leischa.bsky.social
@leischa.bsky.social
Trade unionist. South African via Scotland. Based in Geneva.
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Give me more of this England, please - the one with lovely people in it.
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Give me more of this England, please - the one with lovely people in it.
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“Gaza now hosts the largest group of child amputees in modern history.”
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza have suffered life-changing wounds in Israel’s war – and almost one-quarter of those are children.
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UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza have suffered life-changing wounds in Israel’s war – and almost one-quarter of those are children.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7eexx4
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Gaza now hosts the largest group of child amputees in modern history.”
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza have suffered life-changing wounds in Israel’s war – and almost one-quarter of those are children.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7eexx4
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza have suffered life-changing wounds in Israel’s war – and almost one-quarter of those are children.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7eexx4
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Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
Immigration is down because Britain has become an awful, inward looking, racist dump that no one wants to come to.
Well done, everybody.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Well done, everybody.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Immigration is down because Britain has become an awful, inward looking, racist dump that no one wants to come to.
Well done, everybody.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Well done, everybody.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
We had a natural birth, with wonderful midwives. This story is absolutely horrifying:
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We had a natural birth, with wonderful midwives. This story is absolutely horrifying:
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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HONG KONG: FDW Heroes of Wang Fuk Court Blaze Now Face Job Loss and Homelessness hklabourrights.org/news/fdw-her...
FDW Heroes of Wang Fuk Court Blaze Now Face Job Loss and Homelessness - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Last Sunday (30 Nov.), more than a thousand Indonesian domestic workers dressed in black gathered at Victoria Park to mourn their compatriots who died in the devastating blaze at Wang Fuk Court in Tai...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
HONG KONG: FDW Heroes of Wang Fuk Court Blaze Now Face Job Loss and Homelessness hklabourrights.org/news/fdw-her...
Fascinating on efforts to stop toxic illegal gold mining in the Amazon: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Rockets, gold and the Foreign Legion: can Europe defend its frontier in the Amazon? | Alexander Hurst
It borders Brazil, but French Guiana is now a remote outpost of the EU. It is home to Europe’s only spaceport, some of the most biodiverse forest on the planet and a military mission that is testing t...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Fascinating on efforts to stop toxic illegal gold mining in the Amazon: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Yep. Most of this stuff isn't even 'complicated' once you remove the 'complication' of rich people needing to profit from any change.
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Yep. Most of this stuff isn't even 'complicated' once you remove the 'complication' of rich people needing to profit from any change.
As always, there are solutions to all the world's problems. The issue is political will. The state of the world is not for want of solutions - it is the consequence of political decisions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic pollution in 15 years, says report
Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
As always, there are solutions to all the world's problems. The issue is political will. The state of the world is not for want of solutions - it is the consequence of political decisions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I am so sick of this shit.
Your Party’s antics assume a luxury the left does not have: time.
New column 👇
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New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I am so sick of this shit.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find a more striking example of entitlement
US & Israel have demanded that a powerful, high-tech bomb that failed to explode when Israel used it for an assassination attempt in Beirut, be returned to them lest it fall into Russian or Chinese hands
can't make this shit up
US & Israel have demanded that a powerful, high-tech bomb that failed to explode when Israel used it for an assassination attempt in Beirut, be returned to them lest it fall into Russian or Chinese hands
can't make this shit up
US, Israel fear leak of tech secrets from unexploded bomb in Beirut
US, Israel fear leak of tech secrets from unexploded bomb in Beirut
US and Israeli officials have reportedly demanded the Lebanese government to urgently secure the transfer of an unexploded Israeli air bomb in the southern suburbs of Beirut to its possession, fear…
www.middleeastmonitor.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more striking example of entitlement
US & Israel have demanded that a powerful, high-tech bomb that failed to explode when Israel used it for an assassination attempt in Beirut, be returned to them lest it fall into Russian or Chinese hands
can't make this shit up
US & Israel have demanded that a powerful, high-tech bomb that failed to explode when Israel used it for an assassination attempt in Beirut, be returned to them lest it fall into Russian or Chinese hands
can't make this shit up
The genocide continues. So does Israeli imperialism in the region. What's changed is that there is less media attention.
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It's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine Malik
Broken ceasefires, bombing, ground incursions and mounting deaths: Israeli imperialism is now expanding across the region, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The genocide continues. So does Israeli imperialism in the region. What's changed is that there is less media attention.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Totally agree with this. Detest seeing AI invading every task.
Leave me alone, AI - on.ft.com/3XmsBmm via @FT
Leave me alone, AI - on.ft.com/3XmsBmm via @FT
Leave me alone, AI
If I wanted your tedious advice on how to do the simplest thing online, I would have asked for it
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November 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Totally agree with this. Detest seeing AI invading every task.
Leave me alone, AI - on.ft.com/3XmsBmm via @FT
Leave me alone, AI - on.ft.com/3XmsBmm via @FT
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"I myself have publicly advocated the use of direct action, including property sabotage, in the cause of climate justice. It stands to reason that I should support the same range of tactics in the effort to prevent genocide."
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"I myself have publicly advocated the use of direct action, including property sabotage, in the cause of climate justice. It stands to reason that I should support the same range of tactics in the effort to prevent genocide."
Horrific. I was there last week, and found the bamboo scaffolding charming and environmentally friendly.
But it's also flammable.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
But it's also flammable.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Rescue operations at Hong Kong apartment complex ‘almost complete’, as death toll reaches 128
Firefighters comb through high-rises with as many as 200 people missing, officials announce
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Horrific. I was there last week, and found the bamboo scaffolding charming and environmentally friendly.
But it's also flammable.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
But it's also flammable.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
I'm in Sri Lanka for work and currently experiencing some pretty dramatic weather.
bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com/news/article...
Sri Lanka: At least 40 dead after severe floods
The extreme weather is likely to persist as a cyclonic storm moves along the country's eastern coast.
bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I'm in Sri Lanka for work and currently experiencing some pretty dramatic weather.
bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com/news/article...
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Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Creepy read. Looks like fascist tendancies emerge when cultures experience a crisis. Growth ends, and societies turn inwards and eat themselves.
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Creepy read. Looks like fascist tendancies emerge when cultures experience a crisis. Growth ends, and societies turn inwards and eat themselves.
If Israel loses blanket US support, it will have to get serious about peace.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Zohran Mamdani is re-writing the political rules around support for Israel | Kenneth Roth
If support for Israel is no longer de rigueur in New York, it may soon not be obligatory in Washington. That is good news for Palestinians
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
If Israel loses blanket US support, it will have to get serious about peace.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Religiously inspired authoritarian nationalism is a global phenomenon.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The long read: Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Religiously inspired authoritarian nationalism is a global phenomenon.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
How can it be a crime to attack Nazis?
Nazis want to organise mass murder. They need to be stopped.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Nazis want to organise mass murder. They need to be stopped.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Seven alleged members of German far-left group go on trial over attacks
Militant group Antifa Ost said to be behind assaults on rightwing extremists in Germany and Hungary
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
How can it be a crime to attack Nazis?
Nazis want to organise mass murder. They need to be stopped.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Nazis want to organise mass murder. They need to be stopped.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...