@racheltolhurst
Professor in global health equity, urban health, social justice, participatory & qualitative research climate crisis, intersectional feminist & anti-racist, disabled. She/her. All opinions my own and reposts do not constitute endorsement.
Speak out - name it as genocide - and then act. End all arms sales, impose a wide range of sanctions and call for the arrest and trial of all those guilty of war crimes, including prime minister Netanyahu.
Surely it is finally time to end the failed privatisation experiment and bring water back into public hands so it can be run for the good of everyone, not for shareholders' profit? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Ever wondered which MPs are receiving the highest total donations from people and companies linked to the private health sector? 🚨
We find this *enormously* concerning, and thousands of us are calling for a ban on all donations like these -please sign here-
bit.ly/HealthNotWea...
Thames Water's future in doubt after investor KKR pulls out.
TW is financially, environmentally and morally bankrupt, can't be run for profit.
Govt must not bail it out, let it collapse, buy for low price, end Thatcher's curse, start a new era.
Rajwani’s imprisonment comes as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism in the UK, with activists facing legal action for direct protests.
Read the full open letter via the following link: mintpressnews.com/a-letter-from-…
Pintt17 mpnews palgza
UN official says the ‘devastating milestone’ shows the damage of the displacement crisis after two years of fighting.
Imagine gunning down 30 starving people during a genocide & total blockade. This is what happens when operators with arms distribute aid, instead of the UN & aid agencies. #Israel continues to use food as a weapon to control, dehumanise & exterminate #Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Videos show Israeli air attacks levelling residential buildings in Gaza, reducing them to rubble amid Israel's ongoing war on the besieged enclave.
It’s not too late for the government to change course. Keir Starmer is being advised to urgently pause the Government's plans to cut disability & health benefits by Parliament's work & pensions committee who say they should not go ahead without a comprehensive impact assessment
Contact your MP, NOW
Arguably we’re less prepared, given the likelihood of resistance to a comprehensive response next time.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Another day, more geneocide
At least 31 Palestinians are killed while heading to a Gaza aid hub, health officials and witnesses say
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Do not ask those affected by racism to convince the racists to be less racist. It’s traumatic. It’s degrading. And it signals that even you -their supposed friend- think they need to justify their existence.
2016 - 2023: 3m UK workers denied the minimum wage.
2008 - 2023: 21 employers prosecuted for underpaying the min wage, an additional case accepting a caution.
No criminal prosecutions. No director personally fined.
What if workers violate laws?
Govts soft on corporate abuses.
Decent politicians need to push back against Farage's comments on Lucy Connelly.
"millions of mothers after Southport feeling exactly the same way"?
No.
Millions did NOT feel the need to call for mass murder of asylum seekers & we simply cannot allow the idea to be normalised.
More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people, including Liz Carr, Ruth Madeley and Rosie Jones, urge the Prime Minister to abandon the “catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”.
My exclusive in today’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Charlotte Fosgate, a 17-year old trans girl completed suicide earlier this month. Over the weekend, Twitter users found her final post and began mocking her and making memes about her dying.
The level of duhumanization of trans people is so thorough, they're celebrating a teenager killing herself.
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
Sudan conflict triggers regional health crisis, warns WHO #Refugees
Proud to have put my name, with so many colleagues, to this brilliantly drafted letter
“Why did burning girls matter in Vietnam but not in Gaza?”
The 'Napalm Girl' photo shocked the world and helped end the Vietnam War, writes @jehadabusalim.bsky.social for Zeteo, but a child surrounded by flames and other similar images in Gaza can't even provoke a ceasefire.
Read/share/subscribe:
“On 13 May, a day that the temperature in London — according to Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index — was 5.5°C hotter than normal…..” ⬇️
@stuartspray.bsky.social
#ListenToTheScience
#ClimateCrisis
‘It is time to rethink how we view and talk about migrants and tourists. When does a tourist stop being a tourist? When do they become a migrant? The term digital nomad is misleading; their extractive economic engagement is secured by class, race, and social capital.’ #responsibletourism #capetown
No bonus for the execs who gave us the choice of swimming in sh*t or not swimming at all. Good.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"Even areas without high levels of air pollution, but which were built primarily from concrete and asphalt and lacked green spaces, increased asthma risk by as much as 36 per cent."
Access to green space is not a fluffy extra - it's integral to health.
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...
This is a really important read
The day after Powell made is rivers of blood speech/ country of strangers the then conservative PM sacked him.
We used to live in a country where there was a sliver of occasional accountability for blatant racism. Not any more. Now it’s open season with impunity.
