"Our govt is cynically exploiting our collective trauma to violently advance its project of cementing Israel control over the entire land... it is waging war on the entire Palestinian people, committing war crimes almost daily" B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم's Yuli Novak to the UN security council

Home Secretarys husband to the deputy PM: It was clear from the look on your face you didn't want to scrap the universal winter fuel allowance

Last night an Israeli helicopter attacked people sheltering in tents in the grounds of Al Aqsa hospital, murdering 4 people.

This morning Jonathan Ashworth was on the telly. I guess Beth Rigby was right.

Some presenters and reporters on BBC News accurately describe the West Bank as occupied whilst others don't. Wheres the consistency?

Skys Middle East Correspondent continues to refuse to describe the West Bank as occupied.

Labour’s partial ban on arms sales to Israel still means British-made weapons are committing atrocities in Gaza — nothing short of a full arms embargo is acceptable. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/09/starme…

Early this morning, Mohammad Zubeidi, son of Zakaria Zubeidi Co-Founder of The Freedom Theatre, was murdered by Israel Mohammad, often known as Hamoudi, was 21 years old and the first of Zakaria’s three children 🧵

He's over it, honest.

✊ Thank you for your solidarity Maryam Eslamdoust. 🇵🇸 Join Maryam at Saturday's demo. #WeWillMarch

The One O'Clock news presenter describes it as the occupied West Bank, but the BBCs Diplomatic Correspondent in Jerusalem (which part?) doesn't Either he doesn't know the West Bank is occupied (seems unlikely), or for whatever reason he's deliberately not describing it as such.

Skys military analyst Sean Bell: "The one thing the military is very good at is doing professional investigations" Bell retired from the RAF as an Air Vice-Marshal so he'd know all about e.g the investigation into the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash in 1994. He knows he's lying.

BBCs Paris correspondent: "The left say they won the election, and they did, as an alliance, get the biggest number of seats in parliament" So the left don't "say they won the election", they did win the election.

In January Cameron was directly asked if he'd received any advice, at any point, from any govt lawyer, that Israel is in breach of international humanitarian law. He said he couldn't remember.

Thomas Evans ♿ 🇬🇧 @Renewal2030 A wealth tax targeted at the super rich could raise £bns But what did the Tories do during their 14yrs? They took £56/mth from the benefits of someone with spina bifida, putting her through years of "sheer hell" (her words) whilst voting against the rich paying a bit more tax

Overnight Israel bombed people sheltering in tents in Deir al Balah. One woman recounts what happened.

"80% of everyone I treated was under the age of 16... all of the injuries were explosive related & burns... I saw a lot of lower limb trauma, children losing legs, arms... a lot of facial injuries" British Plastic surgeon Victoria Rose has just returned from working in Gaza

Private finance *much* more costly than public investment. Private finance will expect a return of 3-5% >cost of public investment (gap even more if state used taxes/ Bank of England). Households will pay dearly to fund those high returns. I wish Government was open about this.

Melenchon is calling for a mass turnout in Paris, Saturday to protest Macron appointing Barnier - a right wing neo-liberal - as PM. Le Pen is backing the 'liberal' president in choosing a PM from a party that came fourth rather than the left wing popular front, which came first.