Really looking forward to this conversation with the amazing Max Porter, author of the beautiful Grief is the Thing with Feathers & Lanny. If you’re nearby, do join us as we talk about how the Right has hijacked Englishness & how we get it back: bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/anoth…

Israel declares victory over a hospital.

How do we continue to live in a world where the unthinkable (often dismissed as conspiracy theory) is repeatedly proven true?

A collective of Palestinians from Gaza and migrant justice advocates in the UK are working for a family visa scheme that builds on the Ukraine Family Scheme model. They need to get 100,000 signatures on this petition to trigger a debate in the UK Parliament. Sign here:…

The World Food Programme says that 1.1 million people in Gaza are now facing catastrophic hunger, stressing that the famine is manufactured by the inability of aid organizations to enter the region under Israel's military blockade.

We have a very important meeting next Friday. It would be great if we could take a petition with 1,000 signatures to that meeting.
We need around 125 more. Can you help?
change.org/p/no-child-in-…

'An act of humanity and grace.' Daily Telegraph
'A stunning feat . . . a perfect book.' Irish Times
'Virtuoso.' Guardian

Shy, the Sunday Times number one bestselling new book from Max Porter is out now in a stunning new paperback edition!

This is what Palestinian novelist Susan Abulhawa had to say about Gaza (she just left):

'This is the fastest decline in a population's nutrition status ever recorded. That means children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen.'

Melanie Ward speaks with Isa Soares about the catastrophic levels of hunger that Israel's blockade is causing in Gaza

I spoke to residents of Zamzam camp in North Darfur, where MSF International says a child is dying of hunger or disease every two hours. The main reason: aid groups don't have enough cash to help. It's a disaster completely overlooked by the international community.
theguardian.com/global-develop…

They were children. Children. Children. Children. Children. Children. Children. Children. Children. The word is children.

600,000 children & their families, famished & traumatized, displaced multiple times by 4 months of military assault in the Gaza open-air prison, are now ammassed in Rafah. The risk of a massacre of unparalleled scale looms on the horizon.
#CEASEFIRE_NOW

unicef.org/press-releases…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Max Porter's SHY to be adapted for Netflix, with the great Cillian Murphy starring in it and producing! Bit of a point of view shift--welcome, Steve, get your due! Graywolf Press Faber Books Lisa Baker Max Porter

Cillian Murphy will star in ‘STEVE’ for Netflix.

The film follows a headteacher of a last-chance reform school who struggles to keep his students in line, while also grappling with his spiraling mental health.

(Source: Deadline)

#BooksforGaza are fundraising to help critically injured children. To buy a signed copy from an acclaimed author visit 32auctions.com/booksforgaza. Limited quantities, Feb 8-12. Set up by Sonia Faleiro fatima bhutto and @juliachurchill. Books are £35, but pay more if you can spare more.

This gentleman having none of it -

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Reports are the US will imminently house nuclear weapons at its base in Suffolk.

With virtually no political or parliamentary discussion or scrutiny.

Here’s what ⁦CND⁩ has said about this.

The UK acting as Airstrip One is serious. cnduk.org/resources/raf-…

Enough is enough! There are no excuses left. Following the ICJ ruling, the government must immediately halt all arms exports to Israel.

Read full press release here - caat.org.uk/news/media-rel…

#StopArmingIsrael #ICJGazaGenocide #FreePalestine

I have rarely felt more ashamed of my country, both government and opposition, not just for tolerating but for actively enabling this daily mass-murder of terrified, trapped, unarmed civilians, shot down in cold blood because our politicians are either massively ignorant or…