Penelope Middelboe

Socialist, egalitarian. Also @historycafepod & safe, just, inclusive Christianity @spiritunbounded RT doesn’t mean agree #xdissenter

[Penelope Middelboe @PMiddelboe]

@Rgt71Robert Beautiful and true. We often talked about the abuse Jesus experienced at his flogging, mocking and crucifixion

[Penelope Middelboe @PMiddelboe]

@MrWillRoss @ASobocki @BDevlin1 Thank you. So lovely. So true. Gold tested in fire

[Penelope Middelboe @PMiddelboe]

Brian Devlin @BDevlin1 died on 5 March peacefully in his sleep. He was a friend and priest to so many. @cathynewman @Richard_Scorer @MickeyMeenan @ctrlamb @ReshapersCIC @marielco - please let your networks know. Funeral director: https://t.co/d8EZ14VDgJ

[Penelope Middelboe @PMiddelboe]

Heart broken at loss of Brian Devlin @BDevlin1 @BirgitteUna Thanks for doing this @ASobocki We will miss him so

[LOUDfenceUK @ASobocki]

For Brian a brave and principled catholic priest and beloved friend and mentor. My heart is broken for the loss of you xx @BirgitteUna
@BDevlin1 Wolverhampton LOUDfence - grief is the price we pay for love.

[Cathy Newman @cathynewman]

Thank you so much @EditorsUK for honouring me with this award. I dedicate it to the abuse survivors - now and in the past - who trust us to tell their stories. The Church investigation took 8 years on and off: well-funded public service broadcasting made it possible.

[Penelope Middelboe @PMiddelboe]

Can everyone now follow me on blue sky please @historycafe.bsky.social THANKS GUYS see you on the other side

[Penelope Middelboe @PMiddelboe]

This isn’t a war. It’s a genocide. Over 54,000 people in Gaza killed. Children are starving. Hospitals destroyed.
The EU still rewards Israel with a 16B€/year trade deal.
We can help suspend it — sign the petition now:
👉 https://t.co/D6p07BPCY0

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Today, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde boldly called out Donald Trump for his hatred and bigotry at the National Cathedral Prayer Service. Now, the GOP is attacking her for speaking truth to power.

RETWEET if you stand with Bishop Budde against Trump!

[Robert Mickens @robinrome]

Today's US Catholic bishops would never even dare to this. So very sad. @USCCB

[Penelope Middelboe @PMiddelboe]

Removing my personal account - you can guess why

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I’m a 63 year old British Jew.
Shamefully, until my 50s, I was an unreflective “liberal” Zionist. That was how I was brought up

BUT then I realised (what should have been obvious) that Zionism is an indefensible racist ideology. Jews are given more rights than non-Jews

Palestinians have been ethnically cleansed & murdered by the army & institutions of the State of Israel for decades

[Carla Denyer @carla_denyer]

Thousands have signed @ChrisGPackham's petition to ban fossil fuel ads - it's clear there's really strong public feeling on this. I've just written to @AngelaRayner to call on the govt to strengthen laws on advertising - looking forward to receiving a reply.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Hello @Keir_Starmer I hope you’re having a good start to Christmas . I didn’t know who else to write to so I’m hoping you can help . Please make some calls & get this poor woman out of prison for Christmas . This doesn’t reflect well on the UK . Thanks #loveactually Please RT

@DavidLammy @AngelaRayner @Ed_Miliband

[Carla Denyer @carla_denyer]

As Gaie's MP I tried everything I could to challenge this decision to send her back to prison - including writing to the prisons minister Lord Timpson and the probation service.

Why on earth is this government releasing violent criminals early due to prison overcrowding, but then replacing them with a 77-year-old peaceful climate protester who is clearly no threat to the public?

And why is she facing this extra punishment of being locked up, for longer than she was meant to be, and over Christmas? Not because she's broken her bail conditions, oh no no, it's because the private company responsible for fitting electronic tags couldn't find one the right size for her, and the authorities weren't willing to consider alternatives like daily check-ins at the police station.

Do we think that, perhaps, this government might be getting its priorities wrong?

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I am Jewish. I live in the UK

If anyone denies the Holocaust, I regard them as unspeakably vile & evil, as do most people

Those who now deny the GENOCIDE in Gaza, I equally regard as unspeakably vile & evil

PARTICULARLY I condemn any UK politicians and UK media who are GENOCIDE-deniers

[Imran Mulla @Imran_posts]

NEW: The Oxford Union has voted that "Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide" by an overwhelming majority of 278 to 59

[Penelope Middelboe @PMiddelboe]

@KirstieMAllsopp I agree with your analysis. Distressing. In solidarity

[Penelope Middelboe @PMiddelboe]

@TashP351 Mrs Overall

[Penelope Middelboe @PMiddelboe]

@MichaelRosenYes 🤣

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

1. The one benefit of Brexit was a new farm subsidy system, paying for public goods like ecological restoration. But now the government has frozen the new grants, while swiftly cutting off the old ones, leaving farmers high and dry. It's deeply unfair and highly destructive. 🧵