Important to stress how unusual it is for the prime minister to issue a statement at 6pm on a Saturday night.
Suggests No10 are worried about the political blowback from the Lineker row.
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Well said Gary! #WordsMatter
“Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic, being swallowed unnoticed they seem to have no effect, only to show their toxic consequences after some time.”
- Victor Klemperer, from his book ‘The Language of the Third Reich’
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There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s, and I’m out of order?
In August 1976, a group of mostly South Asian women at the Grunwick film processing factory in London began a strike that would define an era.
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In 2022 the co-founder and chief executive of private equity goliath Blackstone took home a record $1.27billion (£1.06billion) - that's 272 times the earnings of the average (highly paid!) FTSE 100 boss. (Sunday Times).
Wow, that's some damage limitation exercise "U.S. officials declined to disclose the nature of the intelligence, how it was obtained or any details of the strength of the evidence it contains. They have said the operation might have been conducted off the books by a proxy force"
On this day in 1959, 69 black boys were padlocked in their dormitory at school and it was then set on fire.
21 burnt to death while 48 managed to escape.
A THREAD.
And George Osborne secretly stole the pensions of 3.8 million women and boasted that it was the easiest money he had ever made🤷♀️🤦♀️💩🤬🤮⚖️ x.com/matthew82069336/status…
#JeremyVine letting a caller say she doesn’t care if Harry and Meghan get killed in an attack at the coronation. Gone downhill @theJeremyVine, why didn’t you challenge her? Absolutely ridiculous. Turning off - for good.
I suspect this is damage control after Hodge told left wings Jews to leave party if their views didn’t aligned with Labours. Biggest expulsion of Jews in history of party under Starmer’s leadership and many of them expelled for supporting Palestinian rights. We see you 👀
Really pleased to see more and more British Jews condemning Israel’s shift to the far right. @simon_schama is absolutely right - the erosion of democracy & attacks on Palestinian rights are creating a dangerous moment for Israel. theguardian.com/world/2023/m…
.@SecBlinken in a conversation with @chefjoseandres on why U.S. contributions to global humanitarian aid efforts is important: “It’s the right thing to do, it’s the human thing to do, but it’s also the smart thing to do.” Listen to the full conversation. youtu.be/liQKNDghOVQ
This just goes on & on, ethnic cleansing of Palestinians every single day - a slow drip of destruction.
All the International community does is express "concern" or stay silent - it is pathetic. Hold Israel to account #sanctions#IsraeliOccupation
Wadi Al-Joz, occupied East Jerusalem:
The occupation authorities are currently emptying and destroying three homes belonging to the Totah family.
ethnic cleansing in real time.