What exactly is Labour’s problem with Corbyn accepting donations from We Deserve Better? In 2015, Lord Oakeshott gave big donations to 30 Labour candidates, 15 Lib Dems and Caroline Lucas, so it can’t just be that they are donating to non-Labour candidates.

Extraordinary that in discussion on Gaza on Laura Kuenssberg just now Grant Shapps was asked nothing about restarting funding for UNRWA & nothing about UK Govt continuing to grant licenses for arms exports to Israel - how can UK complicity in war crimes be so easily ignored?

These were places where people lived, fell in love with each other, had children, wept, laughed, played, argued, felt hopes and fears.

Erased from the face of the earth forever, in many cases, along with their former inhabitants.

Utterly shameful from Labour. A party not fit to govern openDemocracy

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The Daily Telegraph has become an open sewer swilling with unadulterated raw sewage of overt racism & open, unapologetic hatred of the Palestinians

Imagine if Hamas militants repeatedly filmed themselves playing with the toys of Israeli children they had killed, maimed, driven from their homes and traumatised.

It would be front and centre in the evidence of how monstrous they are.

And many of the names on this list are also the ones that will try to convince you they are fighting for women’s rights on some other issues…

We must support and back these young people. They are on the right side of history...and they are brave.

A Met Police officer has been convicted of an assault charge following an IOPC investigation into an incident in Croydon last year

PC Perry Lathwood has been found guilty of assault by beating a woman who was wrongly accused of fare evasion

Parasite says sorry about the parasites

Actually the CEO of Boots alongside Starmer *is* a big deal, given that (US-owned) Boots have been stealthily grabbing all sorts of services the NHS used to provide, & are lobbying hard for more of this kind of privatisation (from tests & diagnostics to private GPs).

The overseas aid budget is really working for some. This guy 👇 is now one of the richest people in Britain as he facilitates part of our broken asylum system. He pocketed more of the aid budget than Ghana received last year. theguardian.com/business/artic…

Privatised water has a parasite problem

It says something really really sad about the brain worms infecting Graham Linehan that the best joke he can manage these days is to mock how I looked while on a hike on holiday once.

I don’t think it’s entirely surprising that government co-operation agreements in both Scotland and Wales have broken down in the months before a UK general election.