A senior U.N. official jockeying for a prominent role in implementing President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan has a history of bashing Trump on his personal X account. Tom Fletcher, the United Nations' undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator in Gaza, has advocated for foreign leaders to boycott the president and warned the world has "a Trump problem," among many other insults in more than two dozen social media posts reviewed by the Washington Free ...|
Hundreds of people have gathered in Northern Ireland to mark 50 years since “Bloody Sunday,” one of the deadliest days in the conflict known as The Troubles.| AP News
The former prime minister denied the government failed to plan for school closures during the pandemic| Liverpool Echo
This month HarperCollins will release Unleashed, Boris Johnson’s memoirs which are billed as “candid, unrestrained, and revealing”. It is hard to know exactly what to expect: Johnson is an experienced author, with 10 books already in his back catalogue including a novel (Seventy-Two Virgins: A Comedy of Errors, 2004) and…| Culturall
The Tory leader has fumbled yet another easy catch.| New Statesman
Our British Defence Secretary John Healey keeps up the Labour government's war-on-China schtick with a “we’re ready to fight” battle-cry that was widely mocked. Was Britain always this aggressive and desperate for war with China? The post VIDEO: How America wrecked Britain and China’s Golden Age first appeared on Anna Chen.| Anna Chen
Britain scored a victory in Beijing in 2010, ushering in a “golden age” collaboration that was mutually profitable & peaceful, uniting the Eurasia landmass in Belt and Road trade.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
Labour has had power for a year but done nothing #StopDithering| Peter Tatchell Foundation
At the Battle of Ideas last Saturday, a panel on "populism" spent an hour and a half discussing everything except economics. Sherelle Jacobs of the Telegraph called for the Tory party to replace what she called a "twisted morality of sacrifice and dependency" with the "Judaeo-Christian" values of thrift and personal responsibility. And when a brave audience member asked "shouldn't we be discussing economics?" Tom Slater of Spiked brushed him off and carried on talking about cultural issues. E...| www.coppolacomment.com
The United States is in a state of crisis. What was considered a strong democratic nation protected by a codified constitution, lauded for holding its own over time, is now in turmoil, the actions …| The Norton View
This post by Walter Abernathy In the middle of the social and economic catastophe caused by the coronavirus, the call for a Green New Deal is more relevant than ever. Based on the broad set of prog…| The Contrary Perspective
Perhaps only British readers will be interested in this one. Let’s see. We’re going to visit Masham, our neighbouring market town: population – just over 1000. Main employers: two…| From Pyrenees to Pennines
“COVID19 is disastrous and devastating, but has never read up on the Me Too movement, has no opinion on colonization and doesn’t know Johnson.”| Crutches and Spice
Pfeffel is like Wordle but it always lies to you.| Wayne Myers
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