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Morning all! I've started a new Substack where I'll be publishing all the exciting world exclusive content that seems to land in my lap. First up, this week's Letter From London in the Papua New Guinea Courier - open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

submitted 48 days ago • 44 comments

Turns out that a man who entirely baselessly and bizarrely calls a British minister a rape genocide enabler and tweets random conspiracy theories day and night might neither be the most stalwart nor reliable political ally.

submitted 51 days ago • 135 comments

Israel has destroyed the last remaining hospital in northern Gaza. We have witnessed the total decimation of Palestinian healthcare, met with silence from political leaders who refuse to acknowledge the horrors they have enabled. This is the dehumanising reality of genocide.

submitted 60 days ago • 60 comments

‘Every killed Palestinian is a terrorist – even if they were just a child’ 'Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members' This. Is. Genocide.

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

And still the world sits back - shame on them 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

It has been a, uh, difficult week but I have not laughed louder and harder at something in a very long time than at this.

submitted 72 days ago • 246 comments

Sorry, did I miss the memo where it becomes okay to deny basic rights, conduct clandestine deportations, deny legal assistance and violate international law became okay "when Labour is doing it", because I seem to have an ungodly amount of people in my mentions making that argument today?

submitted 72 days ago • 17 comments

The Christmas story!!! Guardian comic from yesterday

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"Nick Candy has not yet secured a meeting with Elon Musk but he would very much like to & is rather hopeful that he might get one in the coming weeks & would be ready to travel at short notice if he did" does seem to set a remarkably low bar for this page one news report headline in the Sunday Times

submitted 72 days ago • 9 comments

Today’s playlist is all songs from 1994 and messy with it. Featuring the Prodigy, Massive Attack, Shampoo, Hole, Livin’ Joy, Blur, Beck, Janet Jackson, Warren G & Nate Dogg, Method Man, and more… open.spotify.com/playlist/1nv...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

The ayes have it. The ayes have it. 👏👏👏

submitted 74 days ago • 31 comments

right, it has been published 15 reasons why Christmas is stupid and bad and should be stopped: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/15-reasons...

submitted 75 days ago • 151 comments

Sterling close to its highest value against the Euro since the Brexit referendum. Markets appear to be rewarding the prospect of long term British political stability. Not something you’ve been able to say for a while.

submitted 75 days ago • 114 comments

The first time there have been no checkpoints or physical border checks between Vienna and Varna since the Ottoman Empire

submitted 76 days ago • 21 comments

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

submitted 78 days ago • 9 comments

Israel continues its invasion of Syria claiming “security” reasons, reminiscent of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Israeli tanks are reported to be near Damascus. It has launched hundreds of attacks unprovoked and crippled much needed airbases / equipment. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 78 days ago • 40 comments

"The message to Israel is that this needs to stop, What we are seeing in the Golan is a violation of the 1974 agreement. This is a very serious issue." The UN's Syria Special Envoy Geir Pedersen tells me that Israel's unlawful actions in Syria need to stop. zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 78 days ago • 79 comments

The new Syria isn't even a few hours old and Israel is already attacking them and stealing more territory in the Golan heights, which Israel already illegally occupies. An Israeli minister has provided a map of the land he believes they should steal.

submitted 80 days ago • 63 comments

Whatever happens between the new Syria and Israel, keep in mind that Israel attacked first.

submitted 79 days ago • 66 comments

BREAKING: In a move that's totally out of character, Israel has taken advantage of the Assad situation to seize more Syrian land, but this is nothing to do with the Greater Israel Project, okay? I mean, um, there definitely isn't a Greater Israel Project 👀

submitted 79 days ago • 21 comments

Israel seeing the fall of Assad government: how can I make this about me?

submitted 79 days ago • 9 comments

The Hunt | She wanted an opulent Moscow palace that could remind her of home back in Damascus. He wanted a pied-à-terre on a low floor with no windows and a built-in Geiger counter. Which did they choose?

submitted 79 days ago • 53 comments

People SERIOUSLY need to stop using neurodivergence as an excuse for being a cunt. It's grotesque.

submitted 79 days ago • 116 comments

In images I never thought I would see in my lifetime, the revolutionary Syrian flag is being raised at the Syrian embassy in MOSCOW. Few things explain the scale of Russia’s military and strategic defeat in Syria more than this.

submitted 79 days ago • 65 comments

So easy to be cynical and glib. No-one is under any illusions about the way events often play out in the Middle East, or the character of the groups who defeated Assad. But it is ok to hope. It is ok to celebrate the end of a dictator.

submitted 79 days ago • 41 comments

I felt this too. After 2008, Europe as a whole was going through a tough time. Instead of pulling together with the team to tackle shared problems, Britain took it as an opportunity to attack our neighbours and jump ship. It was selfish, mean spirited and shortsighted. And it’s backfired.

submitted 83 days ago • 62 comments

Depressing but sadly not surprising that the @adamsmith.org has pivoted away from genuine liberalism (economic and social) to openly racist xenophobia. It goes without saying that Adam Smith himself, a genuine liberal, would have been both disgusted and appalled. thecritic.co.uk/the-open-bor...

submitted 83 days ago • 34 comments

I really need to get better at finding pleasure in being alive and simply existing, rather than constantly thinking "If I can just get through this ordeal..." and "If I can just get past that deadline..." Then what? The next ordeal or deadline, and repeat, until death?

submitted 85 days ago • 87 comments

“Most of the complaints came from working class prostitutes from the Yorkshire region”

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Neil Laurensen brings us another stark poem from Palestine westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/palesti...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

A terrific theory that pairs well with the Economist's terrific and terrifying chart of Musk's tweeting.

submitted 89 days ago • 60 comments

not seen it mentioned elsewhere so: my theory is that Elon has become obsessed with Britain because he's essentially stopped sleeping due to drugs and/or madness but for like six hours of his nights Americans are sleeping so Brits are the one English-speaking timezone awake and posting

submitted 89 days ago • 144 comments

Nick Drake passed 50 years ago today; and initially, I was going to post Road, or something darker from Pink Moon. But instead, here's something more uplifting, to celebrate, rather than mourn. youtu.be/EZ5X4qesLRs?...

submitted 93 days ago • 17 comments

Imagine if Nick Drake had had the faintest notion his music would travel this far, and this long.

submitted 93 days ago • 27 comments

Starmer cannot survive this

submitted 93 days ago • 203 comments

And there it is. Netanyahu's govt has put sanctions on the Israeli newspaper Haaretz for its criticisms of Israel's behaviour. Sanctions include prohibiting all public institutions from communicating with the paper. This profoundly undermines democracy. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

submitted 93 days ago • 98 comments

In the year 1582 something strange happened. Thursday 4th October was followed immediately by Friday 15th October. This is the story of history's 10 missing days...

submitted 103 days ago • 9 comments

Today’s poem is called ‘This is Not the Poem I Had Hoped to Write’.

submitted 94 days ago • 31 comments

🔥 Why is the ICC ruling so important? Because all members of the ICC are now obliged to arrest Netanyahu if he sets foot on their soil. Those countries include UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Canada, Australia, NZ… over 120 nations. In “the West” it’s only the US which is the exception.

submitted 96 days ago • 21 comments

This poses further urgent questions into Keir Starmers position in this. The ICC are saying there is reasonable grounds that Netanyahu bore "criminal responsibility for alleged war crimes." And our country has been an active enabler in the genocide. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 96 days ago • 17 comments

Jeremy Clarkson being held to account by the glorious @vicderbyshire.bsky.social

submitted 98 days ago • 56 comments