On #InternationalWomensDay2026 Remembering the late Rim Banna - Palestinian singer, composer, arranger and activist Here with Ehkee Lel-'Alam (أحكي للعالم) Lyrics by Samih Al-Qasim Keep telling the world, keep telling it www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhC-...

Always the first to flee while everyone else suffers the consequences.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Monday 16 February at 6pm (UK time GMT), Caabu is hosting an online book lauch with Peter Oborne, talking about his book, Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza. More details and registration here: caabu.org/events/caabu...

@britishmuseum.bsky.social worth your while to have a listen (and take notes) to this @empirepoduk.bsky.social History of Gaza series And given that British Museum is tax payer funded - @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social may also be interested

#BBCLauraK @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social repeated what Navalny said… “Tell the truth Spread the truth Because that’s the most dangerous weapon of all” Absolutely right Let’s hope this call for truth telling extends to all foreign policy decisions What say you @labouruk.bsky.social

Only one I’ve seen so far

More incoming

Not newspaper commentators but some useful receipts on the intensely dismal politicians who call themselves patriots.

Shortly after Trump's election win.

From a 12-13 months ago.

From 6-9 months ago

From 9-11 months ago

From 11-12 months ago...

This morning, Ms. Rachel and I visited District 2 Pre-K Center, where we sang and read with the wonderful students and educators. We also discussed universal childcare - and how we're making it happen for NYC!

This is very helpful There are things that European countries can do to give Trump a bloody nose if they want to They key I suspect is that any response is co-ordinated and not piecemeal I said the other day, they should be talking now and the article also indicates this. I trust they are

US threats to annex Greenland following the strikes on Venezuela should be taken seriously. European countries have important leverage and they should be prepared to use it.

For 2026 #AllEyesOnPalestine🇵🇸 A reminder of human dignity and resilience... Palestinians have always been showing us the way. Omar Offendum - 'On this Land' (Darwish) على هذه الأرض، محمود درويش m.youtube.com/watch?v=TUNG...

For 2026 #AllEyesOnPalestine🇵🇸 A reminder of human dignity and resilience... Palestinians have always been showing us the way. Ahmad Al Arabi - Marcel Khalife & Mahmoud Darwish Conductor: Lamar Elias Performance: Palestine Youth Orchestra www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHLs...

‎For 2026 ⁦‪#AllEyesOnPalestine‬⁩🇵🇸 ‎A reminder of human dignity and resilience... Palestinians have always been showing us the way. ‎سجل انا عربي - محمود درويش | Record !.. I'm an Arab - Mahmoud Darwish m.youtube.com/watch?v=mzfK...

The answer is yes, by the way. A resounding yes. A yes that is screamed by the millions of voices silenced in South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. There's a reason no one likes you and it's not jealousy. It is memory.

For 2026 #AllEyesOnPalestine🇵🇸 A reminder of human dignity and resilience... Palestinians have always been showing us the way. Zeyne - 7arrir 3aqlak / Asli Ana | زين - حرر عقلك / اصلي انا (Official Music Video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhH6...

For 2026 #AllEyesOnPalestine🇵🇸 A reminder of human dignity and resilience... Palestinians have always been showing us the way. Tamer Nafar - أحكي للعالم ft Samih Alqasim, Rim Banna Rola, Azar Mohammad Bakri. Prod by Djamil www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1lx...

Zohran Mamdani sworn in as Mayor of New York - what a great start to 2026!

#ReadPalestineWeek Day 7 So many books to read about Palestine This is a book that will fill the reader with "what ifs" Palestine-Peace Not Apartheid, Jimmy Carter The last paragraphs in the book, published in 2006, are heart-breaking⤵️

Dee Nickerson, contemporary painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #WomensArt #FridayFeeling #ArtAdvent

#ReadPalestineWeek Day 6 Four by Ghada Karmi My favourite & most moving is In Search of Fatima #BookSky

“No One Knows Their Blood Type” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, trans. by Hazem Jamjoum, published by the CSU Poetry Center, is the winner of the 2025 Palestine Book Award in Translation 💫 Just in time for #readpalestineweek 🇵🇸

For #readpalestineweek, im returning here again. It took me so long to find a copy of this but I’m glad I have one. May your memory be eternal, Refaat Alareer.

#ReadPalestineWeek Day 5 Visualising Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation, edited by Jessica Anderson, Aline Batarseh, Yosra El via Visualizing Palestine [https://visualizingpalestine.org/] #BookSky

#ReadPalestineWeek Day 4 Palestine: A personal history, Karl Sabbagh #BookSky

#ReadPalestineWeek Day 3 What does Israel fear from Palestine?, Raja Shehadeh #BookSky

#ReadPalestineWeek Day 2 My Palestine: An Impossible Exile, by Mohammad Tarbush #BookSky

#ReadPalestineWeek Day 1 Recognising the stranger: On Palestine & narrative, by Isabella Hammad

Showings in the UK and Ireland. Get your tickets, now. Annemarie Jacir’s emotionally stirring drama follows a year of brutal conflict in the Middle East with a huge cast of characters caught up in the turmoil www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Watched this today Amazing, emotional - important film … Philistine Films, Annemarie Jacir, cast & everyone who contributed to making of this film… thank you A must watch #Palestine m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWtw...

Honestly, if you’re not listening to this podcast… you must give it a go - been a fan since it started in 2022 with its first episode on the East India Company @empirepoduk.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social & @anitaanand.bsky.social are amazing hosts

Today we launch at new @EmpirePodUK series- WRITERS ON EMPIRE We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell linktr.ee/empirepoduk

we are nearing the point where our robots can take your dog for a nice little hike while listening to your favorite playlist, giving you more time on the weekends for the important things like making sales calls

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Madeline Horwath on St George returning to England www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Re: Keir Starmer: “but you can't admin your way out of unpopularity”, @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Sept 2025 Love that - so on the nose👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I really hope the Starmer speech on patriotic renewal is better than this summary of it, which basically argues that New Labour and the Tories let in too many immigrsnts but this one is going to give you a youth club instead so please don’t vote Reform www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f9444c6...

‘What would Orwell think’, Musk had on his T-shirt. My guess is he’d think Musk is a master of Doublespeak. A man who bought his own Ministry of Truth and embodies some of the nightmarish developments he anticipated.