Dr Ben King 🌍

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

It took just one phone call from Donald Trump for Starmer to jump into yet another Middle East illegal war, failing to learn the lessons of the tragedies of Iraq, Libya and Syria.

#Sibelius wrote incredible tuba parts!

This is my favourite part of #Finlandia 🎶

Rehearsing with #TorbaySymphonyOrchestra this afternoon 🎺

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Great to see ITV covering this, and two @nebriefing.bsky.social speakers interviewed too

The UK has been drawn-in 😌

#Sibelius wrote incredible tuba parts!

This is my favourite part of #Finlandia 🎶

Rehearsing with #TorbaySymphonyOrchestra this afternoon 🎺

#TubaPlayer

Sibelius #Finlandia
#TubaPlayer

They spent billions on regime change in Venezuela and left the Maduro's head of torture in charge.

They are now spending billions on regime change in Iran, knowing the most likely outcome will be harder line leadership.

We do not have serious people running our country.

Sibelius #Finlandia
#TubaPlayer

Laura Kuenssberg, "Are the US and Israeli strikes on Iran legal under international law?"

John Healey, "We weren't involved in the strikes"

Laura Kuenssberg, "Were they legal under international law?"

John Healey, "It's for the US to explain the legal basis they're operating under"

Zack Polanski, "John Healy won't condemn US/Israel attack on Iran"

"I'm worried that the UK will be pulled into another illegal war"

Ditto :/

0.7 out of today's 30 pacepoints. 11 behind today's pacesetter

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...and Surprising Sunday 🤔

Drove to Torquay

Shopped for 20 minutes - on my feet and walking slowly

Drove home

Made salad for lunch

Ate lunch

All for a fraction of a single PacePoint 😮

I know I'm getting good at #pacing but this is amazing!

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Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

0.7 out of today's 30 pacepoints. 11 behind today's pacesetter

Visible Health heartrate graph showing mostly RESTING heartrate

...and Surprising Sunday 🤔

Drove to Torquay

Shopped for 20 minutes - on my feet and walking slowly

Drove home

Made salad for lunch

Ate lunch

All for a fraction of a single PacePoint 😮

I know I'm getting good at #pacing but this is amazing!

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🗣 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "It's quite astounding that we have a Prime Minister that seems to be singularly incapable of standing up to Donald Trump...I'm worried we're going to be pulled into another illegal war."

#Iran

Green Party leader Zack Polanski says Keir Starmer should go on television and “condemn these illegal strikes” #BBCLauraK

Pope Leo: "I am following with deep concern what is happening in the Middle East and in Iran in these dramatic hours. Stability and peace are not built with mutual threats or with weapons, which sow destruction, pain, and death, but only with reasonable, authentic, and responsible dialogue.”

Waitrose to suspend mackerel sales due to overfishing concerns The supermarket chain says it will stop sourcing fresh, chilled and frozen mackerel by 29 April.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Immigrant reports from a hostile environment. All she wanted was to make a better life for herself.

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

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If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

The White House said in June, and I quote, "Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News"

That post is still up:

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

This might be controversial, but I don't think people should be allowed to bet on things like war

"They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future," Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said. "Today, their lives were brutally cut short.”

Read more: https://wapo.st/4r7izC7

I'm sure it's fine that the guy who just started a war posts like a 12-year-old

He took $10 billion from the US taxpayer to set up a “Board of Peace”

He’s bombed 8 countries.

He’s presided over the killing of American citizens by ICE.

He’s given billions to DHS despite a record number of deaths in the camps

Now he’s started war in the Middle East.

If ever you needed a front page to capture the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of right wing nationalism which has done so much harm through a history from which some seem so unable to learn