Local councils shouldn't be decided on foreign policy. Local councils should not have a foreign policy. Collect the bins. Fix the road. House people properly.

Sounds like the Greens enabled Reform to win tbh

Ooooh yeah.. Test cricket is back www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Fair play to Naga Munchetty, strong interview with James Cleverly on Breakfast, not just letting him go off on a tangent

So far looks a little underwhelming for the Greens

Someone stick a fork in Keir Starmer's Labour tenure

Plan your resignation to avert Labour strife, Keir Starmer urged www.thetimes.com/article/8fe9... Ed Miliband.. a specialist in failure

Mark and Margo have gotta be up there as the most annoying contestants on #RaceAcrossTheWorld (also, Mark looks like Marcis Trescothick)

Bus passenger arrested after alleged Hitler and gas chamber comments to Jews www.jewishnews.co.uk/bus-passenge... Anymore for anymore?

Met Police investigating after Jewish pupils flee apparent attempted car ramming www.jewishnews.co.uk/met-police-i...

Tired and Wired: A few thoughts on what Coeliac does to me when I accidentally eat something I shouldn't. I become a zombie, unable to sleep, physically exhausted, and completely on edge and a ball of stress. It's very shit #Coeliac #Celiac #Gluten open.substack.com/pub/jackmend...

The Times aren't the only ones bsky.app/profile/m-en...

Marcus North? England selector? What on earth are they doing

FFS

bosh, as they say

I have made a decision: Otter is the single most frustrating and useless program out there. It's such a good idea, but it basically doesn't work. it's not functional. And every time you try and use it they try and get you to pay more. I just want a transcript

Do hope we take New Zealand seriously, they have a very good side, including a pacey and varied attack. Will surely be Kane Williamson's final tour of England. I wouldn't be surprised to see him retire this year tbh www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Absolutely dreadful night. Not slept, feel awful. fml

Nice segment on BBC News about Reading. Loved going to Uni in the town, many fond memories. Make it a City!

Election tomorrow.. I have not had a single leaflet through the door. Seen no local canvassers. One bloke outside the station a few weeks ago is the only thing I've seen in the whole campaign. And I have no idea who to vote for tbh

Quality bowler.. shame he is off, but I guess it's good he's getting game time

We call on publications to show the utmost vigilance and stringency on these issues. 2/2

Caricaturists and their editors must take care that their depictions of Jews in public life do not wade into centuries old anti-Jewish tropes. We have seen a number of examples of political cartoons published depicting Zack Polanski that are a cause for concern. 1/2

I don't really understand why some journalists make it nye-on impossible to find contact details

Said it before and I'll say it again, you don't need to agree with Zack Polanski's politics to call out what is quite clearly in my view, antisemitic caricaturing. And no, saying this doesn't lend him any political credibility. It just means we should critique his views and actions not appearance

I know cartoonists do unflattering caricatures of everyone but it amazes me that some of them (and their editors) never cross-check their caricatures of Jewish politicians with Der Stürmer just to make sure they haven't overdone it. No exaggeration, the bottom left one would have delighted a Nazi

This is wild: The devout Muslim making a living from Islamophobic AI slop www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Said it before and I'll say it again, you don't need to agree with Zack Polanski's politics to call out what is quite clearly in my view, antisemitic caricaturing. And no, saying this doesn't lend him any political credibility. It just means we should critique his views and actions not appearance

People who are critical of Zack Polanski (and I’m increasingly one of them) need to be able to recognise that, even if you think he’s handling antisemitism within his party really badly, he is himself a victim of antisemitism.

Clarence Seedorf has aged pretty gracefully. What a player he was!

It's absolutely absurd that defenders have to defend with their hands behind their backs all the time. It's so unnatural and I bet quite restrictive too. Like they must be thinking about where their hands are and conscious of not giving away a hand ball, instead of just defending on instinct

Not sure I've ever seen one player making such a difference to a team than Saka with Arsenal tbh. He takes a decent team that would ordinarily finish top four, to a title-contending, UCL-competing side. He's come back just at the right time..

A political party trying to win power in local elections this week, and trying to establish itself as a challenger to the two historically bigger parties, does not need a 'representative aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla.' It should have nothing to do with it, obviously.

Why aren’t the left marching for Jewish Lives Matter? www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... The simple answer is, people don't think Jewish Lives Matter. The more complicated answer is rooted in conspiracies and a belief that Jews are 'white and privileged' people, and can't suffer oppression

Nelson Street Synagogue targeted with arson. A disused shul which a Muslim group recently put a deposit down on. Whoever this is targeted against, Jews and or Muslims, it's vile. Remember Lord Sacks' words "...the hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews" www.thejc.com/community/mu...

I do feel a bit sorry for the old Greens. I used to speak to some of them as a reporter back in the day, and they always came across as thoroughly decent, even if a bit politically naive. Like I disagreed with a lot of what they said but at least they were civil and acted in good faith

Old Greens, meet your new masters and future. This response to Caroline Lucas says everything about where the party is going

BBC changing Hamza's quotes.. They hope Jews won't notice the censoring, editing out www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Antisemitism is bad, and there's no place for it in the green party.' But.. "This is a society-wide problem & needs to be rooted out wherever it’s found" It's Jeremy Corbyn 2.0. Condemn racism, but externalize it as a societal structural problem. Deny the specificity of the problem.

'Antisemitism is bad, and there's no place for it in the green party.' But.. "This is a society-wide problem & needs to be rooted out wherever it’s found" It's Jeremy Corbyn 2.0. Condemn racism, but externalize it as a societal structural problem. Deny the specificity of the problem.

Seriously, the mainstream Jewish community has been pointing out - for *years* now - the climate of harassment many face. At work. At university or school. When seeking medical help. While travelling. The government finally, FINALLY listens. And the response on here? 'Fascism'. 'Authoritarianism'.

hilarious

Man who invited Hamas and Hezbollah to Parliament for tea and called them "friends", speaks

Or as... Zack Polanski.. might say 'Perception' of attacks

If you read one thing today, make it this...

Today’s newsletter: the United Kingdom doesn’t have the antiracism movement that its politicians, or much of the British Jewish community, thinks it does:

I still have absolutely no idea who to vote for tbh

Nelson Street Synagogue targeted with arson. A disused shul which a Muslim group recently put a deposit down on. Whoever this is targeted against, Jews and or Muslims, it's vile. Remember Lord Sacks' words "...the hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews" www.thejc.com/community/mu...

Wu could crack a smile.. you're champion

Wonder how many people watched this Snooker final.. in China