Amanda Wright

How the 'blood libel' paradox keeps the West silent on Israel's genocide The more depraved Israel’s actions, the more antisemitic it is to point out the truth. The painful reality is that, through Israel, the West can dress up boilerplate colonialism as a 'Jewish' project

“The West has given Israel a permanent licence to brutalise the Palestinians, to ethnically cleanse them, to steal their land, and to kill them.”

jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-bl...

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

Israel just targeted and killed an entire news crew. This is not "just what happens" to reporters in war. Israel has killed more journalists in the 22 months since October 7 '23 than were killed WORLDWIDE in the 3 years between '20 and '22.
This is murdering the messenger.
cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Number crunching: Monthly cut to universal credit for newly sick and disabled claimants from 2026

From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Campaigners criticise UK plans to reveal suspects’ ethnicity and migration status Yvette Cooper wants guidance to change after row over claims police ‘covered up’ status of two men on charges relating to an alleged rape Anti-racism campaigners have criticised proposals to allow police to reveal the ethnicity and migration status of suspects, after a row triggered by claims police “covered up” the backgrounds of two men charged in connection to the alleged rape of a child. The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, this week told the BBC she hoped the Law Commission would “accelerate” a review of contempt of court and that “guidance needs to change” about information released when a trial is pending. Continue reading...

Campaigners criticise UK plans to reveal suspects’ ethnicity and migration status

This arrived today. Poems by Palestinians.
A publishing initiative by Alice Oswald, Robert Macfarlane, Zaffar Kunial and Max Porter. (My favourite poets and writers)
A poem by 17 year old Saleh in Gaza.

Sister-in-law Alice doing the right thing. How is it that governments around the world are so out of touch with the people they are supposed to serve?

North Koreans once risked their lives to tune in. Now sil... For decades, people have dared to listen to uncensored foreign radio in a country where that is illegal … until US cuts and politics in Seoul snatched th...

Observer - For decades, people have dared to listen to uncensored foreign radio in a country where that is illegal … until US cuts and politics in Seoul snatched the chance away from them. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

PHOTO OF THE DAY: A moving bullet that collided with another one (probably static) during The Battle of Gallipoli in the First World War. The exhibit is in the Gallipoli Museum in Turkey.

US to rewrite its past national climate reports US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

Thousands turn out to protest ridiculous designation of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...

"That's just how it is."

Good point

How 4% of Migrants have Become a National Obsession. According to YouGov, 47% of Britons believe there are more "illegal" Migrants than "Legal" Arriving in the UK despite "illegal immigration" representing only 4% of the numbers. Why is this?

47% of Britons think there are more “illegal” immigrants in the UK than legal immigrants, despite only making up 4% of the overall figures!

My latest article with exclusive research outlines how the UK are being sold a lie….

www.jacobbarclayevans.com/how-4-of-mig...

Joyce Grenfell (8th August 1964). "George, George ... Don't do that".

Parts of the Constitution were erased from the Library of Congress website, including the section featuring the foreign emoluments clause.

The removal was blamed on a "coding error."

Here's a reminder of what the clause says, just in case Congress ever decides to enforce it...

This is a key table to understanding public opinion on migration. *When confronted with the real trade offs* people go for protecting the NHS and the economy over reducing migration.

The problem as per the rest of the thread is many don't believe those trade offs exist.

Why are UK News shows not pointing out Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings?

He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation. Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.

“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

This is what fascism looks like.

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Aerial footage filmed by ITV News shows the scale of Gaza's destruction

It’s estimated Gaza had as much, likely more, explosives dropped on it as Dresden, Hamburg and London in WW2

www.itv.com/news/2025-08...

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.

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

To Live Inside a Lie Firing the top labor statistics official for doing the normal monthly jobs report is only the last attempt to force everyone else to abandon reality too

“'Reality,' wrote Philip K. Dick, 'is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.'”

www.arcdigital.media/p/to-live-in...

YouTube video by SWNS Crow which bizarrely asks bypassers 'You alright love?' - in Yorkshire accent

Not a British crow, this is a tame African Pied crow at Knaresborough Castle, North Yorkshire saying, in a Yorkshire accent no less, “You alright love?”, and “I’m alright”!

youtu.be/RB3ruxchwaY?...

His nickname is Mourdour that one at the castle in Yorkshire

We need more human beings.

Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University

Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Off the rails.