Larry Sanders

There are huge cuts being made in the NHS. This is a CHOICE by this government. 🤬 Unfunded ambitious 10 year plan. 🤬 Pay rise for NHS staff not enough. 🤬 Always money for private health companies and war. #WesChangeYourPlans independent.co.uk/news/health/nh…

35 years ago today the Poll Tax (aka Community Charge) was abolished ✊ The battle against the poll tax was the biggest civil disobedience campaign of the 20th century. An estimated 14 million people refused to pay or couldn't. The mass non payment campaign was (🧵1/2)

The pressure is building. Our economy, our families and all of our communities will suffer if we force people into decades of limbo - it's time the Government admits it has got this one wrong. buff.ly/bBB5zmU

A decade ago, Paris didn’t look like this. Ten years of sustained investment in its cycling network have transformed it into one of the world’s biking capitals, with cycling traffic up 3x and many routes seeing exponential traffic increases annually.

Anonymous I run a small pizza shop. Deliveries mostly. Late nights. Got a call at 10 PM. Woman’s voice shaking. “Can you deliver to Sunset Motel?” “Yes ma’am. What would you like?” Long pause. “What can I get for six dollars? I have three kids.” Six dollars wouldn’t cover one pizza. “We have a special tonight. Family meal. Three pizzas, breadsticks, drinks. Six dollars.” No such special. She started crying. “Really?” Made the pizzas myself. Added wings. Cookies. Juice boxes. Drove it over. She opened the door. Bruises on her neck. Three little kids behind her. Terrified. Quiet. “Thank you. You don’t understand.” I did understand. Started happening weekly. She’d call. I’d have a special ready. Month three she didn’t call anymore. Worried me. Two months later she walked in. Different person. Confident. Had a job. Apartment. Kids looked healthy. Happy. Handed me three hundred dollars. “For all the specials that weren’t real. I knew.” Tried to refuse. “Please. Let me pay forward.” That money started a fund. When someone calls from a shelter or motel desperate, we use it. Six years now. Over a thousand meals delivered. She’s a paralegal. Refers families to us constantly. Works with domestic violence survivors. Her oldest is in high school. Works at my shop weekends. “Because you fed us when we were running. Now I want to feed others.” Last Saturday she delivered to a family at that same motel. Came back crying. “That was us five years ago. Now I get to be you.”

Today in Tel Aviv: we gathered hundreds of Israelis to declare - we will not serve the war of Netanyahu and Trump

A tribunal has ordered the Department for Work and Pensions to release a report that describes the impact of its errors on disabled benefit claimants, following a three-year fight to keep the document secret. #DWP disabilitynewsservice.com/tribunal-dismi…

Dr. Hussam Abu Safieh 💔 We ask God to hasten his release, to relieve his distress, and to return him to his family safe and sound. O God, do not prolong his absence, and let him be among our people for the next Eid.

Working for a living shouldn’t be taxed more than owning things for a living. Nobel Prize–winner Joseph Stiglitz calls out the injustice. The UK should listen and bring Capital Gains Tax rates in line with Income Tax rates & add NICs to profits from ownership too.

A very proud moment in my mission to improve choice & experience for women having hysteroscopy. Today we delivered the first hysteroscopy under sedation at @SpireManchester an achievement I understand is a first across @spirehealthcare in the UK. Thanks @DrAndrewHeck & the team!

So proud of our councillors across England & Wales and all the amazing work they do every single day. If you want to join the movement that's supporting people in our communities - join.greenparty.org.uk

I want to live in a world where everyone has what they need and we can relax.

This could have been avoided. Failure to insulate every home, end reliance on fossil fuels & decouple energy prices from gas left us exposed to energy shocks. Now we must act: Cap bill rises after June. End fossil fuel addiction. Lower bills, permanently.

Medellín, Colombia dropped its city's warming temps by a whopping 4 degrees Fahrenheit. How? They created "green corridors" of trees and plants throughout the built city. It cost $6.50 per resident, and will save the city millions of dollars each year. We need more of this!

If the water companies can't survive without dumping sewage in our rivers and seas, LET THEM GO BANKRUPT. Then nationalise them for nothing. Thank you, Boycott Water Bills and @juliewassmer for inviting us.

When politicians quote war costs, they're usually giving you the Pentagon's grocery bill, not the real economic damage.⁣ ⁣ Oil shocks, lost jobs, delayed investment - the true cost isn't billions, it's hundreds of billions.⁣ ⁣ Always ask: what are they not counting?

We 100% need this everywhere we can do it

Finland is offering artists up to €3,800/month to slow down and just make work. No exhibitions required, no performances. Just you, a quiet countryside residence, and two uninterrupted months. The Saari Residence 2027 is open to artists, writers, poets, translators, composers and curators of all nationalities. Collective applications (up to 10 people) are also welcome. Deadline is 31 March 2026 and it’s free to apply. Full details on koneensaatio.fi/en/saari-resid…

Dear David, Everything you said about Modern Money Theory is mistaken. There is room for debate but simply misstating doesn't help. These lies are connected to the increasing the gap between the very rich and the rest of us.

A couple of years ago my life was saved by a very special man. His name is Hanny Anwar. He’s a surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He removed the cancer from the base of my spine. Along with a lot of bone. But he did so much more than that. Surgeons have a reputation for being cocky, arrogant and cursed with poor people skills. Hanny isn't like that. As well as being exceptionally gifted, he's also a very thoughtful and spiritual man. Once he'd diagnosed my cancer as chordoma, he explained to me that it has a very high recurrence rate. On average, there's a 60% chance that chordomas return. I was trying to get my head around this. That I was going to put myself through brutal surgery with a long recovery, losing bladder bowel and sexual function... to emerge with the odds against me. Hanny said something to me that I'll never forget. He reassured me that if the cancer did return that it could be treated with radiotherapy or further surgery. He told me that the hospital treats patients with recurrent cancer that live for decades. 'So if it comes back, it's not necessarily a death sentence?', I asked. 'No more than life is', he replied. Wow. It was such a great answer, I burst out laughing. In that moment I knew that I completely trusted him. I felt immensely privileged to be his patient. Along with his colleague who also operated on me, John Afolayan, he is currently trekking ONE HUNDRED KILOMETRES across THE SAHARA DESERT. It will take them five days. Yes, they're insane. But they’re doing it to raise money for the @thernohcharity.    All the money raised goes back into NHS services at the hospital to help more patients in the future. The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital is our only national orthopaedic hospital. It treats patients from all over the country, including injured service personnel and people like me who suffer from rare bone cancer. Anything you can give will make a massive difference. Surely they deserve it. Thank you. justgiving.com/campaign/rnohs…