Today is the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.

It was adopted as the anthem of the European Union and over the decades has been used repeatedly as the anthem of freedom and progress in Europe.

Last week it was blasted out in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Almost six million people have looked at the GOP threatening letter we published yesterday - have you?

British Electoral Politics Given that this was a blind list election I don’t have a big problem with it.

FYI:
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There you have it. Excellent piece from a talented journalist who gets his facts straight.

Rachel Reeves, 'The Conservatives are gaslighting the British public'

She's 💯 right in so many ways, they absolutely are.

Sadly, Labour's silence over the impact of Brexit on the UK is also shameful gaslighting too.

Sir Mike Jansen #FBPPR #FBPE #RejoinEU #PropRep If you want to rejoin the EU (or just to rejoin the single market) and want PR for future elections, as voted by Labour conference, you have to accept that voting Labour this time is not going to deliver progress.

🚨🚨'Tories trying to win votes in Thursday’s poll tried to avoid any mention of the EU. Unfortunately, silence does not change the facts: the party’s defeat owes much to the unravelling of the Brexit con.' Patience Wheatcroft on #brexit & the Tories' downfall.
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Making Brexit work is an oxymoron. Those who campaign for narrow interests will be mindful Labour will form the next govt and so, they will get in line, keep schtum and forget they have been, up to this point, campaigning against that very slogan.

Liz Webster Andrew from Derby The Labour Party Labour has been rowing back on ‘non-divergence’ since Starmer mentioned it after his meeting with 🇳🇴’s Jonas Gahr Støre last September.
In any case, that is just half-way to single market - the restrictions without the crucial benefits of SM membership.

Tremendous effort has been made to produce an exchange deal that’ll release hostages & realize a ceasefire. Hamas has put out an offer. If Netanyahu genuinely wants a deal, he will negotiate the offer in earnest. Instead, he is jeopardizing the deal by bombing Rafah.

Blindingly clear Netanyahu doesn't want this war to end yet most attention is directed at anything other than this central fact.

Does anyone believe any more hthere is any significant moral distinction between Israeli and Hamas govt/leadership?

(Not rhetorical. Obviously trolls and genocidal fascists on both sides do. But anyone who identifies as liberal/centrist/'progressive'?)

Hamas has accepted the Egyptian-Qatari ceasefire proposal.

The ball is now in Netanyahu's court.

Will he choose to bring home the Israeli hostages, or will he choose to invade Rafah?

Well look, here is the main reason you will continue to lose support. The ending of the genocide should not be conditional upon the release of hostages. Find another way.

I know it's hard being pulled in all directions. Find your courage.

israel drops leaflets over rafah

orders ~100,000 palestinians to evacuate to makeshift tent camp ahead of assault

#GeneralElectionN0W

Exactly, I’ve been saying this for years: the housing crisis in Europe is fuelling the far right. A necessary part of stemming the spread of neo-fascism is reconstructing the housing system along universalist lines that privilege occupancy over ownership theguardian.com/news/article/2…

This was good, about the London Mayor elections. onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-less…