Philosopher - pro wine, cheese, much music - "The Myths We Live By" (2020), "How To Think Like a Philosopher" (2023), also, riskily! "Arguing about Judaism".
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Here are a couple of possible temptations from my latest 'labours' that take us from Lao Tzu to Samuel Beckett, from the Gadfly Socrates to the tormented genius Wittgenstein, from Sappho Lover to Simone de Beauvoir and Iris Murdoch:
In view of the constant refrain on the wonders of democracy - and often a defence of Israel as a democracy, this may be of interest:
daily-philosophy.com/cave-de…
for have we any idea what we mean by 'democracy' when we praise it so?
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Do you remember Audrey White?
She's the 76-year-old activist from Liverpool who told Keir Starmer to his face that he's a liar and a fraud.
Audrey was arrested today under the Terrorism Act for holding a placard alongside her brother and a priest.
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This is Audrey White, who I became friends with on Twitter and who is the secretary of the Merseyside Pensioners Group, she and Felicity Dowling both invited me to Liverpool last February to speak about deregulated free zones at the Liverpool BBC Studios.
Today in Liverpool, Audrey was arrested and forcibly removed by 3 Police Officers for supporting Palestine Action against Israel’s genocide, she could go to prison for 14 years.
I am shocked and horrified at Starmer’s Government’s complicity with Netanyahu and the Draconian powers he has bestowed on the British Police Force.
@RedRosa91940184 @MerseyPensioner
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During the parliamentary debate on Wednesday 2 July 2025, I said: “We are all Palestine Action”.
Yet this was not included in Hansard’s official record. This was censorship.
Today, I challenged that omission and corrected the record.
We will not be silenced.
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81 year old former magistrate, Deborah Hinton, arrested under the Terrorism Act in Cornwall.
She held a placard which said: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."
Also, I have heard this Israel response when on @BBCWorldatOne and @BBCPM Of course, condemnations of the horrendous Israeli actions should be as much addressed to the US for all the military and financial and diplomatic backing.
@BBCr4today Isn't it appalling - the Israeli representatives nearly always shout and speak over the interviewers, ignore the questions, make wild accusations against the BBC and object to independent reporters entering Gaza. Now, I wonder why...?
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And a Merry BLOODY Xmas to all: Israel just killed 50 & is attacking the only hospital left. “Yesterday they didn’t let the Patriarch enter Gaza as they had promised & yesterday children were bombed. This is cruelty. This is not war”, the Pope said. In fact it is genocide.
Before delivering his Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia, Pope Francis condemned Israel for bombing children in Gaza.
“Yesterday they didn’t let the Patriarch [of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pizzaballa] enter Gaza as they had promised & yesterday children were bombed. This is cruelty. This is not war”, the Pope said.
Follow @IntegralistMag for more.
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I call upon the Western media to confirm or deny that the Maccabi football supporters, well before any skirmishes, were marching on the streets on Amsterdam chanting: "There are no schools in Gaza, there are no children left there. F-ck the Arabs." [They did!]
אוהדי מכבי בנתב"ג, בשירת "תנו לצה"ל לנצח, לז**ן ת'ערבים...בעזה אין בתי ספר, לא נשארו שם ילדים".
ולטינופות האלה מצפים שאגלה אמפתיה? לא יקרה!
Maccabi fans in Tel Aviv Airport, chanting: "Let the IDF win, fck the Arabs... There are no schools in Gaza, there are no children left there."
And I'm expected to show empathy to these filthy scums?
Won't happen!
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Israel is hellbent on taking N. Gaza. The IDF burns, destroys, and razes every building after pushing out the Palestinians it does not kill or bury inside the rubble. No war crime like it has occurred anywhere since WW2. And the US-EU look on...
theguardian.com/world/2024/n…
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This woman is a complete hero, as courageous as she is persistent and persuasive. In years to come, when a free Palestinian state sits alongside Israel and Netanyahu sits in a cell in the Hague, she will no doubt be awarded the Nobel Prize she so deserves.
If you hear any words today. Let them
Be this. @FranceskAlbs speaking truth to power. As the United Nations Special Rapporteur, here she is passionately condemning the global community's silence and lack of empathy for the Palestinian people. United we stand 🕊️
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If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 76 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight
Please take just two seconds to show you’re right behind NHS staff
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Today, we marched to the U.S embassy with a simple demand: stop arming Israel.
We are going to be here as long as it takes to bring about peace and justice. We will never walk away from the people of Palestine.
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By saying that use of the term genocide about Gaza 'undermines the seriousness of that term', David Lammy has sent message that the UK does not agree with the Genocide convention and regards the SA case at the ICJ as trivial. He must correct the record:
middleeasteye.net/opinion/da…
But not horrified enough to stop aims sales to Israel..
theguardian.com/world/live/2…
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By this same perverted logic, Britain could have defeated 'terrorism' in Northern Ireland by turning much of it into a smoking wasteland, by bombing civilians, shooting children in the head, killing journos & aid workers. Lord Snooty is utterly deluded. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10…
Remember US/UK over the year are still supporting such horrors both militarily and politically. And let's not hide behind the mantra Israel's 'right to defend itself' - whatever that right is, it does not mean doing such horrors on innocent individuals bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr54…
