Thatcher Death Day again. My tribute:

'An advocate of inequality, a friend to dictators and arms dealers, a champion of power and privilege and a scourge of the poor and vulnerable. A true blue class warrior.' opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…

U.S. Warns A Gaza Ceasefire Would Only Benefit Humanity bit.ly/49vcQNG

Facts don’t care about your feelings.

Come on. Undoubtedly the world's leading atheist is Ricky Gervais.

He's a Palestinian Christian who grew up in Gaza.

Now he's watching his homeland face genocide.

It was a huge honour to speak to the incredible Khalil Sayegh 👇

youtube.com/watch?v=zSfq9z…

Don't think there's anything strange about this really. Dawkins is a recognisably southern English type. Intellectually condescending & sometimes even beligerant. Yet parochial, sentimental & often just silly.

Keir Starmer and Labour are fully complicit in the Gaza genocide.

We’ve had 6 months of multifaceted material support from UK government for Israel’s slaughter—and during whole time we’ve had no official opposition.

Some opposition may have stopped it.

1) You backed Israel's onslaught, backing a ceasefire long after it was clear that Israel had committed multiple egregious violations of international law

2) Are you going to demand the UK ends all arms sales, given that's what this legal advice legally demands?

This is why opponents of Israel's genocide will never give up.

If you speak out, you'll be abused, threatened, harassed, your career menaced.

But you're not being slaughtered like Palestinians.

Moral clarity offers strength. If you're sure about an evil, you can't be silenced

House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee chair, and Conservative MP, Alicia Kearns:

'The Foreign Office has received official legal advice that Israel has broken international humanitarian law but the government has not announced it'

theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

There are legitimate reasons to support Israel’s actions in Gaza, including being a depraved monster and a psychopath

This is why class as trajectory, where the present is more important than the past, is crucial to retain. Among Labour MPs there’s been an ‘almost complete disappearance of those with adult experience of working-class life’. We can’t afford ‘Dad was a tool maker’ sentimentality!

New study of the social origins of the UK political elite just dropped. link.springer.com/article/10.105…

I came of age politically around the time of the Iraq invasion, so I've never believed Western humanitarian cant. But it shocks even me to see the US/UK/EU giving Israel licence to starve Palestinian babies so brazenly, in full view of the wider world twitter.com/RamAbdu/status…

Huge if true imf.org/en/Publication…

Read about the scale of the proposed redundancies published by the Guardian: ‘Cultural and social vandalism’: job cut plans at Goldsmiths attacked
theguardian.com/education/2024…

Yanis Varoufakis’s new film series explains how elites used the financial crisis to terrorize Europe’s populations into submission. In an interview, he explains why the anti-austerity movement failed and why the center is converging with the far right. jacobin.com/2024/03/greece…

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