The Government is increasingly desperate as it tries to fiddle election rules in its favour. More from the excellent Josiah Mortimer in Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2023/12/05/out…

#Gaza: Fuel and medical supplies have reached critically low levels at Al-Aqsa hospital in the Middle Area of the Strip due to road closures, while hundreds of patients need emergency care due to the unrelenting Israeli bombardment...

BREAKING UNICEF report today on child poverty in 39 countries in 2014-2021. UK has seen HIGHEST INCREASE in children living in poverty in all countries at almost 20%. Most countries decreased their numbers. Tories only care for themselves. Report unicef.org/globalinsight/…

Please don’t look away: Republicans are currently waging the *most* sustained, intense, & targeted war on disenfranchising Gen Z-ers from voting in 2024 that I have *ever* seen before. This is their new Jim Crow & we all must be alarmed & start giving this the attention it needs.

For first time ever, António Guterres invokes Article 99 of UN Charter, urging Security Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Appealing for humanitarian ceasefire, he says civilian population must be spared from further harm. un.org/en/situation-i…

Nick Robinson’s patience with the vapid Suella Braverman wearing thin. This woman is as incoherent as she is dangerous #r4today #Electionnow

While we’re all distracted by this #RwandaBill nonsense: Schools crumbling, child poverty, crisis in the NHS, rail strikes, filthy rivers, Covid mismanagement, the list goes on. The country falls apart and all the government is does is get us to look away #r4today

Absolute disgrace theguardian.com/world/live/202…

Tonight, Rishi Sunak and his Government chose to turn their backs on the children of #Gaza yet again. By failing to vote for a #CeasefireNOW at the UN Security Council, the UK is complicit in the horror that children will endure in the coming hours, days, and weeks.

Who is Luke Johnson and why are we listening to him? Doesn’t seem to have any scientific background so why is he head to head against a scientist. More BBC ‘balance’ #r4today

Here's a running thread of all the things the current Prime Minister cannot recall whilst under oath at the Covid Inquiry. Some more understandable than others I'd humbly suggest. 🧵

And so depriving millions of children of one of their main sources of connection. Completely unenforceable performative nonsense.

Photojournalist Mustafa Harouf was threateded with live fire and was brutality beaten by Police in East Jerualem. He's been hospitalized w/ serious injuries, their severity not yet clear. There is no individual with a greater impact on today's East Jerualem than Ben Gvir.

PPE Medpro is the tip of the iceberg. Here's my summary of the PPE scandal, after two and a half years of covering it for Byline Times. A shocking stat: firms that were awarded COVID contracts have gone on to donate at least £615k back to the Tories 👇 bylinetimes.com/2022/11/25/wha…

£2 Billion in Contracts Awarded to Conservative Associates Pulling together a year of evidence, Byline Times and The Citizens can reveal that deals worth billions have been awarded to top Conservative Party associates during the Coronavirus crisis bylinetimes.com/2021/03/31/map…

When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna. Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up. Like if you want Mone on trial. RT if you want them both facing the music.

As well as the magically disappearing phone, there were Lord Bethell's magically disappearing meetings. 27 meetings held by Bethell with firms handed £1.14 billion in government contracts were hidden from the public for 14 months bylinetimes.com/2021/06/30/hea…

“4 out of 5 of the hungriest people anywhere in the world are in Gaza.” – António Guterres on World Food Programme warning that widespread famine looms in Gaza, where more than half a million people are facing what experts classify as catastrophic levels of hunger. un.org/sg/en/content/…

The decimation of the #Gaza health system is a tragedy. But in the face of constant insecurity and inflows of wounded patients, we see doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and more continue striving to save lives. World Health Organization (WHO) and our health partners will continue working side by side

"A humanitarian pause is bare minimum that needs to happen" Juliette Touma Arab News:📍#GazaStrip “We’ve never, ever imagined we would host 1.4 million people in our facilities... The volume, the velocity, the levels of destruction are just unprecedented” arabnews.com/node/2430601/m…