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Lawyers say Palestinians are being assaulted, deprived of contact with outside world at underground Rakevet facility.
More details emerge of Israel’s ‘brutal’ treatment of Palestinian detainees
Lawyers say Palestinians are being assaulted, deprived of contact with outside world at underground Rakevet facility.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Lawyers say Palestinians are being assaulted, deprived of contact with outside world at underground Rakevet facility.
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I hate this policy so much. It's simply morally wrong.
I wrote this a few months ago about how emotional it was seeing a refugee I once hosted get his citizenship and, finally, be safe and welcomed.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
I wrote this a few months ago about how emotional it was seeing a refugee I once hosted get his citizenship and, finally, be safe and welcomed.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I hate this policy so much. It's simply morally wrong.
I wrote this a few months ago about how emotional it was seeing a refugee I once hosted get his citizenship and, finally, be safe and welcomed.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
I wrote this a few months ago about how emotional it was seeing a refugee I once hosted get his citizenship and, finally, be safe and welcomed.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... seriously what a laugh. They really think we’re thick
Starmer told by Downing St staff that none of them briefed against Streeting, says No 10 – UK politics live
Spokesperson says PM is not trying to whitewash situation despite lack of leak inquiry
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... seriously what a laugh. They really think we’re thick
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... neo cons on the Board are undermining the BBC
Katie Razzall: A seismic moment that shows rift at top of BBC
There may be more to this than meets the eye, says the BBC's culture and media editor.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... neo cons on the Board are undermining the BBC
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n... Does not matter how toe curlingly obsequious the BBC is to the Trumpet’s or to Isreal nothing is enough. Any reference to Trump esp the attack on the ‘Capital’or the genocide in Gaza cannot be allowed to stand. No matter how tepid or innocuous it must be crushed.
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits with BBC preparing to apologise for editing of a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n... Does not matter how toe curlingly obsequious the BBC is to the Trumpet’s or to Isreal nothing is enough. Any reference to Trump esp the attack on the ‘Capital’or the genocide in Gaza cannot be allowed to stand. No matter how tepid or innocuous it must be crushed.
A labour Government , a labour Government . So captured by neo con economics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homes
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A labour Government , a labour Government . So captured by neo con economics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Exactly right. Mistakes must be corrected, but deliberate campaigns should be recognised for what they are.
BBC’s Nick Robinson on #Trump #BBC row: “As ever..it’s clear that there is genuine concern about editorial standards+mistakes. There is also a political campaign by people who want to destroy the organisation that you are currently listening to. Both things are happening at the same time.”
Today - 08/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Exactly right. Mistakes must be corrected, but deliberate campaigns should be recognised for what they are.
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A presidential spokesperson who perhaps should focus on picking through her own statements for the splinter of truth in the morass of blergh/ nonsense and untruths. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretary
Comments by Karoline Leavitt follow allegations that Panorama documentary misled viewers with its editing of a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A presidential spokesperson who perhaps should focus on picking through her own statements for the splinter of truth in the morass of blergh/ nonsense and untruths. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
A presidential spokesperson who perhaps should focus on picking through her own statements for the splinter of truth in the morass of blergh/ nonsense and untruths. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretary
Comments by Karoline Leavitt follow allegations that Panorama documentary misled viewers with its editing of a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A presidential spokesperson who perhaps should focus on picking through her own statements for the splinter of truth in the morass of blergh/ nonsense and untruths. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
This is torture isn’t it IDF? Hope all staff involved in this state sanctioned horror realise that they may well be brought before the courts and judged. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is torture isn’t it IDF? Hope all staff involved in this state sanctioned horror realise that they may well be brought before the courts and judged. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Isreal is determined never to stop. The forever expansionist war www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel carries out wave of airstrikes on southern Lebanon
Three towns attacked despite truce with Hezbollah in what Israeli military says was effort to prevent group rearming
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November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Isreal is determined never to stop. The forever expansionist war www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone made £65m selling faulty PPE to the Government.
HMRC now wants £39m in unpaid tax — and we think we know why: Barrowman and Mone may have avoided tax on their £65m profit.
HMRC now wants £39m in unpaid tax — and we think we know why: Barrowman and Mone may have avoided tax on their £65m profit.
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone made £65m selling faulty PPE to the Government.
HMRC now wants £39m in unpaid tax — and we think we know why: Barrowman and Mone may have avoided tax on their £65m profit.
HMRC now wants £39m in unpaid tax — and we think we know why: Barrowman and Mone may have avoided tax on their £65m profit.
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This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded.
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded.
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
“The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still for 180 degrees, from Beit Hanoun on one side to Gaza City on the other.” Isreal has also destroyed fields, sheep and chickens obvs all hamas? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war
With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still for 180 degrees, from Beit Hanoun on one side to Gaza City on the other.” Isreal has also destroyed fields, sheep and chickens obvs all hamas? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Campaigners are calling on Scotland Women to refuse to play Israel after being drawn in a Fifa World Cup qualifying group with them
Scotland Women 'must refuse to play Israel' in Fifa World Cup qualifiers
www.thenational.scot
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Campaigners are calling on Scotland Women to refuse to play Israel after being drawn in a Fifa World Cup qualifying group with them
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John Swinney has been urged to put 'words into action' and implement a full boycott of Israel as it looks to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners
John Swinney urged to enact Israel boycott as death penalty law looms
www.thenational.scot
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
John Swinney has been urged to put 'words into action' and implement a full boycott of Israel as it looks to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners
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Southern Gaza witnesses raids, intensive artillery shelling as Israel continues its attacks, violating the ceasefire.
Israeli air attacks, shelling and demolition campaign hit southern Gaza
Southern Gaza witnesses raids, intensive artillery shelling as Israel continues its attacks, violating the ceasefire.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Southern Gaza witnesses raids, intensive artillery shelling as Israel continues its attacks, violating the ceasefire.
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Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
Beating, torturing, killing . Life in Isreali prison. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘Beating, torturing, killing’: freed Palestinian author on life in Israeli jails
Nasser Abu Srour says outbreak of Gaza war after 7 October 2023 led to prisons becoming like ‘another front’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Beating, torturing, killing . Life in Isreali prison. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Isreal is clearly neither a democracy nor a state that believes in rule of law. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli military's ex-top lawyer arrested as scandal over video leak deepens
Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned on Friday, admitting leaking a video allegedly showing abuse of a Palestinian detainee.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Isreal is clearly neither a democracy nor a state that believes in rule of law. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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As SNAP payments end putting trend of millions of US citizens at rush of malnutrition and starvation here is a reminder that since his presidency started Trump has made a personal profit of more than $1.8bn in less than a year! 🧵
Trump’s Take: Tracking the cash and gifts made from selling the presidency.
Tracking the cash and gifts made from selling the presidency.
www.americanprogress.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
As SNAP payments end putting trend of millions of US citizens at rush of malnutrition and starvation here is a reminder that since his presidency started Trump has made a personal profit of more than $1.8bn in less than a year! 🧵
Wonderful, but hugely hypocritical , to hear water industry using polluter should pay arguments about forever chemicals. Perhaps they should use the same lens re themselves ? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Drinking Water Inspectorate ordered action over ‘forever chemicals’ risk
Analysis finds regulator for England and Wales raised issues with untreated water at facilities serving millions
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Wonderful, but hugely hypocritical , to hear water industry using polluter should pay arguments about forever chemicals. Perhaps they should use the same lens re themselves ? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
When ever this man speaks I wonder whose paying him. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘History won’t forgive us’ if UK falls behind in quantum computing race, says Tony Blair
Exclusive: Former PM and ex-Tory leader William Hague warn UK lacks high-risk capital and infrastructure to harness benefits of powerful technology
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
When ever this man speaks I wonder whose paying him. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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London Bridge heros incl two ex-offenders and a Polish national. Another said the attacker wanted divide but he will do anything he can to achieve the opposite. Reform cowards need reminding of reality, London, of society. Not their made up bogey men and scare tactics
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
Fishmongers' Hall: Man 'forever changed' by London Bridge attack
Darryn Frost used a narwhal tusk to fend off Usman Khan at Fishmongers' Hall in 2019.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
London Bridge heros incl two ex-offenders and a Polish national. Another said the attacker wanted divide but he will do anything he can to achieve the opposite. Reform cowards need reminding of reality, London, of society. Not their made up bogey men and scare tactics
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...