Forensic Architecture, Earshot

Alex Thomson once again shows that he is the best in the business. The official Israeli account of the bombing of the Al-Ahli Arabi Hospital is execrable, and so is anyone who peddles it.

Channel 4 News also covered the attack on the Church of Saint Porphyrius, which no one else will, since Israel does not even bother to deny it, and therefore frankly cannot see the problem with it.

On Gaza as on Ukraine, we are witnessing a split between a tiny "international community" that agrees with the United States, and the huge global majority that does not, but which is either ignored completely or dismissed as fuzzy-wuzzies.

Israel has not hitherto between part of "the international community" on Ukraine, but presumably it has now joined the American military colonies of Japan and South Korea as only the third such predominantly non-white country in the world.

As last weekend's demonstrations showed and as this weekend's demonstrations will show again, on this as on a wide range of issues, it is most national politicians and the entire official media that comprise an extremist minority that refuses to integrate, wildly out of line with mainstream opinion, and so insular that it does not even realise.

But when I tell you that there is going to be a hung Parliament, then you can take that to the bank. I spent the 2005 Parliament saying that it was psephologically impossible for the Heir to Blair's Conservative Party to win an overall majority. I predicted a hung Parliament on the day that the 2017 General Election was called, and I stuck to that, entirely alone, all the way up to the publication of the exit poll eight long weeks later. And on the day that Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister (as well as five days earlier, according to my Facebook Memories today), I predicted that a General Election between him and Keir Starmer would result in a hung Parliament.

To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.