AJ Bird-Cullen 💙

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[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Can anyone explain to me why Ofwat hasn't revoked South East Water's operating licence?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I renew my appeal for an end to the ongoing violence against the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank, and I urgently call on the international community to work toward advancing the two-state solution, for a just and lasting peace.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

A brief note for @nadhimzahawi @ITV @GMB @kategarraway.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

This beautiful young woman is Vicki Williams, a history teacher from Pembrokeshire, Wales.

On February 5, a 15 year old student walked into her empty classroom and asked her to check his homework.

He then closed the door.

He walked up to her, pulled a knife out of his bag and stabbed her in the head. This was a sustained attack that only stopped when another teacher intervened.

Vicki was rushed to hospital and thankfully survived.

The boy was prosecuted and in court said that Vicki had tried to grab the knife from his bag and he “accidentally assaulted her”.

The prosecution said that he had sought out a lone teacher who he could attack.

Yesterday, he boy was found not guilty attempted murder. He was found guilty of wounding with intent.

He will be sentenced on September 3 but will probably get a few months at a juvenile facility. I doubt that this will change his behaviour.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

The Justice Department is now 212 days past the deadline to release the complete Epstein files.

Survivors have waited long enough. The public has been misled long enough.

Who is being protected by the continued delay?

[TVP @Theveripost]

A woman was upskirted at a music festival.
Police told her it wasn't illegal. Eighteen months later she had changed the law.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

This is MMA fighter Sean McInnes. When Anne Marie Boyle asked him to leave her alone, he punched her in the face so hard that he broke her cheekbone and her eye socket, knocked her unconscious, and left her with a life-altering brain injury.

He was given less than two years behind bars.

It would be a real shame if this post was widely circulated and impacted his career in a negative way.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

Six of these ten Highland Councillors voted to allow a taxi driver who raped a passenger to keep his operator’s license — even though senior police officers urged them not to.

Please note that although we’re constantly told it’s women who grease the wheels for rapists, every single councillor who voted in rapist David Brown’s favor is a man. Take a good look at them, Scottish women: these 6 men would put you, alone and unwarned, in a taxi with a man who has already raped at least one passenger.

Brown has been put on the register for life; he raped an 18 year old girl and dumped her outdoors on a sub-zero January night in the Scottish Highlands; but these 6 men - Chris Birt, John Grafton, Ruraidh Stewart, Sean Kennedy, Willy MacKay, and Duncan MacPherson - are more concerned about his finances than they are about the safety of local women.

https://t.co/Rq2jzLJ9P3

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

THE CARE HOME SCANDAL THAT ONLY GOT SOLVED BECAUSE A JOURNALIST SHOWED UP

Terry Bryan was a nurse at Winterbourne View, a private hospital near Bristol run by a company called Castlebeck.

His job was looking after adults with learning disabilities. Instead he watched staff mock them, restrain them, and torment them for entertainment (!)

So he reported it. To management. To the local safeguarding board. To the Royal College of Nursing. To the Care Quality Commission @CareQualityComm, three separate times.

Four warnings. Zero action.

So Bryan went to @BBCPanorama instead.

A researcher went undercover with a hidden camera and filmed patients being slapped, held down, drenched in cold water and taunted like it was sport.

It aired in 2011 and the whole country watched it live on television, which is apparently the only regulatory mechanism that actually works in this country.

Eleven staff pleaded guilty. Six went to prison. The CQC admitted it should have acted sooner and said sorry. Castlebeck shut the home down.

Then in 2019 Panorama went undercover again, this time at Whorlton Hall, a hospital previously run by the same company. Same abuse. Same regulator. Same excuses.

The place had been visited by officials over a hundred times in the year before it got exposed and somehow nobody noticed a thing until the cameras did.

This is the pattern. The system fails because everybody who was paid to know, knew, and did nothing until a journalist did their job for them.

SOURCES
@BBCPanorama @BBCNews @CareQualityComm and many others

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

‘Ruby’ has told Newsnight in an exclusive statement that she is ‘scared for her and her children’s safety’

‘The offender is being released from prison in less than 2 days. There is no team of people in place - despite the government saying there wld be a dedicated team for victims - that has not been done’

‘At the end of the trial we were told they wld all be deported once released, but not one of them has been’

‘Why are we still relying on legislation from over 50 yrs ago…we need these laws to be updated. Laws need it changed, and victims need to be heard’ 👇

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

The ringleader of a notorious Rochdale grooming gang is due to be released from jail this week and his victims have been told he can’t be deported

I spoke to one of his victims ‘Ruby’ in 2024 - and she told me she was raped 100 times from the age of 12

Here’s Ruby’s interview
https://t.co/AAMTwv0F3c

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

I'm confident nobody will share this.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

A POLICE OFFICER SECRETLY EMAILED A LANDLORD TO GET A DISABLED TENANT EVICTED. CAMDEN COUNCIL HID EMAILS FROM THE OMBUDSMAN.

THIS IS WHAT AN INSIDE JOB LOOKS LIKE.

Someone messaged me on X a few weeks ago. His name is Ray Hanson @tenant49273533. He has disabilities. He sent me a pile of official documents and asked me to look at them.

I did.

Ray was living in a garden shed in Camden, North London. Not a converted one. Not a nice one. An illegal one. With rats. No heating. No hot water. Wires hanging out of a window. A toilet not fixed to the wall. A shower that did not work. And Camden Council knew about it since 2006.

A formal Enforcement Notice was issued against the property that year. The notice said a building had been constructed in the back garden without planning permission and people were living in it. Illegal.

Written down. Filed. Then Camden did what Camden apparently does best. Nothing.

Fourteen years passed. Ray ended up living there. In July 2020 Camden's own Environmental Health Officer finally visited and condemned the place on the spot. No fixed heating. A broken skylight. Rat holes in the front garden. A shower that did not work. A toilet hanging off the wall. A sink falling away from the wall. Dangerous electrics with wires going out through an open window. A kitchen so bad it was declared unsafe.

Camden's own document describes Ray as an extremely vulnerable tenant facing a very real risk of serious harm over winter. They banned the property from being used as a home.

That was July 2020. Now remember that date.

Because housing benefit records show £22,880 being paid directly to Ray's landlord in October 2021. Fifteen months after Camden condemned the property. With a weekly payment of £260 still running. Public money. Your taxes. Flowing to a landlord for accommodation that Camden's own officers had declared unfit and illegal. Nobody stopped it. Nobody joined the dots. Or maybe they just did not want to.

Then it gets worse.

In January 2021 a Metropolitan Police officer sent an email directly to Ray's landlord. Not to Ray. To the landlord. The email is on official Metropolitan Police headed paper with a verified collar number, station address, and direct phone numbers. He asked the landlord what his plans were for moving Ray out.

He said that once Ray was gone all the problems would be solved. He told the landlord he had a vested interest in making that happen.

He then referenced police powers to issue Community Protection Notices in the same email. A serving police officer emailing a private landlord asking when he planned to evict a disabled tenant living in a property that had already been condemned.

When Ray complained about this email a Met officer accused him of fabricating it and threatened him with a criminal review. The email is on official police headed paper with a verified collar number. So who fabricated what exactly.

While all this was happening Ray complained to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, official case reference 20 003 347. During that investigation an internal Camden Council email surfaced.

A senior manager wrote to colleagues including the officer who signed the Prohibition Order and asked whether there were any past emails they would not want uploaded to the Ombudsman because of the sensitivity of relationship building.

A council manager asking his team which emails to hide from the official investigation. In writing. On a council email system.

Ray took his case to court. The judge confirmed everything. The property was an illegal construction, unfit for human habitation, with rats, no heating, no hot water and dangerous electrics. Ray Hanson was awarded £58,567.80 in damages. He won.

Then Camden Council went back to court and got him labelled a serial litigant. Because Ray had brought multiple claims about what happened to him, Camden's lawyers argued he was abusing the system. In November 2024 a General Civil Restraint Order was placed on him meaning he needed a judge's permission before making any further legal applications.

So when the possession hearing came in May 2025 Ray could not defend himself. His application was dismissed before it was even heard. The court granted possession to the landlord and said Ray owed £27,320 in rent arrears.

Just pause on those two numbers. Ray won £58,567.80 in damages from his landlord. Then a court said he owed that same landlord £27,320. Same man. Same landlord. Same condemned illegal shed.

On 11 August 2025 police arrived at the property with taser guns and removed Ray Hanson by force.

He was arrested and charged on the same day. He has been street homeless ever since. He is still homeless now. Still dealing with this. Still not resolved.

A disabled man. Housed in an illegal shed that Camden flagged in 2006. Condemned by their own officer in 2020. Public money paid to the landlord for over a year after that. A police officer working with the landlord behind his back. Council staff asking which emails to hide from investigators. A court victory worth nearly sixty thousand pounds that changed nothing. A legal order used to silence him. Armed police. Arrest. The street.

Camden called him the problem.

And if you think this is an isolated case, last week @SkyNews reported that Camden Council is now facing legal action from families whose children were abused at a West Hampstead nursery for seven years while Camden looked the other way. Different victims. Same council. Same pattern. Issue a notice. Start a review. Avoid accountability. Move on.

Ray Hanson is real. He is sleeping rough while Camden Council sits in its Town Hall on Judd Street. The documents are real. The court judgment is real. The Prohibition Order is real. The police email is real. The housing benefit payments are real.

@Victoria_Rixon @MLorrM @johnmcdonnellMP @premnsikka @stevemiddi1 @nw_nicholas

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

He got 18 months. Suspended entirely.

If you care about women you’d be rioting over the thousands of stories like this, you absolute scumbags.

It’s a testament to women’s restraint that we don’t.

[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?"

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

David Lammy’s proposals to restrict the right to jury trial have been examined by the Justice Committee of the House of Commons.

And. Well. Um.

It’s *quite* the report.

I think it’s actually worse than politely scathing.

It’s embarrassing 👇🏼🪡🧵