Mike Page

Senior managers spend nearly £14,000 on an awards dinner in Edinburgh. read more here: ucuherts.org.uk/local-news/sen…

@BristOliver What makes you believe they don’t know this? Surely the point is one of degree. By all means criticise the detail of the stats notes (inc. 2.2) here oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/hand… but talking about their “tiny minds” looks unfair to me.

@PhilBeaman Who’s the other one?

At a rough guess, approximately two of the potential readership of this post will know what I'm talking about...

Two of these are from the Paul Peter Piech collection at the University of Reading. The third is a t-shirt once popular amongst regulars at the upstairs bar of the former Four Bars Inn, Cardiff. Especially on Wednesdays.

“They are deliberately killing children by purposely starving them.” LIve Aid campaigner and musician Bob Geldof condemns the Israeli government’s role in the Gaza crisis as he speaks to Miriam O’Callaghan amid mounting deaths from hunger. #RTEPT

@CIJ_ICJ @ActionAid @alistrathern @kevinbonavia @Andrew_Lewin_ @JoshDeanMP @NEHertsLabour @ForensicArchi @GoldsmithsUoL @NimerSultany @voxdotcom @sfardm @FranceskAlbs @amnesty @LeeMordechai @hrw @MSF @OU_Nederland @genocide_watch @KenRoth @JosepBorrellF @AdHaque110 @volker_turk @Alonso_GD @SarahChampionMP @DrMelOB @IDS_UK @PhilipProudfoot @ochaopt @_jwhittall Ex-UK Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption: Israel’s apparent aim “is to induce Palestinians as an ethnic group to leave the Gaza Strip… by bombing, shooting & starving them if they remain. A court would be likely to regard that as genocide” newstatesman.com/world/middle-e…

Lisa Nandy with Israel’s ambassador to the UK, 9 July 2025 Two days after Israel announced plans to build a concentration camp for the entire surviving population of Gaza on the ruins of Rafah

@holland_tom Nice to see you, albeit briefly, at the cricket today. Needless to say, am actually intensely pleased with the well-deserved success of all your projects. And to ghost Brian Lara…sublime!

Letter ‘War can never be waged for revenge or expansion’ From Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen and others Financial Times: Apr 25 2025 As Jewish religious leaders in Britain, we too are horrified by the Israeli government’s relaunch of attacks against Gaza (“As British Jews we can no longer stay silent on the war in Gaza”, Letters, April 16). We feel it is our duty to remind Israel’s leaders of the core Jewish teaching that war can never be waged for revenge or expansion. The Israeli government must uphold international law, and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. We stand with all those in Israel-Palestine seeking to bring about a just and lasting peace. We share in their call for an end to the bombing; an end to the siege; and the safe release of the hostages. Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen Rabbi Daisy Bogod Rabbi Barbara Borts Rabbi Janet Burden Rabbi Douglas Charing Rabbi Howard Cooper Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith Rabbi Janet Darley Rabbi Colin Eimer Rabbi Adam Frankenberg Rabbi Ariel Friedlander Rabbi Paul Freedman Rabbi Roberta Harris-Eckstein Rabbi Michael Hilton Rabbi Margaret Jacobi Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner Rabbi Leah Jordan Rabbi Gabriel Kanter-Webber Rabbi Daniel Lichman Rabbi Jeffrey Newman Rabbi Judith Rosen-Berry Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah Rabbi Reuven Silverman Rabbi Jackie Tabick Rabbi Lev Taylor Rabbi Daniela Thau Rabbi Lee Wax Cantor Rachel Weston Rabbi Alexandra Wright Rabbi Igor Zinkov ft.com/content/7f0b72…

Periodic reminder that the Third Way “centre left” leaders all got filthy rich whilst consolidating a political economy in which your wages stagnated and your public services and infrastructure were privatised or fell apart. Quite a good deal for them; not so much for you.

Israel blocks all aid for starved women and children in Gaza funded by the US, Germany, the UK, the EU and Scandinavians.  NRC alone has 34 trucks waiting endlessly to enter Gaza.  The situation is utterly desperate. We have fully exhausted our stock inside Gaza of critical items, such as tents for the homeless.   We may soon be unable to even continue water trucking for the displaced.  We call for the immediate access of aid and restoration of basic services.  It is a grave violation of international law to starve innocent children for political purposes.

The European Commission has just made it clear that the rigid constraints they had placed on public finance were totally artificial. They have now lifted them to enable massive military production. The EC could have done the same thing to achieve rapid decarbonization and ensure good housing, healthcare, and public transit for all. They could have abolished deprivation, unemployment and economic insecurity. But they did not. This exposes an extraordinary betrayal. It reveals that the European working classes have been lied to, over and over. The European Commission has suppressed production of public services, not because it has been fiscally necessary to do so, but because it ensures the conditions for capital accumulation.

Plot twist as it turns out Keir Hardie loved workers so much he wanted them to work harder and longer for less, ideally making bombs, and make sure they have no help if the boss sacks them

@Herring1967 You’ve been incredibly modest in not dwelling on the fact that you’ve attempted this extraordinary feat in what is almost certainly the warmest February ever recorded. Heroic.

What makes this even harder and it’s not something I’ve mentioned cos I have too much class, but I also only have one ball and have still managed this (so far)

MUST SEE: Journalist @MaxBlumenthal confronts Antony Blinken about Israel's genocide “300 reporters in Gaza were on the receiving end of your bombs…” “Why did you keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May?…” “Why did you allow the holocaust of our time to happen??…”

She’s tried starving children, freezing pensioners, taxing jobs, but growth remains elusive—what else is there? She can’t try rebuilding the physical, social, ecological and economic infrastructure of the country, because they ruled that out to own the left. Reeves is a bad joke.

I had a word to say against the lack of international support for Palestinian journalists

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And… a couple of bonus picks I couldn’t squeeze into the twenty:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day One:

Oh look, some of the people who failed to use their effective monopoly in degree-awarding powers, to secure proper University funding and fair pay for staff, have taken their money anyway.

Goodness me. How did these babies become so cold that they just happened to die? @BBCWorld

To the people of the UK and all those celebrating #Christmas: A joint message from Rev Dr @MuntherIsaac and H.E. Dr @hzomlot. #Palestine #Bethlehem #ChristmasInBethlehem #Christmas2024