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Why does British Gas - who’s profits are up by 700% - go to the courts for warrants to break into the homes of the poorest (in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis) & then force-fit prepayment meters, which leave their customers cold & unable to cook? What drives that behaviour?

The most lovely person just passed on. Maria Bowman who many of you will have known from Youth Libraries Group died on Tuesday. Much love to her beloved. (some may remember her as Maria Docherty).

Thank you to everyone who has given our RT to our new Twitter @comicartfest account here - even though this one has the same name! We were victim to a hostile takeover. We’d built a following of over 12K of followers here since 2012 and we’d like to get them back

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL So far Boris' defence amounts to "I didn't understand the rules that everyone else in the country did, even though I implemented them". And - "it was the big boys that did it not me and I couldn't stop them because I was only the PM"

“I was in charge of making the rules, and demonstrated I understood them fully by communicating them to the public in all seriousness on multiple occasions. However, I genuinely misunderstood how the rules applied to me personally.” Boris Johnson

Can’t have the plebs educating themselves.

800,000 kids live in poverty in the UK but still don’t get a free school meal. They now get to look up at a portrait of King Charles. He gets £86ml of us every year, soon to be £125ml. The portraits are costing £8ml. There’s a pretty disgusting school lesson in that duplicity.

After thirteen years of Tory rule, an unprecedented number of people are sleeping in tents. The Tory response is to ban tents.

‘Browsing’ Ladybird book character Jane, choosing herself a new Ladybird book (1965) Artist: Harry Wingfield, ‘Read and Write’

Worth a read. tortoisemedia.com/2024/08/06/sto…

No. Twitter was better! Can all 29k people repost please? 🥺

> Dave Walker

Ofsted has published new data showing how children's homes have become a huge, money-spinning business. If you are squeamish about these things, look away now. 🧵

Voters turned away in London, by council area

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This is the Lush looter from Hull. Plead guilty today. And apparently an active member of the far right - as he’s a standard bearer for Alek Yerbury, aka “Hull Hitler”.

Dear Mogg Tugentat's skewering Farrage. I will whisper in his ear, 'Listen to someone who once brilliantly held the rains of power: leave Nigel alone, blame the Trotskyite Stalinist in Numbero 10.' As Dusty Springfield sang, 'Put the blame on Mame'. Pitta paul an maria Boris

FLYING and LEVITATING pts 1 & 2! We’re bringing the FINAL COPIES of the original print runs of our TUTORIALS BOOKS to Thought Bubble Festival COMIC FESTIVAL on 16th - 17th NOVEMBER! These are the last copies in existence!! Get to our table FAST, they will ALL GO! #anime #manga #drawing

🧵 You may recall a spate of stories a few years ago about appalling working conditions & abysmally low pay in Leicester's clothes factories. The hope was those stories would shame businesses into improving working conditions. But here's what ACTUALLY happened next... 👇