They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
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They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
“Two strikes on the same target are often characterised as “double-tap” strikes, particularly if there is a brief pause between them and medics and other civilians arriving at the scene are killed in the follow-up attack.”
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Remarkable how England produces so many Blimpish empty-heads like Oakeshott. Each of them a screaming indictment of "public schools", surely.
You can book your ticket here, if you want to attend.
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The President of Ireland has sent her support for our Strength in Solidarity Climate event in the Shankill Women's Centre next Thursday 😎
All our elected representatives have been invited to hear from the community growers and 3rd sector organisations across the city. We'll see who turns up.
If you drew a venn diagram of British commentators urging the UK to go to war; those who don’t want to pay for it through taxation; and those who wouldn’t sacrifice themselves or a loved one in the conflagration, I bet it would be a circle.
The aerial photograph of graves being dug for the victims of Israel's strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, is another of those mournful and damning images that make you think, "Surely, that's enough." But without accountability, the next atrocity is already in the making.
Talked to someone today who's been hired to do a project on the history of social housing in NI. In their defence, they're not from here and have a good body of work elsewhere but they had no idea of the political history of housing policy here. I mean, no clue. Someone decided to hire that person.
Calling Dr Freud! There's a lot to unpack in that post, Neil.
I sometimes wonder whether Starmer is just some sort of fall guy, out there taking the bad look of his international peers, and UK predecessors.
Weird thing about recent British Prime Ministers is that the behaviour of the incumbent makes the previous one seem preferable.
Has a deeply unpopular British Prime Minister just taken the UK into a war on coat-tails of fascist USA administration and its genocidal ally Israel?
But that's not a bad place to start, especially when Labour, Reform and the Tories analysis is so flawed. In Labour's case, I don't really know what its analysis is. Labour doesn't have diagnosis of the evident problems in the UK, and therefore struggles to offer political prescriptions.
It seems that there was cheating in the G&D by-election. What else can account for the voters rejecting the immensely likeable Matt Goodwin and his handler Nigel Farage, a man of exceptional wit and charm?
I love the smell of stale fags and ale, and Old Spice in the morning.
I hope Labour continue their mission to split the far right vote all the way up to the next general election
Might make that my Bluesky handle @NotThatStephenBaker.bsky.social
Useless, hopeless analysis. "To stop Reform, Labour needs to please and appease all those it has disappointed."
It is too late for Labour.
Labour is politically and intellectually rudderless.
It has burnt its bridges with the 'disappointed'.
The 'disappointed' are keenly looking elsewhere.
In the north of Ireland we have some experience of paramilitary terror. If you're in England and tempted to vote Reform, bear in mind that ICE-style gangs will be hard to stand down. They will leave a bitter legacy. You live with it forever.
Can you imagine the people who will be recruited in to an ICE-style agency in the UK?
I can imagine them. I know who’ll relish terrorising people in the streets, in their workplaces and their homes. I’ve known them all my life. And, probably, so have you.
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A anthropomorphic ice cream with hands, legs and little red boots eating a smaller ice cream. He's outside an ice cream shop.
Thinking about this ice cream shop which dared to ask "what if we crossed Mr Whippy with Goya's 'Saturn Devouring His Son'."
“Lawyers acting for student claimants said a further 30,000 from different universities had signed up to the Student Group Claim this week, taking the total to almost 200,000.”
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I was at a UCAS fair a few years ago. Browsing the variety publicity and advertising available that day, I was struck by how many universities sold themselves on the promise of all sorts of exciting campus experiences and career opportunities, but how few of them mentioned education.
However, what HE colleagues think a university is for; and the "product" that senior managers sell to students; and what students expect from universities, is not commensurate.
I understand why students are seeking compensation for their experience during COVID; sold a prospectus of university and campus life that wasn’t fulfilled. I understand why colleagues are upset by this, having worked hard and creatively to deliver an education in extraordinary circumstances.
To be honest, I'm not convinced that universities were ever merely finishing schools for the rich and they've never delivered on the promise of "industry ready graduates", were that even desirable. However, the discourse is symptomatic of a failing state that doesn't know what HE is for.
Sometimes it feels like UK universities have only two imaginable functions. One is to go back to being finishing schools for the rich. The second is to fulfil a promise to produce"industry ready graduates", externalising the costs of training for employers.
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No joy to be had reading Martin Wolff in the FT.
"... the UK confronts insoluble long-term challenges: it has inescapable obligations that impose painful trade-offs. Given its ageing population and a slow-growing economy, all this can only get harder... ook at the vexed debate over student loans"
Also, not sure the comparison of higher education to a luxury holiday really works.