Jenny Walsh @JenW100

@WeRtheMods Wishing you all luck 🍀

Reform UK’s £105m Crypto Donations Christopher Harborne: £61m Ben Delo: £44m Maria Rost: £125-136k Simon William Smith: £116k Oscar Townsley: £30k That’s approximately £105.46m from crypto-linked donors (that we know of).

A reminder that small boat crossings peaked in 2022 when (checks notes) Suella Braverman was Home Secretary. She tried to solve this by giving Rwanda £300 million to take 4 refugees

Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman

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Invasion happening now. Only Reform will stop the boats 🇬🇧 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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I understand exactly what's happening - I've seen it before

Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK

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The front runner being foisted on the people of Holborn by Labour to replace the former Prime Minister Keir Starmer in our Parliament was born in Somalia. Do you understand what’s happening?

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Farage and Reform UK are in deep trouble. However, after 3 days, @Verbatim_Media's 37 minute video of their extraordinary year-long undercover investigation into Reform UK's illegal foreign donations has only got 161k views. It should have several million. So please repost this and then share the video. youtu.be/RugPik-G1Jw?is…

La Peste (Albert Camus), épilogue. Ecoutant, en effet, les cris d’allégresse qui montaient de la ville, Rieux se souvenait que cette allégresse était toujours menacée. Car il savait ce que cette foule en joie ignorait, et qu’on peut lire dans les livres, que le bacille de la peste ne meurt ni ne disparaît jamais, qu’il peut rester pendant des dizaines d’années endormi dans les meubles et le linge, qu’il attend patiemment dans les chambres, les caves, les mouchoirs et les paperasses, et que, peut-être, le jour viendrait où, pour le malheur et l’enseignement des hommes, la peste réveillerait ses rats et les enverrait mourir dans une cité heureuse. CAMUS, La Peste, 1947.

Ah yes a "National Emergency" along with the suspension of judicial & legislative processes. The slow of wit & those buying the shit Farage is peddling? Would do well to read a little German History. Specifically the #Ermächtigungsgesetz This is #Fascism express.co.uk/news/politics/…

Medieval Farage threatens judges, civil servants, parliament to obey him or else. Will declare state of emergency, make MPs sit 24 hours a day for six days a week until he gets his way. Will end human rights, equality, employment rights laws, and more. politicshome.com/news/article/n…

Word of the Day is a reminder of ‘tsundoku’: the pile of unread books you can’t help but add to at every opportunity.

Guys, Chris is a wonderful guy, much loved in the business, and a brilliant musical contributor. Sadly he needs our help. (If you can). 🙏🙂 gofundme.com/f/support-chri…

A MESSAGE TO LEFT WING MEN About a year ago, we were asked to provide a speaker for a Labour Party constituency meeting that was having a debate about prostitution policy. Survivor activist, Rebecca Mott, agreed to speak and I went along to support her. Her speech was powerful and clearly made some people see prostitution differently. Here is a tiny excerpt of what she said: “I only did indoors prostitution – the mythical safe way to be prostituted. I found out the hard way it was never safe, just on occasions less bad. To be inside indoors prostitution, is to be placed in a room with a string of entitled strangers. These punters hold all the freedom of choice. He can choose to be as violent as he desires, or to pretend he is the nice guy. The punter knows his violence will be of no consequence, and there will no outside interference.” After the debate, constituency members were asked to vote on a motion calling for support for the Nordic Model. Voting was by a show of hands. I was sitting in the front and turned round and was confronted by row upon row of men, every single one of them with his hand up, voting against the motion. I felt a kind of rage. How could they ignore what Rebecca had said about the terrible impact of prostitution on her life? And the wisdom of the other women who spoke for the motion? And how could they fall for the easy answers and misinformation put forward by those speaking against the motion, all of whom were calling for the full decriminalisation of the entire sex trade, including pimps, brothel keepers and punters? Did the men with their hands up really believe that decriminalising pimps would make the women safer? Did they stop to wonder how it would make the women safer? No one explained that. They never do. Because actual studies in countries that have gone down that road have not found the women to suddenly and miraculously be safe. Ever since that evening, I’ve been speaking to those men in my head. Recently I thought it was time to get it out of my head and down on paper. Or rather on the Internet. So this is my message to those men. And to all the other left-wing men – whether you’re in the Labour Party, or the Greens or Libdems, or you’re part of the Extinction Rebellion, CND, or something else. Whatever you’re part of, I imagine it’s because you care about the kind of world we live in. You’re sick of wars and the arms trade. You may be a socialist. You want things to be organised more fairly. You want the environment and the natural world to be cared for and preserved for future generations. I want you to think about where in that world does prostitution fit? In Victorian England, the system was so skewed against women, that for many, perhaps most, of those who weren’t married or in domestic service, there was no realistic option but prostitution to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. Do you think those women would have chosen that otherwise? Really? Please don’t fool yourself. The unions and the labour movement fought for a better deal. For a shorter working day, holidays, safety standards, a family wage. And eventually better pay and opportunities for women too. That’s the heritage, the victory of the labour movement in the UK. But if we decriminalise the sex trade, Victorian England is where women will end up. Because decriminalising the sex trade is saying that prostitution is just another job. And if it’s just another job, poor women will end up having no option but to take it. That’s how it works and if you think otherwise, you’re deluding yourself. So what is prostitution for anyway? They say ‘sex work’ is just a job. That it’s no different from all the other crap jobs poor people have to do. But think about that. Those jobs contribute something useful, something that society actually needs, even if it’s only a coffee or delivering a parcel. And those jobs don’t require women to take off their clothes so men can grope and ram their dicks into them. But prostitution – what does it create for society? What social need does it fulfil? I think you all know it’s not about orgasms for men – because you know you can do that for yourself. No, it’s about ego and flattery for men, and men being able to get their own way, sometimes in really brutal ways. In other words, it’s about male entitlement, feeding male entitlement. And what’s male entitlement associated with? It’s associated with male violence, over-valuing men’s contributions and under-valuing women’s, wars, extreme capitalist extraction of natural resources, and so on. Pretty much everything you probably say you’re concerned about. Is this what you really want to encourage? Is consigning women to be sexually used and abused while flattering the very men who are using them going to help create a better world? Really? Think about it. Full decriminalisation of the sex trade is capitulation to all that is worst in humanity. It doesn’t keep women safe. If we want a better world, men, you need to face the truth. Male entitlement, male sexual entitlement, male dominance, are not compatible with a human, equitable, environmentally secure world. If we want a more egalitarian and fair world, we must change the law so it no longer enshrines men’s ‘right’ to buy sexual access to women and girls. We need to make it clear that buying sexual access is beyond the pale. And we need to provide much better options for women and girls. That’s what the Nordic Model is all about. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10

Grenfell Tower cladding firm Arconic paid almost twice as much compensation to its shareholders for economic loss from misleading statements about the cladding than to the estates of the victims and to survivors of the fire: Report from @Cmmonwealth: common-wealth.org/publications/u…

While I endorse most of the message put forward by my fellow mandate holders, I did not join the statement because it describes the situation of women and girls as “gender apartheid” and calls for the codification of this concept. As I have mentioned before, it is my assessment that the current horrific treatment of women and girls in #Afghanistan amounts to “femi-genocide”: the acts to which they are subjected are intended to destroy Afghan women and girls, who qualify as a national group, in whole or in part because they are female (i.e. biologically female). Females in Afghanistan cannot identify themselves out of these experiences of subjugation and violence, nor can it be denied that Afghan society as a whole associates being female with this level of oppression, marginalization and exclusion. I am also of the view that the problem is not so much the need to coin new concepts or recognize “new” crimes, but rather the need to apply the legal frameworks and concepts we already have. For example, the crimes of genocide, gender persecution and crimes against humanity are already recognized. All States have a duty to prevent discrimination and violence against all women and girls, and not only against their own nationals. This duty extends to Afghan women and girls as well. The apathy and normalization of violence experienced by Afghan women and girls is a reflection of the regression in the respect for the rights of women and girls worldwide and their erasure of women and girls as humans that have specific needs and experiences and that are entitled to specific protections based on their sex (intersecting with other grounds) I close by saying that I of course fully respect the right of others, particularly Afghan women to disagree with my assessment and positions.

UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts

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#Afghanistan: UN experts warn against the normalization of the Taliban rule, urge states to accelerate steps towards accountability in the face of increasing restrictions imposed on the population, including women and girls, over the past year. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

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Tonight I think a lot of journalists should read the @samaritans guidelines before posting/tweeting/writing media.samaritans.org/documents/Medi…

The FBU have been sounding the alarm for years. We need proper and immediate investment in wildfire PPE, resources and training for every fire and rescue service in the country. We need 5,000 more firefighters now.

There have been approximately 20,000 election counts in the past 100 years. The only election winners not attending the count are Farage and Bobby Sands (who was in jail). The overwhelming majority of election winners thank the police. Farage chose to lie about the police.

Today is #InternationalCatDay - expect all cats to strut around as if we own the place, the same as every other day.

The difference between "There used to be hot summers too." and climate crisis.

I think this is the second time I've been so annoyed by something Owen Jones has said that it's inspired a piece on the essay site! On Roisin Murphy, a great deal of beards, and why the 'obsessed' label is falsely applied in the gender wars. Link follows! 🖤