Simon Poole

“We were standing inside the hospital gate when the ambulance was directly hit in front of us. There were bloody bodies everywhere. Many were killed immediately, while we rushed others to the operating room for emergency care,” says Dr Obaid, MSF doctor at Al Shifa hospital.

Marc Lamont Hill puts every interviewer to shame by forcing Israels former Foreign Minister to admit that Israel is deliberately starving and bombing a captive civilian population to get what they want. A War Crime. Not one British journalist has done this

Each of artist Li Hongbo's bust comprises roughly 7,000 to 26,000 sheets of white paper stacked on top of each other. They are glued manually in a honeycomb structure, allowing the resulting sculptures complete flexibility and sturdiness

NEW: America is a rich country. Britain is a poor country with one wealthy region. People love to compare the UK to Mississippi, but it’s far more informative to look at UK subnationally, too. London ranks fairly well, the rest of the country does not 👉 ft.com/content/e5c741…

@gretje @erichoke 100% this. Even better, break it up into 2-3 chunks and split it up throughout the service. Stick to one point, not three, and come at it from different angles.

@erichoke Long sermons are one reason why I left my last church. One sensible preacher we knew said “If you haven’t struck oil in 10 minutes stop boring.”

I’ve preached so many sermons in my life where I could have been done at the 20 min mark but went 15 more. Why do we do that?

@FrankBoerman @robhawkes @ELEXONUK @maplibre @MapTiler @WeatherLayers FWIW, it's working for me on both Chrome and Firefox on Android 11. Phone is OnePlus Nord.

@robhawkes @ELEXONUK @maplibre @MapTiler @WeatherLayers Okay thanks!

An early visualisation of curtailment data is now live on my renewables map – a labour of love in my spare time – so you can now see how much output has been reduced and for how long It's based on accepted bid-offer data from BMRS renewables-map.robinhawkes.com

@moritzkremb Sounds like AM radio is making a comeback.

Google just released MusicLM and it's scary good. This will change the music industry as we know it. Here are the best beats created 100% with AI (sound on 🔊):

@fellowshiptrust Credit for the first photo in the thread: Erik Johanssen behance.net/gallery/100655…

The Post-Photography Era Ideas started to circulate in the medium of photography in the early 2000s about "the crisis of the real" in photography. For many, it was an opportunity for photography to move into an area where it would be able to question itself as a medium.

Visited a family who have been living in temporary accommodation in Newham since 2018. The family of 7 all sleep in one room on blow-up beds and sofas because black mould has infested every single room upstairs and is terrifying their kids, who think their house is cursed.

The share of children who died before they are 5 years old declined in all world regions. Africa 32% ➘ 7% Asia 25% ➘ 3% Oceania 9% ➘ 2% Latin America & Carib. 21% ➘ 2% Northern America 4% ➘ 0.6% Europe 9% ➘ 0.4% Globally 22% ➘ 3.7% From OurWorldInData.org

The very first question Yvette Cooper was asked on Radio 5 Live this morning: "What would Labour do to stop the boats?" I'll repeat that for the back of the class: "What would Labour do to STOP THE BOATS!"? A three word slogan sets the agenda and the BBC falls in line... (1/4)

The UK is not even in the Top 10 countries receiving refugees and somehow this is the biggest issue for a government drowning in sleaze, racism, chaos and incompetence.

And we need to be honest about the impact of flying. It may seem "small", but globally very few people fly. The individual impact of each flight is large, and hardly any lifestyle change justifies it.

@edwardhenry1 @IsabelOakeshott That's a very good point. I think you're being too generous though in attributing that motivation to Isabel Oakeshott.

Government by WhatsApp, or other unofficial, encrypted & undocumented channels, is undemocratic. Huge decisions, arbitrarily formulated without accountability in this manner, are prey to incompetence, illegality, & mischief. @IsabelOakeshott was justified. #transparency

@stillawake @tonys2009 You can usually access a PDF of a utility bill or bank statement online and print it off yourself. But bills are often in the name of just one person in a household so can't be used by lots of people.

@tonys2009 Same. I had an energy bill from 5 years ago and my bank doesn’t even have a bank outlet anymore. Luckily I’m married and had the certificate to hand. And it’s strange that birth certificates only counct if they’re British. That’s a bit limited.

I applied for Voter ID with my NI number and address -- at which I've been resident for over a decade. Now the council want 3 to 4 more forms of ID to provide me with voter ID. 3 from List A, or 2 from A and 1 from List B, or 1 from A and 2 from B or 4 from B

“If they really are refugees, why don’t they have to stay in the first safe country they reach?” “Why don’t they just claim asylum in France?” Here is my answer, once & for all. To Jonathan Gullis, and to everyone else who ever wondered. #RefugeesWelcome

Watch Jonathan Gullis getting his arse handed to him on the very basics of how the asylum system works.

This is smart thinking by Liz Truss! We could create some kind of Union of European countries - we would be much stronger together.