3 May 1930 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Meriam Kok, was born in Amsterdam. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 6 December 1942 in a transport of 811 Jews deported from Westerbork. She was among 795 people murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

"We need to rejoin as fast as the EU will let us". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nothing better illustrates the anti-democratic nature of our security state. Not only should a political leader have the right to make others aware of police brutality; he has a democratic obligation to do so. Whether he also has the right to make private representations is neither here nor there.

Rayner’s caught by the combination of misogyny and classism here, I think. Theresa May can have a big glass of white wine at the cricket but if Rayner did someone would take is as evidence she was getting above herself. Gin and tonic is worse (and Tory coded). Don’t drink? Humourless, judgey jag.

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today David talks to historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social about the meaning of Britain’s one and (so far) only general strike on its 100th anniversary. Was it a revolutionary event or an industrial dispute gone wrong? Who won the battle of ideas? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

I would suggest that astonishing lack of knowledge and Badenoch are often seen together.

The Finsbury Park attack in 2017, where a supporter rammed a van into Muslims leaving a mosque, killing one man and injuring others, is perhaps the clearest example But there are many, many more www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

During this segment, Kemi Badenoch asked, apparently rhetorically: "Is he creating a climate of intimidation and violence that is resulting in people being murdered?" That sentence betrays an astonishing lack of knowledge about the recent history of terror attacks and plots in this country

‘In spite of Julian Barnes’s brilliant narrative games – demonstrations of when fiction is to be preferred to truth, boring sections that are carefully crafted as boring – the book focuses on one double topic: memory and dying.’ Michael Wood reads 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦(𝘴). www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The horror at what is being done to Palestinians comes from the same place as the horror at what is being done, yet again, to Jews. Does the government really want us to stop standing in solidarity with the victims of atrocities? If so, it will make the country less safe for everyone.

Keir Starmer's intention to restrict peaceful protest even further is punishment for crimes the great majority of protestors hate and reject. By suggesting that support for Palestinians is an attack on British Jews, he conflates British Jews with the state of Israel, which is wrong and dangerous.

All of us have a duty to fight antisemitism wherever we see it, and confront anyone expressing antisemitic sentiments. If people in any movement express such sentiments, they should immediately be expelled, as many have already been. No excuses, no hesitation.

Jews are not collectively responsible for Israeli government policy. People demonstrating peacefully for Palestine are not collectively responsible for the attacks on British Jews. Collective punishment for other people's crimes is not justice.

We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5

Unbelievable... bsky.app/profile/poli...

Wrens are usually solitary birds but when it’s cold they will sometimes huddle together for warmth. Some people call this a ‘herd’ but technically it’s known as a ‘scene’. That’s because chilled wren should be ‘scene’ and not ‘herd’.

Morning all. Blackpool 1970. Photographer Martin Parr.

On a final note about the Sunday interviews, Nigel Farage had been scheduled to appear on the BBC show, but seems to have ducked out.

Her argument appears to be that the pro-Palestine march is specifically intimidating to Jewish people, whereas the Tommy Robinson march will not be specifically targeting any particular group.

It's a fascinating interview in its way, as Polanski could also not be more clear about his disdain for Philips and his interview technique.

This interview of Zack Polanski by Trevor Philips is absolutely terrible. Apart from distorting what Polanski has said, Philips could not make his utter disdain for Polanski any more clear.

On the BBC, Kemi Badenoch seems to be arguing that the pro-Palestine march later this month should be banned, but that the Tommy Robinson-organised far right march planned for the same day should be allowed to go ahead.

Did they insult you? That’s how English people show friendship.

That feeling when you have an absolutely delightful time with a British person. You joke, you laugh, you share confidences. You go home, feeling that you have made a friend you will see again soon. Late in the evening, you sit up in alarm. And you suddenly wonder: “What if they…. hate me?”

The thing is, if a German person is ever this nice to you, which is very rare, you really have made a friend for life. As for a French person, they wouldn’t, so there is no confusion.

It is a general rule that until a British person insults you you're just on polite/casual acquaintance terms. It's not universal but usually brits are only rude to the face of people they like or *absolutely* loathe.

Is this the second time brave Sir Nige has bravely run away after being booked on the same show as Polanski?

Farage wants no scrutiny whatsoever. When's the last time he did a mainstream interview?

. And Nigel Farage has also chickened out of his interview with Laura Kuenssberg today as you rightly predicted on X - Farage always chickens out and he and Reform are unfit to lead our great country! 🐔 #trevorphillips #BBClaurak #bbcbh #FACO 🐓 .

. Keir Starmer and others need to understand that every pro-Palestine peace march in London incorporates a substantial Jewish contingent including Holocaust survivors who oppose the Israeli Netanyahu government. Banning them would be very wrong! #trevorphillips #BBClaurak #bbcbh #toriesgone667 .

#trevorphillips tries to argue that because some people say the pro Palestinian marches are hate marches, they are. @zackpolanski.bsky.social is spot on, there is nothing hateful about marching in support of the Palestinians & against Israels brutal occupation & genocide.

Phillips suggests that the beliefs of people who think Anti-Genocide marches are hate marches should count more than the actual evidence that no hate crimes have been reported from these marches. The battleground is about which baseless perceptions are given the weight of facts and which don't.

If the police deem that risk of serious disorder from the combination of those two protests cannot be controlled through putting conditions on location, timing etc that could allow the banning power to be triggered That was what happened with Quds Day in March www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

There has never been serious disorder at pro-Palestinian marches in Britain that would meet the legal test necessary for a ban However, Tommy Robinson has organised a London protest on the same day as the 16 May Nakba Day march

I am re-sharing this thread in light of the political debate on banning pro-Palestinian marches following the Golders Green attack

If the government wants to tackle the "online breeding ground of antisemitism" why on earth are Keir Starmer, the government and @heidialexander.bsky.social still posting on X? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Love to pay more than fifty whole pounds to travel standing in a strangers armpit in a train vestibule that smells of sweat and sick. Bonus: behind me are the doors to the first class carriages, which take up more than half the train, are almost empty, and are guarded by a little man in a waistcoat

Laura Kuenssberg, "Nigel Farage was set to be here, but he he changed his mind" Does that have anything to do with his undeclared £5,000,000 gift?

I guarantee that none of you are having as much fun this morning as I am.

RIP H out off of Steps. Taken too soon.

Outside Delft Station, the absence of car noise reveals a richer urban soundtrack: trams gliding, bells ringing, birds chirping, laughter echoing, and bicycles creaking by. In place of roaring engines, the human-scale soundscape brings the street to life: so serene, yet simultaneously full of life.

A post-Starmer Labour leadership serious about getting voters back from the Greens will find itself saying and doing things that Trump hates Trump MAGA will only be satisfied by open acts and symbols of humiliating vassalage that will destroy the domestic position of European leaders who submit

For all the Green Party's vulnerabilities, even before Polanski it was making headway against Starmer's Labour because Greens are willing to defend values treasured by Labour's current core voters without the hedging and self-doubt that suffused Labour for 25 years

Left: Labour's Heidi Alexander says that criticising police officers for kicking a tasered man on the ground five times in the head is abhorrent Right: Police officers kicking a tasered man on the ground five times in the head after he attacked two Jewish and one Muslim man

3 May 1901 | A Polish man, Wiktor Knapik, was born in Krakow. A teacher. In #Auschwitz from 6 April 1941. No. 14708 He perished in Mauthausen on 21 July 1942. --- 📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

Heidi Alexander says Zack Polanski is unfit to lead a political party. Unlike Zack, she supports & arms a regime thats murdered journalists, bombed hospitals, burnt people alive in tents & slaughtered tens of thousands of kids Be like Zack. Not like Heidi

Given what Cameron said and knew, his decision to call a referendum is even more unforgivable.

but equally, if you really think that why would you be prepared to risk it in a referendum, where you have said in the run up that your willingness to recommend continued membership is contingent on achieving some send order goals in a renegotiation. Doesn't add up

Cameron and Clegg were idiots.

Do not forget, Cameron was bored by it so he allowed a simple majority to win it 50% plus 1 vote. He also couldn't be bothered properly defending it. He gave in to his rich old freinds in the Tory party. Cunt. On top of the Austerity bullshit. Now the UK is much poorer.