Jeni Hooper

Former child and educational psychologist passionate about supporting parents, children and schools. Love living on the coast and my allotment.

[Jewish Voice @jewishvoicelive]

Israel is not a Jewish state

Jews are not a nationality

Judaism is an ancient religious collective.

Zionism is a nationalist movement created in 1896 by ppl who were pronounced atheists

They wanted to be called Jewish but without actually believing in Judaism

That's Zionism

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There is a drowned country under the North Sea, and the fishing boats keep pulling bits of it up in their nets.

It is called Doggerland. Ten thousand years ago you could have walked from Norfolk to the Netherlands across it without getting your feet wet. Think rivers and reed beds, wooded valleys, marsh and lagoon, and probably the richest hunting ground in the whole of Europe. Red deer. Wild boar. And aurochs, the great wild cattle, moving across the lowland the way game does where nobody has ever hunted it hard.

People lived there. Thousands of them, following the herds, building camps on the high ground where the animals came to drink. For a mobile hunting people it was close to paradise. Endless meat, endless fresh water, and not one reason on earth to plant a seed.

Then the ice that had been holding the sea back finished melting. The water came up slowly, year on year, taking the low ground first. A vast landslide off the Norwegian coast sent a tsunami tearing through what was left. The sea did the rest, and the best hunting country in Europe went under and stayed there.

We only know any of this because of the fishermen. In 1931 a trawler called the Colinda, working the sea off Norfolk, dredged up a lump of ancient peat, and inside it was a barbed harpoon point carved from antler, around nine thousand years old, dropped on dry land by a hunter who had no idea the sea was coming for him. Since then the nets have brought up mammoth tusks, the bones of woolly rhino, reindeer, wolf and bear, and a pick carved from the leg bone of an aurochs. Early trawler crews used to fling the bones back overboard so they would not foul the gear.

Sit with the picture for a moment. Britain spent the deepest, longest stretch of its human story not as a nation of farmers but as a hunting ground, and the people who lived here did it on meat, in a landscape so generous that agriculture would have looked like a downgrade. The grain came later, with the rising water and the shrinking land, when there was no longer room to simply follow the herd.

We did not give up being hunters because we found something better. We did it because the finest larder we ever had drowned, and we have been improvising ever since.

The harpoon sits in the castle museum in Norwich. The country it was lost in is forty metres down off the Dogger Bank, where the wind farms are going up now.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Do you want Starmer to embarrass JD Vance on the world stage?

JD Vance doesn't want Americans to know this 🤫:

Compared to Americans, British people are less likely, per capita, to be:

killed
killed by a gun
killed by a knife
killed in a road accident
killed by a drug overdose
killed by their own police
killed by a far-right extremist
someone who dies by suicide
someone who dies prematurely
someone incarcerated in prison
someone who is morbidly obese
someone who dies from excess mortality
someone financially devastated by medical costs*
someone subject to weaker equality before the law*
someone living in a significantly flawed democracy*
someone who spends higher % of income on childcare

*Equality before the law:

The UK ranks significantly higher on the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2025 (14th globally) vs. the US (27th).

*Democracy:

The UK remains a solid full democracy (ranked in the top 20), while the US has fallen to 34th and is classified as a flawed democracy, with notable drops in civil liberties, government functioning, and checks on executive power.

*Medical costs:

The US is the only high-income country without universal coverage. It has high out-of-pocket costs and surprise billing, spends nearly twice as much per capita on healthcare as the UK, but ranks worse on life expectancy, preventable deaths, maternal mortality, infant mortality, amenable mortality, and overall health system performance.

But apart from that... 😂

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Iran shouldn't have to be launching missiles at Israel, because Europe should be opposing Israel's illegal invasion and Ethnic Cleansing of Lebanon.

It seems Europe ignores War Criminals when those War Criminals are bribing their politicians with pathetic sums of money.

[Jeni Hooper @JeniHooper]

What is the civilised world waiting for? Where is the compassion?

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Gaza is taking its last breaths, and the situation we have reached is extremely dangerous.

Temperatures are rising to suffocating levels, and the tents where hundreds of thousands live have turned into ovens made of fabric and plastic. There is no electricity, no air conditioning, no fans, no cold water. People try to sleep, but heat, hunger, and fear make sleep seem like an impossible dream.

Clean water is scarce, cleaning supplies are almost nonexistent, and essential medicines are unavailable. Skin diseases are spreading in a terrifying way among children and adults, while garbage piles up and sewage mixes with displacement areas, spreading even more suffering.

Long lines form for food, yet many return empty handed. Aid is decreasing, and most relief centers have stopped or are no longer able to meet even the minimum needs.

At night, rats, insects, snakes, and scorpions crawl into the tents, while during the day people face unbearable heat and endless hunger. There is no safety, no privacy, and nowhere to go. Meanwhile, killings and destruction continue daily, while Gaza’s space shrinks day by day, forcing people into smaller and more overcrowded areas.

This is not life. This is not displacement. This is a complete collapse of everything that allows human beings to live with dignity.

What more is the world waiting for? How many children must go hungry? How many patients must die before the world acts? Do not stay silent. Speak about Gaza. Share what is happening.

[Michael Lambert @MichaelLamberta]

Anyone ever find out what happened to our £28,000,000,000 spent on Test & Trace which didn’t really work or the billions spent on PPE which had to be burnt because it was out of date or unsuitable? And what happened to the charming Michell Mone, still on her yacht?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

5% of your food bill IS profits for billionaires.
40% of your Energy and Fuel bills are profits for billionaires.
60% of your Rent is profit.
20% of your Mortgage is profit for billionaires.
40% of your wage is taken as profit for billionaires.

This is what they are costing YOU

[le sociologue grincheux @OhHowByronic]

Spot on.

[Cyndi..🌻🌹💙🩵🎶 @cyndiwanek]

For damn sure....

[Madelaine Hanson @MadelaineLucyH]

The problem gentlemen is you think "rapist" means scary man in a hoodie lurking in an alleyway at 3am. Of course you'd block that guy.

But it's the boyfriend you really loved who was angry that you hadn't wanted sex for two days and pinned you for the bed and then felt really bad about it.

It's the really sweet guy backstage who you loved working with for the whole production who knew you only wanted to be friends and then got you drunk at the after party and raped you in a dressing room.

It's the husband who whined and pleaded for sex long after you've said no for hours and refused to take no for an answer until you gave in every night for four years until you realised what it was.

It's the childhood friend who knows your parents and is your brother's best mate who suddenly attacked you when you were 17 and then told you he'd be thrown out of Oxford if you said anything.

It's the kind colleague who offered to drive you home from that conference when there was a train strike and then forced his hands into your pants in a lay-by and then threatened to leave you there at 3am if you didn't stop being a cockteasing bitch.

We're not dumb. We see the constant attempts to make anything short of stranger with a knife made up, regret, our fault really, a matter of the woman not being clear.

We know why you keep trying to make this 'not rape'. Because if coercion, marital rape, pressure, manipulation and exploitation count, then the comforting fantasy that rape is only ever a stranger with a knife falls apart.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

بينما كان يسعى لرزقه في بحر غزة لأجل اطعام عائلته،

قام جندي اسرائيلي بقنصه في رأسه بشكل مباشر لمجرد التسلية

جريمة مَرت دون أن يعلم بها أحد.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today I am in Britain. We will have our bilateral talks with Keir and a meeting in the E3 plus Ukraine format: President of France Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer. Our teams have already done substantive work to prepare all the meetings. Now it is important to discuss everything and agree on the key things at the leaders’ level.

The main focus is our defense in the war, greater cooperation for the security of all of Europe in the area of air defense, and our shared view of diplomatic prospects – Europe must be part of the negotiations and must be strong. A meeting with His Majesty King Charles III is also scheduled for tomorrow.

I thank the United Kingdom and all our partners who, through real steps, are helping us strengthen the protection of life and increase pressure on Russia for its aggression. Russia must end its war.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If Zionists hadn't invaded Palestine in 1948, Jews, Muslims, Christians and Atheists would be living in peace in Palestine as they had done for hundreds of years.

[British Indians Voice 🇮🇳🇬🇧 @BritIndianVoice]

One Sikh man committed a murder.

535,000 British Sikhs did not.

They served in our armies.

They built our cities. They fed our homeless.

They sheltered our children after Manchester.

Know your allies. Don’t let hatred win.

#BritainTogether #BritishIndians

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥🇵🇸 A father kisses his young daughter goodbye after she was killed in an Israeli strike on tents sheltering displaced families in the Al-Jawazat (Passport Office) area, west of Gaza City.

According to multiple local reports, the attack killed seven Palestinians and wounded at least 15 others.

📹: Journalist Aziz Khalil (IG: aziz_khalil00)

[Jeni Hooper @JeniHooper]

@marxbanter @xIsraelExposedx This picture is from 2014. You need not be a helpless spectator.

[Jeni Hooper @JeniHooper]

When will his followers wake up..

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

He's taking the entire country for fools — aided and abetted by our shameful media.

Now he's doing it from a hiding place and not making himself available to answer questions — it's been six weeks.

He's supposed to be a public servant, meaning that he can be held to account, but our lax Parliamentary rules say that he never has to turn up to his job if he doesn't want.

Far from being a party to change the system, Nigel Farage and Reform UK are experts in milking it for all it's worth.

How many houses does he really have? Nine Houses Nigel?

I'm certain Laura Kuenssberg will be all over his corruption when she is shouted at by Zia Yusuf later. 🤦‍♂️

https://t.co/1gimFNPcZh

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Many MPs tell us that the current state pension age is 'unsustainable'. Which is odd, really, given that they can claim parliamentary pensions as soon as they turn 55.