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Social media screenshot: Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe. Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza. Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction. He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands. That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are: - punishing a European citizen - for doing his job in Europe - applying laws Europe officially supports - at an institution based in Europe - that Europe helped create and fund and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil. Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic [further text missing]

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Actually thought the Lily Allen album was significantly better than the Dave one.

Shows the importance of having something to say.

The exodus to the Greens is terminal. Starmer explicitly told those who didn’t like it to leave. He’s ruined the party for a generation.

I played laser quest with Tim Westwood.

I know the brief with Where the Hell is My Husband? was to create an Amy/Beyonce style anthem, but Raye totally nailed it.

Shame the Taylorgeddon is going to sweep it from the top end of the charts.

Always

It’s not very good.

My use of TikTok is just to post lovely comments under videos I love.

Every time I open it I have two dozen messages of people saying “ahh thank you”. Makes me so happy.

does no-one stop to think how insane it is to suggest it’s dishonourable to the memory of two murder victims to protest the blockade of relief for a man-made famine

I presume one song will repackaged with a feature and a big video. I don’t think the album is full of current sounding hits tho.

Max Martin’s at 29 Billboard number 1s for songwriting. McCartney is at 32. There’s maybe (maybe) 3 on this album. They’re not obvious though.

This pic of Jasmine Paolini is going viral Honestly, I would have just gone with "Baolini".

jaz is kinda going viral in china and i tried to explain why

forty-deuce.ghost.io/this-pic-of-...

Me: I want to walk somewhere.

Google Maps: I’ll calculate an ETA that will have slack for you to grab a coffee, browse local bookshops and snap some photos.

Me: I want to drive somewhere.

Google Maps: here’s the ETA if you break the speed limit and jump lights all the way. Hurry up you loser.

Just went to Lime bike rank where 5 bikes have got flat tyres. It feels like someone has deliberately done it too.

Nigel Farage's immigration plans would change London for good Plus: Transport for London's cycle bus that costs £40 a passenger, a curious oligarch dream mansion in north London, and the Sadiq Khan Trump fightback.

Great reporting. @londoncentric.media reports that TfL is paying £40 per passenger to transport cyclists under the Thames.

www.londoncentric.media/i/174323663/...

By the end of the series of The Paper it’s already showing signs of being brilliant. Glad they’ve recommissioned it.

What a player Alcaraz is.

Important he won here if he was to keep the balance of the rivalry. Wonderful era for the sport.

The first Bieber record was better, wasn't it?

Where’s this Bieber record?

The Chappell song is Keane meets Roxette. Sorry I’ve only just commented.

No one needs the Trump Letter to drop more than the Coldplay Two.

Brutal end to the Great Meme shortage that the Coldplay Two have had to pay.

Who knows what the production credits on this Bieber album are but it’s way better than anyone could have hoped.

Go to our concentration camps or we will kill you. Ah yes the only democracy in the Middle East.

Outstanding by Anisimova - delighted for her. What a brilliant match.

If these M&S hackers aren’t put to work hacking Russia then the penal system is wasting a brilliant resource.

VOODOO

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza

People should be free to do their jobs. Especially doctors in a warzone.

Please ensure you watch Doctors Under Attack. It documents how medical staff have been routined targeted by Isr4el's occupying forces.

www.channel4.com/programmes/g...

Carlos Alcaraz should be the global spokesman for the ADHD movement.