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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."

My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.

Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

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Remember: if a legal opinion is sound then it matters not how “great” or “distinguished“ the lawyer is.

And if it is not sound, it is not saved by the lawyer being “great” or “distinguished“.

Liberal Democrats vs Reform UK Ltd: who’s really the underdog? The Liberal Democrats hold 72 parliamentary seats, yet the media have sidelined Ed Davey while Reform UK Ltd hogs column inches and airtime

The Liberal Democrats hold 72 parliamentary seats, yet the media have sidelined Ed Davey while Reform UK Ltd hogs column inches and airtime | P.S.

BREAKING: At least 18 Palestinians have been killed in a spate of Israeli drone and missile attacks throughout northern and central Gaza, hospital sources have told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/iw6mmd

How London's penguins got political Some 75 MPs have signed a letter condemning the Sea Life London Aquarium's treatment of its penguins

ICYMI: my report on how these penguins became the centre of a political storm

Featuring Gilbert

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JFK’s Granddaughter, 35, Reveals She has Just a Year to Live Scion of the Kennedy clan Tatiana Schlossberg has revealed her diagnosis in an essay for The New Yorker.

Scion of the Kennedy clan Tatiana Schlossberg has revealed her diagnosis in an essay for The New Yorker.

A cache of emails from the longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell shows her prison conditions improving dramatically as a crisis grew for Trump, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports.

Read more: theatln.tc/fsIQRJDb

Arresting people for holding such signs is not the obvious reason we have a special and distinct system of terrorism law.

We fixed the signage at the Pentagon.

Real leaders show up. Peter Hegseth is playing hide-and-seek to avoid @duckworth.senate.gov

If you're going to deploy troops into American cities, you'd better be brave enough to explain why to the Senate. We are demanding answers.

Sceptred Isle: what Chinese interference says about modern Britain Britain’s economic dependence on China has left it exposed, and MI5’s warning shows just how small and vulnerable we’ve become

Britain’s economic dependence on China has left it exposed, and MI5’s warning shows just how small and vulnerable we’ve become | Jay Robinson

Council tax shock for thousands of Durham’s poorest – thanks to Reform UK Durham will scrap full council-tax rebates, forcing 26,000 low-income working-age residents to start paying for the first time

Durham will scrap full council-tax rebates, forcing 26,000 low-income working-age residents to start paying for the first time | Peter Morris

A DMZ for Ukraine Trump’s peace plan envisages a divide like the one that splits the Korean peninsula.

Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine envisages a DMZ like the one that divides the Korean peninsula, Simon Shuster and Jonathan Lemire report.

“It’s like the world is shattering around us,” one diplomat told them after hearing the details.

👏 Josh Babarinde OBE MP: "It is appalling, it is immoral, and it is un-British to be using divisive rhetoric to describe some of the people who are among the most vulnerable people in the world."

"People who are fleeing famine, war, human rights abuses. And that cannot go on."

The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde

Cas Mudde (@casmudde.bsky.social) for the @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We’re excited to see everyone at the Remove the Regime main rally today in Washington, D.C.! It kicks off at 12:00 PM at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by a march on Washington, with headlining speakers and live performances from Dropkick Murphys and Earth to Eve!

The Economist on the British government's proposal that the country with the comparatively best record on integration in one generation could emulate Denmark, which struggles in integration, and where the tough line on asylum presents further barriers

In a damning internal report, @frontex.bsky.social concludes that its partners-in-crime - the Bulgaria border police - are responsible for abandoning three children, who were left to freeze to death last winter.

www.dw.com/bg/lzite-na-...

European Ombudsman

Frontex has once again failed to comply in full with the @ombudsman.europa.eu - this time after it was found guilty of maladministration over its refusal to disclose two major opinions issued by its Fundamental Rights Officer.

www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/case/en/6...

28 Points Later A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains

Really enjoyed this, @mollymckew.bsky.social blends her deep knowledge and humour to eviscerate the "28 peace points" that Russia got US to accept.

www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...

How Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine has been entirely dictated by Putin How Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine has been entirely dictated by Putin

How Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine has been entirely dictated by Putin

EU says any peace plan must consult Ukraine, Europe, doubts Russian intent EU leaders have struck a similar tone as reports indicate that a US-brokered peace deal would defer to Russian demands.

EU leaders have struck a similar tone as reports indicate that a US-brokered peace deal would defer to Russian demands.

Agree #TaxTheRich and the parasite tax dodging corporations like Starbucks, Amazon etc! Time these crooks were taken to town and paid up! They won't leave the UK it's idle threats and if they do fuck em! PARASITES

Past presidents and politicians of both parties will gather Thursday in Washington, DC, for former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral — sending off a key figure of pre-MAGA Republican politics. https://cnn.it/3XC114v

The Labour left’s musical chairs Clive Lewis’s offer of his seat to Andy Burnham shows how Labour’s shadow leadership contest has intensified.

Clive Lewis's offer to Andy Burnham is one of many signs that Labour's shadow leadership contest has intensified. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...

‘I thought the grownups were back in charge!’: John Crace on how Labour shattered his expectations After 14 years of Tory rule, the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer thought he had seen it all. Westminster would surely tick along nicely once Keir Starmer’s party took over. How wrong he was ...

'I thought the grownups were back in charge!'

@mrjohncrace.bsky.social on how Labour shattered his expectations: theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/19/john-crace-on-how-labour-shattered-his-expectations

Crace's newest column collection, The Bonfire of the Insanities, is out now 🔥

Byline Podcast: Control? Or Cruelty? Mahmood's Asylum Plan Adrian Goldberg discusses Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's plans for asylum seekers to the UK with Dr Sohail Jannesari, a migration and mental health researcher at King’s College London, and Laur...

"Instead of looking at the decade and a half of underfunding of public services, we're being told the people coming in are the problem".

#ShabanaMahmood #Asylum with @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social Sohail Jannesari

@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Abducted and held as hostages.

Working towards Peace my arse- continuation of ethnic cleansing

Working towards Peace my arse- continuation of ethnic cleansing

Israeli military detains 56 Palestinians in mass arrest campaign near Hebron <article data-history-node-id="431714" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-military-detain-56-palestinians-mass-arrest-campaign-near-hebron" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-military-detain-56-palestinians-mass-arrest-campaign-near-hebron" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli military detains 56 Palestinians in mass arrest campaign near Hebron</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli forces on Thursday detained 56 Palestinians in a mass arrest campaign&nbsp;in the Hebron governorate in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>The report said that the occupying forces&nbsp;rounded up dozens of people in a local stadium.&nbsp;</p> <p>Most of the detainees were reported to be from the town of Beit Ummar to the north of Hebron, where Israeli forces also raided numerous homes and destroyed residents’ property.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israeli forces have also positioned snipers on rooftops and imposed restrictions on movement&nbsp;in areas around Beit Ummar, where more than 150 Palestinians were arrested yesterday.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

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