#Breaking
Ships are turning back from Gaza with around 240 tons of undelivered aid following an air strike that killed at least seven aid workers, including several foreigners, Cypriot officials have said
Palestinian Ambassador to BBC News presenter:
'You bring me here whenever Israelis are killed. Did you bring me here when many Palestinians [were killed], over 200 in the last few months?'
The two last people in the queue are asked how they felt, 'I think it's the best thing I've ever done in my life, even having my children Lily and Luca, I think this tops that'
🚨 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil Christmas Carol Outside Keir Starmer's House
🎵 9 Just Stop Oil supporters have been threatened with arrest for singing climate criminal carols, and ordered not to return to his house for 3 months.
🚔
@metpoliceuk
is carol singing illegal now?
I already take home barely half my wage.
And my landlord takes most of what’s left.
Still, politicians block development and raise taxes. It’s like they want to drive my generation into the dirt.
Corbyn on his first words if he'd have become prime minister:
'Today, rough sleeping [and] homelessness ends. There will be no more homeless people in this country. The state will provide. That was going to be my opening gambit.'
Recently I’ve been flat hunting in London. This is what £1,300 per month gets you. Shares aren’t much better. I’ve given up nagging the political class, but I don’t get how they think this is acceptable? Are we to tell kids to work hard in school, so you can sleep next to a sink?
Asked whether a man murdered whilst carrying a white flag by the Israelis is a war crime, Starmer states he thinks it's unwise 'to form instant judgements'
Corbyn on his first words if he'd have become prime minister:
'Today, rough sleeping [and] homelessness ends. There will be no more homeless people in this country. The state will provide. That was going to be my opening gambit.'
Corbyn on his first words if he'd have become prime minister:
'Today, rough sleeping [and] homelessness ends. There will be no more homeless people in this country. The state will provide. That was going to be my opening gambit.'
One day we'll look back with amazement on the fact that commentators decided Sunak was a moderate because he wore nice suits, given that his track record is one of ignorance and extremism.
🚨 BREAKING: Left-wing MP Kate Osamor has been ousted from Labour's parliamentary party because she said Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
She joins Andy McDonald MP, who was kicked out last year for expressing support for the Palestinian cause.
🚨 BREAKING: Labour's Shadow Equalities minister Anneliese Dodds confirms the party has scrapped its commitment to transgender rights.
Dodds says Labour will protect single-sex spaces "for biological women".
(Source: reporting by Sienna Rodgers of The House magazine)
🚨 ICYMI
'If you have to invoke Hitler or the Nazi's you've already lost the argument... It actually denigrates what happened and what the Nazi's did to Jewish people and minorities.'
@NicoleLampert
and
@MrMarkDolan
on Gary Lineker taking a step back from Match of the Day.
'Is Vladimir Putin a war criminal?'
'Yes. What I've seen already amounts to war crimes, particularly the awful attacks on civilians. This is something that we need to make clear now so that those who are involved now know what the consequences are.'
“The uncomfortable truth is that the UK is powerless to stop Israel in Gaza – Ending arms sales to Netanyahu would be a cathartic but ultimately cosmetic act.”
It's been almost a week since the ICJ ruling on Gaza, and the government has still not said whether it accepts the court's authority and orders, and whether it will urge Israel to do the same. I asked the Attorney General again today for that assurance, but sadly did not get it.
'No one ever wants to talk about the thousands of Gypsies killed by the Nazis, because no one wants to talk about the positives'
The sick racist
@jimmycarr
in his new Netflix special
A deranged rant from proud Islamophobe Melanie Phillips in which she claims Gazans aren't being starved because she's seen videos of stocked shelves on YouTube
.
@campbellclaret
accuses Green Party of "nastiness" for publishing a list of MPs who did not vote for a ceasefire and says it is 'intimidating' behaviour and draws comparisons with the killings of Jo Cox and David Amess
#TrevorPhillips
📺 Sky 501
I was grateful to hear from the Muslim community of the South Wales Islamic Centre.
I repeated our calls for all hostages to be released, more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, for the water and power to be switched back on, and a renewed focus on the two state solution.
That Corbyn managed to get 40% and 32% of the vote in the two general elections he led Labour in, despite his own MPs and party workers, media, and polling companies rigging the entire process, is nothing short of remarkable
'In every child there is a poem, in every child there is a painting, in every child there is music. I want all our children to be inspired and to have the right to write poetry, to paint, to make music'
The BBC interviews a woman whose daughter had an appointment cancelled due to the nurses' strike.
'I am 100% behind the nurses, I think they're absolute legends...and it makes me angry that the government has held down their pay for years.'
34 years since the Hillsborough disaster, I'm thinking of those for whom the pain is still so raw and for whom injustice remains.
My Labour government will create a Hillsborough Law. Victims of major tragedies must get the same legal support as the authorities which failed them.
The Israeli president holds up a copy of Mein Kampf containing post-it notes, claiming it was found on a body 'in a children's living room' in northern Gaza.
Seems we’re in a spot of financial bother with inflation rising, energy costs soaring and Brexit project fear becoming reality. Maybe put up the top rate of tax for the wealthy to help us out (and, yes, me included). Perhaps even the super rich non doms might help…greed sucks.
AstraZeneca will now start charging for its covid-19 vaccine, abandoning the non-profit model it adopted at the start of the pandemic. The jab was 97% publicly funded.
A day of strike action and a union leader's interview round has done more to challenge the political consensus than anything the opposition has achieved over the last couple of years
Dipped into Commons to enjoy relief, once again, that Jeremy Corbyn never became PM: he is complaining about “the extension of the conflict by Britain and the US to at least 4 countries...”
Calling Liz Truss “thick” is blatantly sexist. You can disagree with her political judgements and/or her economics but she is not “thick” and to reduce the debate to that level is pathetic
Saying you can't vote for Lab under Starmer on moral grounds is, in itself, an indefensible moral position.
Tory govts cost lives too. People die as a result of austerity. People's lives improved under Blair, however hideous Iraq was.
Until we change our system, it's Lab or Tory.
Labour backs the strikes the government launched overnight against Yemen targets, says shadow defence secretary
@JohnHealey_MP
.
"We accept that the timing was not in the hands of the UK government," he adds.
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I see Phillips has now deleted this tweet about how she somehow managed to buy a house as a student in 2001 despite saying previously that at 22 she was living in a squat
Nothing explains British media like a journalist congratulating a peer on joining a news channel he himself had described as spreading antisemitic tropes just two weeks before