Dutch's family & I have been thinking about how best to honour his memory. Justadutchguy regularly drove convoys to Ukraine, delivering ambulances & medical supplies to 🇺🇦. So, in conjunction with "Sails of Freedom" we are going to try & get an ambulance.

People in temporarily occupied Oleshky are starving. There is almost nothing left to eat. Reports indicate that civilians are being forced to survive on grass and weeds, while medicines, clean water, electricity, and medical care are increasingly out of reach. Children are trapped in these conditions too. This suffering has a clear cause and a clear perpetrator. Russia has brought this catastrophe to Oleshky through its illegal occupation and bears full responsibility for this humanitarian disaster, all of its consequences, and the innocent civilian lives lost as a result. The international community must mobilize every available instrument to reach people in Oleshky, deliver humanitarian assistance, and ensure the safe evacuation of those who want to leave. The @UN, the @ICRC, and other international actors must use their mandates and channels to secure immediate and unhindered humanitarian access. I appreciate @CommissionerHR Michael O’Flaherty for drawing international attention to the situation in Oleshky. Now this attention must be followed by action. People there cannot survive on statements of concern. Humanitarian access and safe evacuation must become a reality, because every day matters.

Very organic...

🚨 Brexit has been an “unmitigated disaster” and an act of economic and political self-harm, says @richardbranson Tony Blair now says Britain should commit to rejoining the EU within a decade. But why sacrifice another decade? @andyburnham must abandon Labour’s anti-growth red lines and establish a clear route back into Europe, starting immediately with the single market. We swapped an F1 car for a hatchback, drove it into a ditch and spent ten years insisting the ditch represented sovereignty. It is time to get out.