@SeannAlbannach@StephenFlynnSNP Disagree strongly re John Swinney. His invaluable USP is his honesty, good nature and clear ambition for Scotland - not himself. We needed, and still do need, calm steady hands. And definitely not to swing to the right
Very sad to learn that Radio 4's The World Tonight is to be killed off in the latest round of BBC cuts. It has a long and honourable history as one of the more thoughtful BBC news programmes and I am proud to have been associated with it for more than twenty years.
I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt”
It’s working-class Black and brown people being pushed out of their homes. This is racist violence and intimidation. Don’t dress it up as anything else.
New: The Washington Post reconstructed journalist Amal Khalil’s final hours in Lebanon found that Israel’s military denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive.
w/ @suzanHaidamous, @mmkelly22, and @MohamdEch
https://t.co/ar48t6g4ei
⚡️BREAKING:
The New York Times obtained autopsy reports for 14 of the 15 people killed in the March 23 Israeli attack on an ambulance and fire truck in Gaza.
The reports show that most victims—paramedics and rescue workers—were killed by gunshots to the head, chest, or back. Four were shot directly in the head [executed]. Others had shrapnel wounds. Despite wearing medical uniforms and traveling in marked vehicles with sirens, they were shot multiple times at close range.
Israel initially lied about the crime committed then later took responsibility once the lies were exposed. The 15 victims included 14 rescue workers and a UN employee. Israeli soldiers buried the bodies in a mass grave and crushed and buried the ambulances, fire truck, and UN vehicle.
Today we celebrate World Press Freedom Day, sponsored by UNESCO. Unfortunately, this right is often violated, sometimes flagrantly, sometimes in hidden ways. Let us remember the many journalists and reporters who are victims of war and violence.
Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK must not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.
"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race."
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor
These are the names of 274 Palestinian journalists in Gaza killed by Israel since October 7, 2023. It’s the deadliest war for media workers in history.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
May the memory of the 250 journalists murdered in Gaza be honored in the **Genocide Museum** that must be part of the reparations program owed to the Palestinians, when the genocide actually ends.
PS. Deleting a killed journalist's account is to kill them twice.
🌐French journalists stand in solidarity with the hundreds of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza by Israel to prevent reporting on the genocide.
I wonder what it takes for other journalists to stand against the slaughtering of their colleagues.
West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory.
https://t.co/c5dxs9GuNi
‘NO OTHER LAND’ co-director Yuval Abraham reports that co-director Hamdan Ballal was attacked and wounded by Israeli settlers, and then abducted by Israeli soldiers from within the ambulance taking him to the hospital.
His condition and whereabouts are currently unknown.
“I’m disgusted to be British for our role in GEN0CIDE in G٨z٨.”
Iconic UK fashion designer Katharine Hamnett threw her CBE award away in protest against Britain’s role in lsr@el’s war on G٨z٨.
Hats off to her❤️