I’m in hospital (again). With suspected sepsis. (Again.) If you are based in the UK but can’t be bothered to vote: Do it for the 100 year old man in a and e who has been on a trolley for 48 hours Do it for me, if I’d had adequate access to my GP I wouldn’t be septic again. Do

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I'm wondering #writingtwitter, if there is such a thing as a mid-career mentorship programme somewhere? I have two books published and feel as if I need some guidance. There is a lot out there for people wanting to get published but not so much for those who are. #amwriting

Newcastle Uni students are now 50 days into their protest against the war in Gaza. Give them a retweet

It's devastating how, again and again, the Irish judiciary over-identifies with violent young white men, readily able to put themselves in their shoes, while at the same time seeming utterly incapable of understanding the impact of their violence on others.

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FFS. How many relationships has #ThisIsUs ruined? At least I’m ruined in the best way. ThisIsUsWriters @ThisIsUs_Fans_

Only Israel is allowed to drop white phosphorus bombs on civilian areas in both Lebanon and Palestine, nearly every single day, and the international community won’t even blink.

This is a headline from Save the Children today. The death and suffering that the Israeli regime has inflicted on Palestinians is monstrous beyond words.

Up to 21,000 Palestinian children are missing in the Gaza Strip, including 4,000 who are likely buried under the rubble. What utter inhumanity. Stop the genocide in Gaza.

“If we shall not end the occupation, we shall not have security,” warns Ami Ayalon, former head of Shin Bet, “and if we shall not end this occupation, we shall not have democracy.” In an extraordinarily candid interview, Israel’s former internal security chief condemns what he

The study found that the most significant driver of the increase in infant deaths was babies who died of congenital anomalies. In other words, women were forced by Texas law to have babies everyone knew would suffer and die.

Fintan O’Toole: We have ended up with a distorted system in which hundreds of people go to jail for non-violent offences and the non-payment of fines but violent and dangerous men go free. This is the precise opposite of what the public wants. irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Does anyone else feel like they're losing their mind over Gaza?? If ONE child from almost anywhere else was beheaded by a bomb, the whole world would unite in outrage. Yet we continue to see thousands of children and babies torn apart, and people just move on. 💔

"We really should not speak about living conditions in #Gaza because none of them have 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 conditions. What they have, if you look closely, is 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 conditions. And barely. They’re holding on by a thread." - Yasmina Guerda, UN Humanitarian

We are outraged and strongly condemn the killing of our colleague, Fadi Al-Wadiya, in an attack this morning in Gaza City. The attack killed Fadi, along with 5 other people including 3 children, while he was cycling to work, near the MSF clinic where he was providing care.

We are outraged and strongly condemn the killing of our colleague, Fadi Al-Wadiya, in an attack this morning in Gaza City. The attack killed Fadi, along with five other people including three children, while he was cycling to work, near the MSF clinic where he was providing

"Killing a healthcare worker while on his way to provide vital medical care to wounded victims of the endless massacres across Gaza is beyond shocking; it's cynical and abhorrent." says Caroline Seguin, our operations manager for #Palestine.

“We should heed the calls of poets like Irish”: Matthew Duffus reviews “Hatch” (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press) by Jenny Irish in our Summer 2024 print issue: raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-revi…

Thank you to Rain Taxi and Matthew Duffas for this much appreciated review of HATCH. “The prose poems in Jenny Irish’s new collection, Hatch, couldn’t be timelier.”