It’s extraordinary. Protesters demanding an immediate ceasefire — echoing the call of 71% of the public — are presented as a threat to democracy, but a Prime Minister who ignores the public and erodes their rights says he’s protecting democracy.

To tackle hatred, leaders must be willing to call it out. The PM refused this week to condemn Lee Anderson and Suella Braverman's comments as Islamaphobic.

Peaceful protest is at the heart of our democracy. We will always resist attempts to curtail those fundamental freedoms.

Protesting against the mass slaughter of civilians is not a threat to democracy.

The real threat to democracy is a government that crushes our rights and silences our solidarity.

Our movement is made up of all faiths and backgrounds, united by a belief in a more peaceful world.

Truly chilling speech from Rishi Sunak.

I agree with him on one thing: there is a group in the UK that is harbouring extremism, spreading division and threatening our democratic freedoms.

But it’s not Muslims. It’s the Conservative Party.

2010: 60k people used food banks.
2023: 2.98 million people used food banks.

Palestinian children in Gaza hold a press conference outside Al Shifa hospital, speaking English so the world cannot pretend not to understand them: “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace… we want to live as the other children live.”

Edinburgh Zoo showing how to deal with queerphobic dogpiling - don't delete, don't apologise, where you engage clearly explain the bleeding obvious to show you aren't going to let bigotry win. A lot of other organisations should take note (& the social media team needs a raise.)

why would Just Stop Oil do this? don’t they see how much this inconveniences working people and just turns everyone off their cause?

NEW 🚨 | The UK has dropped 5 places in the international league table for women in work.

Our childcare costs are amongst the highest in the OECD:

🇬🇧 33% of income
🇩🇪 1% of income

Women in the UK are being priced out of work due to the lack of affordable childcare.

NEW: City Hall will be funding free school meals for every primary school pupil in London.

No child should go hungry in our city.

The Government have refused to act, so I’m stepping up.

theguardian.com/education/2023…

That's it. That's the story.

Two words, each hundreds of years old, that are still worth holding on to: ‘respair’: fresh hope, and ‘resipiscence’: a return to a better frame of mind.

Here’s to both in 2023. Happy New Year.

the chokehold these two series had on me when i was like 15 is crazy…the fallen angel era…

Rishi Sunak has claimed that to pay a 10% pay rise to all public sector employees will cost each household in the UK £1,000. This is what I call CRAp - which stands for a ‘completely rubbish approximation’ to the truth. Let me explain…a thread…

🚨 BREAKING: Rishi Sunak has approved the UK’s first new coal mine in 30 YEARS.

We’re in the middle of a climate emergency, what on earth is the government thinking?

🦺 Louise, 24: “I'm here because I don't have a future. You might hate me for doing this, but I wish you would direct all that anger and hatred at our Government. They are betraying young people like me — I wouldn't have to be here if they did their duty.”

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh

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On current pace, King Charles could surpass his mother’s record of 15 prime ministers before the end of 2024

Krishnan Guru-Murthy calling Steve Baker a cunt. The evening just gets better and better.