There are moments when a man ceases to be a man.
He becomes a wound. A gash torn open in the universe.
I am that wound.
I write these words not from a room, but from the grave of meaning itself.
And I write them with trembling hands and a blasphemous heart because I no longer know if prayer is a virtue or a curse.
Because the silence from the heavens has become so loud, I fear it will shatter my skull.
They told us to flee.
They told us: “Go south, there you will be safe.”
So we went.
Obedient.
Meek.
Begging life like beggars beg bread.
But there is no south.
There is no safety.
There is only earth quaking under the weight of corpses, and children carrying the eyes of the dead in their faces.
I sit now in a room smaller than a confession booth, twenty-eight square meters of guilt.
And I am ashamed to possess even that.
Ashamed because my friend lies headless in the north.
Ashamed because I breathe, and his mother no longer does.
Ashamed because survival, here, has become a sin.
What is this?
What do you call a world where innocence is a death sentence, and justice a superstition?
Do not call it war.
Call it ritual slaughter.
Call it divine abandonment.
Call it what it is: the slow crucifixion of a people in broad daylight, while the bishops of democracy sip wine and speak of “context.”
They bombed a tower today.
Forty-eight families.
Thirty minutes to escape.
Then it was fire.
Then it was rubble.
Then it was silence.
And the world, this bloated, bloodless world, watched with dry eyes and full stomachs.
They wrote it down.
They called it “a response.”
They said: Hamas infrastructure.
I say: a nursery with blood still wet on the blankets.
I say: a child curled around her dead sister’s shoes.
I say: a father digging through bricks with his fingernails because there is no shovel left, no ambulance, no hope.
And the tents, do not insult us with that word.
A tent is not shelter.
A tent is the mockery of shelter.
A tent is what you give to ghosts when even the dust has forgotten their names.
And still, somehow, my heart beats.
Why?
What right does it have to beat?
What right have I to remain while others vanish in smoke?
Oh God, if You are watching, then watch this.
Three more houses have fallen as I write.
Three.
Each with its own holy story, its own lullaby interrupted by the scream of steel.
If this is not hell, then hell is redundant.
And yet I write.
Because words are the only thing we have left to bury the dead with.
#GazaGenocide
Israel has been committing genocide against the Palestinian people.
Piecemeal sanctions against settlement goods or individual ministers won't cut it.
Britain must end all trade, all arms sales, and all support for Israel's economy of occupation, apartheid and genocide.
"Beachgoers warned against swimming after pollution alert."
The "bathing season" finishes at the end of the month, after that you're on your own, none of our beaches will be tested again until next May.
You have been warned.
https://t.co/vZ2yc09l8K
Astonishing fact: the BBC has not broadcast an iv with Francesca Albanese since Dec '23.
Almost 3 yrs of genocide & they've not once felt the need to talk to the UN's Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. /1
This is horrifying! 🚨
“AI technology that listens to and transcribes patients’ consultations with doctors can put them at risk by getting the names of drugs and illnesses wrong, an NHS watchdog has warned.”
Full Guardian article here: https://t.co/2NezJDQZ3b
The politicians are finally back in Westminster today. If you don’t want Andy Burnham to advance NHS privatisation (like Starmer was doing 🚨), hit the like button and share this. Let’s see what everyone thinks… 🌟
“Water company plans £89m shareholder payout despite sewage conviction.”
And that boys & girls is how it works
We can spend £91.6m fixing the sewage works or dump that sh*t into the nearest river, pay a £2.6m fine and give the rest to our shareholders.
https://t.co/ro7ZusRjnj
The level of destruction in Nepal is absolutely devastating.
My thoughts go out to all those who have lost loved ones & to rescuers risking their lives to help others.
All possible aid must be sent to save lives & to show survivors of this catastrophe that they are not alone.
It rained....
And as predicted on @LBC with @HenryRiley1 not 48 hours ago.
Anything in brown is sewage being dumping into the environment right now, in real time, anything in red is sewage dumped over the last 24 hours.
Israel has evicted 33,000 Palestinians from three refugee camps: Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur al-Shams, since early 2025.
The IDF is still refusing to let them return to their homes and is building permanent bases where their homes once stood, making the eviction permanent. They are considering moving on the refugee camps in Tulkarm and Nur al-Shams next.
The people thrown out of their homes are living with their families, in mosques, or trying to start lives elsewhere and depending on meager humanitarian aid. Ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.
For 37 years, privatised water companies have fleeced customers and poisoned our supply whilst extracting £88bn+ in dividends.
Privatisation is a scam. It is absurd that successive governments have allowed this farce to continue.
Put water into democratic public ownership, now.
The ongoing detention and shocking mistreatment of Imran Khan is a grave violation of human rights, democracy and basic decency.
I reiterate my calls for his release.
Israeli defence minister Katz has issued a decree to execute any child flying a kite.
Don’t forget to remain silent about this!
Silence is complicity.
Silence is taking the side of the psychopaths.
Silence is taking the side of those committing genocide.
Israel has said that paper kites flown by Palestinian children will be treated as weapons of war.
Read that again.
This is the reality of genocide: the total destruction of innocence, freedom and joy.
End all military cooperation with Israel, now.
Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?
For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir, which according to the UN, amounts to torture and which is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health.
He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.
The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.
He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.
Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.
Yet those orders are being defied.
This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.
He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.
His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls.
I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father.
@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court; restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.
Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government to please now do the right thing.
For the last 3 months villagers in Benenden, Kent have had to play daily "water roulette", will their taps work or will they not.
"How many times can we flush the toilet that day? Which garden plants do we condemn to shrivel and die?"
And guess what? Ofwat still hasn't revoked South East Water's operating licence.
https://t.co/QGrJbOg5j1
"Not a single person has been held accountable for their participation in genocide.
Meanwhile, opponents of genocide are sentenced as terrorists.
What kind of dystopian world are we living in? This absurdity must end."
Jeremy Corbyn.
Palestinian teenager Kareem Sanad Shalaldeh, 17, was murdered today by Israeli settler terrorists in the town of Sa’ir, in the occupied West Bank.
He was at home when dozens of armed settler terrorists stormed the town and opened fire on civilians. He went outside to see what was happening and was shot in the chest by settler terrorists.
This is the reality Palestinians in the occupied West Bank face: daily, state-backed settler terrorism while the world looks away.
Hind Rajab's mother posted this after 'israel' admitted they murdered her 5 year old daughter:
'I am the mother of Hind Rajab.
After more than two years, the "israeli" military has finally acknowledged that its forces opened fire on the car in which Hind and my family were trapped, and that it will open a criminal investigation, despite denying this at the time.
But I want to say this clearly: opening an investigation is not justice.
Hind was a frightened and injured child, trapped inside the car among the bodies of her family members, pleading with the world to save her. The paramedics who went to rescue her were later killed.
Why was there no investigation when Hind was begging for help? Why was there no investigation when the paramedics went to save her? And why, after more than two years?
I do not want a closed military investigation. I want an independent, transparent investigation and genuine accountability for everyone responsible.
Hind is not just a news story or a case reopened because of international pressure.
Hind is my daughter, and I will continue to demand the truth and justice for her, my family, and the paramedics who tried to save her.
Opening an investigation is a long-overdue step.
Justice has not yet begun.'
The original post from Hind's mother Wesam:
https://t.co/NQqgLH2I5y