Alex Swanson

Cycling around London, from Cardiff. @pcs_union rep 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

[UsdawUnion @UsdawUnion]

Imagine your most challenging day at work being filmed and posted online for thousands to see... 🎥📱

Filming retail workers is becoming an epidemic - we’re calling for an end to all recording in stores by the general public unless direct consent has been given 📵

Retail workers deserve respect, privacy and the right to do their jobs without fear of being publicly shamed, mocked or targeted online ❌

[Alex Swanson @alswanson]

@christiancalgie It’s also why over the weekend I didn’t do any exercise, my washing up, or reply to texts. In July, I’ll be listening to the new Madonna album instead of doing any of the above. Gay is a full time job

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Sending our thoughts to all those affected by the antisemitic attack in Golders Green.

Violence and extremism have no place on our streets or in our society.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Jon Stone @joncstone]

the Tyne and Wear Metro is so good and it's completely ridiculous that every big city in the UK doesn't have its own version

[Alex Swanson @alswanson]

Sunny London is 👌

[Alex Swanson @alswanson]

@scottygb Strong opener. Star power guests, genuinely funny sketches, high production values, and the regulator talent is new to UK TV. Hoping it finds an audience on Sky.

[The Iain Duncan Smiths @TheIDSmiths]

POV: you are a bacon sandwich in 2026 and this time your opponent is battle-ready

[Jon Stone @joncstone]

since 2000, London has grown by the population of Paris (from 7 million to 9 million). It's added roughly two Manchesters every decade. It is completely deranged and unserious to say it is dying https://t.co/zaSjRoG671

[Omid Scobie @scobie]

Sometimes I love how unserious my country is

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Met Police chief Mark Rowley: ‘How anybody in America can suggest the UK is violent is completely ridiculous. The homicide rate in London is lower than every single US state. It’s lower than all their big cities.’

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

We've had a new report out into maternity and neonatal care and honestly... there's not a single surprise in it.

It's still - and I don't use these words lightly - a total disgrace. We've had multiple reports telling us this. And yet the same problems keep happening.

Women not being listened to - mums and babies being harmed or even dying - when they shouldn't be. So many people have their own stories - I'm sure if you're listening to this right now you might have your own story - or know someone who does.

There's one thing I wanted to pick out from the report by Baroness Valerie Amos.

The investigation heard cases of women who had lost babies being placed on wards with newborns.

This might seem like a little thing. But can you imagine losing a baby. The worst moment of your entire life. All those hopes and dreams for your child's future. Carrying the baby inside you - feeling it grow - and then the blood, the desperation that maybe it's going to be ok, surely it's got to be ok, and then the reality that you've lost your child.

And then what happens? You're put on a ward full of other mothers just like you... but these mums have their little babies in their arms.

That is not just negligent. It is cruel.

And it also happens systematically throughout the NHS. Having a miscarriage? Go to the maternity unit. Just had a scan where you'd hope to see your baby kicking but actually find out it doesn't have a heart beat? Go and sit down with all the happily pregnant mums.

This is symptomatic of a system where women are treated like vessels not like people who should be heard and listened to.

Because bringing life into the world can be the happiest time of your life. But it can also be the worst time of your life.

Either way - it's the most important moment. And that's why we've got to get this right.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Lawless London latest

[Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office @FCDOGovUK]

As Putin terrorises Ukrainian civilians, his own losses are piling up. 

Russia has suffered over a million military casualties for just 1.1% territory gained since November 2022.  

Putin must end the fighting, come to the negotiating table and engage in meaningful talks.

[Alex Swanson @alswanson]

@NationCymru @ShiptonMartin Your argument is that people who didn’t do Welsh at school but later in life do something to support the Welsh language are disingenuous?!

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

London murders have fallen to 89 in the last 12 months.

The lowest rate on record.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Pulling out of ECHR is a dangerous, xenophobia-fuelled gimmick.

It won’t stop the boats. But it would wreck cooperation with France and Europe that’s key to tackling the smuggling gangs. 

It would also rip up rights we all rely on like fair trials, free assembly and workers’ protections – and jeopardise the Good Friday Agreement.  

Let’s call this out for what it is: a dangerous, xenophobia-fuelled gimmick when Britain needs fair, grown-up, practical solutions that actually work.  

The so-called party of law and order wants to recklessly shred international laws the UK wrote in order to chase Reform’s tail.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Reform’s plan to get rid of indefinite leave to remain would mean no matter how people arrived in this country, no matter how long they lived here, no matter how much they have contributed - if they work or they raise their families here they could be rounded up and sent home.

That’s exactly the kind of language of the National Front in the 1970s.

- @nowak_paul on #BBCAQ

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Two things can be true at once. Rayner was foolish in her conduct and right to resign. It’s also true she was always despised by much of the right wing press because she was a working class powerful woman. She was therefore threatening to them, because she authentically spoke for the same people they (erroneously) claim to speak for and could not be dismissed as a liberal elite- their favoured tactic with anyone they don’t like. She’s therefore been the subject to endless snobbery and classism and extra scrutiny from day 1- another reason she was foolish not to be meticulous.

[RNLI @RNLI]

The facts behind our work in the Channel.

In 2024, our crews launched 114 times to Channel crossings – that's just 1.2% of our total launches.

Our core purpose is to save lives at sea. Anyone can drown, but no one should.