Oxfam: “We have been blocked, consistently, in trying to access food, latrines, wash materials. We put out a report last week that found the Israeli military has destroyed key Oxfam infrastructure that is essential for water and sanitation services in Gaza”

Number of plastic bags found on UK beaches down 80% since charge introduced theguardian.com/environment/ar…

BREAKING: Israel has just murdered Palestinian Al-Jazeera journalist, Ismail al-Ghoul. Israel has now killed 176 journalists in Gaza in 294 days. The number of journalists killed in Gaza by Israel is unparalleled in history.

Shame on every journalist in the West who has sat silently by and not said a word as over a hundred of their colleagues in Gaza have been killed by Israel, again and again and again. What happened to ‘journalism is not a crime’? To standing for press freedom? Shame on them.

Road death and injury are not inevitable. We know measures like 20 mph speed limits can reduce road death and serious injury. There’s no excuse for any resistance to making roads safer with lower speed limits where people walk or cycle and need to cross the road.

The University of St. Andrews dismisses its rector for supposedly making Jewish students "fear for their safety" by accurately describing Israel's apartheid and genocide. Student comfort should never be an excuse for censoring the truth. theguardian.com/education/arti…

Police press offices are starting to have some fun

Israel just keeps killing and killing and killing and killing. We just keep watching and watching and watching. There is great sickness in all of this.

There was a 63 per cent rise in the use of cargo bikes across London between 2022 and 2023 🥳. We need more of this! Deliveries so often mean a #Diesel van, but it doesn't have to be that way. #DitchDiesel standard.co.uk/news/transport…

'The Urchins' a collaberative work and installation, by architect Jin Choi of Choi +Shine, using crochet to create macro light objects inspired by sea urchins #WomensArt

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Viet Thanh Nguyen traces American empire from the Vietnam War to the genocide in Gaza and beyond: “You cannot separate the domestic politics of the United States – its inequities, its contradictions, its oppressions – from what the United States does outside of this country.”

I entered the UK with no school certificate but an immigration stamp... More than 20 years ago, I arrived in the UK as a teenager with no family support, not much formal education, and only $100. I started studying English and then A-levels at Colleges. When I asked a tutor to

What a source of shame for our country 'Where should the birds fly after the last sky?” The poet Mahmoud Darwish asked this decades ago, and every day for the past 10 months, I’ve been asking myself the same question. How can the world be so vast, yet when it comes to us

RIP to a real one ☮️✊🏼

"It’s strange that, in order to overcome trade barriers erected because of Brexit, the NHS is now obliged to pay a private company to circumvent those barriers, but then these are strange times". London Review of Books lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Depremde gece gündüz depremzedelere bakan Suavi'ye terörist diyenler, depremde halka çadır satanlara, ülkeye kaçakları dolduranlara tek kelime laf edebildi mi? Seninleyiz! SUAVİ

On the same day, they killed a woman, Fatima, for refusing to wear the clothes they decreed. He was the faamous man; she was the unknown woman - both victims of ISIS. More in my book 'I Brought The War With Me', published next month. penguin.co.uk/books/459046/i…