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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Do we dare read Sally Rooney… or is that, too, an act of terror? | The Observer
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2025/11/27/t...
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‘There’s real concern’ – Hackney health campaigners hold first rally outside Homerton Hospital – Hackney Citizen
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Hackney Coalition against Palantir presenting to Homerton Chair and CEO our letter signed by many Hackney organisations who have grave concerns about Palantir. Also hundreds of cards signed by residents and patients, and a file of articles about Palantir @THkonp @SOSNHS
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Alice and Emma both live in Hackney, both are first year resident doctors in NE london. They both earn a basic wage of £17. 55 per hour. #PayRestoration
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Hackney KONP supporting Resident Doctiors today at Homerton hospital #PayRestoration
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Hackney Coalition Against Palantir has been launched, initiated by Hackney Keep Our NHS Public and Hackney OSC. Cllr Claudia Turbet-Delof and George Binette with the banner at Homerton hospital today, also supporting Tesident Doctors. #NoPalantirintheNHS
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Hackney Coalition Against Palantir has been launched, initiated by Hackney Keep Our NHS Public and Hackney OSC. Cllr Claudia Turbet-Delof and George Binette with the banner at Homerton hospital today, also supporting Tesident Doctors. #NoPalantirintheNHS
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
It seemed that by the end of the meeting, all the councillors had deep concerns about Palantir being involved in our hospital. and of course congrats also to Claudia and Dr Nick Mann who spoke so well.
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Congrats to all the wonderful Palestine activists and KONP activists who attended the Health in Hackney Scrutiny commission this evening and who, together with Duncan McCann, great speaker from the Good Law Project, completely changed the way the meeting went.
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Outsourced workers at Airedale Hospital are striking for equal pay, pensions, and conditions with their NHS colleagues. Email the Airedale Trust Chief Executive and ask her to intervene. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/em...
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Email the Airedale Hospital CEO: an NHS job deserves NHS pay
Outsourced workers at Airedale Hospital are striking for equal pay, pensions, and conditions with their NHS colleagues. Email the Airedale Trust Chief Executive and ask her to intervene.
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Very dark, very quickly
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
On my way to Brighton TUC conference to support Socialist Health Association with panels and booklet from ‘How come we didn’t know about NHS Subcos‘ exhibition
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Workers at Airedale Hospital do NHS work. But the Airedale Board is refusing to give them full NHS pensions, pay and conditions. I just signed this petition to support these frontline workers. Add your name too. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Demand NHS Terms for NHS Work - Airedale Hospital
SUPPORT STAFF AT AIREDALE HOSPITAL DEMAND EQUAL TERMS FOR EQUAL WORK Porters, domestics, catering and security staff who work for AGH Solutions (AGHS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Found...
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Picket at St Thomas’s yesterday. Alice and Emma both live in Hackney, both are first year resident doctors in NE london. They both earn basic A wage of £17. 55 per hour.
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/econ... #genocide #palestinesolidarity
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The ‘economy of genocide’ report: a reckoning beyond rhetoric | Morning Star
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Members of Hackney KONP and Hackney Patients not Passports campaigning against privatisation on Saturday 5th July, NHS 77th birthday @keepournhspublic.bsky.social
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Start of campaign to elect independent socialist councillors next year in Hackney, who will vote to disinvest Hackney pension investments in Israeli firms.
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A millionaire exodus widely reported by news outlets around the world in 2024, and credited for the UK Labour government’s decision to weaken tax reforms, did not occur, the Tax Justice Network reveals. taxjustice.net/press/millio...
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Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals - Tax Justice Network
The number of millionaires widely reported in the news to be leaving countries in "exodus" represented near-0% of all millionaires.
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
youtu.be/SLPwo1drEDA?... Keep Our NHS Public protesting outside Conway Hall this week against Streeting’s policies for more privatisation
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Wes Streeting: No more privatisation, invest in the NHS
YouTube video by Keep Our NHS Public
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ThatKaren @wokekaren.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Seen on a London Underground Train. 👏✊️🇵🇸
Placed over advert space posters with a graphic of an aeroplane with a red line.  Cyprus at one end of the line, Gaza at the other end.  ✈️ symbol above Cyprus, bomb symbol above Gaza.  Text says on poster 'Britain flies spy planes from air bases in Cyprus to help Israel commit war crimes in Gaza'
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Every time I hear Lab talking about cutting regulation I think, ahh, you want another financial crisis, another Grenfell, more sh*t in our rivers… 🤬🤬
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Remember what regulations are. They are our protection against the predations of capital. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Musk intensifies government spending attack with push to cut all regulations
The tech billionaire calls USAid, the government conduit of international aid programmes, ‘evil’
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Diane Langford @queer-red.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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PSC Director Ben Jamal at our AGM 2025
YouTube video by Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)
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Jordan Rivera @jordanrivera.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Thank you to Ayrshire and Arran health UNISON branch for nominating me to UNISON’s NEC I am standing for the female health seat on UNISON's NEC alongside Claire Miller and Kevin Corran. #TimeForRealChange #UNISON #NECElections2025
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 03/02/2025
"We're fed up with being ripped off. Public ownership is the solution." John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social making it clear why a £3bn bailout for Thames Water is the worst way to sort its problems. #Thameswater If you agree sign our petition today. weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The death toll in Gaza has already been updated to 61,709. The true scale of Israel's atrocities is only just emerging - and officials must face justice for every single life lost. So should those who continued to send weapons, knowing full well they were enabling genocide.
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Please sign and share this important petition. Cutting the nursing degree at Cardiff university would have a very serious impact on the NHS workforce and is a short sighted decision. petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
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Petition: Enable Cardiff University to keep the Nursing degree course
Cardiff University’s intention to cut the nursing degree programme is a huge loss to the future of nursing and the NHS. The loss in staff will have a significant impact on current students' studies. I...
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Remember the CEO of United Healthcare who was shot and killed on the streets of New York recently. What connections are there between United Healthcare, AI, and British health policy? See this article for a start… novaramedia.com/2025/01/17/t...
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The Scandal-Hit US Health Insurance Company Deeply Embedded in the NHS | Novara Media
US health companies which have used AI to deny giving patients care are providing NHS services. The government must stand up to them, argues John Puntis.
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
palestinecampaign.org/statement-on...
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Statement on the events of Saturday 18 January at Whitehall and Trafalgar Square - Palestine Solidarity Campaign
The Metropolitan Police has promoted a misleading narrative about the events in Whitehall and Trafalgar Square, claiming that a peaceful delegation pushed through police lines in an attempt to justify...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
NEW: 700+ British Jews have signed a statement criticising the Met's attempted ban on Saturday's Palestine march, calling it a "brazen attempt to interfere with hard-won political freedoms by conjuring up an imaginary threat to Jewish freedom of worship.” novaramedia.com/2025/01/13/b...
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British Jews Call Bullshit on Met’s Attempt to Ban Palestine March | Novara Media
Over 700 British Jews, including prominent human rights lawyers and academics, have signed a statement slamming the Met’s ban on an upcoming Palestine demonstration over supposed synagogue disruption....
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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British Jews Call Bullshit on Met’s Palestine March Ban | Novara Media
Over 720 British Jews, including prominent human rights lawyers and academics, have signed a statement slamming the Met’s ban on an upcoming Palestine demonstration over supposed synagogue disruption....
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Marion Macalpine @marionlmacalpine.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
SHA LONDON brilliant talk by Dr Victoria Rose UK plastic surgeon regularly visiting Gaza to treat badly wounded Palestinians, many of them children, to train Palestinian doctors not allowed to leave Gaza and to take equipment. Visits will continue whatever happens to ceasefire. Donate at ideals.org
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The Western media - and Western journalists - will never be forgiven for their role in Israel’s genocide. New video 👇 youtu.be/SwAE8jif_v4
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
"The researchers concluded that the death toll from Israel’s aerial bombardment and military ground operation in Gaza between October 2023 and the end of June 2024 was about 64,300, rather than the 37,900 reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/h...
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Death Toll in Gaza Likely 40 Percent Higher Than Reported, Researchers Say
Analysis found that more than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
NEW: The Palestine movement is headed for a historic confrontation with police this Saturday as organisers say they'll go ahead despite a police ban. Police cite disruption to nearby synagogues – despite services finishing 2 hours before protesters arrive. novaramedia.com/2025/01/14/p...
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Palestine Marchers Set to Defy Police Ban | Novara Media
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has always cooperated with police, until now. Rivkah Brown reports on why the group is refusing to cancel Saturday's central London march, despite the Met doubling do...
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 07/01/2025
Keir Starmer wants more privatisation of our #NHS. 🤯 Johnbosco explains how the Government’s plans are selling out patients and taxpayers and must be stopped. ❌ #KeepOurNHSPublic #KONP #PublicOwnershipNow #KeirStarmer
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It's outrageous that Starmer plans to *increase NHS privatisation* instead of doing this👇🏥 www.youtube.com/shorts/DHknu...
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3 ways Keir Starmer could expand NHS capacity
YouTube video by We Own It
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
One of our founders, Dr Jacky Davis spoke to @matthew-wright.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk about the latest public survey on the NHS: "We'd like govt to address current problems which are to do with a lack of staff, & lack of beds and that comes down to a lack of money." www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHw0...
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NHS Public survey - Dr Jacky Davis on LBC, 3 Jan 2024
YouTube video by Keep Our NHS Public
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Starmer plans to increase private sector involvement in the NHS by 20% & up govt funding to for-profit health companies by £2.5 bn. The need for a renewed campaign for a publicly funded, provided and accountable NHS is clear. For more info about our campaigns/to get involved: keepournhspublic.com
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk about the latest NHS plans: "I worry that govt think the NHS can be significantly transformed without the significant budget to do so. Transferring from hospital to community is not necessarily a cheap option." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnbg...
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Dr Tony O'Sullivan on LBC 5th Jan 2025
YouTube video by Keep Our NHS Public
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said: "Private “spare capacity” relies on NHS staff and funding to resource their expansion. Feeding the parasite undermines the health of the NHS host." mol.im/a/14257221
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Millions more patients to receive free treatment in private hospitals
Sir Keir Starmer yesterday pledged to make 'better use' of the private sector so people can be seen more quickly for a wider range of issues.
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said: "Another worry is that tech companies with NHS govt contracts are simultaneously working in other fields inimicable to the public health, with development of lethal autonomous weapons systems being a case in point” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/conc...
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Concerns over tech consultancy with NHS contracts simultaneously developing drone AI
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A reminder of what Labour Party members think about NHS Privatisation and what they voted for. Labour Party members voting unanimously at the 2022 Conference to end all NHS Privatisation.
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Our co-chair @DrJohnPuntis said: "Lessons from Covid have not been learned...If our NHS is to be made fit for the future, as promised, it needs to have sufficient staff, beds and estate to cope with such surges in demand." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/less...
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‘Lessons from Covid have not been learned’ as flu cases see 50-hour waits and critical incidents spread across NHS
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Pensioners are getting ill because of the cuts to the winter fuel payment. If the government wants a heathier country, and to relieve pressure on the NHS, reversing these cruel cuts is a good place to start!
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 09/01/2025
Labour & the #NHS: new year, same dangerous mistakes... The government's new health policy announcements look set to further entrench privatisation whilst failing to address the real challenges facing our public health service. Here's what you need to know 🧵⬇️
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
With patients unable to be discharged into the community being such a huge contributor to the crisis in emergency care, we shouldn't have to wait another 3yrs for the big improvements that are needed. Read our take on govts latest announcements here 👇 keepournhspublic.com/labours-timi...
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Labour’s timid plans for a National Care Service – 2028 is too late!
Labour’s recent ‘big announcement’ on social care is the setting up of an independent commission (lead by Dame Louise Casey) which will produce an interim report in 2026 and a final report in 2028. Wh...
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Kate Anne @kate-anne77.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A&Es overwhelmed due to failure in primary and social care. Also backlog getting specialist care leaves patients/ GPs out of other options. Time to tax the rich!
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Samantha Wathen @samanthajwathen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Wondering when this govt will at least publicly acknowledge the situation in A&Es is now a national emergency. None of us had any hope that would ever happen with the last lot, but this time I think we all thought/hoped things would be different. Solidarity matters. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Winter pressure causing strain as bad as pandemic, NHS bosses say
More than 5,400 patients a day are in hospital with flu, as delays in A&E and for ambulances mount.
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John Moloney @johnmoloney.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I agree with this. From personal experience, I know that the lack of suitable caring packages for elderly people leaving hospital, is a reason either for that person to stay longer in hospital than necessary, blocking a bed or for a cycle of discharge, return, discharge, repeat.
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