My first article for Bylines Scotland.

The primary objective of Sunak, Johnson & Hancock during the Covid Inquiry was to avoid prosecution.

But their “can’t recall” attitude now means prosecution may be the only way to protect the public in the future

bylines.scot/opinion/united…

Those who support the wealthiest paying more tax so we can invest in public services:

STUC
The Poverty Alliance
The Child Poverty Action Group
Oxfam

Those who oppose:

Anas Sarwar
Douglas Ross

We expect the Tories to oppose progressive taxation, but Labour? 🥀

Reminder:
Immigration is NOT the reason that you CANT get a hospital appointment

Immigration is THE ONLY reason that you CAN get a hospital appointment

An NHS is only surviving on immigrant doctors, nurses & support staff

If you want to blame someone, think who’s in power….

For those saying the ECHR is out of date…no.

It was built *exactly* for times like this.

Guarantees of human rights are not built for when the going is easy. They are built for when the going gets harder and bad leaders try to whip up their nations to do bad things.

George Monbiot absolutely shredding this govt and their sadistic, pure distraction, Rwanda policy.

#Panorama
I grew up in a time when WE owned everything in our infrastructure. Trains, water, gas, phones, electricity, waterways. You name it, it was nationalised.
Thatcher persuaded people selling it off would make it more efficient & our bills would be cheaper.

She was wrong

Rather than pouring ANOTHER £15 million into the unlawful, failed Rwanda expulsion scheme, why doesn't Rishi Sunak hire another 300 staff to process asylum applications more rapidly?

Mick Lynch on David Cameron:

“It's just Etonians and public schoolboys passing around rewards between each other, creating a ruling class that's even more sharply defined probably than it's ever been in recent times.”

The Tories hate hearing positive things about Scotland. According to Prof @DannyDorling Scotland is “showing us the route to a fairer society” & helping to prevent Britain from becoming a failed state. 📣

Lloyds bank owns a private company running NHS services🚨🚨🚨

If you agree with us that big banks have no place in the NHS, pls RT💙
#NHSprivatisation
EveryDoctor

In less than 2 minutes, the representative for the State of Palestine at the UN, eviscerates the entire myth of Western 'civilization' under the US Military Industrial Complex. This should be mandatory viewing in schools and universities throughout the Western world, if we do…

3,195 children killed in #Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019. We are calling for an immediate ceasefire.

I can not understand the PM's position, or Keir Starmer's unwillingness to call on all parties to commit to an immediate ceasefire.

How many more children have to die?

#CeasefireNOW

Reduce benefits? How about starting with the six figure ex-PM allowance you get for the rest of your life as a reward for reaching a job you should never have had and clearly couldn’t do?

NEWS
One of Tories’ biggest ever donors Frank Hester who gave £5m to Tory party earlier this year.....profited from £135m of NHS contracts in 4 years via his company

More discoveries from ⁦Good Law Project⁩ ⁦⁦Jo Maugham⁩

⏬️ theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

Sunak 'inadvertently' broke MPs Code of Conduct

Johnson 'inadvertently' fined by Police for Partygate

Nadine Dorries 'inadvertently' missed turning for Flitwick on the M1

Tories 'inadvertently' diverted £221m to Michelle Mone?

Any more?
news.sky.com/story/rishi-su…

Absolutely staggering how the entire political and media establishment uniformly amassed to defend Rishi Sunak against Greenpeace yesterday.

Doesn’t matter how noble the cause, if a protest targets power, the media will always swoop in to commandeer the narrative and back power.

#BringBacktheBird Elon Musk
We don't like the 'X'

(Below) Photographer Kathrin Swoboda who caught birdsong on a cold day #WomensArt