BBCs diplomatic correspondent: "There are many many measures that would be available if countries decided that a red line has finally been crossed & that it is time not just to issue harsh words of condemnation, but to actually show Israel through action that enough is enough"
Governments aren't immune to the views and actions of their people.
Hashem Ahelbarra reports that EU countries are meeting today to discuss Israel as a direct consequence of pressure from their populations.
Gary Lineker had the courage to speak up for the rights and freedoms of the Palestinian people
And for that, he was cancelled
We say 'never forget' but when someone points out that we've forgotten' and speaks out against a genocide, they're dismissed
Thank you Gary for being human and caring 🙏
UN's Tom Fletcher: "The situation is dire.. we have thousands of trucks ready to go.. we are demanding that the world back us in pushing Israel to let us in.. [5 trucks is] a drop in the ocean.. there are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them"
The Harsh Reality
Nick Watt, "Keir Starmer faced some pretty difficult questions from his own MPs on that 'island of strangers speech' last week"
Rightly so. Labour should be ashamed that they've aped the language of Nigel Farage and Enoch Powell instead of standing up to them
"With previous war crimes, Srebrenica, Rwanda, we didn't move fast enough to call on the world to prevent it"
Tom Fletcher, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs at the UN, is asked about using the word genocide in relation to Gaza
Crowded room with banner saying no more austerity.
Yesterday in Sheffield. Today in Manchester speaking at People's Assembly.
Especially powerful to hear from Disabled People Against The Cuts.
Our message is being heard in halls like this all over.
Labour are making political choices. It's time for different ones.
#TaxTheRich
".. at least 44 people have been killed [overnight], most of those in the space of about half an hour we understand from local sources, when there were Israeli strikes that hit a school being used as a shelter for displaced people"
Israel is a terrorist state
Thank you Gary Lineker for using the platform you earned with your talent and charm to stand up for some of the most victimised people in the world. You're a shining example to us all.
On foreign aid one of the things Starmer says we need to focus on is Gaza
Starmer has supported Israeli war crimes. His govt has provided diplomatic cover to Israel, continued arming them & provided them with direct military assistance. He's complicit in whats happened in Gaza
I just spoke to my dad who has been a trade unionist all his adult life, was a CWU rep for twenty years and has voted Labour at every election since the 1960s.
He isn't going to vote Labour next time.
Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.
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Thought for the day.
"In the interview with Fox’s Bret Baier, Trump said that he would “own” the Gaza Strip and declared it would be a “real estate development for the future”."
This is ethnic cleansing. This is war crime. This is the biggest threat to the ceasefire and peace.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Granting people refugee status but not allowing them citizenship. Come on Labour, make that make sense.
Imagine doing this - harming people’s lives - to impress the bigot vote. But failing anyway.
What a shameful abdication of responsibility and decency.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How many who voted for Labour voted for a hostile environment?
This race to the cess-pitt of the Far-Right has to stop.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We’re done here. Right?
If our governments decide they aren't going to follow international law, why should we follow their's?
And they say, “Why do these scroungers come here, why don’t they just stay and fix their own country”
Meanwhile they were happy for their taxes being spent on creating this. Then complain refugees…
Americans really are the dumbest people on the planet.
‘Donald Trump’s Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan Is a Call for War Crimes And the UK Must Condemn It’ -
@elliechowns.bsky.social for the @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/06/d...
Donald Trump stated today that the US will take Gaza and that he will put a Trump hotel there, and if the Palestinians don't leave, they will 'find out'.
It is time for the ICC to put out an arrest warrant for Donald Trump.
Everything that is wrong with this country
