Hannah Packham 🇺🇦

Trade unionist, socialist, anti-fascist, Exeter Chiefs fan. All views my own.

[Hannah Packham 🇺🇦 @HanLP]

@CrossCountryUK are really the very worst train company ever. Once again loads of people standing in stinking vestibules for hours. Literally an older chap standing from York to Bristol. Nationalisation cannot come soon enough.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Boss making you resign to save himself?

Join a union.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“Doctors are actually supposed to bear witness to crimes and are supposed to report them when they see them.” Dr @FerozeSidhwa tells me about his time working in Gaza, what he witnessed, and why he and colleagues are speaking out.

“International journalists are barred and Palestinian journalists are often ignored. So we were the only ones left.”

Their experiences are seen in the new documentary American Doctor.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

You voted against scrapping zero hour contracts.

You voted against banning fire and rehire.

You voted against day one sick pay for workers.

You said the minimum wage was too high for young people.

Reform politicians openly say they don't like trade unions.

You will always put the interests of your offshore crypto billionaire donors ahead of workers.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

📍 NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME - Locals were SHOCKED to found out the TRUE nature of Reform's plans.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

Watch one of Nigel Farage’s Reform candidates react as racist tweets from his own X account - including one apparently excusing the rape of a Sikh woman and one that declares white people are “the master race” - are read to him.

The footage is from a joint investigation by @murphy_simon , @DailyMirror & @hopenothate that exposes Stuart Prior for a slew of hateful comments. Reform said it was “looking into” posts.

[Hannah Packham 🇺🇦 @HanLP]

RT @DanielKebedeNEU: Today we commemorate Blair Peach, the courageous teacher and anti-racism activist, killed by the far right during a pr…

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank “is going into overdrive, it’s worse than ever,” says Norway’s Foreign Minister @EspenBarthEide.

“Settler violence, settler activity, even supported by the Israeli government, allowing settlers to take full control of territories that legally is Palestine and which even agreements that Israel has signed have recognized as to be controlled by Palestinians.”

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

What if the Second Coming happens and Jesus turns out to be a woke pacifist liberal with socialist leanings who says that this war against Islam stuff has got to stop? What will Peter Hegseth and Mike Huckabee do then? And he says 'Love thy neighbour' includes Palestinians?

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

I’m greatly encouraged by the thought that some key figures in the US government think that this war is going to bring about Armageddon, the Second Coming and the Rapture.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

BREAKING 🚨 | Reform announce plans to legalise discrimination.

Plans include scrapping the Equality Act, which would legalise discrimination against a worker if they were a woman, disabled, black, pregnant or gay.

From ripping up equality protections, to backing fire-and-rehire, to opposing a ban on zero-hours contracts, Reform UK have made it clear whose side they’re on – and it’s not working people.

[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

Soon all the people who still remember the horror of life for working class people before the creation of the NHS will be dead... and their testimony will become hearsay to those who would strive to capitalise on ill health.
Harry Leslie Smith reminds us:

[Politics Global @PolitlcsGlobal]

🚨🇬🇧 NEW: Emily Thornberry, the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, says the police may need to investigate Peter Mandelson

“Surely this is not a matter of whether Peter Mandelson should be in the Lords. This is a matter of whether the police should be involved”

[@PippaCrerar]

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Cat check: The 12,000 figure is from 2023 data for arrests under the Communications Act 2003 and the Malicious Communications Act 1988. These laws cover sending messages that are "grossly offensive, threatening, indecent, or menacing over communications networks" - so arrests include people sending threatening text messages, harassing stalking victims with malicious phone calls, unsolicited pornographic images etc. The suggestion that it's an attack on "free speech" is nonsense.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

Gaza today. This is not a natural disaster. This is an ongoing genocide.
A harsh winter bears down on displaced families. Heavy rain and flooding sweep away fragile tents, leaving hundreds of thousands exposed — their homes, livelihoods, and safety already erased.
At least 15 people, including three babies, have died from hypothermia in December alone. International organisations report the spread of disease and deadly cold claiming lives, while Israel continues to block the entry of tents, blankets, and winter supplies.
Over 1.9 million people are living in inadequate conditions with nowhere to shelter from the cold.
#StopGenocideInGaza

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Which one is more English?

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

So train crew were HEROIC- running at the attacker.

And just like that, media & politicians forget all their whining about ‘greedy’ drivers daring to ask for pay rises.

Thoughts with staff, passengers who were also very brave, and all injured and traumatised.

@RMTunion

[West Midlands Police @WMPolice]

We've seen reports that we are investigating a child for 'viewing a social media post'. This is completely false.

We're investigating the creation of a fake social media account which has been used to send indecent messages.

Full facts 👉 https://t.co/KPlzJvcPkQ

[Peston @itvpeston]

“How DARE you, Sir!” 😤

It seems America may have noticed @Peston at the state visit press conference… 😅

[Labour🌹Unions @labourunionsuk]

Last night, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Reform MPs all voted to water down Labour’s Employment Rights Bill - undermining the right to a guaranteed hours contract and protection from unfair dismissal.

Labour MPs stood together, defending these key new rights for working people.

MPs must continue to stand against any attempts by the Lords to weaken the Bill, and together we will make sure the New Deal for Working People is delivered in full.