Average annual UK household energy bill to rise to £1,717. Rise blamed on the price of gas. Market price of gas is 88p per therm. About the same as in June 2021, when average energy bill was £1,138. Govts suppress wages, do nothing to curb profiteering. tradingeconomics.com/commodity/uk-n…

If Starmer’s serious about “rooting out 14 years of Tory rot”, it’ll take more than new management - the country is crying out for a new mindset too. For inspiration & hope. The last thing we need is more austerity - policies like wealth taxes mean we *can* invest in our future

Enduring more economic pain and hardship isn’t what people voted for. They were told they were voting for change. Not voting for things to get worse before they get better. Labour needs to be honest about the fact that they could choose to make things better for everyone if they

Any party perpetuating Conservative austerity should be viewed with disgust and derision - we know that austerity kills vulnerable people and creates more problems that are more expensive down the line. The sensible answer is to change our measures of success for a society.

With Suella Braverman saying Labour are misleading us about the economy, I thought it might be nice to remind everyone of this clip, where she said the Brexit divorce bill would be zero pounds - when it turned out in the end to be £35.6 billion.

Owen Jones

.Rowan Moore really lovely article this morning, thanks for writing! (Els Freshwater - theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…)

Dear Humans, Sometimes, girls prefer to have short hair. That does not make them a boy, you stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid assholes. Keep your stupidity to yourself. Sincerely, etc etc

Has it tried batch cooking and wearing more jumpers?

The Daily Mail is foaming at the mouth about Starmer moving a portrait - so the Today Programme just read out the headline & ran a whole feature on it. Can we please stop letting these papers set the news agenda? Let them howl into the void if they must, but don't run after them

It's far nastier to paint over a children's Disney mural at an asylum seeker dentention centre than to take down a portrait of Thatcher at 10 Downing Street. Tell me I'm wrong.

sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS

UK MPs urged to give up freebies from tobacco, alcohol and junk food firms because of the harms caused. Why stop there? Must curb political corruption. End all corporate/rich funding of political parties and legislators, no second jobs for MPs. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

If you strip away support for the Police, the NHS, Councils, Schools, Community Centres, Libraries, the Fire Service, Social Services etc then you get a society that's broken. The tabloids, Farage & the last govt tell you it's migrants to blame...when it was 14yrs of the Tories.

Laura Dockrill shares her experience of postpartum psychosis and challenges the idea that being a parent is always blissful and serene. We appreciate Laura Dockrill sharing so openly and helping to remind women that recovery is possible.❤️ Read more 👉ow.ly/X2Ps50TcoAp

Had #Grenfell Tower been a luxury apartment block housing wealthy people, I'm pretty sure that the prosecution and conviction of those who enabled the disaster would have happened by now.

These two should have still been playing together, being cute and driving me crazy. We desperately need to keep going with research to prevent and cure leukaemia. #ccam #childhoodcancerawarenessmonth #teamkip #smellypantswee

Here's why I think I am the right person for the role of Vice Chair of Congress. Please contact your branch/forum/Committee and ask them to vote for me.

An brilliant person and dedicated nurse Vicky Keir for vice chair of rcn congress