Good grief, The Economist does not hold back 💥 economist.com/leaders/2022/1…

Blimey, that's an interesting comms (& legal) strategy.

Watching the original TV adaptation of John Le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and I’m irrationally delighted to see Patrick Stewart as Karla, Smiley’s arch nemesis. It’s a brief, silent but crucial appearance. Loved it.

This is a fascinating thread on mortality / life expectancy in the UK vs US. Most remarkable detail is that the average American has the smae chance of a long and healthy life as someone in Blackpool, one of the most deprives parts of the UK.

Hi British Airways why is telephone customer service so bad at the moment? Had 3 calls dropped this morning, then on hold for 30mins. Not too complicated, I'd just like to pay you and contrary to the softly spoken burble on the helpline, not everything can be done online.

This is great news. Can’t wait to have James on board.

I've now had a chance to read all 40 pages of the Coutts dossier on Farage and it's 9 pages of internal risk assessment discussion (1-4, 8-12) 29 pages of evidence (5-7, 13-38) referred to in the risk assessment pages, 1 page of decision (39) and 1 page of glossary (40). 1/9

This entire family was slaughtered by Palestinian death squads in Nir Oz. Tamar, Yonatan, Shachar (6), Arbel (6), Omer (4). Look at their faces before you tweet. Each and every one. ~ Via 🎗 Naama Lazimi - נעמה לזימי

Israeli school parents association have reportedly sent messages to parents to delete TikTok Instagram Facebook Telegram Messenger apps from their phones on the information they have received that the world is very close to seeing mass live streaming videos of Israeli hostages pleading

To all you obscene genocide deniers and Hamas apologists, here is letter from head of ZAKA, the Israeli group that collects and identifies remains of the dead: “I want to confirm that the shocking photo published on social media yesterday showing the body of a baby is completely

I can’t

Some quick thoughts on why large parts of the mainstream media keep slipping up on Gaza/Israel (and why it was the same at times with Covid): The main reason is a failure to keep pace with modern news gathering techniques, but there’s more.

How is it that serious journalists have got themselves to this point? What is going on? True in US & UK

David is a brilliant writer and journalist. With caution, read his thread reporting on the raw footage of the Hamas atrocities on Oct 7th.

Insane footage on Russian social media from Makhachkala in the North Caucasus region, where there have been several anti-Semitic protests this weekend. A crowd of people, some with Palestinian flags, broke into the airport in search of passengers on a flight from Tel Aviv.

Looking forward to the protests in solidarity against this crap. Or the ransacking of a Synagogue in Tunisia. Or the firebombing of a Shul in Berlin... Or about police being needed at UK Jewish schools. Thousands of people taking to the streets in solidarity. Oh wait.

With stories like this I genuinely don’t understand why there aren’t weekly anti-Hamas marches. What’s the logic in peace activists letting gang rape slide? Why don’t mutilated female bodies matter? They shared the video footage of them doing it, the facts aren’t contested.

Oh it is real

A senior Israeli doctor, not military, just someone dedicated to healing people, called me and asked “why isn’t anyone reporting that a group of Israeli hospital directors offered to send in their own doctors to take all the premature babies from Shifa for treatment in Israel?” >

For work reasons I do my best not to comment on British media. But for this insane thread I’m going to set that aside. Worth reading Waghorn’s three tweets. He frames Sinwar as munificent and unlike ISIS, but the atrocities as simply ‘reportedly’.