Reporting from the historic city of Tyre for @TheNationalNews. We saw clear damage at one of the archaeological sites, where wreckage was scattered among ancient Roman ruins and a column had been broken by an Israeli strike on Sunday. The attack targeted, and completely obliterated, a heritage house just a few metres away.
The area is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, which legally protects landmarks or areas legally because of their “outstanding value to humanity.”
@lukeakehurst The Mod is notoriously bad at procurement. Slow, inefficient and it buys the wrong things! It is wedded to US toys that don't work and requires American sign off for key decisions. We need to spend less, smarter.
The brutal U.S. attacks on Indian commercial vessels which have killed at least three Indian nationals, stand as clear evidence of America’s ongoing policy of armed robbery and State piracy.
We extend our sympathies to the families and friends of the slain Indian sailors and offer our sincere condolences to the Indian people and government.
The international community must hold the United States accountable for its lawless conduct, which continues to threaten global peace and security while endangering the freedom of navigation.
I see *not* giving the military 28 billion pounds out of the welfare budget is “a political decision”, in a way that giving the military 28 billion pounds out of the welfare budget wouldn’t be political at all. The latter is, I assume, more of a natural occurrence, like a sunrise
From Southport to Belfast, we keep seeing the same pattern: a terrible crime, followed by racist mobs attacking black and brown people who had nothing to do with it.
These are pogroms.
The politicians and media figures who spent years demonising migrants and inflaming racial hatred have blood on their hands.
We must stand together against this hatred and organise against this fascism.
why the hell is the Met Commissioner allowed to do the talk show rounds denouncing his boss lol. Basic norms of governance just collapsing in real time
Starmer's problem is not that the public haven't seen the real him, it's that they have. Suck up, punch down, freebies for me and barracks-grey austerity for thee, warfare state replacing welfare state, full pandering to moneyed and corporate elites. They see and detest it all!
Reform don’t do the job.
Rob Kenyon, #Makerfield Reform UK candidate was elected a Wigan councillor a month ago. He’s not attended a single meeting or done a single piece of work on it.
Nigel Farage was elected MP for Clacton. He’s spent 2 years anywhere but Clacton.
In his first column for Zeteo UK, acclaimed journalist and author @owenjonesjourno looks at how the lie about immigrants pushed by British media and political elites is fueling the violence we see today.
Read: https://t.co/a8xISjMKr6
If this were Jews locked in a Synagogue, it would be EVERYWHERE in the media by now (rightfully so). Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch et al would have already issued condemnation statements. But because it's Muslims, there's radio silence.
@SciTechgovuk AI can't function without stealing and/or extorting personal data, business data, and creatives' work. It consumes vast amounts of water and power. It leads to mass unemployment and hyper surveillance. It's a cancer.
@DAaronovitch There are better arguments. The Ministry of Defence is notoriously slow, inefficient, and builds the wrong weapons! It buys too many US toys and is too dependent on the US. Spending more wisely, with greater independence, doesn't mean spending more.
The Green's Makerfield candidate Sarah Wakefield on BBC News at Ten,
"We just don't have the levels of youth provision that we had 20 years ago"
"We need to invest far more in youth clubs, in youth workers, in sports facilities, in creative outlets"
"So our young people have things to do, places to go, safe places where they can enjoy and become the best people that they can be"
@USAmbUN@USEmbassyManama@Bapco That is demonstrably a lie. And the first act of the war was those 'brave' Americans killing over 160 Iranian schoolgirls. With help from the Gulf states.
“The truth is that the global far right have spent the past few years using a billionaire-owned social media platform to deliberately whip up racist violence on Britain’s streets and now they are finally starting to succeed.”
@adambienkov@BylineTimes
https://t.co/vhb5jPD0wa
@KemiBadenoch Britain is the 5th wealtiest country globally but has the lowest benefits of any comparable country and much poorer countries
Badenoch is an entitled, rich class warrior who always punches down
A profoundly important investigation that the mainstream press has ignored. People should go to jail for this—a massive heist of British democracy in broad daylight, the consequences of which are the narrow remaking of Parliament by a tiny corrupt faction.