This is Tyre in South Lebanon today.
Israel is leveling entire civilian neighborhoods in one of the most intense bombardments yet.
One of humanity’s oldest cities.
Is being systematically wiped out.
And not a peep from the complicit international community, of course.
A father and his young daughter lie dying having been hit with a precision missile (US made) by Israel.
The ambulance crew arrives to try help.
Israel then hits them with a missile.
All on camera.
Proven.
War crimes.
Yet our leaders still arm them & support them.
Why?
Stop telling me that the problem is Netanyahu.
Israelis gathered together to watch bombs destroy entire towns in Lebanon on a big screen together.
Israeli society is deeply sick and dangerous.
“We’ve got England flags on here, Rachel! Are we going to get arrested?”
After chancellor Rachel Reeves was heckled by a driver in Leeds yesterday, Reform leader Nigel Farage posted on X: “I’d like to buy this man a pint.”
On Novara Live, @AaronBastani says that politicians are getting “hectored” up and down the country – and it’s not “productive political conversation”.
Aaron says that if Farage was hectored in the same way, we’d hear no end to him “effectively cry bullying”.
Not the first time, not the second time, not the third or fourth time, Israel is constantly bombing Lebanon with banned phosphorus munitions, violating Security Council resolution SCR 1701, ceasefire agreement, and international law with absolutely no consequences.
If children are lucky and don't suffocate, the phosphorus burns through the tissues all the way to the bone. It cannot be extinguished.
This is another war crime and the International Criminal Court remains silent.
The great Paul Whitehouse is 68 years old today, which means I am obliged to post this (again!) - arguably the most majestically random but brilliant comedy sketch committed to celluloid for at least the last, what, forty, forty five years?
Yes, forty, forty five years.
Happy birthday Paul 🤘