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How To Stop Kids Buying Things On Your Devices
Parents have opened up about the dangers of leaving kids to their own devices on their devices, after a viral post showed how easily a child was able to spend their parents’ money while using their iPad.
In January, parenting influencers Cole and Abbie shared their son had been on a secret shopping spree on their iPad, paying for a load of Apple services. “I didn’t think it was possible without my Face ID but here we are. Massive lesson learnt,” wrote the influencers at the time.
They weren’t the only ones to fall victim to it, either.
In response to Cole and Abbie’s misfortune, one commenter said: “It’s a parental right of passage to have your bank account cleared by a threenager. Mine did it on Amazon through the Alexa buying fart sounds.”
Another said: “My son wanted a rabbit so, while playing games on my phone, went on to Amazon and brought a hutch for £150, didn’t realised till it turned up at my door… and his answer was ‘can I have my rabbit now?’.”
“Been there done that!” added another parent, noting their child had purchased 100 fidget toys and 100 lip balms. Eek.
With kids still off school, experts from Protect Your Bubble are urging parents to check one particular setting on their devices to stop their bank accounts from accidentally being emptied.
James Brown, director at Protect Your Bubble, said: “It’s easy to assume that payments need passwords or additional approval; however, many devices and accounts allow instant spending once a card is saved to the account.”
He continued: “From a child’s perspective, it doesn’t feel like spending real money; however, for parents, it can mean hundreds, or even thousands, disappearing before they notice.”
How to stop kids from spending all your money online
First of all, turn off one-touch payments on devices and require approval for every purchase. “This single change can stop accidental spending instantly, and it takes less than two minutes to set up,” Brown said.
Households using Apple devices with Family Sharing set up should also turn on Ask to Buy, which blocks all purchases until they are approved.
Games consoles are also an easy way to wrack up debt. Brown noted they are “often overlooked, despite being one of the biggest risks”.
“Saved card details on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo accounts can lead to purchases stacking up quickly,” he noted.
The expert recommends removing saved payment cards from accounts and setting monthly spending limits in console settings. You can also enable PINs or passwords for purchases.
“Consoles are where costs could spiral fastest,” he ended. “Prevention is far easier than trying to recover the money afterwards, and this is one of the most important tech checks parents can make this winter.”
Vice President JD Vance provided a wild analogy on Wednesday involving his wife, Usha Vance, and skydiving, to describe his feelings about a key part of Iran’s 10-point proposal to end the ongoing war.
Speaking to reporters on the tarmac at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport as he departed from Hungary, Vance was asked: “Do you see a scenario in which the administration may be willing to agree to allow Iran to continue enriching uranium for civilian nuclear purposes?”
Both the Trump administration and Israel have repeatedly cited the crippling of Iran’s nuclear program as a primary goal of the conflict.
“What the president has said is that we don’t want Iran to have the capacity to build a nuclear weapon,” Vance said. “The president has also said that we don’t want Iran enriching towards a nuclear weapon and we want Iran to give up the nuclear fuel. Those are going to be our demands during the negotiation.”
In a statement posted on social media on Wednesday, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian Parliament, claimed the US and Israel had already violated portions of the two-week ceasefire agreement.
“As the President of the United States has clearly stated in his Truth, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s 10-Point Proposal is a ‘workable basis on which to negotiate’ and the main framework for these talks. However, 3 clauses of this proposal have been violated so far,” Ghalibaf wrote.
Vance took issue with one part of Ghalibaf’s statement, specifically the “denial of Iran’s right to enrichment, which was included in sixth clause of the framework.” To explain why, he offered this analogy:
“I thought to myself, you know what? My wife has the right to skydive, but she doesn’t jump out of an airplane because she and I have an agreement that she’s not going to do that because I don’t want my wife jumping out of an airplane,” Vance said. “We don’t really concern ourselves with what they claim they have the right to do. We concern ourselves with what they actually do.”
Users on social media were quick to call out the bizarre nature of Vance’s analogy:
Former first lady Michelle Obama shone a light on the current state of the US on Wednesday, quipping that the country is in its “janky” era, but that Americans can grow from it.
“You know, there are versions of the country that happen, right? And the new version doesn’t make the old one bad,” Obama told comedian Hasan Minhaj on the show she co-hosts with her brother, IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson.
“It’s necessary for growth, and I think we’re in just a janky version, right?” she said.
Minhaj agreed and then asked, “May I curse, Mrs. Obama?”
“You may,” she replied.
“Yeah, shit is jank right now,” he said. “Super jank.”
Obama put an optimistic spin on things, adding that “with each version, we learn something about ourselves as a country.”
“Right now, I’m kind of digging the way folks are beginning to respond, right?” she continued. “I mean, Minnesota, powerful stuff. I mean, it was a powerful reminder of what a community of people can do and are willing to do to protect one another. You know, when you’re not so janky, you don’t have to prove that, right?”
The Trump administration notoriously deployed federal agents to Minnesota at the end of last year as part of its aggressive deportation campaign. The massive public outcry over the operation intensified after federal agents killed US citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good in January.
Former President Barack Obama warned that month that Pretti’s killing should serve as a “wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.”
Michelle Obama noted that as a country, “We haven’t been this janky for a while, and I think our muscle of understanding our truth just got a little lax.”
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A British food company whose flagship product has been described as ‘a thin suspension of powdered grit in water’ – cloying, artificial and somehow both sweet and bitter – has just been sold for around €1 billion (£870million). This is Huel, bought last month by French yoghurt giant Danone.
Huel is not alone in raking in the big bucks despite dubious quality. From Cadbury’s £11.5 billion takeover by Kraft to BrewDog’s £1 billion valuation when it sold a large stake to private equity, some of Britain’s most underwhelming food and drink brands now command extraordinary market valuations. How do products this mediocre become so valuable?
Huel’s awfulness is no accident – it is the entire point. Huel, founded in Aylesbury in 2014, takes its name from a composite of the words ‘human fuel’. It appears to have been built around the idea that actually making food to eat with your loved ones is inconvenient, and that eating for pleasure is beside the point. The aim, instead, is efficiency: one part powder to five parts water, shaken and consumed while on the go.
When Huel was reviewed by the Guardian in 2014, the disgruntled reporter said it reminded her ‘of the medicine I had as a child for bottom worms.’ A reviewer for Vice later quoted someone calling it ‘late-stage capitalist nutrient paste’. Tellingly, defenders of Huel tend to praise it for convenience rather than taste, or else parrot the product’s claims to being a ‘healthy’ replacement for actual food – that is, despite the drink’s ingredients being processed beyond all recognition.
And yet, Huel is now worth around £870million. Danone didn’t purchase it because it tastes any good, but because it’s a scalable answer to the very modern desire to not think about eating. Let’s not forget that Danone itself had to recall baby formula over contamination concerns and has been accused of operating as part of a milk-price cartel. Even its press release about the deal confirms that this is primarily about scale, infrastructure and growth. What else could justify a food product so divorced from food?
Birmingham’s Cadbury is an even sadder case. This is a company that started out as something genuinely good. Built as a reaction to Victorian industrial slums, Cadbury gave its workers decent housing, open space, shorter hours and stability, all of which were exceptional for the time. The worst you could say about the company was that Cadbury’s Quaker roots meant no pubs in Bournville, the purpose-built village where factory staff lived.
But that time is long gone. Since Kraft acquired the company in 2010, Cadbury has been diluted in the same way that countless other heritage brands have been. Even before Kraft’s takeover, the widespread introduction of palm oil in the chocolate industry, as well as various other cost-saving changes, had already drawn global complaints. Cadbury Dairy Milk now offers ‘20 per cent minimum’ cocoa solids and ‘vegetable fats in addition to cocoa butter’. This only just meets the legal definition of milk chocolate. A product that was once high quality and distinctive now tastes totally generic.
This decline in standards didn’t come out of nowhere. Reformulations, shrinkflation and price rises have all contributed to the steady erosion of quality. Recently, Cadbury has also faced renewed accusations of child labour in its cocoa-supply chains. Though many still buy the brand out of habit, affection for the former British staple has certainly thinned out among the public.
When it comes to Scotland’s BrewDog, the problem is not so much taste or quality, but pretence. BrewDog positioned itself as a ‘punk’ alternative to corporate beer – something for the anti-establishment and rebellious. For a time, this worked. Then, perhaps unsurprisingly, that sense of ‘rebellion’ transformed into a rather un-rebellious business model. In 2017, BrewDog sold a 23 per cent stake to American private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners in a deal valuing the company at £1 billion. This deal was made explicitly to fund global expansion.
The fallout was huge for those small investors who bought into BrewDog through its ‘Equity for Punks’ scheme. Many now risk being left with nothing. But perhaps the warning signs were there all along. BrewDog has spent years mired in accusations of cultivating a toxic workplace, with former staff describing operating within a ‘culture of fear’. There have been many additional disputes over the company’s ethical and environmental claims. Ultimately, the story has become far less about the company’s mission than about the brand, the rollout and the money behind it.
Those blaming foreign ownership should know this is only part of the story. The aforementioned companies had their issues long before they were sold out of British hands. None of them was built around pride in craft, or even a serious interest in what they produce. Each represents a different route to the same destination: efficiency, dilution or branding overtaking substance.
The result is a food culture where the most valuable products are often the least worth eating.
Richard Crampton-Platt is a food writer and former restaurateur.
Although it might not have the Bushtucker Trials of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! or the physical demands of SAS: Who Dares Wins, but there is no doubt that Race Across The World is one of the toughest shows on TV – and that goes for both its contestants and production team.
Now into its sixth season, with a new crop of travellers being put through their paces on a globe-trotting adventure, most viewers are now familiar with the rules of the BBC show.
But what about all the parts that we don’t know about, and the planning that goes into making the show? Well, allow us to lift the lid…
1. The routes are tested out before the show
If you thought bosses just came up with a route for the contestants and hoped for the best, you’d be wrong. In fact, a whole team of people test it out beforehand.
Line producer Maria Kennedy told Radio Times: “You get some really brave people out on the road for a couple of months [from the production team]. [They tell us], ‘Here are going to be the sticking points. This is quite tricky. This bit is amazing’.”
She added: “They do it all on a budget as well so they’re not like going out and spending loads of money and having a great jolly. They’re literally looking at the budget and seeing if it’s possible to get by on less than 50 quid a day.”
2. For the producers, the trip is perhaps even harder than for the contestants
According to the Guardian, only two producers go on the dry run, only one of whom actually knows the route and which way they are going.
“The other person has no idea and that person is in charge of making the decisions,” series producer Lucy Curtis said.
3. A number of other unseen people travel with each team
Mackenzie Walker/BBC/Studio Lambert
Each time travels with two members of the production crew, a local fixer and a security adviser, but they apparently keep enough distance to “make the trip feel authentic”, the Guardian reported.
Executive producer Mark Saben also told BBC News that a medical support vehicle also travels an hour or so behind the teams in some countries.
4. There’s another team of people involved in capturing all the B-roll footage, too
Mark Saben told Broadcast that a director of photography and a series director follow all the teams, capturing the atmospheric camera shots that showcase the destinations.
He explained: “Not only did they shoot those big sweeping drone shots that capture the beauty and scale of their surroundings, but also the on-the-ground shots that convey the hustle and bustle of travelling, so viewers would feel immersed in the competitors’ journeys.”
5. No one is allowed to interfere with the teams’ decisions
The production team have to stay quiet, even when it is clear that the teams are making mistakes.
Mark told Broadcast: “How they made their journey was up to them. This meant, as a production, we had to react to their decisions, however nonsensical.
“It was a nightmare for production management, as the competing contributors decided how and where to go. You cannot underestimate how challenging the journey could be at times.”
Executive producer Stephen Day also told The Telegraph: “We will intervene if they’re in danger, and we have a real duty of care.
“If contestants – and there have been some – who are so focussed on budget that they’re not eating then you have to get them to spend money on food.”
However, producers accompanying the participants on the road are not allowed to outright give them food, either.
6. None of the production team get special treatment
Praising the embedded crews, exec Mark told the BBC: “They had to do the same journey as them, sleeping alongside them on the bus, they weren’t given a five-star hotel. So they were almost like a family, with its ups and downs.
“And while we had done recces, the teams found bits of the world which were totally surprising.”
7. One of the production team was pretty unlucky during the making of the first series
Having done the initial recce before filming began, executive producer Mark Saben told BBC News that “one of the poor sods had to do the actual trip again”, this time with the real contestants.
“He was very stoical and didn’t tell them until the very end, though. As much as possible, we wanted it to feel like a dry run,” Mark added.
8. A lot of planning goes into each series
Prior to filming, exec producer Mark said the first series was “a year in the making”, but added to the BBC: “It’s all very well doing theoretically, looking at timetables and things. But until someone does it for real, you don’t know where the difficulties might lie.”
Things like visas and vaccines “for every conceivable country” were sorted in advance.
He added to Broadcast that they also “research every likely bus and train option, cost and connection”.
“We drew up protocols that set rules for how the teams could hitchhike, travel at night and cross borders safely,” he added.
9. Contestants are typically not allowed to use phones – but there are exceptions
“If there was a significant issue at home, we might allow them to speak to a nominated person but we really try to keep them in the bubble as much as possible,” Maria Kennedy explained (per Radio Times).
10. Bosses do not create any job opportunities
While the pamphlet of job ads is created by bosses, all the jobs are 100% real.
“We don’t go to any of those places and say, ‘For the purposes of the show, can you provide this kind of service?’” BBC commissioner Michael Jochnowitz said, according to Radio Times.
“Those are real jobs, real places, real money or accommodation and things like that so again, because they don’t have access to a phone or the internet, we basically just give them a guide of potential opportunities in the area.”
Executive producer Mark Saben added: “We use as a rule of thumb, it’s like what you’d find on a board in a hostel or something like that so we want [it] to feel absolutely as authentic as it possibly can be.”
11. The contestants are also not given any extra food off camera
With budgets extremely tight, eating can become a real issue for the teams, and while you might think they are being given extras off camera, this is not the case.
Series two winner Emon Choudhury – who triumphed with his nephew Jamiul – said they would often ask strangers for food and water.
He told the Daily Express: “I lost over a stone, a stone and a half and the same with my nephew, he lost quite a bit as well. The food was an issue.
“You always think on these TV shows, you get a sandwich off-camera or water or a little snack here or there but no, it wasn’t like that!”
Series one winners Tony and Elaine Teasdale also told the Telegraph that during one leg, they “wouldn’t eat unless somebody fed us or we found super-cheap street food”.
“We’d buy little packs of rice for 20p each, then eat those for three meals a day. I went down a dress size from 14 to 12!” Elaine said.
“Water is more important. We took chlorine tablets, so we didn’t have to buy bottled water. That saved both money and time because we never had to find shops. Kebabs in Europe, rice in Asia, and we never bought any drink.”
12. There was a reason why season three was contained to one country
While season one of Race Across The World saw contestants travel from London to Singapore, and season two saw them begin in Mexico and end in Argentina, the third series was contained to just one country – Canada.
This was because when the show was filmed, there were still many Covid travel restrictions still in place, which would have been an added complication for the teams and the production.
The third season and the celebrity edition were originally planned to air much earlier, but production was pulled early into the pandemic.
Season three winners, Tricia Sail and Cathie Rowe revealed that they first applied for the show in 2019, but didn’t hear anything back until 2021 because of Covid.
Race Across The World continues on Thursday nights at 8pm on BBC One.
The Guardian took a whimsical tone in its coverage of plane-spotting families at RAF Fairford on 6 April. The base is being used as a hub for the US heavy bombers raining death on Iran. Declassified UK co-director Mark Curtis was among the first to highlight the Guardian‘s strange approach:
This is how the Guardian reported US warplanes mass bombing Iran from a UK base. pic.twitter.com/nBt6EBQYYW
— Mark Curtis (@markcurtis30) April 8, 2026
The article described how one family got up at 4.40am to watch bombers at the base, one of a network of US military colonies in the UK — in this case, disguised as a Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Gloucestershire:
They packed their car with gear you might take on a trip to the seaside – folding chairs, blankets, a picnic. But instead of heading to the coast, they drove 80 miles from their home in Hampshire to Gloucestershire and set up camp close to the perimeter fence of RAF Fairford to watch American warplanes take off and land.
The father, Jonathan Wilkinson, told the paper:
It’s definitely cheaper than a trip to a theme park. The sights and sounds are impressive. But it’s a bittersweet thing. These planes are only here because of war. We have to keep that in mind.
The Guardian reported that the “biggest fan in the family was the oldest boy, Josh”
who wore a Red Arrows cap and said he liked planes because his grandad was in the RAF. “I love the noise of them. They are so cool.” Katie Wilkinson [Mum to Josh] was enjoying the community spirit. “Everyone is friendly and welcoming,” she said.
Rubbernecking a war crime
Estimates of those killed and injured in the unprovoked US/Israel attack on Iran vary. Reuters reported on 3 March:
U.S.-based rights group HRANA said 3,636 people have been killed since the war erupted. It said 1,701 of those were civilians, including at least 254 children.
Reuters carried other figures too:
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said that at least 1,900 people have been killed and 20,000 injured in Iran in the U.S.-Israeli strikes so far.
Adding:
It was not clear if those figures included at least 104 people who the Iranian military said were killed in a U.S. attack on an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka on March 4.
Over 100 legal experts warned the US attack on Iran was illegal on 2 April.
RAF Fairford — Family day out with a slice of cake
The Guardian described the scene around Fairford in jolly terms:
A bank holiday jaunt in the Cotswolds is probably most closely associated with a visit to a picture postcard village and, perhaps, a cup of tea and slice of cake.
But hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people on Monday opted instead for the fringes of the RAF base, where American planes are flying missions to Iran.
One passage describes how, just after three warplanes took off heading south, a man:
who had brought his seven-year-old daughter along, and made sure she kept her ear protectors on as the planes flew away, told her they could now go to the park.
And a woman described as “Sally, 59, from Hampshire” told the paper:
I can’t help but be drawn to them, especially the B-1s and B-52s, which for me are cold war big beasts.
Adding:
But the thought of what they are doing gives me the ick, as the kids might say. We must never forget that.
Normal Island (aka Britain) produces all manner of bizarre spectacles. In this case, an apparent mix of ambient imperial and WW2 nostalgia, deep-seated racism and weekend boredom had families queueing up to watch high-tech warplanes set off to bomb Iran. The Guardian — true to form as the left-wing of the British establishment — leaned into the story, producing one of the strangest and most reality-detached pieces of journalism you’ll see — for a little while at least….
Featured image via Twitter
Donald Trump’s claimed ‘ceasefire’ with Iran has collapsed after less than a day, because Israel still regards ceasefires as ‘you cease, we fire’.
Iran has re-closed the vital Hormuz Strait to oil tankers connected in any way to its aggressors and has again hit US facilities in the Gulf. Iran continues to allow vessels belonging to peaceful nations continue to pass.
The move comes in retaliation for Israel’s more than 100 attacks on Lebanon today, 8 April 2026 — the most extreme aggression against the country since the Israeli invasion of 1982. An end to its aggression on Lebanon was a key condition of Iran’s acceptance of Trump’s proposed two-week truce. The onslaught killed at least 250 Lebanese civilians and wounded hundreds more.
As Iranian foreign affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei has pointed out this evening, an end to attacks on Lebanon was central to the agreement, but the US is now reneging on its agreement to try to cover for Israel’s unrestrained murder:
The Iran–U.S. Ceasefire terms are clear and explicit: the U.S. must choose—ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both.
The world sees the massacres in Lebanon. The ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments. pic.twitter.com/2bzVlHFKgi
— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) April 8, 2026
If this isn’t yet another case of the U.S. early reneging, then what is it?!#Lebanon pic.twitter.com/UVgZKFBdqj
— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) April 8, 2026
The Trump administration insists that Iran is being “dumb” to let the ‘ceasefire’ “fall apart” because it expects that the ceasefire terms be honoured:
Vance: If Iran wants let this negotiation fall apart over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them, that’s their choice.
We think that would be dumb, but it’s their choice. pic.twitter.com/zZVFSFD1It
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) April 8, 2026
Trump told reporters that Lebanon was “not included in the deal”, despite its brokers Pakistan making clear in advance that it was always included:
A few minutes after the Pentagon briefing wrapped I spoke with President Trump briefly to ask about the latest with Iran: pic.twitter.com/tW0nYD1Vcs
— Liz Landers (@ElizLanders) April 8, 2026
Even Trump propagandists Fox News had confirmed the inclusion of an end to Israel’s aggression in Lebanon when it announced the ‘deal’ this morning:
Israel’s war-criminal PM was typically and arrogantly brazen that he intends to keep attacking — if nothing else because it helps keep him out of jail:
Benjamin Netanyahu rejects President Trump’s ceasefire and says the war will continue against Iran at any time he chooses.
Netanyahu says he will achieve his objectives through further military action under his command.
“We are ready to resume the fighting at any moment.”
“Our… pic.twitter.com/lsYoXVO4gb
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) April 8, 2026
Trump lies met with Iranian resolve
The Iranian embassy in South Africa described Israel as a “rabid dog” and offered to get Trump a leash for it:
Hey Trump, if you don’t have a leash for the rabid dog, Israel, should we get one for you?
— Iran Embassy SA (@IraninSA) April 8, 2026
The speaker of Iran’s parliament noted that the US and Israel have already violated at least three points in the agreement, not just the end of aggression against Lebanon:
— محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) April 8, 2026
And Iran’s foreign minister said Trump must choose between peace and continuing to allow Israel to commit atrocities:
The Iran–U.S. Ceasefire terms are clear and explicit: the U.S. must choose—ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both.
The world sees the massacres in Lebanon. The ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments. pic.twitter.com/2bzVlHFKgi
— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) April 8, 2026
The IRGC has said it will also attack Israel and further US assets in the region directly if the attacks on Lebanon do not halt immediately:
Skwawkbox warned last night that the ‘ceasefire’ was likely to be meaningless because of the fundamental untrustworthiness and records of both Israel and the US. There is no pleasure in being right, but neither is there any surprise.
Featured image via the Canary
The occupation has today, 8 April 2026, murdered Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist Mohammed Wishah in Gaza. An Israeli millitary drone bombed Wishah’s car as he travelled near the coast west of Gaza city:
Wishah is the latest of hundreds of journalists deliberately murdered by the ethno-supremacist colony, many of them along with more than 700 of their family members.
Israel is a terror state.
Featured image via Aljazeera
Corbyn — Two and a half years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza have shown the thinking, honest world what Israel and its lobby are. Which is lying, racist and murderous.
Not the BBC’s feeble ‘Have I got news for you’, though.
No. Skwawkbox, the Canary and millions of others always knew that the ‘Labour antisemitism’ moral panic cooked up by the Israel lobby to topple Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader was a scam. A huge, stinking, transparent scam. And almost all the rest of the country knows it now — Israel’s genocide and war crimes, and the lies it told about them, have made sure of that.
But ‘HIGNFY’, as it styles itself, is still flogging the carcass of that dead, leprous horse — and is lame enough to think it was being clever when it ‘joked‘ comparing Corbyn with racist rapper ‘Ye’, formerly Kanye West. But Corbyn might just have learned from Green party leader Zack Polanski’s head-on approach to tackling the Israel lobby’s tired old smears.
Corbyn promptly slapped down the ‘disgraceful, baseless and irresponsible’ smear and demanded “delete this immediately”:
This is disgraceful, baseless and irresponsible. You should delete this immediately.
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 8, 2026
Corbyn isn’t joking when he called the lie irresponsible. At the height of the antisemitism scam, he was physically attacked in Finsbury Park as the media and rival politicians incited violence against him.
But so far the libel has not been deleted. If he’s really learned, he must sue.
Featured image via the Canary
National animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports is calling for a boycott of the Aintree Festival and Grand National race. And it wants to see government intervention to tackle the terrible death toll of horses.
Animal Aid has compiled figures showing that 67 horses have died racing at the festival since the year 2000. 17 horses died after racing in centrepiece race the Grand National.
The League has criticised the British Horseracing Authority and Jockey Club for prioritising gambling profits over the lives of horses.
Emma Slawinski, League Against Cruel Sports chief executive, said:
We are calling on the public and businesses to boycott the Aintree Festival and Grand National, to avoid betting on the races and to switch off the ITV Coverage and advertising which glosses over the cruelty.
The government needs to step in and ensure the welfare of the horses is put before the profits of gambling companies and the horse racing industry.
The British Horseracing Authority is failing the horses used in racing and the death toll keeps on rising every year – I would be delighted but very surprised if we won’t be reporting on more deaths over the next three days of the festival.
Horses will be sacrificed for people’s entertainment, something that should repel a nation of animal lovers.
At 2025’s Aintree Festival, Willy De Houelle died on the first day of racing. Celebre D’Allen died two days after competing in the Grand National.
The League is also calling for a ban on the use of the whip in horse racing. Sweden implemented such a ban in 2022 over concerns for horse welfare.
Slawinski added:
There needs to be a ban on the whip which is being cruelly used to inflict pain and push horses beyond their capabilities.
Horses are being raced to their deaths. The government needs to step in and ensure that the welfare of horses becomes the number one priority and end the sickening death toll which grows ever higher each year the Aintree Festival is held.
Action needs to be taken to stop the British Horseracing Authority and the festival organisers from putting gambling profits before the welfare of the horses.
Featured image via the Canary
Israel has stepped up its illegal attacks on civilian infrastructure in Lebanon, despite a ceasefire agreement which mediators from Pakistan say includes Lebanon.
Beirut is under attack. Bombs going off all around us, multiple strikes across many parts of the city. Can’t post footage now for obvious reasons but people are desperately trying to find a place of safety.
100 strikes in 10 minutes across Lebanon. This is a clear message that…
— Steve Sweeney (@SweeneySteve) April 8, 2026
Reports indicate that 50 Israeli fighter jets dropped 160 bombs on various parts of Lebanon, all within one minute.
🚨Jerusalem Post: 50 Israeli fighterjets dropped 160 bombs on various parts of Lebanon in one minute
— IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) (@iribnews_irib) April 8, 2026
Israel has not hit Lebanon this hard since 1982.
Israel also targeted an ambulance in Qlaileh, southern Lebanon. The attack killed four paramedics.
An ambulance was just targeted in Qlaileh, Lebanon.
Netanyahu’s office:
“The United States has told Israel that it is committed to achieving these goals, shared by the US, Israel and Israel’s regional allies, in the upcoming negotiations.”
“The two-weeks ceasefire does not… pic.twitter.com/isOaKlO62u
— courtneybonneauimages (@cbonneauimages) April 8, 2026
In Beirut alone, the death toll today has already risen to 500 after only half a day of the Zionists carpet-bombing the city.
Breaking: Initial reports say the death toll in Beirut has risen to 500 following Israeli airstrikes. 🚨 pic.twitter.com/6KKFZBuBSl
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) April 8, 2026
The terrorist state even bombed a funeral. No amount of dead brown people will ever be enough for Israel.
they bombed a funeral in lebanon at a cemetery and everyone is now dead. a fucking funeral at a cemetery. pic.twitter.com/9iMz4DdFdC
— lea (@taylenarare) April 8, 2026
Israel is murdering Lebanese people while they mourn.
False pretences
As usual, Israel’s standard excuse for bombing brown people is ‘defeating terrorists’. In this case, in Lebanon, it’s ‘defeating Hezbollah’. Of course, everyone with even half a working brain can see that’s bullshit.
Remember that Hezbollah, just like Hamas, would not exist if it weren’t for Israel’s illegal invasions.
Meanwhile, Israel bombs hospitals, ambulances, and other civilian infrastructure, in clear contravention of international law, and gets away with it.
And guess what. The IOF is lying. I was caught in the middle of it, and not for the first time. One man I was just with pulled a three-year-old girl from a building judt before it collaped. Hundreds are feared desd, hospitals struggling to cope. Tbid is terrorism.
— Steve Sweeney (@SweeneySteve) April 8, 2026
Hezbollah was formed in 1982 after Israel illegally invaded Lebanon. Its main foundational goal was to fight the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. The group’s resistance to Israeli occupation was instrumental in the IOF leaving Lebanon in 2000, after 18 years.
Armed resistance is not illegal under international law. A United Nations General Assembly resolution states:
The General Assembly,
Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;
Israel and the West have labelled both Hezbollah and Hamas as ‘terrorist groups’ and called for their disarmament – when they’re only defending the land they are native to.
Hezbollah abided by the ceasefire agreement, whilst the Zionist entity did not.
Israel is the only true terrorist state – it combines the barbarity of no holds barred terror tactics and civilian targeting while relying on the modern state’s monopoly on violence and the modern state’s weapons. https://t.co/pEqQHOJLf9
— Sarayu Pani (@sarayupani) April 8, 2026
Senior Iranian officials have told Al Jazeera that it will ‘punish’ Israel for ‘crimes’ it has committed in Lebanon.
The Zionist entity is committing constant atrocities with zero consequences. As usual, the goal is to destroy any chances of a lasting ceasefire. Because that way, Israel’s ‘greater Israel‘ project becomes all the more realistic.
‘God’s chosen people’ are sure causing a lot of death and destruction, which seems a little bit like the opposite of what a loving god would want for its people. Either Israelis have a very weird definition of god, or they’re simply using their religion as an excuse to bomb the shit out of brown people.
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