Just for the record, there are hundreds of young care leavers across the country living in squalor, going hungry, and living in constant fear. It becomes easier to understand why so many young people are leaving care and ending their own lives, or falling into homelessness and addiction.
I was involved in the Independent Care Review, and we already set out clear solutions. We don’t need another costly review—we need action.
Is this just another government exercise in delay and box-ticking, while these young lives are left to fall through the cracks? @SkyNews
🏴English to become the official European language🏴
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
I cannot fathom how we permit vulnerable children in our care system to languish in squalor, endure abuse, and be driven into criminal gangs. Even more alarming is our collective indifference as we watch children slaughtered in wars. If we cannot protect the most innocent among us, what does that say about who we are as a society?
Today I was gifted homemade bread by friends. #Grateful doesn't cut it. So kind.
Mixed also with #guilt. How is it possible for me to have bread but not the children of #Gaza?
"They know they have the same chance of receiving a sack of flour as they do of leaving with a bullet."
This is not defence against Hamas. Get real @Keir_Starmer & @KemiBadenoch . Your actions & words support the killing of children.
This is what it looks like when you set up a #DramaTriangle. Israel as the victim. Only the victim. There is no acknowledgement that Israel could also be a perpetrator. So things remain stuck. And children die. Because of adult denial.
I have never felt so shaken.
Children are dying of hunger. Falling one after another, like petals of a dying flower. Under our watch.
How do you sleep, Presidents, Foreign Ministers, political leaders, diplomats, civil servants - doing nothing to stop Israel’s starvation campaign?
PS: Talking politics while dodging genocide perfectly meets the definition of doing nothing.
In the past 24 hours alone, at least 140 people have been killed in Israeli attacks and gunfire across the strip, according to local health officials.
Medics said that fourteen of those deaths were a result of Israeli troops firing on crowds awaiting aid trucks.
📢 The hypocrisy and inaction of @EUCouncil@vonderleyen@eucopresident@EP_President and @kajakallas have allowed Israel to freely continue its massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.
European leaders must act decisively to expedite a ceasefire:
https://t.co/ogVCruJGD7
Eid Mubarak
Look forward to a day when we can mark Eid with a free and independent Palestine.
No celebration or moment feels right whilst thousands are starved and slaughtered.
Thinking of Palestinians and others living through persecution, war and human rights abuses.
You are all in our thoughts and prayers 🤲🏽
Parliament right now✊🏽
There will be a reckoning for this appalling period when the world failed Palestinians - the least we can do is keep raising our voices.
#stoparmingIsrael
I used to wonder, as a child, how people let the Holocaust happen. Now I know.
I am one of millions letting this happen. Because I have no idea what to do. Except say aloud this is inhuman. Although that changes the suffering of not one child.
The world is letting children be burned alive, starved to death in front of our eyes, limbs amputated without anaesthetic. How is such extremity becoming normalised & tolerated? My difficulty in carrying on with my ordinary daily work is a sane, bodily resistance to torture.
Speak not to us again of your virtue, your values, your order. Speak not to us of your civilisation, of your human rights, of your democracy. We see you. By the light of these flames we see you. By the screams of these children we hear you. By this holocaust we know you. We truly know you. @WhiteHouse@10DowningStreet@BBCNews@CNN #Gaza #GazaGenocide
"Hostilities further intensify in Gaza."
Worse? It can only get 'worse' because we have become inured to the atrocities being committed in front of us, on our television screens. The world is permitting this torture of children.