John Lowe

NHS retiree. Football fan. MA History and Contemporary Politics. Left/Green, no party. Scotland, nature, daft cats and dogs. DM by agreement only please.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Imagine talking nonsense about a subject that people really care about, when you have absolutely no qualifications to do so.

We need to invest in children requiring extra support, not pretend they don't exist.

Reform UK would destroy this country 😢

[JewishVoiceForLiberation @JVoiceLiberatio]

Mike Leigh, Alexei Sayle and Miriam Margolyes among 170+ British Jews calling on BBC to reject complaints about Gaza documentary

More than 170 British Jews have rallied to support the BBC for its broadcast on Monday of an exceptional documentary, Gaza: How to survive a warzone. The 59 minute film, about the lives of children in Gaza over the past year, won accolades from reviewers but has been pulled from BBC iPlayer following complaints from the Israeli Embassy and some of its UK supporters....
https://t.co/isNTlskj8z

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

Dear David Lammy
I can well imagine your horror at hearing President Trump's latest speech on the Middle East. The post-Second World War settlements on rights, conventions etc are being ripped up. I look forward to reading your condemnation of what Trump has said....

[John Lowe @JohnLowe56]

@HeldinEU It's a puzzling matter. He seems to me to talk with what I think of as North London staccato. I think they're trying to take him down-market.

[John Lowe @JohnLowe56]

Down with the Trump administration!

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

BBC, CNN, Sky, LBC, Washington Post, New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian, The Times, Telegraph. They all made this possible. Never forget.

[John Lowe @JohnLowe56]

@DPJHodges You're actually a decent conservative. Not many left.

[John Lowe @JohnLowe56]

@koshercockney @johnmcdonnellMP The synagogue concerned has not changed location in the time these matches have taken place and previous ones have set off from Portland Place. The starting point for today's was Whitehall as the Met police didn't want it to start at the BBC.

[John Lowe @JohnLowe56]

Short thread.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

I spoke at demo & was part of a procession of speakers aiming to go to BBC to lay flowers commemorating the death of Palestinian children. We did not force our way thru, the police allowed us to go thru & when stopped in Trafalgar Square we laid our flowers down & dispersed.1/3

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

I'm a Jew too.

I stood on stage again today at a peaceful protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

That's partly because all my years growing up in Jewish schools that taught me about social injustice and standing up for what's right.

[Stop the War Coalition @STWuk]

At least 150 MPs, Peers, civil society organisations and activists, trade union leaders, cultural figures, healthworkers and many more have signed a statement condemning police barring 18 January march from the BBC.

Full list here 🔽 https://t.co/8WgRsjpWvn

#WeWillMarch

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

I learnt of grooming gangs from @thetimes in Jan 2011
I became chief prosecutor May 2011
I authorised charging Rochdale gang June 2011
After convictions (May 2012) Keir put me in charge of national response
Far Right thugs attacked my home
1000s of rapists were brought to justice

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

I can finally share this with you now that it's public. Dr Hussam, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, was being directly threatened by the Israeli occupation army during the past weeks for talking to the media and constantly sharing updates with us and with you. Despite all of that, he was insistent on keeping everyone on the 'outside' informed.

According to the released medical staff in the Indonesian Hopsital, no one knows of his fate or that of the other medical staff who remained in Kamal Adwan Hospital. Yet, we are seeing reports from Al-Jazeera that some were burnt alive inside the hospital.

Please keep talking about Dr. Hussam and the rest of the medical staff of Kamal Adwan Hospital.

#northgaza #Kamal_Adwan_Hospital

[Paul Schleifer @PaulSchleifer]

MAGA aren’t going to know who they want to hang at this rate. Come on, guys — January 6 is only a few days away. Get your act together!

https://t.co/VMSJAjAGfi

[John Lowe @JohnLowe56]

Leaving X at the end of the year, now three days away. @JohnLowe56.bsky.social

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

⚡️White House: We believe we are close to reaching a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.—AlJazeera.

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

The owner of famous Palestinian restaurant Shakeshuka in London warmly welcomes his Jewish friends, united by their love and support for Palestine.

[John Lowe @JohnLowe56]

Thread.

[İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي @iyad_elbaghdadi]

Israel's immediate reaction to the fall of the Assad regime is mass bombardment of Syrian army bases and expansion into Syrian territory. This tells you two things:

[Robert Peston @Peston]

This today from @ONS: “In London, the average home was not affordable for any household income decile; in three other regions, the average home was only affordable to the top decile.” This in a nutshell is the UK housing crisis for younger people

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

BREAKING — HTS says a group of senior Assad regime officials and officers in the capital Damascus are coordinating with rebels to secure their defection.

“which has led to a state of loss of trust among the leaders of the regime's army, and the exchange of accusations of treason and cooperation with the revolutionaries”