Traceylee Harvey

Socialist. Pagan. Mother. Grandmother. Disabled. I am Autistic, ADHD, Dyslexic & Dyspraxic. #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticElders #ADHD #Dyslexic #Dyspraxic

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Before & After…

If anyone doubts the power of community action over the @EnvAgency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself.

With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet.

These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys. These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead. A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference.

A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen. We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London.

The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians *will* be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.

[Linda @t7_linda]

I have an adult son with an intellectual disability. He recieves(d) services throgh the province. Access to a social worker, disability programs, a support worker.
Several months ago someone in disability servces closed his file and ended his access to services. The story from their end is he called and did this himself.
He's intellectually incapable of this task (hence the disability and high need for support)
To say trying to get his services reinstated has been frustrating would be an understatement.
Today I lost my shit. The rudeness and utter incompetence from a supervisor tasked with overseeing these vulnerable adult files blew my mind
I have a university degree and am director at a tech company and I can't budge these people to re-instate his services without going through a re-application process, re-assesment and lengthy wait
What is it like for persons with learning challenges and no advocate?
How many times are services just abrubptly ended and no one checks to see what happened to that vulnerable adult?
No one from disability supports has checked on my son or questioned this apparent decision of his to "end his services". They just cut him off, closed his file and make him fight to regain access.
Its appalling

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

NHS patients face worst drug shortages on record.

All down to Trump's wars, Brexit and British deindustrialisation.

Dependent on imports.

The state can easily mitigate by manufacturing generic drugs. It was a Labour 2019 manifesto pledge.
https://t.co/Zb0ldPdm5H

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

The seven victims were aged 12 and younger. The "systematic" and "shocking" child sex abuse crimes - committed by a group of women and men - took place over nearly a decade in Walsall and Wolverhampton

The 21 were jailed for over 190 years between them

[Miners Strike @Miners_Strike]

#OnThisDay 1984. The infamous police assault upon miners takes place at Orgreave.

At least 79 people were injured in the worst displays of police brutality seen during the #MinersStrike

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

🇮🇱 Clashes are breaking out in Israel between Orthodox Jews and Zionist authorities.

In disturbing footage, Israeli police officers are seen lifting and throwing a child over a separation fence with shocking force.

Thousands of Haredi Jews protest military conscription.

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Remember those horrific pictures of Jews liberated from Auschwitz?

This isn't one.

This is a Palestinian man released after 26 months of Israeli "administrative detention." No charge. No trial. No legal rights.

"Never again" sounds noble. It just turns out it was never meant to apply to everyone.

The Israeli government currently holds roughly 3,500 Palestinians under this system, and has issued more than 100,000 such detention orders since 1967.

October 7th wasn't the start of this. It was a reaction to it.

Why don't we hear anything about this?

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

I am taking the General Medical Council to the High Court.

If you are a British barrister and you want to take this on, please get in touch.

The video below was recorded before the second IOT (24–26 November 2025), which suspended my medical licence for 15 months.

[Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley]

Would the @BoardofDeputies (which has boasted of its “close working relationship with the Embassy of Israel”) care to explain why they lied about the stolen land sell-off at Edgware United Synagogue?

[HutchOnline @Hutch_Online]

Of course they're not.

[Peace & Justice Project @corbyn_project]

Despite claims of so-called ceasefire, Israel has continued to massacre Palestinians with impunity.

This is a genocide aided and abetted by the British government, who continue to provide diplomatic cover, surveillance and arms sales to the IDF.

https://t.co/m6e1y7yAp1

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

“What’re you in for mate?”

“Cleaning a river without a permit. What about you?”

@EnvAgency is really plumbing new depths of malevolent uselessness here.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Over 60 MPs & Lords demand answers over illegal shipments of weaponry from Britain to Israel via Belgium.

This comes after @declassifiedUK, @Vredesactie, @wereontheditch & @palyouthmvmt discovered a suspicious package of military goods bound for Israel.

https://t.co/TQsOhFBow9

[Ranjeet Brar @Rango1917]

A message from Doctors against genocide.

Who would have thought that in 2026 such an organisation would have been necessary?

Who would have thought that being against genocide would lead to doctors being suspended from medical practice in the UK?

Welcome to Labour’s Britain.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

The incoming State Threats law could be used to crack down on anti-war protesters and providers of humanitarian aid

📽️ @financialeyes Ranjan Balakumaran

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

US Sanctions? Hear the case, then decide for yourself.
You may disagree with my words, my findings, or my work as a UN independent expert altogether. That is legitimate.
But using sanctions against me for fulfilling a mandate is not debate about opinions: it is an abuse of power.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

"If you say 'I support Palestine Action', they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV."

How Britain's real two-tier justice system is protecting racist white men while jailing opponents of genocide as terrorists: https://t.co/keLZdFNjTH

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Genocide through the body.
Painful, painful and a necessary reading.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Israel acts exactly as a country which has been given total impunity by the West would act

“What shocks me is not what Israel does but how much the West is willing to tolerate it”

It is not Western peoples

It is Western “elites” including self-defining “liberals”

[Heather Mendick @helensclegel]

Most of the #spycops who Bob Lambert managed had deceitful sexual relationships with members of the public while undercover. Lambert claims to have been unaware of this at the time. So this is an epic understatement.