Karen Smith 🦁

🌞 Living in the sticks with borrowed chickens.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Nationwide CEO £7m pay package declared ‘obscenity’ during AGM.

Members still approved it, probably by erroneously handing proxy votes to chairman.

Govts tell workers wage rises are inflationary; do nothing to control exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.
https://t.co/c1EtJiD8lc

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

NatWest shareholders get another £1.5bn, weeks after the govt sold its stake.

Govt bailed it out for £45bn. After rescue, sold shares at £10.5bn loss. Bonanza for shareholders.

City always wins. People get benefit and public service cuts, higher taxes.
https://t.co/scoY3UxPsW

[Sean Davids @MancTotter]

A resident doctor starts on £17 an hour and could well save your life.

Nick Robinson earns £360k a year for reading out bits of the Daily Mail two days a week.

Remarkable.

#r4today #bbcbreakfast

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Try saying, 'In the last two years, two million Jews have been starved and bombed with the most up to date weaponry in the world apart from atomic/nuclear.'
Imagine the horror and rage from the world, and the interventions made in order to try and stop it.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

The House of Lords gives peers £342 a day just for clocking on. A 10-hour shift as a resident doctor pays just £175.

[Warwick Hunt #Revolution @WarwickHunt4]

Pensioners who’ve no idea how they’ll heat their homes & parents who skip meals so their kids can eat… Labour has a plan:

Remove the Winter Fuel Allowance & keep the 2-Child Cap. 🤦‍♂️

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

A study concluded that hospitals that are privatised deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership.

Higher profits, cut staff & cleaning, more infections & avoidable deaths.

Yet UK Govt plans to hand more healthcare to private sector.
https://t.co/dqVoXBsrMc

[Martyn Ware 🦉 @martynware]

I was recently contacted by my publishers on behalf of Rockstar Games re the possibility of using Temptation on the new Grand Theft Auto 6

Naturally excited about the immense wealth that was about to head my way, I scrolled to the bottom of the email re the offer…

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Women discriminated.

State pension age raised. Women paid extra 6 yrs NIC, get lower pension than men.

Biggest losers from winter fuel payment cut.

Public sector real wage cuts - majority of workforce is female.

Lousy Carer's Allowance - mostly women.
https://t.co/SdZxD4lNdO

[The Crispin Flintoff Show @CrispinShow]

Join us on Sunday morning from 10:30am
👉Sarah Wilkinson speaks about her horrific arrest.
👉Police denied her medication, she had no food for from 7:30am until her release late at night.
👉Her mother's ashes were scattered and trampled on. Her whole house was trashed.
👉Her money and passport are missing.
👉She faces jail is she cannot produce her passport.
👉All to intimidate and silence people who call out the genocide in Gaza.
We won't be silenced!
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[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

'Wrong policy at the wrong time': Labour peer hits out at government for cutting winter fuel allowance.

The cut should never, ever have been introduced, it was not in Labour's manifesto and there's been absolutely no prior consultation with anybody.
https://t.co/yq3s9Ajz07

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 1963, the famous photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of a man named William Casby.

William Casby, born in 1857, was 106 years old at the time. In his hands, he was holding his great-great-granddaughter, Cherri Stamps-McCray.

The image amazes me because the elderly gentleman holding his descendant so tenderly, was born into slavery more than a century prior. Casby would eventually live until 1970, dying at the age of 113.

His great- and great-grandchildren are alive today, and many of them remember him.

It puts into perspective just how relatively recent slavery existed. Because as faraway and distant as it may feel now. Even in modern-day America, there are people who have active memories of talking to former slaves.

[🌱Hello, I'm Mark @LoveGrowingVeg]

Very disappointing sales of my beetroot from my honesty stall. One bunch over 3 days, posted on FB, our village has nearly 7000 inhabitants. People were happy to take my free courgettes 😔 Mrs T making pickled beetroot now, let them eat veg drenched with chemicals

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

I'm on strike.
I hope you support us.
The university where I love teaching, wants to sack over 130 of us.
Please support us in any way you can.
To find out how, follow:
@GoldsmithsUCU

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

My father was an academic. To illustrate alliteration he said, 'The cat crept into the crypt, crapped, and crept out again.'

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

In 1976, Stamatis Moraitis from Greece was diagnosed with lung cancer and told that he had less than a year to live.

10 years later he returned to the doctors to tell them that he was still alive, only to find out that he had outlived all of them.

He said he survived because of good food, good wine, and good company on the island of Ikaria.

He passed away at 102 years old.

[Neville F Chamberlain @NevilleFChambe1]

In celebration of Richard O'Sullivan's 80th birthday, here he is being the perfect gentleman, in MATH, take it away Johnny Hawksworth!

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Today, we celebrate Richard O'Sullivan's 80th birthday! Wishing you a very happy birthday, Richard 🎁🎂

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

Happy 80th birthday to the mighty Richard O'Sullivan.

Everyone's favourite!

[Judy Jarvis @judyjarvis]

Birthday Greetings to one of the finest actors I have ever worked with, Richard O’Sullivan
Wishing him a brilliant day, with much much love.