Breaking : Arizona senate has voted to repeal the abortion ban from 1864. 15 week ban remains in effect - but the total ban goes -

#International Women’s Day! I did a reading about #witches in A History of Women in 101 Objects, Annabelle Hirsch.100 other readers! Fascinating doodads from knitted wombs to hair straighteners, 25% to Refuge for their work re: domestic violence. Deets: audible.co.uk/pd/A-History-o…

A hymn sung by the monks of Glenstal Abbey today in honour of Saint Brigid. Happy feast! 🙏🏻 bit.ly/3UmTzd6

Happy New Year everyone!

Here’s to an excellent 2024 🥂

#ToriesOut544 #GeneralElectionNow

We could get angry at Suella’s latest piece of performative, pandering cruelty or… instead:
let’s promote the excellent work done by Shelter, Centrepoint, The Passage Charity and other fine charities actually trying to help homeless people, especially now, as winter approaches.

Flirting with danger. Why Ireland's adolescent macroeconomic policy is completely at odds with our demographics and where it is clearly leading the country. Mantras have replaced hard thinking. Where are the adults in the policy room?
irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

Did you know?

A new £100 million private hospital will be opening next year on the grounds of an NHS trust.

The new hospital will belong to a US-owned private healthcare company, HCA UK.

RT if you think everyone should be aware.

August 3, 1882: Congress passed the first general law regulating immigration, levying a head tax of fifty cents on each alien passenger. 🧵

Let’s start with the most striking: the astonishingly clear association between the governing party, health spending and the functioning of the NHS.

Waiting lists swelled under Major, shrunk under Labour as health funding soared, before climbing again under Tory austerity.

Explaining Canadian measurements

In all the years of covering rough sleeping, I’ve never seen anything like I saw last week. #homeless ⁦BBC News (UK)⁩

This Tory government's aim to 'max out' on North Sea fossil fuels up until 2050 is the most duplicitous and cynical abuse of power, and a devastating lack of vision and leadership. Can't wait to see them gone. thenational.scot/news/23690757.…

Carbon capture and storage has been promised for 20 years. It has never materialised and never will. Its sole purpose is to create the impression that oil and gas drilling is compatible with a habitable planet. Any politician promoting it is working for the fossil fuel industry.

'Nobody can seriously claim the North is thriving'
- Emma DeSouza

Bullshit by Sunak well exposed here

Well, well, well...
thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sunak…

The late environmental lawyer, Polly Higgins, campaigned for the international court to include ecocide as a crime against humanity. Had she been successful Sunak and Shapps would be in the dock now. The worst decision by a PM in living memory.

Sinead O'Connor with Bobby Sands' badge.

Sinead …
You bared your soul…
Shared your brilliance
Through exquisite artistry
Your incredible voice..
Fierce and fragile
Lioness and lamb
Sweet singing bird
Keenly tuned
Trembling..
Tip-toeing along the high wire
Or stamping the ground
Raw
Wounded
Fearless …

A new 64-36 majority for Rejoin.

“The country knows this but no one in politics, the media or economy is prepared to say the Brexit emperor now has no clothes.”

Great piece by ⁦Denis MacShane⁩ theglobalist.com/regretting-bre…