Ross Houston 🇬🇧🇺🇦🌻
@RossSHouston
West Finchley councillor. @BarnetCouncil Deputy Leader, Cabinet Homes & Regeneration. Chair @LeeValleyPark. Views expressed my own. Retweet doesn't mean agree!
Great to see @SadiqKhan investing in keeping our young people busy, inspired & fed over the summer holidays. Looking forward to seeing the benefits that the Holiday Hope programme will deliver across London, by increasing young people’s access to activities and opportunities.
Today I’ve launched Holiday Hope - a new £6m investment to expand free holiday activities, food and support for the young people who need it most. Starting this summer, it will fund more than 100 community organisations & youth clubs across our city ⬇️ london.gov.uk/programmes-str…
Former Bush Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Donald Trump: “I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair. He is stubbornly uninformed…he is unqualified and unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.” RETWEET if you stand with Gates against Trump!
A remarkable and rare colour view of Edwardian London 123 years ago. This is Knightsbridge, looking east towards Hyde Park Corner in 1902. Due to imperfections in the lens, only the centre of the image is in sharp focus whilst the edges remain soft and slightly curved, producing…
Scottish Secretary @IanMurrayMP & Parliamentary Under Secretary of State @kirstyjmcneill have published the Scotland Office annual report, detailing how the department has been reformed & empowered to make life better for people in Scotland, as part of the UK Gov’s #PlanforChange
It looks a bit different today!
As an alternative to Brynhild Parker's magnificent painting of "Interior" on a #SaturdayMorning, here's the iconic ELG image of "Cumberland Market" by Elwin Hawthorne from 1931. Available as a card or print with 40% off on all orders here: eastlondongroup.co.uk until 03/08/25
As an alternative to Brynhild Parker's magnificent painting of "Interior" on a #SaturdayMorning, here's the iconic ELG image of "Cumberland Market" by Elwin Hawthorne from 1931. Available as a card or print with 40% off on all orders here: eastlondongroup.co.uk until 03/08/25
But not Labour... definitely unite with the NIMBY Greens and a bunch of social conservative religious candidates against the mass party of the working class 🤷🏻♂️
📢 Our Statement: the Left Must Unite 📢 If the new Left Party, Independents & the Greens work together, we can turn the tide of British politics - and win big. We will now focus all our campaign efforts on an electoral pact. United we stand, divided we fall.
26 July 1833, having abolished slave trade in 1807, House of Commons bans slavery itself. When William Wilberforce, Mill Hill resident who’d spent most of his life crusading against slavery heard news, he said "Thank God I've lived to witness [this] day." He died 3 days later.
Not a re-enactment; not a movie scene, this is WWI war-photography at its most immediate. I've cleaned-up this remarkable auctochrome by Stéphane Pessat, taken 110 years ago on Saturday 24th July 1915. It depicts French soldiers from the 98th battalion at an artillery…
Corbyn’s new party is designed to put Farage in No10 ... Sultana, Lali and others are using the same playbook/rhetoric that the KPD used to pave Hitler's path to victory... I am not exaggerating ... 1/... thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-cor…
Find out how Barnet Labour is fixing the borough's roads and pavements here: barnetlabour.org.uk/2024/03/28/lab…
Labour is Fixing Barnet's Roads - Barnet Labour Party - Barnet Labour Party barnetlabour.org.uk/2024/03/28/lab…
The Welsh Conservatives won a by-election in Wyesham, Monmouthshire against Reform last night. This was Reform MS Laura Anne Jones’ old ward when she was a councillor.
We’ve finished laying the reconstructed natural stone setts on the Lawnmarket! These before and after images show the transformation that has taken place over the last few months.
Lionesses - Bring Football Home Again on Sunday! - From everyone at Barnet Labour.
What a superb appointment! Congratulations @EmmaBurnell_ !
I am deeply honoured and incredibly excited to be announced as the new Editor of @LabourList I am looking forward to working with the incredible @LabourList team to keep bringing you all the Labour news and get inside the stories of the day. labourlist.org/2025/07/new-la…
It’s been my honour to be the first ever @BarnetLabour Councillor for #Whetstone. I’m delighted to have been unanimously re-selected as the @UKLabour candidate for ward ahead of the 2026 elections.
It’s so insane how MAGA republicans literally couldn’t stop talk ranting about the Epstein files for a SECOND up till last year - but now that Trump’s named in them? It’s literally radio silence. As if it never mattered. Is there ANY consistency in this movement?
A message to all NHS staff ahead of BMA strike action.