This is our bookshop, Westwood Books in Sedbergh, Cumbria. It’s a large building, on a main road at the edge of town, that has been a bookshop now for 18 years.

But we need your help. Even though the shop has been here for so long, we still get comments like…

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If the attack on Rafah goes ahead it will be a bloodbath. Western governments should be stopping Israel from doing this. Not arming them to help it.

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Just repeat it guys tonight

No pressure.....🙏🙏

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5 steps. In bold. At the top of the page.

As a socialist, I spent the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s arguing that council house sales, privatisations, PFI, austerity and Brexit were storing up disaster for the future. Now the future's here, I'm reluctantly forced to conclude I was right all along.

This is not nationalisation

This is the exact policy from 2015. Nationalise as contracts/ franchises end. Each one ,however, might not be up for years. It’s a fudge and was a nightmare to explain on the doorstep when people questioned why it couldn’t happen immediately.

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Am I surprised? 😉

Let us #PrayTogether for martyred Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Myanmar, and for so many other countries that are at war. War is always a defeat, and those who profit from it most are arms manufacturers. Please, let us pray for peace!

The Tories are desperate to get out of the ECHR and it has nothing to do with the Rwanda farce but has everything to do with stripping us of all of our rights so they can make up their own ones.
No right to welfare
No right to protest
No right to question the Govt.
and so on.

How many deaths and graves will it take for our political leaders to wake up? Read my full piece here: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The fact that some people don’t realize that we can love buying books & also fully support libraries is insane to me.

Jeremy Corbyn promised he'd make St Georges Day a bank holiday.

Keir Starmer stands next to flags.

“ doctors will find it very difficult to understand that their ability to practise medicine could be suspended because of peaceful actions they take in protest of the climate crisis. “ - BMA re Dr Sarah Benn

Waiting for statements from the PM, the Home Secretary and Labour on this. And for the media to give soft interviews to various people asking for this police chief to be sacked. Because as the media and politicians say “there is no hierarchy of racism” right?

Diane Abbott has been suspended from the PLP for 365 days - without even being given a hearing.

None of the possible explanations for treating Britain's first black woman MP like this - incompetence, malice, contempt for due process, racism - is a good look for Starmer's Labour.

Reinstate Diane Abbott MP

Happy St. George’s Day!

Loving your country means looking after each other to ensure nobody lives in poverty.

It means defending our public institutions like the NHS.

It means welcoming refugees — and celebrating the ways they have made our country a better place.

In 2017 & 2019 manifesto documents (the ones the centrists hated as a complete break with status quo & people focused) national saints' days of the British Isles would be holidays.

Another policy ditched

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