Mark Lankester
@markrlankester.bsky.social
Comms at Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders | Writer of things | Pizza-powered marathon runner | Cat apologist | Views mine
Labour's asylum plans are a victory for the far right only. That progressive soul of the party... it's cooked.
"I know there are a lot of MPs who are deeply uncomfortable at the idea of frisking people at the border to see if we can remove their jewellery," says Stella Creasy.
"That's not the way we want to manage somebody who is a victim of torture"
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"That's not the way we want to manage somebody who is a victim of torture"
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Labour’s new immigration plan 'not progressive, or practical', says Stella Creasy | The News Agents
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced tough new measures to deter asylum seekers from attempting to enter the UK. Will her methods be enough, or is this simply an attempt to win back support…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Labour's asylum plans are a victory for the far right only. That progressive soul of the party... it's cooked.
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This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour
"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
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Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
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Refugees from 7 decades gather to commemorate 70 years of refugee in protection in the UK
YouTube video by Refugee Council
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November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour
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The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
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There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
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Malnutrition is devastating people right across Sudan. More must be done to end this crisis:
🔴 Unimpeded and safe access for humanitarians
🔴 Increased funding to respond
🔴 Unimpeded and safe access for humanitarians
🔴 Increased funding to respond
People face extreme malnutrition in Sudan crisis | MSF
Our teams in Sudan are seeing high rates of malnutrition, including among people who have fled atrocities in El Fasher.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Malnutrition is devastating people right across Sudan. More must be done to end this crisis:
🔴 Unimpeded and safe access for humanitarians
🔴 Increased funding to respond
🔴 Unimpeded and safe access for humanitarians
🔴 Increased funding to respond
“[Major tipping points] all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity" - Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics
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November 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“[Major tipping points] all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity" - Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics
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António Guterres: "To turn this ceasefire into real progress, we need more than the silencing of the guns”.
Gaza needs safe access for humanitarian staff, the rapid upscaling of aid, the removal of bureaucracy, and critical funding.
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Gaza needs safe access for humanitarian staff, the rapid upscaling of aid, the removal of bureaucracy, and critical funding.
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Hamas and Israel prepare to implement ceasefire as Netanyahu says deal approved by government
Israel’s government ratified the ceasefire and hostage deal on Friday, clearing the way to suspend hostilities in Gaza within 24 hours
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October 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
António Guterres: "To turn this ceasefire into real progress, we need more than the silencing of the guns”.
Gaza needs safe access for humanitarian staff, the rapid upscaling of aid, the removal of bureaucracy, and critical funding.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Gaza needs safe access for humanitarian staff, the rapid upscaling of aid, the removal of bureaucracy, and critical funding.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
MSF secretary general Chris Lockyear on how governments around the world - through political, military, or material support - are complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Gaza: Doctors can't stop genocide, world leaders can
What is happening in Gaza is not just a humanitarian catastrophe, it is the systematic destruction of a people
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September 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
MSF secretary general Chris Lockyear on how governments around the world - through political, military, or material support - are complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza
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msf.org.uk/article/gaza...
To count as genocide, the 1948 UN Genocide Convention says that at least one of five acts must have occurred.
Now, a UN commission has found that Israel has committed four of them
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Now, a UN commission has found that Israel has committed four of them
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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, concludes UN commission of inquiry - latest updates
Finding comes as Israel’s defence minister says ‘Gaza is burning’ amid escalation in bombardment
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September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
To count as genocide, the 1948 UN Genocide Convention says that at least one of five acts must have occurred.
Now, a UN commission has found that Israel has committed four of them
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Now, a UN commission has found that Israel has committed four of them
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At least 192 Palestinian journalists have now been killed covering genocide in Gaza
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Four journalists among 15 dead in Israeli strike on hospital, Gaza officials say
The strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis are said to have killed journalists working for international media.
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August 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
At least 192 Palestinian journalists have now been killed covering genocide in Gaza
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"Designed to control independent organisations, silence advocacy and censor humanitarian reporting," say MSF and other NGOs
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Aid groups say Israel’s new registration rules are ‘weaponising aid’
Lifesaving goods for starved people in Gaza blocked by vague rules on anti-Israeli activity, say humanitarian bodies
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August 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"Designed to control independent organisations, silence advocacy and censor humanitarian reporting," say MSF and other NGOs
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"Israel is running two Gaza campaigns: one for military control of the strip; another for narrative control of how the world understands what happens there"
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Palestinian reporters killed, international reporters banned – Israel’s other Gaza war is over narrative
Members of press and influencers covering devastation are being silenced despite protection under international law
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August 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
"Israel is running two Gaza campaigns: one for military control of the strip; another for narrative control of how the world understands what happens there"
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Institutionalised starvation and dehumanisation
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Gaza aid distribution declared ‘orchestrated killing’ by MSF
Medical relief agency has treated more than 1,300 patients for wounds sustained near notorious GHF aid sites in Gaza.
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August 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Institutionalised starvation and dehumanisation
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“Those who go to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's food distributions know that they have the same chance of receiving a sack of flour as they do of leaving with a bullet in their head.” - Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, MSF deputy medical coordinator in Gaza
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Gaza: MSF finds 1 in 4 young children and pregnant women malnourished
Israel's use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, as patients and healthcare workers themselves struggle to survive
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July 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
“Those who go to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's food distributions know that they have the same chance of receiving a sack of flour as they do of leaving with a bullet in their head.” - Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, MSF deputy medical coordinator in Gaza
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"Our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away": the message from more than 100 aid agencies including MSF
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Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live
More than 100 aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam, say ‘our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away’
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July 23, 2025 at 6:58 AM
"Our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away": the message from more than 100 aid agencies including MSF
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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@who.int staff residence in Deir al Balah was attacked 3 times today as well as its main warehouse
2 WHO staff & 2 family members were detained. 3 were later released, while one staff remains in detention.
WHO demands the immediate release of the detained staff & protection of all its staff. #Gaza
2 WHO staff & 2 family members were detained. 3 were later released, while one staff remains in detention.
WHO demands the immediate release of the detained staff & protection of all its staff. #Gaza
July 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"MSF has a responsibility to act with moral clarity and humanitarian consistency in the face of mass atrocities. The same should apply to the UK government."
Our op-ed on Gaza by @docnat.bsky.social, in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our op-ed on Gaza by @docnat.bsky.social, in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts
Britain has a duty to act morally, and stop supporting this genocide, says Médecins Sans Frontières UK executive director Dr Natalie Roberts
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July 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"MSF has a responsibility to act with moral clarity and humanitarian consistency in the face of mass atrocities. The same should apply to the UK government."
Our op-ed on Gaza by @docnat.bsky.social, in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our op-ed on Gaza by @docnat.bsky.social, in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A message to the UK Government: MSF is witnessing a genocide in Gaza. And you are complicit.
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July 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
A message to the UK Government: MSF is witnessing a genocide in Gaza. And you are complicit.
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MSF: "The Israeli authorities’ decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving"
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Israel-Gaza war live: one-week-old baby amongst 45 people killed in Gaza strikes as UN warns aid still being blocked
Aid group says deliveries are just ‘a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over’
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May 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
MSF: "The Israeli authorities’ decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving"
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"We are witnessing, in real time, the creation of conditions for the eradication of Palestinian lives in Gaza"
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Siege of Gaza: MSF denounces deliberate humanitarian catastrophe
We are witnessing the creation of conditions for the eradication of Palestinian lives
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May 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"We are witnessing, in real time, the creation of conditions for the eradication of Palestinian lives in Gaza"
msf.org.uk/article/sieg...
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MSF UK calls on the Prime Minister to uphold the UK's obligations as a UN Security Council member, act under International Humanitarian Law to protect all civilians in Gaza, and publicly condemn the Israeli government for the atrocities it is inflicting.
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Gaza: MSF calls on UK government to take action on the humanitarian catastrophe
The UK must uphold its UN obligations to protect civilians in Gaza, and publicly condemn the Israeli government
msf.org.uk
May 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
MSF UK calls on the Prime Minister to uphold the UK's obligations as a UN Security Council member, act under International Humanitarian Law to protect all civilians in Gaza, and publicly condemn the Israeli government for the atrocities it is inflicting.
msf.org.uk/article/gaza...
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Data visualisation from MSF. This interactive feature compiles information and testimonies collected by our teams between October 2023 and February 2025 during the all-out war waged by the Israeli army against the people of Gaza
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Gaza, inside the war
🔴 Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders documents 15 months of all-out war waged by the Israeli army against the Palestinians of #Gaza through information and testimonies collected by its t...
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May 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Data visualisation from MSF. This interactive feature compiles information and testimonies collected by our teams between October 2023 and February 2025 during the all-out war waged by the Israeli army against the people of Gaza
gazainsidethewar.com/en
gazainsidethewar.com/en
An MSF hospital in South Sudan - the only hospital treating a region of more than 110,000 people - has been bombed.
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Seven killed in South Sudan hospital and market bombing, charity says
Doctors without Borders (MSF) said its hospital was attacked as fears grow of a return to civil war in South Sudan.
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May 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
An MSF hospital in South Sudan - the only hospital treating a region of more than 110,000 people - has been bombed.
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Two years ago, MSF doctor Javid Abdelmoneim received a cryptic message from his cousin in Khartoum that said "Your dad is safe". But safe from what?
In the latest episode of Everyday Emergency, Javid shares his deeply personal experience of returning to Sudan on assignment.
In the latest episode of Everyday Emergency, Javid shares his deeply personal experience of returning to Sudan on assignment.
The Debrief: Dr Javid Abdelmoneim on the crisis in Sudan
An experienced MSF medic shares his deeply personal story on the second anniversary of the conflict
msf.org.uk
April 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Two years ago, MSF doctor Javid Abdelmoneim received a cryptic message from his cousin in Khartoum that said "Your dad is safe". But safe from what?
In the latest episode of Everyday Emergency, Javid shares his deeply personal experience of returning to Sudan on assignment.
In the latest episode of Everyday Emergency, Javid shares his deeply personal experience of returning to Sudan on assignment.
"The consequences for Sudan’s 51 million people have been devastating. Tens of thousands are reportedly dead. Hundreds of thousands face famine. Almost 13 million people have been displaced."
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Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war
NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger, famine and attacks on refugee camps
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April 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
"The consequences for Sudan’s 51 million people have been devastating. Tens of thousands are reportedly dead. Hundreds of thousands face famine. Almost 13 million people have been displaced."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
“We cannot go back to repeated attacks on healthcare facilities when the health system in Gaza is already hanging by a thread, and no supplies have entered in weeks."
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Gaza: MSF condemns Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital
“We cannot go back to repeated attacks on healthcare," says MSF Head of Emergencies in Gaza
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March 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“We cannot go back to repeated attacks on healthcare facilities when the health system in Gaza is already hanging by a thread, and no supplies have entered in weeks."
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