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Israel murdered journalists in Lebanon mourned by their colleague
On 28 March, Israel continued its bloody streak of murdering journalists. This time, the invading Israeli forces killed Ali Shuaib (Al-Manar), Fatima Ftouni (Al-Mayadeen), and camera operator Mohamad Ftouni. Now, their colleague Courtney Bonneau has mourned their passing:
Israel — Murder
Jamal Awar reported the following for the Canary on 28 March:
Journalists Ali Shuaib (Al-Manar) and Fatima Ftouni (Al-Mayadeen), along with Fatima’s brother, camera operator Mohamad Ftouni, join a long list of Lebanese journalists killed by Israel. An Israeli warplane fired five missiles at their car, travelling in the countryside next to the city of Jezzine, around 30 Km north of the border with occupied Palestine. The last two missiles were fired at 2 civilians, one of them from the Lebanese Civil Defence, who were trying to save the targeted journalists.
Awar added:
The three journalists join a long list of (now) 28 Lebanese journalists assassinated by Israel commencing on October 13, 2023 when an Israeli Merkava tank fired on a clearly marked group of journalists in Alma Al-Shaab killing Reuters videographer and close friend Issam Abdalla.
These 28 journalists lie side by side with over 234 of their fellow Palestinian journalists also killed by Israel since October of 2023, most of them in Gaza.
In the video at the top, Bonneau says:
Hi, I’m reporting to you from the city of Sur. As you may already know, my colleagues Fatima Ftouni and Haj Ali Shuaib were killed today in a targeted Israeli drone strike.
Ali Shuaib worked for Al Manar and Fatima worked for Al Mayadeen. I worked with them in the fields on the borders for the last 15 months documenting Israeli war crimes.
Haj Ali Shuaib was a veteran journalist and devoted his entire career to documenting Israeli war crimes in South Lebanon. Fatima was one of the bravest journalists that I’ve ever met. She never shied away from danger. She never shied away from a report, ever. And today, while documenting these war crimes and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, they became victims of a war crime themselves.
They were shining examples of integrity and ethics. And we, as journalists in Lebanon, will honor their memory by continuing to work today and tomorrow and every day until the Israeli army is out of South Lebanon.
Dedication
Bonneau is a war correspondent working with Vocal Politics:
Five paramedics, three journalists and six Syrian farm workers were killed today in targeted Israeli strikes.
This is the report I was working on today when I received news of a massacre in Jezzine. It turned out to be Ali and Fatima. pic.twitter.com/J7WyRo6ixu
— courtneybonneauimages (@cbonneauimages) March 28, 2026
Speaking further on her fallen colleagues, Bonneau said:
What I admired about Hajj Ali and Fatima the most was their style of journalism. Their dedication to telling the story, not going for sensationalism or making the story about themselves. They led by example and I am a better journalist after spending this time with them.
— courtneybonneauimages (@cbonneauimages) March 28, 2026
Featured image via Courtney Bonneau
Reform UK has been condemned over the party’s “cruel” plan to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants if it wins the next election.
Zia Yusuf, the party’s home affairs spokesman, said a Reform government would review all successful asylum claims going back five years.
Anyone found to have arrived in the UK illegally or overstayed their visa would be deported, he said.
As many as 400,000 immigrants would potentially be affected by the policy, according to the party.
Yusuf said: “Reform will reverse the invasion of Britain. Anyone who broke into the country illegally, or came in on a visa and overstayed to claim asylum (which is almost all of them) will have their status revoked and be deported.
“This is an addition to all those currently in Britain illegally.”
At a press conference on Monday, Reform leader Nigel Farage said Britain was being “invaded” by illegal immigrants.
The announcement comes after 602 people crossed the English Channel on small boats on Saturday, making it this year’s second busiest day for crossings and bringing the total number of arrivals in 2026 to more than 6,000.
Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward condemned the Reform plan.
She said: “Another superficial, ill-thought-out and cruel announcement by Reform UK, which will fail to tackle the roots of the asylum crisis whilst making sure more suffering is heaped on the most vulnerable.
“We do not want to see people risking their lives crossing the Channel in small boats. What we need is strong international co-operation to address the reasons that people are having to seek asylum in the first place: war, poverty and the climate crisis, and to provide safe and managed routes that would offer a real alternative to people smugglers.”
“We must remember our basic humanity. Many of those seeking asylum have endured horrendous trauma. They include mothers and children. We have a duty to offer compassion and sanctuary, not insecurity, fear and intimidation.”
Will Forster, the Liberal Democrat immigration and asylum spokesman, accused Reform of “churning out hostile, headline-grabbing” plans that will “do absolutely nothing to tackle our broken asylum system”.
He added: “The backlog of cases is already sky high thanks to the mess the Conservatives left us in. Reviewing five years worth of asylum grants is an impractical farce that will just slow down the process even more.”
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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez has said that Spain will demand an end to the EU’s ‘association agreement’ with Israel at tomorrow’s (21 April 2026) meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg. Spain will be joined by the governments of Ireland and Slovenia. The association agreement gives Israel preferential trade access to the EU as well as setting a framework for political negotiations.
Spain moves further on Israel again
Sánchez told a rally in Andalusia that he is calling for the move because:
a government that violates international law or the principles of the EU cannot be its partner.
Sánchez has been one of the few EU leaders to take a strong stance – or any at all – against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its wars on Lebanon and Iran. In April 2026, he derided ‘leaders’ who were fawning over Trump’s supposed ceasefire in the US-Israel war on Iran, saying they were “praising those who set the house on fire” for turning up with a bucket. A month earlier, Spain removed its ambassador from the colony.
Last Saturday 19 April, the Spanish, Irish and Slovenian foreign ministers wrote to the EU’s senior diplomat Kaja Kallas, accusing Israel of breaching its obligations under the agreement:
including executive decisions, military decisions and laws adopted by the Knesset, that contravene human rights and violate international law and international humanitarian law. Our many statements in this regard, and direct calls for the Government of Israel to fully comply with its international and moral obligations, and to revert those measures, have been ignored.
The letter goes on to says that an agreement with Israel is incompatible with EU core values:
In such a grave situation, we call on the European Union to uphold its moral and political responsibility, and to defend the very core values that have underpinned the European project since its foundation. Respect for human rights must remain a fundamental pillar and guiding principle of all our actions and of all our relationships with our partners. By principled coherence and for the sake of its own credibility, the European Union can no longer remain silent or inactive in the face of such breaches…
…In light of these grave circumstances, we ask that the next meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council includes a discussion of the EU-Israel Association-Agreement. The earlier review of Israel’s compliance with its obligations under Article 2 of the Agreement was clear that Israel is in breach of its human rights obligations, and the situation has only deteriorated since then. Given the level of violence and the gravity of the current situation, there is a need to urgently revisit the question of the EU’s response, including the proposals put forward by the President of the Commission. Bold and immediate action is required, and all actions must remain on the table. The European Union can no longer remain on the sidelines.
However, Kallas is a supporter of Israel who has blamed its genocide on the Palestinians while mouthing token opposition to its ‘excess’. She has rightly been accused of saying “nice words” about Palestinian people while supporting “more weapons for Israel”.
And with the ending of the Israel ‘association’ requiring unanimity among the EU’s 27 governments – many of whom are run by politicians and parties in hock to the genocidal colony or ideologically committed to it – the move to end the association is doomed to fail.
But it’s still the right thing to do and shame on any government that helps defeat it.
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There’s truly nothing worse than realising you’ve forgotten someone’s birthday, especially when you’re sitting across the desk from them.
That is, unless you are said colleague, who not only has had to come into work on their birthday, but hasn’t had it acknowledged.
You know the drill: you check your team calendar and realise it’s your colleague’s birthday. Like, today.
Cue the hundreds of panicked Slack messages and email threads, rushing out to find a suitable birthday card, and awkwardly driving by everyone’s desk to have them sign it on the sly before the end of the day – all while making it look like this was totally planned ahead of time.
Add remote working into the mix and you have the dead giveaway of a seriously sad and empty birthday card. Yeah… embarrassing.
GroupTogether Celebration Cards
Thankfully, in 2026 we can finally evolve past this. We’ve found the solution to giving office birthdays (engagements, births, and just general appreciation) the attention they deserve: GroupTogether.
To save on awkward apologies, GroupTogether has a whole host of actually cute digital birthday cards that scream “we’ve been preparing for this for weeks”.
As well as being able to choose a pre-made design that speaks to everyone from Christen in Creative, to Dan from accounts, GroupTogether also allows you to create your very own cover.
The best part is that GroupTogether provides the whole experience of opening a personalised birthday card without anyone having to leave their desks.
Whether you have colleagues working from home, out on location, or being on the other side of the world, anyone can sign thanks to GroupTogether offering unlimited signatures. And you get to choose just what you want that special message to say: from a funny GIF, to a messages from the heart or, if you need a helping hand, with the help of its AI tool.
Once everyone has signed, you can either choose to email the final product to the lucky recipient – which they’ll receive in an embossed ‘envelope’ – or print it off as a PDF so you can smugly hand it to them.
GroupTogether Cards
You know what that means: hours of saved time from not having to chase your already-busy team, and colleagues that feel celebrated and appreciated as they should be. Smashed it!
Throughout his time on the current all-star series of I’m A Celebrity, David Haye has repeatedly raised eyebrows due to his treatment of his campmates and various controversial comments.
Of them all, the one that perhaps ruffled the most feathers came early on in the series, when the former heavyweight champion opened up about his relationship with model Sian Osborne.
When Sinitta said he’d said it “sounds like she’s drop-dead gorgeous”, David agreed that Sian is “lovely”, before observing: “She’s got the personality of a proper ugly bird.”
As his co-stars voiced their shock at this remark, he continued: “She has, honestly. Most ugly girls realise they’ve got to have a personality, and the banter, to tell jokes and shit, so people overlook the fact that they’re not aesthetically amazing straight away.”
“It’s called ‘ugly duckling syndrome’,” he then told his stunned campmates. “Where girls are ugly when they start off, then they get pretty as they get older, but they’ve still got the personality of when they were ugly.”
At the time, Scarlett Moffatt said the quip went down “like a lead balloon”, while Beverley Callard commented that she’d “never heard anything so sexist in my life” – and the reaction among viewers was much the same.
Speaking to The Sun over the weekend, Sian responded: “I consider it a compliment. A big one.
“I’m fluent in David by now, and my family find it hilarious.”
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“When David tells me I have the personality of an ugly bird – meaning a girl so full of life and character that her looks become irrelevant he is giving me something the entire modelling industry never once did,” she then claimed.
“I don’t class it as inflammatory. That’s everybody else scratching their heads looking for something to be offended.”
Meanwhile, David has once again found himself at the centre of a furore after a spat with co-star Adam Thomas, which the Emmerdale star has claimed left him feeling “broken”.
Even hosts Ant and Dec have weighed in, suggesting that the retired boxer has “crossed the line” with some of his behaviour.
The current season of I’m A Celebrity: South Africa welcomed back 12 former campmates to vie for the title of the show’s next “Legend”.
It was pre-recorded last year, meaning fans have no say over who stays and goes, but viewers will choose a winner at the end of the season through a public vote.
Alexander Faludy reflects on the landslide election victory for Péter Magyar‘s Tisza party over Viktor Orbán‘s system of ‘illiberal democracy’ in the Hungarian parliamentary elections and analyses what might happen next in Hungary’s relationship with the European Union.
The landslide election victory on 12 April for Hungary’s centre-right Tisza party, led by former Fidesz insider Péter Magyar, surprised analysts. With limited exceptions, the consensus had been that Tisza could hope for a bare majority of parliamentary seats, but not a two thirds constitutional one.
Achieving the latter was, however, essential to have a shot at dismantling Viktor Orbán‘s system of ‘illiberal democracy’. A bare majority, on the other hand, would have left the incoming Tisza government either paralysed, or dependent on unpalatable deals with the extreme-right Mi Hazánk party.
Tisza won the vote in Hungarian geographical constituencies with an 18.5-point lead over Fidesz (55.3% v. 36.7%).
The party can boast 141 seats in the unicameral national assembly, eight more than the 133 needed for a constitutional majority. It represents the largest parliamentary majority in Hungary’s post-1989 democratic history. Fidesz and Mi Hazánk, meanwhile, have a mere 52 seats and 6 seats respectively.
Pessimists have long argued that Fidesz had consolidated power and manipulated Hungary’s electoral system to such an extent that real change could not be brought about through normal electoral means. Rather, the reasoning went, Hungarians would have to wait for ‘regime entropy’ to develop and for Orbán to be pushed out by reformists from inside Fidesz. Such a pattern would echo Hungary’s 1989 transition of power in which ‘reform communists’ were pivotal.
The prediction proved to be only partially correct.
Admittedly, Magyar and several other prominent members of the Tisza leadership, are disillusioned former Fidesz insiders. It became clear in the run-up to the election that Magyar retained discreet friendly contacts inside the governing party, ones willing to leak him sensitive information. This allowed him to anticipate and forestall smear campaigns planned by Fidesz’s propaganda apparatus.
Nevertheless, change has come about through an open electoral victory, not a closed-door palace revolt. This can probably be credited to three interlocking factors: socio-economic reality, Magyar’s personal communications, and the misdirection of Fidesz’s campaign.
Emotive scandals, especially concerning the cover-up of child sexual abuse in public institutions, created openings for Magyar and Tisza to enter public consciousness. More importantly, though, growing discontent with Fidesz had its true roots in political economy.
Problems with corruption and the rule of law failed to cut through as long as general living standards were improving. But, since 2022, this no longer applied thanks to stagnant growth and high inflation. Hungarians have seen living standards decline sharply. This is true relative to their own past experience, and to life in post-communist EU neighbours like Croatia, Romania and Slovakia.
The latter is a sensitive point given that, at the time of Hungary’s EU accession in 2004, the country was considered a regional leader in development. But today there is no amount of Fidesz propaganda that could cover up the underfunding and dysfunctionality of public services, especially in the areas of healthcare, child protection and education.
Magyar worked this groundswell of sentiment effectively via relentless personal appearances across Hungary over the last two years. He was also able to compensate for his lack of access to Fidesz-controlled broadcast media through a large, organic, social media following. His posts were frequently seen by hundreds of thousands in a country of less than ten million. Significantly, unlike the older opposition leaders he was adept at deploying humour and emotion, not just arguments.
Fidesz, meanwhile, chose to fight the election on foreign policy issues without addressing domestic concerns — except for suggesting that things would become even worse should Tisza come to power. The spotlight on Viktor Orbán‘s personal international connections, including the visit of US Vice President J.D. Vance, may have back-fired, consolidating suspicions that the Prime Minister had lost touch with what mattered to voters at home.
Magyar’s remarks at his first press conference as Prime Minister-elect were delivered in front of a wall of Hungarian flags bracketed at each end by that of the EU. This represented a notable departure from practice under Orbán’s far-right Fidesz government and signalled Tisza’s intention to return Hungary to a European path. Clearly this is vital if frozen EU funds are to be released and Hungary returned to economic growth.
We’ve seen now seen the first signs of what this might look like. Asked whether Tisza would end Hungary’s longstanding defiance of an EU court judgment concerning breaches of asylum law (which is costing the country €1m in fines per day) Magyar signalled a break with past policy.
The dispute, he noted, had now cost Hungarians over €1bn which is ‘missing from Hungarian funds for healthcare, education and infrastructure’. EU countries led by allies of Viktor Orbán were able, he noted, to comply with EU asylum law, ‘and yet stop illegal migrants from coming to their countries’. If it was possible for them, it should be possible in Hungary too, he argued.
This will be welcome from an EU perspective. However, there was some domestic messaging too. Magyar made it clear that he would not accept the quota allocation of asylum seekers under the EU Migration Pact, nor make solidarity payments to other countries. Hungary would, however, stay within the Pact’s framework by providing seconded police units to support border control in other EU countries.
A similar accommodation of domestic concerns was evident in Magyar’s stance on Orbán’s recent veto of the €90bn EU loan package for Ukraine, financed through shared borrowing. Magyar said Hungary would not hinder other EU countries from supporting Ukraine by such means through wielding a veto. It would, however, not itself become a party to the common debt.
How effective these compromises will prove in maintaining the support of Magyar’s eclectic voter coalition will be a key question in coming months.
By Alexander Faludy, freelance journalist.
After dividing opinion with his set at Coachella earlier this month, Justin Bieber’s second consecutive week headlining at the US festival has been much better received.
Just over a week ago, the Canadian star sparked a heated debate on social media after a stripped-back performance on the Coachella stage on Saturday 11 April, which included him seated at a laptop scrolling through his old hits on YouTube and singing along for one portion.
It is worth pointing out, though, that while there were plenty of headlines about the supposed controversy over Justin’s Coachella show, many critics were quick to praise the show immediately after it ended, with several claiming that his detractors had “missed” the “point” of what Justin had set out to do.
Kevin Mazur via Getty Images for Coachella
Over the weekend, the Beauty And A Beat singer returned to Coachella for the second week of the festival, where the reaction to his set was much more unanimous.
USA Today claimed that Justin was much “more at ease” during his second performance, claiming that the Grammy winner “managed to outdo himself by settling onto the stage with confidence, having fun with fans and bringing out an onslaught of guests”.
Variety’s review agreed that Justin had “brought out the big guns” for week two, while Consequence Of Sound wrote that the singer “levelled up”.
Over on Reddit, a popular discussion also suggested the set may have “the biggest [week one to week two] improvement” in Coachella history.
Justin’s second set was packed with even more surprise guests than his first, perhaps most notably SZA, who joined her former collaborator to perform their song Snooze.
Meanwhile, Billie Eilish also made an unscheduled on-stage appearance as Justin sang his early hit One Less Lonely Girl, which he often used to dedicate to a different fan each night on tour.
Billie – who has made no secret of her Belieber status – wrote on Instagram that she could “not stop crying” after the viral moment.
A night earlier, Sabrina Carpenter also headlined Coachella for the second time, where she was joined on stage by Madonna, unveiling a new duet with the Queen of Pop as well as performing some of her signature hits.
Ex-Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen has given her support to the Green Party in an interview with Laura Kuenssberg. Recognising that the majority of people wish to live in a society that cares for each other, Shaheen says people are choosing the Greens because it is where they can find real change.
The May 7 local elections are turning into a stark, polarised battle at the ballot between Reform UK and the Green Party. Polls regularly swing back and forth, signalling a sharp divide in the electorate.
As a result, voters face a stark choice between two fundamentally different visions for the country: one rooted in hope and solidarity, the other in division that pulls communities further apart.
.@faizashaheen: "I support the Greens.. everyone sees the rot in the political system, typified by Mandelson.. no politician is delivering for people.. lots of people are turning to the Greens.. we want to live in a country where we care for each other, where change does happen" pic.twitter.com/ECXSwZKkOC
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) April 19, 2026
Faiza Shaheen: “everyone sees the rot in the political system”
Faiza Shaheen quit the Labour Party in 2024 after being deselected as a candidate in the General Election for Chingford and Woodford Green. At the time, Shaheen described the decision as “cruel and devastating” stating that she was being punished for detailing her experiences of Islamophobia within Labour. Going further, she confronted the blatant hierarchy of racism at play, which also worked to prevent her speaking out against the genocide on Gaza.
Subsequently, Shaheen stood as an independent and came close behind the chosen Labour candidate. Nevertheless, Tory and austerity champion Iain Duncan Smith won the election following the clear split in the progressive vote.
Since then, Shaheen now appears to be in support of the Green Party. It is worth noting that the Greens have been much more forthcoming in their solidarity with Palestinians and their public condemnations of the genocide on Gaza. This is likely to add to Shaheen’s support for the party, however she goes further and argues the party will change the way that our politics is done.
Her interview response in full:
Laura Kuenssberg: These elections, Faiza, are going to be absolutely enormous. Why do you think people like you used to be in the Labour Party and other people are turning away, many of them to the Greens. And I know you’re interested perhaps in the Greens these days?
Faiza Shaheen: No, I, you know, I support the Greens. But I, yeah, absolutely. And it’s because everyone sees this political rot in the system, typified by Mandelson, but not just that. And also that… Yeah, no politician is delivering for people, people’s pockets and material well-being. They’ve forgotten that in all this political drama.
And so absolutely, lots of people are turning to the Greens and are also really fed up with the kind of divisive politics that we heard just there from Robert Jenrick. And we want to live in a country where people are cared for, where we care for each other, compassionate type of politics, where actually change does happen.
Green Party is closing the gap
Indeed, Shaheen is right – the choice really is between compassionate politics or politics of division which seeks to hurt the most vulnerable in our communities. Leaders might not see it in their Westminster bubbles, but people are overwhelmingly turning to hope. The Green Party is massively increasing its membership numbers as it closes the gap with Reform UK, with latest reports of 216,000 members.
One X user commented on Shaheen’s response, stating:
@faizashaheen
is correct & embodies everything the @UKLabour party SHOULD stand for (and did do under Corbyn). But Liar Starmer transformed Labour into a Red Tory party with extra racism.#VoteGreen for progressive policies for the 99%.
Join @TheGreenPartyHope is here now
Others have highlighted that Shaheen’s public choice to lend support to the Greens just further underscores the absolute failure of Your Party:
Your Party is just absolutely dead in the water if even Fazia Shaheen has joined the Green Party https://t.co/rZGuJRt5Bx
— liv
(@liveraldemocrat) April 19, 2026
It is time to choose – hope or hate.
Shaheen’s public commitment to support the Green Party, who she once competed against, is indicative of the choice many are facing across the country. Many have had concerns about the Green’s broad church membership and the future potential for a repeat of Corbyn’s Labour in 2019. Those concerns appear to be waning.
On the other hand, a clearer priority now appears to override those doubts: keep the far right out of local government. Your Party’s failure to deliver on its promises only makes that choice easier. After nearly two decades of austerity and underinvestment, communities are already under strain – voters deserve more than words; they deserve actual results.
After all, a Reform UK–run council would serve no one but its wealthy backers, as its record in Kent has already shown. As Shaheen argues, only a vote for the Greens can deliver real change rooted in compassion.
Featured image via the Canary
Ireland’s president Catherine Connolly has told a gathering of largely progressive leaders that they must cooperate to fight back against a growing tide of “might is right”.
Speaking at the Defence of Democracy conference in Barcelona, Connolly offered a defence of the UN as the best available means to achieve this, even if, “the United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell,” she said, quoting ex-UN secretary general, Dag Hammarskjöld.
Hell is precisely what so-called ‘Israel’ promised repeatedly to unleash on Gaza and has proceeded to do so through its genocidal campaign there. The US and the Zionist entity have inflicted similar unspeakable carnage on much of West Asia. They have committed these atrocities while constantly dismissing and denouncing the UN, and attacking its institutions.
These include Zionist land thieves’ attempts to destroy the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Washington has sought to use sanctions to wreck another body for international cooperation and accountability — the International Criminal Court (ICC) — which tries those accused of war crimes.
The efforts these mass murderers have put into attacking the UN shows it does have the potential to be an obstacle to grotesque violations of human rights. Zionist butchers have frequently declared how crucial the destruction of the UNRWA is to their efforts to exterminate or drive out Palestinians from their land.
‘Ireland knows what imperial brutality looks like’
Connolly then said:
Ireland is uniquely placed to offer a valuable perspective as a neutral, post-famine, post-colonial republic, and I am conscious that many in this room share that post-colonial experience.
Not entirely post-colonial, of course, given the north of the island is still occupied by Britain, albeit less so than previously. That being said, Ireland was indeed a testing ground for many of the horrors being unleashed today. Britain spent several hundred years testing its imperial methods in Ireland, including mass murder, destruction of crops and property, and enforced famine.
The modern incarnations of these crimes have been allowed to happen by too many nations being ready to cow-tow to the global hegemon, the US. They have been happy to kiss the godfather’s hand and reap whatever transient benefits this sycophancy granted them. They have done this rather than acting collectively in their own interests, and those of global justice, by bolstering international institutions.
Connolly alluded to this when she said the UN has waned:
…through accommodation, through the quiet retirement of inconvenient principles, and through our collective willingness to treat violations by powerful states as exceptional cases rather than the precedents they have become. Each time a violation was absorbed without consequence, the threshold for the next one was raised.
The Irish president certainly managed to piss off the right people by attending the event. The Irish Times launched a protocol-bore themed hit piece on Connolly, claiming she had:
…triggered official and political unease over her first overseas trip…
Quoting ever reliable and highly accountable anonymous sources, they say “officials” would rather she had visited London on her first trip outside Ireland. The main pearl-clutching seems to centre on Connolly not maintaining presidential neutrality amid:
…a flurry of concern in Dublin that Connolly could sign declarations arising from the conference which could run contrary to Government policy.
Head of state has a right to warn on dangers of growing lawlessness
You’d have to wonder quite how long the Irish Times and these mysterious hand-wringing officials think a head of state should wait before speaking up.
If the current wave of barbarism were to be left untamed to the point it reached Ireland’s doorstep, would we expect the Irish president to remain tight-lipped? If not, then why should we expect silence when people thousands of miles away are enduring a holocaust? Do they not count too?
The journalistic standards of the legacy media outlet are about as robust as their morals. They claim the event should have been off limits due to it “not being attended by the UK and the US”.
Aside from the obvious question — why the fuck Ireland should wait for British or American permission before doing something? — this claim is false. British deputy prime minister and seasoned war criminal, David Lammy, managed to slither his way into the event. We know this by the deafening clanging sound that could be heard when he said, without a trace of self-awareness:
We’re meeting at a time of extraordinary challenge globally with rising prices as a result of conflict once again in the Middle East.
That being the “conflict” — aka US and Israeli-led war crimes — which Britain has massively contributed to.
When it comes to international institutions, Britain’s most notable recent contribution has been its attempts to destroy the ICC. This occurred when David Cameron threatened lead prosecutor, Karim Khan.
If the UN is to become a genuinely effective institution, it will be Connolly’s words that must be heeded rather than those of a man whose actions have served to further undermine it.
Featured image via AP Photo/Peter Morrison
Nigel Farage and Yusuf are in Millbank Tower “to announce new plans to reverse illegal migration.” Reform says it will review all asylum claims granted in the last five years. It expects to make 400,000 liable for deportation with the plans…
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No one will admit it, but we’re all secretly fighting for the spot of the best hostess.
Especially when it comes to summer – there are way too many outdoor dining opportunities to pass up to not have your garden ready for any social event you can think of.
It’s all part of the experience of summer: sipping on a glass of wine or Aperol, picking at various carbs, veggies and dips, and giggling late into the evening.
Just like any other occasion, you want to look cute while you’re doing it, and that includes giving your table a makeover ahead of all the guests that will soon be flooding it.
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