Earlier today Israeli soldiers shot dead 19-year-old Ahmed Jihad Barahmeh in the town of Anzah near Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Yesterday, Israeli settlers killed 20-year-old Saeed Murad al-Nasan in the village of al-Mughayyir.

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#VanGoghbyVincent on @skyarts.bsky.social weirdly totally ignores his religious beliefs or activities.

Heldere weerlegging van het idee dat migranten/ asielzoekers crimineler zouden zijn. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

The US government is using America's cultural dominance over Europe to foment regime change, a new @ecfr.eu report concludes. This cultural dynamic of the American threat is incredibly important. And it is also under-appreciated here in Europe.

Dutch security services directly told the minister that the riot was far-right extremism - and he still declined to name it as such. Genuinely astonishing, the lengths the VVD will go to in an effort to court the far right. They make Kemi Badenoch look like Greta Thunberg www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Why only mention this at the very end (where most readers will not read through to): “Last year, an AI tool used to crack down on welfare fraud was found to show bias according to people's age, disability, marital status and nationality.” And why does the one example given relate to a foreigner?

Several vessels belonging to the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza were targeted by Israeli drones in international waters south of Crete yesterday, organizers said.

Greek government denies any involvement with #Predator spyware scandal, but it has scuppered all efforts to shed light on it and its fingerprints are all over it. Still one case is going forward in court today. Spyware is used to silence critics and eliminate scrutiny @kostaskallergis.bsky.social

Excellently argued article! “The evidence suggests that greater involvement of financial markets has not increased aggregate home ownership or housing supply, but instead inflated house prices and rents.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hear! Hear!! Hear!!! “EU leaders and institutions are bending to hardening us authoritarianism & placate far-right forces at home, corroding the very values and principles – democracy, rule of law, open markets and climate responsibility – they claim to uphold.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On the blatant double standards the media - BBC included - deploys while showcasing Nigel Farage. He is constantly given a free pass not granted to other politicians. bylines.scot/news/the-far...

Before politicians and media get themselves into a mess. Let me clarify. For most Muslims, Sharia means living ethically, praying, and giving to charity. Any councils are advisory and are not above the law and are no different to Jewish Beth Din courts that have existed in the UK since the 1800s.

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

This is absolutely wild: US Secret Service seizes "anonymous communications network with more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers" in New York, targeting UN General Assembly? "Only a handful of countries could pull off such an operation, including Russia, China and Israel." archive.is/S4hkB

“Samuel (who sent 2,000 men into internment after the 1916 rising, and signed off on the hanging of Roger Casement), was made High Commr of Palestine set about implementing the British government’s objective: ‘Create a loyal little Jewish Ulster in Palestine.’” www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

It's almost as if, before the Gaza famine was officially recognised, it was a story, as media organisations could generate controversy by hosting Israeli government spokespeople and our own rightwing blowhards, insisting it was all a fabrication. Now that it can no longer be denied ... no story.

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

This is not really cognitive frailty? This is an information ecosystem problem. “Do your own research” is not a good answer here.

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

As world leaders gather at the United Nations General Assembly, they should commit to protecting the UN from powerful governments seeking to defund and undermine the organization’s capacity to promote human rights and international justice.

I see the CPS is desperately trying to repair the damage. The claim that their clear errors were down to "changes in definitions" is a lie. Journalists should treat any new estimates with appropriate scepticism. archive.ph/JSo7O#select...

Momentum builds for Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly as the left unite behind her News from Sinn Féin leader Mary-Lou McDonald means that all significant left-wing(ish) parties now back Catherine Connolly's campaign www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Terughoudendheid na het extreme geweld van zaterdag is niet op zijn plaats. Dit is het moment voor politici om te laten zien dat er voor extreemrechts geen plaats is in Nederland. Dit vindt NRC: buff.ly/wXXe3Xq

This & other populist gambits present an insoluble conundrum. Ignore them & they flourish by being unchallenged. Challenge them & they flourish by being discussed. 2/2

Hi there, I’ve just signed the petition below calling for the boycotting of Eurovision unless Israel is banned. Will you add your name too and then share it far and wide? 38d.gs/qh_c

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passed by with just one day of headlines and no real debate or retribution. Just some football hooligans doing what hooligans do. Yesterday’s news, move on. For a country with a deep tradition of discussing political issues to death, we’re good at ignoring big things sometimes

It’s hard to judge but my sense is that while the recent big English far right protest attracted acres of coverage and weeks of pundit soul-searching, the Netherlands equivalent seems to have

Americans I am begging you to sort this out. Your mad racist uncle has shat himself in public again.

Spain has fully implemented an arms embargo on Israel through a royal decree law. All weapons sales, military tech trade, port access for fuel shipments, airspace use for arms transport and settlement goods imports have been banned.

I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country. They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends. We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.

There are few ‘online harms’ that come close to the words of the President of the United States.

Imagine if the public never had the chance to learn about the Pentagon Papers. The Defense Department's crack down on reporting is an egregious assault on the free press, a critical pillar of our democracy.

quite cool- a young woman curator from the Rijksmuseum went to Middelburg on her day off, and happened to notice that a dog in a painting there was identical to one in the Night Watch. It turned out Rembrandt had copied it line for line, and no-one ever noticed before #plagiarism nos.nl/l/2583719

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

The last time @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu bought off Orbàn's veto, @europarl.europa.eu did much huffing and puffing and took her to court in a purely symbolic and meaningless move. #EUCO could have solved the problem years ago by stripping Orbàn of his veto, but the government leaders refuse to do so

Nigel Farage is, and always was, far right, from his schooldays. The squeamishness about calling him out is one of the reasons we’re in such a terrible state today.

Cravenly obeying the US on a batshit crypto hallucination, because Brexit made us desperate.

This is quite the post. 1. He unambiguously directs his AG to go after those who investigated him for his crimes 2. He admits being influenced by online chatter He is mob bossing out in the open, because he knows he has corrupted every federal law enforcement agency into submission.

I have defended the BBC again and again. No more.

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

And in case anyone is wondering why CPS might have “erred” in a particular direction, here’s a handy chart.

Over de mediaberichtgeving van afgelopen weekend. Wanneer demonstranten Hitlergroeten brengen en extreemrechtse leuzen roepen, is terughoudendheid in het gebruik van de term ‘extreemrechts’ niet gepast www.linkedin.com/posts/nikkis...

The main issues in the revision of the e-Privacy Directive is not cookies but governments aiming to further widen the scope for (mass) surveillance. And of course the @ec.europa.eu is happy to oblige.

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

Pam Bondi is a loyalist hack, selected for her pro-bribery and pro-lying record, who has spent her tenure as Attorney General working to transform DOJ from a law enforcement org into a political allegiance and personal revenge org. If she can't find a pretext to manufacture charges, there isn't one.

50 Cyberleagle blogposts since June 2018 on online harms, the UK Online Safety Bill and now the Online Safety Act are far too many for anyone to read. So, featuring a pithy extract from each one, here is a compendium. Enjoy. Alternatively, read and weep. www.cyberleagle.com/2020/02/an-o...

Palestine ambassador demolishes Kuenssberg's 'propaganda' question over statehood "The question is why didn't the UK recognise the state of Palestine all along?" said Husam Zomlot as the UK looks set to recognise statehood www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

There is another country. Latest post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog discussing the thuggery, sanctimony and hypocrisy of the last fortnight, and how Starmer should lead in articulating an alternative version of patriotism to that of the far-right: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/ther...