I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye.

Greetings sorrow, thanks+ remembrance for immense+ ultimate sacrifices called of firefighters, from UK Hazards Campaign .
We remember all those who lost their lives in line of duty + we fight for greater safety for all firefighters especially as climate change increases risks.

🧵 An innocent 46-year-old woman was knocked unconscious + hospitalised – with serious long-term injuries – by a police officer in Feb. 2024.

Yet the police are refusing to release the officer’s body cam footage or CCTV, only allowing her + a friend to view it at the station.

The counter protest has 4 people....

Manchester stands with Palestine.🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

BREAKING: Andy Burnham has won. He’s taken more than 400,000 votes and can hold the position until 2028 - and this is the moment it was confirmed

The Department for Work and Pensions is refusing to say how many disabled people it expects to lose their disability benefits if it pushes ahead with controversial proposals for reforms and spending cuts.
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We lost Adam Yauch 12 years ago today.

Listen to his words.

When places like Starbucks UK have the tech to print labels for drive thru orders, why can’t we add car registration plate details on as well? It would deter littering like this, and help prosecute littering fines which are a very under utilised law.

After a poo in a plastic bag and tying it up and putting it in the bathroom pedal bin, time for a nice relaxing hot shower with mineral water boiled up in the kettle and a plastic bowl and a jug. Life as a Southern Water customer in St Leonards-on-sea.

Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe is hosting an Isra3li flag raising event to mark its 76th year on 15 May - Nakba Day.

This is outrageous for many reasons, deeply offensive + a crass insult to YOW's Palestinian, Muslim + Arab pop + many others.

SHUT IT DOWN. Call Email etc

'Manchester council's deputy leader has been ousted by George Galloway's party. Labour councillor Luthfur Rahman has lost his seat in Longsight to the Workers Party of Britain following a tense battle in which the war in Gaza has been at the forefront of campaigning.'

It's my last day living in Geneva, Switzerland after nearly 5 years, I am leaving to Jordan tomorrow.

Here is my parting message about the United Nations.

It's basically a facade to give people an appearance that progress is happening, when it actually isn't.

Real change comes from…

Cormac Russell Professor Lucy Easthope I have always found 'vulnerable' to be a problematic way to describe people, given that a sudden lapse of fortune might render anyone vulnerable to mishap or an uncertain future.

On average this is £134K per child, to be sent into isolating care in far flung areas. While the council says adult care packages over approx £50K should be reviewed. The relationship between these high price placements and the council need to be examined.

Getting reports that Professor Ghassan Abu Sitta, British-Palestinian war surgeon, invited to speak at the French Senate today, was detained at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris & prevented from entering France. He’s been working in Gaza, where most of his patients are kids.

Formaldehyde identified as chemical responsible for killing fish in the River Alun, Flintshire, Wales, following a fire at the Synthite chemical plant in Mold. Formaldehyde is classified as a carcinogen, corrosive, mutagenic & toxic when swallowed.

dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wal…

'Imperial Oil... shareholders have rejected a proposal from an Alberta First Nations that would have made the company disclose the financial effects of climate change on its assets.'

Who knew?

My initial reaction to this piece was what I suspect Coren wanted - a visceral shouty distress at his callousness wrapped us as “speaking sense” that fed his algorithm and engagement. So I sat with it for a while and I still hate it and here is why 🧵 thetimes.co.uk/article/caitly…

Robert Fenlon is one of 28 people to have died a self-inflicted death at Woodhill prison since 2013.

Now an inquest found he died by unlawful killing.

His daughter Hennie told Channel 4 News about her dad & why prison shouldn't be a death sentence.

channel4.com/news/call-for-…

Homelessness jumps 16% in England.

Polly Neate, CEO of Shelter, said: “Those who can’t afford private rents are being thrown into homelessness and then left for months and even years in damaging temporary accommodation because there is nowhere else.”
theguardian.com/society/2024/a…