I don’t think there’s a more Geordie experience than getting on a flight from Newcastle with Ant or Dec. (It’s Dec).

Centrists need to stop hand-wringing over language, rhetoric and “nuance”. There is nothing nuanced about 1.5m people being kettled into a tiny space on the verge of being obliterated. Most are children. We’re set to witness slaughter on an unimaginable scale.

In the most predictable of moves Israel shut down Al Jazeera so images of its massacres in Rafah can go unseen. Please amplify every Palestinian account over the next few hours and don’t give up on them.

I pass Zadie Smith every morning on the school run and will now wear my watermelon sweatshirt and my keffiyeh and carry a picture of Refaat Al Areer and tell her “it’s complicated”.

Those who voted down the resolution at the Society of Authors last night took assistance from this group. This should worry every author who still has membership.