Brenda Downes

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

This statement from Liam Cunningham depicts the real conditions in Gaza.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal @patrick_kidd

[Test Match Special @bbctms]

It can be a long day at the cricket.. 😂

[GMB London Region @GMBLondonRegion]

This is the reality of outsourcing in modern Britain.

Our members cleaned Parliament for years. They turned up before dawn, did the job with pride and asked for nothing more than to keep working. The Churchill Group looked at loyal, experienced GMB members and saw money to save.

The work has not gone anywhere. Parliament still needs cleaning.

Some of the workers have been made disposable, treated as a cost to cut rather than the people who kept the place running.

That is what outsourcing does. It hands the profit to the contractor and the pain to the workforce.

Our members deserve better and GMB is standing with them every step of the way.
#StandWithCleaners #MembersFirst

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

If you were to attend one funeral per day, for every child killed in Gaza, it would take over 52 years.

Andy Burnham believes Israel “MAY” have committed war crimes.

[Ben Pennings @BenPennings]

🇮🇪 A football commentator in Australia would be hung and quartered for daring this. US, UK and many other nations too. All power to you Richard Sadlier 💚 #FreePalestine #BDS 🇵🇸

[The Celtic Way @TheCelticWay3]

You fundamentally just wouldn't be allowed to say this on British TV.

Well done to Richie Sadlier.

[Brenda Downes @JoyBCrossley]

@SeeFaxFootball @Benjaminbloom So why are Premiership clubs in the League Cup/ Carabao.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Digitalisation is “for your convenience.” - try explaining that to the 3 million people who are not online in the UK. The majority (67%) are aged 70 or over. The digitalisation of everything is creating digital exclusion for millions of people - in particular, our elderly.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1946 the British government introduced free school milk for every child in the country. One third of a pint, every school day, from the age of five to the age of fifteen.

The milk was whole. Full-fat. From British dairy herds. It was delivered to the school gate in small glass bottles with foil caps and left on the doorstep in metal crates, where it sat in the sun until morning break if the weather was warm and developed a slightly suspect taste that an entire generation of British adults can still describe with uncomfortable precision.

The generation that grew up on school milk was, by every anthropometric measure, the healthiest generation of British children ever recorded.

Average height increased. Bone density improved. Dental health, despite the sugar in everything else, improved. Iron deficiency rates among school-age children dropped. The growth charts that the Ministry of Health had been keeping since the war showed a consistent, measurable, year-on-year improvement that tracked precisely onto the introduction of the milk programme.

In 1971 Margaret Thatcher, then Education Secretary, cut free school milk for children over seven. The tabloids called her Thatcher the Milk Snatcher. She was vilified. She kept the policy.

The next generation of British children, the ones who grew up without the daily third of a pint, were measurably less healthy than the one before.

The growth charts show it. The dental records show it. The conscription medicals, while they lasted, showed it. The thing the milk had been providing, the calcium, the vitamin D, the vitamin A, the complete amino acid profile, the conjugated linoleic acid, the fat-soluble nutrients that a growing skeleton requires in order to reach its genetic potential, was no longer arriving at morning break in a glass bottle with a foil cap.

It was replaced, eventually, by nothing. Or by a carton of fruit juice. Or by a packet of crisps from the vending machine that appeared in the school corridor in the 1990s.

The generation that drank the milk is now in its seventies and eighties. They are, on average, taller, stronger-boned, and longer-lived than the generation that came after them.

The milk was not magic.

The milk was milk.

It was the thing the body needed, delivered at the time the body needed it, at a cost the government considered acceptable until it didn't.

The cost of not providing it has been rather higher.

[Brenda Downes @JoyBCrossley]

@TheBarmyArmy Test

[Brenda Downes @JoyBCrossley]

@MillwallDan85 Hi

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

86.3% of people eligible to vote in Gorton and Denton did not vote for Reform UK!

72.3% of those who actually voted did not vote Reform!

Why are they getting so much air time on the BBC?

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

If you add ice to one side of a cricket ball, which is an entirely natural substance, you will see swing bowling the likes of which you have never witnessed before.

[f.₳RT @cNFTfART]

@DHSgov

[Miodrag @MIL0SEVIC]

Daniel Day Lewis & Gary Oldman on the derby
Millwall - Charlton 4:0

Two great #Millwall Lions and great actors.

[Brenda Downes @JoyBCrossley]

@Number10cat Thank you. May they rest in peace.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Congressman Jared Huffman, "If we're real and honest about what's going on, we have a madman in the White House"

"Trump is running the biggest most corrupt criminal grift in criminal history, out of the White House"

"We take an oath to the Constitution, but it seems all of you took an oath to Donald Trump"

"This is shameful, a disgrace"

"To pretend everything is just fine right now?"

"The madman is in Europe driving our friends into the arms of our adversaries"

"Trump is doing immeasurable damage to our credibility o the world stage and you are just fine with it?"

"What the hell is wrong?"

"I'm not going to just sit here and pretend everything is fine"

"This is wrong. This is not normal. And I'm not going to normalise it"

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

North America prior to illegal immigration.

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

Dear Mogg
As the Jam sang so memorably, 'Should I stay or should I go?' The Tory Party runs through my veins like the Tiber runs through Athens but how many of us are left, dear Moggo? We need to consult over a noggin or two or five. Regroup or Reform?
Pox romana
Boris