Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy.
"Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under £500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:
You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.
Conservative economic policy in the 1980s meant that Britain’s oil windfall was spent on enriching one sector of society and thereby deepening division and inequality, so that by the time the money ran out there was nothing to show for it, least of all a functional rail system. Contrast Norway.
There's enough well documented atrocities happening right now. I don't see why people have to invent ones.
Nice idea but Trump doesn’t think. He can’t. It’s about the enablers, for whom Trump is perfect cover
Been writing. Took a break from everything else. Might come back now. Book out November 12th. Details soon
I wrote this about the different conversations happening in the Gulf about the ongoing war.
“Arbeit Macht Frei” sign at Auschwitz
I can’t take my kids to where current genocides are being enacted, so I took them here instead
Dear mushy-headed liberal people
1- Trump is too stupid to know anything. Miller and the enablers aren’t, but they don’t care about infinite, they care about the next 5 years
2- Putin’s had 30 years and isn’t ashes or dust
3- That arc of the moral universe shit makes you feel good, right?
4- Act
Well, Prime Minister, it’s your Chamberlain moment. Is this a country far away of which we know little, like you judged Palestine to be?
Just a few more facts needed. Any minute now we’ll have enough facts.
⬇️⬇️⬇️ A dignified, mature, thoughtful statement. Unlike those of the shadow ministers and others.
Aristocratic woman with her daughter and son, seated on the train departing for Jaffa. Imperial War Museum Collections https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205623369
Distinguished Ethiopians leaving Jerusalem
The Family of Ras Kassa
Photograph by Sgt Gladstone, 6th October 1942
IWM Archive
I’ll tell you one way to win at Whamageddon - make sure you’re writing a book with a deadline in January because all you can think about is your book and I don’t think I’ve been to a shop or listened to music radio or been within half a mile of public places with piped music since at least Halloween
Very welcome. “Biological [A] who identifies as [B]” is a stomach-churning abomination that should never have been normalised by the BBC and belongs in the same dustbin of history as all those slurs that would get this post deleted if I were to type them
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
An old travel poster for Palestine.
Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.
An honour to be invited to share a stage with Rt Rev Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester. If you're nearby, please do come along:
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I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.
“Farage is right but don’t vote for him”
Blue Labour killed Labour
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3 months to go, 25,000 words to write. Loving it
Genuinely such an interesting long thread on why these suits look crap and yet how a particular type of crap suit has become a cultural signifier for right-wing men.
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."
Source:
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An advisory opinion
📚🇵🇸🎤 Daybreak in #Gaza - Humanising Palestinian lives and safeguarding Palestinian culture.
Buchvorstellung und Podiumgespräch an der #fbm2025 mit Alena Jabarine (Moderation), Mahmoud Muna (Buchhändler, Autor) und @matthewteller.com (Nahostexperte).
@buchmesse.de
Laila Soueif, Alaa Abd el-Fattah and Sanaa Seif embrace at home, surrounded by friends, following Alaa's release from prison.
We're incredibly relieved that Alaa Abd el-Fattah has finally been released from prison. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who has supported Alaa and his family over these difficult years.
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