Israel has just won the war crime of the century prize: The IDF used chemical weapons on UN peacekeepers! x.com/unifil_/status…

If you're young, they'll take away your dinner. If you're old, they'll turn off your fire. If you're Palestinians, they'll burn you alive If you protest, they'll lock you up.

Such a relief that there’s no climate crisis so these developments can go ahead without concern & without undermining commitments to being the greenest government ….

Guess what. My first The Guardian column is out! I explore how both red & blue UK gov's are allowing Wales to be shafted over HS2. Just in case you don't know, HS2's defined as a England & Wales project, despite being solely in...you know...England theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Here’s my boys playing Dave Brubeck’s ‘take 5’. Tbf john was playing that tune with the famed Stockport Percussion Ensemble’ when he was 8 years of age . Charlie’s making the Chinese violin sound like Jimi Hendrix ! Taking it to another dimension with the way-wah etc

LISTEN Keir Starmer LISTEN David Lammy LISTEN BBC News (UK) LISTEN Kay Burley LISTEN Sky News LISTEN Howard Jacobson LISTEN Robert Jenrick LISTEN Evan Davis LISTEN to the names of the dead children There are unimaginably more now Each was loved Each life of equal value as YOURS

Director of Ofwat wants to block consumer legal ‘class actions’ against water company polluters Oh & she’s adviser to water industry lobbying group Global Counsel No conflict of interest here Feargal Sharkey RiverActionUK Adam Vaughan thetimes.com/uk/environment…

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I'm proud to be co-sponsoring the Climate and Nature Bill on behalf of The Green Party. The bill, which has a cross-party group of sponsors, was introduced today by Roz Savage MP. It's a bill whose time has come. #CANBill

"I want to speak up in defence of the minor talent. Most of us, after all, are minor talents. I include myself in that." I read the new book about Lawrence from Felt (Street Level Superstar) and wrote about how hardly anyone is a genius newstatesman.com/culture/2024/1…

I welcome the Government's move to end hereditary peers. But reform of our Parliament and our politics cannot end there. Yesterday I urged the Govt to replace the House of Lords with a fully elected House of Citizens, and to create a fair, proportional voting system.

Tomorrow's front page: Starmer told to ‘hand back blood money’ – Labour accepted £4 million from firm that stood to profit from Gaza massacre Subscribe to the Morning Star newspaper: morningstaronline.co.uk/subscribe

🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Republic have written to the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, demanding that she cut the half billion royal budget instead of our public services. #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

Labour is willing to revisit HS2 infrastructure plans but refuse to revisit its classification as an England-and-Wales project. Treasury is denying £4bn from Wales currently. The Budget must rectify this.

Palestinians are not just victims. They are people with imagination, ideas, literature, poetry, music and art. We need to see and hear that as well. Watch the full film with gazasunbirds here: youtube.com/watch?v=SeTFgp…

Labour just oversaw a £1.3 BILLION SELL-OFF of NHS services to a private equity firm 🚨 A private equity firm that paid out £27m to shareholders in 2022 just bought up NHS community services in Wiltshire - spotted by Dr Rachel Clarke. Non-paywalled 🔽 thecanary.co/trending/2024/…

GOOD NEWS 🎉: MedellÍn, Colombia has cooled by 2C by planting 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees ACROSS THE CITY. The "green corridors" programme kicked off in 2016 to help counter increased air pollution and rising heat. More of this please 👏

It beggars belief that in 2024 anyone could say this let alone think it! And this is who the Tories put forward to the Modernisation Committee one of whose aims is to “improve working culture & practices.” Sounds like Chope wants to go back to pipe smoking & men only MPs.

Are you age 40ish to 73? This is a v important listen. There's an Apr 25 deadline that if u miss it means u lose the chance to top up 13yrs of National Insurance (possibly missing £10,000s), yet it takes time, so u need-know NOW if u should start Pls share with anyone impacted