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"A humanitarian pause is bare minimum that needs to happen" @JulietteTouma @arabnews:📍#GazaStrip “We’ve never, ever imagined we would host 1.4 million people in our facilities... The volume, the velocity, the levels of destruction are just unprecedented” arabnews.com/node/2430601/m…

“4 out of 5 of the hungriest people anywhere in the world are in Gaza.” – @antonioguterres on @WFP warning that widespread famine looms in Gaza, where more than half a million people are facing what experts classify as catastrophic levels of hunger. un.org/sg/en/content/…

The decimation of the #Gaza health system is a tragedy. But in the face of constant insecurity and inflows of wounded patients, we see doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and more continue striving to save lives. @WHO and our health partners will continue working side by side with you, delivering supplies, supporting the provision of care, and transferring the seriously wounded. And we persist in calling for #CeasefireNow. x.com/whoopt/status/…

@RealEmirHan Zulu – stop throwing those spears at me

Name a famous historic battle? I’ll start: twitter.com/VideoChannel13…

@radavies_art @HowtoSTEM @primarypercival @LAIRUBC @KineticLetters Worse than that, they are forced into stylistic approaches that are very difficult to achieve from a left handlers perspective – joined up lettering and so on. We found writing slopes very helpful.

@HowtoSTEM @primarypercival @LAIRUBC @KineticLetters Roughly 10% of children are LH yet they are routinely overlooked when teaching handwriting.

A Thread on Handwriting… Over the past 2 years, I have paid more attention to the way handwriting is taught than at any other point in my career. Handwriting seemed a fairly simple thing that pupils would just pick up with a few lessons on letter formation. I was wrong! Here are some things I think about now that I didn’t always consider before…

As well as the magically disappearing phone, there were Lord Bethell's magically disappearing meetings. 27 meetings held by Bethell with firms handed £1.14 billion in government contracts were hidden from the public for 14 months bylinetimes.com/2021/06/30/hea…

When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna. Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up. Like if you want Mone on trial. RT if you want them both facing the music.

@RealEmirHan Some like it hot

PPE Medpro is the tip of the iceberg. Here's my summary of the PPE scandal, after two and a half years of covering it for @BylineTimes. A shocking stat: firms that were awarded COVID contracts have gone on to donate at least £615k back to the Tories 👇 bylinetimes.com/2022/11/25/wha…

£2 Billion in Contracts Awarded to Conservative Associates Pulling together a year of evidence, Byline Times and The Citizens can reveal that deals worth billions have been awarded to top Conservative Party associates during the Coronavirus crisis bylinetimes.com/2021/03/31/map…

Photojournalist Mustafa Harouf was threateded with live fire and was brutality beaten by Police in East Jerualem. He's been hospitalized w/ serious injuries, their severity not yet clear. There is no individual with a greater impact on today's East Jerualem than Ben Gvir.

And so depriving millions of children of one of their main sources of connection. Completely unenforceable performative nonsense.

@fionaharvey @pgreenfielduk @horton_official Hey @grahamstuart as a constituent I’d prefer if you were focused on your job rather than the performative cruelty of the dismal #RwandaPlan

Campaigners, climate experts, politicians react with disbelief and anger as UK minister in charge of #Cop28 talks goes home - presumably to vote on Rwanda bill. With ⁦@pgreenfielduk⁩ and ⁦@horton_official⁩ theguardian.com/environment/20…

Here's a running thread of all the things the current Prime Minister cannot recall whilst under oath at the Covid Inquiry. Some more understandable than others I'd humbly suggest. 🧵

Who is Luke Johnson and why are we listening to him? Doesn’t seem to have any scientific background so why is he head to head against a scientist. More BBC ‘balance’ #r4today

@World_of_Moose @MooseAllain Thank you so much for the beautiful prints. I’ve had them framed and they look perfect.

Magic worldofmoose.com/collections/ca…

Tonight, @RishiSunak and his Government chose to turn their backs on the children of #Gaza yet again. By failing to vote for a #CeasefireNOW at the UN Security Council, the UK is complicit in the horror that children will endure in the coming hours, days, and weeks.

Absolute disgrace theguardian.com/world/live/202…

While we’re all distracted by this #RwandaBill nonsense: Schools crumbling, child poverty, crisis in the NHS, rail strikes, filthy rivers, Covid mismanagement, the list goes on. The country falls apart and all the government is does is get us to look away #r4today

@Samfr Is he daring everyone to vote against? Electoral Russian roulette?

I have no idea if the govt will lose the vote next week but what happens if they do? Calling an election from this position would be demented.