Spoke on importance of considering all options to turbo-charge climate finance at the COP29 AZ Dialogue, alongside 🇧🇧PM ⁦Mia Amor Mottley⁩, 🇦🇿 COP29 Pres Designate Babayev, Simon Stiell⁩, 🇧🇷 Climate Secretary Ana Toni, & 🇦🇪 Ambassador Al Suwaidi

⁦The Rockefeller Foundation⁩

Stories from Black, Asian and Arab communities you shouldn’t have missed this week 🧵

This is a gross erasure of how the UK built its wealth. The C of E, Guardian and Lloyds are prominent examples that openly show how our church, media and financial systems are rooted in colonialism and slavery

This is not a matter of conjecture, but fact
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

The City of London Corporation's City Plan 2040 consultation, which launched on Thursday, will be pivotal in moving London forward.

Read an overview of our plan written by Policy Chairman Chris Hayward in The Standard here: bit.ly/4aCFBt9

#DestinationCity

'Spain will recognize the State of Palestine because the people of Palestine cannot be condemned to be a people of refugees.'

'Spain will recognize a Palestinian State because they have a right to a future with hope'

'Our veto against Palestinian statehood does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood'

When you go full Orwellian doublespeak.

BREAKING: US VETOES UNSC res. for #Palestine membership at UN. 12 for, 2 abstentions (UK, Swiss), US against al-monitor.com/originals/2024…

The most cold-bloodedly immoral decision yet by the West- a further betrayal of the Palestinians, a people whose lives seem increasingly expendable to all players in this murderous diplomatic swamp

'Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel's far-right national security minister [whom Netanyahu depends on to stay in power and avoid prison on corruption charges], has called for the execution of Palestinian prisoners to ease overcrowding in the country's jails.'
middleeasteye.net/news/israel-it…

Imagine saying this out loud and not even contemplating what others hear. She’s completely obvious to the irony and what her words actually mean.

Astonishing.

Read our letter to David Cameron printed on a full page of The Jewish Chronicle, signed by over 1500 people

We're making it clear that many mainstream Jews & Israelis in the UK want the UK gvt to take action not just to end the war, but the conflict

Sign here: rb.gy/i6gnbm

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New Book Announcement 👊🏽
“The Bridge Street Press has won a four-way auction for Sayeeda Warsi’s Muslims Don’t Matter, a 'powerful polemic' on Islamophobia”
thebookseller.com/rights/the-bri…

BREAKING: MAJOR FLOODS IN OMAN - 18 DEAD

Reason?

Brilliant news

Can't keep the city free from graffiti? Well at best keep it free from our Heritage assets and their surrounding area. The painting out strategy is failing; time to catch the vandals. Brighton & Hove City Council
Brighton & Hove recycling and refuse
#Brighton

JUST IN: Dubai International Airport forced to divert flights after torrential downpour causes the runway to look like an ocean.

Citizens are being told to stay inside as thunder, lighting, hail and heavy rain slams the region.

Dubai saw more rainfall in one day than they…

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Dubai underwater, Influencers are stranded in their Rolls Royces in flooded roads as skies turn black in apocalyptic scenes as storm hits region.

More than 4.7ins (120mm) of rain has already fallen today - the typical yearly average in the city - with more…

Research shows terms like 'massacre' and 'slaughter' are only ever used by the New York Times to describe the killing of Israelis, never for the killing of Palestinians.

Now the Intercept has found the NYT memo that specifically bars its journalists, and even interviewees, from…

The UK strongly condemns the recent appalling violence and attacks in the Occupied West Bank.

Israeli authorities must restore calm, investigate all deaths and hold perpetrators of violence to account.

FCDO statement 🔽

gov.uk/government/new…