Môr Leidr

Since Oct 7th, Israel has turbo charged its long war against the Palestinians, notching up war crime after war crime, crimes against humanity, & genocide; all with total impunity.
It was clear this gives other rogue states permission to follow suit.
I wasn’t expecting the USA to be the 1st to do so.

Reflecting on International Women’s Day and wondering if Yvette Cooper would have designated the Suffragettes a terrorist organisation?
Almost certainly, I think.

The UK's legal position on the use of its bases in the Middle East is solid with one glaring hole: The US cannot act in collective self-defence with the Gulf States. It is the aggressor. Ergo the UK cannot assist the US in collective self-defence.

Let’s hope he’s in her phone as “Baby Dada (possibly)”

Yes, women are oppressed by colonialism & post colonialism
BUT
They are also oppressed by religion everywhere
Major religions are steeped in patriarchy
Whether it’s Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism etc - women are always the lesser sex
Atheism please, or bring back the Goddesses

Days left to act: Ban cruel cages for hens Right now we have a unique opportunity to stop this industrial-scale torture: The UK government has proposed ending the use of cages for hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask th...

Please sign and share if you can. ✍️

The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

‘The Moor’ - #RSThomas
(Pietà, Rupert Hart-Davis)

Or send Andrew to do it
Hopefully they would keep in

Petition: Government to advise monarch to refuse/cancel state visits with hostile powers The Government should advise the Monarch against facilitating a ceremonial head of state visit where a foreign state is engaged in hostile activity - whether economic, diplomatic, military or otherwis...

Time to dump the upcoming state visit now!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
(We already don’t)

Me

The USA seems to have spent the last 70 years creating various hells around the world - Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile, Iraq, Afghanistan…
If they are the “world’s policeman” they have applied a US model of policing to this endeavour, one with little relationship to justice.

Rest is vitally important but there is no testing for COVID, no vaccines for under 12s and most schools have no clean air. Instead policy isn’t reflecting the science @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social

That can only be because women are currently disproportionately disadvantaged by employment practices that harm/exploit employees compared to men!
Whereas the headline implies the new workers’ rights measures are somehow unfair to men - very unhelpful in the current Reform stoked climate of misogyny

So is the USA

In 2025, Israel attacked six countries, Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria, and Yemen.

It also carried out strikes in Tunisian, Maltese and Greek territorial waters on aid flotillas heading for Gaza

& in the last week, Israel has bombed Lebanon, Gaza & Iran

Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...

Board of Peace Executive Board member speaks out.

If anyone needs to escape into a wonderful TV series, I recommend The Leopard
Sumptuous and beautiful, superb acting
I have to visit Sicily - top of the bucket list after watching it

m.imdb.com/title/tt1519...

These soldiers have lost their lives because of the Epstein files.

The mother of the family from whom the Physicians of Myddfai claimed descent
And a story of domestic abuse

I don’t believe a word written in Unherd

Great article
Having worked as a doctor in child protection, which includes medical examination of sexually abused children,
I find the drive for shaved pubes VERY creepy
Why do men want their partner’s genitalia to resemble those of a prepubescent girl?
🤮
(& it didn’t even get onto vaginoplasty…)

Johnson, like Trump, constantly projecting

His sexual misconduct allegations have a whole Wikipedia page to themselves

“Crucially, it also has a norm-erosive effect on public discourse by undermining the norms of assertion … populist and authoritarian politicians create social spaces where truthfulness is irrelevant, hindering informed decision-making and eroding the foundations of democratic deliberation.”

That’s excellent

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” - Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 1st century CE

To use as mitigation in their trials?

Yes, you are right. World service too
But Radio 4 today terminally awful