Samantha Leek

I dare you to look into the eyes of a Gazan child and tell her that those massacres of Jewish children and of others made her life better. To the contrary, they completely destroyed her life opportunities. Pure nihilism from this speaker.

It’s not a short video, but one that everyone should watch. This is Rachel Goldberg, the mother of Hersh Goldberg Polin, one of the hostages held in Gaza. What a powerful speech. What a powerful woman

חשוב להדהד את זה היום יותר מתמיד כי במלחמה הזו לראשונה הוקם בישראל חמ״ל יהודי ערבי. החמ״ל הזה פועל מרהט לסייע למשפחות יהודיות וערביות מהדרום שנפגעו בארועים. התרומות לפעילות נאספות מערבים ומיהודים, המתנדבות והמתנדבים מגיעים מהחברה היהודית והערבית, והסיוע כמובן, לכל מי שנפגע.

This is from one of our foremost defence analysts…

@AdamWagner1 Could not agree more.

This may sound trite, but re the BBC issue - one thing I have learned as a lawyer involved in many cases of messy human situations is that you rarely know and can pretty much never predict what is happening until you actually *know*, i.e. you see detailed accounts from the individuals involved and documentary evidence. And in pretty much 100% of situations, the truth is unexpected, often stranger than you anticipated - and invariably exposes the expectations you have (without realising it) wrongly placed onto the situation, sometimes based on your own prejudices. Also, family situations can be so complex and difficult. So, whilst it is important that the BBC are held up to scrutiny, there is clearly at least one potentially very vulnerable individual involved, and a large dollop of social media/press-driven 'we must know NOW and SOMEBODY must be to BLAME', and the truth will probably end up being more complicated and difficult than people want it to be.

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This is fantastic news. Hugely well deserved.

@Pupillages @5essexcourt Best news!

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So so lovely

@Willywoska @stephenpollard I absolutely loved it.

Thought I'd cheer myself up with the new West Side Story. Was counting down days until it streamed. Crushed to find I loathe it. Can't stand the Spielberg add-ons, Tony is charisma-free zone and it's all so horribly arch. I'm not one for hating new interpretations - this is awful

@RupertMyers But not surprising after telling them we didn’t want them.

Well this is a surprise after telling EU citizens we didn’t want them.

@AdamWagner1 Yes!!! It’s terrible.

There is apparently a national shortage of Mrs Ellswood’s haimisha pickles. Brexit just got really real

@finegoulden I recognise that scene

Insomnia; There is the pain But it brings pleasures too: Hours of podcasts, sharing lives of strangers The first coffee of the day in the cool morning sunshine, enjoyed alone And then that snatched early hug from a sleepy child, before they separate from you to begin their day

@DinahRoseQC Presumably they would not want DRQC representing someone who they thought might be guilty either.

Absolutely.

Baruch Dayan Ha’Emet. It with the deepest sadness that we regret to inform you that Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (HaRav Ya’akov Zvi ben David Arieh z’’l) passed away early this morning, Saturday 7th November 2020 (Shabbat Kodesh 20th MarCheshvan 5781).

“I don’t say women’s rights—I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg