After the Charlottesville far right marches where Trump said there were “very fine people” on both sides, I with @EachOtherUk made a short film with survivors of three genocides called The Warning Signs. The signs are there; we just need to read them

Word of the day is ‘snerdle’ (18th century dialect): to wrap up cosily beneath the covers and hold off the day for a little longer.

" I’m Jewish, I’m Israeli, my parents were the only survivors of their families from the Holocaust. I’m not going to support a genocide , am I ?” #Gaza #Israel

BLOG - I have published an outline of what a comprehensive Land Reform Bill should look like. No more tinkering. No more conflating community ownership with land reform. No more dodging tenure and tax. Now is the time to democratise land governancne. andywightman.scot/2023/12/land-f…

New posting on Learning How Land Speaks from Freya Mathews: 'It is the cosmos itself, understood as living presence, that re-constellates itself in this way in response to an act of address.'

A reminder of the racism Benjamin Zephaniah had to suffer during his lifetime. This example is from The Sun in 1987... #BenjaminZephaniah

Rest easy, Professor Benjamin Zephaniah. What an incredible recital of 'Money' in early 90s Newcastle, below.

Refaat Alareer's course on English poetry at the Islamic University of Gaza from 2019. 28 sessions on form and content, text and context, meter, metaphor, rhyme, caesura, and parody. Our teacher. youtube.com/watch?v=gRDwGM…

I know I'm a broken record but can we PLEASE give new politicians a course in what parliamentary DEMOCRACY is and how it works, so they don't keep embarrassing themselves and the nation with this Mussolini-lite baby talk.

President Michael D Higgins has turned on the Christmas tree lights at Áras an Uachtaráin. In an address at the event, the President said, “We think, in particular, of the children of Gaza and Israel”.

I do have a Christmas song we can all get behind and that is a peace anthem which condemns the killing of young innocent children or anybody for that matter - no matter what country they are from. Away in Bomb Shelters Omid Djalili Gary Lineker Jenny Jones Piers Morgan #Retweet

Listen to the end.

The horror

This 4-minute video has more truth to tell about the actual experience of dying--and more reassurance--than shelves of books on the subject. By a palliative care specialist. From Aeon Magazine. aeon.co/videos/demysti…

The generators have also stopped working and so calls are v short now. No internet of course. They are beyond desperate and terrified. It’s been over 60 days now and it’s just getting worse and worse. 2/2

Remember you can carry knives, stalk, rape and murder and the govt will give you the shortest sentence possible - but threaten the interests of the richest people in the country by ‘walking in the road for half an hour’ and off to prison for six months you go!

NEW: Britons are more likely to say they prefer a political party that takes strong action on climate change to one that slows down such action. Survey with Ipsos UK & PPP Climate following our #COP28Outcomes Summit last week kcl.ac.uk/news/britons-m…

A gut wrenching reminder that a ceasefire yesterday would have saved Dunia's life.

ASSASSINS The media reported today in shock that Israeli snipers killed two Christian women inside a church in Gaza. But is that news? Israeli snipers routinely kill unarmed civilians. Here's a sample of unarmed Palestinian civilians killed by "specially trained" Israeli