Tom Mooland

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@Goodfella700207 @itvfootball You joking? She's a world class manager, with better insight than any other pundit on TV.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

The Soho Society's decision to oppose all new and extended licence applications is the wrong one - it's bad for London.

Once in force, new licensing powers I’ve been granted by Government, coupled with our bold new proposals to support London’s hospitality and nightlife, will help us protect venues, extend London's late-night offer and allow the capital’s nightlife to flourish.

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@ACAPeckham From that angle it's objectively better than the car park which is currently there.

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@mongrelcelt @BenedictSm55625 @lb_southwark "The number of children being born in Southwark has reduced by 36% since 2010, with nearly 1900 fewer children each year – equivalent to 62 classes of children"
https://t.co/UBKtGdMYCG

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@ACAPeckham It's not the best looking development. But it would have been 800+ homes. Congratulations on winning your campaign. I hope you'll turn your efforts to working to find a solution that works for Peckham and the homes it desperately needs.

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@mongrelcelt @BenedictSm55625 @lb_southwark School rolls are falling in Peckham and schools have already closed.

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@SimonFosterSays @Sam_Dumitriu Foreign investors buying zone 2 mid market new builds and leaving them empty long term?

There's plenty of lights on in the Elephant new builds. The people in them would otherwise be living somewhere else.

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@jumpnarcissus @lb_southwark As if the site isn't already a massive car park. It's an absolute eyesore. Anything would be less harmful than it's current use.

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@lb_southwark Long live the Morrisons Car Park.

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@MrsNickyClark He didn't even beat Ed Balls

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@Layo_FH Completely shocked, and saddened, by the Peckham ward result. Labour councillors were well known and always engaged with residents. Just cannot picture those green candidates winning this ward. Wish them well, it's a great place to serve.

[habibi @habibi_uk]

We must pull together wherever we can. It is not all darkness. Some of these signatories have braved atrocious Islamist hatred. There are scars in common, and goals too. A new letter in The Times.

British Muslims hear you. The silence on antisemitism is deafening

We as British Muslims hear you. Antisemitism in the UK has worsened dramatically since October 7, 2023. On one side, the drumbeat has been raucous and relentless; on the other, the response has been weak and underwhelming. This cannot go on.

We have watched with alarm how legitimate protest has been used by some to normalise slogans, symbols and rhetoric that glorify violence. Sometimes it is explicit but more often is messaged through a series of subtle codes: a refusal to condemn; an equivocation or equivalence; triangle hand-signs; gliding parachutes and endless placards with antisemitic imagery and tropes. This is unacceptable and inexcusable — as it would be with any other form of racism or bigotry. This includes assigning collective responsibility of Jews for the actions of the Israeli government.

Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby were killed last October while attending a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur simply for being Jewish. Jewish communal buildings and assets have been attacked in a pattern of sustained menace. Synagogues and ambulances have been firebombed. Jews have been violently attacked on our streets.

The scale and intensity of attacks against the British Jewish community is horrifying. But so is the silence and lack of condemnation. After the shocking murder of George Floyd in the US, widespread protests and solidary demonstrations occurred across our own country. Hundreds of thousands participated in more than 260 towns and cities. Yet when our own fellow citizens, colleagues and friends are attacked, murdered and intimidated, no such solidarity is offered. This only adds to the anxiety and fear of our Jewish neighbours.

No other community endures the indignity of private security outside almost all of its communal buildings, places of worship or, perhaps most appallingly, schools. It is unconscionable and intolerable. These attacks on Jews also undermine our collective social values and the contract which underwrites our society. Indeed, the Jewish experience provides a great example for our own community of successful integration: loyal, committed, but also distinct.

There will not be a quick or easy solution to this — as much as we would like one.

To start, we need to face uncomfortable realities. It is tempting to explain away the current crisis as an aberration inflamed by the privations of current conflicts in the Middle East. That belies the facts.

The existence of antisemitic hate among the far right and far left cannot be disputed. Neither can the hate from some of our fellow co-religionists. Evidence has repeatedly shown how those involved in acts of Islamist terrorism and violence also harbour hatred for Jews. Malik Faisal Akram, who flew from Blackburn to the United States in 2022, took four people hostage at a synagogue in Texas. A few years earlier, one of the most prolific online supporters of Isis, operating under the name “Lone Mujahid”, spent weeks calling for attacks on synagogues, Jewish businesses, schools and communal events across Britain.

These are just two examples in a long and shameful list. The status quo cannot go on and will need all of us to both challenge and change such hatred wherever it exists in our communities.

Government must lead the way. They should close the gaps in legislation which permit glorification of terrorism and incite hatred as identified in the official report Operating with Impunity. The criminal justice system needs to adopt a swifter response towards those breaking existing laws. Social media companies should adopt a zero-tolerance policy against antisemitism and enforce their existing standards which too frequently does not occur. Priority for interfaith and cohesion projects should be given to those skilled and able to encourage dialogue where anger and hatred exists.

We also call upon Muslim communal and religious leadership to be more robust in challenging antisemitism whenever and wherever it appears in our communities, as with any form of racism. To openly support those Muslims who are working to strengthen Jewish engagement but find themselves intimidated by other Muslims who are hostile to such important work. To demonstrate how Islam’s rich tradition encourages dialogue and bridge-building, as opposed to bridge-burning advocated by those who despise Jews.

We say to our Jewish friends and neighbours: we see you, we hear you and we are with you. We see the community attacked, targeted and intimidated. As your fellow citizens, we stand with you against the antisemitic hate you face. We stand with you not just for you — though you have our unqualified support — but also to save our democracy whose values and system are under assault from the same dark forces which target you.

Dame Sara Khan, former counterextremism commissioner
Dr Shiraz Maher, reader in non-state actors, department of war studies, King’s College London
Shabir Randeree, chairman, DCD London & Mutual plc
Sheikh Dr Usama Hasan, Islamic scholar and theologian
Rashad Ali, senior fellow, Institute of Strategic Dialogue
Imam Asim Hafiz, Iman and chaplain
Iman Atta, director, Tell Mama
Oz Katerji, Ukraine correspondent, TVP World
Fiyaz Mughal, founder, Muslims Against Antisemitism
Jas Ahmad, associate professor, Middlesex University
Dr Salah al-Ansari, associate editor, Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law and Practice
Mohammed Amin

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@ChrisTeamvid @CarolineLucas @TheGreenParty Didn't David Millar go to Nasrallah's funeral?

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@joerichlaw @lukerobertblack @thetimes Feel for the people in Hackney who need sensible local government. Labours record there speaks for itself

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@LiamShrivastava I found this a pretty cheap attack. I want to understand your plans for more housing in Lewisham. Which sites will you develop, and how will you fund these? I couldn't find any detail in manifesto.

[habibi @habibi_uk]

I must say, this message from the Lewisham Green Party candidate Rebecca Jones would make for an excellent slogan for the Green Party in 2026.

She is an NHS GP, by the way.

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@Layo_FH 100% this. Was baffled when the Greens in Peckham latched on to the anti-Aylesham trying to stop the development of a car park.

But as no big development will ever be 100% social housing they keep the fantasy that it's altruism not nimbyism

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

Yes he is like I said I'm not a Matt Lucas fan at all. I have constantly criticised him for Little Britain especially Vicky Pollard. And yet I also know that a stranger aggressively approaching a Jewish person randomly trying to make them say Free Palestine is racist. And if you are an anti racist thats what you do you call it out

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@Colin00007 @Frencheconomics France shows a collapse in production in 2020 (COVID) and a small recovery since then.

Compare that to the UK chart with production falling from 2017 and now further below 2020 levels.

[Tom Mooland @MoolandT]

@JamesMcManus1 It's a great strategy to stay in. She could be a genius contestant.