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I hope everyone prays especially hard for Michael Gove to end up in prison.
Michael Gove referred Meller Designs, the firm of Conservative donor David Meller, to the VIP lane. The company was awarded six PPE contracts worth £164m.

I am an Israeli Jew. This is probably the worst week of my life. And yet today of all days it bears repeating: the only way to end this cycle is by working for freedom and dignity for all. For all. On all sides, our blood is the same color and our tears taste the same.

Signing with Sarah launched my career. I can’t tell you enough what a good agent she is: I don’t know of anyone else in the business who comes close.

When did any British Government raise the Yemen flag, or the Syrian flag when it’s people were being slaughtered, or the Palestinian flag now that they are also being slaughtered? Raise all the flags - or none.

🧵 A lot of Americans just don’t know what life is like for those in Gaza, so here’s an analogy that might help:

Imagine Gaza as Rhode Island. Here’s what reality would look like:

If we care about the loss of innocent lives we should also care about the cruel treatment of over 2m people. Half of them children. In their homeland. This is a crime. End of. What should they do? And how many of them become radicalised after such treatment?

Is it really that hard? Anyone with an ounce of sense wants Israel to defeat the invaders terrorising their civilians. But by the same token, anyone with an ounce of sense wants Israel to cease terrorising the Palestinians. Why do some people find this so hard?

Now that Made has gone bust, where can one buy large dramatic lights and shades that don't look like fascinators?

Thread: Online misinformation about the conflict between Hamas and Israel - day three

This video doesn't show a salvo of rockets fired by Hamas towards Israel.

It's from the Syrian war, and was shared online in 2020.

And half of them are children.

killed: a transitive verb used passively to suggest these deaths were caused by something
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dead: an adjective/modifier for “no longer alive” as a static state with no causality attached

Here is a statement from Amnesty International:

“The root causes of these repeated cycles of violence must be addressed as a matter of urgency. This requires upholding international law and ending Israel’s 16-year-long illegal blockade on Gaza, and all other aspects of Israel’s…

Happy first birthday. #PenIs

I will never forgive the British and other European powers who didn’t want to deal with Jewish refugees after the holocaust and didn’t care about the Palestinian people living on the land and set up a situation that was always going to cause violence w/o any responsibility

Imagine tweeting this from a private jet in a cost of living crisis when you've literally just cancelled the high-speed train line to the city you've been in. What sort of monstrous lack of awareness is going on?

We're Working On It is probably one of my saddest cartoon prints. Yet people and churches have it hanging where people can see. It exposes the cruelty of non-suffering people making suffering people wait for what the non-suffering people already enjoy and take for granted. I drew…

This book is brilliant. Go and buy it from Waterstones Durham.