A decade in Whitehall. Europe needs strategic autonomy away from the US. Politics, economics, ecology, technology etc. Dad, Londoner and concerned.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon:
"The countries of NATO account for 80% of the world's military spending. It is not true that the others are armed to the teeth against us. What is true is that we belong to a coalition that threatens everyone."
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This clip encapsulates the problem the BBC has with Israel. It's not that it straightforwardly spouts hasbara. It doesn't.
What it does is engage in faux impartiality - it accepts a framing of things as "contested", as a "debate", long after they have ceased to be so.
In his interview on the BBC Radio 4 Today program this morning @ZackPolanski says Israel is committing genocide.
You know what's coming.
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Völkermörder Israel hat heute Nacht wieder ein Krankenhaus bombardiert und 5 Menschen heimtückisch ermordet. In einem Krankenhaus. Darunter ein Chirurg. Der israelische Holocaust an den Palästinensern mit deutscher Hilfe geht jeden Tag weiter. Was für eine Schande.
Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills 5, including surgeon, civil defense says haaretz.com/gaza/2026-11-12/…
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Israel holds thousands of Palestinian hostages through whats called adminstrative detention, whereby they can lock up Palestinians without trial indefinitely & don't have to produce any evidence!
Among those being held hostage are several doctors, including Dr Hussam Abu Safiya
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Just returned from West Bank. It is the worse Israeli violence against Palestinians that I’ve seen in 31 years. Settlers acting with vicious impunity while the @IDF stands by or protects the settlers. This level of violence, total erasures of Palestinian communities can’t go on
#Palestine: For 10 days, Palestinians in Hebron, #WestBank have faced military raids, forced evictions and severe movement restrictions, making it harder for people to reach care.
The lockdown also forced our teams to suspend care. doctorswithoutborders.ca/pal…
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Everyone needs to watch NAZA, so they can hear elite Israeli intelligence officers saying that this is complete bullshit and official policy was murdering 20 civilians for every suspected Hamas member.
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NEW: 260 British Jews – among them British Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, human rights barrister Margaret Owen OBE and journalist and politician @andrewfeinstein – have accused the @BoardofDeputies of genocide denial in an open letter.
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They really don't put any effort into False Flags any more.
Iran supposedly hacked a few hundred fridges in France and 9 other countries which achieved nothing at all.
Except of course allowing them all to attack Iran.
It's not hard to work out who actually did it.
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Ha'aretz reports that Hamas, through Qatar, conveyed immediately on Oct. 7 that they were willing to return all the civilian hostages for nothing -- their only ask was for a mediator to arrange the exchange and establish a connection to then negotiate the further release of the soldiers. Israel refused to talk or hear about it.
So Qatar reached out to Antony Blinken to let him know that Hamas was willing to release all the civilian hostages.
Blinken told Qatar he didn't want to hear it because "Israel is still under attack, and there's no one to talk to."
Blinken had the opportunity to free every single civilian hostage and de-escalate the situation. Instead he wanted war.
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An American doctor, a trauma surgeon, describing what he saw in Gaza. Children shot twice - twice - deliberately.
"I've never seen children assassinated before... a six-year-old shot twice - in the chest where I'd put my stethoscope, and directly in the head. That means it wasn't a mistake." nitter.gq/wizoora/status/2119666…
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In 1989 Palestinian woman sits down with Israeli woman...
The way the Israeli women look at her is vile
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I keep thinking these horrific scenes coming out of Gaza must be Ai
But sadly- no.
Children freezing and drenched.
I honestly don't know what I'd do if this was my family and my life.
I don't know if Israel is blocking aid but I do know @andyburnham @UKLabour need to do something FAST.
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No surprise that western governments are running short of China experts. People with genuine China expertise in western governments find themselves often regarded as too understanding of Chinese positions. Their expertise is exploited when expedient and more often disregarded as politically inconvenient. They usually will have a boss who is hostile to China, not by accident. Their promotion prospects will tend to depend on confidence that although expert, they are not interested in China and, preferably, hostile to China. Seeing all this happening, younger staff steer clear of making too much investment in acquiring Chinese experience and skills. Anyone with actual recent experience of living in China is likely to be excluded from ability to get a security clearance and so unemployable in government. The result is western governments flying ever blinder and more prejudiced on China.
UK faces China expertise crunch after exodus of senior diplomats ft.trib.al/x8WJeSQ
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I hope you are all sleeping safely in your homes, surrounded by your families. I hope every child has warm clothes and every parent can provide the care their children need.
I hope your children have umbrellas, raincoats, and rain boots for school. I hope your cities are prepared to respond to winter emergencies.
Of course, sharing this news will change nothing for our families in Gaza, just as the warnings issued days ago changed nothing.
Tonight, at 8:30 p.m., as families slept on the ground inside their tents, a massive landslide of soil and rocks buried at least two families in Deir al-Balah.
The victims have been identified as:
Habiba Hossam al-Zain, 4 years old
Reem Hossam al-Zain
Ibrahim Hossam al-Zain
Salah Nabhan, 7 years old
Mariam Nabhan
The mothers of these five children remain in critical condition.
The father of the first three children had already been killed by Israel.
I hope everyone has heat in their homes.
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"If you see yourself as a perpetual victim, everything you do is justified & everything done to you is a crime."
“For a lot of Jewish institutions, Israel has replaced Jewish spirituality. It is the religion.”
@DrGaborMate doesn't hold back 🔥
doubledown.news/watch/2026/n…
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As I watch what is happening in Gaza, I am reminded of this excerpt from Years and Years. Sure, there has been plenty of active targetting and killing going on. But in the end, to wipe out a bunch of people, all you need to do is to concentrate them into an area and let "nature" take its course with no humanitarian intervention.
Israel is a genocidal state.
youtube.com/watch?v=EUPf5Gag…
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Just year after year of paralysingly horrific news from Gaza. How can it go on
I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.