Prof Catherine Rowett 💚 Ex-MEP @catherinerowett@respublicae.eu

RT @UWankings: Definitely see that we need to put on an autoreply on there while on strike. Also see that the same makes sense for ASOS but...

...isn't there a massive carbon footprint from <checks notes> 70,000+ @ucu people sending literally millions of autoreplies over the coming months?

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RT @AndyGJBurge: Re the 'charitable status' that is extended to the UK's top Public Schools, here are some facts:
1) These schools may have been founded as charities originally but they are no such thing today. Today they are businesses and should be taxed as such. I hope this thread is clear:

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RT @ErdmuteD: The Guardian reports that Alexei Navalni is now behind glass in a small cramped cell, unable to speak to his lawyers except through glass.Fears that his demise is incremental.Keep his name in the news PLEASE.

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RT @PaulbernalUK: An alternative policy would be to tax private schools on a sliding scale, depending on how much they charge for fees. The higher the fees, the higher the marginal tax rate.

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RT @PaulbernalUK: @mrdanwalker Yes, it’s made me even angrier with him. And when I heard he’d used a PR company to try to get more votes, that’s made it even worse.

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Thanking them? What like the clapping?
How about ending the destruction of our health service, returning it to public ownership and paying the doctors and nurses, so that some people will actually be able to afford to work for it?
Hypocrite Tories.
#NHSStrikeNow
RT @RishiSunak: An honour to thank some of our healthcare heroes at @TheSun’s #WhoCaresWins awards on @Channel4.

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@Nordfolcian Oh no, not more "improved" road schemes?!

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RT @BeautifulSave: @catherinerowett @We_OwnIt and @RishiSunak has appointed a private healthcare lobbyist to ‘fix’ things.

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@Wintonfellow @liambeadle I don't remember it being called Advent Procession. I think we called it the Advent carol service. It was a procession. I find the title "Advent Procession" less familiar than the thing it is a title for.

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@CambridgeTories @C_residentsgrp @MohammedAzamud5 How utterly disgusting. I'm glad to see there are so few of you.

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RT @AndyWoodturner: @catherinerowett How dare the Chinese arrest journalists! What kind of country is it!!!

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Shocked by this?
Let's be clear that journalists are already getting arrested in the UK for covering protests. Police brutality is all too common here too. Let's not pretend we're on the moral high ground.
Perhaps the BBC should tell more of the truth about this?
RT @BBCNewsPR: BBC Statement on Ed Lawrence

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RT @RichardJMurphy: 5) And in case of doubt, I suggest this was a colonial court making a colonial decision, undermining their other argument.

In other words, the decision undermined its own validity.

#Scotland

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RT @EmilyLincOBrien: A pig skyscraper! A scary glimpse of corporate industrial farming
@TheGreenParty has a different vision of future farming that includes

🐝 Nature
🐷 Animal Welfare
👩‍🌾 Farmers - their support & welfare
👨‍👩‍👦‍👦have enough £££ to make healthy food choices

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-26-storey-pig-skyscraper-ready-to-produce-1-million-pigs-a-year

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@ZoomooNeuma @MooseAllain Home made ones, and ones that are printed for a particular year, could be made for the right number of doors. It's a choice!
But I think people like the doors to be numbered with the date, so you might need to mark November ones with a different system!

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@greenmattbfd @AnnaBatchelor The franchise needs to be terminated and the trains taken over as a public service with adequate public investment & salaries, to secure staff, rolling stock and maintenance. It's a disgrace! Where is our government? Oh, I forgot. They're on the side of the shareholders. D'oh!

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Railways on which you can't get to work. Hospitals where you can't get seen before you die. Water companies discharging their doings into the rivers and seas. Energy companies bulking up their bank balance while people freeze.
#EnoughlsEnough
@We_OwnIt https://join.greenparty.org.uk/

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This country is so messed up by the practice of running public services for profit, as a siphon from the public purse and trapped consumers into shareholders' pockets, while increasingly nothing works, no regulations are enforced and business collapses.

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RT @greenmattbfd: 🚂 Passengers in the North deserve better than #TranspennineExpress

❌ First Group are failing to connect Northern cities - and using loopholes to avoid transparency.

💺 We need to run our #railway for passengers - not profit.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/27/revealed-north-of-england-train-line-vastly-under-reports-cancellations

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@JonBradfield @MooseAllain Obviously this is more relevant for those for whom advent is a period of religious preparation for a festival. For which purpose you need one with doors for the whole period specified. Christmas was in origin a Christian festival, and Advent has never been defined by December.

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