Dear America. England is not on the verge of a civil war. Despite Farage, Brexit and Tory Party drift to the Far Right, most are disgusted by the rabid racists who have been rioting. Space Karen is having another of his fever dreams because he hopes that if the UK devolves into a race war, the US might follow. Which, btw, as the spoiled brat of a white supremacist that he is, is his real goal. Please deal with the nasty, shite little worms you allow to become influential #Englandriots#elonmusk
(paraphrasing Lammy) 'We'll not delay arms sales to Israel just yet. Israel has the right to defend itself against retaliations to its genocidal war in Gaza and expansion into land belonging to neighbouring countries'
Did anyone expect substantive change as a result of a Labour government? Then you misunderstand UK democracy. You vote for the style of rhetoric, not the policies!
This grand sycamore clearly feels she is queen of the valley and with good reason. Magnificent location on top of a mysterious ancient stone walled platform that I currently can't find the age of or reason for. Built of large, closely fitted boulders, it has survived the ages, with its high view from the Offa's Dyke path
So Starmer wants to exclude trans people from what he defines as single sex spaces on hospital wards by segregating trans people into side rooms
This places me in a conflicted position
A) He's a bigoted and ignorant reactionary making a bigoted reactionary play, because he's spineless whenever bigoted reactionaries discover a new group to hate and tell him he should hate them too
Ah! Before I sleep, I've one thought to share. For non-UK peeps wondering what it's like to live here
Living through Thatcher, miner's strikes, Section 28, then the Blair disappointment, Iraq War, decline of welfare state and the NHS, all left a feeling of chronic decline
Now there's the Far Right, TERFs, economic stagnation
But you see, we aren't falling into the abyss. We were always there
Living in the UK is like an unending falling sensation from a height you were never at
I remember when we used to say 'I think that' instead of 'imho' and the part that recognised it was just a limited personal view was implicit, so there was no need to habitually proclaim humility to avoid undue condemnation
The government seems to believe an extremist is anyone whose perspective is extremely distant from theirs. And the deeper they plunge into insanity, the more of us meet that qualification
To be honest, I'm less threatened by the latest crazed utterances from government ministers, whose time is almost up, than the possibility that an incoming Labour government will adopt their policies wholesale #UKpol
"When my grandmother arrived here, after the Holocaust, the Jewish Agency promised her a house [..] They then took her to Ajami, in Jaffa, to a beautiful beach house. She saw that on the table there were still the dishes of the Arabs who lived there and who had been kicked out. So she went back to the agency and said, take me back to the tent, I will never do to anyone else what was done to me [..] How could we have become what we opposed?
"“It was one of the saddest days in my humanitarian work.
For people in #Gaza, UNRWA has become the last remaining lifeline for survival as the markets are empty. Water, food, medicine and fuel are running out fast. Every day becomes bleaker as we continue to lose colleagues. Where will this end? More than 70 UNRWA colleagues have been killed since 7 October, often along with their families"
They say at least 100,000 are protesting to stop the #GazaGenocide in #London right now. This crowd looks MUCH bigger than the two previous marches that were estimated at 100,000 by the MetPol. This is organic, and it is growing with every day of #IsraeliGovernment atrocity in #Gaza.
Don’t be afraid of discovering that the ‘real you’ may be different than the ‘current you' - Rabbi Noah WeinbergCat lover still in pursuit of wisdom, terrified of geopolitical direction, anxious about ecological collapse, lover of Nature, natural spirituality, history and ancient numismatics. Oh and did I mention cats? Hello everyone! Profile pic - black cat paintingBanner - from Larmes de Verre, Man Ray, 1932Trans fem👋 🐈⬛🌿🌱☘️ 🏴♾️