Jack Whitehouse

If I absolutely had to pick one, I think my favourite backstreet boy would be Kevin.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

The Supreme Court sided with FWS. But it didn’t hear from a single trans person.

This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years.

We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

[Joshua Virasami 🇲🇺🇵🇸 @JoshuaVirasami]

Top cop Kier and the law and order party are using the far right pogroms to rehabilitate the image of the police which is in tatters after Sarah Everard, Nicole and Bibaa, BLM, the Casey Review, the NBPA statement.

Community solidarity is defeating the far right, not police.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Benjamin Zephaniah on his refusal to accept an OBE.

'No way Mr Blair, no way Mrs Queen. I am profoundly anti-empire.'

Rest in power.

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

here we see the schism opening up between "good migrants" + "bad" ones. in this instance that means - 'ones we deem useful' v 'ones we dont'

NHS surcharge is a bad, unfair+ discriminatory policy. it should be scrapped for all. we cannot allow this good/bad dichotomy to play out

[Dr Zubaida Haque @Zubhaque]

If Shamima Begum is losing her right to British citizenship because "she is a citizen of Bangladesh by descent", then what does that mean for every British national who has foreign-heritage thru their parents? It means their citizenship is never secure. https://t.co/muskofdtZr

[Dave @MediocreDave]

Two high profile violent attacks in three months by previously incarcerated people will not be used to argue the seemingly obvious fact that prison benefits neither the individual nor society but rather the perverse opposite, that more incarceration is the answer.

[safiyyah 🦕 @safiyyaahhhh]

"We've survived a Conservative government before"
No. You've survived. Poor people haven't. People with disabilities haven't. Trans people haven't. 130,000 people haven't because of austerity. Just because you'll be fine bc you're privileged, doesn't mean everyone else will be.

[Channel 4 Dispatches @C4Dispatches]

8 year old Courtney and her family live off £5 a day - they rely on a food bank to eat and wear coats to bed when there's no money for heating.

This is Britain today, where more than 4 million children are growing up in poverty.

[Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M 🟣 @BlewishAnd]

In Nov 2018, it was reported that 11 members of the Windrush generation wrongly deported had died.

[DocsNotCops @DocsNotCops]

The Immigration Health Surcharge is a form of 'double-taxation', as people will already be paying towards the NHS in their taxes while living here.

High visa costs are ruining lives - including by breaking families apart
https://t.co/yoXxUcbprv

[DocsNotCops @DocsNotCops]

The Conservative manifesto claim they will recruit 50,000 nurses, includes 12,500 recruits from abroad (as well as 18k current NHS nurses🙃).

But.. they're raising the Immigration Health Surcharge to £625pp/yr - raising visa costs to potentially as much as £14,356!

🤔

[Stan's Account @tristandross]

my sister was in receivership of a disability living allowance lifetime award for multiple conditions, until recently, when the tories brought in deliberately punitive work capability assessments, and it was massively slashed along with her ESA, despite various medical notes

[Jack Whitehouse @Jack_Whitehouse]

@bluntrazors @jdwtweetsuk It’s a spoons, what did you expect

[Jack Whitehouse @Jack_Whitehouse]

@CarlisleRaces @RacingPost @CarlisleYZ @benstokes38 @TheJockeyClub @_St0kesy

[Devutopia @D_Raval]

Never any tears for the Grenfell victims, the deported Windrush victims and the countless deaths caused by Tory and Lib Dem austerity.
Only tears for herself. How so typical of her.
Good riddance to the worst ever Prime Minister in our history.

[Anna Cafolla @AnnaCafolla]

feeling sorry for crying theresa may is disgusting tbh - think of the tears shed by the women detained in yarl's wood, those forced to travel to access abortion from northern ireland, domestic violence survivors let down by the callous criminal justice system

[🎒Shailja #FreePalestine Patel @shailjapatel]

Best definition ever of capitalism.

[sarah 🇵🇸 @sazza_jay]

Of all the British Isis fighters to choose from, they’ve chosen to make an example of a pregnant teenager groomed for both radicalisation and sexual abuse as a child - because they know the British public will applaud them for it.

I’m disgusted.

[Time's Carcass 💀☭🏺📉 @_Jack_Graham_]

And he is, potentially, a key to unlock so much understanding. Because if you follow his bloody trail through empire, you follow it back to his class project. He was a class warrior to the hilt, utterly convinced of the superiority and rightful rule of the rich.

[Time's Carcass 💀☭🏺📉 @_Jack_Graham_]

Churchill is worth arguing about because he - in the scale of his evil, his continued popularity, and his role as an ideological signifier - is the ultimate symbol of a scandalous ignorance and cynicism about imperialism and racism which fatally deforms politics in Britain.