News about Alan Rusbridger

Posting 'from the river to the sea' on Facebook does not always glorify Hamas and should be allowed to remain online, the social media giant has ruled. Facebook's oversight board, which includes the former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, said the slogan should not be 'automatically removed' by Meta's moderators. The slogan is highly controversial with critics claiming it is antisemitic because it implies the destruction of the state of Israel.' From the river to the sea' has been adopted by the Hamas terror group and is used in the group's official charter. But the panel said the phrase should not necessarily be understood as harmful, violent or discriminatory. (Pictured left, a stock image of Facebook, right, protesters next to Green Park, London.)

According to polls, in a few months' time, Opposition Leader Sir Keir Starmer will face him in digs much more salubrious than his first London flat above a massage parlour. Sir Keir's life became more accessible and more liberal as he stepped up-sized across his beloved north London over the years. We take a look at the property moves Sir Keir has made in his lifetime from a bungalow in Woodchurch Kent to a four-bed terrace in Kentish Town.

HARDCASTLE (EPHRAIM): Recovering Kate, who was unable to attend a Guinness toast on St Patrick's Day, ensured her favorite troops were well stocked at her expense on St Patrick's Day. She poured £2,000 behind the regimental bar at Aldershot for a party after the traditional parade, to their delight. According to my bacus, the thirsty troopers were treated to at least 700 pints of the black stuff at no cost. And did she specify that regimental mascot Seamus, the Irish wolfhound, should be treated to a jumbo bone?

MEMBER: SIM CASE & Sir Richard Moore, our most senior civil servant, and MI6's Chief Richard Moore, who resigned in reaction to the unveiling of the Garrick Club's membership list, is bizarre and troubling. These two guys are supposed to be both governing the country and shielding it from hostile foreign powers. But, at the first sign of incoming criticism from a Left-wing newspaper, the Guardian, who chastised them for being banned from attending a club that excludes women supporters, they resigned and apologised sincerely for the appalling offence of enjoying the occasional lunch or drink in a single-sex private club's convivial atmosphere.

With his reporting of the Vietnam War, the photographer, 88, became a household name in the 1960s. He also documented conflicts in Cyprus, Biafra, Iraq, Cambodia, and Lebanon. Sir Don's latest book, Life, Death, and Everything in Between, appeared on Prospect Magazine's Media Confidential podcast, saying that the traumatic experience of what he has seen "comes back with a lot of courage and prevents me from sleeping." He referred to it as a 'poison' that is 'in my blood,' and it will not go away.' The photojournalist said he found solace in the Somerset countryside where he now lives, as he wrote 'was a medicine that cured me.' Young workers are seen in Kolkata, India, 1997, early in the morning, delivering new furniture; US Marines are seen removing an injured comrade during the Battle of Hu in the Vietnam War in 1968.

GUY ADAMS: A very special guest shambled his way into the Guardian newspaper's morning editorial conference and sat down next to editor Alan Rusbridger on a stunning yellow designer sofa. The Hollywood star, who was wearing a grubby white vest, a scarf adorned in crosses, and a purple beanie hat all blurted into cups of Fairtrade coffee, expressing a variety of largely Left-leaning viewpoints on the day's most popular news. Russell Brand, who recently divorced from US pop star Katy Perry, was it. After five years in Los Angeles, the comedian, actor, and best-selling author was back in the United Kingdom, aiming to begin a new career in the current affairs industry.

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has branded the initiative to combat unlawful immigration as immoral, but it falls short of offering a positive alternative, prompting the government to do more to assist Ukrainian refugees last year. Despite grand quarters at Lambeth Palace and his Canterbury Old Palace, there is no sign of Justin giving up a room or two for homeless Ukrainians. During the 2016 Syrian refugee crisis, he did house a Syrian family in a'spare' four-bedroom cottage in Lambeth, but two years later, they were forced to move forward. Life in Lambeth was not'suitable' for a refugee family, according to an episcopal mouthpiece, whatever that means.

On Tuesday, a young man who wanted to remain anonymous was interviewed on BBC's World at One. 'What's your first name?' Sarah Montague, the host, asked him. In a bouncing 'Ali G' accent, he replied, "I'd rather not reveal that." He was identified simply as Chinx (OS), the persona he used to make drill rap music, a genre that has been largely blamed for fuelling and glamorizing bloody turf wars between rival 'postcode' factions. The OS stands for "one side" or one team of a group of rappers from Camden, North London, of which Chinx is a member. He had appeared on Radio 4 to defend his inflammatory video, which had been first posted on Instagram in January but later deleted at the Met Police's request because the clip could'contribute to offline harm' and could result in "retaliatory violence."

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Five years after her flirtatious encounter with Donald Trump's communications chief Anthony Scaramucci - he was dismissed after ten days - Emily Maitlis is reunited with 'The Mooch', who playfully asks on her podcast: 'Am I able to tell people I lost my job because of you? Because you're so popular now, I'm telling people that I lost my career as a result of Emily Maitlis' absence.' Flattery will get you everywhere, Mooch!