Uk Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the barely notional UK Leader of the Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer have been hugely supportive of Israel’s Gaza genocide. Three Youth Demand activists were arrested at Keir Starmer’s London home yesterday having put a banner on his fence and childrens’ shoes at the approach to his front door.
Youth Demand shoes at Starmer’s home 9 April 2024. Image: Youth Demand.
“I don’t care what your politics are, no MP should be harassed at their own home.
“We cannot and will not tolerate this.”
James Cleverly, the home secretary, said on X: “This is unacceptable. There is no excuse for harassing and intimidating politicians and their families in their homes.”
No, supporters of genocide and the mass murder of children Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer that’s the protesters message to you: That they won’t tolerate you supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Sunak and Starmer are supporting war crimes and genocide in Gaza. It is the public’s duty to oppose that. It’s everyone’s duty to oppose that.
‘To be fair – margarine was a French invention… although they probably don’t know that…’
The National Trust regularly finds itself in the right-wing firing line, as anti-woke insurgents attempt to present it as some kind of dangerously radical cake-and-countryside organisation.
This week, the cakes that Europe’s largest conservation charity serves in its hundreds of tearooms across the country, have literally been under attack.
The rant was initiated by the Daily Mail, which ran an ‘exclusive’ on the National Trust’s use of vegetable-based spread instead of butter in its scones. Customers are, according to the newspaper, complaining that the new scones taste like ‘dry biscuits.’
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the assault on the Trust’s scones attracted ridicule, with a ‘wokesconegate’ hashtag trending.
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Celia Richardson, the charity’s director of communications, joined the mockery, writing on X:
“GB News claims the National Trust ‘holds our heritage in contempt,’ over #wokesconegate. But margarine (which we’ve used in scones for decades) has been part of UK heritage since at least WW2. And am I alone in remembering Bruce Forsyth’s Stork SB challenge? Classic heritage TV!”
The fact that margarine was a creation of the French and not the British was also pointed out.
Emergency services vehicles are seen outside the burning Crocus City Hall following the shooting incident in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on March 22, 2024. (Photo: Stringer/AFP via Getty Images.
While the attack comes over two years into Russia’s war on Ukraine, an adviser for the Ukrainian president said the neighboring nation “certainly has nothing to do with the shooting/explosions in the Crocus City Hall.”
UPDATE:
Russia’s Investigative Committee announced Saturday that the death toll has increased to 133 and said in a statement that “unfortunately, the number of victims could increase.”
Eleven people were detained, including four who were directly involved in the attack, according to a statement from the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB.
EARLIER:
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack in which at least dozens of people were killed and wounded when individuals reportedly armed with automatic weapons opened fire at Crocus City Hall, a concert venue in suburban Moscow, Russia.
“According to preliminary data, as a result of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall building 40 people were killed and over 100 were injured,” Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement reported by TASS.
Citing eyewitnesses, the Russian news agency reported that the group of unidentified men “armed with assault rifles went on a shooting spree in the lobby and then inside the concert hall just before a concert by the rock band Picnic.”
According to a journalist who was at Crocus City Hall during the attack, a grenade or an incendiary bomb was thrown after the shooting broke out and caused a fire.
“People in the hall were lying down on the floor to escape from the shooting, lying between 15 and 20 minutes, after which they began to crawl out. Many managed to get out,” the unnamed journalist was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.
The attack comes on the heels of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s contested reelection and over two years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has received weapons support from around the world, including the United States.
In a lengthy social media post, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that “Ukraine certainly has nothing to do with the shooting/explosions in the Crocus City Hall.”
“There is not the slightest doubt that the events in the Moscow suburbs will contribute to a sharp increase in military propaganda, accelerated militarization, expanded mobilization, and, ultimately, the scaling up of the war,” Podolyak added. “And also to justify manifest genocidal strikes against the civilian population of Ukraine.”
According toThe Guardian, John Kirby, the White House national security spokesperson, told reporters that “there’s no indication at this time that Ukraine, or Ukrainians were involved in the shooting… We’re taking a look at it, but I would disabuse you at this early hour of any connection to Ukraine.”
Asked whether the attack signals cracks in Putin’s regime, Kirby said that “there are people in Moscow and in Russia that object to the way Mr. Putin is governing the country, but I don’t think we, at this early hour, can make a link between the shopping mall attack and political motivations. I think… we just need more time and we need to learn more information.”
