Peter Lacey

Physiotherapist and athletic therapist in London

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

To those saying comments like "oh good more money for those who contribute nothing" - check ur facts!

40% of UC claimants are the working poor others are carers, have disabilities or illness, & some who don't have work, want it. A little more compassion & less judgement wouldn't hurt.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is the year in which the Western media normalized the bombing of schools and hospitals

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

“The NHS has too many managers” latest

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

So we went from “limited operation” to Israel threatening what they did to Gaza—an ongoing genocide—in Lebanon.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

An Israeli tank points its barrel at the building housing 35 Irish peacekeepers.

Imagine the non stop traffic coverage if this was a Russian tank…

This is no accident - Israel is deranged and we need to do all we can starting with the occupied territories bill.

[★ @corpseinorbit]

If I could choose one thing for the average American to understand about the year-long genocide in Gaza, it might be this: most of Israel's "offensives" and "raids" and "operations" and "precision strikes" have been carried out against starving, homeless, sick people in tents

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

An Iranian retaliation that kills no Israelis gets wall-to-wall coverage in the media, but if you only follow US media you would have little clue that Israel carried out another massacre in Gaza today and massive bombings in Lebanon.

[lea @taylenarare]

update: the lebanese health minister just announced that israel’s attacks on lebanon led to 1873 deaths and 9134 injured. and the world is still silent.

[Arif Rafiq @ArifCRafiq]

Turned on CNN for a bit. Dana Bash's voice is quivering. Jim Scuitto noted that Mossad's HQ is in a densely packed civilian area.

Emotion and context the Lebanese and Palestinians are far less likely to get from the network's U.S. team.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

For the past year, millions of us around the world have made repeated, desperate calls for a ceasefire. We demanded an end to the genocide. We warned of a disastrous regional conflict.

We were ignored.

Governments have fuelled the machinery of war. Their indifference to human life has destroyed prospects for peace and endangered us all.

All of this violence was entirely avoidable. Without urgent de-escalation, more unimaginable horror is on the horizon.

It’s time to listen to the voices of ordinary people across the globe calling for peace.

That means ending the root cause of this appalling cycle of violence: the occupation of Palestine.

[CD @cilliandoyle87]

“We’ve tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas”

[Mehmet @afgmeh]

Israel has murdered more innocent people in Lebanon in the past few days than Hamas did on October 7th. The western media's hypocrisy regarding this and the entire war will be studied in a generation.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

You cannot behave this and genuinely think of Palestinians as human beings.

The lack of media fury at this behaviour also underlines that most of our media don't see Palestinians as human beings either.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“you can come back safely to your homes”

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

When Palestinians say they don't feel safe they mean they're afraid of being killed by 2000-pound bombs. When Zionists say they don't feel safe they mean they're afraid of experiencing the psychological discomfort of encountering protests against a genocide that they support.

[Peter Lacey @peter_lacey]

@StolenRide old vintage Raleigh stolen from our home in Dalston

(Will have a different front wheel now unless they come back for that too..)

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Israel can pinpoint assassinate senior leaders of Hamas & Hizbollah in hostile foreign capitals, with little ‘collateral damage’, but to try (and fail) to kill Hamas leaders in the tiny, occupied Gaza Strip, they apparently first have to kill 14,000 Palestinian kids. Ridiculous.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

What actually happened is the Israeli army set a dog on a Palestinian man with Down’s Syndrome, which savaged him.

They then left him to die of his injuries, and his decomposed body was later discovered by his relatives.

This headline is a disgusting travesty.