Beautiful scenes of solidarity tonight but Black, brown and marginalised communities have been warning for a long time about rise of the far right in England but were dismissed or actively shutdown. Shouldn’t have taken a race riot for our media and politician classes to wake up.

In my debut for Teen Vogue (!!) I discuss the past week of far-right riots and why this has been a long time coming in the UK. 'To exist as a person of color or any marginalized group in the UK is to exist in a perpetual state of gaslighting.' teenvogue.com/story/uk-racis…

I haven’t done a thread in a while & I wanted to do one just to recap what Black & Asian people as well as immigrants have had to endure over the last week in the UK. Bookmark it 🧵

I started to read & thought maybe this is a bit much. Then read more & thought that's just sensible. I realised that I do virtually everything on the list. Then realised that it's really upsetting that I have normalised this behaviour. I needed that reality check. Thanks

“Hannah had everything to live for” - mum of girl, 13, with dairy allergy who died after Costa drink speaks out as UK inquest finds “failures” bbc.in/3X5Iuhr

Exclusive: UKRI staff workload and bullying concerns revealed. UKRI employees have raised concerns about bullying, overwork and burnout to senior management, according to notes we obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-res…

In long COVID rehab, I’ve learned how many people have lost their jobs or forced to drop out of school/training because/cuz there was little grace extended to them to recover. It breaks my heart because this disease needs long-term and extreme rest to subside. Theres no other way

It’s wild how quickly people stopped talking about the riots. The UK had bigger conversations about racism after George Floyd’s murder in the US than when fascists set fire to a hotel with people of colour in it, carried out racist car stops, and targeted a mosque here in our

Black women are often expected to work the hardest, be the smartest, be exceptional and remain invisible with very little acknowledgement of their work. Too often they are overworked, overlooked and underpaid.

Back in 2022 I explained to someone that I felt I was experiencing burnout & and said I would take 3 months off to recover. They replied 'oh honey 3 months won't cut it, try 3 years'. I thought she was being dramatic, but as we head towards 2025, I realise she was right.

The 3D artists at the weather channel deserve a raise for this insane visual Now watch this, and then realize forecasts are now predicting up to 15 ft of storm surge in certain areas on the western coast of Florida

Holy shit, DWP is being given powers to take money outta people’s bank accounts in new crackdown on benefit fraud. Well why tf can’t they do anything about the likes of Mone and all those who delivered useless PPE through the Tory VIP Lane? Benefit fraud £1.4b Useless PPE £13b

BladeoftheSun Palantir is a US spytech company….I mean it’s like putting a fox in charge of a henhouse👇🏻 opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-nh…