I prefer our tradition up in Scotland of haggis and tatties and maybe a bit of reeling on our national saint day but to each their own I guess

I wish Huw Edwards and his family all the best for the future.

Full of admiration and respect that a boy from South Wales soared so high, conquering a still stuffy Oxbridge BBC to be the nation's voice at key moments, and saddened how it ended.

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The festival of freedom is less complete this year, with 129 of our brothers and sisters in captivity. Still - our traditions and our collective memories are what kept the Jewish people alive even in the darkest times. Happy Passover. Am Yisrael Chai.

confused as to why this man isn’t on every morning news segment going

China gets a lot of flak for expelling/denying/harassing journalists. Less covered - how India does the same.

After Novaya reports that Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov is terminally ill, his team releases this video showing him looking as lively as the title character in Weekend at Bernie’s. The camera movement reminds me of Spaceghost trying to breathe life into Ole Kentucky Shark.

This by Haggai Matar - Haggai Matar - is possibly the best piece of writing I've read since that cursed Saturday. So true, so painful, and as always with Haggai, leaving open a tiny sliver of hope. Please read and share. 972mag.com/lament-israeli…

Smart people should always take heed of Gershon’s observations as he has incredible access but also longstanding experience in Israeli Palestinian negotiations. If his thoughts below prove to be accurate it is really very worrying for the families of hostages who remain in Gaza:

“Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it.

Their home was hit by an Israeli airstrike shortly before midnight Saturday. Until that moment, the family was like so many other Palestinians trying to shelter from the war in Gaza's southernmost city of

My article for The Telegraph, answering Danny Cohen’s criticisms of the BBC’s coverage of the war in Gaza. It’s already attracting some wonderfully crackpot and angry responses from readers, I see. Par for the course. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

release the Catholic cut

Liz Truss blames Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey for her downfall (and a few other things besides).
Raising a question: why didn't she summon him to Downing St & stop him?
I asked the former PM in our interview. Her answer is... striking

Branch manager and assistent to the branch manager..

More insights into romance scam cyber slavery here from my colleagues. “According to Ravi, he and the others were forced to work up to 22 hours a day - getting only one day off each month - and told to target wealthy men, particularly in Western countries bbc.com/news/articles/…

This is a small (but meaningful) step toward applying a law, the so-called 'Leahy law', that America enforces far too rarely with its partners in the Middle East. For now it's just one battalion, but it sets a precedent—another Rubicon crossed in American politics.

There is years of accumulated evidence that this particular unit behaves like a far-right militia in army uniform, dominated by extreme settlers (some of them with criminal records) who commit regular crimes against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. axios.com/2024/04/20/us-…

If I sprinted flat out for four minutes straight I would be dead

Good human alert:

Shoebill storks will bow to communicate with other shoebills they have a friendly relationship with.

This is Sushi, the shoebill stork who resides at the Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Center.

[📹 Melissa Askew]

Helping with gardening.. 😅