Lots of unclaimed #buyastrangerabook offers! 8 lovely offers today and only one has gone! So loads left I'm going out to watch a pram race now (yes!). I'll be back in an hour or so. Check the hashtag, ask for books please and offer books please? UK only www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

I hope you read this vital, powerful writing from @reproutopia.bsky.social in today's edition of The Key: "This is what it looks like when a society has settled the question of who counts as rapeable – which is to say, who counts as human." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide

The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.

thekeymagazine.com

Fabulous end to my trip to France, taking in two stages of the #TdF2026, and lovely to meet @tonke.bsky.social in person.

How can we hope he has a serious plan for ending "the terrible suffering of people in Gaza" when he can't even bring himself to name Israel as the genocidal aggressor causing the suffering? We need concrete action - a full arms embargo and an end to trade with illegal settlements.

Hello #CyclingBlueSky Anyone else in Evian for Tuesday's stage? #TdF2026

Had one of those lovely unexpected evenings, where the people and the place add up to silly fun and reminds you that not everything's shit in the world.

Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts

Johnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry finds

Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report

theguardian.com

He also gets paid for speaker gigs and GB News wage through his company so taxed at 25% instead of 40%. Plus theirs the Clacton house. Tax dodge Pharage

Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 4w ago

Yes, I pay myself rent in order to avoid tax, but it is coincidentally £1 less than the level at which I would have to declare it under Parliament's transparency rules.

A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party

Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

bylinetimes.com

Director of a Gaza Hospital, Dr Hussain Abu Safiya is in horrific danger to his life. The Foreign Secretary must demand Israel provides urgent treatment and releases him. He's been detained by Israel without charge since 2024 and reported to have new life threatening injuries.

Just to remind ourselves, here are our initial @bylinetimes.bsky.social's investigations into Cottrell's role in helping Farage become a true 'Man of the Paypal' er.... checks notes... 7 years ago

Any #totp fans wanting some different music tomorrow night, spare ticket for Biffy Clyro at Finsbury Park available at below face value: secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/37006373B...

Summary of the Home Office Impact Assessment for Asylum Bill is hilarious (if it weren't so depressing). HO analysts say "basically no evidence to suggest *any* of these policies will work *even on their own terms*" (but will probably cost money). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a43e1...

"we are seeing territorial continuity being dismembered.. Israel is taking measures to ensure Palestinians do not exist as a collective population but exist in certain controlled pockets" Mariam Barghouti addressing the UN yesterday about conditions in the occupied West Bank

Some MPs claim it's anti-semitic to investigate Britain's Israel lobby.... ... as a quarter of them have been funded by it. www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby...

Israel lobby funded a quarter of British MPs

Exclusive: Declassified is publishing the full list of British MPs who received funding from pro-Israel lobbyists.

declassifieduk.org

Why are we standing by and watching this happen? “Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found…. about 30% of the people killed by Israeli forces have been children.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds

Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist

theguardian.com

1995: Nigeria executed Ken Saro-Wiwa for opposing Shell's destruction of Ogoniland. 2008: The company was alerted to 100+ ruptures since 2008 but ignored them. 2026: Their leaky pipelines are still operating across Nigeria. This is the death project in action. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shell pumped oil through Nigeria pipeline for years despite pollution evidence, documents show

The oil giant says the documents ignore the critical context of the complex operating environment at the time.

bbc.com

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Israel has stepped up attacks on parts of southern Lebanon, including Nabatieh, since midnight on Friday.

MSF says conditions in Lebanon's Nabatieh resemble a ‘death trap'

Israel has stepped up attacks on parts of southern Lebanon, including Nabatieh, since midnight on Friday.

aljazeera.com

That Israel has continued attacking Lebanon after the supposed ceasefire is probably the least surprising piece of news today. Violent military state gonna do violence. It’s the only thing they know.

Israel continues attacks on Lebanon despite agreeing to ceasefire

At least 47 people killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since midnight as US-Iran talks stall.

aje.news

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

Megaphone News@megaphone.news · 2mo ago

Mona Khalil spent over 20 years protecting sea turtles on Mansouri Beach. After she was injured in an Israeli attack, activists continued her initiative at Rmeileh Beach, where they protected the first loggerhead nest of 73 eggs on Thursday. youtu.be/fbBKzK4JNRc

The genocidal regime launched over 100 airstrikes over Lebanon, largely on the ancient town of Nabatieh, in the past 24h. Israel bombed Nabatieh in 1978, 1982, 1993, 1996, 2006 and now hundreds of times since 2024. bsky.app/profile/mega...

Megaphone News@megaphone.news · 2mo ago

Israel launched more than 100 airstrikes on Lebanon over the past 24 hours, most of them concentrated on villages in Nabatieh, alongside artillery shelling. At least 47 people have been killed since midnight.

The Israeli military censored more than 5,000 reports from Israeli journalists in 2025 because the revelations would be too damaging to its image. The western media doesn't need a censor. It chooses not to publish the really critical stuff about Israel.

A jaw-dropping exposé of Facebook’s hubris. Anyone who’s engaged with any of the big tech companies will recognise their arrogance and bullying, so this all rings very true to me >>

FYI (04:50 GMT) "Israeli exporters routinely declare fruit and vegetables grown in illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian land and the Syrian Golan Heights as produced in Israel in order to ship them to European markets" READ THE REPORT HERE: www.globalecho.law/wp-content/u...

A new @amnesty.org investigation found that the Israeli military used mass “evacuation” and no-return orders to unlawfully displace hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon, violating international humanitarian law. See Amnesty's report: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

At least 1,500 children in Gaza have lost one or more limbs during the US-Israeli genocide, part of a total of more than 6,000 documented war amputees, according to Gaza Health Ministry & WHO data. Women account for nearly 13% of documented amputations. The WHO says over 43,000 Palestinians have...