officials becoming the biggest talking point afterwards. Yet here we are again, discussing referees instead of the football.

Someone has to explain how that decision was reached because supporters deserve answers. If VAR can't provide fairness in moments like these, then it's failing at the one job it was brought into the game to do.”

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

People who are getting super rich from property development should contribute fairly to the communities they profit from.

Hannah Spencer, MP for Gorton and Denton, calls for a wealth tax on the super-rich to help councils tackle fly-tipping and invest in cleaner communities.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Yes.

If you're a bigot who wants to divide communities, a billionaire wanting to preserve your wealth or a "newspaper" that wants to preserve power: we're very sinister indeed.

To everyone else: feels a lot like hope.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's obvious to point out attacks against Muslims get ignored - but still needs repeatedly calling out.

An Antisemitic attack should be reported and action taken.

But where is the same media outrage, cobra meetings and calling of national emergency when 5 Muslims are attacked?

[Joseph Wells @JosephW56436640]

Don't believe everything you read on right-wing medias, in papers and more. The shirt Hannah Spencer wore at PMQ's is a 15 year old charity shop find, not a £2,000 Gucci purchase like many would want you to believe! 🤥

Why would people spread misinformation about Hannah? Hmm?

[Dan @DanTalkSports]

World Cup Group schedule in BST, for anyone who wants it

[Josh Sheehan @JoshSheehan_]

5 years at Bolton Wanderers, experiencing the heartbreak of two play-off defeats and all the disappointment that came with them, but we kept believing, kept pushing and never gave up. To finally win in the play-offs and help get this club back to the Championship means everything

[Moog @a_toots]

If my boys grow up to be like Jo and Kush from Race Across the World we will have done something right. They’re a brilliant antidote to Tate-style toxic masculinity: bright, kind, compassionate, emotionally intelligent, grounded, and culturally aware. PROPER role models for boys.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

You spend millions every year so well paid MP's and Lord's can get subsidised alcohol at work.

There are 27 alcohol serving taxpayer subsidised bars and restaurants in the UK.

ALL of them in Westminster.

It's time to make it 0.

Like/RT if you agree.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Now time to get Palantir out of the NHS and out of the UK.

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

I was proud to contribute to a wonderful piece from Simon Hughes on one of our greatest ever players whose influence goes far beyond the pitch.
Mohamed Salah, Islam and a legacy of transformation: ‘He helped lift so many barriers in Liverpool’ https://t.co/UhoYNw1WzP via @NYTimes

[Grizz Khan @GrizzKhan]

A genius of a coach. Belter of a human ❤️

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

“To hear the CEO of Palantir using the serious matter of sexual abuse by Met officers to attack the mayor of London for rejecting his company and so cutting his profits shows exactly why Palantir are not fit to lecture anyone on values.”
https://t.co/u6k7vqIiGk

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Pep Guardiola is much more than just an unbelievable manager.

He spoke up for the people of Palestine, Sudan and Congo while others looked away.

Pep used his platform to defend our shared humanity. That will never be forgotten. Thank you, Pep.

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape.

Shot with rubber bullets at close range.

Tens of people’s bones broken.

While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages.

Don’t let up. Statements of condemnation are not enough. This moment must be seized by people worldwide to apply the necessary pressure to end this colonial violence. Pressure officials. Escalate boycott and divestment tactics. Organize direct action.

“Please, if this can be a lightning rod moment, let it be that … join us wherever you are and rise up so that we can end this occupation, end this colonialism, end this violence.”

Free Palestine NOW.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

MPs are blaming regulator OfCom for the disaster at Royal Mail.

This is a red herring. Ofcom can’t fix Royal Mail.

To fix Royal Mail, let’s take it into public ownership and run it in the interest of households, not the profits of a Czech Billionaire.

[Transfer News Live @DeadlineDayLive]

🚨 The MOST HATED man in England right now.

Thomas Tuchel has not included the following players in his World Cup squad:

❌ Phil Foden.
❌ Cole Palmer.
❌ Harry Maguire.
❌ Lewis Hall.
❌ Adam Wharton.
❌ Luke Shaw.
❌ Fikayo Tomori.
❌ Morgan Gibbs-White.

And he's picked Jordan Henderson, Dan Burn and Jarell Quansah. ✅

(Source: @TeleFootball / @BBCSport / @TheAthleticFC)

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Israeli soldiers caught on vid raping Palestinian

Victim suffered ruptured intestine, severe injury to anus, lungs & broken ribs

Israelis rioted for right to rape, ministers defended rapist, 1 rapist became celebrity

All charges dropped

This isn't just Ben Gvir this is Israel

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I join Amnesty International in condemning #Eurovision and call everyone with a conscience not to watch it.
BIG THANK YOU to the 5 countries who withdrew from the competition:
Iceland!
Ireland!
Netherlands!
Slovenia!
Spain!

Put Apartheid out of our lives.