good to see private eye writing about how the guardian failed to mention that they worked with mohammed al fayed, a sexual predator. i hope private eye continue to write about newspapers and magazines who believe they can sweep this sort of thing under the carpet, in private eye
In October 2023, the IDF tweeted grainy videos of 17 airstrikes in Gaza with generalised captions about targeting Hamas. Airwars and Sky News found that more than 440 civilians were killed in those strikes alone. Almost half were children.
In the past year the Israeli military has posted on social media footage of more than 1,300 strikes in Gaza. But who was actually killed?
One of the few delights of the Threads algorithm is seeing people responding to posts by inferring an entirely different context, like the fella who responded to a picture of a static caravan park in Wales as if it were in the path of a hurricane in Florida
If a country is relying on its super rich, maybe it means too many of its citizens are super poor (and may well be employed by the super rich) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The way in which Keir Starmer's government is going to preside over a genuine contraction of queer rights in this country, and very specifically the contraction of trans people's ability to access the care they need, is a complete scandal.
This is the way the UK does it. Not with bold, brash pieces of legislation, but sliding shit through the back door that no one but the specific marginalised community and their allies care about. But the end result is the same.