tony rowell

Activist, socialist, environmentalist, hopeful and always optimistic. Corgi owner.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

F-35 jets play a key role in the war crimes committed by the Israeli state.

Keir Starmer is refusing to stop providing components for those jets.

That means @zarahsultana has got him to incriminate himself on the record.

One day, this answer will be repeated in court.

[tony rowell @imtonyr]

What is the point of Labour?

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Keir Starmer is asked whether he will "do what is morally and legally right and end the government's complicity in war crimes" in the Middle East.

Starmer's response: "No"
#DCUKParliament

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Scrapping the two-child limit is the most cost-effective way to reduce child poverty — and would lift 300,000 children out of poverty

It would cost less than 1% of the welfare bill to implement.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

More than 10,000 children have been pushed into poverty since Keir Starmer took office.

And 109 kids are being pushed into poverty every day while Labour keeps the two-child limit in place.

The societal cost of child poverty is at least £38,000,000,000 a year.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Why is the 'liberal' media peddling the vilest genocide apologism?

I can't put this strongly enough. Howard Jacobson's article in today’s Observer newspaper may be one the vilest pieces of journalism published in Britain in living memory, arguing that any reporting of Israel's documented slaughter of many thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza is a "blood libel" and antisemitic. It is pure genocide apologism.

But far worse is the fact that the Guardian Media Group signed off his column. This isn't the work of one Zionist loon. A whole army of journalists brought it to print.

And note: Jacobson, odious as he is, isn't responsible for the choice of photo. That is entirely down to the Observer newsroom.

I worked at both the Guardian and the Observer, its Sunday sister paper, for many years. The comment editor, the photo editor, the revise sub-editor, the Observer's chief editor and all the section heads would have approved not only Jacobson's text but that photo too.

What on earth did they all imagine that "illustrative" photo of a blood-smeared doll suggested?

* That the many thousands of children blown to pieces by Israeli bombs are a fiction.

* That all the children decomposing under rubble are made up.

* That all the unidentified children buried in Gaza's sands are a lie.

* That all the children dying of epidemics like polio or starving to death from Israel's aid blockade are an invention.

That any single journalist imagined for a moment that this was an acceptable article or photo in the midst of a genocide is astounding enough.

But that a whole phalanx of the most influential and “liberal” journalists in the country backed it without a second thought tells us something about the depraved culture that passes for journalism in the western establishment media.

These elite journalists are completely divorced from reality. They have no moral core, they live and work as fanatical ideologues for western supremacism. They are as racist as their forebears who cheerled Britain's subjugation and colonisation of the rest of the globe.

There is no hope of ever having a healthy world as long as these war-mongers and genocide apologists are allowed to remain in charge of shaping our consciousness.

[tony rowell @imtonyr]

@BBCPolitics Why are you giving this homicidal maniac airtime?

[tony rowell @imtonyr]

@Ed_Miliband Delusional

[Laura Pidcock @LauraPidcock]

“46% of children in Elswick, 42% in Arthur’s Hill & the city centre, and 38% in Benwell are living below the breadline”

The two child cap is unconscionable!

What you saying @KiMcGuinness & @ChiOnwurah?

Brilliant work @FoodandSol

https://t.co/SKmNzM22ke

[Simon Nixon @Simon_Nixon]

Johnson thought Brexit was a debating competition. He is beyond contempt

[tony rowell @imtonyr]

Share this article from Bylines https://t.co/pQ8gEJioYW

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Completely devastating film.

This is the type of journalism that changes the world.

History will damn anyone who had anything to do with these unspeakable crimes.

Thank you @PulaRJS and @AJEnglish👇
https://t.co/tBd2AXcz3v

[All-African People's Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) @AAPRP]

Regardless of who wins the US election:
The White House will be occupied by a pro imperialist
The War Machine will continue
The pre-eminence of finance capitalism will be maintained
The police state will still be advanced
The people's resistance to all of it will increase

[Fgoraz 🇵🇸🇿🇦🇾🇪🍉 @FGorazdowski]

Excellent from Owen Jones.

Credit where it is due.

[tony rowell @imtonyr]

@Ed_Miliband. Check this out

[The Restart Project @RestartProject]

Celebrate #RepairDay by having a go at repairing something you own and giving your stuff a second lease on life! 🎉⁠
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Find the map of global events at: https://t.co/JvV3ZQd0wj 🌎️

[The Restart Project @RestartProject]

Whether it’s our electronics, clothing, furniture, cars… we need to be using our things for longer🪛
⁠
Let's take a laptop - 80% of emissions happen before it even gets into the user’s hands. Meaning the best way to prevent them is to keep your existing laptop running💻🏃‍♀️

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Labour has continued British participation in the Gaza genocide.

Ministers must face justice at the Hague.

[tony rowell @imtonyr]

@guardian Should mistakenly be in inverted commas?

[NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing @NoSaudiToon]

Imagine a Labour council going cap in hand to a bloody, human rights-abusing dictatorship, begging them to pay for free school meals for kids from poor families....
@NewcastleCC
https://t.co/lVBEbIMFiv