💚 'The right kind of homes, in the right place, at the right price.'

📺 Carla Denyer joined Laura Kuenssberg this morning to talk about the Green Party's plan to create genuinely affordable housing that meets community needs.

I value Brummie art, but who else does? | Stewart Lee theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Honoured to have the painting included amongst Joe Lycett's deliciously Birmingham flavoured editorial selection in today’s Observer.
No point trying to buy a copy in Erdington today tho, they’re all in our living room X
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Chuffed to say Joe Lycett,Birmingham’s patron Saint, has included my Brum-based dystopia painting in this editorial triumph. Out Sunday 😃

🚨 We’ve got 12 days to get this urgent petition to 100k signatures. We know we can do this!

We need a Gaza Family Scheme that would reunite families & offer sanctuary until it is safe to return.

Sign + click on the link sent via email after to confirm: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

We are so incredibly thrilled with this news!! 🤘🏽🥳

Good day. This news is long overdue! Well done jezc, so glad we came together on this, Grade II listing is a game changer for this iconic cultural building

The Polonia Wax Museum in Krakov is a thing of beauty. The best £12.50 ever spent. A thread.

“I’ll expect you to feed me, bathe me, brush my hair, hold my hand, recognise me when I have ceased to recognise myself and be the last human touch I may feel before I die.

But I do not think, at the same time, that you deserve a family life.”

There isn’t even the vaguest of ‘plausible deniability’ social media has left all of that in the past. For the last 114days we’ve all watched civilians, including children massacred, none of our ‘leaders’ can ever claim they didn’t know.

An NHS nurse’s 4yr-old child has been barred from joining her in the UK from Zimbabwe after the Home Office rejected her application on the grounds that there were no ‘compelling reasons’ for the kid to be with her mother. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j…

When you can say let them drown in the English Channel, or that there is no difference between Palestinian civilians and Hamas. When you can see our relatives fleeing war and treat them like flies and ants; that is the Hitler inside of you. Confront the principle, not the episode

I’m 63 now, I’ve been a news junkie since I was 8, and I this is the most chaotic global moment I can remember. A sense of things spinning out of control, no one in charge, thugs operating with impunity, and all elites out of touch. It’s on us. The cavalry is not coming.

We are witnessing the annihilation of a nation. The destruction of a whole people.

What you do—or don’t do—to try to stop it now will stay with you for the rest of your life.

Our government is a key supporter of the genocide in Gaza. Act. In every way you can.

Happy New Year!! Print by the unstoppable Joe Lycett

Update from Normal Island:

The Home Secretary says people should not march for an Armistice, cos it ruins the meaning of Armistice Day.

Then 92 right wingers are arrested for acts of violence while defending the cenotaph from peaceful people who are nowhere near the cenotaph.

From San Francisco.

Oddly fitting.

FAO Suella Braverman MP