TICKER TAPE, TICKER TAPE: On a Sunday, within the peripheral vision of Britain’s lost heroes, there were riots, racism and arrests …
TICKER TAPE, TICKER TAPE: More children have died in Gaza in three weeks than have died in wars across the world in the last five years …
TICKER TAPE, TICKER TAPE: The UN reveals up to 2000 children have been obliterated in the ‘forgotten’ Ukraine war…
Don’t worry though, death on the telly is like a night bus going by, ringin’ them bells, flashing them lights… and anyway, not to worry, Coronation Street will be along next, then Judge Judy.
And The Simpsons!
TICKER TAPE, TICKER TAPE: The family pic above was taken on a
Friday afternoon by dad Ahmed al-Naouq.
Now, most of the children in it are dead.
An air strike on their home a month ago killed 21 of Ahmed’s family including his father, three sisters, two brothers and 14 of their children.
Like many Palestinians, Ahmed’s brothers had built their family homes above their father’s – a tradition which means generations are being wiped out in one fell swoop.
Do you know, Elvis shot the telly out and was treated like a madman in a skinny, pot-bellied jump suit … but all these political world leaders, leaders in murder, mutilation and mayhem, they wear grey two-piece suits, symbolically-coloured neckties and shiny shoes… they get someone else to shoot out hospitals and markets and homes… they can’t be madmen too, can they?
DEATH AT THE BUS STOP
