Julie Beverly💙🕷 #EUnite #FBPE #FBPA 3.5%

This was the UK's unbelievably special position in the entire world - until the tories dragged it out of the EU to appease the ERG and the brexites👇

@MykhailoRohoza What a dedicated and gracious man Mori was by honoring the dead and honoring our country. Obama sets a high standard for future presidents.

@MykhailoRohoza Mori is a Hero🎖️in his own right, & Should always be remembered for his humanity. & President Obama's respect of his humanity IS why I miss him so much,🥺 & I can't wait to get that back for the sake of our entire country, Cuz this country, Our country, 🇺🇲 has turned to SHIT.✔️

@MykhailoRohoza @ChazTennyson “My work was not about people from an enemy country. It was about human beings Words. To. Live. By. Especially? In today’s world 😔 Our countries, our skin colors, our languages, our religions - doesn’t matter. Our shared HUMANITY does……

When Barack Obama entered the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 27, 2016 — becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the city destroyed by the United States in August 1945 — the world focused on his speech. Cameras showed the wreath at the cenotaph. Headlines rightly emphasized the weight of the moment. But almost no one noticed a short, quiet Japanese man standing among the official delegation. His name was Shigeaki Mori. He was eight years old on the day of the atomic bombing. By 2016, he was the only person who knew the names of all twelve Americans who died in Hiroshima — U.S. prisoners of war whom America had never fully accounted for. Mori spent forty years finding them. Not for money. Not by order. Simply because he believed the dead should have names. He was born in Hiroshima on March 29, 1937. On the morning of August 6, 1945, he was crossing a small bridge about 2.5 kilometers from the epicenter. The blast threw him into the stream below. Decades later, he recalled: “I climbed out and saw a woman stumbling toward me. Her body was covered in blood, her organs hanging out. Holding them, she asked where the hospital was. I cried and ran away.” He was eight. And there were no hospitals left. Mori survived. He grew up in postwar Japan, worked ordinary jobs — in a brokerage, later at a piano factory — but dreamed of becoming a historian. He never got a formal degree. So he became one on weekends. In the 1970s, a professor showed him a document: a list of twelve American airmen shot down over Japan in 1945. They were crew members of two B-24 bombers — Lonesome Lady and Taloa — captured and held in Hiroshima, just 400 meters from where the bomb exploded. They died from their own country’s bomb. For decades, their story was barely acknowledged. Families were told only: “missing, presumed dead.” No details. No truth. Mori decided to find it. Without funding or institutional support, he spent decades reconstructing their fate — comparing archives, tracking records, even locating surviving crew members. One by one, he restored their identities. Then he wrote letters. In broken English, he contacted families across the U.S. — often seventy years too late — explaining what had happened to their sons, brothers, husbands. In 2008, he published his research, which eventually led the U.S. government to officially acknowledge the deaths of the twelve American POWs in Hiroshima. In 2016, a documentary introduced his story to a wider audience. During Obama’s visit, Mori was invited to attend. In his speech, Obama mentioned the victims — including “twelve Americans held in captivity.” For the first time, a sitting U.S. president publicly acknowledged them on Japanese soil. After the speech, Obama approached Mori — a small, elderly man who bowed politely. Then, unexpectedly, the president opened his arms. They embraced. The image went around the world. In 2018, at age 79, Mori visited the United States for the first time. He attended memorial events, spoke publicly, and finally met some of the families he had written to for decades. When asked why he devoted his life to Americans who died beside him, Mori answered: “My work was not about people from an enemy country. It was about human beings.” Shigeaki Mori died in Hiroshima on March 14, 2026. He was 88 years old.

Incredible and brave Palestinian Journalist, Shaimaa Youssef. 📍 Hebron 259 PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS HAVE BEEN KILLED BY ISRAEL SINCE OCT 2023

WHERE DID OUR MONEY GO? According to the OECD UK has the least generous state pension of any developed nation, with a net state pension income relative to previous earnings of about 29% compared to an average of over 60% elsewhere. Abolishing triple lock would make it even worse.

I was the first Green Party leader of the opposition in Lambeth. I’ve been out campaigning regularly in Lambeth and I’ve seen all the latest canvassing data. The Green Party is absolutely neck and neck with Labour in Lambeth. 👇

If we want a different future, we don’t start by stepping aside. We start by deciding it’s our responsibility to build it.

The government knows our marches for Palestine are made up of all faiths and none. The are suppressing our hard-fought right to protest for one reason: to hide their complicity in genocide. Israel’s occupation must end. Until then, our movement for peace isn’t going anywhere.

Thanks for all the lovely comments and support from media round this morning. Great to see Green Party membership ticking up as we enter a really crucial week. Let's end Rip Off Britain. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Wages going up will mean people have more money to spend and therefore small businesses will make more profit 👇

Today @bbclaurak launched in challenging Zack about his apology. @ZackPolanski handled it like a pro. This guy is seriously good. #BBCLauraK

This rarely make Headlines. A Jewish man explains: “Not all Jews are Zionists. A lot of people just don’t know. Judaism and Zionism aren't same” Israel doesn't represent Jews. Source: @voiceofrabbis

Remember folks, If you're working and claiming Universal Credit to survive. You're not getting a benefit. Your employer and landlord is.

On 23 June 2026, Britain marks ten years since the Brexit referendum. We were promised £350 million a week for the NHS. We were promised the easiest trade deals in history. We were promised sunlit uplands. Research now shows the economy is 6-8% smaller, business investment fell 18% and 63% of us would vote to rejoin. And you want to vote the man that hurt so many of our pockets and got us here? Vote tactically on the 7th of May. Stop Refrom. We deserve better. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧☕️🫖 thedailybritain.co.uk/ten-years-brex…

I’d suggest that a Sky News presenter roaring at Polanski, who he quite obviously despises, and then nodding and smiling his way through wacko comments from brazen fascist crank Melanie Phillips, is helpfully illustrative of How It Came To This.

@Harryb22 @KemiBadenoch My grandad had very similar stories he hated the Israeli state and all those that covered for them

@Harryb22 @KemiBadenoch My dad had a similar experience as a 19 year old at the end of WW2. My dad never forgot the things he was ordered to do to the Palestinian people evicted brutally and with force from their homes and land.

🚨HIS ONLY “CRIME”: REFUSING TO LEAVE HIS PATIENTS. Dr. Hussam, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, was detained by the Israeli army after reportedly being taken from the hospital during the assault on northern Gaza. He has been held for over 1.5 years without a clear trial and without access to legal representation. He was last seen insisting on staying with his patients. Since then, he has been held under harsh conditions, with serious concerns raised about his health and treatment. Medical colleagues around the world speak up. Contact your national medical associations. Pressure decision-makers. This is a fellow healthcare worker, and his continued detention is unacceptable. Engage. Don’t stay silent‼️

Laura Kuenssberg who earns 400 grand for an hours work every Sunday morning, tells Zack Polanski a £15 minimum wage is unaffordable. #bbclauraK