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This seems relevant: Remember when the police dragged in 87-year-old Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos to be questioned under caution because he was on a protest against Genocide and wished to lay flowers for the dead children of Gaza outside the BBC

Settler violence against West Bank Palestinians is raging out of control. This report is of a schoolboy shot in cold blood. Many are being killed and homes, crops, orchards & infrastructure are destroyed as settlers try to drive people off their land. theguardian.com/world/2026/may…

"The main cause of antisemitism in the world today is the fact that the Israeli state claims to represent all Jews and is committing a genocide in Gaza, in the name of all Jews. Israel has the Star of David on its tanks and planes whilst it is killing women and children in Gaza, it’s stirring up antisemitism all the time" Mark Etkind, son of a Holocaust survivor:

“[Lindsey Graham] said, this court is for Africa and thugs like Putin. It is not for democracies like Israel and the [USA]” @mehdirhasan sits down with top ICC prosecutor @KarimKhanQC as he recalls US Senator Lindsey Graham telling him that the ICC is below Israel and the US.

@martypartymusic Says the biggest pussy

Update: Pussy index breaks ATH again. Man up or leave. Only the warriors get rewarded.

Grifter

@KemiBadenoch @WestminsterWAG So presumably, you will commit the Conservatives to bringing back hereditary peers if you gain power. Indeed, your strong feelings on the issue suggest that not bringing back hereditaries would be gross negligence. But I bet you don't.

6,000 delegates gathered in #Melbourne this week for triennial @WomenDeliver conference. Great to see Pasifika peoples, Maori Women’s Welfare League & Australian First Nations there in force with #women from around world. Discussions ranged from #SRHR to #climateaction o& beyond.

The former head of the Mossad is comparing the actions of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank to Nazis in the Holocaust. If someone said that in the West they'd be accused of antisemitism under the IHRA definition.

🔎 Archive: Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure — Patrick Howse 🔁 Relevant again: BBC Political Coverage Back in the News 4 Years On bylinetimes.com/2022/03/30/lau…

🚨 WATCH: Labour has released its banned party political broadcast containing quotes from Reform UK politicians

I am doing some part-time media teaching at uni. This Laura Kuenssberg ‘in depth’ piece on the BBC website includes 6 quotes to back up the tone of the headline. All 6 are from anonymous sources. Is this sound journalism?

Respect to @tomburgis & Guardian team for this solid - & exceptionally difficult to publish - effort to shine a light on Reform’s biggest funder, a highly litigious crypto billionaire who is currently suing @WSJ

The discipline of @piersmorgan to just sit there silently for the excruciating 90 seconds of page turning without interjecting at all…props

Are we witnessing the birth of a cult in British politics? Last week, we surprisingly witnessed Nigel Farage being challenged on Reform's lies that they would cut taxes. His response, 'We did cut taxes. We raised them by less than others'. 🤷‍♂️ On Wednesday, RFK Jr. invented an entirely new form of maths in a Congressional hearing. One which Trump then backed up yesterday. We implicitly understand that populist leaders fare badly under scrutiny, but this complete suspension of reality is a new, ominous path. The MAGA base, I think, could be described as a cult at this stage — a very real one; Branch Davidians, Jonestown massacre level cult. It's not a stretch to imagine Trump calling for a mass drinking of Kool-Aid, and most of his members complying. In the UK, we are at least slightly luckier in the fact that Farage only commands around 23% of the vote share, unlike the 50/50 split in the US. But make no mistake, there is cult-like behaviour surrounding the Reform UK leader. Unfortunately, this coincides with a time when, by design or otherwise, our legacy media seem fully unwilling to challenge the torrent of lies that emanate from every Reform UK politician. Yesterday on LBC, Richard Tice was allowed free rein to avoid explaining his bizarre tax avoidance issues. Our broadcast journalists fail at almost every hurdle when applying scrutiny to Reform. When Angela Rayner was hounded from her position over a far less serious tax issue, the entire media ecosystem reported on little else for three weeks. Tice? Nada. Farage has been asked a few times now about his party's lies around cutting taxes, and every time he tells a reporter that they raised them but less than everyone else. Firstly, that's just a ludicrous load of hot air and secondly, why are journos not laughing in his face and pushing him harder. CALL HIM OUT. It feels to me that we're being drip fed a new reality. One in which two plus two can equal five — if you only believe it to be true. A deliberate Orwell reference, but are we witnessing the death of objective truth? I'm worried that we are. Apols for the bleak post this morning. It's a beautiful day, so I'm going for a walk. Happy Friday. 😊

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

🚨HOLY COW: Jon Ossoff just HUMILIATED JD Vance: “I don't know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week. NO ONE SHOWED UP. The stadium was empty.” AND THEN OSSOFF WENT NUCLEAR: “But JD came to UGA to attack the Pope, two days after Donald Trump depicted himself as Jesus Christ. The faithless President depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice. While he and his family rake in billions from foreign princes. While he plunders our health care to cut taxes for the rich. Meanwhile rent, power, groceries, and health care have hit all-time highs this year. Ground beef's up 20% since Trump took office. Coffee, 40%. Health premiums: through the roof. And remember: while you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions of dollars. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it."

NYT headline for the ages

🔴 EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/exp…