Each year I hope next year can't possibly be worse than this one and for too many years I have been wrong.
Will 2026 break my losing streak?

Happy New Year

À very merry Christmas to all our friends who celebrate Christmas and a very happy Thursday to those who don't

Its slavish subservience to Trump recalls the uncritical adherence to Hitler which led to the horrors of the Nazi regime.
Similar to the edicts of Nazi Germany, it insists that international norms and treaties are illegitimate attempts to bind an inherently superior America by inferior countries
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.@MikeInBrixton.bsy.social takes a detailed look at Trump’s recently published National Security Strategy. He finds a document whose shallowness of analysis is matched only by its depth of vicious racism and disdain for anything that is not incontrovertibly Trump aligned
https://is.gd/NKOaqn
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This winter, #NHS staff across the country will be battling horrific conditions whilst trying to save lives & provide care for patients.

Sign our digital Christmas card to show your support and gratitude 💙⬇️

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Starmer says government will introduce digital IDs to ensure Britain’s ‘borders are more secure’ www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
This is dangerous nonsense

At present employers are meant to ask for a passport before employing anyone. Bosses who want to employ people illegally so they can
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National Demonstration for Palestine
London 11 October
We will announce the Jewish Bloc meeting point as soon as the route is fixed
www.stopwar.org.uk/events/natio...

This cheered me up in the midst of our problems.

I just went round the corner to the chemist. I passed 5 shops.

The chemist and the juice bar had posters up for aid for Gaza.

The African craft shop had a poster for the YourParty-Lambeth meeting

Pity about the nail bar and the convenience store

Please sign/share
Open Letter Against the Rise of Fascism
The 2025 letter has been signed by over 400 academics, including 31 Nobel Prize winners. We call upon all democratic citizens to join them in defending democracy by signing the letter. stopreturnfascism.org

There's still time to sponsor me to cycle in the Big Ride 4 Palestine to raise funds for Gaza Sunbirds on 9 August
If you have already then I am very grateful.They are well worth supporting. Israel's barbaric assault on Gaza means there will be far more para-athletes needing support
is.gd/mPyC3k

BBC News - Palestine Action to be banned, home secretary confirms
bbc.com/news/article...
#ISupportPalestineAction

Sewing classes offered by social enterprise to empower women www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a good initiative but it shouldn't be news. Classes like this used to be commonplace when we had properly funded local authority adult education services #ILEA

Sewing classes offered by social enterprise to empower women www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a good initiative but it shouldn't be news. Classes like this used to be commonplace when we had properly funded local authority adult education services #ILEA

New Protect Brockwell Park campaign website
protectbrockwellpark.org/index.html

Taking Back our Land, Food and Water from Corporate Control
@waronwant.bsky.social's new webinar series, ‘Visions for a Global Green New Deal’ explores how reclaiming our common goods is essential to securing climate & social justice
Wed 23 April 1 – 2:30 online
secure.waronwant.org/page/169878/...

I was invited to speak at a Gaza rally when I was in Australia to see my daughter

This is a recording of my speech
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/the-...

Mike Leigh, Alexei Sayle and Miriam Margolyes among 170+ British Jews calling on BBC to reject complaints about Gaza documentary

Over 170 British Jews have rallied to support the BBC for its broadcast on Monday of an exceptional documentary, Gaza: How to survive a warzone
https://is.gd/1XLBJ6
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