βThis war has been no help to the people of Iran. It risks leaving them in a more destabilised country with a worse regime.β
SiΓ’n Berry discussing the conflict in Iran on #BBCQT.
@phillm
Manc, council house lad. Army vet (RCT), ExFirefighter (GMFRS), Fire Engineer (IFE) & fire data researcher (Leeds Uni). Medically retired (MeniΓ¨reβs). Vertiginous, going deaf. Pioneered fire risk determination by building type. INFJ. ADHD. @HRRBFireSafety.
βThis war has been no help to the people of Iran. It risks leaving them in a more destabilised country with a worse regime.β
SiΓ’n Berry discussing the conflict in Iran on #BBCQT.
Hypocrite.
Today I asked ministers to deny* that the number of jury acquittals in protest cases was a factor in the Governmentβs dangerous attack on jury trials.
*They did not do this
jessicaelgot.bsky.social 52 minutes ago NEW - The Hereditary Peers Bill has passed in the House of Lords, finally passing the government's major reform that has been fought every step of the way, despite being manifesto pledge. It passes now only because the government offered the Tories more life peerages.
It passes now only because the government offered the Tories more life peerages.
*sigh*
Sit down. I have something to tell you. You need to calm yourself.
Zack Polanski is not in charge of NATO. Honest, he isn't. Look it up. He really isn't.
But the shocking revelations don't stop there. Ready?
He is also not in charge of pan-European defence arrangements.
I know. I fell off my...
And jury trial unites us all
Above politics- a quote from Sir G Cox speech
What an amazing speech by MP & criminal barrister Sir Geoffrey Cox -on the vital importance of trial by jury.
Itβs about 19 minutes- well worth looking it up. He argues that it is a great example of social justice & is above politics.
The @greenparty.org.uk support trial by jury too. #TrialByJury
You can, in fact, end this war by bombing. Bombing Netanyahu.
I always try not invading places and I always end up not getting shot
Think about it. Employers, fellow workers, employment conditions, student loans poverty, sanctions, climate anxiety are making people ill. Extremist views openly expressed, prejudice, bullying, threats to rights, gender policing, hatred and thuggish toxic masculinity make workplaces unbearable.
Yes, more people are being signed off for mental health problems.
No, it doesn't follow that doctors (or patients) are overdiagnosing.
Government needs to look at why life in the UK is making people ill.
I have always struggled to understand why people would even visit Dubai.
BBC News - British man charged in Dubai for alleged filming of Iranian missiles
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I know they say keep your enemies close, but I'm struggling to understand why UK troops are risking their lives defending Iraq. My only guess is, oil. How many hospitals is this costing us?
BBC - UK troops at Iraq base shot down Iranian drones, John Healey says.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Students, graduates, friends and family: here's a chance to tell the government what you think about their unfair plans for student loan repayments π
Let's see if we can force another U-turn...
I'm not so sure, I've a sneaking suspicion he's acting daft.
bsky.app/profile/saul...
US bombers loading up on UK airstrips before raining down bombs on Iran.
Parliament wasn't consulted - and polling shows huge numbers oppose it.
When do MPs get a say over our involvement in this war?
www.forbes.com/sites/peters...
I think I might just do the pools instead.
It's entirely intentional. Trump (and Netanyahu) hate Brown Muslim people a great deal more than they hate white Russian people.
He's just cranking up his racial hatred dial a couple of notches, and that sees concerns about Putin, & the invasion of Ukraine, pale into comparative insignificance.
This is how a city improves the standard of housing and the standard of landlording. π
βEXCLUSIVE: Iβm the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Yearβ
Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Womenβs Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.
It is that easy to do the right thing. That easy to allow people who want to build a life and contribute to society. That easy.
The Labour government chooses cruelty because it wants to, not because it has to. It chooses to destroy lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Of course it's only "low quality evidence" when you refuse to take patients, particularly those that belong to minority groups, at their word.
When he was about 5, my little brother drew Elvis with his guitar ...
(yes, it all looks a little unfortunate and the wink really doesn't help)
Universities donβt just reflect inequality, they can reinforce or interrupt it. The real question for leaders is whether access remains a core value or a convenient casualty.
I think this might be on to something, and I suspect it lurks behind Labourβs current rhetoric of βtough choices.β A leader is the one whoβs willing to hurt others for the greater good. So if youβre not hurting someoneβ¦ youβre not a leader?
Absolutely fantastic.
This is the kind of person we need as our PM, so that we can make hope normal again and start taking this country forward.
#VoteForHope #VoteGreen
BREAKING: The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee.
Spotted in the other place, βOur survey said : ββ¦.
#NigelFarage chasing the zeitgeist again
Keir Starmer's position is seriously in doubt now.
Hannah Spencer, my MP (for Gorton & Denton), brought a tear to my eye, with her maiden speech in the House of Commons.
Truly inspirational. ππ
#VoteForHope #VoteGreen
youtu.be/ETW5MUKuEj0?...
Danny Dyer.