Mark Seddon

If it is ok for Israel to kill starving civilians en masse and for Gove to say 'it's Hamas fault', then it would have been fine for the British Army to do the same in Belfast & Derry & says 'it's the IRA's fault'. Bloody genocide apologist.

Very much looking forward to that Presidential Library at the end of his term.

On day 654 of the genocide.

UK welfare spending is 10.6% of GDP. Right wing press never mentions that it is well below the OECD average. UK has some of the least generous welfare across OECD. No questions asked about corporate welfare, uncosted tax reliefs to corporations/rich. gov.uk/government/pub…

‘Britain Has Abandoned Its Soft Power for the Demands of the Military-Industrial Complex’ Keir Starmer’s decision to cut humanitarian aid in order to fund military spending is already having a deeply damaging impact. My piece for @BylineTimes bylinetimes.com/2025/07/23/bri…

Al Jazeera Media Network urgently calls upon the journalistic community, press freedom organisations, and relevant legal bodies to take decisive action to halt the forced starvation and crimes against journalists and media professionals in Gaza. The journalists on the ground,…

In 1898, an ancestor Richard Seddon, as Prime Minister of New Zealand, was instrumental in establishing the country's first state pension system. In common with many others, I am left wondering if I will still be alive to receive the one I have paid into for 40 years?

News from civil servants preparing Liz Kendall's pensions review. Kendall wants to look at "phasing in" the pension starting with 25% of a pension at age 68 and getting 100% of the pension at age 72. This will be represented as not affecting the triple lock. It's already the…

If we want to take out our contributions to a state pension that we may never see, how may we be able to do so? Some of us have already paid in for 40 years & are still doing so? @premnsikka

Labour new pension policy in a nutshell. If you were depending on a state pension, dream on. It's going to be euthanasia.

NEW: Mayor of London @SadiqKhan backs calls for immediate UK recognition of Palestinian statehood. It’s a rapidly growing demand within the Labour Party which may prove harder and harder for Keir Starmer to resist.

Michael Gove would have been happy for the British Army to turn Belfast and Derry into cratered moonscapes and kill tens of thousands of civilians in pursuit of the IRA. That's it. That's his logic. @michaelgove

So, presumably Gove would have supported laying waste to the Republican areas of Belfast and Derry, and all those living there, during the IRA campaign of the ‘70s and ‘80s?

There must surely be a point when David Lammy just thinks 'this ain't worth it anymore, I'm just going to break with Starmer & Trump'.

All on the EU's watch. You have collectively had ample time to act. You haven't. 'Nothing to add', kind of sums it all up doesn't it?

The 'Gaza Riviera' is now part of the plan for Greater Israel. It requires the forced removal of over 2 million Palestinians to a concentration camp, which they cannot leave, save in shrouds. If the West and the Arab World won't act, perhaps China will?

Shocking statement about how the journalists the world has been relying on for images and reports about what’s going on in Gaza are slowly dying of starvation @AFP 🧵

Former Likud defense minister and chief of staff Moshe Yaalon says that the attempts at expulsion of the Gazan population and forcing civilians into a “humanitarian city” amount to murder and war crimes. Yaalon is part of the heart of the Israeli security establishment. This is…

1) Cindy McCain, director of the World Food Programme, wife of late Republican Senator John McCain, refutes claims Hamas is stealing aid. 2) A consensus of genocide scholars concludes that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, including Israeli scholars

The silly and the nasty all in one tweet.