My latest column on making sense of disease & death in Gaza theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'The rapid rise in sexual violence is, as the all-party parliamentary group on commercial sexual exploitation warned last year, inextricably tied to the huge consumption of online pornography.' morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rebecc…

Stop treating social housing tenants like children, ombudsman tells landlords | Social housing | The Guardian theguardian.com/society/articl…

500 Days of War and Disaster - War in #Sudan has raged since 15 April 2023. This conflict, the coup of Oct 2021 and other acts of brutal repression have been cruelly inflicted on the people of Sudan to defeat the popular Sudanese Revolution - Fathi El-Fadl x.com/LiberationOrgU…

I received an email from The Green Party on Wed the 4th of September telling me that a ‘temporary no-fault suspension’ had been enacted against me And this meant that I would not be able to attend #GPC24 or represent the party on social media until the matter is resolved 1/x

I believe that we can only progress as a society or a political party when we talk to each other - with mutual kindness, compassion and respect. Excluding people and/or gagging them when we don’t like their views is dangerous, and can quickly descend into authoritarianism 6/x

The entire hustings recording is here: youtu.be/hidDne1HZrI?si… Its been available for anyone to watch, in the public domain, for more than 2 months; and until now, I’ve received nothing but praise, thanks and encouragement for what I said that day 7/x

One more case of killing civilians holding white flags, in December in North Gaza. It will take many years to uncover all the horrors of Israel's barbarism and genocide. nytimes.com/video/world/mi…

URGENT UPDATE Jewish Bloc meet 11.45-12.15 Sat 7.9.24 Charles II St (Regent Street St James end) SW1Y 4NS. Crosses Regent Street St James. On the side of Charles ll St leading to St James Square. Join us to march to Israeli Embassy #StopArmingIsrael #EndTheGenocide #CeasefireNow

🚨 TOMORROW - National March for Palestine ⏰️ Saturday 7 September, 12 noon 📍Regent Street, St James, London near Pall Mall to the Israeli Embassy Join us tomorrow as we march for Palestine in London. We demand our government #StopArmingIsrael and push for a #CeasefireNOW.

🚨TOMORROW🚨 Join us as we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Gaza, and in condemnation of the Israeli genocide. We will march to the Israeli embassy and demand a stop to the worst genocide in modern history.

🇵🇸 Trade Union Bloc on Tomorrow's National March for #Palestine 🇵🇸 🫂 Meet @ 12 Noon - 14 Waterloo Place, SW1Y (Near Pall Mall) 🚩 Bring your union banner!

What could possibly be underhand about suspending a democratically selected target constituency candidate on confected allegations? Ah, she was gender critical. Repeat slowly for those in cheap seats: Green Party was found guilty of unlawful discrimination under Equality Act.

Israeli occupation forces just shot dead 13-year-old girl Bana Amjad Bakr from Qaryout village in Nablus, West Bank.

Just found out that the great Nell McCafferty is no longer with us. "Born in Derry in 1944, Nell McCafferty was a renowned writer, as well as a fierce advocate for the most marginalised groups in Ireland. She was a founding member of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement and

What other murderers does the WH expect to put their hands up and say "Right! It's a fair cop, gov! Take us away.", I wonder?!?🤦🏿‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️ "The White House said in a statement it was “deeply disturbed” by the killing and was seeking an Israeli investigation." theguardian.com/world/article/…

"There are lessons here for the left everywhere. The liberal centre is no bulwark against the far right. Macron, with his authoritarianism and Islamophobia, has prepared the ground for a Le Pen government for years; now he brings one closer in order to salvage neoliberal attacks

"The far right’s anti-Establishment rhetoric is for show. It is acting to support the French ruling class’s war on working-class living standards, and the left now has an opportunity to highlight that." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/editor…

"In Britain, a Chancellor whose fiscal rules dictate spending cuts risks continuing the ruinous economic course of the Tories; and a labour movement that acquiesces in that risks allowing the fascist thugs who rioted across Britain in August to keep preying on communities’

"But what's the point of voting then if the president can just dismiss the results and appoint whoever he wants? Exactly the question many French people are asking themselves right now... "