Keir Starmer thinks a retweet should disqualify someone from leading a political party, but that appointing the best ‘pal’ of the world’s most notorious paedophile, as Ambassador to Washington, shouldn’t.
Be serious!
The @BBCNews has turned into an active & unrelenting propagandist for Netanyahu’s expansionist wars for a Greater Israel. They've abandoned any pretence of analysis & just read out IDF press releases as if they are objective truth. They've turned into Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
If Reform had won the by-election with a margin that huge we would be seeing wall-to-wall coverage for days and statues of Farage erected outside the BBC. Looking forward to seeing how the coverage of the Greens contrasts!
Looks like Tony Blair is very determined to confirm his status as one of the worst persons alive.
His speech is pure 19th century colonialism: he frames the Gaza issue as one of "ineffective governance" on the part of the Palestinians, without as much as mentioning the 17-year blockade, the occupation, or the small matter of the deadliest assault on a civilian population this century.
I'd love to understand how you build "effective institutions" when:
- Your airport was destroyed by Israel in 2001
- Your seaport is blockaded
- Building materials are banned as "dual use"
- Your university gets bombed every few years
- Your civil servants can't travel for training
- Your economy is strangled by design
- Your people and government officials are routinely killed in devastating attacks
And he uses this, the eminently predictable outcome of this continuous strangling of a people, as evidence that they can't govern themselves and that they require outside management by the architects of their immiseration.
Absolutely repugnant, no other word for it.