Build more nightingale hubs to increase more capacity But DON’T protect frontline staff with FFP2 or FFP3 masks and DON’T put in ventilation/air filtering measures at schools to protect kids and staff Bonkers 🤦🏾‍♂️

The government has promised 7,000 HEPA filtration units to schools. There are 24,000 schools. Assume 14 classrooms on average. Two units are required per classroom. That is 672,000. So the government is meeting 1% of need. This policy works only as a measure of incompetence.

The folks harrumphing sententiously about the rule of law after the Colston trial seem to be rather quiet this week

UK energy prices increased by around 50% yesterday but the cost of producing most energy has not increased. Nuclear and renewables cost the same to produce, for example. So, the price increases deliver very large profits to some energy companies. Why is Sunak happy about that?

Another Met Police scandal: a black girl was stripped and searched at school. The search, which involved the exposure of her intimate body parts, took place without an appropriate adult present and with the knowledge that she was menstruating. Case review: chscp.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

🚨 PLEASE READ 🚨 An update on a Manchester based trial against 10 of our city’s young people. This is the brutal, unjust reality of ‘gangs policing’. We hope for justice next week. Plain text statement: bit.ly/37rkSx0

Black children are under attack in the UK – where do we go from here? | Nadine White independent.co.uk/voices/black-c…

got racially abused at work last week. (please bear in mind i worked remotely). proper felt like if i reported it, somehow it wouldn’t end well for ME. long story short, i’ve not long been dismissed, meanwhile the ‘case is still being ‘investigated’ 🙂. hows your wednesday going?

6. available at any one time. It’s about a completely and fundamentally different operating environment where fires burn with such ferocity, and spread with such speed in suburban areas that you CAN’T STOP THEM. We’ve seen the kind of conditions faced by international colleagues

Tories are arguing that wages must not rise as strongly as prices or we will get an inflationary spiral. But that’s ridiculous. All price increases add to the income of the companies charging them. What the Tories are saying is business should profit, not workers. A thread……

Sussex Police officers under investigation for manslaughter after wheelchair-bound 93 year old man dies three weeks after being tasered. The circumstances of this incident are very disturbing. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/a…

Tragic news The latest Cornwall Insight prediction, based on Ofgem's new methodology, is an 81% price cap rise in Oct (taking typical bill to £3,582/yr) and a further 19% in Jan (so £4,266/yr) Action & planning is needed now. The zombie govt needs wake up sooner than 5 Sept...

1.3m people attend Notting Hill carnival and 38 people get arrested. [0.0029%] “Nationwide headlines” 105k daily Reading and Leeds Festival and they have a 16 y/o dying from Ecstasy, 50 people were ejected for “serious disorder” [0.04%] and tents were set on fire. Silence…

I’ve been thinking about this piece for a year. There’s so much more I could say. The only thing that matters is that Martha should be alive today… ‘We had such trust, we feel such fools’: how shocking hospital mistakes led to our daughter’s death theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

My son went missing from Harris Federation Harris Academy on Wednesday 14th after school for an unknown amount of time. Luckily he was brought back to the school by a parent of a child in his class. The parent found him almost 50 yards from the school looking for me or his mother

Register to vote. Your country needs you.

EVICTION ALERT! Taylor McWilliams is trying to kick out Phil's Fruit + Veg, which has been part of Brixton Market for 20 years! Look as this appalling email from Hondo and see just how little they think of their tenants- their tenants who make all their profit for them. [1/

"My wife spent an hour trying to glue my daughter's school shoes back together because we can't afford to buy her a new pair. I'm 65 and I've worked all my life... something is wrong with society." @JackieLongC4 talks to people struggling with the cost of living in Birmingham.

😡☢️thermonuclear ☢️😡 🔥 brain 🔥 😡☢️explosion☢️😡 One rule for the powerful and another rule for you. They get clean air. They can pretend the pandemic's over. You don't. You can't. purifiedair.com/case-studies/t… thank you sarah for highlighting this! ❤️

Charging the sick for being sick. Mark my words: this will be end of the NHS if the Tories have their way. [Thread]