Shocked to find my season ticket for Hampstead Heath pools was VATable. I thought sport and exercise was VAT exempt. HM Revenue & Customs can you confirm?

A good article. Thanks. This McCarthyite silencing of critics of Israel - conflating Judaism with Zionism & the consequent, dangerous hollowing out of the meaning of actual anti-Semitism - has been rife for years in the UK...with the full collusion of the media establishment.

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The world wants to discuss the “day after” Israel’s aggression on #Gaza. But it’s the day before we need to understand, and the #genocide we need to end, I told Democracy Now!

Please read this thread to witness the incomprehensible horror of what is happening in #Sudan right now. Millions of lives around the world destroyed by total psychopaths aided, abetted & armed by states fighting proxy wars. UAE, US, Iran, Russia.... Thread Reader App unroll

If they tell you who they are...believe them. The disjuncture between Knesset members' overt & explicit calls for ethnic cleansing/war crimes/genocide V the Western establishment's polite requests that Israel minimises harm (while fully arming & supporting them) is astonishing.

If everyone who has been grateful for an NHS doctor followed and retweeted we would reach a million followers today and be much stronger together

Trying to engage with adult #socialcare & voluntary sector orgs propping up adult care system & their websites are all 2 years out of date or totally broken. Many activities, events/support no longer exist. Feels like a symptom of chronic underfunding & system .

If the sociopaths running the show are planning a world war resulting in mutually assured destruction... can someone let me know in advance so I can at least use up the rest of my annual leave first.

Just another desperate result of Israel's war on Gaza. Everything we take for granted is stripped away there. Menstrual products, access to toilets water for personal hygiene, privacy...alongside the greater catastrophe of the collapse of maternal and infant healthcare.

Exhausting. The pro-natalust (Pro white baby) narrative is creeping into UK politics The struggle is never over.#RepoductiveJustice

" "What you saw was messianic ecstasy and religious fervor in a position of power. ...not merely a theocratic-fascist strain...but almost half of Mr. Netanyahu's coalition (27 lawmakers), including five ministers in his government" us18.campaign-archive.com/?e=739bbcb056&…

In this travesty of a country we can't even fund 9 staff members to support4,000 unpaid carers. Has anyone thought about how expensive it's going to be to provide cial care when their carers just can't cope any longer? bbc.com/news/articles/…

There must be some arcane law that would allow us to banish 30p the Lee from London.

Sunak refusal to name BNP Lee's comments as Islamophobia is not a denial of his racism it's a denial of Islamophobia. They don't believe it's a thing because it doesn't serve their political agenda and cannot be effectively weaponised against critics of their foreign policy.

Read this. Make sure you know what these villains are stealing from all of us.

Respect, love and solidarity to the peaceniks and refuseniks. It takes a particular courage to speak truth to power and against the propoganda machine of a country at war.

Lovely warm, funny and poignant blog reminding us of the reason we can't go back to #Section28 type restrictions on #LGBT content. It frankly beggars belief that we are still debating this in 2024.

The barrel scraping continues apace.

Why I am not a Zionist. #NeverAgainForEveryone Many Jews, #Holocaust survivors & their descendents , and refugees from Nazism, are not Zionists. This is because of, not in spite of, our connection with persecution, displacement & #genocide. Na'amod IfNotNow🔥✡️