The Coronavirus is an important reminder that health isn’t private. As a species we live in herds. Everyone’s health relies to some extent on everyone else’s. Healthcare has to be public because health is public.
Adam Ramsay
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Adam Ramsay
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‘Abolish Westminster!’ with @faberbooks due 5 November, pre-order: linktr.ee/abolishwestmin…. Substack: abolishwestminster.substack.com
- Imagine thinking you had a right to lecture Nagasaki on how to commemorate the slaughter of its citizens. Imagine thinking bombing was ever a-political.
- It's funny how Britain is totally obsessed with the 'Dunkirk spirit', but when there is an actual opportunity to sail across the Channel and pick up a bunch of people fleeing war, we hurl abuse at them instead.
- It’s not appropriate for the government to dictate the line up at music festivals.Kneecap Glastonbury slot ‘not appropriate’, says Sir Keir Starmer manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/k…
- EXCLUSIVE: The Metropolitan Police have passed a file of criminal evidence against @BorisJohnson and Dominic Cummings' Vote Leave campaign to the Crown Prosecution Service:
- Worth noting that this was all caused by Labour’s shadow Secretary of State for Net Zero & Climate Change bringing a vote on fracking. This is, in other words, chaos with @Ed_Miliband.
- Obviously you eat fish and chips with yours hands
- Desmond Tutu was perhaps the great moral leader of his era. He refused to share a stage with Blair, calling him a war criminal. He called Israeli apartheid what it is. He said he’d rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God. Global celebrity never bent his morality.
- EXCLUSIVE: @openDemocracy has been leaked documents from the Bolsonaro regime showing their strategy to destroy the Amazon Rainforest:
- “Gender ideology” is a concept invented by the far right and it’s totally inappropriate for the BBC to accept this framing without putting it in some context.Our second question tonight #bbcqt
- If we had a functional press, this would be the end of Johnson.Replying to @StefSimanowitz @peterjukes and 47 others60/. On 3 Feb, @BorisJohnson made this speech in Greenwich. “There’s a risk that new diseases such as #coronavirus will trigger a panic & a desire for market segregation that go beyond what is medically rational to the point of doing real & unnecessary economic damage.” #COVID19
00:00 - Remember that Bolsonaro is largely in power because Brazil’s establishment was unwilling to accept mild social democracy. Remember that the world is being killed because the richest were unwilling to share. Remember who did this - and don’t let them forget.
- There are more UK companies listed in this leaked cache of documents about money laundering than there were companies from any other country. There were more UK companies in the Panama papers too. Because the UK is the world’s money laundry. Our whole economy is dirty.Leaked documents reveal some of the world’s biggest banks allowed criminals to move dirty money around the world bbc.in/2FKQvnk
- Yes. I’ve seen Dianne Abbott’s picture on every racist Facebook page and the propaganda of every neofascist group I’ve investigated.Has anyone seen Diane Abbott in the last month?
