Children's author, illustrator/cartoonist MA(RCA) known for the Baby Goz & Lucy Goose books. With Douglas Maxwell created RatRace cartoon strip for the FT.
Seamer, Scarborough, N Yorkshire, UK
Joined April 2009
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Looking for an ideal picture book for a beginning reader? Baby Goz is back! The playful patterned language has lost none of its charm. I had actually forgotten his wonderful Knock, knock! Who's there? entry into the world...
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Steve Weatherill retweeted
Yes, heavy rains have flooded around 70,000 tents in Gaza.
Hamas leaders, including Yahya Sinwar, admitted digging up irrigation, water and sewage pipes left by Israel after the 2005 Gaza withdrawal (Gush Katif) to build rockets. This included materials for the M-75. Hamas videos show the process; early rockets were often called "sewage pipes with wings."
Steve Weatherill retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Henry Nowak's father speaks out on the murder of his son:
"He told officers he could not breathe NINE TIMES, he said he had been stabbed FOUR TIMES, but the officer replied saying' 'I don't think you have, mate.'"
What a brave man.
Steve Weatherill retweeted
Boy George speaking from the site of the Nova Music Festival massacre where 378 were slaughtered. A music festival not mentioned by a single musician who appeared at the Macklemore promotional concerts
“I feel odd being thanked for doing what’s just normal. Music should make people feel safe, celebrated, and like they belong. And that’s the music I want to make.”
@BoyGeorge speaking from the site of the Nova massacre in Israel. What a mensch! Only love and respect!
[🎥: GB]
Steve Weatherill retweeted
This man knows his words could likely be heard by the family of #HenryNowak, people who know from bitter first hand experience all about #TwoTierPolice and how thier automatic presumption of guilt because Of Henrys ethnicity likely contributed to his death.
Yet here he is calling people who raise the subject "thick"
For me they don't come much lower than #JamesObrien #LBC
Steve Weatherill retweeted
The UK will grind to a halt if a black addict dies while resisting arrest in the US, but will do nothing if UK police help finish off the white victim of a racist attack by trying to arrest for alleged wrongthinking.
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Henry Nowak’s mother, Lucy Ross says: “Henry told the police nine times that he can't breathe, he can't breathe and he's been stabbed. What more do you want? ‘Don't think you have mate’ - what the hell is that all about?"
“Why was Henry so dismissed and treated so badly? It's bad enough losing a child – to know that then he was treated in his last moments like that," she added.
"My poor little boy needed help and he didn’t get it.”
Steve Weatherill retweeted
🚨NEW HENRY NOWAK INFO🚨
Henry's family have revealed:
-The family were told that Henry was the aggressor.
-They were asked about his political views.
-They were not shown the bodycam footage.
-A press release was drafted, naming Henry, and describing him as the aggressor.
Steve Weatherill retweeted
There are still open slave markets in modern day Islamic countries. Yazidi women were openly made into daily rape victims by Islamic slave traders. Talk about that.
A welcome step from the PM.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade was one of history’s most heinous crimes.
We must be honest about how the horrors of our past have shaped the present - because only then can we begin to build a fairer future for everyone.
theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
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Dr. Zeinab Soleimani, a pediatric specialist, has been held in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan since March/April 2026. She was arrested after treating protesters during the December 2025–January 2026 protests by removing pellets and bullets from their bodies.
Since her arrest she has spent almost the entire time in solitary confinement. She had no prior mental health problems, but months of isolation have severely damaged her mental state. She was briefly moved to the general ward in July/August 2026, then returned to solitary because her condition worsened. She has now been hospitalized three times at Farabi Psychiatric Hospital in Isfahan—the most recent at least one week ago. No trial has been held and no charges have been announced
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Two days after Henry died Hampshire Police secretly recorded Digwa in a police van speaking Punjabi to his brother. Digwa admitted stabbing Henry. Discussed claiming self defence. Made zero mention of racial abuse. Not one word.
Hampshire Police had that tape.
They knew Digwa was lying about the racist attack. They had the evidence. They had his own words and then tried to smear Henry as the aggressor anyway.
Three days after his death their statement read “it was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.” Henry was the unknown man. The boy bleeding out on the street. They flipped it.
Family complained. Statement changed. Then police told the family their NEXT update would again infer Henry was the initial aggressor. His family had to fight them a second time. While grieving their murdered son.
Then during the trial Hampshire tried to issue a statement telling the public to stop talking about it online. Calling it disinformation. The CPS had to step in. Told them they were about to collapse their own murder case.
This is the force that handcuffed a dying boy. Missed the murder weapon twice. Had a secret tape proving the killer lied. And still tried to bury Henry's name.
That's not incompetence. That's a machine protecting itself. At the expense of a dead boy's reputation and three officers are still on active duty. Not suspended. Treated as witnesses. To their own actions.
Hampshire Police didn't just fail Henry on that street. They kept failing him for six months after he died.
Steve Weatherill retweeted
The real horror of Halloween.
Artificial cobweb: a bit of fake fun for you, but a very real and terrifying death for them.
If you see your neighbours using it, it's possible they don't know the danger so please print out this simple leaflet and pop it through their door:
tinyurl.com/HalloweenHedgeho…
The fine, strong synthetic fibres of this lethal 'web' are difficult for animals to see at dusk and can quickly wrap around their legs, wings, and neck, trapping and killing birds, insects and mammals.
When Eden the hedgehog struggled to free herself the web tightened, cutting off circulation and causing deep wounds.
Can you imagine the pain and sheer terror?
And then seeing dawn approach, while hanging there, tightly bound and helpless, only an inch above the ground but suffering slow strangulation.
Aside from being stressed, dehydrated, starving and exhausted, she also had horrific bite/peck wounds to her face, where she had been held there, helpless, unable to curl and defend herself, while a predator tried to eat her alive.
Tragically her constriction injuries were too severe to survive, and poor Eden had to be put to sleep.
If you have used this deadly cruel trap to 'decorate' your garden, I beg you - take it down now.
Please spread this vital information, and help save lives.
ALT Eden, a patient admitted to Hedgehog Cabin, the multi award winning hedgehog hospital.
Steve Weatherill retweeted
Thank you so much, you lovely, lovely people, for helping to spread this warning far and wide, and helping to save lives.
Aren't you brilliant?😊
I'm thrilled that this topic is sparking such important conversations, and is still generating broad media coverage, with the advice being featured across various mainstream press and community networks, both here and internationally.
And I'm delighted to see that instead of cherry picking a snippet, they've published my whole tweet, which is really brilliant news.
I’m incredibly grateful to see it resonate so widely, and awed at the sheer amount of kind compassionate people working together to get this important message amplified.
Thank you to everyone who has read and shared it!
I am awed at the uptake, and so grateful for your amplification - you will have saved so many lives.💞
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Halloween artificial cobweb material:
It may be a bit of fake fun for you, but it's a very real and terrifying death for them.
And it's not only birds.
Last year I had my first call of the season of a hedgehog trapped in this horrific fake 'cobweb', made especially for gullible halloweeners to spread over their greenery, trapping all unsuspecting birds, insects and mammals, including hedgehogs.
The fine synthetic fibers are difficult for animals to see and can quickly wrap around their legs, spines, and neck, leading to severe injuries.
When a hedgehog struggles to free herself the web tightens, cutting off circulation and causing deep wounds.
These constriction injuries often lead to permanent damage or death.
Unfortunately the call was from Manchester, so all I could do was talk them through getting the poor creature to a rescue.
Clearly she had been trapped there for at least one night, and her struggles had pulled the strong nylon strands so tightly that one of her toes had been amputated.
Can you imagine the pain and the sheer terror?
And then seeing dawn approach, while hanging there, tightly bound and helpless.
Aside from being stressed, dehydrated, starving and exhausted to the point of near death, she also had horrific bite/peck wounds to her face, where she had been held there, helpless, unable to curl and defend herself, while a predator tried to eat her alive.
If you have used this deadly cruel trap to 'decorate' your garden, please take it down now.
Please don't be conned by the greedy makers and sellers of this rubbish into hurting defenceless animals.
Steve Weatherill retweeted
Quand on ne connaît même pas la différence entre le Front National de la Résistance (mouvement communiste créé en 1941) et le Front National de Jean-Marie Le Pen (fondé en 1972), on s’abstient de taguer une plaque de résistant.
Ici, des cretins ont vu les mots « Front National », ont cru à de l’extrême droite, et ont vandalisé la mémoire d’un résistant communiste abattu par la Gestapo en 1944. C’est de l’ignorance pure.
le contexte est clair. Il n’y a rien d’ambigu. Ceux qui taguent ça montrent surtout qu’ils ne lisent pas (ou ne comprennent pas) ce qu’ils ont sous les yeux. Quand on est con, on est con…
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Following CAA’s efforts, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has reversed its decision and charged a bus driver with a racially or religiously aggravated public order offence.
One year ago today, a Jewish bus passenger in Hackney, North London, alleged that he was stuck on a bus after dropping his bank card into the driver’s cab and the driver refused to open the cab door or enable him to retrieve it. The driver is alleged to have made derogatory statements about Jews.
The CPS initially decided not to bring charges. CAA is proud to have provided legal support to the passenger, following which the CPS has charged the driver with causing racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress, contrary to section 31(1)(b) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
The first hearing is scheduled to take place next month.
This appalling video speaks volumes.
The driver of a London bus allegedly locked a Jewish passenger in for nearly an hour, withheld his bank card after it fell into the driver’s cab, and told him he resembled a “Mossad agent” and that he “doesn’t like Jewish people.”
This incident will horrify decent people right across the country, who increasingly wonder what has happened to the UK we love. It is outrageous that anyone should be subjected to this kind of degrading treatment, let alone for being or simply just appearing to be Jewish.
Allegedly trapping a passenger on a bus and subjecting him to antisemitic abuse is not merely disgraceful conduct; it is potentially criminal. We welcome urgent investigations by both TfL and the police. If the allegations are borne out, the driver would clearly need to be fired and TfL would need to issue an apology and offer compensation to the passenger.
The driver has now been suspended pending investigation. Consequences must be delivered for any and all wrongdoing.
Steve Weatherill retweeted
A reminder
The IRA murderers watched him place the baby in a carry cot on the back seat of his car.
They waited till he got in the drivers seat then opened fire from behind the vehicle in the full knowledge that the bullets would pass through the baby before killing her dad.
There are scum in this world who think the IRA were freedom fighters.
They were cold blooded killers
Former Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Atef Salem explains the deep frustration Muslims carry because Jews are alive and Israel exists.
Even without any land dispute, Muslims in Egypt are fed up with their lives and want to wage war against the Jews nearby. He says they cannot stop hating the Jews and Israel. The mere existence of Jews living next to them is intolerable.
Peace is impossible not because of borders or security wall, but because the presence of living Jews itself demands blood.
What is your response to him?
Steve Weatherill retweeted
Sadly, we have been informed that the number of martyrs from the terrorist attack on St George’s Church in Jordan has risen from 7 to 9.
We pray for our brothers who have borne witness to Christ through their martyrdom, as well as for the swift recovery of the injured.
Steve Weatherill retweeted
🆘AT RISK OF EXECUTION IN IRAN🆘
Ali Pishehvarzadeh
28 years old
Champion swimmer, Water polo medalist, Lifeguard
Arrested during the January uprising in Rasht Iran.
Sentenced to death
on the charge of "Moharebeh", i.e., waging war against God.
Torture in detention
Forced confession
Denied a lawyer of his own choosing
His execution can still be stopped.
His life must be saved.
@UNHumanRights @ICRC @hrw @amnesty @UN @UN_HRC @IntlCrimCourt @POTUS @HengawO @antonioguterres @drmaisato @UN_Spokesperson
#AliPishehvarzadeh
#StopExecutionsInIran
Steve Weatherill retweeted
I just learned that he has no mother or father to speak up for him. And now the Islamic Republic wants to hang him.
His name is Ilya Ben Rashid.
He is a young Iranian protester He has a younger sister. Now he is facing a death sentence.
He was arrested during the January 2026 protests in Iran. A Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced him to death on charges of “waging war against God” for allegedly damaging public property.
He is being held in Dastgerd Prison. Reports say he was denied a lawyer of his choice.
Imagine facing execution for demanding freedom.
We must become his voice. We must stop his execution.
Say his name. Save Ilya Ben Rashid.
#StopExecutionsInIran
