DJ Deb Smith

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Not in a million years did I think she would bounce back this quickly.

Sienna is 🎄 ready ❤️

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"South East Water boss David Hinton doesn’t want to resign after 24,000 Tunbridge Wells homes and businesses left without water."

Last year David Hinton was paid £457,534 the year before £440,472 the year before that £417,483. Maybe that's got something to do with it.

https://t.co/SXSCoCT17H

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Prepare to smile just as much as the street dogs wagged their tails today ❤️

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein points out that both Starmer and Lammy identify Nelson Mandela as their political hero. But the late South African president would be appalled at their treatment of Palestine Action and the eight hunger strikers facing death in UK prisons.

Mandela viewed the freedom of black South Africans as "incomplete" without that of the Palestinians, and saw prison hunger strikes as a central tool in the struggle against apartheid.

"You and I know what Nelson Mandela’s attitude to the hunger strikers would be: total and unconditional support for their actions in support of the Palestinian people and for justice.

"He would be shocked and outraged by their treatment and by the lack of humanity demonstrated by yourselves as the two most senior politicians with responsibility for their plight."

As Feinstein concludes: "Their plight, their lives, are in your hands. Please demonstrate the humanity that characterised the life and legacy of your political hero."

Read his letter here: https://t.co/mNxJ5uRPBa

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Keir Starmer's Police State Political Prisoner latest

"Doctor ‘Strangled’ by Police Officer Until She Passed Out at Hunger Strike Protest"

You can hear her choking at the start of the video

Novara Media:

Dr Olivia Brandon was among several medical professionals who gathered with other supporters outside HMP Bronzefield on Wednesday 17 December to demand the prison allow in an ambulance to treat a hunger striker suffering from severe chest pains.

The alleged attack came after police arrested two protesters, including psychiatric doctor Dr Ayo Moiett, who protesters say was targeted both because he is black and because he played a pivotal role in forcing the prison to eventually let the ambulance come.

Brandon, who works in the A&E department at a London hospital, said she and other protesters sat in the road to prevent police vans from leaving with the detainees – after which officers “started assaulting everyone” as they cleared the road.

She felt an officer grab her hoodie from behind and then drag her along the road.

“I was wearing a tight jumper under my hoodie and because of the force the officer was using, this was strangling me. I remember retching and being in a lot of pain,” she said.

“I was panicking and thought I was going to die. I could hear people screaming at the police that they were strangling me, but the officer wasn’t stopping. I stopped being able to see and then I passed out,” she said.

Brandon said she fell unconscious for what she estimates was several seconds as the strangulation cut off the flow of blood to her brain. “I felt confused and disoriented for around 10 minutes afterwards, and was still in a lot of pain.”

Brandon initially thought she didn’t need medical attention, but when she experienced increasing pain her sisters drove her to the A&E department at Homerton University Hospital in London.

Staff there told her she needed a CT scan of the blood vessels in her head and neck, she said, “as strangulation causing rapid unconsciousness is due to compression of the carotid arteries to the brain. This can cause damage to the arteries, leading to later complications such as stroke.”

She was discharged early the following morning after the scan found there had been no lasting injuries. She is considering legal action against Surrey Police and is trying to obtain the officer’s bodycam footage, she said.

​A spokesperson for Surrey Police told Novara Media: “Although we have not received a complaint directly, we have referred this matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct for their review.”

Before her alleged assault, Brandon told prison staff that their conduct towards Zuhrah was unlawful. “You will all be seen in court one day,” she said. “Severe chest pain gets a hospital transfer… if I made the decisions you are making in my hospital, I would be fired and I would be prosecuted and I would go to jail.”

[Erin @Molly2323232323]

Why are fully qualified doctors being replaced by non-doctors (PAs, ANPs, ACPs, APs)?

Non-doctors do not have the knowledge, qualifications, training & experience of doctors.

Non-doctors are not regulated to work as doctors.

Unqualified
Untrained
Unregulated
Unsafe

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Oh look, it rained.

Areas of the country where water companies are currently dumped sh*t into rivers and on to beaches.

Brown, currently dumping sewage.
Red, has been dumping sewage within the last 24 hours.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links for "professional mode" or Pages users.

How long before extended to others?

Business model - let people create content, sell it back to them, make money via advertising.
https://t.co/4q9FjSgueb

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Monaco based tax-exile Jim Ratcliffe businesses received up to £70m UK subsidy in last 4 years. More promised.

Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.

Sunday Times estimated his wealth to be £17bn.

Benefit cuts for the poor.
https://t.co/Ern45Vk47P

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

The poorest lose right to financial privacy

The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment & support allowance; pension credit.

No court order needed. No right of appeal

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

The government’s housing and regeneration agency has failed to explain why its new five-year strategy fails to mention disabled people, or the need to address the accessible housing crisis.
https://t.co/9FhKysCynQ

[MattStaniek @MattStaniek]

Windermere vs Buttermere

Windermere: Since 2017, over fifty billion litres of treated sewage and more than 30,000 hours of untreated sewage have made their way into the lake.

Buttermere: a lake where the water company is not allowed to put any sewage at all.

Images taken on 24 and 25 April 2025.

The only way to protect Windermere is to end the sewage pollution once and for all.

https://t.co/Z8svuQkFOO

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The bin men and the train drivers and the doctors are 'too well paid'.

But apparently the CEOs and the Bankers need more money.

THIS is the problem.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The Office for Environmental Protection @OfficeforEP has today ruled that all three public bodies involved in regulating the water industry @Defra, @Ofwat and @EnvAgency have acted illegally by not complying with sewage and environmental legislation.

No surprise there but what are any of them going to do about it? NOTHING!

https://t.co/jV3rHUzkX7

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I personally witnessed about 30 people arrested.

The Guardian, BBC and Mail are all reporting 5 arrests! There were 150!!!!

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

12 out of the 14 stretches of rivers designated as bathing spots are polluted with the @EnvAgency issuing a "Do Not Swim" advisories.

So exactly 16 months into a new govt what's been achieved? Absolutely nothing, nada, zero, zilch.

Well that's alright then.

https://t.co/k7VBWPoSWi

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Office for Budget Responsibility state that there was no £20bn black hole. Keir Starmer & Rachel Reeves:

▪️Stopped the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners
▪️Cut disability payments
▪️Hammered family farmers with inheritance tax

Based on a massive lie.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Review judge pulled from Palestine Action hearing at last hour, in patent stitch-up:

The High Court judge who granted a legal challenge to the government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action – the first time in British history a civil-disobedience organisation has been declared a terrorist group, one now treated as on a par with al-Qaeda – has been removed at the last minute.

The judicial review hearing is due to start tomorrow without Justice Martin Chamberlain. He will be replaced with a panel of three judges.

Justice Chamberlain did not suffer any timetabling conflicts. The Justice Ministry declined to offer any explanation for such a highly irregular change.

The outcome of the case will affect thousands of ordinary British citizens who have opposed the government’s anti-democratic proscription decision. They currently face jail sentences, and terrorism convictions, for holding placards saying: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

Some oppose proscription because they believe civil disobedience of the kind used by Palestine Action, which targets arms factories supplying Israel with weapons used to slaughter Palestinian children, is the only effective way to put pressure on the government to stop colluding in the Gaza genocide.

Others hope to make the proscription unenforceable through mass defiance and thereby salvage one of the most fundamental democratic rights – the right to protest – from government assault.

Notably, this is not the first time Justice Chamberlain, who is noted for his independence, has been removed unexpectedly from a judicial review hearing in an Israel-related case. Earlier this year, he was replaced by two other judges after he granted a legal challenge to the government’s continuing sale of parts for F-35 jets to Israel, despite the fighter plane’s use in the killing of many tens of thousands of civilians and the destruction of more than 80 per cent of all buildings in Gaza.

A panel of three judges will now sit in place of Justice Chamberlain.

Dame Victoria Sharp is a from a family with extensive and close ties to the Conservative party. She is the twin sister of Richard Sharp, who was appointed chair of the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, after Sharp had helped secured the Tory prime minister a £800,000 loan. Sharp was later forced to resign. Victoria Sharp is best known for jailing climate activists involved in peaceful protest and for forcing journalist Carole Cadwalladr to pay Brexit donor Aaron Banks £1 million in legal fees after he sued for libel.

Dame Karen Steyn was one of two judges who replaced Justice Chamberlain in the F-35 hearing. She and Justice Males ruled in Israel’s favour, even while accepting that Israel could use F-35s in Gaza in violation of international law.

Sir Jonathan Swift, meanwhile, has a long history of siding with the British state – for eight years he was the government’s top lawyer. In 2023 Swift rejected the appeal of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against the British government’s approval of his extradition to the US for exposing US and UK war crimes. The US wanted to lock him up indefinitely in a super-max prison.

Through class affiliation, upbringing, education and selection for temperament, senior judges invariably have a bias towards the interests of the British establishment. But some have a stronger bias than others.

It is not hard to understand why Chamberlain has been removed. His earlier rulings on Palestine Action’s proscription indicated that it might be difficult for him to rule in favour of the government.

It is also clear why he is being replaced by three new judges. Backing the government’s redefinition of terrorism – leading almost certainly to the jailing of former senior military personnel, barristers, doctors, priests, Holocaust survivors, and a former adviser to King Charles, all of whom who have publicly supported Palestine Action – risks looking like precisely what it is: a political decision in favour of lawlessness by the British state.

Having a ruling from a panel of three judges is a desperate attempt to create a veneer of judicial authority in support of the actions of an outlaw government.

It won’t work. This already looks like a self-evident stitch-up to extricate Sir Keir Starmer and his ministers from the mess they have made of British terrorism laws – all so they can continue conspiring in Israel’s genocide.

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

For centuries no free born person could be imprisoned other than by the judgment of our equals.

It's a fundamental tenet of our liberty!

It is shameful that a Labour minister should contemplate a severe limit on the right to trial by jury.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

💔Blue whales going eerily silent
Blue whale vocalizations dropped nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations

"it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” Ryan adds
“They were spending all their time just trying to find food"
https://t.co/Xat9YqLBBE