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I just asked the Foreign Secretary why arms sales to Israel under this Labour government now exceed those under the Tories. He dismissed it as “clickbait”.
There’s nothing clickbait about genocide.
He has Palestinian blood on his hands.
'They found themselves made strangers in their own country'
— Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech (1968)
'We risk becoming an island of strangers'
— Keir Starmer (2025)
The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
📍Accompanying President @Christodulides in #Israel.
🔹Important meetings with 🇮🇱 President @Isaac_Herzog and Prime Minister @Netanyahu.
On the agenda:
- Key aspects of Cyprus 🇨🇾-🇮🇱 bilateral relations.
• Overview of regional developments.
• EU-Israel relations, in view also of 🇨🇾 Presidency of the Council of the 🇪🇺 2026.
🔹Meeting with families of hostages still held in captivity in #Gaza. #Cyprus' full and consistent support for the immediate and unconditional release of all the hostages was reiterated.
@PresidentCYP@GidonSaar@CyprusinIsrael@IsraelinCyprus
🚨BREAKING: Five medical staff, nurses, and wounded patients have been killed, and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the emergency building at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.
The death toll is preliminary and expected to rise.
WATCH | Australian medic Muhammad Mustafa describes the aftermath of last night’s attacks at Baptist Hospital in Gaza City:
“It was just mostly women and children burned head to toe, limbs missing, heads missing…”
“We’ve run out of ketamine, propofol — all painkillers. We can’t sedate, can’t give analgesia. We intubate, and people wake up choking — no sedation. Seven girls are getting their legs amputated without anesthesia.”
He says the bombing hasn’t stopped since 1:30 a.m., with screams echoing everywhere and the smell of burnt flesh still filling the air.
Instead of slashing welfare and disability benefits — forcing more disabled people and children into poverty — the government could introduce a 2% tax on assets over £10 million.
It would raise £24 billion — five times the savings from these cuts.
This is austerity 2.0.
"There's an over-diagnosis [of mental heath problems]"
Heath Secretary Wes Streeting says "there are too many people being written off" from work with mental health issues and "too many people aren't getting the support they need"
#BBCLauraK https://t.co/WAWCirkFTF
It’s unbelievable this even needs saying: Investing in weapons is NEVER ethical.
Profiting from violence only fuels destruction, not peace.
Politicians and the media should be prioritising diplomacy, not more death.