listen up, stupids: you told us Joe Biden was corrupt. ok, we said, show us your evidence. you told us you had proof. cool, we said, show us your evidence. there's a whistleblower, you screamed. great, we said, show us your evidence. the whistleblower has tapes, you shouted.

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"is this how desperate the Conservative Party is now? you're making stuff up!" Victoria Derbyshire ripping apart Tory minister Michelle Donelan over the meat taxes thing #CPC23 #newsnight

Brilliant analysis from the great Edward Luce: "There is no contradiction between reviling terrorism and tackling its roots. Both the following statements are true: Hamas has plumbed new depths of bestial cruelty; Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel has starved non-violent Palestinian

Mishal Husain just ate Grant Shapps alive on #r4today - echoes of Ben Swain on Newsnight. Worth listening back

Grant Shapps on #r4Today like one of those rounds on Mastermind where the contestant just says “pass” to every question and then is finally asked to “name a yellow fruit” and they say “orange” and they have a go at the presenter for not asking any questions.

Can there be a better birthday present than a dad's surprise visit from the frontlines? Video: alexanderrr32 tiktok via ShoTam

How Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza would play out – and why it will fail | Paul Rogers theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Nothing from the Covid inquiry is surprising. Shocking, maybe. But everybody knew it was a joke shitshow government at the time, because it was the Boris Johnson government, and only joke shitshow politicians would serve in it. I wrote this in April 2020, when Covid first hit.

After thirteen years of Tory rule, an unprecedented number of people are sleeping in tents. The Tory response is to ban tents.

In a just world, anyone who supports this massacre would be driven out of public life and treated as disgraced amoral pariahs. In the world we live in, those who oppose this massacre are being demonised as hateful dangerous extremists

Cruella’s Army..

Hundreds of thousands of people marched through central London in a huge pro-Palestinian demonstration on Saturday, one of the largest protests in Britain in recent years. Before it began, far-right demonstrators scuffled with officers. nyti.ms/3QVoknx

Rishi Sunak must surely sack his recklessly irresponsible and incendiary home secretary | Andrew Rawnsley theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I have no idea if Hell exists. But if it does, I’m pretty sure someday this will be the reception committee.

This is terrible. I too was targeted by a group of immigrants on Wednesday this week, armed with knives. They turned my almost legally blind right eye into one with 97% perfect vision. I’m still recovering.

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The death rate in Gaza is at a historic high, with thousands of children killed in just a few weeks. Demanding an end to this inexcusable violence is a question of basic humanity. Silence is complicity. You cannot be silent in an unfolding genocide. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…