Bottom line. It’s up to the Biden administration now to say whether the deal Hamas has agreed to is close enough to the original proposal they agreed to along with Israel. If their answer is yes, Netanyahu will have to choose between US support and his far-right coalition. >

BREAKING: Hamas says in a statement it has accepted the Egyptian-Qatari ceasefire proposal

UN experts :’Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals, including of women and children, with many reportedly showing signs of torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive,’ ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

I visited the world's newest cruise ship and it was baffling ft.com/content/90c870…

Very bad. nytimes.com/2024/05/04/wor…

Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO₂ removal that never took place - to oil producers in Canada’s largest tar sands ft.com/content/93938a…

One ironic consequence of the intensive coverage of campus protests about Gaza is that it seems to have crowded out coverage of what is actually happening in Gaza itself. All sides in the west much more comfortable when the story is mainly about us

Very dignified concession speech by Susan Hall

Sadiq Khan’s deputy mayor for the environment declares: “It was Ulez wot won it”

Let's see what voters think when you backtrack on environmental policy

Susan Hall lost the mayoralty, but found her wallet, so these are very much mixed results for Rishi Sunak

London definitely closer than expected - I opened my door and it was right there

1pm BBC news still reporting “evidence that London closer than expected” despite literally zero evidence - now or at any point over past 24hrs

Animals interrupting wildlife photographers - a thread 🧵

1. A curious fox by Dan Dinu