🚨Protest for Palestine - Aid to Gaza - Sanction Israel
⏰ 13 November, 6PM
📍Foreign Office, King Charles Street, London
Thousands of Palestinians have been displaced by Israel and are facing horrific flooding conditions in their tents. Meanwhile Israel is ramping up its genocide and apartheid and blocking aid. Join us to demand the government take action to sanction Israel for its crimes and pressure it to let aid into Gaza.
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This morning I was told of the passing of my good friend and colleague, Danny Kelly. The tributes to him in the coming days from those who knew him and worked with him will give you an idea of how much he was loved.
I loved him too. Very much so. A man who I called "Dad" on air because I wished he was. I hope you give me a few minutes to read my thoughts, and I hope they do you justice, Dan.
By 2008 I was a mess. I would sleep 18 hours a day, the other 6 mostly wanting to die. Once or twice a week I would open my laptop, organise football tabs, gossip and news as prep for jobs in broadcasting that I knew would never come, "just in case". When hope dies, we die, after all.
Then Danny Kelly came into my life.
I was driving out of London having been to see a psychiatrist about the state I was in and had BBC London on the radio. Danny was presenting with a guest, reviewing books. My name came up in the conversation, so I called in.
We hit it off straight away, talked about football for what seemed like forever but was probably a standard 10-12 minute section. But for me it sparked a temporary respite from sleep and chronic mental health issues and even for that I was grateful.
A couple of years later Danny joined talkSPORT to do the 7-10pm slot through the week. He told me he was offered a few co-presenters but he remembered that conversation we had and he wanted me to do it.
A lifeline of work, passionately talking about our sport, having fun and feeling a value as a human again. Something lost for 7 long years.
Danny gifted me that. Without that I know I wouldn't be writing this today.
"Always fresh, never frozen" was the tagline in a Domino's read we had to do in the show, something we'd instinctively greet each other with until our last meeting, in a pub, broadcasting for talkSPORT around 3 years ago. I didn't know that time would be the last, but perhaps fittingly we hugged as I left, I'm glad I did.
The shows were loved. They were funny, honest, insightful and I hope, along with Saggers after that, proof that Danny's belief in me was worthy. But to say my love for him was only thanks for a job doesn't even scratch the surface.
His kindness, his phone calls late at night ( Dan was a notorious night owl) of support, his man hugs, his indomitable spirit, his big brain on anything from football to music to geopolitics, his love, as I know many others will testify, came from the biggest of hearts and the biggest of souls housed in a giant of a man in every sense.
Dan, thank you, thank you for the kindness, the fun, the hope, the support and for being someone to look up to and aspire to be.
I love you very much, I know I'll hug you again some day. Thank you for everything.
"I love football Stan, I love it ".
Danny's funeral and requiem mass is tomorrow in Ireland and his life will be celebrated in the new year in London where he lived and worked for most of his life, for friends and colleagues to attend. Sending much love to those friends and colleagues.
To mark the centenary of John Berger's birth, we sat down with artists, authors, and critics to discuss what Berger's work meant to them
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First of all, I want to thank all the brave women who have shown such incredible strength and courage in speaking out, and all the journalists who have worked tirelessly to help bring the truth to light after so many years. Your courage and determination deserve to be recognised.
I hope that, now, the country can begin to understand the kind of person I have been up against within this industry, and the lengths someone will go to in order to maintain silence, protect their position and prevent the truth from coming to light.
No one should have to endure what I believe I have endured simply for standing up for the truth. It has been an incredibly difficult journey, but I have never lost sight of who I am or what I love.
My hope now is that the industry will finally give me the opportunity for a second chance — an opportunity to return to doing what I have always loved: being creative, telling stories and acting.
This is the industry I grew up admiring. Acting has always been my passion, and all I have ever wanted is the chance to do what I love again.
I am not asking for special treatment. I am simply asking for the opportunity to rebuild, to work, and to be recognised for my talent and passion rather than defined by what I have been through.
I hope this is the beginning of a new chapter.
- Adam Deacon.
@BAFTA -winning actor, writer, and director
Please spread the word about this. Lena is a brilliant and courageous journalist. I first met her in 2013 when went to Gaza together with @AliAbunimah. There is an unprecedented assault on Journalist who dare to defy the US – Israeli access of evil, including their client Arab regimes in the region.
Israel is banking on one thing: if you didn’t give a fuck when it was sniping, bombing, vaporising and starving Palestinian children, you’re hardly going to develop a conscience now that it’s drowning them.
Why are 50,000 tents waiting at the border while Gaza urgently needs shelter?
Winter rain has flooded 70,000 tents, leaving 400,000 people vulnerable. Gaza needs 300,000 tents,but aid remains blocked.
We will continue supporting our people.#Gazanews#HopeForChildren#donation