What's wrong with being "woke"?

Does anyone else think it's wrong that someone who exposed war crimes in Iraq could face the rest of his life in jail, but the man who led our country into that illegal war is getting honoured?

The Government have gone against their own advisors and approved the use of bee-killing pesticides in England. This decision is catastrophic for our pollinators and will ultimately lead to the harm of wildlife ❌ 🐝 🚩 wildlifetrusts.org/news/governmen…

A big platform had asked me to share my work on tackling #FGM Globally. However, I need to demonstrate a medical note to prove I have undergone #FGM to be on this platform #SMH #triggered I can't believe I'm writing this Tweet But welcome to the lives of #FGMSurvivors🙏🏾❤

Are we finally going to have a national conversation about the rampant, institutional, unchecked Islamophobia of the ruling Conservative Party

Neonicotinoids are catastrophic to our already collapsing insect population. Why are we approving their use again? @eleanor4epping will you ask Defra UK & Victoria Prentis to listen to the experts & The Wildlife Trusts & reverse this terrible decision?❌🐝☠️ #NoMoreNeonics

We are deeply disappointed at the suspended sentence given today to a perpetrator of modern slavery who kept his victim in shocking and appalling conditions for 40 years. There should be a review of this sentence. #ModernSlavery #Carlisle medaille-trust.org.uk/news/article/d…

Tory minister Nadhim Zahawi said a windfall tax on fossil fuel giants was wrong, saying they were "struggling". BP's profits were announced today: £9.45 billion. Shell's are £12 billion. The Tories have more compassion for big business than they do for the working class.

Best news I’ve heard in a while! So glad their ordeal is over

For some reason the Lord failed to add "Please retweet" at the end of this apology for his grotesque smear. Happy to oblige for him - and do indeed please retweet.

As we are celebrating Rachmaninoff, this might be a good moment to re-advertise a lecture from the back catalogue of Gresham College where Peter Donohoe and I chat about various aspects of his piano style youtube.com/watch?v=n4UQxW…

I have previously written in praise of Queen Mary University of London and how i brought in-house outsourced workers, but this letter is disgraceful. It is an assault on a basic working right – the right to strike. Uni managers are demanding staff make up all strike days - or they will lose a month's pay

"Zarah Sultana MP given 'Coventry Legends Award'" "The club says it is in recognition of her work as 'a committed champion of Coventry' and 'for being an amazing female role model'." I'm very proud of this ☺️ coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-…

She also had a top rate of income tax of 60% until 1987 (I think - it may have been 1988)

Oscar Perterson, talking about the different styles of playing jazz piano. 💙💙

From Alastair Campbell - for once, I agree with him, though, unlike him, I opposed the UK's invasion of Afghanistan

Go go go go

Politicians go to opera and classical concerts in secret, claims top Conductor Simon Rattle. What are they afraid of? It is hardly ‘Porn’ but possibly the highest art form known to humanity. Musicians deserve much more more support from both Gov and Opp thetimes.co.uk/article/e10d79…

Very kind of Tory MPs to take time off from writing antisemitic screeds about Cultural Marxism, voting to criminalise merely being a Traveller and protecting Soldier F - to condemn Diane Abbott for racism

There are few things that make me feel more Republican than BBC1 and BBC2 simulcasting. It’s such a pointless and pathetic display of subservience!