One of my biggest pet peeves: When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps. A 🧵

vittles piece in the new statesman was very

#OtD 20 Sep 2015 the #piggate scandal broke when claims from Tory donor, Lord Ashcroft, were published in a right-wing newspaper that UK Prime Minister David Cameron had had sex with a dead pig's head while at university

General Secretary of the RMT Union, Mick Lynch says the continued rail strikes are due to the government showing "no sign they want an agreement" trib.al/Rx0iR33 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

Why do projects like HS2 cost as much as ten times more in the UK than on the Continent? Because rabid subcontracting led to the total de-professionalisation of the civil service. When privateers oversee privateers, systemic corruption is inescapable theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/o…

In 1992, Corbyn and Abbott sponsored an Early Day Motion condemning a planned National Front march past the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. Not a single Tory MP signed it. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…

Children in Gaza don't need a pause in the killing, they need it to stop. That is why there must be an immediate ceasefire. This is not a radical proposition. It's backed by the UN, countries around the world, and by the majority of the public. Be on the right side of history.

Starmer will sack all of his shadow ministers that back the SNP Gaza ceasefire vote tomorrow. The *point* of the Labour right, as part of the ‘uniparty’, is Britain doesn’t have its own foreign policy. We don’t decide this stuff, Washington does.

Labour MPs have the chance today to vote for a ceasefire in Gaza. The choice. Yield to Starmer’s threats, abstain & keep their jobs; or vote to stop the slaughter of children. How they vote today will define who they are for the rest of their lives. And we will never forget.

In Ukraine, 6% of violent civilians deaths are estimated to be children. In Iraq since the invasion, it's estimated to be 8.6%. In the first two years of Syria's civil war, it was 10%. In Gaza? Children are an estimated 42% of violent civilian deaths. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

As a kid I was obsessed with writing to my favourite writers. Only a few of them wrote back. #benjaminzephaniah

48 days to save this man’s life. They want him dead because he let us see what our rulers do in our name. For the empire, there’s no higher crime. Their system of war + exploitation rests on our ignorance. If media exposed the truth, whole edifice would collapse within a month.

Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced. If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that the last thirty years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness. 1/6

when I see Papyrus in the wild I always shout I KNOW WHAT YOU DID

🚨BREAKING 🚨 BrewDog have written to their workers telling them that they will no longer be paid the *real* living wage from April with the rate being removed for new starts with immediate effect. We wonder whether this will feature in the new film about the company?

Dartmoor was the last place it was legal to wild camp in the whole of England and Wales. Last year it was banned, then overturned. Now it’s being challenged again. Wealthy landowners are being prioritised at the expense of our access to nature. Enough. theguardian.com/environment/20…

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which

A regular at The Rochester Castle, a Wetherspoon pub in Stoke Newington, says he fears the building could be turned into luxury flats. dlvr.it/T1q7pD 👇 Full story

Former RMT General Secretary Bob Crow speaking at the Transport Workers Union Convention in the United States. (2013)