So it turns out they spent £715 million on sending a grand total of FOUR volunteers to Rwanda. For comparison, this is more than you could expect to spend on building an entire brand new hospital in the UK

Water is life - yet here in Britain, right now - it's on life support. England’s rivers are contaminated by a chemical cocktail of raw sewage, agricultural run off and chemical pollutants What kind of a legacy is this to pass on to our children and our grandchildren? We have

Next on the Queer Of Folklore tour is the aptly named Folkestone on Thursday!! 📚 🧜🏼‍♂️📚☠️📚🦇📚 See you there? https://t.co/WeC9V4p2Hq

These Just Stop Oil actions are part of a noble history of protest. The Suffragettes are lauded today with statues in Parliament Square, but at the time they were regarded with contempt, and they didn't throw soup on paintings protected by glass, they slashed & damaged them.

🔴LUDICROUS: SOUTHERN WATER plan to ship water from Norwegian fjords to UK ▪️Contingency plan using sea tankers to deal with future shortages would be paid for from customers’ bills ▪️@SouthernWater customers, this is why your water bill is going up 44%. @Ofwat approved it.

Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.

On Saturday at the March for Palestine I led the crowd to sing “Yma o hyd” (“still here” in Cymraeg) and “Sumud” (“steadfast perseverance” in Palestinian) together And above those beautiful voices I sang this poem by Ukranian-Jewish-Puerto Rican poet Aurora Levins Morales:

WE GOT THE WIN ON CHILD BENEFIT! Chancellor tipped me off before budget, said this was due in large to MSE/my shows campaigning all based on all those of your who messaged me to say it was the key thing to put to him So 1) From this April threshold which hasn't moved since 2013

you KNIT miette? you KNIT her body like the football? oh! oh! shroud for mother! shroud for mother for One Thousand Years!

Our street trees are facing a growing threat from greedy insurers making money by blaming trees for subsidence, rather than spending money on actually repairing their customers’ homes. A key way to fight this is consumer pressure: boycotting insurers that needlessly destroy trees

@deathbybadger I understand gender like I understand the office (based off of context clues alone the concept is just awful)

imo you have to take a gen 1-4 pokemon approach to leftism, you dont expect all of them to go to the gym, some are only in the party to use Surf, magikarp only knows splash and we love them anyway, but you *do* make sure you bring a roided charizard to the league

ODIN: thank you everyone for coming THOR: is this about loki ODIN: that's not very charitable of you ODIN: anyway yes its about loki ODIN: hes given birth to an eight legged horse BALDUR: gross ODIN: we ARE keeping it but loki IS back in his cell LOKI: can i ask a question

The moving speech of Harry Leslie Smith to the Labour Party Conference reminding people of what life was like before the NHS when working class people suffered and died in agony in their own homes for want of money to pay for treatment. https://t.co/7sqdclRKUV

Ursula Le Guin going the fuck off on the fantasy genre

In my 35 years of work in complex emergencies, I never have expected to write such a letter, predicting the killing of my staff & the collapse of the mandate I am expected to fulfill #Gaza

"The bad news is we're cutting your benefits. The good news is my kids won't have to pay inheritance tax."

Perhaps we should also solve the problem of cancer by banning cancer wards.