When the IDF attributes the killing of ten civilians, including six children at a water distribution point in the searing heat to a *technical error*, you know they expect us to move on because we have shown ourselves so inexcusably willing to do so. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Vive Zola!

Mark Gatiss: "I'm not a fascist... but I'm terrified that we're drifting towards it... & it's coming as the village bobby with a smile... It's Mr Toad in a pair of pink corduroys."

Reform trying to put the frighteners on Green Investment in an extraordinary copy/paste of the MAGA programme. And what do they propose in its place? A fossil future disaster at worst. At best, a deliberate undermining of much needed investment.

In 2026, as the world's press step carefully over the blood-stained rubble of Gaza's killing grounds we, the British govt, will remind the world how we issued strongly worded statements very strongly. On one occasion we deplored.

I find this deeply disturbing. Since when did supporting non-violent action on behalf of a just cause become legally, let alone morally, equivalent with terrorism? theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

This is what hope looks like. Don't let Reform wreck it. theguardian.com/environment/20…

To put this in context, the terrible 1929 Hebron Massacre, one of the worst tragedies suffered by the Jewish community in Mandate Palestine, resulted in 69 innocent deaths. It has been the subject of many books and studies, and is still constantly referenced. Now around double

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This is England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Those who hurl abuse at migrants in hotels & fight our police are a tiny minority. These 2 women represent our majority English values - brave determined,brilliant,full of fun,embracing all backgrounds regardless of skin colour,race or religion 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

You gotta laugh.

I no longer understand the term *Proud Zionist*, except either as an assertion of historic injustice or programmatic cruelty and dispossession. And this has nothing to do with ant-semitism, nor Israel's right to exist, per se. We need to disentangle. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Table for two, Vezelay.

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Former English teacher urgently seeks definitional clarity. I don't recall the activists of Greenham Common being labelled as *Terrorists*, despite uneasy relationship with MoD property. Don't terrorists threaten human lives, rather than HMG property?

A strategic as well as moral disaster for Labour since an invitation for people of conscience to take their votes elsewhere, no matter the risks of letting in Reform.

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