Andrew Randall

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved this.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

‘Inadequate measures’: Green Party MP Ellie Chowns pressed Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper why she did nothing to prevent an Israeli property event from taking place in London – one that included selling developments on illegal settlements in the West Bank.

Rights groups such as Amnesty International and Palestine Solidarity Campaign had warned the government about the event in the weeks leading up to it.

Chowns asked how the government failed to even prevent marketing of the expo, let alone stopping it altogether.

Head over to https://t.co/M5fFLgtdTv for more

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

All the humiliations that I'm aware of so far have been inflicted on Latino, Black or Muslim-origin teams/referees/fans

[du côté de chez rob @ragandboneshop]

what does one even say? one of the books to which i feel most sympathetic. i adore schmidt’s narrators’ tendency toward eremitic anarchism, their devotion to art and nature. i wish i had better german but woods’s english rendition is superior to most recent english prose.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A giant inflatable World Cup soccer ball broke free, turning traffic into a game of Rocket League

Some drivers tried to avoid the ball, but a truck appeared to hit it

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

For people outside the UK who might not be aware:

If anyone here replies "yes" to this tweet, they could be arrested. Yes really!

[Nik D @nikidoog]

Slade performing “Martha My Dear” (Lennon/McCartney) on BBC One's Monster Music Mash show which was hosted by Alan Price. This was the band’s first appearance on national TV.

Happy Birthday Noddy Holder

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Parliament should reverse the decision to proscribe Palestine Action urgently before we see large numbers of elderly people in particular being dragged before our courts. Classifying protest through direct action as terrorism brings Parliament & our judicial system into disrepute

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

El demente de Trump se gastó 14 millones de dólares en pintar de "azul americano" la piscina del Lincoln Memorial, en Washington... al día siguiente de pintarla, se llenó de algas que parecía un río infestado de cocodrilos de la selva del Amazonas.

Trump no pensó que la pintura oscura elevaría la temperatura del agua de la piscina y causaría un rápido crecimiento de algas. 🤡

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

Excellent summary of the mainstream Labour critique of the blank cheque the military political complex are demanding. As I told the BBC and Sky - a country has to be worth fighting for.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

He is literally inciting racist pogroms on our streets using the communications platform he bought because he has too much money.

Musk is actively making black & brown people physically unsafe in their homes with his trillions. Ask them what difference it makes to their lives🙄

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.

I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

EXCLUSIVE: More than half of former Labour voters who intent to back a centre or leftwing party in the next general election have cited the government's record on Gaza as a reason for abandoning Labour, new polling shows.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

David Tennat, "Did you see Robert Kenyon's remarks on the BBC?"

Chloe Petts, "He had to say: I've not made sexual remarks about Carol Vordenman"

"Which I think is like if you put Bill Clinton's I did not have sexual relations with AI, and said, make it British"

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Keir Starmer knew throughout the genocide that Israel was committing every possible war crime.

If he is ever tried for complicity, he will have to answer:

“Why did you ignore evidence of Israeli war crimes when your own Health Secretary submitted it?”

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

An audience member at a Q&A recently asked me why I'm so apocalyptic. The genocide in Gaza, beyond being a tragedy, marks an irreversible shift in the global world order. Before the genocide, the imperialist ambitions of the Western oligarchic class were partially constrained by the utopian ideal of the rules-based order. Now that ideal is gone, and unrestrained barbarity will characterize the methodology of the war-making ruling class. In other words — our future is an apocalyptic one.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

It's not just the exploitation of a tragedy.

JD Vance's picture of Britain - where migrants have led to a crime surge - is the opposite of the truth.

https://t.co/y5El5FUj7v

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.

https://t.co/G1E5zXdyid

[films7 @films7]

Certes, Godard était aussi ça, "dégueulasse", comme dans le film.
Mais aussi, Louis Aragon : "Pendant que j'assistais à la projection de Pierrot, j'avais oublié ce qu'il faut, paraît-il, dire et penser de Godard. Qu'il a des tics, qu'il cite celui-ci et celui-là, qu'il nous fait la leçon, qu'il se croit ceci ou cela... enfin qu'il est insupportable, bavard, moralisateur (ou immoralisateur) : je ne voyais qu'une chose, une seule, et c'est que c'était beau..."

[films7 @films7]

Jean-Luc Godard : "Il y a deux choses qui m'ont fait aimer Léo Ferré. C'était du temps de "J'accuse" et de "La Cause du peuple", quand ils cherchaient des vendeurs de journaux. Avec quelqu'un de "J'accuse", j'étais allé demander à Léo Ferré de leur apporter son soutien. A ce moment-là, il donnait un spectacle à Bobino. Il nous a répondu qu'on était sympas, mais que lui était un artiste de Variétés.
Son spectacle durait longtemps, et trois semaines apr��s, il avait créé une nouvelle chanson, c'était "Le Conditionnel de Variétés" [qui parle du journal "La Cause du Peuple"]. Je l'ai d'ailleurs mise à la fin d'une des Histoire(s) du Cinéma : "Moi qui ne suis qu'un artiste de Variétés..." Je l'ai aussi mise dans "Le Rapport Darty".
C'est Anne-Marie qui m'a fait connaître ses grands textes, ses grandes chansons qui n'ont jamais eu l'honneur de passer à la télévision. "L'Oppression" est splendide."
(Entretien de Jean-Luc Godard avec Alain Bergala, 1997)

Léo Ferré : Le Conditionnel de Variétés
"Comme si je vous disais que le pays qui s'en prend à la liberté de la presse est un pays au bord du gouffre.
Comme si je vous disais que ce journal qui aurait pu être interdit par ce pays au bord du gouffre pourrait peut-être s'appeler "La Cause du Peuple".
Comme si je vous disais que le gouvernement intéressé qui s'en prend à ce genre de presse d'opposition pourrait sans doute s'imaginer qu'il n'y a ni cause ni peuple."