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Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm Police officer was concerned ex-army chief, a Teledyne adviser, sought to have ‘input’ into factory attack investigation

For those who haven't seen it, here's the source of the 'security assessment':
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

When do we get to see the ‘sexed up dossier’?

Behind every draconian decision, there's secret evidence ("detailed security assessments") we're not allowed to see. We should just suck it up and believe them.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.

I’ve got some amazing memes on my phone, he’s given us that.

Go to urology. You get a pair of shades as well 😎

Fascinating. This Labour Government stinks.

All sounds terribly Kafka-esque 😵‍💫

YouTube video by しゅうさく John Cale & Brian Eno / Spinning Away

Lush : Brian Eno & John Cale 🙃

youtu.be/-INeMspNSQ0?...

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Support the killing of Palestinians or *you’ll* starve too 😡

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

The anti-science Trumpers may be planning to destroy two working satellites that provide vital measurements about carbon dioxide & climate (and data that forecasts crop yield, drought conditions, & more). They cost $750 million to make but only $15 million/yr to operate.
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

Conditions in Gaza ‘indescribably terrible’ says returned doctor Professor Nick Maynard is a consultant surgeon at Oxford University Hospital and has been volunteering in Gaza for the last 15 years. He returned last week from treating patients at Nasser Hospital in...

"People who are severely malnourished, their tissues don't heal, they're much more likely to get serious infectious complications."

Surgeon Nick Maynard has just returned from a hospital in Gaza and spoke to Jackie Long.

Read and watch:

www.channel4.com/news/conditi...

‘Our Genocide’

Report setting out evidence of genocide, from two Israeli humanitarian groups published last week:

www.btselem.org/sites/defaul...

#BREAKING | Irish president calls for potential MILITARY ACTION in Gaza

He wants the UN to invoke ‘Chapter 7’ – which allows an international force to defend aid corridors

‘Are we to watch children starving? Something MUST happen’

Israel threatens to expand military offensive in Gaza Benjamin Netanyahu’s government said to be ‘in dialogue’ with Trump administration over controversial proposal

This headline is wrong - Israel vows to complete its genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza. From the outset this has always been their intent.

on.ft.com/3UPDBXT Israel threatens to expand military offensive in Gaza

😂

How's your dad's midlife crisis going?

Reads like Israeli propaganda in the form of a veiled threat.

YouTube video by K.A. Kroeze The Durutti Column - Darkness Here / Chant

Vini Reilly’s gorgeous ethereal guitar playing. From the album A Paean to Wilson - it was released the same year that Vini sadly had a stroke, a tribute to his friend Tony Wilson of Factory Records.

youtu.be/UwhRmcJYgss?...

Two days ago this young man Abdurhamman, died in Nasser Hospital, Gaza. He had been injured in an Israeli airstrike, had 60%burns, bilateral leg fractures and had lost an eye. I remember him as a kind and helpful person, with aspirations for the future, when we worked together in the same hospital.

Russell twice lost his position on account of his social views. He was twice imprisoned for them. His last sustained political action, the Tribunal on American War Crimes in Vietnam, was met by a conspiracy of silence round the world. The fact that he was an intellectual genius made it easier for those who purveyed a more comfortable view of life to present him as a simpleton. He endured this too. He continued in the belief that, the desire for power aside, the most socially dangerous conditions of mind were boredom and the love of excitement.

Richard Wollheim on Bertrand Russell.

Israeli protesters holding pictures of starving Palestinian children and calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza clashed with police on Thursday in Tel Aviv.

The paradox of informed consent Click on the article title to read more.

“‘Hyper-respecting´ patient autonomy may be used as a pretext for clinicians to avoid difficult situations or provide themselves with perceived protection from litigation by shifting responsibility for decision making to patients”

Free in @anaesjournal.bsky.social for a limited time. 🔓🔑⏳

Reads like an article from Vogue or some other vacuous magazine at the hairdressers. I don’t care about the colour of David Lammy’s tie or what he ate for lunch - he’s facilitating a genocide.

Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics The Elon Musk-shaped hole in Starmer’s Election Bill

Foreign billionaires circumvent laws and pump millions into British politics.

Unincorporated associations, shell companies, companies controlled from abroad used.

The aim: produce govts subservient to corporations and the rich.

End corruption. Give democracy a chance. Ban all political donations.

This!:
“his detail-focused lawyer’s mind leads him to make effective, short-term tactical choices, but also blinds him to the wider consequences of his actions”

- he’s a pragmatist, but his lack of oversight means he’s getting it v badly wrong.

Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights? The long read: Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UK’s commitment to international law. Yet Labour’s record over the past year has been curiously mixed

Great article by @trillingual.bsky.social that highlights the way in which Starmer perhaps embodies the ambivalence of human rights law:the capacity for radical change on the basis of universal dignity vs a conservative reaffirmation of nation state neoliberalism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tech giants blocking some Ukraine and Gaza posts under new online rules Tech companies are restricting debates of public interest to comply the Online Safety Act, analysis shows.

A wide range of public interest content, including posts about the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and parliamentary debates on grooming gangs, is now being blocked for UK online users by social media companies trying to comply with the Online Safety Act.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

He is exactly like Biff.