Ruby Tuke

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The true cost of nationalising water is close to nothing. No one pays full price for bust companies. Very often, they go for £1. Why do ministers keep lying, or are they really stupid enough not to know?

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Note that the suffragettes took far more extreme action than anything Palestine Action has done.

They burned down private homes, killing five, attacked churches and set off bombs.

MPs celebrated them, then voted to designate non-violent opponents of genocide as terrorists.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Actually we're "shocked and frustrated" by genocide.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”

— Omar El Akkad

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The situation in the Gaza Strip is increasingly worrying and painful. I renew my heartfelt appeal to allow the entry of dignified humanitarian aid and to bring an end to the hostilities, whose heart-rending price is borne by children, the elderly, and the sick.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Stop selling arms to Israel then.

[Peace & Justice Project @corbyn_project]

This is too little, too late from the British government who are now desperately trying to save face after more than 18 months of complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza.

We will never let them forget their role in the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

World leaders can make as many statements as they like opposing Israel's actions in Gaza.

Until they end the sale of weapons to Israel, they remain complicit in the mass murder of Palestinians.

Stop arming genocide, now.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

On Saturday the Co-op Group held its annual general meeting, where members voted on a motion to “cease all trading with Israel.” The motion passed with a majority of 72%.

Coop has 3735 locations across the UK and the ban could come into effect as early as this summer.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

But the problem at the BBC is a sports presenter, right?

[Jon Smalldon @jonsmalldon]

Thirty plus years of dividends instead of thirty plus years of investment.
In unrelated news, Southern Water have just texted about 100,000 people in Hastings & St Leonards to tell us they've burst another pipe and soon a whole chunk of the town will be without water for days.

[Apsana Begum MP @ApsanaBegumMP]

Where is the outrage now that mass graves have been found in Gaza?

Why don’t we know more about the bodies found with hands tied & clothing stripped?

Where is the wall-to-wall coverage of this?

Where is the international condemnation?

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

This would be a perfect time for @Keir_Starmer to clarify his plan for water. Public ownership is the only way to get a grip, so why won't @UKLabour back it?

[Ruby Tuke @RubyTuke]

Here’s a man dishing out free food to anyone hungry at today’s #PeaceMarch. Encapsulates the spirit of those who were here to support Palestinian rights.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

I spoke to protest organisers earlier in the week, and they were confident today would be Britain’s largest protest since 2003.

Looks like they were right.

[Ruby Tuke @RubyTuke]

'GCSE results day 2023: My students are so worried about money they are dropping out to work'. My article for the i newspaper @theipaper @Wera_Hobhouse
https://t.co/ZysDR79yhT #GCSE

[@Izin_A @Izin_A]

.@RubyTuke came across her GCSE resit student working in the park

Bright and capable, he had dropped out of college at 19 for a manual labour job, because he needed to pay his bills

On #gcseresultsday2023 , students like him will likely be forgotten

https://t.co/G9auUeu1nc

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Trade Unions. What did they ever do for us?