LVMartin

Anarchist. Lover of Mother Earth. Hope for Humanity. Calling for Social Justice; BLM; Deprivatise NHS & Social Care; Stop Fossil Fuels; Save the Web of Life!

[Sathnam Sanghera @Sathnam]

380,000 children in the UK don't own books. I was one of them. We'll have to invent libraries all over again once they're gone. My piece for @thetimesmagazine tomorrow and online from today. #Books #Libraries #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #literacy

https://t.co/AVrovvx3VW

[LVMartin @LVSimmart]

I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be by Colin Grant review – where are we ‘really’ from? https://t.co/j0oSG6rQEx

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

@rickygervais 15 beautiful libraries around the world

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

Teacher, father, hero. Jawad Buwaqneh was killed for trying to save someone's life. This is Israel's occupation. This is what they do. Palestinian people need protection from this brutal and ceaseless military machine 1/2 https://t.co/zMF18RBEVi

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Top oil/gas producers set to report record $200bn profit.

Cost of producing gas/oil hasn't changed significantly, selling price has.

Profits made by creating misery/deaths and with full support of the state. Those political donations always pay-off.
https://t.co/HAxn4Jpr7u

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Rather than police investigate Rishi Sunak for not wearing a seatbelt I would rather they followed all of our Covid money, all the Russian money, all the cash for honours, all the billions spirited out of the country post-Brexit, all the excess profits made by energy & the rest

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The Tories just blocked my Bill to extend free school meals to all primary school children.

But this isn't over.

I'll bring it back to Parliament – and when I do, I need even more MPs backing it. Ask your MP to back the Bill: https://t.co/MkzPGpQjCF

[Peter Geoghegan @PeterKGeoghegan]

🚨 Last week Christopher Harborne gave £1m to Boris Johnson.

This week QinetiQ - the UK defence company whose biggest shareholder is Harborne - won an £80m government contract...

Great scoop from @jimfitznews (also in morning's Politico London playbook)

https://t.co/0VG8AB0PnU

[Nicola Kelly @NicolaKelly]

Sara Mardini, whose story was told in the Netflix film 'The Swimmers', faces 20 years in prison if convicted today. She was volunteering with a search & rescue team to bring people ashore in Greece. She and her colleagues now face people smuggling charges. https://t.co/OcYEBleCtm

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

People are dying in corridors.
People are dying in ambulances because there’s no space in A+E depts.
People are dying in their homes because the ambulances don’t arrive.

Patients aren’t safe+staff are exhausted🚨
Be outraged. The government has done this to the NHS.
#NHS

[Peter Neville @peteneville65]

They know that if the government wins this, nursing will collapse anyway.

The junior doctors are militant. A strike vote very soon. This is about money. But it is also about working conditions. Because if conditions don't improve, the NHS will fall. The staff have had enough.

[Peter Neville @peteneville65]

We cannot recruit. About 30% of new consultant jobs in UK cannot be filled. There are simply not the people to fill the posts.

The nurses are striking because they have to. Not just because they personally are not paid enough, but because they need the vacant posts filling.

[Peter Neville @peteneville65]

Those of us left are working in jobs with constant colleague absences. So we must work harder, often covering extra shifts at short notice. Because we have to. There is moral pressure to cover oncall gaps because the service cannot be allowed to collapse. We are all so tired.

[Peter Neville @peteneville65]

So lots of folk are leaving the NHS to do agency or locum work. Once this happens we have a tipping point. There are lots of vacancies in the NHS that have to be filled by agency nurses who cost much more to employ - there are agency fees as well.

[Peter Neville @peteneville65]

No self-respecting doctor or nurse enjoys working in this environment. No care worker likes to deliver poor care. Salaries were frozen for 7 years of austerity, and have never caught up since. Doctors and nurses now leave university with large debts to pay off.(Not like me!)

[Peter Neville @peteneville65]

So when I do my 'emergency take' ward rounds I am seeing patients in chairs, in corridors, in the back of ambulances. There is little privacy and dignity is impaired. We all do the best we can but it is a poor environment. This has become much worse over the past 5 years.

[Sharon Graham @UniteSharon]

In all my 25 years of negotiating deals with employers, I have never seen such an abdication of responsibility as that by the prime minister @RishiSunak today. It is well beyond time for him to intervene and break the deadlock in the #NHS dispute. ➡️ https://t.co/RnzT8fmyk7

[Coda Story @CodaStory]

Librarians in the U.S. are facing attacks and harassment as efforts to ban books from classrooms and libraries gain momentum. They’re receiving death threats and experiencing physical breakdowns. But some have begun to fight back, @E_Hellerstein writes.

https://t.co/Hpaj896UgT

[Glyn Robbins @robbins_glyn]

Don't usually R/T stuff like this. But at a time when workers, including NHS staff, are being told "there's no money", let's remember the corrupt culture of the people who are saying it @theRCN @CWUnews @ucu @RMTunion