Martin McDowell

Proud Scouser and European. No nudes in Bio.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The captain of Iran’s National Team, Mehdi Taremi, calls out FIFA and the U.S.:

“This is a disaster World Cup. We can’t stay in the country and have to travel every time we play without any recovery. Now we can’t stay in Seattle and have to return to Tijuana. This is not fair.”

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Rise in NHS hospital admissions following private treatment in Scotland.

Those who can afford it are using private hospitals.

When something goes wrong or not covered by insurance, they are dumped on to the NHS.

Profits privatised, costs socialised.
https://t.co/HHv6hJYDQx

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Possibly the greatest single male athletic performance of all time

[Shutts 🇲🇽 🇨🇼 🇺🇾 🇳🇴 @Shuttsapalooza]

By far my favourite Scotland vs Brazil story is the referee saying “Good luck, may the best team win” to both captains before the game in 1982 and Graeme Souness replying “I fucking hope not”

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Financialisation of humanity

Vital services handed to private equity

84% of children’s homes, 80% of adult care homes in England controlled by financial investors. Private equity is a key player.

£1.5bn profit from care homes.

Public purse looted.
https://t.co/I0XaUBp0QC

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Curse of Private Equity.

Former WH Smith’s small suppliers to lose half of debts in rescue plan.

Some won't be repaid for a year.

Products bought from suppliers sold but they won't be paid, with implicit threat -agree with us or else.

Knock-on effects?
https://t.co/9KHUgQpQzs

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

The evidence warranting an independent inquiry into Labour Together is that overwhelming. Each revelation of its activities is startling.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

He says “up the RA” for £86

…imagine what he’d do for £5m.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a lot of myth-making about Starmer's leadership, much of it unchallenged.
It is hard to support the claim Starmer 'saved the Labour party' when he got 560,000 votes fewer than Corbyn in 2019.
2024 was a Tory collapse, not a Labour surge.
(via HoC Library).

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Nigel Farage is not the most attacked politician in the UK. He had a milkshake thrown at him.

Jo Cox and David Amess got murdered.

["YNWA" The Story of Liverpool FC @LFCHistoryShow]

One of the Greatest LFC photos. New York City, 1964. LFC on tour as Champions. Just four Liverpool footballers looking as-cool-as-you-like in the Big Apple. A'Court, Callaghan, Moran & Byrne taking in the sights. #YNWA #LiverpoolFC #cool #NewYork #LFC #style

[MikeD @mjdaly57]

In 2015, Jeremy Corbyn became the democratically elected and legitimate leader of the Labour Party, beating Andy Burnham in the process. He received no packed, jubilant Westminster Hall welcome like Burnham received today. The Parliamentary Labour Party and Labour bureaucracy immediately decided he wasn’t the leader they wanted and set out to undermine him at every turn. Today, Andy Burnham arrived at Westminster and was greeted euphorically en masse by the PLP despite not even having contested a leadership election. The Parliamentary Labour Party was in 2015 and still is a law unto itself. Democracy is an unpalatable inconvenience for these MPs. They serve themselves and their donors first and foremost. They’ve turned Westminster politics into a poorly acted, banal soap opera. An exclusive club certainly.

@UKLabour @AndyBurnhamGM @jeremycorbyn @GaryGibbonC4 @SophyRidgeSky @BethRigby @PippaCrerar @Peston @Channel4News

[The Cheap Thrills @TheCheapThrills]

Our 2026 UK October Tour in all its glory. ☁️🌍🏠
Presale is available tomorrow at 10am for album purchasers & mailing list subscribers.

General sale this Friday 10am.

keep cheap.

[Dominic Harrison @domharrison175]

#Brexit

[Sir Graham Lister @Graham_Lister]

I believe that to be the case

[The League Magazine @Theleaguemag]

A 15-year reunion for Liverpool’s 1966 squad

[AV8 Records Ltd #MDANT @aviatormusicuk]

A tea drinking genius.....

[Transalpino(official) @TransalpinoO]

New boss the same as the old boss ?
The Who

#dontbuythesun

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Race to the bottom.

Bank of England to water down capital rules for investment banks’ trading activities.

Safety buffers will be reduced.

Bailouts have eliminated bankruptcy risk for major banks.

More gambling and speculation, less safety inevitable.
https://t.co/k2jLM1cFUE