Mark Lankester

Labour's asylum plans are a victory for the far right only. That progressive soul of the party... it's cooked.

This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour

Mahmood furious over asylum seeker taxi bills.

Overton window has been obliterated

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.

There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture

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Malnutrition is devastating people right across Sudan. More must be done to end this crisis:

🔴 Unimpeded and safe access for humanitarians
🔴 Increased funding to respond

“[Major tipping points] all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity" - Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics

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Hamas and Israel prepare to implement ceasefire as Netanyahu says deal approved by government Israel’s government ratified the ceasefire and hostage deal on Friday, clearing the way to suspend hostilities in Gaza within 24 hours

António Guterres: "To turn this ceasefire into real progress, we need more than the silencing of the guns”.

Gaza needs safe access for humanitarian staff, the rapid upscaling of aid, the removal of bureaucracy, and critical funding.

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Gaza: Doctors can't stop genocide, world leaders can What is happening in Gaza is not just a humanitarian catastrophe, it is the systematic destruction of a people

MSF secretary general Chris Lockyear on how governments around the world - through political, military, or material support - are complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, concludes UN commission of inquiry - latest updates Finding comes as Israel’s defence minister says ‘Gaza is burning’ amid escalation in bombardment

To count as genocide, the 1948 UN Genocide Convention says that at least one of five acts must have occurred.

Now, a UN commission has found that Israel has committed four of them

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Four journalists among 15 dead in Israeli strike on hospital, Gaza officials say The strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis are said to have killed journalists working for international media.

At least 192 Palestinian journalists have now been killed covering genocide in Gaza
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Aid groups say Israel’s new registration rules are ‘weaponising aid’ Lifesaving goods for starved people in Gaza blocked by vague rules on anti-Israeli activity, say humanitarian bodies

"Designed to control independent organisations, silence advocacy and censor humanitarian reporting," say MSF and other NGOs
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Palestinian reporters killed, international reporters banned – Israel’s other Gaza war is over narrative Members of press and influencers covering devastation are being silenced despite protection under international law

"Israel is running two Gaza campaigns: one for military control of the strip; another for narrative control of how the world understands what happens there"
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Gaza aid distribution declared ‘orchestrated killing’ by MSF Medical relief agency has treated more than 1,300 patients for wounds sustained near notorious GHF aid sites in Gaza.

Institutionalised starvation and dehumanisation
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Gaza: MSF finds 1 in 4 young children and pregnant women malnourished Israel's use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, as patients and healthcare workers themselves struggle to survive

“Those who go to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's food distributions know that they have the same chance of receiving a sack of flour as they do of leaving with a bullet in their head.” - Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, MSF deputy medical coordinator in Gaza
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Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live More than 100 aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam, say ‘our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away’

"Our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away": the message from more than 100 aid agencies including MSF
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@who.int staff residence in Deir al Balah was attacked 3 times today as well as its main warehouse

2 WHO staff & 2 family members were detained. 3 were later released, while one staff remains in detention.

WHO demands the immediate release of the detained staff & protection of all its staff. #Gaza

Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts Britain has a duty to act morally, and stop supporting this genocide, says Médecins Sans Frontières UK executive director Dr Natalie Roberts

"MSF has a responsibility to act with moral clarity and humanitarian consistency in the face of mass atrocities. The same should apply to the UK government."

Our op-ed on Gaza by @docnat.bsky.social, in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A message to the UK Government: MSF is witnessing a genocide in Gaza. And you are complicit.
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Israel-Gaza war live: one-week-old baby amongst 45 people killed in Gaza strikes as UN warns aid still being blocked Aid group says deliveries are just ‘a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over’

MSF: "The Israeli authorities’ decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving"
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Siege of Gaza: MSF denounces deliberate humanitarian catastrophe We are witnessing the creation of conditions for the eradication of Palestinian lives

"We are witnessing, in real time, the creation of conditions for the eradication of Palestinian lives in Gaza"

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Gaza: MSF calls on UK government to take action on the humanitarian catastrophe The UK must uphold its UN obligations to protect civilians in Gaza, and publicly condemn the Israeli government

MSF UK calls on the Prime Minister to uphold the UK's obligations as a UN Security Council member, act under International Humanitarian Law to protect all civilians in Gaza, and publicly condemn the Israeli government for the atrocities it is inflicting.

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Gaza, inside the war 🔴 Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders documents 15 months of all-out war waged by the Israeli army against the Palestinians of #Gaza through information and testimonies collected by its t...

Data visualisation from MSF. This interactive feature compiles information and testimonies collected by our teams between October 2023 and February 2025 during the all-out war waged by the Israeli army against the people of Gaza
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Seven killed in South Sudan hospital and market bombing, charity says Doctors without Borders (MSF) said its hospital was attacked as fears grow of a return to civil war in South Sudan.

An MSF hospital in South Sudan - the only hospital treating a region of more than 110,000 people - has been bombed.

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The Debrief: Dr Javid Abdelmoneim on the crisis in Sudan An experienced MSF medic shares his deeply personal story on the second anniversary of the conflict

Two years ago, MSF doctor Javid Abdelmoneim received a cryptic message from his cousin in Khartoum that said "Your dad is safe". But safe from what?

In the latest episode of Everyday Emergency, Javid shares his deeply personal experience of returning to Sudan on assignment.

Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger, famine and attacks on refugee camps

"The consequences for Sudan’s 51 million people have been devastating. Tens of thousands are reportedly dead. Hundreds of thousands face famine. Almost 13 million people have been displaced."
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Gaza: MSF condemns Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital “We cannot go back to repeated attacks on healthcare," says MSF Head of Emergencies in Gaza

“We cannot go back to repeated attacks on healthcare facilities when the health system in Gaza is already hanging by a thread, and no supplies have entered in weeks."

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Gaza: MSF teams respond to “unacceptable massacres of civilians” by Israeli forces MSF teams are treating influxes of patients in southern and central Gaza

🚨"We woke up, at around 2 AM local time to 20 minutes of airstrikes and heavy artillery – just like the past 15 months of war. We are appalled and outraged by these new unacceptable massacres of civilians." - Claire Nicolet, MSF Head of Emergencies.

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Why has Israel resumed large-scale airstrikes on Gaza? Officials claim attacks will bring release of more hostages, but some suggest political factors at play for Netanyahu

"The grim reality is that the fragile two-month pause in hostilities between Israel and Hamas is now over. It appears very unlikely that a deal that would end the new Israeli attacks can be achieved soon."
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JD Vance: "Peace can only be arrived at with diplomacy."

Proceeds to cause huge diplomatic incident live on air.

A flawed and dangerous decision from a government so many expected better of

David Miliband, a former Labour foreign secretary who now runs US aid charity the International Rescue Committee, has criticised Starmer for cutting the UK aid budget…