Israel is telling everyone in north Gaza - about 1.1 million people - to relocate to the south of the Strip in the next 24 hours.
@MishalHusain asks Defence Secretary Grant Shapps if the UK government supports that order.
#R4Today
NEW: France’s riots may be subsiding, but their underlying causes persist
In France, immigrants face social exclusion, faring *far* worse than the native-born on almost every socio-economic indicator.
Far less integration than in UK, Germany even the US
https://t.co/t1mnk4ZiPc
NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia https://t.co/gtHvhNsnuT
Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people.
A thread:
Job adverts that don’t post the salary, instead using opaque and unhelpful jargon like “competitive pay” or “dependent on experience”, are not just a frustration, they’re entrenching the gender and ethnicity pay gap, and wasting the time of the applicant.
Here’s why.
Democrats have just won the national popular vote for the 7th time in 8 elections, something no party has ever done before…
… and yet Democrats are sweating out another Electoral College squeaker & have only appointed 3 of 9 Supreme Court justices.
Minoritarian government.
Removing the basis for almost all legal abortions in #Poland amounts to a ban & violates #HumanRights. Today’s ruling of the Constitutional Court means underground/abroad abortions for those who can afford & even greater ordeal for all others. A sad day for #WomensRights.
How are we not talking about this? UK to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia despite 'possible' war crimes in Yemen, government says https://t.co/NjtiCGCXgU
I don't understand.
- Police are protecting a statue from people who want to protect it from people who don't seem to be there.
- Meanwhile the man who stopped us all from having to salute like a Nazi is celebrated by men doing Nazi salutes.
I mean, it's very 2020, but still.
Data visualisation journalist @jburnmurdoch says the UK has the second worst #COVID19 mortality rate, but England alone would have the highest mortality rate in the world.
Read the latest: https://t.co/DVx2B8Y6WM