Steve Tosh

[Patrick Galey is on @patrickgaley.bsky.social @patrickgaley]

Still can't quite believe that when a boat carrying people seeking a better life sinks and kills 90, it registers as barely a blip on the news cycle

Yet when a yacht carrying billionaires sinks, it's 3-day front page, rolling live ticker news https://t.co/zx60NfSUSn

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Fucking sick of scenes like this. Get this everywhere, REPOST if you want this madness to end, and these cowards to be put behind bars.

Pathetic excuse for “men”. Huge love to the sabs on the ground trying to stop this.

[Brendan May @bmay]

We used to say Brexit was like watching your local library being burned down by people who can’t read and now it has actually happened.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I can’t tell you how happy this makes me.

Knowing that even while NHS colleagues sacrificed their lives to help patients, other grubby chancers were using the pandemic as a chance to get rich quick was one of the most sickening aspects of the pandemic.

https://t.co/oY4ffdKzwa

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

When voting in 5 days, please remember that under the Tories:

Don’t get old.
Don’t get sick.
Don’t get disabled.
Don’t get unemployed.
Don’t get zero hours contracted.
Don’t get poor.
Don’t get unlucky.
Don’t get vulnerable.
Don’t get ideas above your station.

[Steve Tosh @SteveTosh7]

We can force Labour to stand for our NHS, not private profit. Send @We_OwnIt's letter to Wes Streeting asking him to pledge to bring outsourced services in house when their contracts end. #GeneralElection https://t.co/Xl18rrFCcv

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

More evidence👇 that Rwanda scheme is a total con & Govt has no plan - that’s why Sunak called election before it unravels.

Tories have given £300m to Rwanda to send just 3 Home Secretaries and a volunteer!

Labour will put the money into boosting our border security instead

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

There are no complicated reasons for why the U.K. is in such a mess…

A group of rich, elitist, self-centred twats took power…

Then moved our shared wealth (OUR WEALTH) into their own pockets

That’s it

Greed, pure and simple

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

I still can’t quite believe this happened. What does it say about our society?

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Water companies debt far greater than OFWAT figures because of rigged calculations.

Thames Water leverage is 1,023%, not 78%.
Northumberian Water 1005%, not 68%.
United Utilities 545%, not 66%.

OFWAT unfit for purpose, in bed with companies.
https://t.co/ZZt0mVr5hL

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

New study finds 'cycling rather than driving is positively associated with political participation, social participation in organizations, neighbourhood solidarity, and neighbourly helpfulness (i.e. the common good).'

📕: https://t.co/F9Xu8R0J03

[Frankie Boyle Updates @frankieboyle]

A lot of artists and commentators in Britain who’ve spent their careers foregrounding their empathy and humanism, apparently unable to muster a single word about the genocide in Gaza. This matters because Britain is providing political and military cover for these actions. If you have a voice, please use it to call for a ceasefire, and the lifting of the blockade.

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

At approx. 58 billion euro (£50 billion) Spain's full high-speed rail network, all 2,464 miles of it, cost about the same to build as HS2 phase 1.

There's something very, very, very wrong with how we approach large engineering projects.
https://t.co/fDm3qbTWW5

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

"Boris Johnson's dad Stanley gets HS2 payout worth millions for Primrose Hill house"

Do we know if the area has already been bulldozed?

Or will he potentially be able to waltz in and buy it back for a fraction of the compensation he received? https://t.co/xmPKlroKIX

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Great work by Good Law Project and the Ecotricity founder, Dale Vince.

HMRC admits private equity managers paid tax at wrong rate - 28% instead of 47% for more than 35 years.

Rich get tax breaks even when not sanctioned by law, worth £400m -£600m a year.
https://t.co/09cPGwpmOR

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I don't know who wrote this.

But it is 100% true.

Capitalists love socialism, for them.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Looks dumb, right?

This is how we design many cities.

HT @urbanthoughts11
#CarDependency

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

There are only two things that Tory MPs consider before announcing a policy…

1. How can I make money from this?

2. Will it help me stay in power?

They don’t consider the only thing they should…

what will benefit the country?

[Justin on eurostar @EurostarJustinp]

Meanwhile, in France, the transport minister says that for the first time in the country's history, there will be no new studies of motorway projects. The road budget will be reduced and more spent on rail and other public transport.

[charles watson @watsonchas]

Drive down any French motorway & you will see every few 100m holding ponds with reed beds to collect & naturally filter road run off.
In the UK we don’t even bother to monitor the toxic filth being washed off our roads into rivers
🙏🏻 ⁦@WATERSHED_i⁩ https://t.co/Xu41kibi8m