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Richard Baker

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"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

  1. The Financial Times today. One of the few to accurately report the killing of the journalist Anas al-Sharif as an 'assassination'. What else is a targeted attack.

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  2. After yesterdays events, a reminder that all 9 SNP MPs & 4 Plaid Cymru MPs abstained in the vote on whether to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. All 72 Lib Dem MPs abstained too (6 of them abstained by voting for & against)

    Only 22 MP's voted against the ban

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  3. Jon Donnison: "we had a ceasefire deal back in January.. all the parties signed up, we had hostages being freed, Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails being freed, but Israel broke that deal because they didn't want to end the war, & that is still the case"

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