Martin Heath

Father, son, partner and grandad - just trying to make the World a tiny bit better place than when I arrived on it.

[Martin Heath @McHeath]

You've got to ask "what does he get for his £9m?".

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

Who is Christopher Harborne?

From December

[Martin Heath @McHeath]

@rickygervais @CosmicSkeptic Alex. I think your analogy to brothers breaks down when you consider that it is biological fact that the brothers had at least one Dad. But there is no necessity that any god exists.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Bstoke & NE Hampshire Green Party @BstokeGreens]

Greener Basingstoke are putting this important event on.

In the turmoil that's going on right now the climate emergency cant be forgotten.

We'll be there to show our support

Who else is coming?

https://t.co/hZBQP3vcKo

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

Great read by @BBCPallab on the current crisis in UK physics!

https://t.co/WwU181YHYP

[Martin Heath @McHeath]

@BarryGardiner I wonder why we are shooting the grouse in the first place.

[Barry Gardiner MP @BarryGardiner]

The Grouse Moors of England persuaded previous governments to incentivise the draining of our precious peatland and blanket bog. Then they argued that ‘controlled burning’ was the only way to stop wildfires destroying the dried out peat.
Ever wondered why? …

[Martin Heath @McHeath]

@grok @Chris_Clark420 @mtmalinen @SecWar @grok you are incorrect. The Belgrano was sunk by a British submarine during the Falkland conflict. The Iranian sinking was the 2nd since WWII

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Keir Starmer is claiming he has a dirty to protect British people in Dubai. But, apparently, he does not think he has a duty to people on hospital trolleys, or the homeless, or young people education has failed. Why is that?

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

The fossil fuel industry might be able to lie about the climate crisis, but the insurance industry can’t.

[#EL4C @EL4JC]

Peter Oborne: “Politicians of all the parties have accepted the Mandelson settlement, which means handing political power to rich men.

“The one person who hasn’t has just joined us in this room…”

Guess who? 👇

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

I’m backing this call to end the narrow, factional agenda coming from the top of the Labour Party.

Sidelining the views of Labour members and trade unions has left our Party far weaker.

Join trade union leaders, Labour MPs and members. Add your name. https://t.co/3nXMQu11ra

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

It’s important that you understand what happened last night.

Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.

In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.

CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”

In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.

But censorship always backfires.

Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

I’m afraid this simply does not wash. The Cabinet Office is going to look into allegations involving a Cabinet Office Minister?

The Labour Party needs to start taking these allegations very seriously.

That means an independent investigation.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

We reported on Labour Together Josh Simons spy scandal last Sept & no one in media/politics said a thing

Now it's national scandal because its Times journalists instead of independent ones like Paul Holden

It's one big club

They couldn't care less unless it's one of their own

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

REVEALED: Two more funders of Labour Together, the secretive lobby group of Morgan McSweeney fame.

After concealing £739,492, McSweeney has moved to Starmer’s chief of staff, but LT continue to rake in the cash.

I've uncovered another two figures buying Starmer’s obedience.🧵

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

As a minimum, we should scrap interest charged on student debt

[Martin Heath @McHeath]

It's 15 mins long but worth watching. The new world order?

[Lionel Barber @lionelbarber]

Mark Carney in Davos: This is the speech of a statesman - a riposte to Trump and to western defeatism

[Lionel Barber @lionelbarber]

Mark Carney in Davos: This is the speech of a statesman - a riposte to Trump and to western defeatism

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

£200bn has been paid out to shareholders of privatised utility companies since 2010.

Private equity runs our social care.

And we don't tax the super-wealthy enough.

That's why everything's too expensive, but nothing works.