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Even wars have rules. "Humanity is failing in Gaza," Ms Spoljaric told me. "It is failing. We cannot continue to watch what is happening. It's surpassing any acceptable, legal, moral, and humane standard. The level of destruction, the level of suffering."

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Jeremy Bowen spells out the problem for Israel trying to deny war crimes: its own ministers have admitted to them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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This is worth reading. It's couched in neutral BBC language but ultimately it says what we all know. We're witnessing a genocide. And the whole international community is complicit.

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Difficult to express the contempt I feel for this. No, not all Jews think "Yes, there is a genocide happening right now and children are being burnt alive, but on the other hand some of those protesting really are antisemites, which is bad, so who knows what to do?" archive.ph/E1vxH

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‘If the problem that this country simply isn’t white enough, someone may as well just come out and say it. Because it’s clear the issue here isn’t Britishness.’ www.independent.co.uk/voices/immig...

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This is excellent from @anandMenon1 on the latest vile nonsense from Matthew Goodwin, a man whose descent in the gutter grows ever more nauseating t.co/31mdzmfwYs

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Difficult to express the contempt I feel for this. No, not all Jews think "Yes, there is a genocide happening right now and children are being burnt alive, but on the other hand some of those protesting really are antisemites, which is bad, so who knows what to do?" archive.ph/E1vxH

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"Less dog whistle than plain old whistle. Dodgy extrapolations posing as predictions." @anandmenon.bsky.social on the racist ethnonationalism of Matt Goodwin and the Daily Telegraph www.independent.co.uk/voices/immig...

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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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"Less dog whistle than plain old whistle. Dodgy extrapolations posing as predictions." @anandmenon.bsky.social on the racist ethnonationalism of Matt Goodwin and the Daily Telegraph www.independent.co.uk/voices/immig...

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(Not my title 😉) www.independent.co.uk/voices/immig...

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Five years today, the statue of Edward Colston was pulled down in Bristol. Boris Johnson accused protestors of trying to "photoshop" the past and "lie about our history". I'm reposting below a thread I wrote at the time: on history, memory, and how we decide who to celebrate in our public spaces.🧵

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"if Farage lets others reach for the dog whistle, he may find he has lost control of the tune" Don't need to be a psychologist to know this column has little to do with Farage/Reform -its Fraser's apologia for his promotion of racism & fascism as Spectator editor www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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“I didn’t realise people were going to get hurt when I said everything was their fault”

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Something I find most repellant about British political journalism is how easily people like Nelson are allowed to simply move on from espousing bigotry and hatred, as though it was a youthful lapse. This quote in particular is pretty stunning in its hypocrisy. This is exactly what you did Fraser!

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"if Farage lets others reach for the dog whistle, he may find he has lost control of the tune" Don't need to be a psychologist to know this column has little to do with Farage/Reform -its Fraser's apologia for his promotion of racism & fascism as Spectator editor www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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Abhorrent. “The soldiers film people fighting over the aid, and once it’s finished, they throw teargas to disperse the crowd. I saw displaced people who couldn’t get any aid picking pasta from the sand.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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The Financial Times editorial board calls on all members of the European Union to -Ban trade with Israeli settlements -Sanction settlers and settler organizations -Suspend offensive weapon exports to Israel -Sanction Smotrich and Ben-Gvir -Recognize the State of Palestine

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Fraser Nelson writer at The Times and Fraser Nelson editor at The Spectator A breathtaking hypocrite.

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On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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I'd add this doesn't change the need to scrap the two child limit which largely affects a different group of kids who are already FSM eligible and whose households are right at the bottom of the income distribution

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How has migration shaped UK art and culture – and what should its role in our future cultural landscape be? We convened a stellar line-up at the Guildhall to discuss: ‪@davidolusoga.bsky.social, Es Devlin, Indhu Rubasingham (@nationaltheatre.org.uk) @sathnam.bsky.social & Reeta Chakrabarti.

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I partially disagree with this. In that - while I agree perceptions are important - the last time someone got down into the nitty gritty of people’s perceptions of crime (Nick Davies, Flat Earth News) he discovered that most people thought it had gone up, but not in their local area - elsewhere.

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British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

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Instinctive mistrust of data, especially where it cuts against vibes, is not a thing confined to conspiracy-minded kooks. You see it pretty much everywhere. And the problem is that there are limitations to most datasets we have, so we’re all playing a game of reasonable inference.

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Great to see this extension to FSM, which was called for in yesterday's @changingrealities.bsky.social @ippr.org brief. But if we are to actually get more pounds into parents' pockets we need investment in social security & the end of the 2CL & benefit cap. changingrealities.org/writings/get...

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A letter to The Times, among a number of online rage and free speech, responding to Daniel Finkelstein www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

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Open all of the crossings. Let in lifesaving aid at scale, from all directions. Lift restrictions on what & how much aid we can bring in. Ensure our convoys aren’t held up by delays and denials. Release the hostages. Implement the ceasefire. Let us work.

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Genuinely good news. Extending FSM to all children on Universal Credit is long overdue. Will cut poverty and help improve concentration and health.

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Not worst thing about Goodwin's research,but definitely funniest. In Goodwin-world UK imposed a bizarre version of apartheid in 2022 -white Brits can marry non-whites -white "other" are segregated from white Brits and non-whites -Muslims and non-Muslims are segregated - Muslims can't convert

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Actually Goodwin's paper is worse than this in that it assumes the UK adopted a bizarre version of apartheid in 2022. White Brits can marry non-whites, but white Europeans are segregated. And Muslims and non-Muslims can't intermarry or convert.

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Been lots of debate about what might turn the dial on child poverty. But we hear far less from families in poverty. Our new briefing sets out a blueprint for a successful child poverty strategy, grounded in experiences of hardship changingrealities.org/writings/get... Pls read + share this 🧵

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Not worst thing about Goodwin's research,but definitely funniest. In Goodwin-world UK imposed a bizarre version of apartheid in 2022 -white Brits can marry non-whites -white "other" are segregated from white Brits and non-whites -Muslims and non-Muslims are segregated - Muslims can't convert

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Ross Douthat went to Paris, overdid the Camembert and had a horrendous cheese dream which he then typed out. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...

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Actually Goodwin's paper is worse than this in that it assumes the UK adopted a bizarre version of apartheid in 2022. White Brits can marry non-whites, but white Europeans are segregated. And Muslims and non-Muslims can't intermarry or convert.

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Linear projections of ethnic diversity in 40 and 75 years time depend on simplistic one drop raciak thinking about those of mixed ethnic heritage. The real life pattern of racial identity across generations is fascinatingly fluid, as I found in my own household from one census to the next

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I regret to inform you that Matt Goodwin has been drawing graphs again.

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💥 ONE WEEK TO GO 💥 💻 Join our experts online at 1pm BST to unpack the implications, trade offs & public opinion around the UK government's migration policy With @jdportes.bsky.social, Madeleine Sumption, @robfordmancs.bsky.social & @anandmenon.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

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In which @jonnelledge.bsky.social hits the nail on the head. The people who read newspapers are generally the over-65s, the broadcasters and the political class. There’s a line that travels directly from the Mail, Sun and Telegraph through the BBC, ITN and Sky to Westminster. It is entirely ruinous.

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