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Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon: HRW Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Help: which is the Space 1999 s2 episode in which a female character grows a second brain?? I need to know this for Work. @nicksetchfield.bsky.social @stevenobrien.bsky.social

How BAFTA’s N-word controversy has led to a campaign of bullying | The News Agents John Davidson’s N-word outburst at the BAFTAs left many in shock, but has an ugly debate led to bullying, when there should have been understanding and compassion?

"It shows the vapid insincerity and shallowness of Hollywood. They will stand and cheer a film about Tourette's, but don't want to be around a bloke who has it."

Has debate about John Davidson's N-word use at the BAFTA turned into a bullying campaign?

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/how-...

‘Theoil embargo on Cuba is almost certainly illegal and unquestionably immoral.The international community needs to rummage down the back of the diplomatic sofa, find its mislaid sense of justice, and act before the crisis unfolding here slides from slow-motion emergency into full-blown catastrophe’

Shutting down 20% of global LNG production is, pretty obviously, a big problem.
Again though: the question is, for how long?

A sinkhole suddenly opened at an Omaha, Nebraska intersection, swallowing two cars stopped at a red light.

Both drivers escaped unharmed, but the street may remain closed for days over expansion concerns.

Absolutely this. Some people appear to believe Tourette’s is akin to being drunkenly outspoken & that the person is “just saying what they really think”. It is nothing remotely like that.

This is alarming 👇🏻

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

Ignore the professional gloomsters and doomsters.
- Borrowing ⬇️ (record surplus last month)
- Inflation (and interest rates) ⬇️
- UK fastest growing European G7 economy
- Retail sales up 4.5% over the year
There’s lots more to do but Britain’s economy is on the mend.

Incredible aerosol reaching Val Veny bottom at 3 pm today! ❄️

The avalanche is coming from the slope below Noire de Peuterey (3773 m) and what you see here is the blast of the avalanche (=no danger) reaching the Val Veny (La Zerotta lift at 1520 m) near Courmayeur! 💨

📽️ Via Meteo Valle d'Aosta

Israel to restart land registration in West Bank. What that means The land registration process will apply to Area C of the occupied West Bank, which is under complete Israeli control.

The land registration process will apply to Area C of the occupied West Bank, which is under complete Israeli control.

BBC warns Russia is taking over World Service radio frequencies Russian propaganda is filling the void where the BBC has closed World Service radio services due to cuts

BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄

Unbelievably this wasn’t even raised on SkyNews just now during the interview with Reform's head of policy Zia Yusuf.

If UK news shows won’t call this boll**** out let’s do it ourselves

Palantir: too bad to be untrue.
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Trump Pardon Buries FBI's Secret Work for Putin's Oligarchs The former FBI agent was pardoned after his co-defendant’s daughter donated $3.5 million to Donald Trump

🔴Trump Pardon Buries FBI’s Secret Work for Putin’s Oligarchs

The former FBI agent's pardon came after his co-defendant’s daughter donated $3.5 million to Donald Trump

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/11/t...

The staircase safety rule costing the UK 90,000 new homes The need for a second staircase, brought in by the Conservatives after the Grenfell Tower disaster, have frustrated housebuilders, who claim it is unnecessary

Second staircases in buildings under 30m height will save one life every 6,153 years, but this requirement is reducing housebuilding, so 90,000 fewer homes built over 5 years.

Meanwhile 74 children have died from poor conditions temporary accommodation in 5 years.

www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Our grandchildren are going to ask what we did to stop this.

Identifying the delays and barriers experienced in the planning applications process Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

Planning fans. The LPDF and Lichfields are seeking views on where development management delays are most acute and where there is the most scope to remove "grit" from the system. Please do contribute to this survey.

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Yikes!

From blackouts to food shortages: How US blockade is crippling life in Cuba

From blackouts to food shortages: How US blockade is crippling life in Cuba https://aje.news/k20j1l

Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client

"The 'whole episode showed some real contempt for the public interest. Mandelson was happy to use Starmer’s visit to advance his private interests. And to do so in plain sight — like he thought himself above accountability": me in the Financial Times.

Remind me never to tell the FT to f#%* off

Petition: Act to ensure Bills backed by MPs & public can complete all stages in Parliament We want the Government to do everything in its power to ensure that when bills are supported by MPs & the public, they have the time to complete all their stages in Parliament. We believe this is impo...

A petition has been started by assisted dying campaigner Sophie Blake - who has incurable secondary breast cancer - to stop the Lords from frustrating bills approved by MPs.

Peers are currently debating the assisted dying bill at a snail’s pace.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Fellow giving a presentation.

CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027

The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives'

⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships

Videos from Gaza show huge explosions as Israeli air attacks hit a building in Gaza City and tents in al-Mawasi.

Gaza’s Government Media Office says more than 500 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since a US-brokered ceasefire came into effect on October 10.

British response to the film about Melania Trump: If they were screening it for free at the bottom of my garden I'd shut the curtains.

Housing Quick Wins: Call for Evidence | Fabian Society Fabian Society

Planning Fans. The Fabian Housing Centre is undertaking research "to identify quick or no cost wins that could increase housebuilding in England, improve the housing market, and deliver better quality new build homes faster."

Get involved...

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Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show The 499 homicide cases in the year to September were the lowest in England and Wales since 1977.

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape.
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Trump has launched an FBI probe into the 2020 election and endorsed a crazy conspiracy theory involving Obama, China and the CIA - and somehow it’s nowhere on the BBC