Laura Lennon

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There is a perfectly logical centrist market-based argument for migration to the UK. We have a falling birth rate, £5 trillion in future pension liabilities, not to mention a national skills service in loads of key industries including both low (care) and high (computing) paid work.

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
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Nan’s not bankrupting Britain (but politicians might be) Pensions, productivity and the myth of the migrant “drain” – why Britain’s real crisis is ageing, not immigration

Pensions, productivity and the myth of the migrant “drain” – why Britain’s real crisis is ageing, not immigration.

Another cracker from the Bear.

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Israel is deliberately depriving people of water in #Gaza.

The amount of water available for Palestinians is incredibly insufficient.

This is unacceptable: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-is...

“#Gaza: more journalists killed today.
Silencing the last remaining voices reporting about children dying silently amid #famine.

The world’s indifference & inaction is shocking."

Full statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Anas Al-Sharif post shortly before his death under Israeli fire: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Journalist Anas Al-Sharif reporting from Gaza, shortly before Israel killed him tonight:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

#BREAKING | Irish president calls for potential MILITARY ACTION in Gaza

He wants the UN to invoke ‘Chapter 7’ – which allows an international force to defend aid corridors

‘Are we to watch children starving? Something MUST happen’

World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.  This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...

After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)

More than 100 people die of hunger in Gaza, including 80 children, say Palestinian officials Israel controls all supplies entering Gaza and has denied it is responsible for food shortages.

More than 100 people die of hunger in Gaza, including 80 children, say Palestinian officials

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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it

Mark O'Connell: ‘I walked through the fire all by myself’. This is barbarism Gaza, long viewed as a gigantic open air prison, is now a kind of vast black site, where everyone is deemed guilty, where anything can be done to them without recourse to any justice

Mark O'Connell: ‘I walked through the fire all by myself’. This is barbarism

“There is no Israeli public figure whose sleep is disturbed by the children screaming in terror and in hospitals…”
~Gideon Levy

Haaretz

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The Irish Great Famine; “Gorta Mór” (Great hunger); “Drochshaol” (the bad times) is a defining disaster in Irish history. It’s the before and after of our understanding of our country. Generally accepted estimate is 1 million died, and millions fled, and the Irish population fell for generations 1/

Taoiseach Micheál Martin accuses Israel of war crime over blocking of aid entering Gaza Over 50 days since food and medicines have been allowed into besieged area

Taoiseach Micheál Martin accuses Israel of war crime over blocking of aid entering Gaza

This is incredibly powerful from the WHO’s Emergencies Director, Dr Mike Ryan, on the world doing nothing as the children of Gaza die.

“This is an abomination.”

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It is vital that we continue every single effort we can to stop the slaughter in Gaza.

This week I spoke in support of the Arms Embargo Bill as one mechanism we can use to restrict and stop the military machine that continues to facilitate the murder and maiming of innocent men, women and children.

If I,a 65 year old woman sitting in the Irish countryside, am aware that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza then I am confident that all the world leaders and media are also aware. You're right. Everybody knows 💔

All entry points into Gaza are closed. At the border, food is rotting. Medicine is expiring. Vital medical equipment is stuck.

If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act to uphold them.

Poem by WB Yeats An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

Al Jazeera news snippet: Israeli attacks simultaneously targeted humanitarian zones, without warning By Tareq Abu Azzoum There has been a very prevalent escalation by the Israeli military during the past few hours, with simultaneous military attacks conducted by Israeli air forces across the Gaza Strip. The concentration of the air strikes has been on heavily built-up neighbourhoods, makeshift schools and residential buildings where people are taking shelter. We understand that at least 200 Palestinians have been confirmed killed, and more than 200 others have been reported injured, and these numbers are expected to climb.

We have heard in the past hour a clear presence of Israeli drones and fighter jets across the skies n the central area and we understand that among those who were found as victims during the attack were newborn babies, children, women and the elderly - alongside also these top-ranked Hamas leaders who have been confirmed killed during these air strikes. It was mentioned that the attacks were carried out simultaneously without prior warning in areas that have been designated as safe humanitarian zones, including al-Mawasi.

The country that’s famous for how much it loves killing lots of children is once again killing lots of children

Reintroducing (not-so-eager) beavers into the wild – the Stephen Collins cartoon It’s a dam cheek …

The Reintroduction Of Beaver

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Today is day 12 of a total blockade on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no medicine, no water. This is US-backed mass slaughter.

UN probe says Israel attacks on Gaza reproductive centres were 'genocidal acts' The report said maternity hospitals and wards had been systematically destroyed in Gaza.

A UN investigation has concluded that Israel carried out “genocidal” acts in Gaza through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities.

http://jrnl.ie/6648608

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Séamas O'Reilly: Appeasing the far-right won't placate them — they'll just want the next cruelty Their concerns are not about society, the economy or public safety, they’re an ever-moving target of fear and hatred that cannot be sated, it has to be challenged.

I wrote this on the most consistently terrible, and fatal, idea in centrist politics today. On Fanta, rebadging, and why attempting to win votes from fascists is morally disgusting and politically suicidal.

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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