6 months ago our friend & colleague Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was brutally killed by the Israeli military. Over 6 investigations found that the journalists were directly targeted. It’s been 6 months since we lost him & six months of impunity. I miss your laugh the most 💔

Not sure what’s been going on with Kyle MacLachlan on social media lately but I love it a lot and hope he never stops

Yanis was due to deliver this speech to a Congress on Palestine in Berlin today. I was watching it online when the German police broke up the congress and stopped it from broadcasting.

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Building consensus with all wings of the labour movement is the very definition of the broad church, those trade unionists were from both right and left leaning leaderships. I get why you would be out of practice spotting it now, it’s Starmer’s way or the highway

Let’s remind ourselves what the mood was like in the previous General Election year to the current one

Tulfo 2028 vs Sara 2028

The Tulfo brothers being groomed for bigger things in 2028 by the US embassy & MVP. Is this organic? Mr Holmes & Ranjit are at the forefront of promoting the Tulfos to eclipse Sara Duterte. Will the best-laid schemes of mice & men & manny succeed?

Interesting what’s labeled a “terrorist attack” and what’s labeled a “rampage.”

'Three survivors of Abu Ghraib will finally get their day in U.S. court against the military contractor they hold responsible for their mistreatment....the first time that Abu Ghraib survivors are able to bring their claims of torture to a U.S. jury.' apnews.com/article/abu-gh…

🚨Breaking: Tonight, #Gaza is a living hell, as Israeli airstrikes hit civilian homes.

With this, Marina completes six months without discussing Gaza, the biggest issue in politics and the one that has caused the most grief to Keir Starmer.

How odd, for a columnist who has never previously been reluctant to bring up the Middle East or embarrass Labour leaders.

Thoughts and prayers to BBC News #LateNightLycett

13 people were killed in Israel’s attack on an Iranian consulate in Damascus.

You get headlines like this because, the truth is, Muslim life is viewed as less valuable.

Arabs and Iranians have been used to it for a very long time.

Several journalists including a CNN stringer have been injured after Israeli forces surrounded & attacked Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, leaving one in critical condition. Per TRT bureau chief in Jerusalem, Israeli tanks launched a “targeted attack” on several journos.

I know he explicitly doesn't want this to be spun into Rowling beef but this does feel like yet another opportunity in British public life to align yourself with someone offering a message of kindness and acceptance, or someone who spends every day churning out obsessional bile

If there is one thing that the interview shows it is that Starmer long ago stopped worrying about logic, internal coherence or even consequentiality. The press might be in a mood to crucify Rayner, pour encourager les autres, but he will get a free ride to Number 10.

A Jewish activist was arrested in Berlin for holding a “Jews against Genocide” banner outside the Palästina Kongress

The deterrence used to be not confirming or denying whether it would be used, but now journalists insist on making leaders declare 'I WILL KILL EVERYONE!' with their chest

In 2016, we asked Ian Jack to write about Trident for The Guardian Long Read, and he produced this masterpiece —which makes very clear, over 10000 words, that the purpose of “our nuclear deterrent” has little to do with keeping us safe.
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