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Labour means defence.

“For every hour that the war goes on, the desperate need increases.”

IRC president David Miliband spoke to Alex Wagner Tonight about the situation in Gaza:

Imagine if the Ayatullahs invested Iran’s colossal wealth on the Iranian people instead of feeding death cults.

🎙️ Human Rights Watch's Fereshta Abbasi's inspiring story soon on Afghanistan with Roh Yakobi.

Didn’t know who OJ Simpson was until today. Is that a bad thing?

Reuters reports that the widow of Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident who died in a Siberian camp in February, has revealed that he secretly wrote an autobiography. It will be published later this year.

Went out for a walk. Hay-fever, you bastard!

🎙️ Professor Llewelyn Morgan on the Hazara people.

Llewelyn Morgan is a professor of Classics at the University of Oxford and the author of The Buddhas of Bamiyan.

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Tory party discipline completely breaking down as one of their MPs, Nick Fletcher, calls on voters in Ashfield to back Reform UK's Lee Anderson.

Rishi Sunak already facing calls to sack him.

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The “foreign minister” of one death cult consoling the leader of another.

🎙️ Professor Llewelyn Morgan on the ancient Greek king Eucratides’ coin being the emblem of Da Afghanistan Bank.

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Feel I could sleep for fifty million years but can’t. #OneOfThoseDays

بامیان، بودا و هزاره ها.

Horrid

We’re getting there.

Highly, HIGHLY recommend.

بامیان، بودا و هزاره ها.

26 years ago, the Good Friday Agreement was signed - one of Labour's proudest achievements.

Courageous leadership like Mo Mowlam's brought peace and power-sharing to Northern Ireland.

Today, we celebrate the progress made since then and must never take it for granted.

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