"What is the charge? Eating a plant? A succulent garden plant?"

You have to read through 80% of the Guardian article before you get to what the Palestinian student in question said - live on television - in the immediate aftermath of October 7th

.Dr David Jeffery: The difference between Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick's campaigns? Ex-Boris Johnson supporters. conservativehome.com/2024/09/05/dav…

The overweighting of Spitfires and underappreciation of Hurricanes in (particularly modern) British memory was something I knew about - but I didn’t realise it was common among the Luftwaffe of the day too. Really interesting thread:

Always glad to see good oratory in Parliament. It’s good for the place and good for the people whom the place serves. (Plus, more of this will hopefully mean in time that we stop viewing speaking without notes as the exception…)

Facebook Marketplace’s take on the ending of Se7en:

A wee bit of analysis on what the last few days tell us about the upcoming budget negotiations...

Great choice

MISSING | Have you seen Peter, 14, who is #Missing from #Wandsworth since Monday? Peter is blonde, of slim build wearing black joggers with a white/grey hoodie. Please call 101 quoting 1272/03SEPT24. Please help us find him by sharing this post.

Today you can find Dalal Mughrabi’s murder of 38 civilians including 13 children being glorified on Facebook, by “Friends of Palestine” (428,000 followers).

La Biennale di Venezia Not really interested in the “point of view” of Russian war criminals participating in the invasion and occupation of Ukraine, unless it’s points of view like “we surrender”, “I apologise” and “I plead guilty”.

Typically, Barbara Rich makes reasonable points, founded in facts, in a reasoned and measured way. The response she receives (in 🧵) is distinctly not like for like:

Sharing this post re a missing King's student -- Peter Antonov (KCS student, Year 10) hasn’t been seen since Monday evening 8.30pm on Wandsworth Common. His parents have asked to please share this post. He was last seen by his sister on the 319 bus (Streatham to Chelsea via