Laura Swaffield
@lswaffield1
Public library activist, chair of The Library Campaign and Friends of Lambeth Libraries. Clapped-out old journalist. Mad about theatre, books.
Quite simple for people to understand: Tory Party - For Israel & Genocide Labour Party - For Israel & Genocide Reform UK Party - For Israel & Genocide YourPartyUK - For Palestine and Peace.
Interestingly, my university (Goldsmiths University of London) has said that all staff will receive mandatory antisemitism awareness training but management won't talk to 8 Jewish members of staff (incl me) who've asked to talk to them. Looking fwd to interesting seshes ahead!
UJS awarded government contract to deliver universities antisemitism awareness training jewishnews.co.uk/ujs-awarded-go…
Scotland doesn't want the pedophile there either. #PedoPresident
Sign this petition to tell Barclays to cut ties with JBS — one of the world’s worst offenders for animal suffering and environmental destruction. action.worldanimalprotection.org.uk/tell-barclays-…
Last time I checked, no striking resident doctor had ever ripped the NHS off for £200m of unusable PPE
Meanwhile in London the Metropolitan Police has arrested and carried off a disabled 'Charlie Chaplin' from a mobility scooter for showing a picture of Guernica with the colours of Palestine next to a sign with the words "Free Palestine". True story.
🚨BREAKING: Policing of Palestine Action protests in disarray as police decide not to arrest sign-holders for terrorism in Totnes and Edinburgh Defend Our Juries: “The chorus of disapproval for Yvette Cooper’s barmy order grows louder by the day.” full: docs.google.com/document/d/1EI…
The children of Gaza are starving. Not because the world couldn’t help, but because the world refused to help.
Our movement is growing, and growing, and growing. We said that real change was coming — and we meant it. Be part of history at yourparty.uk
It’s massive outside Downing Street, thousands sending a message to Starmer #StopStarvingGaza #StopArmingIsrael
What's this sound? It's the sound of the reckoning coming for those who are starving Gaza and those who enabled it, including @Keir_Starmer and @DavidLammy . Downing Street, London 25/7/25
Fixed it for you, @Keir_Starmer. The UK is an ally to Israel's atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank. Now is the time to make our voices heard: Call on the UK Government to end its complicity. Sign our petition: bit.ly/4kXTLJs
The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible.
We laid pots outside the gates of Downing St, London, to represent Israel's starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, enabled as Director @BenJamalpsc says, by the moral cowardice of @Keir_Starmer and @DavidLammy
Another British spy plane literally in the sky over Gaza collecting intelligence for Israel as he posted this statement Starmer belongs in the Hague We must make sure he ends up there
The appalling scenes in Gaza are unrelenting. The UK will pull every lever we have to get food and lifesaving support to Palestinians, and we will evacuate children who need urgent medical assistance. This humanitarian catastrophe must end.
When Labour pulled out of Clacton to give Farage a free run they put all their resources into unseating Corbyn in Islington North, and they thought that Mandelson would be an asset. You actually can’t be anymore out of touch if you had an PhD in being out of touch
Israeli firm supporting IDF in Gaza still at King’s College Hospital, say NHS workers. “Why would anyone build a business around profiting from wheelchairs, then support the IDF, an army maiming, starving and killing thousands?" SIGN HERE! brixtonbuzz.com/2025/07/israel…
📣Good news klaxon!📣 Public ownership saves YOU money! 💸 #publicownership #greatbritishrailways
Hone your Wikipedia editing and contributing skills at the monthly Monday meetup at Brixton Library, 6-8pm brixtonbuzz.com/2025/07/hone-y…
NatWest shareholders get another £1.5bn, weeks after the govt sold its stake. Govt bailed it out for £45bn. After rescue, sold shares at £10.5bn loss. Bonanza for shareholders. City always wins. People get benefit and public service cuts, higher taxes. theguardian.com/business/2025/…
Journalism / media reporting: Journalists starving in Gaza... Trump's Scottish visit... and why Palestine Action were banned... newsfromcrystalpalace.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/jou…