Given that the UK a) has ALWAYS regarded the West Bank & Gaza as illegally occupied by Israel and b) we have ALWAYS, under every government, supported a Two State Solution, what conceivable excuse can David Lammy & Keir Starmer produce for abstaining on this motion in the face

#Lebanon #Israel 👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽

To be clear, mutilating or killing a child because their father is a combatant is illegal under multiple tenets of international military & humanitarian law. And not being certain who will be holding a device when you blow it up is the very definition of an indiscriminate attack.

Bravo 👏 👏 On #bbcqt top economist Mariana Mazzucato explains why measures such as cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment and austerity are damaging and counterproductive. She also debunks the whole notion that you run a government like you run a household.

'Israel’s booby-trap war: illegal and unacceptable' explained in this ⁦The Guardian⁩ Editorial. #Lebanon #Israel theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Pesticides: 'Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit. Unlike the EU, Great Britain has slashed protections for scores of food types' - ⁦⁦Damian Carrington⁩ > yet another Tory #Brexit disaster. #environment #food #health theguardian.com/environment/20…

The total of hospitality & gifts *declared* by Keir Starmer since 2019 is £12,500 *less* than Boris Johnson accepted from Lord Brownlow for home decor. He tried to keep this *secret* by claiming he couldn't remember who'd paid & had lost the phone containing all relevant messages

Robert Jenrick, who is the favourite to be the next Conservative party leader, received £75,000 from a firm which has no employees, has never made a profit and has £332,000 in debts after taking a loan from an untraceable British Virgin Islands company tortoisemedia.com/2024/09/20/rob…

photographer Fred Herzog born Stuttgart, Germany this day 1930 (died 9 September 2019, Vancouver, Canada) #photography ( see: theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…)

This is an urgent and important intervention by my fellow bishops and I support them in it. The oppression, violence and discrimination against Palestinians in the West Bank, including Christians, must cease. The Israeli government is not above the law and must stop acting

Al Jazeera has been one of the most important sources of information on Israeli bombing and starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza and repression in the West Bank, so Israel shuts down its Ramallah bureau after already have shut its East Jerusalem bureau. apnews.com/article/israel…

tomorrow's match against AFC Wimbledon postponed due to flooding #NUFC

Reeves says Labour is proudly pro-business and pro-worker. No mention of pro-child. Or pro-pensioner. Or pro-person unable to work. Or pro-state, or pro-all who work on it. Or pro-charity. Or pro-carer. No, just pro-business and pro-worker. That is a simplistic and

'Your Sh*te is our Delight' > recycling on Tyneside

#NUFC 👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽

‘How would I ever make sense of this place?’: new eyes on New York' superb work by ⁦Joseph Michael Lopez⁩ via @Guardian #NYC #Photography theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

photographer Jeff Wall, born Vancouver, Canada, this day 1946 #Photography

We all need to be able to afford 🍽enough food 🧣heating 💷to keep up with bills But 4.4m low income households couldn’t afford 2 of these 3 in May And energy prices have just gone up. Again. Another winter of hardship The autumn Budget must set out an urgent plan for hardship

loved the Rain Room at ⁦SharjahArtFoundation⁩

The response to Iran's attack on Israel exposed the racism of Western leaders and media outlets. It's not even subtle racism. It's loud and proud, shameless, unapologetic racism. They are screaming at the world: "We don't think Arab life has any value at all."