NHS taking it away and making you pay.

The old Arabist ‘Camel Corps’ of the British Foreign Office in full cry. Nothings changes. Twas always thus. Attacks on Jews are the fault of Jews for not being sufficiently robust in criticising Israel. Hamas gets a pass. Even antisemitism is in quotes as if it’s not really a thing.

@NaomiFromKent @BBCPanorama @PSCupdates I now rarely watch anything @BBC airs regarding Israel or Gaza, because I know the bias will be horrendous. I have complained multiple times and received unsatisfactory replies. The damage they have done in their complicity is unforgivable. Good luck taking them on!

@EU_Commission Then you are doing an atrocious job!

Let the truth be told, let the press be free. 📰 Journalists hold power to account, uncover injustice, and keep citizens informed often at great personal risk. This #WorldPressFreedomDay, we reaffirm our commitment to protecting journalists and defending independent media. Because free press is the foundation of democracy.

@ProfHall1955 @PDWriter @EMaggiori_ The use of superstition, what is basically a lie, to prevent “profligate spending” permitted the balanced budget lie and paved the way for Thatcher’s “taxpayer money” lie. Lies all the way.

Here, Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks Daniel Levy if he thinks the Israeli government and Netanyahu “bear some responsibility for the threats to British Jews right now.” “I think the Israeli government is reckless when it comes to how they view Jewish well-being.” 🎯

I can't wait to not vote Labour on Thursday.

The amount of tax paid by the rich just illustrates the inequality of a system that can collect more revenue taxing the rich at a far lower % of their wealth compared to lower income deciles that are taxed a greater % of their wealth.

@maxcownie_ She certainly went on to make “something” of herself.

Vile

Asked if he thinks Israel committed genocide in Gaza, Obama accuses the questioner of not following the rules, then says “there are disasters and catastrophes everywhere” Obama is a historically inconsequential former president who believes in nothing but his own celebrity

@aljhlester It seems to me the Right and Left are after him as well as all those with a modicum of conscience. There are those who might be called ‘Centrists’ who still support Starmer.

I think he’s absolutely right. A huge conservative alliance that’s now bought into far right ideas that were once marginal, is determined to bring down Starmer’s (and any Labour successor’s) government. Progressives, whether Left or liberal need to stop playing into their hands.

The most dishonest thing Benny Morris does is pretend he hasn't radically changed his views of Zionism. In Righteous Victims, he literally referred to the Zionist settlers as "white Europeans" engaged in a "colonial" project vis the "natives." Elsewhere describes how Jewish immigrants of the First Aliyah treated Palestinian Arabs "like the indigenous peoples in other places colonized by Europeans."

I’m not sure why we still have a monarch. It seems like a medieval anachronism to me; a demonstration of inherited status and the the pinnacle of an entrenched aristocracy. And I’m really not sure why our monarch has gone to the US to stand next to another man with too much power, land and money.

@MichaelAArouet @ross_baglin Why is it always the poor that are guilty for U.K. debt?

This is simply unreal. No wonder the UK is heading into a debt crisis. The UK doesn’t need higher taxes, you need pro-business policies to stop entrepreneurs leaving and get people working again instead of living on welfare without work requirements. What needs to happen?

@campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK Any mention of the 🐘 in the room? No? Well, there’s British and European values for ya.

Excellent speech by King Charles. So good to hear the clarion cry for Ukraine, for NATO, for nature and the environment, for democracy and the checks on power. JFK mentioned more than Trump. Starmer directly quoted. Europe mentioned several times. Vance looked ill. I loved it. Loved the confidence in British and European values

@MMTLabour I was taught, as you say, a bunch of crap; though it was the thing in the mid 80s.

If you studied economics and learned about loanable funds theory and quantity theory of money, but didn't learn about reserve accounting, private debt or govt monetary operations, then you were taught a bunch of outdated crap.

@IdafeMartin @DaveKeating A huge loss!

Sabine Weyand, funcionaria europea desde hace más de tres décadas y todopoderosa directora general de Comercio, ha sido defenestrada porque hace unos meses dijo en público lo que todos decían en privado. El acuerdo entre Von der Leyen y Trump en Escocia en julio del año pasado ni se negoció, Von der Leyen lo aceptó para evitar, creía, una conflicto mayor. Fue una humillación inútil. La funcionaria será asesora "hors classe" (sueldo y poco trabajo), pero se irá a Florencia a dar clases al Instituto Europeo, lejos de Von der Leyen y de Seibert, su jefe de Gabinete. @WeyandSabine (detrás de la inmensa mayoría de los acuerdos comerciales europeos vigentes, yo la he seguido sobre todo por Mercosur) quiso plantar cara a Trump. Defender los intereses generales europeos sabiendo que agachar la cerviz no iba a funcionar. Su jefa prefirió defender los intereses generales de la industria alemana y la equivocada idea de que decir que sí siempre al bully serviría para algo. Weyand, también alemana, miró por todos. Honor a Weyand.

I think the US, supported by the international community, should demand iron-clad guarantees from Tehran that Iran will not be the first state to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East. This should be a non-negotiable precondition for the repeal of sanctions.

@RnaudBertrand @owenjonesjourno The Glasses did it.

*Except in his own country - France - where he is the least popular leader in Europe. Literally: YouGov's March 2026 European leader tracker put him at only 19% favourable in France, against 20% for Starmer in the UK, 26% for Merz in Germany, and 34% for Meloni in Italy (yougov.com/en-gb/articles…) That's the Macron paradox: he is like a beach with sewage - pretty from afar but horrible when you swim there.

@Anna_Soubry Fundamentally an honest man? Did you see /read the pledges he made in the run up to the election? Decent ? For the prosecution I present : m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAE… Supports the Starvation of a million children!

FWIW: sensible #Labour MPs may well be disappointed (given recent events) in #KeirStarmer but he’s fundamentally an honest & decent man. Opposition parties are playing politics ahead of elections. I hope Labour back benchers get behind Starmer & vote the motion down

@JVoiceLiberatio Risks? So up to now all consistent with Jewish values?

The UK’s most senior progressive rabbis have warned that Israel’s current political direction risks becoming “incompatible with Jewish values”, while insisting that criticism of the country’s government is “a Jewish obligation” rather than an act of disloyalty. Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy, co-leads of Progressive Judaism – the newly formed movement representing around a third of synagogues in the UK – said Israel’s trajectory could pose an “existential threat” not just to the country itself but to Judaism. “We’ve often talked about the direction of Israel being an existential threat not to Jews per se, but to Judaism,” Baginsky said. “What happens when the direction of the government within Israel takes Israel down a line that makes it incompatible with our Jewish values? That’s a huge worry.” theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…