@RichieBrave I used to do something similar, anytime we got on a train or went to the airport I made sure there was enough time so my kids could navigate there for us. Read the boards check the times etc!
In 2015 the UK started charging people 5p for plastic carrier bags. Minimum wage in 2015 was £6.70 which means you could buy 134 carrier bags with an hour's wage.
Fast forward to 2026, minimum wage is £12.71 and carrier bags are now around 40p meaning an hours wage would buy you 31 carrier bags.
That's 103 less carrier bags and a 700% increase on the original price.
But only a 89% increase in wages.
We're getting robbed in this country.
I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt”
It’s working-class Black and brown people being pushed out of their homes. This is racist violence and intimidation. Don’t dress it up as anything else.
I am horrified that a car has been deliberately set alight outside the home of the family of Salma Yaqoob, a wonderful prominent anti-racist and peace campaigner in Birmingham.
I hope the police take this shocking incident seriously. Sending my solidarity to Salma & her family.
I was holding her hand when she took her last breath on 3 June 2026. Kanya King CBE. Founder of MOBO. My dearest best friend and soulmate of almost thirty years.
She built everything from nothing, for the love of her people. I have lost my person.
Rest in power, Kanya.
What we are witnessing in the UK is white supremacist cooptation of discourse. The fundamental purpose is to make people detached from anti-Black racism. Evoking the name of Stephen Lawrence is heinous. 4 of the people who murdered him have yet to be convicted, 33 years later.
I know he was innocent and I suppose that matters but here’s what gets lost in that discourse YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KILL THE GUILTY EITHER! Stealing is NOT a death penalty crime. We have to resensitize ourselves to DUE PROCESS for Black people too! There’s a process…