And that violence has a cost.

While all our attention is on the psychodrama of watching these vulnerable people being mistreated.

Not one of us is closer to a hospital appointment, no one can better afford rent & groceries, no one has an extra council home, no benefit. #r4today

The reason he can talk about flight after flight & bragged about hundreds of agents trained to enforce removals, that’s because it takes violence.

Multiple agents per human to force them onto the plane.
Flights filled with enforcement staff & a few desperate refugees. #r4today

And it’s the violence I want you to think about today.

Because there is no way to carry out the deportations Sunak is crowing about without serious violence.

People will struggle, they’ll be restrained, may attempt to self harm or kill themselves. Over & over again. #r4today

The Rwanda bill passed.

Very few asylum seekers will ever be sent there, but this morning, thousands of homeless men, women & children who came to us with nothing & asked for help but we left in limbo, have fear hanging over them of violent deportation to a dictatorship #r4today

Yes, the Bookseller!! The Last Life of Lori Mills IS INDEED one to watch

(The only thing they omit here is that while it is very much fun and scary it is also JUST BEAUTIFUL)

All fans young or old of TomorrowX3, Goosebumps, Skulduggery, Gaiman, King, Stroud - get on it asap.

✨ ‘On the misty streets of Shelwich, a strange magic rises and falls with the Tide…’✨

📚 You can read an extract from the magical new middle-grade, Tidemagic: The Many Faces of Ista Flit by Clare Harlow on LoveReading4Kids now! 👉 lovereading4kids.co.uk/book/23238/Tid…

The Last Life of Lori Mills is The Bookseller’s One to Watch for July - ‘Energetic, scary and fun, this is Goosebumps with added bite’ - it is all these things!! And more!! 👏 🕷️ 👁️ 🎮 HarperCollins Children's Books Tom Bonnick

Looking forward to the Conservative party questioning these housing transactions ⬇️

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Here’s the This £7.25m Berkshire stately home bought in July 2020 by Zoe Ley.

Ley made £20m brokering a VIP PPE deal alongside former Tory MP Brooks Newmark ➡️goodlawproject.org/broker-bought-…

Please read this twice.

This video moved me so much I had to track down this barber. His name is Anthony Klaxton. He's dedicated his barber shop to 'restoring queens' self confidence by 'restoring their crowns.' There's an interview on YouTube. A loving, caring, fabulous man.

Voice-y, whip smart and spine-tinglingly scary, THE LAST LIFE OF LORI MILLS is an absolute treat of a debut. Coming this July from HarperCollins Children's Books, you don’t want miss this! Thank you so much for sending it my way Charlotte Winstone 👾🕹️

Amazing! With the discourse around accessibility in middle grade, look no further than this! Not read anything like this before. Gaming thriller! Minecraft x lovecraft 👾🎮💔
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Tom Tomorrow

ladies, spring is here. as u think about what to wear, please do not forget your duty to your brothers in christ.

a thread

I often talk about how Chompa learning Farsi and English is drawn from my memories learning Bengali in Saturday school, and that it took me all the way to University of Oxford and to becoming a Dr and an author too. Where did I do that? IN THE VERY LIBRARY WHERE I WON THE AWARD TODAY.

The highest ever rate of child poverty.

What a fucking legacy for this sick bunch of bigots and vandals.

The piece of amazing Thursday morning news I didn’t know I needed!

Esther McVey, Minister for Common Sense, and her husband talk a lot about wasteful public spending. But how careful are they with your money in their own lives? We’ve found out. 👀

I've come to terms with these being the most read paragraphs I'll ever write. They seem to be flying around the internet again, god bless them.

An awesome, kind, creative team to join. 👇