Shona Black 💙

Edinburgh based Project and Events Manager interested in entrepreneurship, sustainability, tourism, tech, food & events around town. Views are my own.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Ed Davey, "Our economy will not grow strongly again unless we repair our broken relationship with Europe"

"Removing the Conservatives Brexit trade barriers would be a massive boost for British jobs, British business, and the British economy"

"But by ruling out important steps like the youth mobility scheme, or key long term goals like membership of the EU Single Market, the Labour government are trying to grow economy with one arm tied behind it's back"

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

In under 4 years, the Taliban has systematically erased Afghan women from society.

Just yesterday, Afghan women were banned from hearing one another’s voices.

For Afghan women, this 2010 photograph by Boushra Almutawakel is not an abstract commentary, it is a lived reality.

[Rosie Holt @RosieisaHolt]

I do not understand why what is going on in Afghanistan is not bigger news. Women now banned from “hearing other women’s voices” https://t.co/TVWg85VeE1

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

The dangers of a collapse of the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, known as AMOC, have been “greatly underestimated” and would have devastating and irreversible impacts, according to an open letter by 44 experts from 15 countries.
https://t.co/dEEj6epGtP

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

Unbelievably, there is at least a 40% chance of the #AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) collapsing within 25 years. We could be facing impacts similar to the Younger Dryas period - within the lifetimes of most people alive today. #Climate #Mitigation is Urgent.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

probably fine, don’t listen to scientists, the world is regularly meant to be underwater 🤿🐟🐠🐡

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Fasial Islam, "The budget hole the Treasury are trying to bridge with tax rises is £40 billion a year."

Right: "Brexit costs the government £40 billion a year in lost tax revenue"

A remarkable coincidence that the budget hole Labour have found equates to the loss in tax revenues from trade with the EU caused by Brexit

If Labour joined the EU Single Market, this problem goes away

But because Labour will keep the UK out of the EU Single Market, we either have tax rises or fewer services

The only third option is for Labour to borrow to invest, which wouldn't be a bad idea. But any reduction in public services is squarely down to Brexit

In 2016, Boris Johnson and the Brexiters blamed the EU for a lack of public services in the UK. How ironic that now without the EU Single Market we either raise taxes, or borrow further, to fund public services

What a shambles

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Very few people realise that the vast majority of hospice and palliative care is provided by charity - not by the NHS.

I think this is a national scandal.

Please RT if you do too 🙏

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

🔥 Oof, this is beautiful.

@Tessadunlop effortlessly roasts both Rees-Mogg and Redwood on 14 years of economic failure, why austerity 2.0 won’t work, and how the ideology of Brexit spiked the UK economy whilst giving a second economic boost to Dublin.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

I beg to differ with the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy.

The U.K. should give Isreal 48 hours to allow sufficient aid into Gaza - or institute a full arms embargo and, if necessary, sanctions.

Endless ceasefire talks won’t prevent Palestinian children starving to death.

[Dr Rosena @DrRosena]

We must suspend all arms exports to Israel immediately.

Why this is still up for discussion, while civilians continue to be brutally killed, is simply incomprehensible.

The murder and destruction in Gaza and beyond, is morally reprehensible and sickening.

[Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu @SholaMos1]

Exactly this!!!!!

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Human rights groups say this proposed plan would likely starve civilians and is a clear violation of international law, which prohibits using food as a weapon of war.

[Otto English @Otto_English]

Former MI6 head hammers Brexit and says:

Britain is now irrelevent

France has eclipsed us

Putin will have been absolutely delighted by our decision to leave the EU. So will Xi Jinping.

Russia is weaker than us but felt emboldened to invade Ukraine through our serial weakness

[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

Private jets migrating to another climate change conference

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Do it

Sanctions

Sanctions

And more sanctions.

[Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk]

It is an unspeakable tragedy that innocent children continue to be killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, with another 20 children becoming the latest victims of this conflict.

A school being used as a shelter in central Gaza was shelled, killing at least 22 people, including 15 children.

In a separate incident, five children were reportedly killed by a drone strike while playing on a street corner in northern Gaza.

We simply cannot accept the violence that Palestinian children continue to face as normal.

We are continuing to urge the UK government to use their power and influence to secure an immediate, definitive ceasefire, and suspend all arms sales to the Government of Israel.

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Israel deliberately targets refugees in hospitals, schools & destroying vaccination sites. Innocent people being burned alive.

Every day, we witness unimaginable horrors & complete disregard for international law.

No sanctions, just more arms. Failure and complicity. For shame.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

How TF is this not collective punishment?

How TF is this not a war crime?

You were supposed to be a human rights lawyer @Keir_Starmer

What about their rights?

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

NASA warned us in 1988. David Attenborough calls climate change humans biggest security threat in thousands of years.
How many times have The Daily Mail, The Sun, The Telegraph or The Times put these warnings on their covers in 36 years? Hardly ever.