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My piece in the Guardian on Macron's failures and what it says about liberalism more generally. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Why does the Online Safety Act only seem to be censoring stuff for some people? I've not seen anything with the unavailable content tag yet except through screenshots. Still plenty of videos of Gaza, Epping and I can access the Reddits for beer that people have been blocked from.

Don't think they're successfully controlling public opinion on this one

I asked JLM in January whether LFI's exceptional status as a left populist party that overtook the soc dems without immediately imploding was because of the French people or his leadership. He said the exception was 🇫🇷 not him. Will be interesting to see if the exception holds.

Wikipedia is currently in a legal battle with the UK government to try and stop the platform being censored in the UK - or even completely blocked - thanks to the Online Safety Act.

The most famous person to visit your profile is Emmanuel Macron, President of France and a key figure in European politics.

Georges Abdallah just landed in Beirut after 40 years in French prisons. In my latest for @newlinesmag, I report on what the freedom and continued incarceration of the “public enemy #1” of the 1980s have meant for a deeply divided France. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/four…

Join the #Handala surveillance team - watch the live feed from the boat here

In an email to party militants and supporters Marine Le Pen says she will censure the Bayrou government. The PS is apparently preparing for legislative elections in the case of having to censure. So the French government may soon fall.

Unless you're Boldy James or King Gizzard who drop like 10 albums a year, I think artists should be limited to 1 album every 2 years. There's too many albums rn, how are we meant to keep up?

The thing about stage 5 of malnutrition is that there are 4 stages before it, and kids have already died in their droves of starvation. There's no reason the world's newspapers couldn't have splashed those images daily, even if our craven politicians don't want to act.

Yemeni President Mahdi al-Mashat today on the famine in Gaza:

Le jour même où il présentait son plan "Stop à la dette", François Bayrou recevait chez lui une mise en demeure "pour non-paiement de charges" liée à son appart' parisien. Montant des arriérés accumulés par Bayrou, après plusieurs rappels : 9544,29€. lecanardenchaine.fr/societe/51433-…

What was the Great Gatsby author's problem with Scott Fitzgerald? He wrote an insult to him on every single one of his books, must have really hated that guy.

Goodbye dear friend - thanks for all those years - we had some great fun. 4 kids from Aston- who’d have thought, eh? So glad we got to do it one last time, back in Aston. Love you.

The way UK media usually works is if one outlet breaks ranks on an omertà subject, the rest of the billionaire Press pack gets emboldened to follow. I’m not predicting this will happen as the fear and arm-twisting is ferocious on defying Israel - but it’s now a strong possibility

The board of deputies is now going after the man that labelled the entire Labour membership under Jeremy Corbyn Holocaust deniers.

Release the hostages. Until then, starve away. (This is all a lie anyway. It amazes me that the media continues to regurgitate Muslim terror propaganda.)

The police always protect minority counter protesters. They do it for ultra zionists when they're under no threat from Palestine protesters. Ofc they'll do it for Stand Up to Racism in the face of White Vanguard et al.

For anyone still calling Daniela Weiss a fringe radical—here she’s in the Knesset, flanked by ministers and MKs, at a forum called “Gaza Riviera: from idea to reality.” These are the most powerful officials planning Judenrein in Gaza and the West Bank. Anyone who claims this…

To be charitable, the keyword here is Britain, but Kneecap absolutely has a working class following in Ireland and loads of their music is just about drinking and taking drugs and partying, it's not exactly a lecture. Also Noel had this to say about them.