Jo Nicholas

*No longer active here, over on @jojonicholas.bsky.social instead*
Books, tea, open water, trees. Always learning

[Big Green Bookshop @Biggreenbooks]

HUGE BOOK SALE!

I'm having a big clear out. Here's a bookcase worth of books.

I'm selling them at 2 for just £9

ANY TWO BOOKS FOR NINE POUNDS

(free P+P in the UK)

If you want more than 2 let me know and we'll do a deal.

PLEASE RETWEET.

Thank you.

[Carla Denyer @carla_denyer]

Enduring more economic pain and hardship isn’t what people voted for. They were told they were voting for change. Not voting for things to get worse before they get better. Labour needs to be honest about the fact that they could choose to make things better for everyone if they were bolder and braver.

What is being framed as tough choices is actually about political choices. People don’t need a constant reminder that the Tories broke Britain. They need a new approach, not misguided fiscal rules that are set to make things worse.

We must generate the funds needed for investment by shifting the burden away from the poorest onto the wealthiest. Labour’s refusal to tax the super-rich shows that business as usual is very much still in business.

Keir Starmer says the violent riots earlier this month exposed a deeply unhealthy society. But the health of a society can’t be improved if it is forced to swallow the same failed medicine. The government can choose to provide the investment our communities are crying out for. This would help create hope and unleash the goodness of people to improve their communities.

[Jo Nicholas @JojoNicholas]

Absolutely this! Particularly as Peaty himself is delighted with his medal. 3rd Olympics is no mean feat in and of itself!!

[Ruth Boreham @RuthBoreham]

Dear media people. Please stop saying Adam Peaty missed out on gold. He WON silver in his 3rd consecutive olympics, after all the mental health struggles he’s had. That is an AMAZING achievement!!! Can’t we celebrate instead of making it sound like a failure? #OlympicGames

[Jess Phillips @jessphillips]

It is a national emergency, it is a threat to our security and prosperity. I'm glad the Government in every department will finally treat it as such and today's report show policing recognising this too. This cannot simply be words. Deeds is what will count.

[Channel 4 Dispatches @C4Dispatches]

As part of a @Channel4 documentary, disability advocate Sophie Morgan talks about her inspiration to launch ‘Rights on Flights’ and campaigns for airlines to be held accountable for poor treatment of disabled passengers.

[David Challen @David_Challen]

As a child bereaved by fatal domestic abuse, headlines calling a man who killed three women a “nice guy” and “normal person” have felt personally traumatic.

The media called my father a “gentle man” and “nice chap”, which misrepresented the controlling reality that myself and my family experienced for years. It compounded our trauma.

Reporting like this causes so much damage – both to victims’ families, and to public understandings of coercive control. It has to stop. Now.

We need every single newsroom trained in how to report domestic abuse deaths, and to lobby the regulator for stronger rules. The press has the power to prevent further deaths and save women’s lives.

Please support this crowdfunder I’ve started to support @we_level_up’s crucial work to train journalists in their Dignity For Dead Women guidelines.

This takes all of us ➡️ https://t.co/iPJGFUs7Qn

[Jo Nicholas @JojoNicholas]

@janerushtonart Beautiful 😍

[Gary Neville @GNev2]

Morning all, Just in case you need it in the next 24 hours 🛑

https://t.co/48behGZlMv

[Dr Jill Belch @JillBelch]

Studies show insects in Uk down by 70% over the past 10 years. Remember insects pollinate one third of all our food.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Remember, if you don't have a form of voter ID you have until 5pm *TODAY* to apply for one via this link, in order to vote on 4th July.

Don't lose your right to vote because you don't have the right ID. Share far and wide. https://t.co/HDAjZ1DEy9

[Jo Nicholas @JojoNicholas]

Nails it, calmly and succinctly. Step away from polarisation, vote for your community benefit 👌🏻

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Labour could be denied landslide if just 130,000 switch votes This is why talk of supermajority must not stop people voting. You only get them out if you vote them out. They have gone from STOP THE BOATS to STOP THE VOTES. Don’t let them get away with it https://t.co/3nov9ubSy0

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

When I vote I don't want unaffordable tax cuts.

I want hospital beds.

Libraries reopening.

Trains that run on time.

Kids who aren't too hungry to learn.

Rivers that don't run with slurry.

Local councils not bankrupted.

Politicians who don't venally line their own pockets.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

'If we don't act now, we wont have a countryside anymore.'

At the march, Emma Thompson speaks on the importance of restoring nature and how people need to come together to stop the 'disaster' before an election.

[leanahosea @leanahosea]

Pesticides don't just kill pest species, they harm other invertebrates nearby:
Flying insects ⬇️ 60%
Earth worms⬇️1/3
Pollinators ⬇️ 18%
Beneficial predators like🐞 ⬇️ 34%

Pesticide use impacts the whole ecosystem. 🧵 1/9

https://t.co/UfrIOs6lJA

[Jo Nicholas @JojoNicholas]

@WriterHannahBT Our bird watcher...

[Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit]

What happens when you appoint a banker to chair the NHS. And not a very successful banker who was let go by Standard Chartered Bank.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

The moment Farage disclosed his intention to end universal access to healthcare his political career should have ended

Privatisation of the NHS would lead to paying an “excess” each time you use the health service

Millions would go without treatment

He is far from a patriot!

[BBC Question Time @bbcquestiontime]

“If I had to pay £20 more in tax, but my energy bills were reduced… surely that’s what we should be looking at? Rather than saying we need to keep cutting taxes”

This #bbcqt audience member says they are “fine” paying more in tax if they saw more benefits

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Greece - Schools shut as temps hit 40C
Florida - 11 inches of rain in 24 hours swamping cars and stalling everyday life.
Spain - streets turned to rivers after huge rainfall.
This is just in the last 24 hours.
It’s not even the middle of June yet.
This is the consequence of twisted priorities, political corruption, disinformation and apathy.
This is climate change.