It's the same old, same old denying the legitimacy of any Palestinian who achieves any position using any smear regardless of its falsity
https://t.co/ZO2soCMvEd
Exactly one year ago today we went to the David Hockney exhibition in Paris. It was absolutely fantastic. Tree of the Day is any tree that he painted. He did it so well. What a talent and how much pleasure he will continue to give for the rest of time RIP
Awesome endorsement, Robert.
A man who was found guilty and was imprisoned for:
Unlawful wounding of a police officer [a woman]. Common assault on another person.
A man who was disqualified as a director by HMRC — owing £1M to the public purse.
A man who has had an induction slapped on him by the Ministry of Defence because he was leaking official secrets.
Other than that … top choice. 🤦♂️
SAND BUILDERS
The road makers built a culvert so the stream
might still flow beside the ice cream kiosk
onto the beach and disappear in the sands,
as it did from before the mammoths left…
https://t.co/sPUMjWgZFl
Just been at the school where my mum Connie Isakofsky, went 100 years ago. My bro and I were opening their new playground. They have a little exhibit in the school with Mum’s class photo.
ABSENCES
Yesterday, while I was reading in the shade,
a dragonfly came from nowhere, landing on the lawn
in the sun near my chair...
https://t.co/i2jewbqRY4
Right now over 200 people are continuing to sit outside Woolwich Crown Court ahead of the sentencing of the Filton 4 holding signs saying “Saving Lives Is Not Terrorism - I support Palestine Action” despite police making arrests.
Find out more at https://t.co/nOqO4QQdM5
Same sit, different day!
Arrested under terrorism charges for holding a sign saying “Saving Lives Is Not Terrorism - I support Palestine Action” despite the Government's ban being found unlawful by the High Court.
"How ridiculous!"
Support at: https://t.co/nOqO4QQdM5
Another elderly peaceful Palestine Action anti-genocide protester has just been arrested outside Woolwich Crown Court for holding a sign. The utter fiasco undertaken by the British state to protect Israel at the expense of its own citizens goes on unabated.
THE COOTS’ NEST
The coots have built their nest among lily pads
on the park's ornamental pond: too far out
for foxes, too high for water rats…
https://t.co/tY4cqgx53f
Scotland's first minister was targeted by an Israeli firm spreading online disinformation before the Holyrood election, a French government agency has claimed.
John Swinney and the SNP were allegedly targeted in accounts linked to BlackCore - a tech company claiming to "shape narratives" who French authorities accused of trying to smear pro-Palestine election candidates.
https://t.co/o1rTgWk5h9
A TOUCH OF SPRING
Driving down Boathouse Lane, Parkgate, at the bend
is the first view of the estuary.
This unseasonal February day, lit
with a spring-like sunshine, the vast reed beds
are golden…
https://t.co/RfpUzIfRT7
I’m sure he doesn’t depend on the state pension. Why should the poorest people pay for better defence? Why not do what Nigel Lawson did and increase capital gains tax to the same level as income tax? That would easily pay for most of the increase in the defence budget
MEMO to UK media:
Do NOT simply accept this narrative being pushed that it is “defence or welfare”
Why not, for example, a Patriotic Tax on the wealth of the very richest?
And this man says welfare is “very generous” in UK. He LIES
A SOUVENIR
On one of Mazzaro’s gritty beaches
a cable car below Taormina,
I found a piece of Etna’s lava
the size of a goujon, a sinker,
a bobbin…
https://t.co/bWj8D9faSd
The BBC has fed the public a diet of stories demanding increased defence spending, and a stream of warnings of an imminent threat from Russia.
Such spending can happen only through deeper austerity cuts. Despite the propaganda blitz, a majority of Britons want public spending prioritised over more toys for the boys.
That is reflected nowhere in the media coverage, as Des Freeman explains:
"There are twenty stories from the past six months on the BBC’s page dedicated to ‘UK defence spending’. They draw on 71 different sources, of which not one is critical of an increase in defence spending...
"The Trades Union Congress, representing 5.5 million workers, passed a motion at its 2025 conference to ‘reaffirm that our movement’s priority is welfare and wages, not weapons and war’. No broadcaster touched the story and both the Guardian and the Independent ignored it."
More here: https://t.co/WhetfbeGZC