The fact that your government has made it illegal for me to answer yes is a damning testament to your flagrant disregard for civil liberties. This may be targeted at those taking action against the genocide, but it sets a very dangerous precedent that puts everyone at risk.

Nasty words, unbecoming of a national political leader.

It's been a long time since I received any donations😔🆘. I've just come out of a long period of hardship and exhaustion✊🏽. My university midterms are about to start, and I need to raise money for transportation to and from the university. Please help me, even with a little 😓💔

Haha

A judge has sentenced the Filton 4 as terrorists, behind the back of the jury, who only ever considered charges of criminal damage. This grotesque distortion of the law tightens the screws on the public’s right to protest, placing more limits on our freedom to fight injustice.

this is disgusting and not the behaviour of a free democratic state.

And yea all the women of Britain did rise up as one and cry ‘she got that off Vinted you pillock!’ and they did further say ‘she did not pay over a 100 or I am Diana, Princess of Wales.’ And they did banish Neil from speaking of where he knew nothing, and to push off, verily’

It's great to see the talent that exists in the Green Party.

More or less shaken, do you think, than a Black care worker, for example, trying to make their way home across Belfast this evening?

Replace 'billionaire' with 'pasta' in all Polanski's polemic and his millennial obsession with keto becomes clear.

I'm asking this guy for ONE policy which appears to be born of conviction rather than what he thinks important people want to hear. Just one. Haven't heard it yet.

RT @SanaSaeed: Remember how everyone rushed to use his photo, of his walking toward an IDF tank to advocate for the lives of his patients?…

The fragile authoritarianism of this Labour government is something to behold

SHE REPORTED RAPE AT WORK Jan Cruickshank (@LittleJanhere) came to me this week with her story and a file of evidence she has spent years building. What she went through is one of the most shocking workplace cover-ups I have come across. Jan worked as an apprenticeships officer at the Construction Industry Training Board @CITB_UK. Shortly after she started, a male colleague began subjecting her to sexual harassment that lasted over three years. Explicit texts. Exposing himself to her at a hotel. Sending her an indecent photograph. A phone call during which he committed a sexual act while she was on the line. In March 2015, at a conference in a Highland hotel, he came to her room and raped her. Jan reported him. CITB believed his version instead. He claimed they had been having a consensual affair for three years and that Jan was hitting back because he had ended it. He was put on gardening leave for one week. Then he came back. He was also allowed to continue visiting schools while the investigation was ongoing. CITB then launched a campaign to remove Jan from the business entirely. Two separate internal whistleblowers later confirmed this was deliberate. CITB's own legal team had calculated that a trial would cost them seriously. So they chose to destroy her credibility instead. An HR investigation was initiated with the outcome already decided before it concluded. Jan was eventually sacked. The stated reason was misuse of company time by having an affair. Her criminal case was dropped after @PoliceScotland were told by CITB that the relationship had been consensual. That lie closed the case. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority looked at the evidence independently and reached a completely different conclusion. They awarded Jan compensation as a victim of serious sexual assault. Jan took CITB to an employment tribunal. They offered her 15k pounds. She refused. She eventually settled for 60k pounds and refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement. She said there was never any way she was going to agree to be gagged. In November 2024, SNP MP Seamus Logan @SeamusLoganMP raised her case in the @HouseofCommons. He told Parliament that Jan had been pressured into a settlement far below what she was owed and that the man she accused was never held to account. CITB responded with one line saying the matter was settled and they had nothing further to add.. A tribunal ruling recently reported as thrown out with no prospect of success has since been overturned. That decision has not yet reached the press. Jan is now represented by well know to some of us John Robertson, the same investigator who stood beside Glenn Cottingham Smith before his death and who is currently fighting for my friend John Galajsza in his case against Barclays. Jan asked herself one question: "How did a woman who reported sexual misconduct at work end up spending the next decade fighting to defend her own reputation and reclaim a life that was stolen from her." She was not broken. She documented everything. She refused the gag. She is still standing. If this story made your stomach turn, share it. Jan has been fighting this alone for ten years. The least we can do is make sure the right people see it. If you believe cover-ups like this should have consequences, put this in front of your network. One share might reach the person who finally makes the difference. Let's help her to be heard! Sources: @Daily_Record Dec 2018 | @CNplus Nov 2024 | @BylineTimes Aug 2024

Thank you for clarification. So agree that the mechanics of spending is as MMT describes. Strange to use the word ‘nut job’ then. The MMT claim is that the binding constraint to spending is real resources and inflation, not the institutional mechanics. Bonds issuance is >

It sure is!

I feel stupid this never occurred to me before. The people most well-equipped to deal with the Labour Right’s various tantrums are, of course, for obvious and multiple reasons, primary school teachers.

Sometimes The National is the only paper that still feels like it does actual reporting.

Typos definitely the key thing thing for you to highlight Jo given you're an English teacher. Oh wait.