Mark Andrews: Greta spreads the joy in the Middle East, Lammy's futile gesture, and why banning the burka is not very British
Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news
Imagine being one of the displaced people of Gaza. You have been forced to move probably two or three times. Your home has been flattened, you have lost everything you own. Aid supplies are sporadic, to say the least, and there is the constant fear of an air raid.
How much more frightening and miserable can life get?
And then Greta Thunberg turns up with a camera crew in tow....
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On being detained by Israeli forces, Greta and her friends were invited to watch footage of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
She and her friends patiently watched harrowing footage of hundreds of young people detained at gunpoint, many of them killed, and had a lively and thought-provoking debate with the Israeli authorities about whether blasting thousands of innocent civilians out of their homes would effectively redress the........
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