Daniel Burrell

PhD student, Wolfson Scholar @durham_history @durham_uni. My research looks at the cremation of the dead in late 19th cent Britain- he/him

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Every new heat record exposes the same divide: workers and the planet vs billionaires.

People are dying in the heat right now. Yet we’re told there’s always billions for endless war and militarisation, but never a serious plan for the climate crisis.

The richest keep profiting from fossil fuels while insulating themselves in air-conditioned bunkers. Everyone else is left to work through dangerous temperatures, live in overheated homes, and rely on public services pushed to breaking point.

Climate breakdown isn’t just an environmental crisis, it’s a class one.

We need rapid decarbonisation, serious investment in adaptation, and workers’ rights that include a legal maximum workplace temperature.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

History will judge Keir Starmer as a man who lied his way to the top of the Labour Party and then used that power to evoke Enoch Powell with “island of strangers”, keep children in poverty, attack disabled people, scapegoat refugees, strip back civil liberties, and hand our public services to Palantir.

A man who gave the top diplomatic job to the “best pal” of a convicted paedophile, said Israel has the right to cut off water and electricity to Gaza, rolled out the red carpet for Israeli war criminals, and kept the weapons flowing to the Israeli military as it committed genocide.

Good riddance.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.

Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.

That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.

The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants.

Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict.

Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences.

Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670?

It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide.

Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: https://t.co/RyDHG3Iz81

[jewess in distress @rachelcohen7]

🧵 As an anti Zionist Jew I’ve been WILDLY naive about how nasty this would get - of COURSE he’ll never be ‘Jewish enough’ for the Zionists, and for a certain sector of the anti Semitic left ( hi guys!) he’ll always be too Jewish to be trusted as an anti Zionist…

[Cllr Martin Abrams @Martin_Abrams]

As a Jewish person the selective outrage and weaponisation of Antisemitism by people like @SteveReedMP disgusts me and ultimately makes Jewish people less safe.

Steve Reed says "we must call out Antisemitism" but both he and Keir Starmer are silent about the vile Antisemitism being dished out to Zack Polanski the UK's only Jewish political party leader.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

I'm Jewish.

I condemn genocide.

I condemn the Labour Governments role in the Genocide.

The Prime Minister repeatedly conflating criticism of the Israeli Governments genocide and actual antisemitism is disgusting - and makes so many of us as Jewish people feel less safe.

[Gareth Dennis @GarethDennis]

I cannot express the extent to which this company needs to be aggressively dismantled, its assets seized and its data storage destroyed completely. It is a deeply evil organisation run by deeply evil people.

Yet they are still deepening their access in the NHS! Get them out.

[L'Espresso @espressonline]

L'annessione della Cisgiordania, con i soldati complici dei coloni. Gaza annientata. L'avanzata in Libano. Il confine violato in Siria. La guerra all'Iran. Pulizia etnica e massacri. Così la destra sionista dà forma al Grande Israele

Il numero de L’Espresso, in edicola e su app

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Not even the bare minimum of what Israel deserves. Committing a genocide in 4K and constantly bragging about it = grounds for the complete dissolution of a nation. There should be a one state solution where it’s just Palestine, to which then-former Israelis must swear allegiance.

[WillowTheFoxΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️🐾Pawbz are cute!🐾 @Willowfoxxo]

Came across this post again it's been nearly a year since this poor girl left us.

The right always talk about "protecting" the children, all while those same people lead to a teenager to take her own life

You should still be here Charlotte fly high!💔🪽

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

As US Marines amass in the region

and US bombers launch strikes from the UK

It's time this Government is honest about our role.

The UK is an accomplice to Trump's war and must change course.

Stop US forces using the UK as a launchpad - end the era of being Trump's lackey.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This government can't be trusted to end the housing crisis because its ministers are bought and paid for by the developers, landlords and corporate interests who profit from it.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This is Apartheid.

It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide.

To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

sobering to think that a calculation could one day be done of how many people--literally, to the individual man, woman, child--will have died as a consequence of a pedophile US president flailing about starting "excursions" & "wars" to forestall his exposure in the Epstein files; & to what degree these deflections worked for him.
US media certainly seems to be enabling the strategy.

[Mothin Ali @MothinAli]

This ends any debate over the reality of Israel's apartheid regime.

The death penalty for one race only, enforced through military courts with a 99.7% conviction rate.

Shame on those who deny apartheid.

Shame on those who deny that West Bank settler terrorism and ethnic cleansing is Israeli government policy.

Shame on the Labour government for not ending the sale of weapons to Israel 2.5 years into a genocide in Gaza.

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

@jacob_rwt Nah man this won't work anymore. We watched Corbyn try and appease the British media for 5 years and the result was a Conservative landslide and then a fascist government that murders Palestinians abroad and tortures activists at home. The time to play nice is over.

[Vincent Bevins @Vinncent]

In the final years of South African Apartheid, the white government decided it must 1) overthrow the government of Angola 2) install a puppet regime in Namibia 3) attack Zimbabwe 4) attack Botswana 5) attack Zambia in order to survive. This did not work

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

"Gaza is an experiment". Sickening. True.

The sadism and fury Israel has unleashed on the Palestinian people is APPALLING. Those denying the genocide, should follow @DCIPalestine: not a day passes without Israelis killing, maiming, torturing Palestinian children, including in the West Bank.

The end game is ERASURE.