A food bank quite literally losing funding because a coronation needed celebrating. That’s roughly where we are right now.

What would you do if you woke up with the wealth of 171 UK billionaires? Pay their tax? Rebuild the NHS? Imagine no longer - to celebrate the #RichList, Obscene Wealth Simulator gives you 🤑£683bn🤑 to play with. PLAY NOW in your browser! equalitytrust.org.uk/obscene-wealth…

Our weekly digital front page 🔴 THE CONTINUING SCANDAL OF VOTER SUPPRESSION 🔴 bylinetimes.com

‘We find TotalEnergies guilty for its activities in Mozambique & in Uganda, which we find to be extremely harmful to livelihoods, health, right to shelter, quality of life, quality of environment, right to live free of discrimination and oppression, right to clean water..’ (1/2)

💬 "The local elections only confirm the Tories will lose power at the next General Election, so Labour’s ‘Get the Tories out at any cost’ fear tactics are not working here." Let’s turn our local election success into more Green MPs. Read more👇 loom.ly/iEzbzTc

Major Tory donor investigated over fraud and money laundering allegations - gave £220,000 to Tories. Rich don't donate money, they invest. What return was he promised? Political funding by the rich is the gateway to corruption. It must be banned. theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

A deficit view of teaching assistants and their role in compounding the 'word gap': "many schools in poor estates recruit their TAs from their immediate community ... it is very possible that those TAs may themselves not … have been able to develop that rich vocabulary" 🫣

Elite universities’ diversity and widening participation initiatives are self-interested “performative acts”, Prof Kalwant Bhopal and Martin Myers argue in their new book “Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege”. bit.ly/3MD97VT

#plantbased diets can help prevent and manage rheumatoid arthritis. Come and find out more from researchers of the Plants for Joints study at #vegmedlondon2023 Have you got your ticket yet ? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36617162/ vegmed.org

The UN expert on sexual orientation & gender identity Victor Madrigal-Borloz has expressed deep concern over the scale of abuse and anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech directed toward trans people in the UK. Time for responsible advertisers to #StopFundingHate gcn.ie/un-expert-uk-a…

Just a brief timeline for you all: Teachers strike. Pay talks. Pay offer made of 4.5% + £1k Pay offer rejected. This is the best you’ll get says the DFE. No more talks - wait for STRB says DFE. STRB recommends 6.5% You’ve got to love it, really.

Patients experiencing a mental health crisis get stuck in A&E for ages because of a lack of mental health beds. Why? Because the Tories have cut 25% of beds since coming to power.

This really shouldn’t need saying but RMT members on both the Tube and the railway are fighting to maintain staffing levels from government cuts that can only worsen the service. That doesn’t make them fair game for physical assaults from passengers.

Yay! Just £800 to go, and Good Law Project will reach the £50k target to help #trans kids. A fantastic effort by all - thank you very much. One final big effort! Let's get this done by tonight! Stonewall Jo Maugham Mermaids #LGBT actions.goodlawproject.org/healthcare_del…

It's World Goth Day! Embrace your gothic side, celebrate all things spooky and wonderful. Pick out your best outfit, and get those anthems blasting! What's the soundtrack to your #worldgothday? 🖤

Publishing this year's Sunday Times Rich List, the Times said the boom for billionaires was over. Does it look that way to you?

High street chain PizzaExpress is cutting staff hours, while spaffing money on a new record label - and being opaque about tax, too via Steve Topple thecanary.co/uk/2023/05/22/…

This flying squirrel faked his own death, and created a whole crime scene…for attention. I think I’m in love. x.com/kkMrRay/status…

Racialised and working-class students enrolled on PGCE and other teacher education courses often experience accent policing and being told to change their voice. This research examines how that policing intersects with race and class based discrimination. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…