Took this photo as was going past protest in Westminster on a bus. These people were all arrested later, also amount of hate these people receive is totally disproportionate. Just Stop Oil are campaigning to prevent any new oil gas happening in UK, that’s it and they are right.

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Nothing that I can really divulge at the moment about the Covid-19 Inquiry but... Here are a few of my personal observations and opinions thus far. 1/ I think we can safely say the British government never really had a plan to try and save people’s lives in a pandemic. 2/ UK politicians and it’s scientific advisors don’t make great good bedfellows. 3/ Oh yeah! Westminster also hung the Welsh out to dry by not funding them or providing much practical support during the pandemic. 4/ The UK Government were more concerned with it’s disastrous “No Deal Brexit” and “Operation Yellow Hammer” than it was the UK’s pandemic planning strategy. 5/ UK government then subsequently reallocated resources to such failures such as Brexit instead of focusing on a more robust pandemic and public health plans. 6/ Government had never considered the fact a respiratory virus can be airborne and become a pandemic from what I can gather. 🙄 7/ It was more a plan of what do we do with all those dead bodies when a pandemic does emerges. 8/ The UK Governments strategy for pandemic preparedness was never proactive and was inadequately reactive. 9/ The precautionary approach was not used or even considered. 10/ Has UK pandemic response plans improved yet and have they learned lessons yet? Well that’s a hard NO from me! 11/ Expect much more ‘group think’ from Tory politicians as a way to blame share and dodge any of their actual personal accountability and justice in the future. 12/ Most of the actual decisions continue to be motivated by economic concerns above people’s public safety and wellbeing. 13/ The Tory government will claiming Brexit helped with the UK Governments reactionary pandemic response. Something that is simple and clearly Tory gaslighting 14/ Austerity started killing people and our #NHS long before the pandemic ever came to these shores but it sure did highlight the systemic inequalities. 15/ The Tory Party are utter scumbags who have a problem with their own judicial system. Obviously more will come out in the Covid-19 Inquiry in the following days, week’s, months and years. #KatiePersinger #CovidIsNotOver #CovidInquiryUK #CovidInquiry

The @OBR_UK assessment of the sustainability of the UK government's debt is off-the-charts alarming. It paints a picture of shocking Treasury incompetence over the past fifteen years in managing the debt burden - which has left the UK's public finances much more exposed to rising inflation than any other comparable country. For example 1) QE has turned a third of government liabilities into overnight debt at floating rates, 2) the UK has borrowed twice as much in the form of inflation-linked bonds than any other government, and 3) the proportion of government bonds in flighty foreign hands is the second highest among G7 rich nations. One immediate consequence is that what the government pays to borrow - the yield on ten-year debt or gilts - has risen by 2 percentage points, compared with a G7 average of just 0.5 percentage points over the past 12 months. In the OBR's words, "the rise in global interest rates has fed through to the UK's debt servicing costs more than twice as fast as in the past or elsewhere". And we have the wrong kind of inflation, in the sense that compared with other countries, nominal GDP or national income isn't rising fast enough to offset the increase in the nominal debt burden, and wages aren't rising fast enough to generate additional tax revenues. As the OBR says, UK general government debt is forecast to rise by 3.1 per cent of GDP this year, compared with average falls of 1.8% in other European countries. So the obsession of Hunt and Sunak with defeating inflation is understandable - because in the absence of any significant fall in inflation, there is a risk that investors will shun UK government debt and interest rates for the government and for all of us would then rise to crippling levels. This parlous debt backdrop explains why the Bank of England and the Treasury are prepared to risk recession to bring down inflation. It is what you need to know ahead of the imminent announcement of how the government will fund pay rises for teachers, nurses and other public servants.

Just to keep you informed of how things are going in the Jenrick mural debacle, as we can't redo the mural our plan is for the top cartoonists in the country to do a colouring-in book welcoming refugee kids, given to them for free and to potentially to sell to the wider public..

Incredible video. Afghan dad jokingly says school is only for boys. Watch his remarkable daughter - who can’t be more than 5 or 6 years old - respond with these arguments. Afghan girls have been denied access to schools and universities. This little girl's courage represents the collective voice of countless Afghan girls who yearn for equal educational opportunities. As an advocate for girls' education the father's teasing is simply to highlight an important message: that the Taliban - another backward regime - are harming the people of his country. It’s time the world is done with them. Ditto the “Islamic” Republic in Iran #regime

Last time I went to #DowningStreet for endangered birds who share our walls, I was cold, nude very nervous but because of #TheFeatherSpeech the birds have a voice in parliament today. YOU, the 109,894 who signed, secured this voice🪶Watch live, 4.30pm⬇️ committees.parliament.uk/com…

Just this . . . Courtesy of @ProtectTheWild_ on Instagram . . . @JustStop_Oil .

Confettigate: A Statement From Just Stop Oil The lady who threw confetti in Bruton yesterday was upholding a tradition that is common across many cultures. We absolutely defend the right for people to throw confetti (of whatever colour) at weddings and other celebrations. If it was a form of protest — which is yet to be established — we applaud it and thank the person concerned. It was peaceful and not especially disruptive, but got massive media attention for Just Stop Oil’s demand. It has also helped people to recall that George Osborne, one of the main architects of economic austerity, is directly responsible for over 300,000 excess deaths, and that — as a newspaper editor — he was responsible for some of the most egregious climate-denying nonsense ever to darken the pages of mainstream mass media. However, as much as we applaud the use of orange confetti at this wedding, we were not responsible. Perhaps the press could focus on something more important now? Like the current government’s plans to licence over 100 new oil and gas projects, which will result in excess deaths the likes of which we have never seen. Or the fact that the UN Secretary General has said that ‘climate change is out of control’ as we’ve just seen the hottest average temperatures since records began. Or the fact that Canadian wildfires have now burned down an area the size of Portugal. We are in catastrophically dangerous territory and the press have a moral responsibility to inform and educate people as to the causes of the crisis so that we can take action to defend ourselves. In 2023, it is simply criminal not to check your facts.

UK astonishingly far behind on CT and MRI scanners - I get that tech isn’t everything - but can we really justify being this much of an outlier? ⁦@RestIsPolitics⁩

I've seldom heard about anything nastier than Robert Jenrick's order to paint over the pictures in the asylum centre. Cold, cruel, the act of a soul that's shrivelled and mean to its core. How can he look in the mirror? Utter moral emptiness.

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This is a long shot, but while I was walking through a large group of schoolchildren yesterday on the Commons Terrace, one of them stopped and said, 'Jenny Jones, you rock!' Could that very political young person get in touch and come meet me properly??

From FB 😢 Post from a Beekeeper 🐝 “Its late, and maybe in the morning I'll delete this post, but I've just got home and for now I need to write this down. Earlier this evening I received a message from a home owner to say they had a swarm of bees in their hedge, but they were worried about them because children had been throwing water at them. By the time my fellow beekeeper and I arrived, what had been a beautiful prime swarm was reduced to a few hundred drenched bees, huddling limply around their queen. I've already deleted the photos of the puddles of water, the dripping wet hedge, and the many, many dead and dying bees that hadn't been able to escape the attack; sharing those pictures serves no purpose. We gently placed the bees that had survived into a collection box, and hopefully tomorrow, when they've had chance to dry out and settle, we'll check on them and if necessary feed them; they'll be exhausted and possibly (understandably) defensive. They've been through a lot. Please, please, help me to educate your children, your grandchildren, your neices and nephews, your neighbours, your colleagues and your friends that a swarm of bees isn't dangerous - they're amazing creatures that are just looking for a new home. Please don't let anyone harm them. Just call a beekeeper who will gladly rehome them. Please help me to spread this message and hopefully save any more bees from being unnecessarily harmed” 😢 Sad and unhappy Beekeeper

It’s time for the PM to ditch the excuses and admit he's the worst person to be leading this country through a cost of living crisis because he created it.

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And here's what the national picture looks like this morning. That is what 30 years worth of corporate greed, profiteering and regulatory failure looks like.

Hey @Jeremy_Hunt We give oil and gas companies £42 million each week in tax breaks! Why not #savetheplanet instead? #climatefight