After reintroducing polio in Gaza after it had been eradicated, the Israeli military is now rolling out a polio vaccine booster programme. But not for Gazans. For the soldiers killing Gazans. This is exactly what colonial extermination looks like

If Just Stop Oil get four-year prison sentences for causing people to miss medical appointments, how should the politicians who pushed NHS waiting lists above seven million be punished?

What really concerns power – what it is most determined to discourage – is dissent. Citizens attacking each other is an administrative issue, weighed against prison capacity. But citizens challenging power is an existential threat, which must be punished as an example to others.

R U OK @Twitter? Why has the link in the thread been marked as "unsafe"? (I'm not even allowed to post it here!) I'm sure it's not deliberate, but it looks like censorship of academic research. Research from @bristoluni that is highly relevant for recent events. Oscar Berglund

Implying our ancestors were weak for being murdered by genocidal maniacs, while using this as an excuse to maniacally genocide others. Awful, heinous stuff.

Over 60 years since MLK wrote this, but his insight is evergreen and universal ...

They didn't even have to deploy the National Guard.

Lammy already said months ago that Labour won't repeal the new anti-protest measures. History repeats. When Blair got in New Labour refused to repeal any of the anti-protest measures introduced in the Tories' 1994 Criminal Justice Bill.

If you want people to cycle from village and town to their nearest train station, give them this. We're a rich country and can afford to deliver a nationwide network of segregated cycle lanes. We'll never decarbonise the suburbs without it.

Family photo!

For decades successive US Governments have supported the Israeli government’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land, and Biden is complicit in the slaughter of innocent people in Gaza. Last night I was positive about President Biden's decision to stand aside as a candidate.

STOP everything you're doing & listen to what Jewish American Doctor Mark Perlmutter saw in Gaza:

Me on the criminalisation of protest in the UK in light of the Just Stop Oil sentences, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Forcibly removing the politics of climate change from the highly political trials of climate activists is bad for democracy & climate thebulletin.org/2024/07/in-the…

It was drummed into us at school that in Ancient Greece for the Olympic Games to begin all hostilities had to stop. Today's Olympic Games will not only take place while a genocide is going on, they are even allowing the state committing the genocide to participate.

The media in this country is filled with sociopaths telling us what (not) to care about. Sometimes overtly, sometimes subtly, whispering, "Grow up. It's immature to care about other people. They're not people like us. They asked for it. Children are always killed. It's normal."

BREAKING: 400 American Jews mark Netanyahu's arrival by refusing to leave Congress until our government listens to the will of the people and STOPS ARMING ISRAEL!

What is the point of a Labour government that is unwilling to bring children out of poverty? A government that is willing to let children go hungry rather than asking the wealthy to contribute their fair share?

really shouldn't be shocked by this sort of thing but the spectacle of Netanyahu getting a standing ovation in Congress is breathtakingly grotesque

Riots in Hull feel rather different from riots in Bristol.