Daniel Burrell

PhD student, Wolfson Scholar @durham_history @durham_uni. My research looks at the cremation of the dead in late 19th cent Britain- he/him

[Dr Ally Louks @DrAllyLouks]

Israeli occupation forces have been using this “foul odorant,” known as skunk liquid, since 2008 against Palestinian crowds, homes, shops, schools, hospitals, hotels, restaurants, neighbourhoods, and even funeral processions.

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

Gold Standard Academic Freedom these boys are fighting for (because that’s what *I* used to believe; I was so in awe of academics until I saw them close up!) sadly, think again.

The boys do NOT want to be challenged.
Like ‘free speech’, ‘academic freedom’ is only FOR THEM.
4/4

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

In the final months of his life, Jason Arday was subject to a relentless onslaught of attacks and abuse.

Jason was a human being with friends and family - but he was turned into a pawn for vicious culture wars by a cruel media industry motivated by racism and clicks.

The lessons are never learned. When will the British media face accountability for its behaviour?

Jason was much loved by those around him. May he rest in peace.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

The cruelty shown to Jason Arday in the last two weeks of his life is matched only by the cruelty shown to him after his death.

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

It is not decent to lie. It is not decent to indulge warmongers. It is not decent to, as happened to Faiza Shaheen, abandon a mother who has devoted her life to beating former Tory leaders in safe seats because she is too left-wing. It is not decent to humiliate a predecessor because it’s expedient to do so. It is not decent to refuse to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty, then scrap the two-child benefit cap after caving to internal pressure and to try to take the credit in a resignation speech.

Left Hook by @OliDugmore: Stop calling Keir Starmer a good man

https://t.co/Xq1lYCP3fw

[Mark @mrkphllps1]

OBSESSED with this reaction from Hannah Spencer

#Newsnight

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Every new heat record exposes the same divide: workers and the planet vs billionaires.

People are dying in the heat right now. Yet we’re told there’s always billions for endless war and militarisation, but never a serious plan for the climate crisis.

The richest keep profiting from fossil fuels while insulating themselves in air-conditioned bunkers. Everyone else is left to work through dangerous temperatures, live in overheated homes, and rely on public services pushed to breaking point.

Climate breakdown isn’t just an environmental crisis, it’s a class one.

We need rapid decarbonisation, serious investment in adaptation, and workers’ rights that include a legal maximum workplace temperature.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

History will judge Keir Starmer as a man who lied his way to the top of the Labour Party and then used that power to evoke Enoch Powell with “island of strangers”, keep children in poverty, attack disabled people, scapegoat refugees, strip back civil liberties, and hand our public services to Palantir.

A man who gave the top diplomatic job to the “best pal” of a convicted paedophile, said Israel has the right to cut off water and electricity to Gaza, rolled out the red carpet for Israeli war criminals, and kept the weapons flowing to the Israeli military as it committed genocide.

Good riddance.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.

Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.

That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.

The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants.

Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict.

Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences.

Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670?

It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide.

Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: https://t.co/RyDHG3Iz81

[jewess in distress @rachelcohen7]

🧵 As an anti Zionist Jew I’ve been WILDLY naive about how nasty this would get - of COURSE he’ll never be ‘Jewish enough’ for the Zionists, and for a certain sector of the anti Semitic left ( hi guys!) he’ll always be too Jewish to be trusted as an anti Zionist…

[Cllr Martin Abrams @Martin_Abrams]

As a Jewish person the selective outrage and weaponisation of Antisemitism by people like @SteveReedMP disgusts me and ultimately makes Jewish people less safe.

Steve Reed says "we must call out Antisemitism" but both he and Keir Starmer are silent about the vile Antisemitism being dished out to Zack Polanski the UK's only Jewish political party leader.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

I'm Jewish.

I condemn genocide.

I condemn the Labour Governments role in the Genocide.

The Prime Minister repeatedly conflating criticism of the Israeli Governments genocide and actual antisemitism is disgusting - and makes so many of us as Jewish people feel less safe.

[Gareth Dennis @GarethDennis]

I cannot express the extent to which this company needs to be aggressively dismantled, its assets seized and its data storage destroyed completely. It is a deeply evil organisation run by deeply evil people.

Yet they are still deepening their access in the NHS! Get them out.

[L'Espresso @espressonline]

L'annessione della Cisgiordania, con i soldati complici dei coloni. Gaza annientata. L'avanzata in Libano. Il confine violato in Siria. La guerra all'Iran. Pulizia etnica e massacri. Così la destra sionista dà forma al Grande Israele

Il numero de L’Espresso, in edicola e su app

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Not even the bare minimum of what Israel deserves. Committing a genocide in 4K and constantly bragging about it = grounds for the complete dissolution of a nation. There should be a one state solution where it’s just Palestine, to which then-former Israelis must swear allegiance.

[WillowTheFoxΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️🐾Pawbz are cute!🐾 @Willowfoxxo]

Came across this post again it's been nearly a year since this poor girl left us.

The right always talk about "protecting" the children, all while those same people lead to a teenager to take her own life

You should still be here Charlotte fly high!💔🪽

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

As US Marines amass in the region

and US bombers launch strikes from the UK

It's time this Government is honest about our role.

The UK is an accomplice to Trump's war and must change course.

Stop US forces using the UK as a launchpad - end the era of being Trump's lackey.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This government can't be trusted to end the housing crisis because its ministers are bought and paid for by the developers, landlords and corporate interests who profit from it.