I’m deeply concerned about recent racist attacks in our capital city.

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

Prominent names on here who also have spoken out on Gaza, amid the government crackdown on pro-Palestine speech: Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Nixon, Florence Pugh, Joaquin Phoenix, Jane Fonda, Ilana Glazer, Gianmarco Soresi, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Marcia Cross, Wallace Shawn, Rob Delaney, Ramy Youssef, more.

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

Some very obvious cases that Farage and Yusuf need to be hammered on: 1. 78 year old pensioner on ILR for last 30 years who obviously cannot get work visa 2. 35 year old born in UK to non-nationals, never got UK citizenship because of cost, loses job and has to move to country they've never lived in

For every like this post gets I will be unnecessarily unpleasant about a song I don’t care for.

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

Breaking News: Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized Palestinian statehood.

In 2019, my world was blown apart by the death of my best friend Nichola. This week I wrote about how much she meant to me, and the specific challenges that come with grieving a close friend, in @theguardian.com

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

This needs to be followed by action, particularly on protecting trans people, but the rhetoric is extremely welcome www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

JUST IN: An independent United Nations inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and that the country’s top leaders have incited genocide, in what it described as “the “most authoritative UN finding to date.” https://cnn.it/3VjaHzS

New post just out: "Burn it down vs build it up" With the right radicalising by the day - how can the argument be won on the key dividing line in politics? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“The retired general [said] more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”. That estimate is…close to the current figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda.”

No other party says the basic truth: migration is good for Britain. The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services. That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.

This fucking psychopath

Over several months this year, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social and Lynsey Addario reported from Sudan and Chad, where a civil war and humanitarian tragedy is taking place. Addario’s photos convey the scope of the suffering in the region with brutal immediacy.

"Victoria Rose, who volunteered in Gaza, recounts the unbearable reality of operating amputations on children without anaesthesia. She describes how the first 6 cases each day were children, their screams echoing until the afternoon as doctors ran out of vital medicines." youtube.com/shorts/XPy5g...

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Thank you for all the suggestions for attracting more hot men to the National Trust. My favourite so far was getting Hot Priest to come and hide out in some of our priest holes. If anyone knows Andrew Scott please can you raise the idea with him - just casually.

What a grotesque loss of touch with the whole idea of ‘right’. The Taliban’s strict command about ‘no skin contact between women and unrelated men’ means rescuers leave injured but surviving women under earthquake rubble, even as they retrieve the dead first. www.indiatoday.in/world/story/...

It gets worse every day

"We live in a topsy-turvy world. Protesters calling for an end to a genocide are charged under terror legislation, while thugs who stand outside accommodation for families fleeing war and persecution chant for blood. That is not balance; it is moral collapse." www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

Timeline cleanse

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.

Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".

When you get power you have a limited window to do stuff and to persuade people to trust you with power. Offering a pale imitation of your opponents does neither.

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.

May I ask you to closely read this v short piece I wrote in October 2023? Like really parse it? It makes me sick that it now reads like a blueprint. Shame - unforgivable, irredeemable shame forever on our leaders. ❤️‍🩹🇵🇸https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/10/rob-delaney-gaza-palestine-israel-genocide

Sorry i was late to the bbq i was rendering aid to a victim of domestic violence* *i fell down 2 (?) spiral staircases into a big hotel fish tank when a sex worker made fun of my penis for having 4 distinct skin tones & a toenail on the end of it. 9/11 as well

is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?

This will either force families to stay split up, leaving thousands of women and children in extremely dangerous situations, or it forces them into dangerous journeys. Either way, this has terrible consequences.

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.

CINDY MCCAIN: “The desperation is overwhelming.”

This is my flag.

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂

Just going to list out the things Labour have elected to ignore this month, off the top of my head: The Shadow Home Secretary and LotO celebrating the release of a woman who plead guilty to inciting violence and hatred. A Tory MP and AM joining another party calling for mass deportations.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

Looking for someone who fell or nearly fell for a scam text promising help with winter fuel. Liiiike this one: