Elliott Pringle

[Elliott Pringle @pringle20220]

@_InfoGram_ %l

[Richard @ricwe123]

That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.

What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.

This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.

And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"Tommy Robinson could have organised his demo on any weekend, but chose a day coinciding with the annual Nakba Day march.

Rather than push for date of Robinson march to be changed, Met Police ordered the route of Nakba march to be moved.

To allow tens of thousands of Robinson's supporters, who have track record of violence, to descend on London the same day as a peaceful anti-genocide march is an act of gross irresponsibility on the part of the Met"

@PulaRJS

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

[Cal Cowen @calculus52]

Hey @BBCNews , got a story for you!

About 11 reform new councillors have stepped down or been expelled already!

It will cost a lot to elect new ones. How about running that as a story, just for a smidgen of impartiality?

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

This is what would happen if you replace the word "Muslim" with "Jews" in Trevor Phillips quotes:

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Should MPs be allowed to drink on the job?

Hannah Spencer thinks not. Many, predominately male, MPs [and Andrew Neil] fiercely disagree.

Spoiler alert: no, of course, MPs should not be allowed to drink at work.

Yes, there's history and yes, there's precedent, sitting alongside nine subsidised bars on the Parliamentary estate, but really, no one should be drinking at work.

Let alone those who we've elected to be our representatives in the House of Commons and to bring new laws into place on our behalf.

Back in the olden days, when I ran bars in London, we'd often be offered drinks from generous customers. It was far more preferable for a punter to say “get one for yourself” than to offer a cash tip. And that was cool.

I wouldn't let my team drink behind the bar though. They could bank their drinks, and we'd have some after the doors closed, but not on shift — even on a quiet night.

Booze dulls your senses, it hampers your judgement and can lead to mistakes. When you're behind a very busy bar with rows of people trying to grab your attention, it's easy to get your orders wrong and key in the wrong things on the till, leading to cash or stock shortages.

But more importantly, when you're working in that environment, you have to be constantly on alert for danger. Spiking. Attacks. Thefts. Fights.

When you've had a drink or two, it lowers your alertness and things get missed.

I get that Parliament isn't exactly the same hustle as Belushis Camden on a Saturday night, but the same principles apply.

Things are missed. Standards are lowered.

Before my move to the nightlife world of London, I was in IT, specifically, the IT Manager for an executive search company in London Bridge. We used to go to the pub at lunchtime on a Friday [sometimes a Monday].

We did that because we knew on a Friday afternoon, it didn't matter that our productivity dropped off a cliff; it was a coast to the weekend and, for most, a return to the pub.

It was a good time. Fun and frivolity on a Friday.

But very little got done because we couldn't be bothered after a couple of pints. Work became the secondary consideration.

And this is where we find our MPs.

They may claim that a couple of glasses of wine or two pints at lunch, doesn't affect them, but it does. Of course it does.

Shouldn't we expect those officials that we elected to represent us, to be able to navigate a 'long day' without getting on the booze?

I'd say it should be mandatory.

MPs don't attend Parliament every day, some do weeks at a time without showing up to their jobs <cough> Farage </cough>.

Even if a dedicated MP turned up for their four-day working week, for which they receive almost £100,000, I fully believe that they should be able to navigate that time without drinking on the job.

Oh, and the Green Party drugs policy is a total red herring. A weak distraction from a serious issue.

Welcome to a new week of nonsense in politics.

Happy Monday. 😊

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Green Party: we will re-nationalise water, tax wealth, and lead a green Industrial Revolution.

Labour Party: we will defend to the death MPs right to get pissed at work on the taxpayers expense.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The world finally sees the true nature of an Apartheid state that has terrorized, displaced. executed, jailed and tortured millions of Palestinians for decades. Israel won’t stop until States and people force it to stop.
#StopArmingIsrael
#NoTradeWithIsrael

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

How can we still live in a world where Israel is allowed to murder hundreds of people, at least 250, — with 100 bombs dropped in 10 minutes across Lebanon — and there is not a single word of condemnation from Western government?

How can we live with such abomination?

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Justo hoy, Netanyahu lanza su ataque más duro contra el Líbano desde que empezó la ofensiva.

Su desprecio por la vida y el derecho internacional es intolerable.

Toca hablar claro:

- Líbano debe formar parte del alto al fuego.

- La comunidad internacional debe condenar esta nueva violación del derecho internacional.

- La Unión Europea debe suspender su Acuerdo de Asociación con Israel.

- Y no debe haber impunidad ante estos actos criminales.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

A country that has nuclear weapons is threatening to use its nuclear weapons on the country it won’t allow to have nuclear weapons because if they had nuclear weapons they would ‘use them.’

[Miffy @miffythegamer]

An ambulance gets set alight and every single Labour minister is instructed to hand wring and over emote for all they are worth on social media.

A world leader threatens the extermination of 90 million people and there is almost total radio silence.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

And why is the US military still able to use UK bases?

Why is Palantir - a US spy tech company - so embedded into our vital infrastructure?

And why do we have a Labour Govenrment who absolutely cower at the idea of speaking out against the criminal President?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

7 hours of silence from the Prime Minister.

The US is using UK bases. The President is openly talking about destroying a civilisation.

And Downing Street says... nothing.

If you won’t speak up now, when will you?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people.

We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government.

This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US &amp; Israel have been murdering innocent people.

[HumanityFirst @Joseph57264]

@Keir_Starmer @Keir_Starmer tweets about Kanye west’s alleged antisemitism but says absolutely nothing about @realDonaldTrump threatening to wipe a whole civilisation off the map. Make it make sense

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

"This has all been distorted often by a right-wing media... The vast majority of people want to see action on the climate crisis" - @ZackPolanski on the public's support for climate action and the need for polluters and corporations to pay their fair share.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Here's what Keir Starmer doesn't want you to know about the war on Iran.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

This is something I have been worrying a lot about. We have psychopaths waging this war. We have seen Netanyahu gleefully carry out a genocide in Gaza reducing it to a nuclear bomb site. Why would he not go further now in Iran? There has been absolutely no consequences for his war crimes in Gaza. Trump has only assisted them. This has got to stop. As the citizens of the world we have to stop this. They can not be allowed to carry out a nuclear strike on the millions of innocent people of Iran. These are our fellow human beings, regardless of their leaders. This is insanity.