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Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
Precisely. Whilst we brits commend ourselves for a 'sense of fair play' our history tells a very different story.
Scenes of chaos play out in Gaza City as military closes in on panic-stricken residents facing forced displacement.
I think everyone should! I'm getting pretty old now and have some long covid too, just could not put in the work I do without that rest day. It lets me go full blast at things when I need too without burning out completely.
Yup. We mostly do volunteering of some sort, or I'm on a protest or the nature reserve, community allotment or something. Also means you can schedule Drs appointments and stuff for that day so the other 4 days we are full strength as a team. All work from home too. Much better.
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Asylum seekers deserve better. Probably the one thing he wouldn't say.
My firm went to 4 day work years ago, one of the best things we've ever done. More creative, more productive, happier, healthier people. Great for attracting the brightest and best, and keeping them too.
Two real problems with Trump's health, the first is that he might still be alive and the other is JD Vance.
And once again the opportunist in question remains too stupid to even notice.
Spot on.
Yes, it's GENOCIDE. Yes, Starmer is assisting Israel's GENOCIDE in Gaza. Yes, that means the UK is breaking international law. Yes, that makes Starmer a war criminal. Israel is committing GENOCIDE. Israel is a terrorist state. The US & UK are complicit.
The UN has declared a famine in Gaza, a man-made famine ‼️ Hundreds of thousands of kids, adults and woman are starving to DEATH Over 500,000 are in catastrophic conditions of starvation We only have a few weeks left to save their life’s and pressure our governments Share, Silence Is Complicity 🚨
I got a community guidelines violation for posting this exact screenshot on TikTok with the hashtags #Trump and #ICE. So.
No academic, or anyone else, for that matter, should even consider visiting the USA at present. Those within the US need to take all possible measures to protect themselves from this kind of outrageous intrusion. It's only gonna get worse.
Massive explosions are erasing northern Gaza right now. (Osama Abu Rabee)
#PSA Awful thought. Is anyone aware of whether Moderna took their research elsewhere to continue their work on the vax?
At 78 years old, Susan Sarandon is still standing up for justice. My respect for her continues to grow with every move she makes. The embodiment of courage ❤️
For god’s sake someone remind the bbc.
This is the replica of the car in which 6-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab was killed while fleeing Gaza City with her family It was displayed in Bradford, UK, on what would have been her 7th birthday The original vehicle had been shot 335 times by Israeli forces
Should the world’s richest man, Elon Musk have a slice of the UK energy market? I don’t think so, which is why I added my name to the petition to @ofgem demanding they reject Tesla's application to supply energy in the UK. Join me and add your name too? 38d.gs/e2gj
Ports across the country were planning to become economic hubs for the growing offshore wind industry. The Trump administration is cancelling grants to build the infrastructure for it.
The ignorance and stupidity of Maga and the Orange Menace know no bounds, surpassed only by their arrogance.
#BREAKING | The Global Sumud Flotilla—the largest civilian mission to break Gaza’s siege—launches today, with 50+ ships from 44 countries. Drop Site editor Alex Colston is on board and will be reporting live as it sails from Barcelona toward Gaza.
5. QUACK-O-GRAM delivery will begin 9/15-9/16! WE ARE STILL TAKING DUCKS! www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams 6. Sign and SHARE all our petitions!! The pressure is still on!
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
She was fetching bread for her family when an Israeli strike hit her and other civilians outside a Gaza bakery Misk Amara was 8 yrs old
More people need to sign this petition. If we don't have data on #covid, we can't make decisions. If hospitals don't monitor levels, they can just be hubs of infection, killing their patients. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer. This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
Hundreds of deadly quadcopters are above our heads.
Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
One of these vile things parked up the road from me. It's huge, dwarfs normal cars, takes up 2 parking spaces and half the road. Drivel by an idiot. Should be banned.
À partir de demain, des dizaines de bateaux partiront pour la plus grande tentative de l’Histoire de briser le blocus de Gaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla l.franceinfo.fr/Nw7
Despite the academic capitulations, media collapse, and Trump's attacks on history and race, it's now more important than ever to teach on all of these issues. So I will. I have set up an independent course to teach Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 in October. Sign up here!
Israel wants to halt aid in northern Gaza as it escalates its offensive in Gaza City
I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
My article about US spytech firm Palantir taking over key UK digital infrastructure is free to read on Substack Please consider subscribing/donating ko-fi.com/europeanpowell I am a volunteer raising awareness about free zones, which Thiel's AI empire is fused with open.substack.com/pub/european...
Can't see a golf course without the word 're-wilding' echoing through my mind!
Et voila! Case proven. #solar
Absolutely insane and brilliant youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?...
If you made a horror movie in which the bad guys sent flying robots to drop grenades on women and children taking refuge in tents, it would seem too comically evil to be believable. But that's what Israel is doing in real life, right now, every day.
We know where this is going — “The slogan "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is considered punishable by the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office. Please refrain from this statement.” “We are obliged to prosecute criminal offences and to take appropriate police measures.”
Precarious contracts keep getting shorter. Until recently short-term associate lecturer contracts were for 10 months. Now UCL advertises for 7 months. What does it say about our field, about how we treat the new generation of scholars? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW277/a...
Excellent article, well worth a read.
Thanks. There are some dangerous dynamics, denial of science and more, going on here too. I fear the coming years.
If you want to understand why politics and basic human considerations are so fucked up in the UK right now, read this. An excellent and compassionate analysis, though it's kind of depressingly accurate!
I read that at the time, very good!
Auckland Harbour Bridge Saturday 13 September March for Humanity Please Share
Awesome!
Done.
The Policy Development Committee positions were the hardest to decide on. I hope I made sensible decisions there, did a lot of research.
The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide. The German state is a disgrace. It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide. It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
New interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday by Middle East Eye. The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza
Did an epic voting session today!
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I think we have to add multiple failures in public health, failing to provide clean indoor air in hospitals, schools etc. A lack of monitoring, poor public health messaging and pressure to send sick kids into school. Poor support for LC sufferers too. There are many issues not just in the US!
Yes and no. The withdrawal of C19 vaccines from most of the UK population is a very bad move, a huge public health error. It kills people. Yes we still have a more or less NHS. A big problem is very low statutory sick pay, so sick people are forced to go to work, madness.
Fascist vermin scum.
There are no safe zones in Gaza. Israel is committing a holocaust. A scorched earth ethnic-cleansing GENOCIDE. Silence is complicity.
After the election of Trump in 2016, I realised that the global ascendance of 21st century fascism creates the conditions for the Israeli right to push forward with its vision for a single Jewish state between the river and the sea, through the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. 1/
Sadly, it's been like that in the UK for a couple of years now. It's madness, we are so vulnerable and exposed.
Perhaps the fragility of their egos is an inevitable side effect of the unsustainable systems that created them. None of it actually hangs together. With you on the Grrr tho, double and triple grrr!
This is a truly astonishing image. The yellow spot is a planet (WISPIT-2b) orbiting a star (its light blocked by a coronagraph) carving out a 'lane' in the dusty ring-shaped planetary nebula from which it was born. A snapshot of our own solar system, as it probably looked 4.5 billion years ago.
This is G*za reality. We all should know this. Please help Iyad chuffed.org/project/1437... And don‘t stop talking about Palestine
I don't know what I would do if that happened here, take them down or burn them?
No argument with you there. It is also telling how people, governments, address the lasting legacy of those crimes. Europe can claim few laurels there, yet the current US regime seems intent on revisionism, denial and repetition. And rapidly acquiring the means to make its hideous vision real.
Thank you, too. Sadly it's only words, when so much more is urgently needed. There is an unending internal scream, knowing that all I can do is just not enough. Yet never give up, never turn away.
Thesis: Trump is ticking off his authoritarian to do list quickly Antithesis: While Trump is *trying* to tick off his authoritarian to do list, he's not fully succeeding Synthesis: Each item on this check list is not a binary but a spectrum, and we're *way* too far down the spectrum for any comfort
Very much agree. The other factor to consider is the effectiveness and unity of the opposition, resistance in the military, civic and political institutions, wider society. Disunity in the regime itself as well. That I find hard to understand from this side of the pond.
NEW: CNN's now publicly released video analysis shows Israel's 'double-tap' attack on Nasser Hospital was, in fact, actually a triple-tap. They bombed the hospital, and then fired upon the rescue team and journalists with not one but two more shells.
🚨 Famine has been confirmed in #Gaza. This is not a headline. It is real lives at stake. This famine is man-made – it is the result of systematic obstruction, indifference and delay. We need action, now: 🔺An immediate ceasefire 🔺Open crossings at scale 🔺Unimpeded access #CeasefireNOW #OpenUpGaza
Some scientists haven't yet internalized the "why" behind science writing for the public - not just as a service, but for themselves. (I didn't always get it). In this piece for @natrevneuro.nature.com, I draw on the neuroscience of curiosity & decision making to unpack its value. rdcu.be/eCGr7
Over in a Lebanon, Keir Starmer's Isreali handlers drop a bomb in front of Al-Batoul Nursery Meanwhile, Keir Starmer plans to hand his Isreali handlers £2b of our hard earned taxes to train British soldiers into making them effective child killers
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I guess we’re doing holy wars again.
DIRTY LNG FOSSIL GAS: A peer-reviewed Cornell study finds that over a 20yr period, LNG has 33% higher lifecycle emissions than dirty coal — driven by methane leaks & the energy-hungry liquefaction + shipping process. news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/10/liquefied-natural-gas-carbon-footprint-worse-coal
It is a disgrace that Starmer’s Labour government has invited Donald Trump for a second state visit. He has scrapped climate and environmental protections, trampled on democratic norms and far more. #StopTrump stoptrump.org.uk/petition-sta...
www.thenorthstar.com/p/hacked-ema...
The British and probably others too. Right up to the highest levels of government.
“By repeating Israel’s genocidal fabrications without determining if they have any credibility … Western media outlets have made possible the killing of more journalists in two years on one tiny strip of land than in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined.”
It was founded on a genocide, largely built with slave labour. But the US is a big and complicated thing - there are literally millions of most excellent people there. We should all support them in a time of great need.
Or rather, they would kick his arse so hard he was dismissed immediately and never showed his face in public again.
This is an excellent letter from MEE to Starmer. Starmer's hands, and Lammy's and those of the entire British cabinet drip red with the blood of Palestinians. Full arms embargo, 100% sanctions are very long overdue.
Everyone, inside and outside of the USA, must confront the fact that the US has become a pariah, racist fascist state. There is no point in pretending any more. The fascists certainly aren't.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Dried on fake tan?
These people are genuinely stupid or blinded by bigoted ideology, corruption or cowardice. Or any mixture of the above. Brexit has been a disaster by every measure. It must be reversed as a matter of urgency.
That's the war criminal Blair.
1/ I don’t know how to say this without sounding harsh, but I need you to hear it. COVID — or SARS-2 — is not “just another cold.” It doesn’t leave you the same. Every reinfection stacks damage: brain, heart, immune system.
“Prasad overruled dozens of career scientists to limit Covid vaccine approvals three times in the past few months”
Brits, you should read this Labour policy paper 'Industrial Strategy Zones Action Plan', published June 23rd 2025, because this is going to impact your lives for the next 25 years, that is the duration of the licenses on all deregulated free zones. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Call them a racist scumbag and tell them to fuck off.
267 #Nobel laureates have signed a petition demanding Sec Kennedy's resignation. Kennedy has dismantled expert advisories & installed unqualified cronies to positions of power. He is unilaterally removing access to vaccines. Please sign and circulate widely. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...
The snake oil salesman got his way once - the result was a disaster. Don’t let him do it again
Fact check: they don't
Nigel Farage is using attacks on women to stoke his anti-migrant agenda, while turning a blind eye to the real crisis of violence against women in the UK. We’re fighting back. Join us ⬇️ action.goodlawproject.org/tell-reform-...
Odd, that. Coz I'm waiting for the ICC to get it's act together and issue an arrest warrant for the orange nazi for complicity in war crimes, torture, illegal human trafficking and deliberate suppression of human rights. And a bunch of other things as well.
When @zackpolanski.bsky.social is standing with workers fighting for better working conditions, isn't it time all workers' unions changed their allegiance to the Green Party rather than Labour, who stands for the corporate fat cats?
It's mostly BBC journalists deciding what they are going to ask Farage about at tea time.