Once the slaughter is over, and it has to be over, there is an expectation that Palestinians should move on regardless of the lives lost, of the limbs lost, of the loved ones lost.   There is an expectation that parents will walk the earth with the shadow of their killed children and do nothing about it. The children who are orphaned will hold onto the memory of their parents but not to the anger over how they were killed. There is an expectation that a nation will be able to move on from the reality of parents carrying their children’s remains in plastic bags, of families buried under the rubble or in the sand they found shelter in after everything else was destroyed. That we will be able to move on as a nation from the images of burning children, of starving infants, of the impact that bombs left behind, on the lives of many Palestinians, on their scarred bodies, in their hearts and minds, of the impact that a single bullet lodged in the child’s head or heart has over an entire family forever. We said long ago, we made a choice, to seek justice not vengeance, but we cannot be prevented from seeking either. We cannot continue to be denied our right to life, to liberty, to dignity. We cannot be denied recourse and reparation.   No one has a rightful claim to supremacy, to exceptionalism, to domination, to oppression, no one.

Fiona Bruce, "We formally paused a free trade agreement negotiation with Israel but only last week you had Lord Austin, who is our Israel trade envoy, going to Israel saying: I'm here to meet businesses and officials to promote trade with the UK" Heidi Alexander, "We have suspended those negotiations with Israel around a free trade agreement because we can't deal with the Netanyahu government in a positive way" Fiona Bruce, "So why did he go?" Heidi Alexander, "It was a long standing obligation, it wasn't part of the trade negotiations" Fiona Bruce, "He was there to promote trade in his own words" Heidi Alexander, "It was not around any formal negotiations around free trade" #BBCQT

Interesting Fact of the Day: If Robert Jenrick were to catch 50 fare dodgers a day, recouping £2.90 each time for the taxpayer, it would take him well over 1,000 years to recoup the amount the taxpayer lost when he helped a major Tory donor avoid a £45m tax bill back in 2020.