Julie Wrigley

Optimist. Thinker. Experiencer. Body wisdom fan. Possibility facilitator. Mind-body balancer. Mover Improver.
On IG: @smoothmoves.lab

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Since 1980, UK councils sold 2.8m social homes, 1.9m in England for £51bn.

In 2024 England homes were worth £430bn.

Councils didn't receive full sales proceeds, couldn't replenish housing stock.

Social homes down from 6.8m to 5.4m.

Huge housing crisis.
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[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

The finance curse is devouring the UK.

Finance industry controls significant parts of the economy.

It extracts wealth, destroys jobs, weakens economy.

Govts protect it whilst neglecting other productive areas.

Can't rebuild without downsizing finance.
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[Fairer Disputations @FairerSexFD]

This week, @DonovanCleckley argues that the "gender-affirming care" paradigm has its ideological roots not in feminism or queer theory, but in the work of five misogynistic, medically reckless, and morally dubious male sexologists.
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[Winter Oak @WinterOakPress]

“Money and machines between them dominate the civilized world”.

Organic radical inspiration John Cowper Powys died 63 years ago today.

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[Chris Palmer, MD @ChrisPalmerMD]

Could the keto diet help treat anorexia, schizophrenia and depression?

Thank you, Scientific American (@sciam & @parshallison) for covering this important work!

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[WasAcop @WasAcop]

🚨Labour confirms ID requirement at device level - VPNs useless.🚨

By forcing Apple and Google to verify age at the device level during phone setup…

Keir Starmer’s government isn’t protecting kids — it’s building a surveillance infrastructure.

The OS itself will restrict platforms like TikTok, Instagram and X, making VPNs largely useless because the block happens before any traffic leaves your phone.

🚨Once every device carries a verified age profile, authorities gain an easy route to identify users through legal requests to tech firms.

This is digital ID by the back door, sold as child safety.

Classic Labour: expand state control first, ask questions later.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

This is wrong on the suffragettes but it's also wrong on Palestine Action. The court said Palestine Action acted covertly.

But Pal Action operated very much in the public domain, sharing videos and content. They had a Twitter and Instagram account! It's founders Huda Ammori and Richard Barnard were known and widely interviewed about how they operated. In July 2024 Prospect had a profile of them both called "How to shut down a weapons factory." Pal Action contributed op-eds and actionists were widely interviewed (often after they were acquitted, like the Elbit 3 were in 2021).

It's only true inasmuch as they didn't broadcast their targets ahead of time because that would lead to them being stopped. Duh, of course not. Did the suffragettes publish pamphlets ahead of time saying where they were going to smash windows and chain themselves to railings? Did the anti-apartheid movement and Lord Peter Hain phone the government to let them know when they were going to invade sports pitches or lock themselves to stadia?

As ever, it's hard not to despair at the British judiciary and it's deference to government power. Don't forget it was the same courts that decided it was ok for the UK to send F-35 parts to Israel despite the very clear risk that they contribute to war crimes, saying that it wasn't for the courts to gainsay executive decisions - decisions taken by politicians funded by pro-Israeli donors and taking free all-expenses trips to Israel.

[ZNet @OfficialZNET]

AI isn't floating in the cloud. It's eating the earth.

Data centers are consuming vast amounts of land, water, energy, & public resources—while creating few jobs and imposing costs on local communities.

Who benefits, and who pays?

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[Gordon Dimmack @GordonDimmack]

One of these people is an 83 year old Priest who held up a sign expressing her right to free speech. The other has decapitated his political enemies with a knife.

Guess which the UK government calls a terrorist, and which gets invited to number 10 for dinner.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

The BBC is at it again.

Dahiye is not simply “where Hezb0llah is based.” It is home to 500,000–800,000 people. It’s where families live, where friends meet in cafés and restaurants, where people work, shop, study, and build their lives.

The choice of language is deliberate, dehumanising an entire community to justify I$raeli attacks on civilians.

Shameful

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The UK Joins the Pirates - I was genuinely surprised by the Starmer regime's refusal to state that the Israeli boarding of the Global Sumud flotilla on the High Seas was illegal. I did not realise it was because the UK was planning to undertake similar https://t.co/s26emDAzOy

[Julie Wrigley @Julienotices]

@Taj_Ali1 Starmer! Arson attack - COBRA meeting now!

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes.

Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.

As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.

Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🚨BREAKING -- A judge has ruled that four Palestine Action activists will be sentenced with a "terrorism connection".

Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, and Charlotte Head appeared in Woolwich Crown Court today after being convicted of criminal damage at an Elbit Systems factory in 2024.

Judge Johnson ruled: "I am sure each of the defendant's offence involved serious damage to property, was designed to influence the UK government, to intimidate a section of the public, and was for the purpose of advancing a political or ideological cause".

The section of the public referred to by Johnson was employees of and companies linked to Elbit Systems, which he said constitutes a "section of the public".

Johnson added: "It follows I am bound by this legislation to find that the offence in each case had a terrorist connection and apply that as an aggravating factor in increasing the seriousness of the offence".

This is the first time in British history that terrorism provisions have been used against direct action activists.

[Andy McDonald MP for Middlesbrough & Thornaby East @AndyMcDonaldMP]

Almost 100 MPs and Peers are urging Ministers to prevent the 'Great Israeli Real Estate Event' taking place in London this weekend.

The govt has an opportunity to uphold obligations under international law and take action against Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.

[Palestine in the UK @Palestine_in_UK]

H.E. Ambassador @hzomlot wrote to UK Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer demanding that the UK Government ban the “Great Israeli Real Estate Event”, scheduled to take place in London on 14 June 2026.

The event promotes the sale of property in Israel’s illegal settlements built on occupied Palestinian land. Such activities constitute flagrant violations of international law and are in direct contradiction of the UK’s own long-standing policy and obligations under UN Security Council Resolution 2334.

The UK must not allow individuals, companies or charities to promote or profit from activities linked to illegal settlements.

[Julie Wrigley @Julienotices]

@SamaHoole @DangerousGlobe Also wool shoes are great!

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Defence secretary Healey authorised hundreds of UK spy flights for Israeli intelligence during a genocide.

He was never seriously questioned on this let alone held to account, and now freely leaves office.

The real issue here is our governance: one national media won’t tell.

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

Countries will justify anything because it’s their history, it’s their origin story yet Haiti’s origin story is overthrowing slaveowners and establishing the first free country and somehow their history and origins is ‘too political’ for FIFA (and Olympics before). Haiti’s first time at World Cup in 52 years and they have to change their shirts because FIFA thinks their entire nationhood emerging from a slave rebellion is too political.

[Stop the War Coalition @STWuk]

Conscription is being introduced across Europe and the UK govt has plans for something similar here, beginning with its military 'gap year' plan.

Join us on 20 June and say jobs not conscription - welfare not warfare!