Anyone else a bit fed up with columnists - British, established voices - telling us repeatedly how rubbish Britain is to live in, when they don't actually deign to live here at all? But whinge from Portugal, Dubai, USA, Israel?

Thank you to the men who stood up and helped to keep women and children safe. We appreciate you 🙏🏻

A profound --- and profoundly important piece --- by my UnHerd colleague Aris Roussinos unherd.com/2025/08/gaza-i…

📻 📋 It's always been a dream to get something on BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent! Tune in at 11.30am to hear my dispatch from Bahrain

HAPPENING RIGHT NOW Thousands in Parliament Sq, with many hundreds holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." Biggest act of civil disobedience in decades

Now available online! 🎶 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Police confirm 466 arrests for supporting Palestine Action at today's protest. They include 89-year-old La Pethick, of Hastings, who was carted off by police on her fold-away chair.. She said: "We are having our right to peaceful protest being taken away." thetimes.com/article/6bbd59…

Taliban banned girls’ education in 2021. We opened secret schools as temporary solution, thinking it would be weeks, maybe months, until the world acted. 4 years later: nothing. We remain banned, invisible in “temporary” classes. thetimes.com/world/asia/art…

A week ago the Committee to Protect Journalists warned that Al Jazeera’s Anas Al-Sharif was being smeared by the IDF & that his life was under threat. Today Anas and is colleagues were assassinated by Israel. cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-ca…

The death of Anas Al-Sharif and his colleagues is deeply shocking. 186 journalists have been killed in this conflict according to CPJ - the deadliest period since it started recording data in 1992. Gaza’s journalists are our eyes as we are not allowed in as foreign press.

Armed men confront Sky News in West Bank. Sky's Stuart Ramsay spoke to Mohammed Robin, whose home near Ramallah was taken over by Israeli settlers. Watch the moment they go back to see the property, and are confronted by armed men. trib.al/a9Syurd

Israel has 'marshalled contradictory and unconvincing evidence' to justify the killing of journalists in Gaza. theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…

FGM is the biggest killer of African women and girls. And this story highlights the grim realities of what we are dealing with. telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Over the last year, Palestinian farmer Saeed al-Amour has attempted to defend his land in the occupied West Bank, as settler attacks have become more frequent and violent. His olive groves near the Palestinian town of Al-Rakeez have become a target for Israelis from the illegal

The time has come: it's Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Week. Tonight. 9pm. BBC One. #SewingBee

JD Vance: "The UK has no free speech" Also JD Vance: "Arrest everyone within 5 miles of my holiday home who has a mean meme about me".

With Gaza, so many stood by, ignoring the noises from some, of intent to make the territory inhabitable and “voluntarily” resettle. Now will people keep defending the expansion into neighbouring nations - and demolishing civilian infrastructure & evicting Lebanese & Syrians?

Yes to this. There are too many entitled dog owners today who don't bother to train their pets properly - most of them probably shouldn’t be allowed a dog