When I vote I don't want unaffordable tax cuts.
I want hospital beds.
Libraries reopening.
Trains that run on time.
Kids who aren't too hungry to learn.
Rivers that don't run with slurry.
Local councils not bankrupted.
Politicians who don't venally line their own pockets.
I wondered whether I would do this, when the time came. But there don’t seem to be many tales of him as a person going round. And, for reasons that will become apparent, I’ll always be grateful. So anyway here it is:
A 🧵on the personal kindness of @Keir_Starmer
Heroic and successful efforts were made to save working machines close to the edge of the #lava. The machines were being used to construct defensive walls against lava flow into ##Grindavík - the same walls along which workers drove the machinery to safety.
The Andromeda galaxy is 6 times bigger in the sky than the full Moon: it's just too dim to clearly see it with the naked eye.
This composite image shows what it would look like at night if it was just brighter.
[📸 Tom Buckley-Houston]
It’s hard to know who and what to trust these days…
But this incredible clip nails it
Simply:
Don’t trust idiots
And how do you spot an idiot?
Look for the people who are cruel…
Incredible video. Afghan dad jokingly says school is only for boys. Watch his remarkable daughter - who can’t be more than 5 or 6 years old - respond with these arguments.
Afghan girls have been denied access to schools and universities. This little girl's courage represents the collective voice of countless Afghan girls who yearn for equal educational opportunities.
As an advocate for girls' education the father's teasing is simply to highlight an important message: that the Taliban - another backward regime - are harming the people of his country.
It’s time the world is done with them.
Ditto the “Islamic” Republic in Iran #regime
STOP PRESS! I promise that as MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip I WILL move the hand dryer in the gents’ urinals at the Crown & Treaty to a more sensible position. TO PROVE IT, I have just signed a treaty with the Crown & Treaty, that if I win they will move it. I keep my promises!