Liz Jackson

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

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Farage lies to Congress His jaunt to Washington didn’t go exactly as planned...

🔴 NEW - Farage lies to Congress 🔴

His jaunt to Washington ended in him being royally skewered by Democrat Jamie Raskin.

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In light of Israel starving the population of Gaza

Dr Amir Khan explains what happens when a human being starves

"Right now children in Gaza are feeling this right now. This is not a natural death, it's a man made one. And it's preventable. Let aid in"

Baby boy starves to death in Gaza as hunger spreads, medics say Six-week-old Yousef's lifeless body lay limp on a hospital table in Gaza City, his skin stretched over protruding ribs and a bandage where a drip had been inserted into his tiny arm. Doctors said the cause of death was starvation.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Man who developed psychosis after being jailed for 13 years on indefinite sentence moved to hospital Thomas White’s family say his spending years in prison on IPP sentence without release date was ‘psychiatric abuse’ A prisoner driven to psychosis after being jailed for more than a decade under an indeterminate sentence has finally been moved to a hospital for a treatment after a six-year battle by his family and supporters. Thomas White was sentenced to a minimum of two years in custody under the imprisonment for public protection (IPP) scheme in 2012 for stealing a mobile phone, but remains in prison over a decade later. Continue reading...

Man who developed psychosis after being jailed for 13 years on indefinite sentence moved to hospital

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Earlier support for speech and language for 20,000 children Up to 20,000 more young children, including those with SEND, will have their needs identified and supported earlier, breaking down barriers to opportunity.

Up to 20,000 more children will benefit from earlier targeted support to overcome speech and language challenges thanks to the Labour government expanding the Early Language Support for Every Child for another year.

The scheme deploys specialist teams to identify children's needs and train staff.

Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report Sure Start children’s centres provided £2 of savings for every £1 in costs, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), prompting calls for the government to look at such services as potentially paying for themselves. The centres, championed by the last Labour government, created £2.8bn in savings and revenues at the scheme’s peak in England, according to the IFS study. Continue reading...

Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds

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6 May 1940 | Betty Vredenburg, a Dutch Jewish girl, was born in Amsterdam to Abracham and Rachel.

She was murdered in a gas chamber of the #Auschwitz camp on 21 May 1944.

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and who has left over chocolate Easter eggs!! 😀

Teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools Survey finds social media main cause of poor behaviour, with pupils mimicking Donald Trump and Andrew Tate A rise in misogyny and racism is flooding UK schools as pupils ape the behaviour of figures such as Donald Trump and Andrew Tate after exposure through social media and online gaming, teachers have warned. A survey by the NASUWT union found most teachers identified social media as “the number one cause” of pupil misbehaviour, with female staff bearing the brunt. Teachers also raised concerns about parents who refuse to accept school rules or take responsibility for their children’s behaviour. Continue reading...

Teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools

To quote a song! "Who knows where the time goes" 🤔

Gaza is a ‘killing field’ where people are being starved. How long will the world tolerate this? | Arwa Mahdawi What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it

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I'm looking forward to tonight

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8 April 1940 | A French Jewish girl, Jacqueline Benguigui, was born in #Paris.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 25 June 1943 in a transport of 1,018 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 418 people murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

This Wednesday at 8pm UK time there shall be an old-style Tim's Twitter Listening Party & BlueSky Listening Party - on both sites simultaneously - for the new #TheWaterboys album LIFE, DEATH AND DENNIS HOPPER. Most of the band will be present. Do join us!

Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.

Good morning, orange and yellow petals to fill your timeline with happiness ☀️

Have a good start to the week ☺️

Looked you up when I got here, much nicer place to be.

In America, even with a valid study visa, you can be picked up off the street at random and detained by homeland security (if you’re a Muslim that co-writes something that the government doesn’t agree with).

Land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.

This is Soviet level shit.

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Gareth Southgate rails against ‘callous toxic influencers’ in Dimbleby Lecture Sir Gareth Southgate has expressed concern that ‘callous, manipulative and toxic influencers’ are taking the place of traditional father figures and contributing to mental health issues among young me...

Gareth Southgate delivers the Richard Dimbleby Lecture and calls out ‘toxic influencers, whose sole drive is for their own gain …
They are as far away as you could get from the role models our young men need in their lives’

“And this void is filled by a new kind of role model who do not have their best interest at heart. These are callous, manipulative and toxic influencers, whose sole drive is for their own gain. They willingly trick young men into believing that success is measured by money or dominance, never showing emotion, and that the world – including women – is against them. They are as far away as you could possibly get from the role models our young men need in their lives.”

Just when you thought Gareth Southgate couldn't be any more of a hero, here he is on the likes of Andrew Tate. Perfectly put.

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

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23 February 1941 | A Pole, Edmund Wojciechowski, perished in Auschwitz. A lawyer, a son of the President of Poland Stanisław Wojciechowski.

He was arrested in connection with the refusal to expel Jewish lawyers from the Warsaw Bar.

In #Auschwitz from 15 August 1940.
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