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The number of children a single BBC investigation found to have been killed by IDF snipers (90+) is more than double the number of children killed on October 7 & falls within the lower estimates of the number of children killed by Hamas over the organisation's entire history

And we’ve been very much across this on press day. 👀👀👀

The UK in 2025: it’s now a terrorist offence, carrying a sentence of up to fourteen years in prison, to hold this cartoon from Private Eye

Imagine if Charlie Brown had hoes…

You do realise that’s a more serious charge than the one they claimed to suspect him of?

they make the arguments they do. what possible context could mean they are doing something quite different? I can't think of any - multiple unambigious assertions complete to themselves in this

it's a cultural colonisation from the usa - "thin blue line" flag patch

I think if you feel it's not possible to know what's going on in the video that's a comprehension issue at your end and not due to the editing. certainly what is clearly said is damning enough as it is

you're not making a lot of sense i'm afraid. could you rephrase with a more conventional sentence structure so i can follow your argument better

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Palestine Action is the first large-scale direct action campaign in British history I can think of where a large majority of Britons share their aims and only a tiny majority those of the government

45 sorry! But a month ago so probably not far off

A reminder that according to a Yougov poll from last month (18.06.2025):

55% of British adults oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza (only 15% support)

And 45% of British adults think Israel is committing a genocide.

55 percent per yougov

Well if a view led them to reasonably suspect you did in fact support Palestine action they would be obliged to take you in as a dangerous terrorist

Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.

The Lamp Magazine | Pope Francis 1936–2025 A symposium on the late pontiff.

‘In death, as he was in life, he will remain a sign of contradiction.’ @madoc.bsky.social on the life & legacy of the 266th Pope, ‘Pope Francis. 1936–2025.’ Via The Lamp Magazine thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue...

The Lamp Magazine | Pope Francis 1936–2025 A symposium on the late pontiff.

Some Popes are different. Francis was one such Pope.

My biographic introduction to The Lamp's symposium on the last pontificate is online here:

thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue...

posting "what would your job in the new moral universe instituted by those who overcome" and all the answers are "intoning dithyrambs"

have to admit though that my favorite of Horkheimer’s critical recoveries of Nietzsche is from Dämmerung (1934), “Nietzsche & the Proletariat”!

"Perhaps most divisive of all was Francis’s own personality: authoritarian and anarchic, austere and ambiguous; the silence and the noise. He remained, always, La Gioconda: wearing a smile that seemed to—and perhaps did—reveal everything."

i only found out you can't use papacy this way whilst writing this article so im on a learning curve

lmfao chase

The Lamp Magazine | Pope Francis 1936–2025 A symposium on the late pontiff.

Some Popes are different. Francis was one such Pope.

My biographic introduction to The Lamp's symposium on the last pontificate is online here:

thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue...

The british government understands it as such, and so self-presents as a democracy in no equivocal way. That's what I'm referring to. If we adopt a non-binary definition, I'm happy to grant the above. But in this case there is an enormous gap between reality and how it is presented to us

What’s happening in the UK is pathetic and dystopian

By that standard Iran is a democracy!

If true that PA have dissolved, it now appears to be an offence to show support for the memory of an organisation which no longer exists, but at the time it existed, wasn't proscribed.

but your read sounds right to me

she behaves in consistently stupid ways so I don't know what else can be said