Celia Durrum

Privatisation of water in a nutshell: They make us pay more They dump sewage in our rivers They sell off our reservoirs and build none But but but… the CEO is paid hundreds of thousands And the shareholders have been paid billions Congratulations England, we can’t figure out what 90% can.

So, I have a friend who works at the BBC. Yesterday, they told me the Tony Blair Institute basically selected the entire panel for @bbcquestiontime — hence why there was no balance and it was essentially dangerous big tech propaganda. Loads of staff pissed off, but silenced.

Question Time has been called out for a 'dangerous' lack of balance on its panel – with Zack Polanski suggesting the BBC had allowed a billionaire to buy 'an entire episode' #Echobox=1779966688-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thenational.scot/news/26145850.…

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In 2008, a group of friends in a small Yorkshire town decided to start planting food in unused public spaces. The town is Todmorden, population about 15,000, tucked into a valley between Burnley and Halifax. The group is Incredible Edible Todmorden. Their motto is "if you eat, you're in." Today the railway station beds grow herbs. The fire station is surrounded by fruit trees. The canal towpath is lined with edible plantings. The forecourt of the local police station has been transformed into what's now called "possibly the finest and greenest looking police station in the UK," with a small library of crime novels installed for good measure. Everything is free to harvest. They have no paid staff, no buildings, and no public funding. They've operated this way for almost two decades. Their guiding principles: "believe in the power of small actions," "kindness underpins everything we do," and "it's sometimes better to ask for forgiveness, not permission." Over the years they've added a Tool Library, a Makery, and little free libraries scattered around town. They host visitors from around the world (they call it "vegetable tourism"). Their gardening Sundays have grown from four or five people to forty or fifty. The model has been replicated in over 700 projects worldwide and continued to spread.

I know this might sound really daft, don't worry, that's intentional, but I need to really illustrate this point in a way that even Helen Whately might manage to understand. Cutting support for disabled people who can't work and have been assessed as not being able to will incentivise them to find a job as successfully as taking me out of my chair would encourage me to stand up and walk. In reality, what would actually happen is I would just be lying immobile on the floor/bed that I was left on until somebody came to get me. In other words, it doesn't work! You could leave people with absolutely nothing and they still wouldn't get a job because they can't do it. Even the DWP knows this.

Spot on assessment, no lie.

“They kept kicking until I had no breath.” Arno recounts the brutal assault he endured after israeli forces illegally intercepted their boats in international waters. Beaten so severely that he suffered broken ribs and a collapsed lung, his testimony is one of many describing the extreme violence participants faced during the interception.

@guyrleech @metamacky When embracing progress it's worth noting the importance of human interaction for communities & society as a whole. In this instance, apart from jobs, a chat at the checkout maybe the only conversation some people have. Both systems can be used equally to suit all needs.

Shouldn't you be writing this in a letter to the Guardian newspaper, sent via the post otherwise you are implicitly supporting the demise of the Royal Mail due to electronic communications & the demise of newspapers due to the internet? My point is that progress/efficiency happen which we should (mostly) embrace & not be Luddites about

there’s got to be around 100k self-scan checkouts in supermarkets all over the uk. all of that used to be entry-level jobs for humans. we can’t just keep replacing human jobs with machines.

To anyone who thinks Nigel Farage wants what’s best for you, please don’t get sucked into the racist populist fantasy he peddles as a result of dark money funding his treasonous campaign. He’s just another puppet of the oligarchs trying to prey on your tribal instincts. Take it from me, it’s a road to nowhere. My thanks to The Reform Files for the clip. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRWXBb2p/

This is what an Emmy awards acceptance speech looks like. Kudos

Private equity England children abandoned as firms cash in on care crisis. Average charge £384,020 per child per year. Public purse looted. Poor care for children. England, 84% of child care in the private sector. France, 5%. End privatisation. socialistworker.co.uk/news/children-…

Three problems, Rob: it's not a mosque (it's a food bank with a small prayer room), it wasn't a consecrated church (it was an old school building), and it doesn't serve any faith exclusively. The one thing genuinely destroyed at the site was a digger torched by arsonists who'd swallowed the exact "it's becoming a mosque" myth you're reposting. The C of E condemned the attack. Maybe read past the headline next time.

Anti-war groups launch letter campaign for the resignation of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley for “openly lying” about Palestine protesters.

Four of the Palestine Action protestors have been convicted by jury of criminal damage. At no point was it put to the jury that the judge may sentence them as terrorists. This is unprecedented move and could set a further dangerous precedent for future cases relating to protests. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

“Four young teenage boys were brought in, all of whom had been shot in the testicles.” In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Nick Maynard, a British surgeon who has worked repeatedly in Gaza since 2010, describes a pattern of shootings at food distribution points where children were shot in specific body parts on different days. “The pattern of injuries that we all witnessed was so striking, that it was it was clearly beyond coincidental, and it seemed to us that there was a game of target practice.” He also details quadcopters hovering over tents and spraying bullets indiscriminately, and recounts the death of six neonates left in incubators at Al-Nasr pediatric hospital after Israeli forces evacuated the hospital and left them to rot.

El efecto de un solo árbol en la calle es equivalente a cinco aires acondicionados del tamaño de una habitación funcionando 20 horas al día. Si nuestra ciudad se llenara de calles como esta la vida en verano sería mucho más agradable.

👁️Your face scanned New rules on how police can use facial recognition and similar technologies are on the horizon. We must remain vigilant - our fight to #StopFacialRecognition is now more urgent than ever. ➡️stopfacialrecognition.org

Michigan residents filed the first class-action lawsuit in the US over data center noise destroying their home values. From noise to water use to pollution, nobody wants data centers yet the government is calling us “extremists” for opposing them. It’s backfiring spectacularly!

Dr. Maynard: "Healthcare workers in Israeli prisons - tortured. Genitals repeatedly attacked. Electrocuted through their genitals. Blindfolded for 60 days straight. Handcuffed. Forced to kneel or sit for 60 days. Beaten regularly. Electrocuted." Not by ISIS. Not by a cartel. By the Israeli Prison Service. Guards. Military This isn't a few bad apples - it's a systematic