ClingingToHope 💙🔥

Film-maker, activist & mental health worker. Politically homeless socialist. My passions are the arts, nature and fighting for human rights & social justice.

[Anisopoikilocyte @Anisocyte]

Advanced Practitioners see fit to take roles on the medical rota, even though they are medically unqualified.

AP is unregulated, and the only safety here is expecting ACPs to “work within their competence” which they immediately violate if they take a medical role.
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[Chris Doyle @Doylech]

Two questions arise 1) Why were charities ever permitted to support illegal settlements? 2) Will there be an investigation into how this total of £28 million could ever have possibly achieved charitable objectives?

[Dr. Ghada Sasa, PhD 🇵🇸 @drghadasasa]

Herzliya was named after the founder of political Zionism Theodor Herzl. It was built over the lands of three Palestinian villages that were ethnically cleansed & destroyed by Israel in 1948: Ijlil al-Shamaliyya, Ijlil al-Qibliyya, & al-Haram (Sayyiduna 'Ali). 1/

[Dr Melissa Ryan 🦀 @Melissa_S_Ryan]

Locally-set scopes invite variation and are unsafe. There must be no doctor substitution and national standards and regulations. APs do not have a medical degree and have no medical training.

Especially worrying in an ICU setting where patients are too unwell to consent to this

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

"left wing media troublemaker" is the brilliant and highly respected journalist @mehdirhasan.

And you can find out more by following @zeteouk

[EmFord @EmFord2015]

300 trees in ancient woodland felled before planning permission was granted, the only word for it is crime. But the developers will apologise, pay a meagre fine and continue on their way.
https://t.co/QiO7iOiFmT

[Fick Nerrari @FickNerrariLBC]

Incredible that you’re not allowed to wear a face covering when protesting a genocide in Gaza but it’s no problem at a pogrom hunting black people in Glasgow/Belfast. Two tier policing?

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Richard Burgon just exposed the most glaring double standard in British policy

"Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately.

Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"

[Patrick Champagnac @PatChampagnac]

La France insensible au malheur d'une grande poétesse palestinienne Alaa Al-Qatrawi . Alors qu'elle a perdu ses 4 enfants dans un bombardement israélien le 13 décembre 2023 Le Canard enchaîné nous rappelle qu'elle attend depuis six mois un visa pour la France, en tant que lauréate, depuis décembre dernier, du programme Pause. Un sésame réservé aux artistes et chercheurs étrangers en danger et placé sous l'égide du Collège de France. Après avoir reçu le soutien du grand poète libanais Adonis, après une première pétition en novembre 2025 signée par 80 intellectuels dans " Le Monde ", puis après une tribune de son collectif de soutien le 8 avril 2026, et après cette dernière pétition dans la Tribune du Dimanche invoquant le principe d'humanité fondateur de nos valeurs, rien n'y a fait, le gouvernement français reste sourd au sort de cette écrivaine et poétesse renommée . Une vingtaine de personnalités prestigieuses françaises ont validé et signé cette dernière pétition de soutien à Alaa Al-Qatrawi parmi elles , le Prix Nobel d'économie Philippe Aghion, , Élisabeth Badinter,Michel Hazanavicius, Nathalie Portman, Fabienne Servan-Schreiber etc. Le Canard enchaîné rappelle qu'en mai dernier le réalisateur gazaoui Mohammed Alshareel, lauréat du même programme Pause s'était vu refuser le visa pour le festival de Cannes , et de rappeler qu'au même moment, l'Italie de Meloni annonçait l'accueil de 72 étudiants palestiniens supplémentaires originaires de Gaza .
La France aurait-elle perdu toute humanité ?

[Ajamu Baraka @ajamubaraka]

Boycott the games!! Make FIFA and their U.S. corporate sponsors pay the price for attempting to normalize U.S. warmongering, genocide and repression. The next step for the international community is to demand accountability & end impunity for U.S. criminality.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

1 in 20 Catholic families were burned out of their homes in Belfast in 1969.

As one scholar put it, at the time it was "the largest forced population movement in Western Europe since the Second World War."

[Dr Huw @DrHuw]

Our Trust have cut their extra list & OOH rates to pre-2010 levels

The department as a whole has simply stopped doing the work

If there are on-calls to cover, colleagues are now waiting until the day of the on-call when the execs capitulate out of desperation

[Anisopoikilocyte @Anisocyte]

I would like to talk about this document, which was sent to consultation by stakeholders by FICM.
It’s a “scope” document for ACCPs, who are medically unqualified individuals being increasingly used to replace ITU SHO/SpRs across NHS hospitals
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[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

Funding the NHS while increasing the role of the private sector is like trying to fill a bucket of water while drilling holes in the bucket.
It is what successive governments have done and it is patients who suffer.

https://t.co/eFiM1f4SLz

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Keir Starmer will not have a proud legacy. Posterity will look upon him as a man without a mission, principle, or impact. He is, in every sense, a grey man who had an opportunity to change this country for the better, but doubled down on neoliberalism because he lacked the imagination to think beyond it.
https://t.co/HsibA2X9TQ

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

The son of jailed Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti was hailed as a “role model” by Spain’s prime minister, after he called for his father’s release at a string of high-profile music events.

Arab Barghouti met with Pedro Sánchez, head of Spain’s governing Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), after addressing a crowd of 75,000 people at Primavera Sound festival on 6 June.

“My father is one of 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, but for millions of Palestinians he represents something that Israel cannot imprison: hope,” Barghouti said.

“Hope that Palestinian children will grow up in peace,” he added. “Freedom won in South Africa, in Ireland, and in Algeria, because people like you refused to look away, refused to give up. So keep fighting for Palestine, for Gaza, and for justice.”

Barghouti was invited to Primavera by the band Massive Attack and was due to speak before their show on 4 June. The gig was cancelled due to bad weather so he introduced Gorillaz at the same festival two days later instead.

After the show, Sánchez shared a video on social media in which he praised Barghouti for “speaking out” for Palestinian rights and described him as a “role model”.

Arab Barghouti also spoke at Massive Attack’s show at the Berlin’s Citadel Music Festival on Sunday, thanking them for “always being on the right side of history”.

His father Marwan, 67, is currently serving multiple life sentences after he was captured, convicted and imprisoned by Israel during the second infatada in 2002.

The Palestinian leader - who has been referred to as the “Palestinian Mandela” - was accused of involvement in an attack that killed five Israeli citizens, although his trial and the quality of the evidence was criticised by legal experts.

In 2002, Nelson Mandela agreed to act as an observer in Barghouti’s trial, saying: “What is happening to Barghouti is exactly the same as what happened to me. The government tried to de-legitimise the African National Congress and its armed struggle by putting me on trial.”

In April his lawyers reported a “clear pattern of escalating abuse: violence, medical neglect, and treatment that places him at immediate risk” following three successive attacks in as many weeks, including one in which prison guards set a dog on him.

The same month celebrities including Cate Blanchett, Bryan Adams and Don Cheadle added their names to a statement calling upon his release “as an important step towards reviving a lasting two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

The tent… perhaps one of the most cruel and degrading shelters ever imposed on human beings.

A filthy, torn piece of cloth, no more than six square meters, is called a “home” for an entire family. A small kitchen on the ground, one single mattress, and all our life crammed into one space: we eat, sleep, urinate, cry, and fight in the same spot. No privacy, no dignity, nothing that resembles human life.

In winter, it turns into a watery grave. Rain pours through the threadbare roof as if it were paper, and sewage water floods in from below. We end up sleeping in a pool of mud and filth, while the children drown in their own coughing until morning.

In summer, it becomes hell on earth. Temperatures exceed fifty degrees, the air burns, and we suffocate inside until we feel like dying. Rats run over our bodies, snakes sneak in at night, and flies devour the faces of our children.

During bombing, we sit inside it terrified as it shakes and trembles with every nearby rocket. A tattered piece of cloth facing tons of explosives, while we cling to it and wait for death to tear us apart.

The tent is not housing it is a daily, ongoing punishment. Overcrowding beyond imagination, diseases that eat away at body and soul, hunger that devours the guts, cold that shatters the bones, heat that melts the flesh, fear that crushes the heart, and endless daily humiliation.

For more than three years we have been living under this rag. No safety, no dignity, no future. Just a filthy tent that reminds us every single moment that we have become less than human, and that the world watches us while leaving us to rot under a tattered piece of cloth.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

There are only 8 Reform MPs and they have a combined wealth of over £70,000,000.

They have consistently voted against every single improvement to workers rights and plan to scrap legal protections left right and centre.

They are funded by the bosses to rip up your rights.

[Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 @AlonLeeGreen]

עוד ילד, בן 8, נהרג מירי של צה"ל. 20 אלף ילדים פלסטינים נהרגו על ידנו בפחות משנתיים וחצי. האם זו החברה שאנחנו רוצים להיות?

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

This report "Importing Occupation: Europe’s Complicity in Palestinian Dispossession through Settlement Agricultural Trade" just landed in my inbox, and couldn't be more timely. A study of Israeli settlements exports to Europe as if not from occupied WBank
https://t.co/vEfYNR3rZA