Feargal Cochrane

‘Israel’s Gaza war plan’? What odd framing of the carnage.
The monster should be in The Hague on war crimes and genocide charges. An absolute ghoul.

A truly disastrous performance, for performance is what it is.

The recitation of stock “lines to take”, the acceptance of racist mobs as being the “authentic voice of the people”, the inability to engage with the presenter’s challenge save through rote repetition.

This is very dangerous indeed

Pants on telly more like.
I didn’t say it should be banned -just that I despise the purile ‘humour’ and of course choose to turn it off …as soon as I can find the feckin remote down the side of the sofa!
Each to their own of course ✌️

The total dregs -like an anti-matter version of Irishness, squeezed through a mangle made out of the crushed bones of Benny Hill and Warren Mitchell.

The goal is to ensure loyalty obedience and subservience to the President -nothing else

Dear oh dear! The man can’t take one foot out of his mouth without putting the other one in.
Palestinian statehood is either legitimate or it’s not (It is btw) But what it should never be is a crass attempt at political leverage, uttered by a man seemingly devoid of principle.

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard

Really harrowing read; from day one Israeli government action was about the total destruction of Gaza. This is a genocide while many ‘world leaders’ don’t just sit in silence, they arm and enable www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Conversation might have gone something like:

‘We are going to offer up Bill and let you out. If we do that will you keep schtum about Donald?’

‘Yes -but can I still dob Andrew in it?’

‘Why yes of course …we’ll call Maitlis’

One in five children in Gaza City is malnourished and cases are increasing every day, the UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) says

Love this -two legends ❤️

Exactly this- words are cheap and wagging a governmental finger at genocide and multiple war crimes is hardly an adequate response.
Acts of omission can be as destructive as acts of commission in state sponsored slaughter

The sex offender’s relationship with the dead sex offender.

In academic publishing (in some quarters at least) with ‘open access’ books becoming more common, authors are being asked for upwards of £10K for publishing THEIR OWN manuscripts!
(Index is probably an additional costing on top) 🤦‍♂️

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Has the UK government ended its supply of F-35 fighter jet components to Israel via global pool? Would that be a logical next step if this statement is ignored by the government of Israel? Otherwise it might seem like a lot of hot air? #globalpool #complicity

Exclusive: Sheffield’s secret lab working on the UK’s next nuclear warheads “We already have a secure cell in Sheffield…”

Helping to improve the sustainability of manufacturing (…checks notes…) nuclear warheads. Shameful if true. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/exclusive-sh...

Just birds in there? 🐀🫣

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This clip appears to show the elasticity of the interpretation of the law over what does and does not amount to an offence in support of proscribed groups. Begs Q what are limits & is this widespread?

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Israel didn’t give permits to these Bedouin villages to build bomb shelters. So they built their own BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) — When the sirens wail in the southern Israeli desert to herald an incoming missile, Ahmad Abu Ganima’s family scrambles outside.

Most of Israel's Bedouin Arabs don't have easy access to bomb shelters. As Israel came under missile fire during last month's war with Iran, many Bedouin families built makeshift shelters out of steel containers, stripped-down trucks and repurposed construction debris.

They’re not dog friendly either -couldn’t have been less interested,
So I took my business elsewhere this summer. But at least we’ve found a worthy purpose for AI at last!

PhDs will be done on capacity of one individual to stretch constitutional fabric to breaking point, linked to socio-cultural programming of US citizens about sanctity of the constitution from childhood on. The capacity to realise that the POTUS should not be obeyed is ‘trumped’ by that programming.

Nearly 60 Labour MPs call for UK to immediately recognise Palestinian state Exclusive: MPs say in letter Gaza is being ethnically cleansed as Israeli defence minister plans ‘forcible transfer’

'The MPs, who include centrist and leftwing backbenchers, sent a letter to David Lammy on Thursday warning they believed Gaza was being ethnically cleansed.

They are urging the foreign secretary to take immediate steps to prevent the Israeli government from carrying out its Rafah plan'.

Strange - I’ve got BBC Breakfast News on & not a mention of this? Lots of stuff about hot weather, Oasis & Wimbledon, but No demand for a statement from the organisers, no finger wagging from British PM. No moral panic.
Almost like different rules between advocating Killing All Taigs and the IDF?

Wonder if Barra Best’s forecast this evening will mention the possibility of hazardous asbestos clouds and choking smoke hanging over large areas of NI this evening -so don’t forget your gas-masks and fire extinguishers if you’re going out and about!

Daily Mail will be all over it I’m sure followed by some sombre but ultimately pointless cliches from the PM.

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