Wide-gazing

[Wide-gazing @owlsoflaughter]

@JohnnyboyWelwyn @ianvisits No, unusually the original hall was destroyed in the first world war, and was rebuilt after that, and somehow survived the second.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"The fact the British government takes that position and then continues to lend support to an open genocide being waged by an indicted war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu tells you everything you need to know about this."

＠DropSiteNews co-founder ＠jeremyscahill on the Home Office decision to bar Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker from entering the UK.

🌍 https://t.co/rB90NphURH

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"Some people have said criticising Israel is antisemitic. I think that's absurd."

Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen, who's Jewish, calls the UK government's decision to ban left-wing commentator Hasan Piker from entering the country "crazy at face value".

＠BarbaraGSerra | https://t.co/rB90NphURH

[Nadim Kobeissi @kaepora]

The Israeli army blew up my aunt Zeinab’s house yesterday. She is the fourth immediate family member of mine to have her house destroyed by the IDF in the past two months, ours was destroyed in April.

The IDF knew that this house had no weapons or any sort of military presence, since as can be seen on the fourth photo, they had occupied it for a few days before destroying it: we’ve obtained a subscription to a satellite service, and have been monitoring the area daily to check on our family’s homes. The house was destroyed yesterday as part of a systematic and evil process of destroying every single house in the village of Bint Jbeil.

Israel has been making my family homeless for generations. My grandparents lost their homes to them once. My mother has lost her home to them three times, and myself twice.

None of us have ever been involved in any sort of “resistance” or military action against Israel. In every case, we have been uninvolved, innocent civilians: I am a cryptographer, my mother is a retired journalist, and my father a deceased philosophy professor. My uncles and aunts are history professors and homemakers.

May the world bear witness to this.

[Aisha Nicole Malik-Smith @ANMalikSmith]

I'm not interested in any coverage of Tony Blair's views that makes no mention of the fact the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) is bankrolled by billionaire Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle.

From 2021-2025, Ellison donated or pledged £257m to the TBI. Of course he's an AI evangelist!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

On Eid. Ethnic cleansing on Eid.

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

Haaretz spoke with IDF soldiers who have been serving in Lebanon and paints a picture of a military with two main missions: Flattening houses and stealing anything they can. https://t.co/u1UH1wvF7P

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed every single child in this photo in South Lebanon within less than 30 days.

They were not combatants.

They were children.

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Rayner has been cleared, but the media ran 30 front pages in total, averaging 4 front pages a day during the peak of the story.

Farage's £5 million gift has had two front page stories.

Why would there be such a difference in reporting standards for the two?

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ in violent Jerusalem Day march. Far-right Jewish marchers call for Palestinian villages to ‘burn’ as they storm through Muslim quarter of Old City"
https://t.co/Qg3994UFpB

[Politics In The U.K. @politixintheuk]

Times columnist Fraser Nelson pointed out over the weekend that new Home Office statistics paint a striking picture: net migration has fallen dramatically since Labour entered government, now sitting around 80 per cent below the record highs reached under the Conservatives.

And it is not just the headline figure shifting. Remove international students from the equation and long-term immigration levels are now “probably at a multi-year low”, Nelson wrote on his Substack — a remarkable turnaround after years of Tory chaos, broken promises and soaring numbers.

The asylum backlog is also being rapidly reduced under Labour. After ballooning in the aftermath of Covid while successive Conservative ministers appeared paralysed and unwilling to grip the crisis, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has begun making serious progress in clearing the system.

Away from the Westminster psychodrama and endless Reform stunts, an uncomfortable reality is emerging for Labour’s opponents: the Government may quietly be delivering results where the Tories failed for years.

Source: The London Economic

[James Stephenson @JamesMakesStuff]

🚨 BREAKING:

The NYT has released an investigation into Israel's activity at #Eurovision.

They describe "a well-organized campaign" by Israel's government "that embraced Eurovision as a soft power tool - and say the EBU "was ill-equipped to respond."

https://t.co/HqNxNSCoox

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@AlexCrawfordSky reminds us that intl media organisations & broadcasters have all been entirely reliant on Palestinian journalists inside Gaza over the past 2+ years.

And Israel has hunted down & murdered not only those journalists, but their families too.

[PalMedia @PalMediaOrg]

Cowardly BBC remove parts of the BAFTA acceptance speech delivered by the team behind "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack", after the filmmakers publicly criticized the broadcaster for refusing to air the documentary.

[James Foster @JamesEFoster]

I have complained about this to the BBC:

Dear BBC Complaints Team,

I am writing to complain about a segment on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) broadcast on 10 May 2026.

During the interview with Richard Tice (@TiceRichard) of Reform UK, Mr Tice stated that the Green Party is “the anti-Semitic Green party.”

This was a serious accusation.

My concerns:
-No right of reply
No Green Party representative was present to respond. The presenter did not mention that the Green Party had not been given an opportunity to reply.

-Failure to challenge
Laura Kuenssberg did not question, challenge, or provide any context/counterpoint to the claim. She simply moved on.

-Breach of due impartiality
BBC Editorial Guidelines require serious allegations in political contexts to be properly tested and for due weight to be given to opposing views. This did not occur.

The Green Party is led by Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski), who is Jewish. No context was provided to viewers.

I believe this fell short of the BBC’s standards on fairness and impartiality.

Please investigate and consider a clarification/correction.

Thank you. James

#BBCLauraK

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

One of the most horrifying things happening in Gaza right now something the world barely knows about is that we are now trapped inside an area no larger than 133 square kilometers out of Gaza’s original 336 square kilometers.

More than two million people are crowded into this tiny, suffocating space, creating one of the highest population densities in the world, literally.

But the real catastrophe is not only the lack of space it is that this area itself is no longer fit for human life. Everything around us has become rubble, tents, and destroyed homes. There are no proper schools, no functioning hospitals, no infrastructure, no electricity, and no clean water. People are surviving among destruction, disease, epidemics, hunger, and constant fear.

Every single day we wake up to news that more areas have been taken over, and the space we are confined to keeps shrinking further and further, until it feels like we are being slowly pushed toward complete suffocation. Our homes disappeared inside those areas, and until this moment we know nothing about them, as if our entire previous lives have simply been erased.

The situation here is becoming more terrifying with every passing day. Children fall asleep to the sounds of bombardment and fear, while families live without any sense of safety or stability.

No one knows how long this endless nightmare will continue. What is happening can no longer be endured, and there is an urgent and immediate need for intervention to save more than two million people trapped in conditions no human being should ever have to live through.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

His father had just been buried. Then West Bank settlers forced him to dig up the body https://t.co/6ZAZ2Zac41

[Rachel Millward @rachelmillward]

The only party led by a Jewish leader, who’s faced Nazi salutes and antisemitic abuse on our streets this month, wasn’t invited.

Reform's leader, with a track record of antisemitism, is invited.

I know, like every party, we’ve got work to do on tackling antisemitism. But tackling hate requires cross-party solidarity, not ideological gatekeeping.

https://t.co/BVQ5CyPgOK

[Wol @WasOnceLoved]

Oh look. The Green Party in Enfield Council agree to support a minority Tory administration after Labour loses majority.

Central objective: to block the development of the New Town in Crews Hill.

The Greens, working with the Tories: opposing new homes in London.

Marvellous.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Israel killed 40 Lebanese today and the world barely notices, it’s not even second-tier news.

To hell with this broken world