Israeli forces shut down the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron, occupied West Bank, detaining staff and seizing equipment while providing no explanation or timeline for the closure of the charity supporting over 6,000 orphans. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/l7r9qw

Our Policy and Media Advisor Mark is right: the UK will continue to be at a disadvantage until we rekindle our relationship with the European Union.

Shocked that Australia is once again relying on digging stuff out of the ground to make other people rich to supposedly secure our future

Travel connects you with how other people live, creates empathy and open-mindedness. AI continues to want to shrink human experience and have us believe only content matters. Close-mindedness and apathy.

Systematic murder and torture as a matter of deliberate state policy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This is what democracy looks like 🍉

Is Peston suggesting that Western democracies (albeit, apartheid states) should get a free pass on genocide? This raises all kinds of questions, not least over whether, if equally capable of committing crimes against humanity, liberal democracy has any value other than being a Get Out of Jail card

So when Farage rails against the latest migration figures, he's railing against a monster of his own making. The EU didn't impose uncontrolled immigration on us; it offered a framework that reflected geography, economics and reality” ie - control. www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...

Jonathan gets it right here in my view. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew

Lam: "you need to go home *because* those are not the conditions under which you came" sets out a principle that her policy rejects & breaches. Her policy is to remove legal status & threaten to deport maybe 100-200k people - inc nurses - who kept all those conditions and got permanent status

Not sure what’s worse, Katie Lam’s comments or the fact that we can’t get Labour to criticise them … www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-brea...

The US does not have mandatory Country-of-Origin labeling for beef, so in many cases consumers are in the dark, whether the beef is from Argentina, Brazil, Australia or the US

Farage's duplicity on Russia makes him totally unfit to lead our country Farage fears his desire to reach Downing Street might be thwarted by this simpering stance towards a bloodstained war criminal inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

How safe are UK research institutions from politicisation? @chrischirp.bsky.social & have have written a new blog for LSE on our report blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

really pleased to be able to write about our latest report on strengthening the resilience of our public bodies for LSE! Written with @martinmckee.bsky.social . Report here www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... blog here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

So the UK Met Police are investigating Prince Andrew trying to get hold of Virginia Giuffre’s personal information. WTF didn’t they investigate him for sexual abuse in the first place when she, and others, spoke out? Oh that’s right, he’s a rich white man and a Royal.

Trump is literally siding with Russia, suggesting Ukraine gives up the Donbas as a reward for aggression. Why should anyone back that?

This after a tense meeting with Zelenskyy: "Trump suggests carving up Ukraine’s Donbas region to end war with Russia" Why on earth would Trump even remotely consider the possibility, let alone suggest it out loud? #USPolitics #Ukraine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sharing Colmar, France.

Zack Polanski's appearance on the Laura Kuenssberg show has led to a major spike in Green membership 👀

I know I’ve said this more than once, and I know it’s really obvious, but taking the train between cities in Europe is just fantastic. So easy. One of the dumbest mistakes North America ever made, and continues to make, is doing so relatively little with trains. Train networks are nation-building.

European Commission Vice President Teresa Ribera said Donald Trump's threat to slap tariffs on Spain over its lax defense spending made "little sense" and called for the EU to stand firm against the US president's "outbursts."

Via City Hall: "Sadiq Khan has launched a new £2.7 million programme to deliver indoor air quality filters to hundreds of schools across the capital, bringing cleaner air to tens of thousands of children in their classrooms. "At least 200 schools across London will receive HEPA filters."

This is absolutely where a lot of people I talk to regularly are thinking today. Our work is not only about the here and now but about the world somewhere between here and the end of our lives and building what's needed, starting now.

Industrial livestock doesn’t just pollute our waterways & wipe out biodiversity, it also threatens our very existence. On a per capita basis, Ireland is among world’s worst livestock polluters.

First night of the “Utopian Hours” European festival of city-making here in Torino, Italy was amazing last night! My presentation on “people over cars” for better cities is on Sunday, still might be a bit of room left if you’re in the area! #UtopianHours

An actual, real life, nuanced discussion about Brexit!!

British.

No King's Day! Here we go!! 🗽⚖️🇺🇸

“Meanwhile, the e-bike market is skyrocketing… The question now is: Do officials double down on deadly car-centric urban design, or do they rethink cities to encourage people to ditch four wheels for two?” Via @grist.org And do we let elected leaders keep doing the wrong things for our cities?

Infectious diseases in Gaza ‘spiralling out of control’, says WHO – Middle East live

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

“If you get hit by a car travelling at 50km/h, you’ve only got a 1.5-in-10 chance of surviving. If it’s going 30km/h you’ve got a nine-in-10 chance.” “But it was not enough to put up a sign that says 30km/h…there also needed to be design changes to slow down traffic.” Speed is always a factor.

We’ve heard a lot of colossally stupid things from the Trump regime lately, but this is among the stupidest things I’ve heard from anyone, anywhere, ever.

Word on the street is that there are a bunch of new folks joining Bluesky right now, so it seems like a good time to re-share my first & biggest STARTER PACK of urbanists & city-making organizations from across the world. Hope you’ll consider following the excellent accounts here. And please share!

BREAKING: The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports that at least 23 civilians were killed by Israeli airstrikes and gunfire since the start of the ceasefire.

Early days, but so far so good: “Eurostar reports ‘encouraging’ speeds for new EU border checks at St Pancras” www.therailwayhub.co.uk/72017/eurost...

Exclusive: Greens Plan To "Overtake Tories And Replace Labour" As Support Surges The party has also seen its membership break through 100,000 for the first time. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

BREAKING: A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire east of Gaza’s Khan Younis amid the first phase of the ceasefire, according to sources at Nasser Medical Complex. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ttcve3

It was done so by the very tabloids that are doing it today. And the government was so scared of upsetting the bigots that the small number of children who did come here came on condition that UK Jews covered the costs. We've turned that horror into a self reinforcing myth of British generosity

The media are lying to you again

Why else would anyone actually want to meet Eric Trump?

‘Intersected’. The torturous language to avoid calling corruption, corruption

Government finally acknowledges ‘severe’ economic impact of Brexit www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/gov...

Seems the Narcissist-in-Chief is mad about the Time Mag cover neckgina pic so please don’t share it widely Thank you for your attention to this matter

Just joined the Greens! Proud to be another hopeful member working towards real change. The momentum is building, and more people are joining every day! @Zack Polanski represents the kind of leadership we need - someone who offers genuine hope for our future #GreenParty #ZackPolanski

Zack Polanski: "If the straight question is, ‘would I abolish the monarchy' - yeah, absolutely.” open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Finally. FINALLY. They are starting to admit the truth. But you know, they have other options to solve this apart from tax rises. Get back into the EU as fast as possible. Save the economy.