“UNRWA is Hamas” “UNIFIL is human shield to Hezbollah” “UNSG is anti-Israel” “ICJ is antisemitic” “UNGA is a swamp of antisemitic bile” At some point, the UN needs to do more than be shocked… preferably before more UN personnel is killed by Israel

I’m sorry but if Russian bombs rained down on displaced Ukrainians in a hospital courtyard & they were burnt alive, there would be wall to wall media coverage. Keir Starmer would do an emergency address to the nation. The world would stop. But Palestinian lives don’t matter.

BREAKING: #Lebanon’s health ministry says it identified a Cholera case, the first since a brief resurgence during the financial crisis. After bombs kill and maim in war, this is the next great threat of mass displacement & damaged infrastructure: devastating water-borne diseases.

‘Changing the rules for investigating and prosecuting police officers at criminal trials or inquests is an affront on the rule of law that will make everyone less safe.’

Ban on sale and supply of single-use vapes in England to come into force on 1 June 2025 gov.uk/government/new…

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What a force of nature. Bravo Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt !

Word of the day is ‘laughter-lit’ (19th century): animated and restored by laughing alongside others. That is what Janey Godley gave to many of us.

Not sure this is the news everyone is focusing on today but it's not ideal... theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

After rampaging through the streets of Amsterdam day and night tearing down Palestinian flags and singing “kill all the Arabs,” the rabid fans of Israeli football club, Maccabi, finally got their asses rightly kicked. ⚽️ And now, people are calling it a pogrom. 😂 Just stop.

The missing context is that Maccabi Tel Aviv football hooligans, said to include IDF soldiers, ignored minute's silence for Valencia victims & sang racist chants about exterminating of Arabs at a football match which led to clashes with Dutch Moroccan fans.

The NHS that Nigel Farage wants to destroy 👇

Congratulations to Prof Sarah Devaney! 🤩

Join us on March 5th for the launch of Prof Becki Bennett's book! UoM School of Social Sciences UoM Law eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-re…

We mourn Professor Margot Brazier, who died peacefully on 4 March. Margot's work inspired generations of healthcare lawyers and ethicists, and informed health policy for decades. Margot was exceptionally kind, clever, funny and wise. We will miss her so much UoM Law

NEW: My latest The i Paper column on why alarmist, exaggerated warnings from private schools about Labour’s VAT policy were given so much attention - and what it says about Britain. Read here👇

To be clear: Today’s judgement does not change the law.Trans people remain protected under the Equality Act, including their right to access services & spaces—unless there is clear evidence that restricting this access is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.

"But it's not peer reviewed", they said. Well guess what? Now it is. "Critically appraising the Cass report: methodological flaws and unsupported claims" by @Chris_Noone_ et al: bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

CSEP's Alex Mullock was cited today in the HC debate of the Leadbeater Bill (Dame Meg Hillier MP, 10.34) UoM Law UoM School of Social Sciences : bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/b…

Piers Morgan When someone feels entitled to ask any Palestinian to condemn the horrors and crimes of October 7—after decades of brutal occupation, dispossession, massacres after massacres, torture and humiliation—I stop taking them seriously. Moral authority doesn’t come from selective