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The UK has one of the highest retirement ages in the world, the lowest pension in Europe, some of the longest working hours in Europe, one of the lowest minimum wages, the highest energy costs, the biggest profits, and the lowest taxes for the richest. It all needs to change.

It’s now painfully obvious Brexit hasn’t worked, and is actively harming us economically. (It didn’t even control our bloody borders!) Given the British people would clearly vote overwhelmingly to go back into the EU, we should have another referendum.

@Tesco why have you increased the price of your own brand tea by another 30p? From £1.60, to £1.80, to £2.10 in less than a year. This country is in a state and many people are poor in big part to greedy companies like you. Taking by business to Lidl and Aldi. 👋

The real person of the year.

@Keir_Starmer Nothing you do matters while you support genocide in Palestine.

For too long, Britain has been held to ransom by blockers and bureaucrats who’ve stopped the country building, suffocating working people’s aspirations. Those days are over. We will build 1.5 million new homes and inject ambition back into Britain. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The report refers to indiscriminate killing of civilians, denying aid and destroying vital infrastructure. Israel has dismissed the findings as 'entirely false'.

@Keir_Starmer Nothing you do matters while you support genocide in Palestine

When I say this is a ­government in the service of working people, I mean it. Our Plan for Change will deliver for you.

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence. And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide. A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage. But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide. But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide. It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words. But there does need to be a clear intent. And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there. A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here. Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership. Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements. And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it. But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world. But reality cannot be denied. So yes, it is a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024 - Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)

"That's an outrageous lie by Israel." The ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu is "not anti-Semitic", says leading human rights lawyer and former UN war crimes judge Geoffrey Robertson KC.

🧵Tracking Western government reactions to ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders Netanyahu and Gallant and Hamas leader Deif.

@SkyNews @WilfredFrost @1james_elder @kier_starmer @10DowningStreet @DavidLammy

'What are you hearing from your teams on the ground about the situation in Gaza?' - @WilfredFrost 'Utter rock bottom, apocalyptic. As much as it's mind boggling it is deteriorating daily' - UNICEF spokesperson @1james_elder trib.al/ftBqGWi 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602

@SkyNews @10DowningStreet any comment?

The final moments of Palestinian Doctor Adnan Al-Bursh's life have been revealed through claims made in new testimony by an inmate at the Israeli prison where he died. Sky’s John Sparks has been speaking to those who saw him in his final days. ➡️ trib.al/AssGt4O

Before the eyes of the world: Israel is dropping bombs near Beirut’s International Airport as planes full of civilians prepare to take off. Imagine the global uproar if such a scene took place in Ukraine. But since it’s happening in Lebanon, no one even bats an eyelash.

@Keir_Starmer @NCA_UK Nothing you do matters while you support genocide in Palestine

Good news that a man suspected of being a significant supplier of small boat equipment has been arrested. I want to thank @NCA_UK and their Dutch and Belgian counterparts for their work on this investigation. Our approach to smashing criminal gangs is already having an impact.

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@Channel4News @kier_starmer any comment?

“The drones would come down and pick off civilians – children.” A former NHS surgeon, Nizam Mamode, who spent a month working in Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, broke down while testifying about children in Gaza being shot by drones.

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Israel is now committing war crimes in Lebanon and continuing them in Gaza. Political leaders must do more than call for a ceasefire they know Israel will reject. There needs to be real pressure on Israel, through sanctions and an end to arms sales to make it back a ceasefire.