Happy St George's Day! This should be a day everyone in England can celebrate together, whatever our backgrounds & whether born here or not. All too often Englishness is hijacked by the Right. My new book, #AnotherEngland , is my attempt - however small - to try to take it back🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The time has come for action
Leave your satisfaction
Can't you hear St. George's tune?
St. George's tune is calling you on
Freedom was your mother
Fight for one another
Leave the factory, leave the forge
And dance to the new St. George
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Where is the humanity?

Imagine looking your grand kids in the eye and saying 'Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time...' Utterly cruel and heartless.

#RwandaNotInMyName

Ever since Brexit I’ve wanted to write this book. Very excited that this time next week it will finally be published! We need better stories about who we are than the exceptionalism & imperial nostalgia of the Right. This is hopefully a start url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/eegdCGv3jf18…

What we do in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years. We cannot afford for the UK to be MIA on the climate emergency for another 5 years. My piece in BusinessGreen on why this may be the most important election of our lifetimes businessgreen.com/opinion/419117…

Rishi #Sunak was spot on - democracy is indeed under threat from extremists. The problem is, they’re running the country. We urgently need to wake up to the scale of the threat they pose. My piece for The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This. Powerful, angry, to the point. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Three very different political personalities all over the news today. The funeral of one who showed courage beyond most of humanity in seeking to face down tyranny. The latest ego-boosting by election win for a man who thrives on hatred and division and adds Rochdale to his list…

PM is real threat, failing to name racism, undermining rule of law with terrible Rwanda Bill, trampling over rights to protest. This didn’t need “urgent address” he could’ve said it in Parliament. Fake theatre from desperate PM of a dying , discredited govt
#GeneralElectionlNow

- Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
- Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
- The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
- The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
- The best lack all conviction, while the worst
- Are full of passionate intensity.

Delayed gratification: my daughters bought tickets for this show back in August as my birthday present. We had a great night out. Superb concert Rhiannon Giddens and band, thank you (and Happy Birthday to you!) #BarbicanCentre

Heard today between two British men talking,

'I would be happy if they threw out the lot of them and just let Feargal Sharkey @Carolvorders and Rory Stewart run everything for the next few years.'

A Statement

The strikes this week have not been caused by junior doctors

They’ve been caused by a Government that has taken healthcare professionals for granted for far too long

Please RT if you can see through the Government spin and back the junior doctors

All they want is fair pay

Here's a small tribute to Benjamin in the spirit of his own poetry. Please think it or say it in his voice so that he can live through you.

Rest in peace to the one and only Benjamin Zephaniah.
Sending love to his family, friends and fans.

#BenjaminZephaniah Professor Benjamin Zephaniah

A true and healthy democracy has an independent judiciary. That you fail to recognise this is the best reason our judiciary has to stay that way.

Top work George Monbiot , top work .

“Of all the hills to die on this is got to be the most ridiculous”

Writer, George Monbiot says the government have no intention of implementing the Rwanda Policy, but instead are using it as a distraction

#bbcqt bit.ly/4a85rVU

UK Prime Minister We are a reasonable country, but our patience has now run out.

Our Parliament is rotten, and it should not be used to make decisions that undermine our courts & international law.

That’s why we need the change a general election delivers.

#GENow
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6419…