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PANDEMONIUM broke out in Tower Hamlets as Pakistani and Bangla factions of the Awami League clashed at a town hall meeting. This aired live on BANGLADESHI TV and one of their new MPs was in attendance. This is democracy in modern London.

BBC report and documentary, on the plight of poor Afghan fathers forced to sell their children to survive. Except you have to read some way into the article - which is around 2,500 words long - before it becomes clear they are specifically selling their daughters into child marriage and domestic slavery. “If I sell one daughter, I could feed the rest of my children for at least four years,” says one father. Another father, pictured in the article, sold his five-year-old little girl. The framing is extraordinary. Not only because the fact only female children are being sold is presented as unremarkable. But also because the fathers making the decision are presented as the victims - rather than the girls who will actually live with the consequences of it. The fathers’ desperation is real and tragic. But so is the reality that these girls are being treated as commodities.

Last night Ed Miliband whipped his MPs to vote against our motion to save the North Sea and British refineries. He argued Labour’s plans to kill British production was ‘climate leadership.’ Meanwhile he was waiving sanctions on Putin’s oil. 🤯