'It’s a of law of racial gravity – for every claim of a racist action there is a wildly unequal and disproportionate reaction.'
This week's column on being forced to care about golliwogs, and then punished for it.
https://t.co/47gZTduxCG
"No one would put their children in a boat unless the sea is safer than the land..."
Warsan Shire
Before you cast an opinion about asylum and immigration, please take a moment to listen to this poem read by the brilliant Sir Jonathan Pryce CBE.
@chooselove@GaryLineker
Dear @sajidjavid
My elderly patient couldn’t even afford the bus fare to my surgery, so she walked 25 mins in this freezing weather for her appointment.
…& you want to CHARGE patients £20 for a GP appointment?! Do you all just not give a damn about our country’s poorest?! 🤬
It's clear that Nadhim Zahawi avoided or tried to avoid paying millions of pounds in taxes! So, in order for this country to carry on pretending we have a modern and fair democracy. This man must be sacked!!! A petition to have him sacked is a must. ReTweet if you agree
MPs just voted on a motion to remove private schools' £1,700,000,000 tax break.
That could pay for free school meals for *all* primary school pupils almost twice over.
But Tory MPs voted it down, choosing to protect elite private schools, not improve opportunities for all kids.
@missmerica Enjoy you - all that worrying about how you come across is an utter waste of time/energy and stifles connection and delight.
Explore - even dead ends can yield great treasures. Not everything has to be a stepping stone.
Celebrate your youthful body - it’s incredible!
"Ministers have no idea how many beaches in England shut due to sewage"
So it’s not enough that our rivers & seas stink of sewage.
But by having to close our beaches WCs are now dedicating how, when & where we even take our children on holiday.
https://t.co/hEc6K7nKUO
Loved this when it first came out and still cry each time I see it. Respect and gratitude to all the teachers who bring transformation by pouring in hope 🙌❤️
8:23am Friday morning.
From the Bristol Channel to the Thames Estuary, sewage dumping on an organised, industrial scale all of it caused by just 2 companies, @SouthWestWater & @SouthernWater.
And the @DefraGovUK, @Ofwat & @EnvAgency does what exactly?
It's not just a general election we need. It's a complete democratic makeover. It should begin with getting the money out of politics, and full financial transparency for everyone in public life.
And even though I was turfed out of the job after just 45 days because I was in way over my head, I still get paid £115k of taxpayers money every year for the rest of my life… which was nice
To my friends in the media:
This is a time of high drama, I agree. But while you gossip endlesly about who's in and who's out, you have almost entirely ignored the Public Order Bill that was passed in the Commons this week: the most draconian legislation of the modern era.
Please retweet if you want Labour, LibDems and Greens to cooperate at the next election in order to oust the Tories and introduce PR so that we never again have to endure a Tory Government with an eighty seat majority, secured with only 43% of the popular vote.