Mary O’Hanlon ☘️

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[Mary O’Hanlon ☘️ @madgesgaff]

One of these days I’ll manage a pavlova that doesn’t crack 🍊 #pavlova #supperclub

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Farewell democracy and the right to protest. The price is a sentence of five years. So, what are you going to do about it ⁦@YvetteCooperMP⁩? https://t.co/xltfuaFOBK

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Is conspiring to stop the traffic, in the cause of raising alarm about climate change, deserving of custodial sentences of five and four years - when so many crimes of violence and thefts go unprosecuted and our prisons have run out of capacity? Does anyone think these sentences do credit to our judicial system? I am bemused

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Russia has just sentenced five climate activists to a whopping 21 years in prison for a PEACEFUL protest.

Oh, wait, did we say Russia? We meant the UK.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Clive's not letting this go - and I'm entirely here for it.

#NotMyKing

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Shoplifting crackdown expected to be unveiled.

What about corporate pickpocketing?

Corporations pick our pockets - water, oil, gas, electricity food, rail, insurance, banks and more.

No curbs on profiteering as corporations fund political parties.
https://t.co/QggIOoQJ17

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Demand that Uni of Leeds cancels punitive action against pro-Palestine Prof. James Dickins - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/LQqJ2PGOgc via @UKChange

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

Good for Alan Duncan This has undoubtedly also been the case with a number of people in the Labour Party. The difference is that few would trust today's Labour Party to conduct any such similar probe remotely fairly. Due process has largely been dumped.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Pressure mounts on Labour to ban arms sales to Israel as new foreign secretary meets with ‘war criminals’: Britain has granted 108 arms export licences to Israel since it escalated its genocidal attacks on Gaza in October https://t.co/3E3SZ8mOIl

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

Alan Milburn and his family have made a huge amount of money from the private health sector- @PeterKGeoghegan has written a v important article (link below!) about this.

If it concerns you that Wes Streeting intends to involve him in plans for the NHS, please retweet this!🚨💙

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Haunted by austerity.

NHS England lacks clinical radiologists, diagnostic scanners.

Diagnostic waiting list is 1,658,221 – doubled in 10 years. 500,000 patients awaiting for CT scans and MRIs.

UK ranked 25 out of 28 countries for scanner availablity.
https://t.co/FOKBZz0KJr

[PalMedia @PalMediaOrg]

Hanan Ashrawi absolutely schools BBC clone Victoria Derbyshire.

[Kevin Courtney @cyclingkev]

ULT’s attack on the Teachers Pension Scheme - a 🧵

The United Learning Trust says that it will offer starting salaries of £45,000 in London to teachers who leave the teacher pension scheme.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Right-wing press is bleating on about hardship on some families paying VAT on private school fees.

Can't remember the same about Cuts in
State school budgets
Wages, public services
Two-child benefit cap
Crony govt contracts
1% having more wealth that 70% of the population.

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

There is no justification for politicians privatising the NHS 🚨
If you agree, RT!💙

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

The world’s first intensive octopus #factoryfarm is not only harmful to these incredible sentient creatures but is also a real risk to public health, wildlife & the environment 🐙
@Act4AnimalsEU
Stop all #FactoryFarming
#CompassionNotCruelty
Pls read: https://t.co/Hu2oGUQ7Xn

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Thames Water failed to invest £1.1bn pounds of your money on sewage works upgrades.

Where is that money, what happened it, where's it gone? Is it part of the £1.8bn cash they claim they have in the bank?

Does @Ofwat have an answer? Not bloody likely.

https://t.co/SWrtcdyHUK

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Labour is promising a 57.5 billion pounds a year increase in "defence" spending to fuel the arms industry.
But claims it cannot afford 3.5 billion pounds a year to lift the two child benefit cap and lift 400,000 children out of child poverty.
Starmer's Tories.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

This is how the establishment media's role in manipulating how we think – "brainwashing under freedom" – works:

Competition is permitted in the news media. But only of a narrow, superficial kind, meant to divide us more usefully into tribal, ideological camps – defined as the left and the right.

Those camps are there to keep us imagining that we enjoy a plurality of ideas, that we are in charge of our response to events, that we elect governments – just as we enjoy a choice between watching the BBC and Fox News.

But our herding into oppositional camps isn’t really about choice. The camps are there to keep us divided, so we can be more easily manipulated and ruled. They are there to obscure from us the deeper reality that the state-corporate media is the public relations arm of an establishment that needs us weak.

To survive, the western power establishment has to engineer two related kinds of popular endorsement:

First, we must consent to the idea that the West has an inalienable right to control the Earth’s resources, even at the cost of committing terrible crimes both against the rest of humanity, such as the current genocide in Gaza, and against other species, as we wreck the natural world in our pursuit of impossible, endless economic growth on a finite planet.

And second, we must consent to the idea that the richest and most powerful elites in the West have an inalienable right to cream off most of the profits from this industrialised rape of our only home.

The media rarely identifies this wasteful, greed system, so normalised has it become. But when given a name, it is called capitalism. It emerges from the shadows only when the media need to confront and ridicule a bogeyman caricature of its main ideological rival, socialism.

The news media have been fantastically successful at making a system of suicidal resource extraction designed to enrich a tiny number of billionaires seem entirely normal to their audiences. Which is why those same billionaires are as keen to own the news media as they are to own politicians. In fact, gain ownership of the media and you own the political class too. It is the ultimate two-for-one offer.

No politician can afford to take on key state-corporate interests, or the media that veils those interests – as Jeremy Corbyn soon found out in the UK a few years back.

Understanding how the media carries out its day-to-day switch and baits, its omissions, deceptions and misdirections, is the key to beginning the process of freeing our minds. If you look to the state-corporate media for guidance, you are already in its clutches. You are already a victim – a victim of your own suffocating ignorance, of your own self-sabotage, of your own death wish.

This is an extract from my latest article Why the news media's job is to groom us. Read more here: https://t.co/rJGo3EEw8z

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Labour’s manifesto committed the incoming government to developing an anti poverty strategy. The first step to lift 490,000 children out of poverty could be scrapping the 2 child cap on benefits. Do this now rather than later to help children immediately. https://t.co/NDoROZyLQN

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

That's The Labour Files showing how senior Labour officials, assisted by the UK media, covertly plotted to make sure Corbyn could never became prime minister.

The Labour Files that no one in the UK media ever talks about.

The Labour Files you can watch on Youtube.