Earle Roberts

[Sam Neill @TwoPaddocks]

GOODBYE . My friends, I’m just going to walk quietly away from Twitter for now . I am not happy with what’s happened at Twitter & I’m not happy to be in a place that is so angry & divisive . But I’ll still be alive on Instagram. https://t.co/23YkeePui4
And I miss my blue tick !

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Now you know where the saying “It’s just the tip of the iceberg" comes from 😱

[Michael Pascoe @MichaelPascoe01]

“The big man takes the heavy end of the log”
Something for your soul this Sunday morning - @Martin_Flanagan and Tom Uren
https://t.co/tixMXthFYr

[Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina]

When I was at university, I became the youngest ever recipient of the Vasyl Stus Prize. At the time, I was fully aware that this was a huge vote of confidence that I still had to live up to. The situation is quite similar now.

The European Order of Merit was awarded for the first time in Strasbourg. We were sitting in the European Parliament’s plenary chamber, and looking at Lech Wałęsa, Angela Merkel, Javier Solana, Cardinal Pietro Parolin and other distinguished figures, I suddenly realised that I was once again the youngest in the room.

I spoke about how, after three centuries in the shadow of the Russian Empire, Ukraine is returning home to Europe. And we are paying the highest price for this. Our defenders are holding back the Russian horde, and it is only because of this that people in other European countries are still safe. A global storm is approaching. Europe is not so much about geography as it is about the values of freedom and democracy. And only our readiness to defend them will determine whether it has a future.

I believe in Ukraine. I believe in Europe. We are not hostages to circumstances; we are participants in this historic process. And I want to see how we have achieved the historic goal that previous generations of Ukrainians dreamed of. And how the slogan ‘away from Moscow, closer to Europe’ has become a reality.

And since I find myself once again in the role of the youngest, here is one of my favourite poems by Mykola Vinhranovsky. Below is the sub-line translation. 

We are here again. We are the latecomers. The very last.
Who grew up from frail mothers
In a garden laid waste.

I know, it is not for silence

That volcanoes gaze
From beneath our youthful brows.

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

Never in the field of human endeavour has so much been fucked up for so many by so few.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

The PM continues to echo the gas industry’s lines that tax on offshore gas (PRRT) will go up over time, but the budget papers revised the revenue for this year DOWN and show revenue from the tax will be LOWER in 2029-30 than it is today 🤯
https://t.co/AOXVBq4n4g

[Reuters @Reuters]

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Israeli settlers forced a Palestinian family to exhume their father's body from a freshly dug grave in the occupied West Bank, claiming the cemetery land was part of their settlement https://t.co/w6YFZGqgxW

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

"There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?”

So begins @yanisvaroufakis's powerful and much-needed tribute to @FranceskAlbs, who has not been deterred by American sanctions and Israeli slander from highlighting the genocide in Gaza and the plight of the Palestinians

https://t.co/hLe6px0Eyv

[Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش @citrinowicz]

It’s hard to escape the sense that the administration simply does not have a coherent strategy for Iran, and that what we are witnessing instead is a form of strategic improvisation.

Washington does not want a war, yet it also does not want to appear politically weak by accepting terms associated with Iranian demands. The result is a prolonged state of limbo that deepens uncertainty in the global economy while doing little to convince Tehran to fundamentally alter its position.

The constant policy shifts, contradictory public messaging, and oscillation between threats and diplomatic signaling all point to a deeper problem: the inability to build a sustainable and coherent Iran strategy. On one hand, there is fear in Washington of appearing to concede to Iran. On the other, there is growing recognition that escalation alone is unlikely to force the Iranian leadership to capitulate or accept maximalist American demands at the negotiating table.

At the core of this problem lies a deeper issue — a persistent misunderstanding of how Iran’s leadership perceives pressure, deterrence, and strategic endurance. Many policymakers in Washington continue to approach Iran through frameworks developed for other geopolitical rivals, assuming that economic pressure, military threats, or diplomatic isolation will eventually produce strategic surrender. But the Iranian system has repeatedly demonstrated a high tolerance for prolonged pressure and a willingness to absorb significant costs in pursuit of regime survival and long-term strategic objectives.

This disconnect helps explain why U.S. policy often appears reactive rather than strategic: alternating between coercion and de-escalation without a clearly defined end state. The administration understands the risks of military escalation, especially after years of instability across the Middle East, yet it has also boxed itself into a political environment where compromise is easily framed domestically as weakness.

The consequence is a policy caught between incompatible objectives: avoiding war, avoiding concessions, maintaining deterrence, reassuring allies, and preventing regional escalation, all without a realistic framework for changing Iranian behavior.

#IranWar‌

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Did you know that Dr Hussam Abu Afiya, the heroic doctor who stayed until the last moment in his bombed out hospital saving lives, and who the Israeli army abducted illegally, is STILL kept in chains? Now, Israel seeks to extend his illegal detention. Speak out!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Death is always lurking. We see it in violence, in the wounds of the world, in the cry of pain that rises from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys. #Easter

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING.

Israel is blowing up entire civilian homes in Naqoura, South Lebanon right now.

Civilian homes.

No military target.

No justification.

Just pure terror and destruction.

This is a war crime in broad daylight.

And the world watches in silence.

[Kandice Ardiel @hikandice]

Since yesterday, Israeli soldiers have destroyed all the cameras facing Minghy Street at @UNIFIL_’s Naqoura headquarters.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Why doesn't the media talk about the peacekeepers killed by Israel in Lebanon?

Israel deliberately killed three UN Indonesian peacekeeper and wounded others in Lebanon.

Israel cannot continue to be treated as a full member of the UN.

Attacking UN peacekeepers is an abomination which was in the past perpetrated by terrorists, but never by members of the UN.

Some of you pretended to care what the UN had to say in 1948. Do you care that the UN of today has had more UN personnel killed in the last 2 years than in its history.

This is the moment we can salvage what remains of the UN and international law. I call on everyone to unite for the sake of our humanity and to end impunity for violating international law.

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

Israel now has one of the world’s most extreme death penalty laws.

Israel is brazenly granting itself free rein to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards.

The death penalty will now become part of the system of apartheid, genocide and occupation that Palestinians continue to suffer under.

This law has passed in the same month in which Israeli military attorney general dropped all charges against Israeli soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee.

Read on: https://t.co/cYqkWygZIR

[stranger @strangerous10]

Hillel Newman has justified Israel’s new laws applying the death penalty only to Palestinians, saying it’s because Palestinians are “deranged” & “the usual punishment is no deterrent” — Horrifying the broadcast is allowed to go on. This man is sick. #auspol

[Amnesty International USA @amnestyusa]

Israel is brazenly granting itself carte blanche to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards.

The new law dismantles fundamental safeguards to prevent the arbitrary deprivation of life and protect the right to a fair trial. It further empowers Israel’s system of apartheid, which is maintained by scores of discriminatory laws against Palestinians.

https://t.co/ku7yWQIpig

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

MESSAGE

I wholeheartedly endorse the powerful appeal for peace made by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during his Palm Sunday Mass. His call for the laying down of arms and the renunciation of violence resonated profoundly with me, as it speaks to the very essence of what all major religions teach.

Indeed, whether we look to Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism or any of the world's great spiritual traditions, the message is fundamentally the same: love, compassion, tolerance, and self-discipline. Violence finds no true home in any of these teachings. History has shown us time and again that violence only begets more violence and is never a lasting foundation for peace.

An enduring resolution to conflict, including the ones we see in the Middle East or between Russia and Ukraine, must be rooted in dialogue, diplomacy and mutual respect — approached with the understanding that, at the deepest level, we are all brothers and sisters.

I urge for and pray that the violence and conflicts may soon come to an end.

DALAI LAMA

31 March 2026

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

VIDEO | Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir, outside the Knesset chamber, celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for Palestinian detainees, describing it as historic and saying, “Soon we will count them one by one.”