Martin Scanlon

Opinions mine. Happily retired. Save the NHS from profiteering.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

And this is the same system which Britain helped created and the US helped maintain for decades now.

[Martin Scanlon @redmjs]

@limebike this needs urgent sorting. St John’s Hill SW11. On the bridge

[Martin Scanlon @redmjs]

@BobbyVylan 👍

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

“IF I MUST DIE” 
BY REFAAT ALAREER
(09/23/1979-12/06/2023)

If I must die, 
you must live 
to tell my story 
to sell my things 
to buy a piece of cloth 
and some strings, 
(make it white with a long tail) 
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza 
while looking heaven in the eye 
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze— 
and bid no one farewell 
not even to his flesh 
not even to himself— 
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above 
and thinks for a moment an angel is there 
bringing back love 
If I must die 
let it bring hope 
let it be a tale

[Evolve Politics @evolvepolitics]

This is a genuinely fantastic interrogation from Zack Polanski - leading to some truly pathetic responses and blatant distraction techniques from Sadiq Khan.

It’s precisely how you expose the moral corruption of the UK establishment.

[DemolitionWatchLdn💙 @DemolitionsLdn]

So it looks like Steve Reed is going to housing what a joke - the man who chaired the Nine Elms development that delivered 1000s of high value homes with hardly any affordable let alone social rented homes and don’t even mention Lambeth and Croydon - absolute nightmare

[DemolitionWatchLdn💙 @DemolitionsLdn]

Given Stevie’s form it will be let’s get council estate demolishing again ! A sense of dread for the future of our council estates not forgetting his disastrous chairing of the Nine Elms development look how 💩 that turned out on social rent numbers

[ACORN the union @ACORNunion]

Every council home sold without replacement deepens the housing crisis. Selling off our safety net while people face record waits and sky-high rents is indefensible. We need a government that will build public homes and protect them for the future not continue to sell them off!

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

First govt claimed they got that ludicrous £100bn to nationalise the water industry came from a think tank report. Then it claimed didn't because the idea was totally rubbish, transpired the report had been bought and paid for by water companies.

Then it claimed it had been calculated internally by civil servants at @DefraGovUK independent of everyone else. Then it didn't because the idea was also rubbish, transpired there was no independent Defra calculation it was all based on the same rubbish, totally makeup, totally factious @Ofwat's regulatory capital value, the one that also claims that @thameswater is worth a mind melting £21,008,425,000.

Blistering letter calling govt out for its deceit from the People's Commission.

https://t.co/O5N8THe3Za

[APPEAL (Centre for Criminal Appeals) @APPEALcharity_]

Justice at Last: Errol Campbell—framed by corrupt & racist Det Sgt Derek Ridgewell—has had his conviction posthumously quashed by the Court of Appeal after almost 50 years.
He was represented by @MattFoot2
📖 Read more: https://t.co/TC6gesRzIM
📸 Photo credit: Jess Hurd, 2025

[MSF International @MSF]

The Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid. In one month, 500+ have been killed for seeking food.

The Israeli authorities must revert to a principled humanitarian system, coordinated by the UN.

https://t.co/wr81qwjpFw

[APPEAL (Centre for Criminal Appeals) @APPEALcharity_]

Last night, APPEAL and @JusticeHQ launched the #PayUp4TimeSpent campaign in Parliament.

We’re demanding compensation for those wrongly convicted — because time stolen must be paid for.

Support the fight for justice: https://t.co/EXC4YsEE9d

#WrongfulConvictions #JusticeMatters

[Squinter @squinteratn]

Some journalists here harrumph about Kneecap like retired Home Counties colonels reading the paper over breakfast.
Others demand the rappers are treated like they're MLAs.
Meanwhile, here's a piece from the Express.
The Daily Express, ffs.
https://t.co/ZXQSM6y030

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.

RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.

[APPEAL (Centre for Criminal Appeals) @APPEALcharity_]

"A new system should be introduced which immediately provides proper financial and psychological support to all wrongful conviction survivors."

Andy Malkinson writing for The i Paper:

https://t.co/E9EIT8Jt2b

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"We have to be alive to the fact that there could be other miscarriages of justice."

Emma Torr with APPEAL tells @JackieLongC4 how the case of Peter Sullivan's wrongful conviction shows a need to review the handling of testing new DNA evidence:

https://t.co/kAcSuqGQNZ

[Martin Scanlon @redmjs]

NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill https://t.co/V3l4D3UhxW via @38degrees

[APPEAL (Centre for Criminal Appeals) @APPEALcharity_]

Join APPEAL's @MattFoot2 in conversation with @NicoleFarhiLtd hosted by @TorinDouglas on Thursday 1 May to explore how miscarriages of justice occur, and how art can be a powerful force for truth-telling and change - https://t.co/2THmognKOD

[APPEAL (Centre for Criminal Appeals) @APPEALcharity_]

Survivors of miscarriages of justice in the UK have very little support upon release.

Our @CathRoseSnow1 (@ChurchillFship Fellow) will be embarking on a journey of discovery in the US - what lessons can we learn from across the pond?

Read more 👇

https://t.co/Fewq7SFhNB

[APPEAL (Centre for Criminal Appeals) @APPEALcharity_]

""I just burst out crying," says Brian Buckle, recalling the moment he read the rejection letter from the Ministry of Justice after applying for compensation."

The brutal miscarriage of justice compensation test must be scrapped #PayUp4TimeSpent

https://t.co/1KLMVJVlCO