Real Help Now BBC News The Guardian Manchester Evening News The F-Word LabourListThe BBC always loves reporting on itself, so the story about its ridiculous refusal to air an appeal for humanitarian aid in Gaza on behalf of the Disasters Emergency Committee is getting a lot more airtime than the appeal itself ever would have done…even better, however, was the decision to get Tony Benn on the Today programme [...]
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Did I imagine it, or was this story on the MEN website yesterday under the headline ‘Cameron ‘promises’ TIF cash’, or something very similar? Daring use of inverted commas. Even the usual anti-TIF MEN commenters can recognise that “My view is that if you have got good schemes to go ahead with then you should [...]
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Yes, I’m back. Sorry I haven’t posted in a month, winter makes me depressed. Israel also makes me depressed. I’m sure I have nothing to contribute to any Gaza debate beyond the same outrage everyone else is expressing (and also the cheerless footnote that the crisis is even starting to ruin Obama for us) except [...]
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