David Chapman

How cool is this! Go Sarah!

BBC breached accuracy guidelines over Gaza documentary, review finds However, inquiry into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone says there were no other breaches, including impartiality

What a joke.

The BBC review finds that the 'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone' documentary was cancelled on the flimsiest grounds.

The child narrator's script was judged not to violate impartiality rules.

His family had no influence on it at all.

tough tough tough decisions

After watching "Gaza: Doctors under Attack" on Channel 4 on Wednesday evening and having seen my government ignore the pressure of tens of thousands of people on peaceful protests, I recognise the need for the direct action of Palestine Action.

I support Palestine Action.

Bezos wedding guest takes us through her extravagant goodie bag from the wedding 💗

Kendall says Pip claimants who get reassessed after November 2026 will be reassessed under new rules, not current ones Vicky Foxcroft, who resigned as a Labour whip over the bill, asked if the Timms review would have the power to review the budget savings being achieved by these cuts. And she asked what would happen if someone requested a reassessment because of worsening health conditions. Would they be reassessed under the old criteria or the new one? Kendall said that the Timms review was not being driven by the need to save money. (That did not fully address the question. Foxcroft wanted to know if it would be able to recommend more spending.) And Kendall said people can request a reassessment. If that happens before November 2026, that will be under the old system. After that, it will be under the new system, she said.

NEW: Liz Kendall has told MPs that if a disabled person currently on PIP requests a reassessment after November 2026 because of worsening health, they will be assessed on the new tougher criteria.

This confirms The Guardian’s report that those with fluctuating conditions will not be protected.

RIP Pope Francis

Bach: St John Passion. This Sunday 13th April, Palm Sunday, at the Church of Christ the Cornerstone in Milton Keynes (MK9 2ES). Tickets £22, £15 (under 18s £5) available from 07961 348697, boyntonmusic@btinternet.com or online at bit.ly/BachJohnCM25 (fee applies).

Israel/OPT: Killings of paramedics and rescue workers in Gaza must be investigated Israel’s genocide in Gaza has resulted in an unprecedented number of aid workers being killed

When medics & humanitarian workers are stopped from doing their lifesaving work, all victims of conflict suffer.

There must be an independent & impartial investigation into the circumstances where at least 15 Palestinian medics & rescue workers, who went to Southern Gaza, were killed.

Read more:

Attacking ambulances, executing medics, then tossing their bodies in a mass grave.

If Hamas had committed this crime, it would trigger deafening global outrage.

But Israel did it, and so most people are left unaware it even happened 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/why-isnt-t...

Is there no crime that Israel can commit in full view of the world that it can’t get away with?

No crime too grotesque, no crime too depraved, no crime too sadistic?

Your bills are going up because this government would rather protect the profits of a few corporations than the livelihoods of millions of ordinary people.

End this outrageous rip-off, and take water and energy into public ownership now.

A chart showing Life Expectancy vs. Healthcare Expenditure per Capita of many countries. The US is a huge outlier with far greater costs for much lower outcomes.

Here's the system Starmer and Streeting want to replace the NHS with. Find the U.S. on the chart > that system represents a fantastic opportunity to make money (at the expense of our health). They are literally salivating at the prospect... #NHX

Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon.

EU has a ‘strong plan’ to retaliate on Trump tariffs, says von der Leyen Head of European Commission says bloc would prefer to negotiate but all countermeasures are on the table

No you haven't Ursula! The EU is running a gigantic surplus with the US. You can't win a tariff war because you will run out of things to slap tariffs on before Trump does. [When will someone fire this gross embarrassment to all things European?] www.theguardian.com/business/202...

They MUST be looking at these polls. Do you think there's a room full of Labour strategy dickheads somewhere saying to each other "maybe we need to be even more racist, even more transphobic, even more pointlessly cruel" for the 100th day in a row, expecting it to eventually work

Israel has murdered at least 21 Palestinians in Gaza in the last few hours. They've killed over 1,000 men, women and children since they broke the ceasefire on March 18th.

Israeli attacks on Gaza have rendered about 85% of the besieged enclave’s water and sanitation facilities fully or partially inoperative.

As a result, Gaza's water supply has fallen by 65%, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. #WorldWaterDay.

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This is absolutely hilarious.

Russell Brand shares fake redacted file claiming that Penelope Keith shot JFK.

Clearly didn't read it.

Mind you, it's no madder than some of the other theories.

Also, you don't have the right to forgive someone for the harm they have done to a third party, only they, the third party, have that right. I have the right to forgive someone for the harm they have done to me, not for the harm they have done to you. Only you have that right.

Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up | Owen Jones No crime in history has been so well documented by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship reign, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players.

Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue.

Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians.

New column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So if we are providing military aid to Ukraine to resist Russia should we also be providing military aid to Palestine to resist Israel?

Image headline: Breaking, 230+ organisations demand F-35 partner countries stop arming Israel. Image paragraph: In a joint open letter, 230+ organisations from partner countries to the global F-35 jet programme are calling on their Governments to immediately halt all arms transfers to Israel, including F-35 fighter jets and components. Fighter jet graphic in the background.

We join 230+ organisations calling on all F-35 partners, like the UK gov, to take action in line with their legal obligations and immediately halt the direct and indirect transfer of F-35 parts and components to Israel.

Read more here: amn.st/3637

I just don't get it. Why is now not the right time to recognise the Palestinian state? Surely it is *vital* to do it now?

That's made my day: a Goldcrest! (In the branches of the pear tree that @alchap.bsky.social grew from a pip as child). Not especially rare, but a beautiful, tiny, bird that I don't see very often in my Milton Keynes garden. Simple things, simple delights.

CDC Ordered to Scrub Website of Words Like 'Transgender' and 'LGBT' A CDC employee spoke with Gizmodo about the

This is a 5 alarm fire. They're going to pull down all publicly available data, studies, guidance, etc that involves LGBTQ people so when the worst happens to us, no one will know. They're actively trying to erase us.

gizmodo.com/cdc-ordered-...

So perhaps just the children, since there's only 320 of them #bbc

I appreciate that is a tall order, since there's more than 3000 of them

Hamas hostages: Stories of the people taken from Israel A total of 79 hostages, taken captive after the 7 October attacks, still remain unaccounted for.

This is interesting reading. Can we have similar potted bios of all the Palestinians held in administrative detention in Israel please? www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-m...