botswana, which had 0 new cases today is on the 'red list', meaning if you come from there and don't quarantine in a hotel (costing £2k) you can get 10 years in jail
BUT the US, which has had 96,460 new cases today is....not.
Looks like it's not really about covid, is it.
Just bought my month long travel card for Berlin (where I’m living for 3 months).
Covers public transport anywhere in Germany.
It cost €9.
The U.K. is actually doing daylight robbery.
Israel destroying the civil registry of Gaza should be admissible as evidence of genocidal intent.
There is no reason you would do this other than to erase records of the people you are killing. None.
"Israel erased the civil registry in Gaza, destroyed it completely, destroyed the libraries and stole tens of thousands of ancient records, the Gazans now have no proof of their assets, the degrees they earned at the university or even the birth certificates of their children"
'It could've been our missiles that killed them.'
@NickFerrariLBC
calls for the suspension of arms sales to Israel after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza killed seven aid workers, including three Brits.
Many of you are hearing about people like Shireen Abu Akleh and Wael El-Dahdouh for the first time. But for people who grew up watching Arabic news - they have been a constant voice in our homes. They feel like family. I feel like I’m watching my uncle break down.
The fact that Martin Lewis, whose literal job is to frame systemic problems as personal management issues, is blaming the cost of living crisis on the government tells us the depth of the crisis we are in
#SpringStatement
For the second time in my life, I am seeing images of sexual violence being perpetrated against brown men. Instead of provoking horror, these images are being circulated like some kind of military victory lap. The first was Abu Ghraib.
my boyfriend had a call arranged with some friends to 'check in on mental health stuff'. five minutes later i walked in - they were on facetime watching each other throwing things into the bin from different distances
As someone who’s brother has been completely fucked by downgraded A level results:
‘ALGORITHM’ DOES NOT EQUAL ‘NEUTRAL’. IT DOES NOT EQUAL ‘FAIR’. IT IS AN AUTOMATION OF THE IDEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK OF WHOEVER DESIGNED IT.
Referring to 'high birth rate' among 'foreign-born mothers' is a direct gesture to the racist 'Great Replacement' conspiracy powering the rise of the far-right. This is the package 21st Century fascism comes in - the fact a Home Secretary is bolstering it is terrifying.
Suella Braverman, "More than 1 in 5 births in the UK are to foreign born mothers. English secondary schools will need to find an extra 213,000 places by 2026, compared to 2020. Accommodation cannot be magicked out of thin air. Nor can new schools, roads.. or any of the public…
Proud to have been one of the half a million marching in London today. The only time in the past few weeks that I’ve not felt completely insane and distressed has been whilst marching with hundreds of thousands of people of conscience. Solidarity is all we have.
#CeasefireNOW
I love how creating a well funded state school system so all kids can have a good education for free (so, without having to ‘save for years’) is an unimaginable option to these people.
Mustafa Barghouti has more integrity, dignity and honour in one of his toenail clippings than Julia Hartley-Brewer could hope to have in 1000 lifetimes.
I met an unhoused person suffering from *trench foot*.
A+E couldn't even give him towels and socks to dry his feet. I had to buy some for him.
There's no reason why we should be seeing WW1 diseases in the 21st century. I really hate it here.
From Prince Charles to David Attenborough - these 'population control' types never think of themselves as part of the 'population' that needs to be controlled
i haven't said anything on afghanistan because i feel unqualified to do so. however i am qualified to say: absolutely, and i mean absolutely, fuck this guy.
Labour win 2024/5 by a razor thin majority.
It spends its tenure conceding to the far right + pushed by the tabloids.
It loses 2029/30, having fertilised the ground for a truly fascistic Tory government that can more competently execute fascistic policy than this one.
Her outlining the long term effects of this war on Gaza’s children and social infrastructure. Brings home how even if this stopped today, something unforgivable and irreparable has happened. What would it even mean to celebrate a guilty verdict ?
Outrageous scenes of cops arresting anti-monarchy protestors and stealing their placards
So we are not allowed to show public opposition to a bloke being crowned head of state for having been born into unimaginable wealth while ppl line up at food banks and schools fall apart
What the
#UberFiles
confirm, is that Uber’s rise is not some ‘free market’ success story.
It was a co-ordinated theft of our urban economies, based on exploitation + aggressive lobbying.
Much of which was - in the words of Uber execs - ‘fucking illegal’
I'm sick of white citizen commenters framing the very *real* ripping of human beings from their communities as 'distractions' from the issues they care about.
There's nothing metaphorical or 'distracting' about being dragged from your home and forcibly flown to another country
Brand blacklisting women after sleeping with them.
Fox degrading a woman journalist by saying he wouldn't have sex with her.
A girl in Croydon stabbed for turning down a man's flowers.
The underside of patriarchal desire is revulsion, violence and hate
Very sick of this faux-liberal, yuppie 'OH AREN'T ALL THE PARTIES JUST AS BAD AS EACH OTHER' schtick tbh
No, Gwyneth, they aren't. One is trying to save the NHS and the other is funded by billionaires and fossil fuel execs.
It doesn't make u sound rad. It makes u sound dumb.
A feminism dedicated to protecting the pure woman, the deserving woman, the innocent woman and the ‘vulnerable’ woman is destined to exclude with very sharp, nasty edges
Revelations that the country's worst sex offender has been serving as a Met police officer for 20 years make more sense when you understand that policing itself weaponises sexual violence as a tool of 'punishment'
No but also everything is worse? The food is rotten and tasteless. The clothes are designed to fall apart within a few years. The appliances are janky and black-boxed by software so you can't even fix them when they break.
I can’t get over how expensive absolutely everything has become. Things that seemed affordable when I was on a lower wage are now luxuries. While at the same time we’re all paying for a really rich man to have a gold-themed party? This country is one big rip off
Listen, the ruling class know if they actually had to compete with everyone on equal terms, they’d be screwed. So they invent all these weird institutions and practices to secure their place in power. One of those institutions, is private school.
Still laughing at Brendan O'Neill calling me an 'elite' on
@LBC
. I earn less than £20k a year.
Increasingly tired of him and wealthy Brexit leaders throwing that at BME people (who are disproportionately w/class) concerned about the rise of racism post-
#brexit
Proud to have signed this letter detailing
@jeremycorbyn
's long history of solidarity with BAME communities. No other MP has stood with us in parliament and in the streets like Jeremy.
And that's a fact.
What kind of soulless person hears the grief in his voice and stands there while he gets flung out of the room by security like he’s nothing. Careerism really makes you ugly.
You say you’re proud of British history - you don’t even want to know about British history!
Learning about colonialism teaches us about both class and race in Britain today. That’s why it’s important.
#BenBradley
#NationalTrust
David Graeber once said the British state *is* the Conservative Party, and Labour are only allowed in when the Tories need to regroup/resolve internal crises.
He didn’t think that was a good thing.
"It's one of many reasons why, actually, it's time for the conservatives to have a spell in opposition to pull themselves together, get their act together and let a serious party do some governing for a while"
Wes Streeting explains how he sees the role of the Labour Party.
I was invited to debate Douglas Murray on the topic of "removing monuments that are offensive to marginalized communities"
I drank an espresso, did an hour of weightlifting and replied with this:
#culturewars
Like I really think the reason mainstream British feminism has this transphobia issue is because it’s never been forced to seriously reckon with Black feminism. Not for lack of organising by Black feminists here, but for lack of resources
Boris Johnson chatting about imported cases from developing countries causing a second spike
BIG MAN WE HAVE THE SECOND HIGHEST DEATH TOLL. VIETNAM. HAVE HAD ZERO DEATHS.
Imagine creating a migrant moral panic when Brits are the most likely to spread the disease elsewhere
The Royal Family are not just symbolic. Their power is material.
They are one of the worlds biggest landowners. They rely on brutal policing to enforce the myth of white supremacy they represent. They are dripping in stolen wealth.
I’d call that pretty real, unelected power
watching journalists try to comprehend this moment really affirms that most of them aren't in any way up to the job of deciphering the moment we are in
C4 Producer: “How about Russell Brand as a host?”
Women: “We have reason to believe he’s violently misogynistic to women”
C4: “….so it sounds like women are the problem here?”
The monarchy is a mirage. A projection of a fantasy that justifies a classed + racist society.
#HarryandMeghanonNetflix
undermines it by showing that behind the scenes, the RF is just rich people torturing each other and owning too much land. That's why they're so pressed.
BAME ppl: "We are dying disproportionately from corona because of the work we do, housing conditions, access to health resources and environmental racism"
The media: "hmmm. or *maybe* it's because of your....black skin?*
Eugenics is back, baby!
London has never been "an English city" in the way John Cleese means it. From its inception as a metropolis it has had a racialised underclass - from the Irish migration of 1800s, to Jews in early 20thC, to citizens of the Empire post-war.
Historically wrong and racist.
Some years ago I opined that London was not really an English city any more
Since then, virtually all my friends from abroad have confirmed my observation
So there must be some truth in it...
I note also that London was the UK city that voted most strongly to remain in the EU
“This is no time for a novice.” How The Sun’s Rebekah Brooks chose this killer line for Gordon Brown’s conference speech.
Listen to the latest episode of Political Currency 🎧
Radio is an under-examined politicising force in British society.
It's deeply right wing (I would argue more so than newspaper media) and ubiquitous. It forms the background noise of so many workplaces - from construction sites to lorries/truckers/cab drivers, to salons.
Oh calm yourself. The painting is covered in glass - no need to clutch your pearls.
Reserve this energy for Shell, which is currently making record profits whilst we stare down the barrel of 1.5 degrees warming in the next five years.
Prof Gargi Bhattacharyya is one of the UK’s most eminent scholars of race and capitalism - & a brilliant teacher + union organiser.
She is being made redundant by
@UEL_News
in an apparent targeting of union organisers.
RT to say NO to redundancies and TU victimisation
#saveUEL
Israel has been imposing a total blockade on Gaza for the last 17 years, and journalist
@HindHassanNews
explains to viewers on
#GMB
the appalling consequences of that blockade on the Palestinian people.
A 2 minute clip well worth a watch.
Actually, she will be going up against the Shadow Home Secretary,
@HackneyAbbott
.
But we all know
@jessphillips
doesn't like to recognise the existence of Black women - both in her 'feminism' and in the halls of Westminster.
Hope she's going to spend her summer researching because I'll be on her like a hawk over the DV bill and knife crime. She better learn the details because plenty of us know them off by heart. Will look forward to watching her go up against
@YvetteCooperMP
no contest!
We need to understand that austerity is not a misguided crisis response - it's an economic ideology. It is more easily ushered in during periods of crisis, but it is ultimately the belief that workers should be denied access to the wealth they create - whatever the context.
I don’t think I can stand to see another one of these duplicitous, deceitful, stomach churning statements from Western politicians feigning concern for the horrors they have enabled.
Maureen Lipman seems to be seriously comparing the right of Palestinian return to the right of white British colonisers (‘us’ as she calls it) to reclaim Southern Africa (‘Rhodesia’ as she calls it)
Tube announcement just now: “There are beggars and buskers operating on this train. Please do not encourage their presence by supporting them”
This country is beyond broken.
I’m not there so I’ll say it here:
PRISONS AND POLICING ARE A MAJOR DRIVER OF INEQUALITY.
Defunding the police is part of creating a more equal society
.
@michaeljswalker
arguing against ‘defund the police’. At Glastonbury…
Range of opinions here!
Says you need to focus on creating a more equal society first and that it’s putting the ‘cart before the horse’.
So thrilled this is finally out 🎉
Gig platform workers are overwhelmingly racial minorities and migrants.
'Racial Platform Capitalism' looks at why this is, and how this shapes what the platform economy looks like
Open access
@economyandspace
👇
The court accepted South Africa’s request that no side use videos as evidence. This was to prevent manipulative use of traumatic footage and (more importantly imo) not divert the trial into arguments about veracity of footages.