45 h. ago Palestinians don’t need a state. We need justice | Ahmed Moor

In the midst of a genocide, the Palestinians are best served by abandoning any effort to attain self-rule in the Occupied TerritoriesThere are few things the pro-Israel side gets right. But on one point – the Palestinians’ rejection of two states – they’ve been more-or-less correct. For me, and many others, the fundamental injustice of the establishment of the state of Israel – which occurred through massive, deliberate and purposeful ethnic cleansing designed to create a Jewish majority in historic Palestine – meant that Israel never really attained moral legitimacy among Palestinians. As Robert Malley and Hussein Agha write in their new book, Tomorrow Is Yesterday: “deep down, most Palestinians, though ready to accept Israel’s existence, have not accepted its historical legitimacy”, a statement whose veracity I can attest to.I remember being a 15-year-old in Palestine. I remember being held up at checkpoints in the West Bank, and being unable to visit Jerusalem or Israel because o...

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49 h. ago Netanyahu’s Gaza City outrage fulfils his messianic fantasy of a Greater Israel. The world must stop him | Nimer Sultany

Ignore suggestions that further occupation would be temporary. Act now! This outrageous landgrab is ethnic cleansing in plain sightIt is hard to describe in words the pain of witnessing your people being destroyed for more than 670 days. It is even more unfathomable to contemplate another Israeli escalation, after witnessing so much suffering and so many crimes committed against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. How can this be allowed in full view of the world for so long? Will the world stand by?Israel’s security cabinet declared this escalation when it approved a plan to “fully occupy” the Gaza Strip and attack concentrations of population, starting with Gaza City itself. The consequences of this newest military onslaught are foreseeable and predictable. In May 2024, Israel attacked Rafah despite international warnings and in defiance of an international court of justice order – Rafah no longer exists. In November and December 2024, Israel attacked the northern towns of B...

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5 d. ago Oasis fan comments 'snobby' as council chiefs blasted ahead of Murrayfield gigs

Ian Murray MP has hit back at City of Edinburgh Council.

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6 d. ago Millions of households will be hit with council tax hikes to pay for Angela Rayner's Government funding reforms

Households in wealthy areas could be hit with huge council tax rises under Angela Rayner's plans to divert more funding to deprived regions, experts warned last night.

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6 d. ago Police hit back at teenage Reform council leader’s claim of cover

The youngest council leader in the country claimed there has been a ‘cover-up’ of details about a case

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6 d. ago Andy Burnham's office and council hit back against claim 'something's amiss' in Renaker loans row

A court case against the mayor's office concluded last month

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8 d. ago 'Ethnic cleansing' gentrification row hits council estate where A Clockwork Orange was filmed amid backlash at 'white, middle

Locals occupied Lakeside Centre, Thamesmead, in south east London , on Saturday night and unfurled a black banner on a roundabout with 'end art washing' written in green letters.

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8 d. ago Jesus Christ Superstar review – Cynthia Erivo leads rousing LA revival

Hollywood Bowl, Los AngelesThere are spotty moments in the much-discussed Andrew Lloyd Webber revival but by the time the final song kicks in, you’ll be a believerMuch like its namesake, Jesus Christ Superstar comes with a storied history. There have been at least four Broadway productions and many revivals, tours and adaptations of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1971 biblical rock musical. Just last month, the UK saw a revival met with acclaim. In Los Angeles’s version, not without “backlash”, Cynthia Erivo is the Holy Messiah. Jesus, clad in white cloth and cool white boots, faces betrayal at the hands of Judas (played by a magnetic Adam Lambert).In the first half of the show, as the apostles ask Jesus about his plans, and as lepers ask him to heal them, Erivo’s Jesus is restrained and she doesn’t quite make the role fully her own: Jesus is composed even in uncertainty, steady even when overwhelmed. But immediately into the second act, after Jesus realizes a disciple will betr...

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8 d. ago A Clockwork Orange estate fights ‘art washing’ redevelopment plans

A Clockwork Orange estate fights ‘art washing’ redevelopment plans  The Guardian

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3 w. ago Is THIS Britain's strictest seaside council? Popular towns hit with 'unfair' clampdown after beach brawls... but locals say 'it's not our fault'

EXCLUSIVE: Locals at one of Britain's most popular seaside towns are furious at being slapped with an 'insane' and 'patronising' crackdown on swearing after a series of violent incidents.

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3 w. ago TikTok influencer shares video of moment she was 'rudely' interrupted by man as she filmed a make

A TikTok influencer has shared a clip of a 'rude stranger' mocking her as she filmed a make-up video, telling her she looked 'as orange as Donald Trump'.

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4 w. ago Council tasked with helping Tameside out of special measures hit with own damning Ofsted report

Failures have been found in the children's services department of both the Greater Manchester local authorities

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4 w. ago 'Humanitarian city' proposed for Gaza would be a concentration camp for Palestinians and ethnic cleansing, former Israeli PM says

Olmert described the suggested facility as a 'concentration camp' and said its construction would escalate what he views as Israel's current violations of international law.

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4 w. ago ‘Humanitarian city’ in Gaza a concentration camp for Palestinians: former Israeli PM

Forcing people into the proposed ‘humanitarian city’ would be ethnic cleansing, Ehud Olmert says

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