Somebody with common sense. George Robertson always was an idiot. He should go back to cultivating his garden and shut up.

Doctors lose new jobs package as strike to go ahead The offer of 1,000 more training posts has been withdrawn after the union refused to scrap the planned six-day strike.

I get there are arguments on both sides but using workforce planning (which directly impacts patient care) to threaten a union over strikes is just plain wrong and simply denies the country the specialists it needs for the future
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Nor me.

Israel is an apartheid state.

That apartheid now officially includes the death penalty.

Israel has long engaged in mass extrajudicial executions of Palestinians.

It's now official state policy.

Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran.

Meanwhile, the UK is letting US bombers land, refuel and re-arm.

Complicity is always a choice — and our government has chosen to drag Britain into an illegal war.

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
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He's wrong. The Starmer Project is integral to the corruption. Starmer himself is a ruthless unprincipled liar. He must go.

What utter nonsense. Whatever else he may be, Starmer is above all a ruthless machine politician.

Starmer is an unprincipled liar. That's how he got to be leader of the Labour Party. And that's why he's close to Mandelson and Blair. They are fellow travellers. He's also complicit in the genocide in Gaza. There's no doubt about this and there's no doubt he has to go.

Just when we thought the news from Palestine could not get worse, they did. Bullets, drones, bombs, hunger, untreated injuries & the cold weather are killing scores of people, babies included. And the worst: instead of the necessary Palestinian unity, the opposite transpires...

Is he right? I can't make a informed judgement on this.

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What do the ICC arrest warrants mean for Israel and its allies? Fury in US and Israel. EU says it will uphold ICC’s request.

Discussion on Al Jazeera Inside Story aje.io/djt6tq

Interesting analysis.

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As usual, short and brilliant by Daniel Levy on the ICC arrest warrants

🚨 NEW: Jeremy Corbyn and the other 'Independent Alliance' MPs have written to Keir Starmer asking if he will comply with the ICC arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders

"You must decide: are you on the side of Israeli impunity or international law?"

Keir Starmer’s statement supporting the ICC’s decision to open war crimes cases against Vladimir Putin (17 March 2023)

It’s been 24 hours & neither Keir Starmer nor David Lammy have commented on the ICC’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant for war crimes & crimes against humanity.

Perhaps they could apply the same standards as the ones they outlined below:

Whereas in the UK we are just pretending it hasn't happened.

The ICC’s arrest warrants are long overdue.

The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum.

Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?

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NEW: Keir Starmer must apologise for 'having condoned the Israeli government’s war crimes in Gaza', the SNP have said.

The SNP’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said Starmer must confirm the UK will 'do its bit to enforce the warrant'.

ian hislop in private eye on the disgraceful behaviour from the former archbishop of canterbury.

There is a very simple reason why the UK government refuses to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza.

If they did, they would be admitting their own complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time.

End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Insanity, in my opinion.

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