David Smith

Scouser and @LFC supporter JFT97

[Anthony Teasdale @AnthonyTeasdale]

In the summer of 1982, me and my dad got the train from our home in suburban Aughton to Liverpool's dockland, 10 miles away.

Happily he took a camera with him.

Here's what we saw… a city at its lowest point, yet on the cusp of a regeneration that makes it such a beautiful city today.

[Innocent Bystander @supertolerant]

I was young in the 80s/90s in the UK.

I don’t remember my parents ever going out to eat, except when we were on holiday (in the UK).

I don’t think they ever took me to a fast food restaurant, or ordered takeaway food.

People today have no clue how working people lived.

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[Tony Ward @TonyWard867811]

Your father retired at sixty.

He bought a caravan. He saw his grandkids on Tuesdays. He had time.

You are sixty four. Your knees are gone. Your back is ruined.

And they have moved the line again. Sixty seven. Then sixty eight. Then sixty nine.

They sold three years of your retirement to balance their books.

They sold five years of your wife's pension to balance their books.

They will sell your children's whole retirement before they are done.

Healthy life expectancy in this country is sixty three. You will retire sick. If you retire at all.

The printer at Threadneedle Street never stops. The spending at the Treasury never stops. The excuses at Downing Street never stop.

Three machines grinding through your life.

You were not given more years to enjoy.

You were given more years to serve.

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Ask yourself why you never had about this candidate but you heard about so many Green candidates.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

On Sky News, John Rees from Stop the War Coalition just completely dismantled the ridiculous claim that the pro-Palestine peace marches have anything whatsoever to do with the Golders Green attack.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Any Christians out there give a fuck?

[John (Anarcho Cat) @anarcho_cat]

So Israel destroyed every other building except the Hamas headquarters?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Weird that even the police, in their tweet, though not in the full statement itself, are just airbrushing the fact that he’s being charged with three attempted murders, not two, the third person being a Muslim man he stabbed earlier in the day

[Roshan M Salih @RmSalih]

No 24 hour news coverage about this. Just a few mainstream media headlines. No prime ministerial statements pledging to ban Islamophobic rhetoric. No millions given to the Muslim community to protect themselves.

After all, it was just a hijabi deliberately run over by a car. She was Muslim so nothing to see here.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"They just dont have any money.. for any kind of maintenance or repairs.. more than half of headteachers.. are saying they have areas in their school that are just unusable.. the worst affected areas are toilets, classrooms & roofs"

The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world

[David Smith @dave_smith77]

@SaulStaniforth Surely the mandate is based on the election manifesto, of which, barely anything has come to fruition

[Nicky Allt. @NickyAllt]

Friday Classic: The Jam. "In the City" almost 50 years on, still brilliant. #MusicVibes #PaulWeller🎸🎸🎸

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Isreal bombing ambulance crews live on Channel 4.

The UK and the USA are still supporting this.

Keep sharing, and don’t stop talking about Israel’s war crimes.

[James Schneider @schneiderhome]

You can't have energy security without public ownership

[Michael Reid @michael_reid11]

Over the two legs of PSG v Liverpool

Mo Salah played the most balls into the box (12), had the highest xA (0.52), 2nd most touches in the box (14), and 3rd most chances created - of all players for both sides.

He played 59 out of a possible 180 mins.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

BREAKING - @zarahsultana exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial.

UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details.

“If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”

[David Smith @dave_smith77]

@Lowkey0nline Evil, evil fuckers

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

No big fan of Tucker Carlson but I love the way he completely and utterly exposes the dirty tactic of calling anyone who opposes genocide, aggressive wars or is critical of Israel, an antisemite. It’s failed and it’s disgusting. Anyone who continues to head in that direction has no right to call themselves a journalist - they are propagandists for a genocidal state.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Any broadcaster airing Wes Streeting on the future funding of the NHS should, for transparency, also show the people and companies linked to private health who are paying him to say it.