LindaC 🇪🇺🌹🍂🎾#FBPE @Signoret14

George Orwell’s 1984 was published today in 1949. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Kendi evladın değil diye mi susuyorsun? Susma ! Lütfen paylaş.

Mick Lynch is just one of those men that has a way of speaking with integrity and with heart - when Laila Cunningham talks about immigrants taking advantage he replies "We, the British people believe in helping one another through a fair tax system...you believe in making your friends richer"

November 1971. Chiswick, West London. Erin Pizzey is 32 years old. She is not a lawyer. Not a politician. Not a doctor. She is a woman who talked Hounslow Council into lending her a cold, rundown building on Belmont Road — a former community hall — for almost nothing. Her original plan was modest. A warm room. A cup of tea. Somewhere for mothers with young children to simply get out of the house. Then the door opened. A woman stood in the entrance. She was covered, head to foot, in bruises. She was holding two small children. She was shaking. She didn't want tea. She needed somewhere to hide. Erin let her in. She didn't turn her away. She didn't tell her to call the police. Because Erin had already called the police. They told her the same thing they told every woman in Britain at the time: they could not enter a private home over a "domestic dispute." That was the law. The home was private. What happened inside it was a family matter. When Erin contacted a female civil servant to report what she was seeing, the response was astonishing. The woman told her flatly: "There wasn't a problem of battered wives until you made one." Erin put down the phone. Then she went back to her residents and made sure they were fed. Within weeks, 40 mothers and children were sleeping in four tiny rooms. No funding. No staff. No legal authority. She didn't stop. By 1973, word had spread through quiet whisper networks — one woman telling another, "There is a place. Go to Chiswick. She won't turn you away." That same year, Erin hosted the first National Women's Aid Conference in the UK. Women from across Britain arrived, and they all recognized the same thing at once: what she had built needed to exist everywhere. In 1974, the council set a maximum of 36 residents. At peak times, 150 women and children were living inside those walls — sleeping on floors, on chairs, in hallways. The building smelled of cooking, fear, and something else entirely: relief. Erin was taken to court for overcrowding. She appealed all the way to the House of Lords. She kept the doors open the entire time. That same year, she wrote a book. Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear. It was the first published account of domestic violence in British history. It used real stories from real women inside the shelter. Overnight, a problem that had no official name was on front pages from London to New York. The movement spread. Refuges opened across the UK. Then Australia. Then Canada. Then the United States. The pattern she created in four small rooms in West London — no blueprint, no permission, no funding — had been replicated in hundreds of shelters across the Western world. MP Jack Ashley stood up in Parliament and said: "It was she who first identified the problem, who first recognised the seriousness of the situation and who first did something practical." She was ranked 14th in a poll of the 100 women who shook the world. She was awarded the Italian Peace Prize. She received a CBE. The charity she founded — Chiswick Women's Aid, which became Refuge — grew into the largest domestic violence charity in the United Kingdom, with over 460 employees and an annual income of more than £33 million. Erin Pizzey passed away on October 4, 2025, aged 86. She never stopped. It all began with one woman, one borrowed building, and an absolute refusal to say no. Forty women and children showed up with nowhere to go. She made room. Share this if you believe one ordinary person, refusing to look away, can build a shelter that holds the whole world. Follow us Lost in Yesterday

AI data centres are expected to consume 9.3 trillion litres of water annually by 2030 - the equivalent amount to the water supply requirements of 1.3 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa. Plundering the natural resources requirements of people for the greed of the tech giants.

Dix-huit mille quatre cent cinquante-sept. Et on ne parle QUE des ENFANTS

Donna Malizia @donna_malizia

2 days ago

Milano. I nomi dei 18.457 bambini uccisi da Israele.

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Israel responds to Iran's retaliatory strikes by cutting off all aid to Gaza. This is a state which routinely collectively punishes civilians as a tactic of war. This is monstrous, and it is also a grave war crime.

Drop Site @DropSiteNews

2 days ago

🚨BREAKING: Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza and halted the entry of humanitarian aid following Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel, cutting off supplies to roughly 2 million Palestinians in the territory. Israel has imposed similar blanket closures during previous

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This is tragic and scandalous. We must help Gaza.

Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy

2 days ago

Gaza is taking its last breaths, and the situation we have reached is extremely dangerous. Temperatures are rising to suffocating levels, and the tents where hundreds of thousands live have turned into ovens made of fabric and plastic. There is no electricity, no air

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@annlizkelly @bbcniweather @UTVNews @StormHour @deric_tv @R_Faragher @linzilima @bbcweather @LoveBallymena @WeatherCee @Louise_utv @WeatherAisling @barrabest @Ailser99 @angie_weather @geoff_maskell @Ali_Totten @organicbotanic Stunning colours Anne 👏

Dartmoor’s Hill Ponies face extinction. They need YOUR help now. - Sign the Petition! c.org/gftSW7KbMV via @UKChange

I am horrified that a car has been deliberately set alight outside the home of the family of Salma Yaqoob, a wonderful prominent anti-racist and peace campaigner in Birmingham. I hope the police take this shocking incident seriously. Sending my solidarity to Salma & her family.

"'No signs of life' in stream after sewage spill." And the @EnvAgency does what exactly? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

If only someone in the media would expose Farage's incitement yesterday via performative utterance in the same way that Jonathan Miller humiliated Enoch Powell and his grubby little racism.

Friends, I need your help: is there any way to identify who is behind an account suggesting I will be lynched for saying I’m British? “When you’re swinging from the end of a rope, will you have that smile on your face?”

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Politicians obsess over the cost of welfare while ignoring the cost of poverty. Extreme poverty drives higher NHS spending, homelessness, social care costs, crisis interventions, lost productivity, and weaker economic demand. Poverty is not cheap. It is enormously expensive.

More than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, some potentially doing so permanently. ▪️No net zero for the data centres. ▪️Net zero enforced on us plebs (probably to enable the data centres to burn more energy). The whole thing is a scam.

@annlizkelly @bbcniweather @UTVNews @StormHour @deric_tv @R_Faragher @linzilima @bbcweather @LoveBallymena @WeatherCee @Louise_utv @WeatherAisling @barrabest @Ailser99 @angie_weather @geoff_maskell @Ali_Totten @organicbotanic Awesome pictures Anne ❤️

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM. Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison Huge coverage of both Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month. Media coverage? You judge.

I was a prison officer, Nick. You can't preach "tough on crime." Your lot cut nearly 7,000 prison officers since 2010 and handed our jails to G4S and Serco. You broke the system, then act shocked it doesn't work. You know what actually works? Lads out on licence getting their track tickets, learning a trade, coming home as taxpayers instead of reoffenders. That's using human capital, not warehousing it. A lad sat in a cell doing nothing helps nobody. And funny how quiet you all go on the tax dodgers and the oligarchs bankrolling Putin's war. Boris took a Russian ex-KGB man's hospitality at his Italian villa, dodged his own officials, then made the son a Lord. Where's your "lock them up" energy for that?

Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy

a week ago

David Lammy wants to put violent young thugs on a course. We want to put them in prison. The teenage rapists proved the problem. Lammy must change the sentencing rules.

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This is a map of over 130 data centres in Ireland. 🇮🇪 They consume 22% of all our electricity in Ireland. 🇮🇪 They consume millions of gallons of our freshwater. 🇮🇪 And the scary thing is they are growing in number!