Israel is disappearing unknown numbers of Gazan men into a camp where they're blindfolded, all limbs shackled, tortured, where medical care means getting a hand amputated because the metal cuffs cut into it and caused an infection.
cnn.com/2024/04/06/mid…

CAAT: The UK is complicit in Israel’s killing of UK aid workers in Gaza

7 aid workers, incl. 3 UK citizens, were killed by a strike from an Elbit Systems Hermes 450 drone. It's powered by a R902(W) Wankel engine, made in UK by Elbit's UAV Engines Ltd(1/7)
caat.org.uk/news/media-rel…

Date for the diary:

Tuesday June 11th I’ll be speaking at Hull History Centre to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Humberside branch of the Chile Solidarity Campaign.

More events for that week/month to be announced soon!
#Chile #Venceremos

In order for me to write poetry that isn't political
I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent.

Marwan Makhout, Palestinian poet

Myself and Daisy Schofield have spent the past few weeks speaking to medics who've worked in Gaza's hospitals.

The testimonies they shared are harrowing: operations without anaesthetic, patients dying from starvation and medics tortured by Israeli forces.tribunemag.co.uk/2024/03/its-a-…

Date for the diary:

Tuesday June 11th I’ll be speaking at Hull History Centre to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Humberside branch of the Chile Solidarity Campaign.

More events for that week/month to be announced soon!
#Chile #Venceremos

A lot to enjoy in Aditya Chakrabortty's account of Sam Bankman-Fried & those who lined up to fawn over him, but this on the infamous story of him gaming while meeting some finance big-wigs is especially good, in its bleak way

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

they make bank while the working classes freeze to death in their homes.

I deal with people dying from #asbestos cancer .Most of them do not get access to specialist drs & nurses due to cuts in the NHS . The scans & other tests are delayed . Most of the equipment needs replacing or is broken . The #Royals are receiving superior treatment .

What an amazing protest today by parents, staff and the community outside Byron Court Primary School in Brent.

No to forced academisation. Yes to remaining a local community school.

From Friday, a short piece about Voono, 'the new era of fantasy rugby league' that turns out to be another attempt to get fans to buy expensive NFTs #rugbyleague #NFTs

medium.com/@tomjwhite9/ru…

From Friday, a short piece about Voono, 'the new era of fantasy rugby league' that turns out to be another attempt to get fans to buy expensive NFTs #rugbyleague #NFTs

medium.com/@tomjwhite9/ru…

Good piece which suggests that financially motivated amnesia about crypto isn't confined to football...

Rugby league NFTs are back, zombie-like, though this time round you wouldn't necessarily know it from the PR. A short piece here examining what is going on:
medium.com/@tomjwhite9/ru… #RugbyLeague #NFTs

100 years on from the world’s first asbestos diagnosis, there is one *glaringly obvious* change of policy needed to stop thousands of working people dying every year from these awful cancers:

Remove asbestos! ☣️