The choreography of teaching 30 children at the same time > quite a long read but dare I say I think it's worth it. Nail this, you've nailed it! https://t.co/R9fxgXRcgK via @teacherhead
It was the honour of my life to move the Loyal Address -the first Muslim to do so.
This moment belongs to the people of Bradford West. Their trust and faith in me made it possible.
An opportunity of a lifetime. A privilege I owe to Bradford and to Britain.
Full speech 🔽
Last week, my team gave me the most meaningful surprise: seeing my old Welsh teacher after 25 years.
When we moved to Wales, we received a Welsh welcome: Mr Thomas’ kind belief, a nation growing economically, a community whose confident identity wrapped around us so warmly.
Ahead of the most divisive Senedd elections in our history, the Wales that made me feels less certain.
My hope: that we can return that same kindness to the centre of our national story.
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!🇬🇧
A young woman made a confused report to the police that she was raped by a group of men on her way home from a club, and believes it happened between 2.00am-4.00am outside a church.
The woman is unwell and is hospitalised, and no doubt a rape kit is administered to preserve any physical evidence.
Meanwhile - quite rightly - the police put out a call for any witnesses or dashcam footage, which is standard operating procedure.
Then the far right get involved.
When no descriptions are released by the police, they start saying that it is because the perpetrators must be asylum seekers/Muslims/immigrants.
A social media account invents a description of them wearing flip-flops - taken to mean sliders that a lot of young black guys wear.
More and more wild conspiracies are circulated, including the police deliberately not releasing descriptions (rather than doing their job of taking forensic evidence at the claimed scene of crime and examining CCTV footage from every angle available to them from the night-club to the alleged scene of crime and beyond)
Then a convicted kidnapper, former drug dealer and former "Raise the Flags" grifter - all the same person, btw - puts out a call to arms on social media, for people to attend a protest at 5.00pm one afternoon.
The usual hotel-shouting suspects turn up from all over the South East. They riot. The police issue a statement saying they still don't have any evidence to confirm the crime was committed as claimed.
They attack an HMO simply because it is an HMO, even though they have been told that there are no asylum residences in Epsom. Turns out it was housing vulnerable people.
They identify what they believe must be an asylum hotel - first a Premier Inn. Nope. Then a Travelodge, where they demand entry to check who they have staying there and demand to see their "books".
A few days later, the police make a further statement, and a woman with a microphone demands to know what the outcome of any medical checks on the woman complainant was.
Read that paragraph again: a WOMAN with a MICROPHONE is asking the police to reveal MEDICAL EVIDENCE relating to a potential RAPE VICTIM to a crowd of braying flag-bedecked football casuals and racists.
The far right grifters and their hard-of-thinking followers still maintain this is a police cover-up while simultaneously sharing evidence of where other asylum-seekers or migrants have been convicted, so obviously the police didn't cover up those crimes, Einstein.
The leader of the Pink Ladies - newly defected to Reform UK - shares photos of some completely different migrants in another area of the country and claims they are the photos the police are hiding from us all, because the police don't want you to know about migrants who commit crimes, (even though she was, obviously, sharing yesterday the reports of the terrible rape that happened in Brighton where the police arrested and prosecuted three asylum-seekers.)
And now we know the poor woman was, in fact, the victim of some form of head injury which left her presumably very confused and frightened and had mistakenly made a report to the police.
And there are STILL Einsteins out there claiming it was a cover up.
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK FROM THESE DANGEROUS PEOPLE, AND THEIR PSYCHOTIC CHEER-LEADERS.
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK FROM THE HATEFUL GREMLINS THAT FILL MY TIMELINE WITH THEIR DELUDED CRAP DAY AFTER DAY!
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK FROM A GOVERNMENT THAT, INSTEAD OF CALLING OUT THIS APPALLING ESCALATION OF HATRED AND BIGOTRY, PLAYS ALONG WITH IT IN THE HOPE OF GAINING VOTES!
📹: Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) shared her experience encountering mountain gorillas in Bwindi National Park
“I first saw a big group of them all together. It felt like a really special moment to see these incredible animals in the wild.”
@ExploreUganda
“Do not clap hands because I have made it here, rather clap hands when the system changes such that making it here is nolonger amiracle"
Too deep ❤️❤️❤️
🚨UPDATE PROTEST VOTE🚨
With deepest gratitude and profound respect I want to send a special thanks to Ugandans in United Kingdom who decided to take to street to protest against fake election results announced by Electoral commission.
Dictator Museveni we don’t recognise you as legitimate president of Uganda. We urge the international community not compromise their moral obligation of holding governments accountable. We are calling out United States of America to stop funding our destruction.
#FreeUgandaNow
Sky News presenter @KamaliMelbourne weighs in on a video shared online by the White House of the Obamas, which has sparked outrage after featuring imagery widely condemned as racist.
Read more: https://t.co/ZHDN3WzAoy
If you’re looking for voices in the UK who actually challenge Reform, call out misinformation, and deal in facts rather than fear, these are worth following:
James O’Brien
Owen Jones
Novara Media
Aaron Bastani
Ash Sarkar
Byline Times
Peter Jukes
Led By Donkeys
Gary Stevenson (GarysEconomics)
Marina Purkiss
Zarah Sultana
Naz Shah
A Different Bias
Femi
Daniel Lismore
Artist Taxi Driver
Zak Polanski
Carole Cadwalladr
Emily Maitlis
Pod Save The UK
Double Down News
The Canary
Barry’s Economics
Akala
Billy Bragg
Niko Omilana
Cody Dahler
Some Old Geezer
The Trawl
Anthony Jones (YouTube)
Bowler Hat Man
Maximilien Robespierre
TattooDave
MeidasTouch (UK audience overlap)
Brian Tyler Cohen (UK audience overlap)
Some are journalists. Some are politicians. Some are commentators or creators. All push back against the nonsense and actually do the work.
Follow. Share. Amplify.