A sigh of relief as Eurozone GDP surprises on the upside in Q1 this year and it's not because of Ireland

Oh dear

BBC News - Telegraph up for sale after takeover collapses
bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

Breaking: Students at Birzeit University in the West Bank expel the German ambassador due to Germany's support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

'There are unmarked graves... our colleagues buried these bodies here' Louise Wateridge

UNRWA Khan Younis Training Centre was sheltering thousands of people when hit by direct fire & besieged; including tank fire without warning

Many were killed & injured sheltering under @UN flag

#ThamesWater et al. instagram.com/p/C6YZWArqADp/…

Israel and US foreign secretary saying that 'allowing 1.5 million people to go back North of Gaza (i.e., their bombed houses) is a generous offer' is one of the most ridiculous thing any white imperialist colonialist has ever said

One word: Srebrenica.

Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola Hans Niesund Holocaust researcher at Hebrew University Amos Goldberg concludes it is clearly genocide and compares it with Srebrenica, Rwanda and Myanmar.

He says Israeli views are coloured by the Holocaust & because there are no death camps they deny genocide.

thepalestineproject.medium.com/yes-it-is-geno…

Excellent explanatory border check 🧵 from Dmitry Grozoubinski which also explains why you can’t “cherry pick” the shared regulatory and enforcement environment of the single market.

Got to be in it to win it.

‘I wouldn’t like to say the Home Office are telling porkies here but let’s say they temporarily can’t find them’

Ex Chief Immigration Officer of Border Force Kevin Saunders on news that most of the people initially earmarked for deportation to Rwanda can’t be immediately located…

Terrifying final paragraph.

This tweet blames me personally for the internment of Catholics in Northern Ireland 1971-75. I was a child at that time. I had no vote and no voice.

This is the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT as Israelis use to justify killing Gazan children. Gazan children did not vote for Hamas.

The government has forgotten that disability benefits are a good thing. They help disabled people to live full, happy lives. We should be proud as a country of having a system in place that provides disabled people with a safety net, not demonising those who need to use it.

Rather gloomy thread on Ukraine by Konrad Muzyka - Rochan Consulting: “the situation looks very bad and is not expected to improve in the coming weeks…Analyzing publicly available satellite photos of the areas where Russia is currently attacking…there are no visible fortified lines.”

The smarter way is the most humane & respectful way, let people work, process their claim properly, give people integration support and let people thrive. Stop punishing people for migrating. Saves us a fortune in direct costs, earns us a fortune in tax revenue.

APPG recommends that we #LiftTheBan on asylum seekers working.

‘existing immigration policies are “inhumane and ineffective”, driving migrants into poverty while burdening local government, public services and taxpayers.’

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

All Saints High Wycombe also has a peregrine cam. Seems to be quite the fashion for churches and cathedrals. allsaintshighwycombe.org/peregrines.htm…

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In my latest piece for the FT, I argue that there are two very different trade-related conflicts involving China that are too often conflated. On the one had is the problem of excess capacity in certain industries.

ft.com/content/879f5d… via @ft

Israel's refusal to allow International Criminal Court staff into Gaza may have slowed the investigation into Israel's use of indiscriminate and disproportionate lethal force, but the evidence of Netanyahu's starvation strategy is readily accessible. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

St. Albans Cathedral peregrine cam.