Interested in art, history, politics, education and the environment. Keen on proportional representation. Rejoiner @DeborahCR@mastodonapp.uk
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I sincerely hope this is not true. I researched some of my master’s thesis here, and used it for work related research for many years (prior to my photography work). Its reading rooms are fantastic. The collection, and access to it, should never be privatises. Full stop.
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Urge the British Library not to close its reading rooms - Sign the Petition! c.org/6hTL9B9Jf5 via @UKChange
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"The Green Party renews its call on the Labour government to recognise the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and to take the action it is required under international law to prevent this including the immediate cessation of all arms sales from the UK to Israel."
ALT A black and white image of a man standing among flooded tents in Gaza. White text reads: "The pictures coming out of Gaza of the forcibly displaced population struggling to survive after flooding of precarious encampments over the last few days are a heartbreaking reminder of the ongoing humanitarian crisis there. Israel has confiscated over 75% of Palestinian land in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire forcing Palestinians into makeshift camps and depriving them of the resources necessary for their survival." Ellie Chowns MP For North Herefordshire Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London SE1P 6YL
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Sign the petition to stop the privatisation of the British Library.
At a time when public spaces are being fenced off for corporate interests, any attempt to privatise the British Library represents an attack on the public's right to accessible, free and communal spaces. vist.ly/5savt
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The UK Government gave £10.7m in Government Contracts to Israeli firms linked to illegal settlements.
AFTER they had said they would have a complete boycott of those illegal settlements.
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Please support this important campaign: megaphone.org.uk/petitions/s… via @megaphoneuk
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Matan Kahana is about to become Speaker of Israel's Knesset. Gadi Eisenkot's bloc picked him this week. This is what he has said about Arabs and Palestinians"
1) In June 2022 he was a deputy minister. He told high school students in Efrat (a settlement): "If there were a button you could press that would make all the Arabs here disappear... I would press that button."
2) In the same talk he called the Palestinian account of 1948 "nonsense." His apology was for an "unsuccessful choice of words." He never took back the wish.
3) A month before that, he wrote about a dream in which "all the Arabs decided one morning to emigrate to Switzerland."
4) In July 2021 he backed the law that bars Palestinian spouses of Israelis from citizenship. He said whoever votes against it "wants to flood Israel with thousands of Palestinians."
4) In December 2020 he wrote that "it is madness to legislate the equality law."
5) During the May 2021 unrest in Lod he wrote that the police should "protect the Jews from Arab rioters" instead of separating the sides.
6) In February 2021 he called the Arab MKs Heba Yazbak, Sami Abu Shehadeh and Mansour Abbas "supporters of terror" who have "no place in the Knesset."
7) In 2025, asked about the bid to expel MK Ayman Odeh, he said: "We must not build on Arab seats." On election night, October 28, 2026, he repeated that there would be no government that relies on Arab parties.
8) In September 2022 he said Ben-Gvir "loves the State of Israel." In the same breath he called the Arab party Balad "full-on terror supporters."
9) In February 2025 Trump proposed moving Gaza's population out. A radio host called it forced transfer. Kahana answered that it was "voluntary emigration" and said "we need to embrace this solution."
10) The day after, he called humanitarian aid to Gaza "aid to murderers."
This is the man the bloc that ran against Netanyahu chose to preside over Israel's parliament, including over its Arab members. He is an unrepentant racist and will lead the Knesset despite that.
The leaders of the anti-Netanyahu bloc – Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot, B’Yachad leader Naftali Bennett, Democrats chairman Yair Golan, Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid – announce in a joint statement that they have agreed to nominate former minister Matan Kahana, No. 5 on Yashar’s slate, as the next Knesset speaker, following days of negotiations over the matter.
They also announce that Liberman, a former defense minister, will chair the powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and incoming B’Yachad MK Liran Avishar Ben-Horin will lead the Finance Committee. A former Communications Ministry director general, Avishar Ben-Horin is entering the Knesset for the first time as No. 5 on Bennett’s slate.
Read more: timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e…
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That shoddy deal belongs in the bin.
It’s barely changed from the deal ministers already rejected: creditors pay £1bn to dodge sewage and leakage fines until 2030, then cash out on the stock market.
Nothing screams ‘neoliberalism’ like privatised water. Thames Water is the key to ending it and bringing water back into public ownership.
Don’t fudge this.
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This single man from America bought not one baby but two, from a woman in Mexico.
He paid $70,000 and the mother received an “additional bonus for carrying twins”. This was a double embryo transfer so twins - a boy and a girl - were the ultimate objective, despite the additional risk for an already risky #surrogacy pregnancy.
In his post reviewing the agency who facilitated this transaction, he thanks the mother but recommends removing her name from the birth certificate.
These newborns were removed from their mother at birth and were in the US with passports and identity documents within 16 days.
These babies will never know their mother.
ALT Single commissioning father wears a blue hospital gown, cap and mask holding two newborn babies, wrapped in blue blankets, one in each arm.
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The UK awarded £10.7m in NEW public contracts to firms linked to illegal israeli settlements, despite gov’t pledges to stop funding them aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/1…
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Gaza is not drowning because of the rain. It is drowning because of genocide.
The flooding of over 70,000 tents within 24 hours, directly impacting more than 1.5 million displaced Palestinians is the structural outcome of systematic infrastructure destruction and deliberate policy choices.
The Palestinian Civil Defence's capacity to respond to over 2,000 emergency calls was capped at barely 10% due to enforced fuel blockades and machinery restrictions.
Basic human security shelter, sanitation, clean water and safety for children are fundamental rights. This is a non-negotiable!
If systems fail, our collective voice and direct solidarity are our strongest tools.
Support active ground efforts;
Al-Khair Challenge: instagram.com/khairchallenge
The Sameer Project: instagram.com/thesameerproje…
Rammun Foundation: instagram.com/rammunfoundati…
One4Hope Foundation: instagram.com/one4hope.found…
Gaza Ground Aid: instagram.com/gazagroundaid
Sun of Freedom: instagram.com/the_sunoffreed…
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I broke down while filming these scenes. I couldn't bear the scale of the suffering unfolding before my eyes. I tried my best to amplify these families' voices, but what I witnessed was beyond words.
Children soaked, tents completely flooded, and families left exposed to the cold and rain. The world is not just witnessing this tragedy; it is complicit through its silence.
Watch the report for yourselves.
Dragnet's first dispatch from the besieged Gaza Strip: Dragnet contributor @Tamer_Alnoaizy spent hours walking through tents in Gaza's flooded displacement camps, where Palestinians whose homes and neighborhoods were destroyed by Israeli bombs are now sleeping in freezing water.
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Urge the British Library not to close its reading rooms - Sign the Petition! c.org/SVBzscwffz via @UKChange
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Nothing to see, just Doctors Without Borders suspending services in the occupied West Bank due to Israeli restrictions, “that amount to the collective punishment and ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians.”
Why would anyone report it…
#Palestine: For 10 days, Palestinians in Hebron, #WestBank have faced military raids, forced evictions and severe movement restrictions, making it harder for people to reach care.
The lockdown also forced our teams to suspend care. doctorswithoutborders.ca/pal…
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💔 Gaza just moments ago The sounds of explosions never stop, and terror surrounds us from every direction. We can no longer bear this fear. Please, save us We don’t want to die here. 😭🇵🇸
chuffed.org/project/184385
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🚨BREAKING: Thames Water's 'best & final offer' to Ofwat includes a demand to waive some penalties in return for a cash payment.
REALLY?? Offering money to be let off illegal sewage dumping??
@Andyburnham it's time to end this farce. Take Thames Water into Special Administration, then public ownership.
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This is the kind of headline you read and your mind just refuses to believe it. You assume there must be some exaggeration or misinformation, or some nuanced fact is being exploited to paint an inaccurate picture.
Because surely it cant be this, right? Surely theres no way a 20 y/o man could have his sentence overturned because it wasnt established at his trial whether he "thought he was having consensual sex with a 10 y/o".
But then you read the article (article 🔗'd in reply) and thats literally what it is. This is what makes ppl think our leaders hate us, this is what deligitimizes the Liberal project in many people's minds.
Like many liberal-minded people of my generation, I grew up believing that progressivism promised a better way, a more fair and just world, where people really WERE judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
When I see stuff like this, i cannot help but think something is deeply wrong with the state of the modern Left. After all, to paraphrase the psycho from No Country For Old Men:
"If the liberalism you followed brought you to this....of what use was your liberalism?"
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My previous tweet is approaching 1 million views, and I want to use this reach to make an urgent appeal to the world.
Allow caravans and mobile housing units into Gaza. Open the way for construction materials and reconstruction equipment to enter. Repair the water and sewage networks and rainwater drainage systems.
Enough of the humiliation of human dignity in Gaza. Enough of leaving families and children to live in these degrading conditions. People here are not asking for the impossible. They are asking for shelter that protects them and a life in which their dignity is respected.
Act now, before the rain washes away what little remains of these people's lives.
I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
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The Guardian View on the British Library ‘Privatising sections would undermine a valued public space that is both open to all, and an essential component of a neglected higher‑education ecosystem.’
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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From speaking to staff, this was mostly the idea of Jeremy Silver who was the acting CEO at the time and a couple of others. Rather tellingly, the majority of the board resigned over this and other issues, including forcing security to being outsourced.
