Chris Sidoti, a former human rights commissioner and one of Australia’s most experienced international legal experts, told the National Press Club the Palestinians in Gaza ‘have no means of escape’. ‘The Israeli authorities since the first day have been pursuing an operation of total destruction,’ Sidoti said. ‘And the fact that you’ve got 2 million people squeezed into an area half the size of Canberra who cannot get away from saturation bombing, starvation, denials of medicines and medical equ

The narrative that Britain is a poor country has been peddled for years, says Hugh Muir. But, he argues, the government is using the excuse of poverty to avoid its moral duties, such as funding the NHS or accepting child refugees. There is money in the pot to fund Trident and the royal family, he claims, so it follows that many budget cuts are purely ideological | The Guardian

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