Powerful moment in Lampedusa today as the Pope Leo climbs to the highest rock overlooking the Mediterranean where thousands of migrants drowned while seeking a better life.
We become MPs at the same time. I had to declare my final wage from the job I held BEFORE becoming an MP because it was within 12 months of the election.
In what universe would one MP need to declare that and another not have to declare this?
The British jewish doctor who said he didn't shoot enough babies is finally being investigated by the @gmcuk.
But he retains a full medical licence.
Over 11,000 people signed the @FriendsofAlAqsa petition calling for his immediate suspension and, if allegations are substantiated, striking off.
Jewish doctors in the UK can boast about shooting children and continue working— but non‑jewish doctors who speak out against those same crimes are suspended.
Staveley is being allowed to continue treating the British public. Including your children. Your babies.
The same Staveley who called for babies to be sniped and for Gaza and the West Bank to be 'razed to the ground'.
This is how the GMC prioritises zionists over public safety.
This is the two‑tier system. This is supremacy.
Huge respect to Paul Powlesland who is willing to risk prison to clean up our rivers @paulpowlesland@Telegraph
For the past three months, Paul Powlesland has been a marked man – pursued by anonymous officials at England’s Environment Agency for the unlikely crime of cleaning a river without a licence
Powlesland tells The Telegraph that, if they were able to put him in prison, he would serve his sentence, "then I would come out and I would do exactly the same thing again" ⤵️
https://t.co/yfsE5VBbpe
Reform looks increasingly less like a political party and more a private syndicate, populated by hoods and dodgy donors, whose aim is Farage
‘s self-enrichment and, when/if he wins power, their own. The disillusioned working class just prey. Important, revelatory journalism.
THE JOURNALIST WHO BROKE CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA WAS THANKED WITH A £1 MILLION LEGAL BILL
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla exposed one of the biggest political scandals in modern British history. Cambridge Analytica. Brexit dark money. Possible Russian influence in UK democracy. The kind of journalism that wins Pulitzer nominations and keeps people in power very nervous.
So what happened next?
Arron Banks the man who made the biggest single political donation in UK history at around £9 million to Brexit campaigns, sued her personally. Not The @observer , which published her work for years. Not @TEDTalks, which hosted her talk. Her. Individually. A freelance journalist.
The suit was over one sentence in a 2019 TED Talk and a single tweet, in which she said Banks had lied about a secret relationship with the Russian government. Banks denied it. He had, however, admitted meeting Russian embassy officials multiple times more than he originally told a Parliamentary committee.
@guardian, her own publisher, declined to fund her defence.
She crowdfunded her legal costs from 29,000 members of the public.
She faced potential costs of up to £1 million. She eventually won on the main issues in the High Court in 2022, but lost on appeal on one narrow point.
She was ordered to pay Banks £35,000 in damages, issue an apology, and delete certain tweets. She was also hit with a costs order of over £1 million.
The woman who exposed how democracy gets bought had to beg the public for money to stay solvent while doing it.
Seventeen press freedom organisations called the case an attempt to intimidate and silence public interest journalism. The UK government eventually introduced anti-SLAPP legislation. Partly because of what happened to her.
In the UK, you can crowdfund a journalist's survival costs after she exposes the possible corruption of a referendum ..
.. Or you can fund the laws that protect journalists before they get financially destroyed.
We chose the first option.
As the NHS enters, today, its 79th year, how I wish I wasn’t filled with foreboding.
I believe - & always will - that the NHS is one of the most beautiful expressions of British decency this country possesses. Its basic underlying principle - that we, as a society, resolve to come together to ensure that each of us receives health care we need, irrespective of ability to pay - is pure, radical altruism.
But today’s reality is bleak. Hospital trusts are now so overwhelmed with patients that running out of hospital beds is the least of it. We don’t have enough corridors in which to put the patients. We don’t even have enough trolleys.
Imagine, for a moment, being a patient with terminal cancer with so much fluid in your belly you need about 6 or 8 litres drained away. But you can’t have the drain that would relieve your agony. Why? Because you can’t lie flat. Why? Because you’re sitting a hard plastic chair - & you’ve been there for 48 hours, waiting in vain for something to lie on. This is pain caused not by cancer per se - but by the NHS being so overwhelmed it can’t even procure you a trolley. Avoidable agony - the very worst kind.
Yet I see the Dept of Health is crowing today about "a major rollout of new AI tools to cut waiting lists” - as if spending billions on unproven AI is a panacea because, hey, who needs doctors & nurses when we have computers?
Can I please - and forgive the crude language – just call out this bullshit for what it is?
The government knows full well that its refusal to address the crisis in social care is one of the key reasons for hospital overcrowding. So too is the deliberate running down of general practice, meaning patients have nowhere else to go but A&E. So too is the substitution of highly trained staff with cheaper alternatives - pretending this the deliberate dilution of expertise is ‘efficiency’.
I could go on.
But, like everyone in the NHS, I am so utterly, soul-crushingly weary of weapons’ grade political dishonesty about the NHS. Spin, faux jauntiness & blind faith in big tech - all while frontline staff like me look the patients in the eyes as they suffer & suffer & suffer.
A letter to Yvette Cooper, signed by 71 cross-party MPs and peers, says the "systematic and well-documented torture of Palestinian civilians lies with the government of Israel, including Prime Minister Netanyahu" @SkyNews
BREAKING
84 year old Reverend Sue Parfitt arrested under the UK Terrorism Act for giving speech outside New Scotland Yard on the anniversary of the proscription of Palestine Action.
Stood on a soap box, Sue explained her motivation.
Join the Escalation: https://t.co/vqXWFPPScY
I am gravely concerned by reports of a severe deterioration in the condition of Dr. Abu Safiyah.
We reiterate our demands for his release, along with all other doctors being held without charge.
You want to know who else has qs to answer? The @spectator. It ran interference for Cottrell when a Twitter account appeared posting material now in Sun Times report.
The Spectator twisted it as 'Labour dirty tricks' with zero evidence. And Cottrell hired Carter Ruck.
I still can’t believe Keir Starmer claimed he “restored Britain’s international reputation.”
Here’s a shocked tourist’s reaction to the Palestine Action arrests in Parliament Square last year.
International tourists were stopping and watching in total disbelief the whole day.
In January 2025, Israel had denied it was holding Dr Husam Abu Safiya, only to confirm later that it had in fact detained him.
Dr Abu Safiya’s life is now reported to be in immediate danger.
The UK must demand that Israel release him, now.
Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars. Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. All we want is clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.
In ten days time with your help we can cap how much money anyone can personally give to a political cause and any chance millionaires can buy our politics. If you agree share this and ask your MP to co sign the amendment. It’s time we made sure it’s democracy not donations that define our future.