Football is one of the few areas where people make it despite their class background. But working class kids aren’t just good at football. The Sterlings & Kanes of journalism, law etc. don’t succeed because of elitism. The talent we miss because of class is incalculable #ENG
If you had told me a decade ago that a Labour MP would be murdered by a fascist and it would change almost nothing about the way our politics is conducted, or the ends it deems legitimate, I would have struggled to believe you. But here we are.
We love the NHS, they said.
NHS staff are heroes, they said.
NHS forever, they said.
All the whole quietly siphoning huge tranches of NHS care into US corporate hands.
Please RT if you won’t stand for it. https://t.co/wSLMZfRz78
Guess what?! The Tories intend to use Brexit to drive down standards and regulations. Who knew?! 😒
UK ministers gain power to allow lower-standard food imports https://t.co/37wDN8bDNJ
💻 It was the right policy then and it's the right policy now.
I wonder how the BBC feels now about their coverage and treatment of @RLong_Bailey?
Just wait until they start reporting the recent studies regarding four day working weeks.. 🙈
So this week we learnt:
Rail franchises don't work.
Water privatisation didn't work
Privatised testing and tracking doesn't work.
A government run by privatisation obsessives doesn't work.
I wonder ... could it be that we need to rethink privatisation? 🤔
In a former life, when I thought you cd politely persuade people not to be racist
Their response? "If you don't like it here, LEAVE". Which I'm yet to hear said to a white British person
Racism is telling black people who have a critique of their own country, they should leave
Statues aren’t about history they are about adoration. This man was not great, he was a slave trader and a murderer.
Historian @DavidOlusoga brilliantly explains why BLM protestors were right to tear down the statue of Edward Colston.
George Floyd and I were both arrested for allegedly spending a counterfeit $20 bill. For George Floyd, a man my age, with two kids, it was a death sentence. For me, it is a story I sometimes tell at parties. That, my friends, is White privilege.
Can you imagine how much arrogance you have to have to not just break lockdown rules but have your wife parade around talking about your ‘London lockdown’ trying to garner sympathy?!
Dominic Cummings, Mary Wakefield, & this gov really do take us as fools 😡 #sackcummings