The Crowdfunder for my re-election as MP for the redrawn Cowdenbeath & Kirkcaldy Constituency is now live.

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State of #Palestine welcomes issuing of independent review report on UNRWA

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So why has the UK not restored the aid

👉NEW VIDEO -- Britain's £7 billion aid for Ukraine contains a hidden health risk

Rishi Sunak has sent Ukraine tank shells made from depleted uranium. From Kosovo, Phil Miller investigates the links between depleted uranium and cancer cases.
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#Israel has yet to provide evidence of #Unrwa staff terrorist links, report says theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

👉NEW -- Britain's covert propaganda campaign over Kosovo

by Patrick O'Reilly

Declassified files show how the Tony Blair government planted material in the media and tried to convince the public that its 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia was 'a just cause'.
declassifieduk.org/britains-cover…

Kicking off our event, Jonny Marshall notes that Britain's electricity system is changing dramatically. Coal was king in the 20th century - but half of our power comes from non-fossil fuels today, and that will ramp up further.

The three biggest Israeli arms companies which make a large share of their money from exports, profited from the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

With large order backlogs, they are set to increase their earnings in the coming years.

The UK has been providing military, intelligence, and diplomatic support to Israel as it decimates Gaza.

Now, Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell says 'the international community will need to make a massive effort to deliver a reconstruction plan for Gaza'.
#DCUKParliament

Policing large London demonstrations is always a challenge

Stopping non-participants from crossing, particularly if there is a risk of disorder, is entirely normal

news.sky.com/story/sky-news…

‘ALBA Party Depute Leader Kenny MacAskill, who spearheaded the launch of campaign to save the refinery, said Scottish Government had 'undermined Scotland's refinery from within'.’ ScotGov sunk £300k on Sir Jim Ratcliffe oil refinery closure plan|The Herald heraldscotland.com/news/24265418.…

'Israeli settlers embarked on a murderous rampage across the occupied West Bank over the weekend, killing at least three Palestinians & destroying property in more than a dozen villages and towns.' In one case, 'the soldiers stood by and didn’t intervene.” 972mag.com/pogroms-west-b…

#MiningHeritage - Birkhill Clay Mine near Bo'ness

Opened 1911 & closed 1980 - clay was sent to P&M Hurll's brickworks at Glenboig & other brick makers at home and abroad, where it was made into firebricks for use in kilns & blast furnaces
🔥 Falkirk Leisure and Culture ow.ly/V6Nh50R3tri

💥🎧NEW Media Confidential—Locked inside a living hell: The West Bank according to Gideon Levy (@gideonle)
The award-winning journalist discusses his current view of life in the West Bank with alan rusbridger Lionel Barber
👉 mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastto

21 April 586: #Visigoth Reccared I becomes King of Hispania. In January 587, #Reccared renounced Arianism for #Catholicism , which is the most important event of his reign. Reccared is also generally considered a pacifist. #history #OTD #ad amzn.to/3h4pcU3

Shameful

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🚨Police: I’ve already seen you deliberately leave the pavement and walk against this march…your comment is disingenuous whether you like it or not😮😮😮

Wondered where the old National Front had gone.

🚨A recent report has found that 76% of online articles frame Israel’s genocide in Gaza as the “Israel-Hamas war”.

In TV reporting, Israeli perspectives have been referenced almost three times more than Palestinian ones.

👉UK media is on Israel's side
declassifieduk.org/u-k-media-is-o…

It is a war crime to fire on even a military target if the harm to civilians will be disproportionate, but the Israeli army's legal office whitewashes civilian-to-combatant 'formulas of 15-to-1 or 20-to-1—even for the lowest-ranking members of Hamas.' newrepublic.com/article/180633…