Jane Cross

This platform has become a sewer. Almost impossible to have a civilised debate anymore without being sworn at. Such a shame. Do people behave like this irl? We’re doomed if so. Hoping it’s not representative of the real world 😥

I have a friend in Cuba and what they just reported should end careers in Washington. Every single patient on a ventilator in their hospital died tonight. The power went out. The ventilators stopped. This isn't a rare incident anymore. Cuba's grid has collapsed 3 times THIS MONTH. The hospital staff told them they've had more emergency deaths in the last 30 days than in all of last year combined. A patient with leukemia at a Havana hospital told reporters: "Without fuel or affordable transportation, life has only gotten harder. We are fighting every day." NICU babies are on bare minimum power right now. Dialysis patients are playing Russian roulette with every blackout. Cuba has received ZERO oil in 3 months. That's not a shortage. That's a blockade. The US blocked a Russian rescue mission — 730,000 barrels of oil heading to Cuba — turned it away. Then the official story went: "We're sending $6 million in humanitarian aid." $6 million in aid. 930,000 barrels of oil blocked. You can't fix ventilators with $6 million when the grid is dark. And Trump's own words from March 6, 2026: "Cuba will fall. After 50 years, this is the cherry on top of the cake." The people dying in hospitals tonight are his cherry on top. I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

Pay attention to Lebanon. Trump and Netanyahu started a regional war in the Middle East, creating a humanitarian disaster. And now, the Israeli army has killed over 1,000 people in Lebanon—about 20% of them are kids. Congress should not bankroll this escalating war of choice.

This is also a question that needs to be answered. She would never surely have made this decision without the current PM being informed Which then makes Johnson complicit

Do you think Keir Starmer is doing a good job?

Time to reflect.

@lightonupstairs @ImBreckWorsham I’d say 9 or 10

@ImBreckWorsham That girl looks like a 12 year old. What is she doing in an infected place like Maralago. What normal parents would bring their child here knowing Trump is in Epstein files.

This photo was taken at Mar-a-Lago last weekend. Come, Lord Jesus, come.

@englishspecial @MichaelRosenYes

Children with disadvantage often don’t do as well as others because, overall, they have had fewer resources than those who are not disadvantaged. Schools are expected to provide additional resources to those children and indeed there is a PP payment to fund these extra resources. However, schools that serve such communities often have to spend considerable additional (to PP) resources over and above in the form of time, effort and emotional toil. And the end outcome will still be, overall, insufficient due to a myriad of factors - not least that it is impossible for schools to compete with parents who lavishly resource their children from birth to work and beyond to help them achieve. The way to help schools is to provide additional resources rather than pressure staff in them to spend more of their own personal time, effort and emotional toil over and above those whose schools serve more advantaged communities. If you do exert that pressure using gaslighting (‘you have low expectations’), many amazing and hard working staff will leave our wonderful profession or such schools and seek a fairer contractual relationship.

@tes @kennygfrederick ‘reveal’? Surely this has been evident for decades?

Exclusive: Schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils are more likely to be marked down by Ofsted in the achievement category, Tes can reveal tes.com/magazine/news/…

5 million Cubans with chronic illness face medicine shortages. 16,000 cancer patients can’t get radiotherapy. Not because Cuba lacks doctors. Because Washington lacks humanity. The US oil blockade is a weapon. Its target is the Cuban people. Trump is the perpetrator

357 members of Congress voted to hide their own sexual harassment allegations from the public. Then they asked why Epstein's clients weren't being named.

@LBC @kevinhollinrake 🤣🤣🤣

'Kemi Badenoch is now the most popular leader of all the party leaders in the UK.' 'We're the most trusted on the economy again.' @kevinhollinrake praises the Tory leader and says his party is building towards some success in the local elections

@GMB it’s laughable to suggest the BBC have a left wing bias. They undermine the government at every opportunity and look how they platform Reform and ignore the Green Party!

Seriously can you even imagine if one of these 🤡 was running our country.

@TrevenaSylvie Reading for me ☺️

@BehaviourA Me too. Channel hopping. Anything else over Jenrick. #newsnight

That’s #Newsnight switched off. Not listening to the fake shadow chancellor 😡

The people of Gaza are still suffering. Please support them however you can 👇

🚨 A judge refused to jail a girl who stabbed her abuser. Then he offered to pay her fine himself. Make this man famous, what a LEGEND! 👀

A new video appears to show an Israeli aircraft dropping white phosphorus on a town in southern Lebanon on Sunday night, ahead of a ground offensive that began on Monday. Lebanese commentators shared the video - which Novara Media has verified - of an aircraft releasing a substance on a region flanked by mountains. It was published just days after Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that Israel unlawfully used the corrosive substance against Lebanese civilians on 3 March. On Monday morning, Israel said it had launched ‘limited and targeted ground operations against Hezbollah’ in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera reported. White phosphorus is a corrosive, chemical substance dispersed in artillery shells, bombs and rockets that ignites when exposed to oxygen and causes indiscriminate damage, burning through human tissue and other materials alike. Its offensive use against civilians is illegal under international law. “The Israeli military’s unlawful use of white phosphorus over residential areas is extremely alarming and will have dire consequences for civilians,” said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at HRW earlier this month. Novara Media has geolocated the explosion to the small town of Khiam, in keeping with reports from the ground in Lebanon. Khiam is around 20km away from Yohmor, where HRW verified the use of white phosphorus earlier this month. The pattern of the explosion seen in the video is consistent with other incidents of white phosphorus fire by the IDF, previously documented by HRW in Gaza and Lebanon. Online, some commenters have contended that the ammunition appears to have been dropped between Khiam and the mountains themselves, therefore avoiding civilians. However, in the 15km between the town of Khiam and the mountains, seen in the backdrop of the video, are several villages: Mari, Darjat and Halta. Independent journalist Sarah Abdullah, who shared the video on Sunday night, wrote on X: “Israel is dropping white phosphorus on the village of Khiam in South Lebanon. On homes. On civilian areas. “This is a war crime. Not a peep from the international community. Not a word from the International Criminal Court.” HRW has previously accused the Israeli military of widespread use of white phosphorus between October 2023 and May 2024 across border villages in southern Lebanon, killing, severely injuring and displacing civilians. In 2013, the Israeli High Court rejected a petition to ban the use of white phosphorus on civilian populations after HRW exposed the IDF’s unlawful use of the substance during the 2008-2009 Gaza war. Subsequent Israeli military investigations have held no one responsible for these international human rights violations. There have been at least 859 people killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon since the start of Israel’s expanded offensive on 2 March.

Latest in 'drill baby drill' news: University of Oxford says a UK powered entirely by clean energy…could save households up to £441 a year In contrast, maximising oil and gas extraction from North Sea would offer savings of just £16 to £82 independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Twenty six councillors voted for the no confidence motion in Reform UK Warwickshire Leader George Finch and 27 against, while two councillors abstained from voting. He's scraped through by 1. Not a good look.