A Saudi-coalition airstrike on a family home in Yemen murdered women & children in the latest evidence of potential war crimes (Sky)
Yet the UK gvt continues to provide arms & support Saudi's campaign in Yemen, the world's *largest* humanitarian disaster! news.sky.com/story/yemen-ev…
As @AlexCrawfordSky reported last week, Yemen children's hospitals are the 'closest thing to hell on Earth'.
Our UK government continues its weapon sales and support for the Saudi regime and its allies, whilst 80% of the population are reliant on aid
ICYMI: The United Nations (via the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen) called out the UK as one of the countries perpetuating the conflict due to its weapon sales to the Saudi regime & its allies (Page 5)
Another example: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) deployed cluster bombs against a residential neighborhood in the country’s coastal western province of Hudaydah, a United Nations official said.
Let's not forget that a UN panel of experts uncovered fragments of British-made laser guidance missile systems at an air raid site in Yemen in a strike that it concluded breached international humanitarian law.
But it is fair to say Jake Wallis Simons has a particularly awful history during his editorship of the paper.
His attitude towards Muslims is vile.
But his defence of Douglas Murray, his attacks on ordinary protestors, his attacks on journalists, his attacks on even calling for a ceasefire, are just a small snippet of his awful views.
This protest was almost entirely peaceful with minimal arrests.
With a protest of this size, there are always a handful of idiots, but from the reporting it seems there were far less than for example at this pro-Israel rally a couple of years ago.
The idea that those exercising their democratic right to protest it show solidarity to Palestinians, are somehow an "intimidating mob" is just not okay.
After her racist smear was forcibly corrected (ht @cfmmuk), a source close to Braverman admits:
When referring to the 'grooming gangs phenomenon', she only meant high profile cases where Pakistani men were involved & not all group-based child sexual abuse bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Whilst this source calls the ruling "perverse", they are clearly wrong:
Only calling high-profile group-based child sexual abuse done by Pakistani men as "grooming gangs" is an astonishing admission, unjustifiable and incorrect
The IPSO ruling makes it clear how it is inaccurate. It is not a "political attack" - merely the correction of a false racist smear.
Outrageous the Home Secretary defends Douglas Murray as "mainstream"
She is *actively* promoting a man who said objectively racist & extreme things such as “Conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board" & who has defended Tommy Robinson
Douglas Murray says London has become "foreign" because "in 23 of London's 33 boroughs "white Britons" are now in a minority" i.e. being non-white, means you are foreign and can't be British
Is the government view *really* that this is a mainstream view? @Tories4Equality
@Tories4Equality Murray said "less Islam" is a solution to terrorism (whilst talking about Muslims).
Is it *really* a government position that this is a "mainstream" view and not extreme?
Shawcross, Gove & The Times appear to want to publish names of who they consider to be "extreme" Muslims/Muslim groups as part of their attempt to refocus Prevent on Muslims & not the far right
This is after a far-right terror attack against a migrant centre
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ICYMI Shawcross said "..Islam is one of the greatest, most terrifying problems of our future"
He targeted Muslim charities. He defended torture. He seems to even have wanted Foreign Office officials to mock Islam
Whilst @KeithPrinceAM has now apologised and a few thousand have seen the apology, the GB News tweet with the conspiracy theory remains up with no clarifying tweet from @GBNEWS.
It'd almost as if they want the conspiracy theory to be shared.
Does anyone know if they apologised on-air and just didn't clip it up?