Last year, 138 mentally-ill disabled people in The Netherlands had an assisted suicide and the numbers increase every year. People who need help are opting for death because they can't find it. This isn't right: it's an abject failure of modern society.

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After publishing our surveillance report, we share our latest #COVID19 surveillance data in our weekly infographic, including new weekly vaccine uptake data. 🔽

You can read the full report here: gov.uk/government/sta…

So sorry to hear of the death of the BBC newsreader Martin Muncaster. He was one of the pleasantest colleagues when I was a brand new radio news sub-editor, and read the news in a delightfully mellow voice.

Many Likud ministers are livid at the lack of success in the war effort and the way Netanyahu does not consult them on his policies. Channel 12 brought the following leak from the latest wider cabinet meeting:

Nir Barkat (Minister of Economy, Likud): “We have already heard this

Pater noster qui es in caelis.....

BL Add MS 16605; Sacramentarium Gregorianum with supplements by Benedict of Aniane; c.850 CE-c.900 CE; Benedictine Abbey of Stavelot; f.21v Medieval Manuscripts

Do you get the angels' point? 🤔

BL Add MS 11695; The 'Silos Apocalypse'; 1091-1109 CE; Spain, N; ff.52v, 59r, 63v, 77r Medieval Manuscripts

Rainbow lanyards are a symbol of inclusivity, of everyone belonging. They helped disabled people feel included and valued. It seems somehow typical of this tawdry, divisive and rapidly-disintegrating regime that they'd try to ban a symbol of an inclusive society.

EXCL: A Swiss clinic which helped a British man die in secret has apologised to his family, following an ITV News investigation.

Alastair Hamilton, 47, had no diagnosed illness.

Pegasos admits failings but says it doesn't believe in Swiss guidelines.

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Attacks by extremists on aid convoys en route to Gaza are appalling.

Gazans are at risk of famine and in desperate need of supplies.

Israel must hold attackers to account and do more to allow aid in – I will be raising my concerns with the Israeli government.

'C'(redant qui volunt malle me legendo quam legenda dictando laborare).

Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 14; Augustinus S. Aurelius. De Trinitate libri quindecim, praemissa epistola ad Aurelium; 1178 CE-1223 CE; Engelberg; f.37v
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A tonsured monk (presumably Lawrence of Durham) holding quill and knife and seated on a chair

Durham University Library Cosin MS. V.iii.1; Lawrence of Durham, Works; 12th century; f.22v Durham Cathedral Library

#YomHaatzmaut 🇮🇱

Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.122v Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services

'Supporting🇬🇧farmers ?' Are you insane ?

By cutting their produce off from their biggest market next door (impossible to get fresh GB sausages in EU now) AND signing 'not very good deals' swamping them with 🇦🇺&🇳🇿 competition 'for generations to come' ?

STOP LYING TO PEOPLE !

Total UK Covid Deaths to 26th April *Provisional*

239,688

*Estimated from previous Occurrences to 29th Dec 2023 + Registered deaths since then. *Likely an undercount.

בשלהי יום העצמאות האומלל בתולדות המדינה צריך לאמר גם את זה:
בשבעה באוקטובר ישראל לא היתה בסכנה קיומית. היום היא כן.
לא בגלל חמאס, חיזבאללה או אירן, אלא כתוצאה ישירה של התנהלות הממשלה האסונית, ההרסנית והמושחתת שהיתה פה אי פעם.

For the first time in history, an Israeli Prime Minister has not attended Independence Day events. Bibi is skipping the International Bible Contest and the ceremony for the bravest IDF soldiers at the home of the President and the Israel Prize. All symbols of the nation with

Netanyahu government ministers join far-right 'march to Gaza' demanding resettlement of the Strip and Palestinians' expulsion
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