Not a “Starmerite sycophant” whatever the hell that is. I am not a fervent supporter of any political party. I simply do not believe that Labour are inherently islamophobic - I’ve seen nothing to suggest that. Im not trying to cover anything up or deflect by saying that the Tories are Islamophobic. It’s relevant because the Tories have been in power and controlling foreign policy up until a month or so ago. If the Tories were still in charge, there would have been no change to the UK gov’s position.

Not that I think that Islamaphobia is the driving factor behind support for Israel, nor do I pretend to fully understand, besides the obvious fact that they’re an existing ally and were attacked by terrorism which kicked this off.

The tide is turning against the Israelian government’s scorched-earth policy but it’s taking too long, especially from the US side. Seemingly the Israelian people are also taking issue with their government’s position which is more pressure than we can exert from our side.

Btw Jeremy Corbyn was vindicated for what, defending Hamas and Hezbollah? Plenty of people have stood up for Palestine over the years without standing up for Hamas. Palestinians deserve to be free, not controlled by Hamas terrorists.

Labour has a far far less of an islamaphobia issue than the Conservatives.

Labour did previously have a antisemitism issue however, and undoubtedly they’re hesitant to do anything which might be tagged antisemitic (even if it’s not).

But despite that, they haven’t been in power for long and have already done far more than the Tories did.

Second Mihon. It’s an all-in-one downloader and reader, and supports reading offline.

Yeah, this isn’t that bad. It’s just a suggestion after running an apt upgrade. NPM has similar plugs which I don’t find too annoying.

In fact its not even as intrusive as NPM’s funding requests, as it is only 2 lines of text, plus it looks like Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use.

I’m on the fence about all this. In a utopia, a ceasefire would be ideal of course, but Israel aren’t going to listen to suggestions like that, especially when they believe that a ceasefire would be a risk for them in terms of allowing Hamas to regroup. Whether that is a real risk I don’t know, but either way I can’t see a ceasefire happening in the immediate future until Israel have completed their objectives, regardless of what pressure comes from the UK.

The “humanitarian pauses” do make sense to me, as it would save lives whilst allowing Israel to keep their tactical advantage over Hamas.

But it seems Israel won’t even do the bare minimum of a pause in bombing civilians, so what chance do we have of a ceasefire?

I understand the principled side of standing up for a ceasefire even if it seems unlikely, but the government’s (and Keir’s) POV does also make a kind of sense, to save Palestinian lives in a way that Israel is more likely to agree to.

True, I doubt this would actually happen - she’s likely whipping up the right wing Tory members as a prelude to her leadership campaign.

Still, it’s a government minister saying this dirge, not just a random powerless backbencher.

The difference between Braverman and a pantomime villain is that she actually has the power to make this stuff happen. It remains to be seen if these are just empty words, but it’s definitely worth reporting that a government minister intends to start putting people in prison for being destitute.

Their mindset is “Fossil fuels are still needed now, and if my company doesn’t grab them, someone else will” and it’s just so easy to continue getting those short term profits for their shareholders.

They may have long term plans for investment in renewables, but they won’t enact them until forced to (by government or market conditions). I imagine oil costs (and therefore profits) will skyrocket as it becomes more scarce, and they’d want to ride that all the way to the bank (and hell) before pivoting.

Basically, capitalism will be capitalism - its only moral is money. The only way is to have governments worldwide force them to change, and that ain’t gonna happen.

“Labour would be worse”

I’m not obsessed with him, it’s in the news and I’m commenting on it.

You’re right, the guy is now irrelevant but I find it funny that even after being repeatedly savaged in the media for cosying up to and refusing to condemn Hamas, he hasn’t learned a thing and he still can’t do it.

Vintage Corbyn - Can’t bring himself to condemn an actual terrorist attack against Israelis.

It’s so easy to directly and clearly condemn Hamas, whilst also supporting innocent Palestinians and Israelis, yet he simply cannot do it. 🤔

You’re not technically wrong, but it’s a nuanced issue and people should treat it as such rather than black and white.

Sunak saying “no one can change sex” without any qualifying statements is just designed to inflame and divide people.

They were clearly referring to online foreign disinformation, not domestic disinformation.

Christ, not until next autumn? It can’t come soon enough.

It was a WWE SUMMER SLAM

It’s not just technically unfeasible, it’s logically unfeasible without fundamentally undermining encryption.

This is so fucking disappointing. Labour are already running high in the polls but are busy running around giving me reasons to not vote for them.

I can’t imagine anyone would be compelled to vote for them based on this either, except the super-rich. Announcing this shit is so utterly pointless.

I voted for the Lib Dems during the New Labour years and it looks like I’m heading back that way.