Frank Jacobs

Hillrise Ward
Islington North Labour Party

Unison Health retired member

Slava Ukraina!

Newport County AFC

[Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي @NTarnopolsky]

💥#Breaking: In an extraordinary statement, Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara declares that "in light of erroneous reports—the Attorney General wishes to clarify that in a nation governed by the rule of law, it is not permissible to interrogate citizens or elected officials without evidence justifying such action.

Should the Shin Bet or any other entity possess evidence that warrants an investigation, they are invited to present it.

Anyone who needs to be interrogated will be interrogated; however, individuals will not be interrogated in the absence of an evidentiary basis.

Furthermore, for the past two days, the Shin Bet has failed to transfer investigative materials to the special investigative team established per the recommendation of Justice Noam Solberg, in cooperation with the Israel Police and with the guidance of the State Attorney’s Office. Consequently, the handling of this matter is effectively being delayed."

[The Republic @republicjournal]

Kenya is the world’s leading black tea exporter, yet 834,000 growers remain poor.

Why does $1.4 billion in exports leave growers below the poverty line?

The social life of tea money and what it reveals about obligation in Kenya.

Read in The Republic:

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

I had running battles with this vile shit

He led the protest against landing migrants in Portsmouth

Caused our RNLI station to close

Besieged a hotel mistaking a Pakistan cricket team for migrants

Losing us our City of Culture bid

& now this 👇

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Shocking…
This is Taraneh Alidoosti. The actress who represented Iranian cinema to the world, the star of the film that won the Oscar. What did she do? She posted one photo without the hijab during Woman Life Freedom uprising in 2022 to show her solidarity with the People of Iran .

That is all. She said no to executions, no to the crackdown. That same week they came to her home and took her to Evin prison. When she was released, she was no longer the same Taraneh. Doctors diagnosed her with a rare illness that made her skin fall off and ravaged her body. She is still under treatment.

They say it was caused by drug interaction. Which drugs? What did they give her in that prison? No one answers. Today this photo is going viral across Iran because people want to see the price of one photo without hijab. To the regime it was just a photo.

To us, Taraneh is a woman who gave up everything: her career, her cinema, her health. And even now, in silence, mourning her father, she has not bowed. Taraneh, you did not just remove the hijab. You tore off their mask. We are your voice.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We are not inviting Putin to Kyiv. They came to us without an invitation in 2022. But that’s not why there’s no point in inviting Putin to Kyiv. It’s because he won’t come. The same goes for inviting me to Moscow. What Russia is doing is destructive. It’s simply spitting in the face of the whole world that wants this war to end. That’s why no one will support going to Moscow.

As for a phone call, Russia will use it as an excuse to avoid any further meetings. And we understand this game. It leads nowhere. It would just be a very formal, dry phone conversation where I would once again have to listen to a history lecture from the leader of the Russian Federation, rather than hear about real steps to actually end the war.

If we want to end the war, we have to meet and take the first step: a ceasefire.

From answers to journalists’ questions in Berlin.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We have intel that Russia is preparing a new massive attack on our country – primarily targeting energy and logistics. The assumption is basically that tomorrow the world will be watching the American midterms, and what is happening here in Ukraine, along with our difficulties with air defense and Patriot missiles, will be overlooked.

We need signals from the world to Russia that will make them feel that terror is no good, that it will bring no gains, and that as long as this war continues, their oil will burn, and they will not be able to make money doing business with the world. We must not play games with Russia’s oil or gas revenues. We must put pressure on Russia in such a way that it has no alternative but to end this war. America can do this.

[Barbara Rich @BarbaraRich_law]

“Reminiscent of the Shoah”. Can this man ever have visited a concentration camp or Holocaust memorial site and looked for the names of his family members amongst the many there? Or fully read and understood the record of the Wannsee conference in January 1942? Imagine making this comparison and at the same time sermonising about “a moral society”. And, of course, asking for donations for yet more litigation https://t.co/aX5r3Cz0MU

[Elizabeth Tsurkov @LizHurra]

I've been studying racist incitement in Israel for 15 years. I've never seen it this bad. Netanyahu fears losing power to a Jewish-Arab alliance & is siccing his dogs to incite against 21% of the country's citizens. Disturbingly, journalists in mainstream outlets incl. Channels 11, 12, 13 are part of this pack.

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

We will finally, finally see the shape of reforms to ILR tomorrow.

Mahmood will set out details to MPs and meet trade unions

https://t.co/6h3cOKsqOA

[Theo Francken @FranckenTheo]

Gisteren in het centrum van Gent, een Oekraïens meisje zingt urenlang over liefde en leed. En over verlies. Een Oekraïense vlag en de micro in haar hand. Een Oekraïense gitarist in legerbroek begeleidt haar. Ze zingt hier Ha nebi / In the sky van de bekende Oekraïense band Okean Elzy.

1 November Allerheiligen. Vandaag herdenken we onze doden. De geliefden die we verloren met de herinneringen die we koesteren.

Ik denk aan mijn geliefden.
Ik denk aan de honderdduizenden Oekraïense oorlogsslachtoffers.
Ik denk aan al die duizenden Oekraïense meisjes die geen vader meer hebben.

En ik denk aan dit moedige meisje met haar prachtige stem.

Zorg goed voor elkaar, nog extra vandaag. Het leven is zo broos en kwetsbaar. ❤️

[Johanna Nyman @JohannaNyman5]

“Putin has no need for peace. He wants to rebuild the Russian Empire, and there can be no such empire without Ukraine. He will only make peace if forced to, and we must show strength and consistency and support Ukraine in every possible way.”

– Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin, 23 Oct 2026

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

My greatest regret is never having become fluent in Hebrew. A new school in Gaza’s Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone is now teaching displaced Palestinian children to speak and write the language. Hebrew was taught in Gaza three decades ago, before the Palestinian Authority assumed control of the Strip, but that ended. Hamas later offered it only in limited settings as “the language of our enemy.”

I vividly remember older generations of Gazans, especially those who worked in Israel, speaking Hebrew and using it to build relationships across the Palestinian-Israeli divide. My hope is that, alongside English, Hebrew becomes a standard part of education for Gaza’s future generations, strengthening connectivity and enabling Palestinians to communicate directly with neighbors who matter immensely, whether we like it or not.

Recently, I met senior Israeli military and political officials whose fluency in Arabic gave them a deeper, more nuanced understanding of Palestinian society. Palestinians likewise need a better grasp of Israeli society, politics, media, and public discourse. Healing and reconciliation require a shared language. Perhaps this can be one small step on the long road toward making that possible.

[Lucie Kon @imluciekon]

Telling the story of what happened in my last years at the BBC has meant being honest about something I have found even harder to talk about.
After I raised a grievance about antisemitism, I was gradually isolated and denied more and more of the job I loved so much. The loneliness of that took a serious toll on my mental health. I became ill with anorexia, a recurrence of an illness I had when I was younger, but this time it came back with a vengeance. Each time I thought I was taking a step or two forward, something would happen at work that knocked me back.
I was ashamed, and at times I am not sure I was believed. I kept trying to explain that I was struggling. More than once I was told I wasn’t the only one. I felt like colleagues thought I was making it up.
Since February last year I have been admitted to hospital four times. The most recent admission, and I hope the last, was for three months over the summer. The NHS staff on that ward saved me.
I’m sharing this because if I was going to tell my story honestly, I had to tell all of it. Shame keeps people silent. Anorexia is an illness, not a choice and not a weakness, and no one who is this unwell should have to prove it.
Swipe for some of what I was told along the way.
@HadleyFreeman has also struggled with anorexia, and in her brilliant piece in The Sunday Times she writes about our shared experience. Thank you, Hadley.
If you are struggling, or worried about someone, @beatedsupport
helpline is free on 0808 801 0677.
https://t.co/xrQzywOUbm

#Anorexia #EatingDisorders #EatingDisorderRecovery #MentalHealth #mentalhealthatwork

[Sofia Afonso Ferreira @sofiafonsoferre]

I lived in Stockholm. I lived in the house of a Holocaust survivor. Six years a prisoner in three different extermination camps. Sweden was a safe haven for many survivors, not everything went well, but it was a home for those who lost everything.

It is with sadness and outrage that I see posters in the shop windows of Stockholm as if we were in the 1930s in Nazi Germany.

Photograph of the door of Green Laces – a shop for vegan shoes and accessories at Götgatan 28, Stockholm.

[inna shevchenko @femeninna]

As the ceasefire in Oleshky is extended to the Kherson region, people are returning to their homes to collect what belongings they can, or simply to see their homes one last time. Everyone expects another Russian assault on the city.

My mother has just forwarded me a video filmed by my aunt. The village where I spent every summer of my childhood. My grandmother’s house. There is nothing left. Just ruins, blackened streets, and wild grass instead of life.

I keep looking at the faces of people evacuated from Oleshky. Their eyes are so wet. “I wish so much I could taste potatoes,” one woman says with a smile. F@ck. A teenage boy in a red hoodie getting onto an evacuation bus. Five years of his childhood spent in terror and hunger. I’m so sorry, boy.

I have no argument to make here. Nothing is coming at the end of this text.

The strangest part of all this is that I still can’t quite believe it’s really happening. To my people. To my family. To my parents.
I wish I’d become bitter enough by now that none of it could hurt me anymore.

But, it still hurts. So much.What have you done to Ukrainians? What have you allowed to be done to us?

[Evan Dyer @EvanDyerCBC]

Gadi Eisenkot reverses course and says he will break the election deadlock imposed by Jewish Israeli parties’ boycott of Israeli Arab parties.
He will form government with the backing of the Arab Joint List. This would mark the end of Netanyahu as PM.

[Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 @AlonLeeGreen]

HAPPENING NOW IN TEL AVIV: tens of thousands of Israeli citizens, Jews and Palestinians, are marching to demand a Jewish-Arab government after winning against Netanyahu - Ben Ggovernment on Tuesday.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

"Putin will wage war. I don’t know when, but he will. And you, Europeans, will be surprised to discover that this war is aimed at you, too... You think that what is happening in Moscow has nothing to do with you—that it’s our problem.
Putin hates people like me, certainly. But through us—in Russia, or through the revolutionaries in Ukraine or Georgia—it is you he hates: your democracy, your society, your freedoms.
Do you think his regime is merely a threat to us? Your awakening will be brutal."

Anna Politkovskaya, in Paris, 2005.
She was assassinated in the lobby of her apartment building on October 7, 2006—Putin’s birthday.

[Allison Spencer @AllisonESpencer]

We have a loved one scheduled to be on this flight. He will be killed if he’s returned to the Taliban. He supported the US mission in Afghanistan. He has broken no laws. He came here legally. Seeking asylum should not be a death sentence.

[Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk]

A Section 35 dispersal order will be in place in parts of central London from 8am to 11pm today.

This is following information that a group are planning to attend an event and express support for a proscribed organisation, which is an offence under the Terrorism Act.

The order will apply to the area outlined in the below map and means officers can order a person to leave the area or face arrest, where certain conditions apply.

Updates on today's policing operation will be posted on this thread.