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Owen Jones I'm from Gaza, and I write these words with a heart heavy with sorrow. In the bombing you're talking about, I lost five of my friends. Five familiar faces, laughs I used to hear, dreams that were growing among our ruins. They were gone in an instant—no farewell, not even one

There are 39,000 people in Leeds who get Personal Independence Payment Daily Living Allowance. Under the government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits, 18,000 of them are set to lose it. The government must drop these cuts. If not, I will be voting against them.

Some time ago, Keir Starmer said things had become ‘intolerable’ in Gaza. I wonder how he’s coping. Has he found a way of relieving the intolerability? Some kind of ointment? Pills?

After midnight posting this view may land me in prison - so here goes: Yvette Cooper & the U.K. Government designating Palestine Action a terrorist organisation, based on the facts currently in the public domain, is bonkers.

At midnight, Palestine Action will be proscribed under the Terrorism Act. Their real “crime”? Exposing the UK’s role in arming Israel’s genocide. This is a dark day for our democracy. Criminalising non-violent resistance won’t silence the truth. We are all Palestine Action 🇵🇸

This 83-year-old priest was arrested today. This is exactly why I voted against the ban in Parliament this week.

Hot take, two thousand years late: advertisers only latched on to impromptu-sounding regionally-accented rap because of LouIs Theroux, and failed to account for the fact that he's a WRITER

‘Average salary’ this ‘good wage for the uk’ that I am not average!!! And neither is my job! I have three degrees and people die in front of me at my workplace! Stick your average salary!!

Poppin' in to say I'm doing this on Thursday - leeds folk, come cry with us?

As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.

Thank you. That song doesn't usually last three hours, but we got into a serious thing, and then I forgot how it ended...

What is happening, in a practical sense, is that Britain is being turned into a hostile environment for trans people. Trans people are being driven from public life. This is a monstrous injustice, and it won't last. It doesn't stop it being monstrous in the here and now.

We're very happy to announce that £21,767.55 was raised by the local music scene and community at the Leeds Gig For Gaza which took place here at The Brudenell in July. The money raised will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians & The PCRF (Palestine Children's Relief Fund) 🇵🇸

Silly I know but one likes to imagine her majesty up in heaven smiling approvingly as patriots paint a mini roundabout at 1am. Perhaps Paddington is there too passing her a marmalade sandwich, his paw lingering on her soft feminine hand for a moment too long.. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I’ve always stood with the trans community, and I always will. The same forces targeting migrants and Muslims are attacking LGBTQ+ people, especially trans people. Our safety is in solidarity. None of us are free until all of us are free. That’s the new party we’re building.

HB PR <3

New favourite phrase: "idiot ethnography"

one zack polanski appearance on QT has pushed the UK further left than over a year of labour governance lmao

Extremely gratifying watching a Times Radio pundit (WiTh An EcOnOmIcS dEGrEe) tie themselves in knots over semantics they themselves invoked, all while Zack Polanski simply strolls away whistling