Archie Diamond @Archie_Diamond

🧵 I’m enormously grateful to Sally Rooney & I think what she’s done is to force the issue on Palestine Action in a way that has embarrassed the Government again & potentially forced them into a retreat. That’s how you use celebrity leverage. 1/9

"Look, we know we've completely ratfucked & destroyed your future & treat you like contemptible fucking Trash, but have you considered Dying for Israel?"

Sky News @SkyNews

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Army chief says politicians to start 'frank conversation' with public to prepare for war trib.al/tnbIX0Q

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It’s called technofascism, hope this helps

Dan @KettlebellDan

2 days ago

my politics are whatever this is

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“Hello and welcome to Newsnight. Tonight, we’re joined by Faiza Shaheen, director of Tax Justice UK. Faiza is an economist and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics. Faiza’s previous roles include Program Head for the Inequality and Exclusion Grand Challenge of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, Director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies, Head of Inequality and Sustainable Development at Save the Children, and Senior Researcher at the New Economics Foundation. Faiza holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Manchester and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St John’s College, Oxford University. She is the author of a range of materials and publications covering the most salient social and economic debates of our times, including inequality, austerity, immigration, and social mobility. Faiza has over 15 years of experience researching the trends and consequences of inequality, as well as designing policies and campaigns to address the causes of inequality and exclusion. Her book, ‘Know your place: How society sets us up to fail and what we can do about it’ was published in July 2023 by Simon & Schuster. To speak over her, we’ve invited Winston Marshall, a podcaster and former member of Mumford and Sons. We hope you enjoy the programme.”

BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight

a day ago

"If you want to lift up the poor, you have to create wealth." "How's that going?" Podcaster and former Mumford & Sons member Winston Marshall discusses taxes with economist and Green Party supporter Faiza Shaheen. #Newsnight

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With her lonely stand for Palestine, Sally Rooney has exposed the contemporary literary world as a nest of cowards and careerists Where are all the Doris Lessings, Harold Pinters, John Bergers, Graham Greenes, Samuel Becketts that once raised their voices against war and injustice? Rooney stands almost alone

Getting blown up by a Russian drone to protect my beautiful nation of privatised water companies, boarded up shops, cracked paving, and political-media class who think I’m a racist because I oppose a genocide. No thanks mate.

Sky News @SkyNews

3 days ago

Half of adults would not go to war for the UK, poll suggests trib.al/kukUYPh

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I know we’re all aware of the risks of over-idealising the culture of the social democratic era. But then you see absolutely mad stuff like this 1978 line up for the Newcastle Festival and what can you say really

Have to say lads I'm not really getting the argument that Israel must exist "as a safe haven for Jews" and also that it is so incredibly dangerous there that they are morally justified in killing everyone else in the immediate vicinity.

Labour still hasn’t grasped the political effect of weaponising antisemitism: all people take away is that, if you’re horrified by the genocide in Gaza, Andy Burnham and Bridget Phillipson think you’re basically a Nazi. Nobody buys this, and it just throughly pisses people off.

You can’t read Sally Rooney, you can’t listen to Fontaines DC on Fridays, you can’t peacefully hold a sign, you can’t wear a badge, you can’t look at children’s art in a hospital, you can’t pronounce a dead paedo’s name correctly, you can only keep quiet & learn to love genocide.

I am absolutely convinced that if Israel fired a nuclear missile at Tehran, around ninety percent of the British political and media establishment would explain in grave tones why it was necessary, if regretable, and that those who object are vile extremists and antisemites.

"Socialism, by converting private property to public wealth, will restore society to its proper condition." Oscar Wilde, born today in 1854.

I'm sure you're shocked that Burnham's “Manchesterism” turned out to mean Throwing Councils into fucking chaos, because Israel is more important than your rights, your council, your Country, or functioning society. & The Media applaud, because we're ruled by fucking psychopaths.

Neither Cartier-Bresson, Banksy nor Cold War Steve could have come up with such an image. Absolutely perfect composition and lighting (even the road signs are perfect)! 😍

We spend an enormous amount of time talking about the very worst of us, so let's remember some of the best. This is Dr Karmele Llano Sanchez, a Spanish veterinarian rescuing orangutans from the wildfires in West Kalimantan. No AC or mod cons for wildlife rescuers and veterinarians working in the most challenging conditions in the field, often facing real danger with great courage. Eight orangutans have recently been treated and released, but the suffering witnessed has taken its toll on her team. Most people don't even know her name—she couldn't care less about that—but I do. People like her are true heroes, and we should know who they are.

Out of roughly 2 million olive trees in Gaza before October 2023, only 150,000 trees remain standing. This is a loss of roughly 85% to 90% of the region's olive groves. Ecocide is the deliberate, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems necessary to sustain human life. Many experts would agree that Israel's systematic destruction of Palestinian farmlands, aquifers, and trees would qualify as ecocide. Under international humanitarian law including the Geneva Conventions, any objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population like agricultural areas are granted special protections during conflict. Olive oil and table olives are crucial to Gaza's local agricultural economy, but in Palestinian culture, olive trees are much more than just a commodity. They are symbols of continuity, resilience, and attachment to the soil. Many groves are hundreds of years old and passed down through generations. Unlike annual crops like tomatoes or cucumbers that can be replanted and harvested in a single season, mature olive trees represent decades of invested capital. Losing them wipes out a reliable source of income for thousands of families, leaving them dependent on foreign aid.

If there’s one photo to sum up the Trump era, this is it.

So if I have got it right, the narrative appears to have gone like this over the past couple of years: *Nordstream II blown up* Everyone: LOOK WHAT THE RUSSIANS HAVE DONE!! Rutte: We MUST cut welfare budgets because Russia is going to attack us before long. EU/UK: We MUST cut welfare budgets because Russia is going to attack us before long. UK Media: LOOK! LOOK! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! Trump: Not funding the Ukraine War any more, it is hurting me too much in the mid-terms. I need Russian diesel. Germany: Yeah, well, we have been keeping it a bit quiet but we actually arrested the people who blew up Nordstream II and, yeah.. erm... (shuffles feet) they were Ukrainian state actors Rutte/EU: Did we say the Russians are coming? Nah. No they're not. They really think we're thick, don' tthey?

Oh I forgot when someone kicks me out of my home then offers me the broken shed to stay in they are inn fact doing me a favour and showing me kindness oh and that’s after they’ve murdered my entire family. This is the brainwashing we are up against!

David Atherton @daveatherton

3 days ago

@ahsanforbritain The Palestinians have been offered their own homeland since 1936. On at least 10 occasions they have deliberately walked away. The atrocities on the 7th October 2023 were the final straw.

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An Israeli strike killed a woman in Gaza, as her daughter watched her burn alive. Video has been circulating all day, you can hear the little girl cry and see her engulfed in smoke. I can’t find headlines in Western media *because* the story is horrific. They want you to forget.