The corporate media has ignored how a Foreign Office official has resigned from his post over Britain's complicity in "war crimes" in Gaza. Read his resignation letter here 👇

R.I.P. Maggie Smith. Seen here on the Parkinson show with Kenneth Williams, reading one of John Betjeman's poems (Death In Leamington) to Betjeman himself.

The level of impunity is just unfathomable: the man is currently violating dozens of UN resolutions and is facing an arrest warrant by the ICJ. Yet he goes to the UN headquarters and orders, *from there*, another egregious war crime. The world is broken.

Huw Edwards: six months suspended prison sentence for possession of 41 indecent images of children, 7 of which were category A

Since @KierStarmer_ made a promise to have assisted suicide debated in Parliament, perhaps he can make another promise: That he & his MPs will watch my BBC The Open University documentary, Better Off Dead? to hear why many of us are terrified of these laws? bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Come on Labour. Listen to the environmentalists, listen to your scientific advisers, fulfil that election promise. Ban bee-killing pesticides now. Not next year. Not the year after. NOW.

🚨Imagine the shock for those giving Jenrick a rapturous round of applause today when they find out leaving the ECHR could result in the UK’s trade deal with the EU being terminated because the convention is written into the 2020 Trade & Co-operation Agreement & leaving the ECHR

sorry i love luca but we already have a nearly perfect adaptation of an almost unadaptable novel, which works in large part because women who worte and directed it understood how funny it was. why is this happening?

Creatives have to make a stand and boycott broadcasters who do this. Everyone who lost opportunities during the US strike has to be willing to do the same here

First of all, I wanna hear from the bottom official

I’m perplexed as to why this hasn’t become a bigger story. Laura, a much respected collaborator, is owed over £15,000. There are artists in the same situation all over the UK/world. I keep recalling the shows I saw at Summerhall. All that good faith. Now: nothing. Shocking.

Can Britain afford a 6% increase in the minimum wage? With me in the studio to discuss this are an £91,000 a year Tory MP, a £250,000 a year journalist, and an investment banker who has just been given a bonus worth five times his already astronomical salary.

While the bill won't lead to any legislative change, it's an important symbolic victory on our journey to electoral reform. Add your name to the quarter of a million people who back our call for seats in parliament to match how we vote. action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/peti…

Two tickets for Hackney Empire panto tonight at 7pm that we can’t use - free to anyone who wants them. In the upper circle.

TONIGHT!!!!!!!

Has your MP pledged to vote for the Climate & Nature Bill tomorrow? action.zerohour.uk If not, please share this article by leading scientists Prof Nathalie Nathalie Pettorelli & Paul Behrens explaining why it's so necessary. theconversation.com/the-uks-intern…

I really hope this isn’t true. I’ve written again to my (labour) MP this evening begging him to do whatever is in his power to not let this bill fail.

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Thames Water have had a £3bn loan approved. Their debts will now cost them £900m a year in interest, which is where one third of your water bill goes. Yet they managed to pay shareholders £158m in dividends last year. Someone ought to nationalise the greedy fuckers…