Shirley Franklin
@shirleyfranklin.bsky.social
Socialist, health campaigner, author, chair of local region retired members branch of UCU, educationalist, cellist
Our public meeting on Tuesday 25th November will also provide a launch to stop the £121 million cuts- that’s 1,000 jobs- at the Royal Free Hospital
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Please. come and STOP THE CUTS AT OUR HOSPITALS.
www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/camp...
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Please. come and STOP THE CUTS AT OUR HOSPITALS.
www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/camp...
Campaign to launch against cuts at Royal Free
The meeting – “Is the Government making a casualty of our NHS?” – is at the Archway Methodist Hall
www.camdennewjournal.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Our public meeting on Tuesday 25th November will also provide a launch to stop the £121 million cuts- that’s 1,000 jobs- at the Royal Free Hospital
.
Please. come and STOP THE CUTS AT OUR HOSPITALS.
www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/camp...
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Please. come and STOP THE CUTS AT OUR HOSPITALS.
www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/camp...
Obituary of Pam Zinkin who helped to kick off our campaign
What a wonderful woman! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
What a wonderful woman! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Pam Zinkin obituary
Other lives: Paediatrician and expert in the care of children in war and disaster
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Obituary of Pam Zinkin who helped to kick off our campaign
What a wonderful woman! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
What a wonderful woman! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Imagine what our NHS could have done with the money wasted on PFI — the hospitals, staff, care.
Instead, we paid 70% more for buildings that left trusts drowning in debt.
And now they want to resurrect it.🫨
Learn what’s happening👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
Instead, we paid 70% more for buildings that left trusts drowning in debt.
And now they want to resurrect it.🫨
Learn what’s happening👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Imagine what our NHS could have done with the money wasted on PFI — the hospitals, staff, care.
Instead, we paid 70% more for buildings that left trusts drowning in debt.
And now they want to resurrect it.🫨
Learn what’s happening👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
Instead, we paid 70% more for buildings that left trusts drowning in debt.
And now they want to resurrect it.🫨
Learn what’s happening👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
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A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The Government is destroying our NHS
Do come to our meeting next week.
Do come to our meeting next week.
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The Government is destroying our NHS
Do come to our meeting next week.
Do come to our meeting next week.
Please sign and share goodlawproject.org/petition/kee...
Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive
A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back
goodlawproject.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Please sign and share goodlawproject.org/petition/kee...
Please vote to stop more PFIs in health. We need a publicly funded, publicly run NHS that is free for all at the point of delivery
weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
Tell Wes Streeting - NO new PFI in our NHS!
Tell Wes Streeting, NO NEW PFI in our NHS.
weownit.org.uk
September 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Please vote to stop more PFIs in health. We need a publicly funded, publicly run NHS that is free for all at the point of delivery
weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
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Can public ownership fix our water?
Public ownership is the only way to save the water industry
Public ownership is the only viable alternative but is opposed by the government
leftfootforward.org
August 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Can public ownership fix our water?
Shame on them
People who abstained from voting to decriminalise abortion:
-Wes Streeting (health secretary)
-Bridget Phillipson (women and equalities minister)
-Rosie Duffield (top feminist and woman defender)
-Wes Streeting (health secretary)
-Bridget Phillipson (women and equalities minister)
-Rosie Duffield (top feminist and woman defender)
I want to know the name of every single MP who voted against this
June 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Shame on them
Do come along to our concert on 13th July
June 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Do come along to our concert on 13th July
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Greta Thunberg is sailing to Gaza to protest the blockade by Israel.
Last time she set off Israel drone striked her ship and nearly sank it.
But of course the Media completely ignored this blatant War Crime in the Mediterranean, because Israel did it.
Last time she set off Israel drone striked her ship and nearly sank it.
But of course the Media completely ignored this blatant War Crime in the Mediterranean, because Israel did it.
June 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Greta Thunberg is sailing to Gaza to protest the blockade by Israel.
Last time she set off Israel drone striked her ship and nearly sank it.
But of course the Media completely ignored this blatant War Crime in the Mediterranean, because Israel did it.
Last time she set off Israel drone striked her ship and nearly sank it.
But of course the Media completely ignored this blatant War Crime in the Mediterranean, because Israel did it.
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How come that the volcanologists didn’t predict today’s eruption of the Aetna volcano?
June 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
How come that the volcanologists didn’t predict today’s eruption of the Aetna volcano?
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The Court of Appeal ruled on 2 May anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are UNLAWFUL
The Government has still not confirmed if it will accept the judgement & scrap these unlawful regulations which they opposed in opposition
Why the delay?
youtu.be/ZZxEUkEU5Lc?...
The Government has still not confirmed if it will accept the judgement & scrap these unlawful regulations which they opposed in opposition
Why the delay?
youtu.be/ZZxEUkEU5Lc?...
🚨BREAKING: Liberty wins its case in the Court of Appeal - anti-protest laws ruled UNLAWFUL!
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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May 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The Court of Appeal ruled on 2 May anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are UNLAWFUL
The Government has still not confirmed if it will accept the judgement & scrap these unlawful regulations which they opposed in opposition
Why the delay?
youtu.be/ZZxEUkEU5Lc?...
The Government has still not confirmed if it will accept the judgement & scrap these unlawful regulations which they opposed in opposition
Why the delay?
youtu.be/ZZxEUkEU5Lc?...
Here’s @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
Reading his poem at our meeting on Thursday
Great poem and really good speaker
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ih0W...
Reading his poem at our meeting on Thursday
Great poem and really good speaker
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ih0W...
'Island of strangers?': Michael Rosen performs new poem for SIr Keir Starmer
YouTube video by Peeps
m.youtube.com
May 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Here’s @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
Reading his poem at our meeting on Thursday
Great poem and really good speaker
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ih0W...
Reading his poem at our meeting on Thursday
Great poem and really good speaker
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ih0W...
Massive and “unthinkable “ cuts coming you out NHS. Please join us at this meeting on Thursday
May 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Massive and “unthinkable “ cuts coming you out NHS. Please join us at this meeting on Thursday
Haringey St Ann’s ward by-election result - Labour hammered, Reform nowhere.
Green 1059
Labour 589
Cons 83
Lib Dem 70
Reform 69
TUSC 34
28% turnout
haringey.gov.uk/council-elec...
Green 1059
Labour 589
Cons 83
Lib Dem 70
Reform 69
TUSC 34
28% turnout
haringey.gov.uk/council-elec...
St Ann's by-election 10 April 2025 | Haringey Council
Results of the St Ann's ward by-election held on 10 April 2025.
haringey.gov.uk
April 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Haringey St Ann’s ward by-election result - Labour hammered, Reform nowhere.
Green 1059
Labour 589
Cons 83
Lib Dem 70
Reform 69
TUSC 34
28% turnout
haringey.gov.uk/council-elec...
Green 1059
Labour 589
Cons 83
Lib Dem 70
Reform 69
TUSC 34
28% turnout
haringey.gov.uk/council-elec...
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"Without a strong university sector, how can the Chancellor grow the economy?" Asks Mohammed Yasin, entirely rhetorically.
The answer of course is she cannot, she will not. This country will *never* grow its way out of anything of universities go.
And they're going right now.
The answer of course is she cannot, she will not. This country will *never* grow its way out of anything of universities go.
And they're going right now.
Universities: Funding and Employment - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : ' Universities: Funding and Employment' on Wednesday 2 April 2025.
hansard.parliament.uk
April 3, 2025 at 7:14 AM
"Without a strong university sector, how can the Chancellor grow the economy?" Asks Mohammed Yasin, entirely rhetorically.
The answer of course is she cannot, she will not. This country will *never* grow its way out of anything of universities go.
And they're going right now.
The answer of course is she cannot, she will not. This country will *never* grow its way out of anything of universities go.
And they're going right now.
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24 March 1834 - The birthday of #WilliamMorris artist, craftsman, poet and novelist - but above all else, a revolutionary Marxist.
March 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
24 March 1834 - The birthday of #WilliamMorris artist, craftsman, poet and novelist - but above all else, a revolutionary Marxist.
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#OnThisDay in London's radical history: Mile End mass meeting celebrates Russian Revolution, 1917.
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Today in London’s radical history: Mile End mass meeting celebrates Russian Revolution, 1917.
On 24th March 1917, 7000 people pack the Mile End Assembly Rooms in East London, for a mass meeting celebrating the February Revolution in Russia and the downfall of Tsarism. 1000s more were unable…
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March 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
#OnThisDay in London's radical history: Mile End mass meeting celebrates Russian Revolution, 1917.
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Donald Trump's war on American universities www.ft.com/content/fab3...
Donald Trump’s war on America’s universities
The administration has chosen Columbia University as the site of the first battle in a much wider conflict
www.ft.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Donald Trump's war on American universities www.ft.com/content/fab3...