🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦

@UKLabour & @CoopParty councillor, Shiregreen & Brightside. Committee Chair. Head of Training: @antisempolicy. Trustee: SOAR Community & Mercia Learning Trust.

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

Live from the York City party bus! 🥳🚌

[Mark Kitching @markkitch7]

The key to doing it is….. never do it to early🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🫡🫡🫡

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

David Blunkett: “The fight against Reform is the most important political struggle that most of us will ever face. It is a battle that we, our communities, and our country cannot afford to lose.”

Little piece for @LabourList by @CampaignJane and me…

https://t.co/j2KU3c8J6r

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

https://t.co/tTYPnn07wO Attacking taxi drivers going about their work is a total disgrace. It has to stop.

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

Good to join Rob and the team at Southey Green Co-op, supporting the @UsdawUnion Keep Your Cool campaign. No excuse for agro against shop workers, at Xmas or ever!

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

Trump doing Putin’s bidding in Ukraine: https://t.co/eZAC2ApYrg. Reform doing Putin’s bidding on Ukraine: https://t.co/jdGfxOScS6. Confused? Don’t be: my article for @thefabians

[Cllr Ben Miskell @benmiskell]

Each year we stand at the Cenotaph in Barker’s Pool to remember all those who serve and have serve in our Armed Forces — including those from around the world who stood together to defend our democracy and freedoms, and made the ultimate sacrifice. 🇬🇧

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

120 years ago this week, the first @UKLabour councillor was elected to @SheffCouncil from Brightside. “He would be able to force the pace, and he meant to do so”. Seems like a decent aim…

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

Nice @SheffieldStar article about our poppies in Wincobank. They’re in Shiregreen now…

https://t.co/lcjK41kLpY

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

Maybe there were better pictures taken in Sheffield yesterday (here’s one) but this one in the Star is a good’un.

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

People rave about the Triple Frontier in South America but they’ve obviously never seen the point at which Standon Road, Crescent and Drive meet in Wincobank, Sheffield.

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

Fingers crossed this is the start of better times…

[Sheffield Wednesday Supporters' Trust @SWFCTrust]

🔵 ⚪️

There’s no joy in seeing our club in administration. But there is relief in knowing that Dejphon Chansiri’s time at Sheffield Wednesday is over, and a new chapter can begin. Statement 👇🏻

#SWFC

[Jane Thomas 🌹 @CampaignJane]

The best use of lamp posts at this time of year - to remember those who gave their lives so we could live ours in peace. Poppies appearing in Wincobank, Sheffield put up by local Labour councillors

Thank you @MarkRusling and Cllr Dawn Dale - and @SheffCouncil @yorkshirepost

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

This morning we put poppies up the length of Newman Rd and Fife St in Wincobank. They look great and are our way of showing our appreciation for the sacrifices of our servicemen and women - and their families. Thank you. @PoppyLegion

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

Choosing HOPE in Shiregreen, Sheffield…

[HOPE not hate @hopenothate]

Hope is catching on 💛

Across towns and cities, people are showing that unity, care and community spirit still matter.

Thank you to everyone taking part.

#WeekendofHOPE

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

https://t.co/67I8TO8dNF

Been through this as a York City fan. An owner who is determined to destroy the club, its history and its fans. Time for the Football Regulator to step in and get this chancer out of our city.

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

“The new world is struggling to be born. Who will act as midwife?”. My piece for @thefabians on how Putin-Trump-Reform combine to endanger us, via @Ukraine. @UkraineSol @UKFriendUkraine

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

Sickened and saddened beyond words that this could happen in our country on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. This puts it much better than I could.

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

Just left synagogue briefly and read the news in detail. Sickening, surreal.

For as long as I recall a fact of Jewish life has been security duty: ordinary lay members standing outside shul to create a physical and psychological deterrent against events like this. One always wonders - as I did recently, standing in a high-vis vest after agreeing to a far-too-irregular shift on a Shabbat morning, and as my wife has done far more often - how necessary that presence is.

I was in Pittsburgh shortly after a white nationalist assassinated worshippers at a progressive synagogue, I've gone through what feels like military security to get into a shul in Sweden, I was in Paris days after a jihadist sought to murder shoppers at a kosher supermarket. And of course I've been in bomb shelters in the Holy Land.

Britain has always felt different - a place where people, mercifully, do not have to die for being born Jewish. It is, by most objective measures, one of the best, possibly the best, places in the world to be Jewish, now or at any time in history. Yet who could say the last few years have not challenged that? Who today could say it is not necessary for us to stand outside our synagogues, waiting for an event like this befall us, hoping but not quite knowing this day will pass like all the others.

I always find it remarkable that on the two occasions I've been to JW3 (London's Jewish community center) since  October 7, on every occasion, people driving down Finchley Road have hooted or screamed abuse at the queue of elderly folk shuffling in - I posted about both incidents out of some tiny sense of obligation, knowing they formed part of a bigger story, even if my Britishness, and Jewishness, both made me want to do the opposite, to ignore and suppress it.

Until recently, our High Holy Days machzor - or prayer book for Yom Kippur - had remained the same since the 70s - written largely by Germanic Jewish scholars in the immediate shadow of the Holocaust, full of words and poems trying to make sense of that event. Seeing footage of a body soaked in blood outside a shul in Manchester, it feels like the penumbra of that period hover over us a little more today. On Yom Kippur the customary greeting is "Gamar Chatima Tova" - in short, may you be inscribed in the book of life for the following year. Which is why this attack, on our holiest day, is such an unimaginable affront to Jewish life in our country.

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

Well this is very sad. Loved the little shake of his head when giving out. ‘You’ve only let yourself down lad’. RIP Dickie Bird

[Test Match Special @bbctms]

It is with great sadness that we share the news of Dickie Bird's passing.

The Yorkshireman was a wonderful player and enjoyed a famed career as one of the game's most beloved umpires.

He died peacefully at his home, aged 92. Rest in peace, Dickie. 🤍

[🇺🇦🇬🇱 Mark Rusling 🇬🇱🇺🇦 @MarkRusling]

Good. Time for the two-child cap to go…

[LabourList @LabourList]

EXCLUSIVE: Nothing off the table when it comes to the fight against child poverty. Including the two-child cap. An exclusive op-ed from deputy leadership candidate Bridget Phillipson: https://t.co/LWVvWoEX5m