A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

21 April 1887 | A Polish Jew, Samuel Kamm, was born in Tarnów. A hairdresser.

In #Auschwitz from 27 December 1941.
No. 25056
He perished in the camp on 7 February 1942.
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A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

21 April 1900 | Pole Michał Mazurkiewicz was born in Lwów. An accountant.

In #Auschwitz from 18 May 1942.
No. 35717
He perished in the camp on 20 July 1942.

Trains.

The tragedy is, if Starmer and Mahmood made the case for Guildford to remain, saying lessons learned new protocols in place to avoid a similar slip up

Then they could have made the case for Starmer to stay, lessons learned, etc

But they created a new standard forcing him out

The mistake was not to attack the police and ransack the Capitol. When will they learn?

America, you have a serious problem...

Stunning

The problem with Starmer's argument (well one of them) is that it depends on an assertion that he wouldn't have appointment Mandelson if he'd known he'd failed vetting.

But he appointed him before vetting was complete.

Mandelson had enough scandal in hot political life already to raise eyebrows.

I don’t pretend that I understand everything but sacking the already appointed ambassador and replacing her with Mandelson was a crass decision, even without this latest scandal. It was an exceptionally high risk low reward gambit and it beggars belief that it was done at all.

He got a proven track record of approving of people avoiding paying taxes.

That said, I do think he's doing a good job, overall, except his communications are appalling. You can't undo many parliament's worth of incompetence and corruption in a year - in that I think many people are wholly unrealistic at the moment.

Starmer to admit he inadvertently gave MPs misleading information on Mandelson PM to tell Commons he was himself misled and would ‘never knowingly mislead parliament or the public’

I do struggle with this, overall but my personal view is that if we want to hold people to the highest standards when leading the country they should resign when falling below them. Starmer probably should resign.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I still shudder in embarrassment over that. I can’t imagine how IDS feels. Not that I particularly care, given the damage he did.

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Whether Starmer goes is more a matter of politics than about the constitution, but the Prime Minister should properly account to Parliament for his own decision to appoint Mandelson.

His current approach of ducking, and blaming and sacking others, is a failure of prime ministerial responsibility.

Meet James Bembridge, the Reform candidate for Westminster in next month’s local elections.

As well as this tweet, Temu Lex Luthor here, has also been quoted as saying "Most NHS nurses look like they're eating food banks out of business."

Don’t let him get his deposit back.

Roots of the current crisis:

Iran, 1953.

CIA fomented a coup against Mohammed Mossadegh, the legitimately elected President.

Mossadegh’s “crime”?

Nationalizing the foreign owned oil companies that were pumping Iranian oil.

If you know no history, everything is a mystery.

I was young in the UK when it showed there and it helped shape my world view, specifically how wrong and evil racism is. It reinforced the messages I picked up from learning about the Holocaust and the impact of prejudice on all marginalised groups of people. It resonates even more strongly today.

Honestly just ban social media until the companies can show they’ve got a grip on this.

I’m increasingly not sure democracy can survive the deepfake era.

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

Brexit didn't stop immigration or fix the economy.

Farage told his supporters to back Boris Johnson in the 2019 General Election, and he fully supported Liz Truss's budget himself.

So why are Reform MPs telling us that the wrong Brexit was delivered and complaining about Britain being broken?...

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.

First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

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When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

It's a stupid model!

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

18 April 1914 | A Polish Jew, Hermann Kleinmüntz, was born in Krakow. A hairdresser.

In #Auschwitz from 3 April 1942.
No. 28798
He perished in the camp on 30 June 1942.
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On this day in 1896, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 18 Jan 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband and son and on the 28 Apr 1942 to the Zamošč Ghetto which was liquidated in Nov 1942. They all perished in the Shoah. Her name was Kamila Bandlerová