Mike Stanton @convivir.bsky.social

Socialist and writer. For more poetry and less politics follow me @Penumbrage2

[Mike Stanton @convivir.bsky.social @convivir]

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[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

An exhilarating conversation between three national treasures. What a brilliant idea! Why has noone arranged this before?

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Andy Burnham says he "can't judge" if the Israeli military's crimes in Gaza are a genocide.

The experts already have.

A UN commission, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and leading rights orgs all agree: it's genocide.

Andy, why won't you call it what it is?

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

I cannot believe I have to say this, but we can live without AI. We cannot live without water.

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

“Israel's destruction of life in Lebanon is an extension of its ongoing genocide in Gaza”

Retweet if you agree with Corbyn

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

"My personal pride and joy." That's how Peter Mandelson described the Palantir deal he brokered.

The whole thing stinks. Kick Palantir out of our NHS, now.

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

In 2024 Wes Streeting said that South Africa's ICJ case was a "distraction."

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Over the last 36 hours, we have witnessed the very soul of Nigel Farage — his essence.

It has been over a month since he went into hiding, since serious questions began to be raised over his undeclared £5M donation.

A month since he appeared in front of TV cameras or underwent any questioning at all.

At 8am yesterday morning, Farage released a video, from a field somewhere, calling for rage. Calling for an end to the mythical two-tier policing.

Make no mistake, those were very carefully chosen words — he understood what he was unleashing, and his wish was granted last night in Southampton.

On Tuesday, the Home Secretary made a statement to the House regarding the murder of Henry Nowack. There was, as always, an opportunity to question Shabana Mahmood — was Nigel Farage in attendance?

No, of course not.

Today, Farage was granted a question at PMQs — the showpiece spectacle of the political week in which the country's news and politics fanatics tune in to watch — was Nigel Farage in attendance?

Yes, of course he was.

He had somehow found his way into work after missing 77 separate votes in Parliament because … he would, at least for three minutes, be the centre of the country's political attention.

His question was about the murder of Henry Nowack and the violence that erupted [on his command] last night, but he would not condemn it or call for calm.

Instead, he 'suggested' that this rioting might escalate.

This afternoon, he has performatively written to the BBC because someone on Newsnight dared to accuse him of inciting the violence — playing his perpetual victim card. Again.

And there we see the soul of Nigel Farage — a craven, desperate for attention, evil, petty and pointless man.

END RANT.

[Nick Dearden @nickdearden75]

- 87% of Labour Party members support banning trade with Israeli settlements
- 78% support suspending all UK arms exports
- 68% support suspending the UK-Israel Trade deal.

https://t.co/6DLLMDTxsi

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Ofcom claims there is no consensus to ban Nigel Farage from Presenting on GB News.

Lets show them one.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Cenk Uygur seems to be getting a lot of exposure on the media. So the ban worked out well. (Do politicians have any idea what they're doing?)

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Should Nigel Farage be arrested for inciting riots?

Like - Yes
RT - Instantly

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

Streeting felt such ‘moral urgency’ that he kept quiet and stayed in the government, only resigning when he saw a career opportunity. Beneath contempt.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Israel: -
1. Is not a democracy (unless you think apartheid South Africa was a democracy)
2. Does not have a robust rule of law; it operates within a system of apartheid
3. Uses sexual violence against civilians to terrorise, as a matter of policy, as very well evidenced

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[John Rees @JohnWRees]

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[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Outrageous

[Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley]

A senior British police chief was forced into early retirement because he stopped these racists from going on a pogrom in Birmingham.

[John Rees @JohnWRees]

Madrid is mobilising…

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

I can’t see you how you can possibly avoid using the term ethnic cleansing, without losing your last remaining shreds of integrity as a journalist, Adam.

Lebanon's internal displacement rate is now 22.6 percent — more than one in five of its people. Over 1.2 million people, including 350,000 children, have been forced from their homes, with the IDF launching more than 1,840 attacks on Lebanon since March 2, killing more than 1,497 people and injuring more than 4,639.

Moreover, the language used by Israel Katz to describe his aims in Southern Lebanon is extraordinarily explicit and self-incriminating. He has confirmed that Israel's military would establish a permanent "security zone" inside Lebanon up to the Litani River, that hundreds of thousands of displaced residents would be "completely prevented" from returning, and that "all the houses in the villages adjacent to the border in Lebanon will be demolished in accordance with the Rafah and Beit Hanoun model in Gaza."

The targeting of civilians for displacement specifically identified by their religion (Shia), combined with the destruction of their homes to prevent return, combined with the explicit statement that they will not be permitted to return — these are precisely the elements that international law identifies as forcible transfer and ethnic cleansing. Human Rights Watch has said that "the displacement of the Shia population looks less like a temporary military necessity and more like a move to permanently displace the civilian population based on their religion."

Its not complex, Adam. You just haven't got the balls to say it straight, and that failure makes your reportage worse than worthless. It makes it morally bankrupt.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Can you imagine a situation where our current UK politicians put embargo’s on sending weapons to Israel?
Because that’s what happened in the 1970’s.

Edward Heath halted weapons supplies during the October 1973 war. After that, Margaret Thatcher imposed an embargo that lasted 12 years until 1994, triggered by Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 — she even withdrew Israel’s invitation to a British Army Equipment Exhibition.