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Worried about Russian meddling in UK politics? Wait till you see what Israel is up to

Andy Burnham’s government is rolling out a new “Centre for Information Defence”. But the outside actors most aggressively undermining what little remains of British democracy are nowhere in its sights.

No state has a ‘right’ to exist – least of all an apartheid, genocidal state like Israel

After the Greens passed a motion declaring ‘Zionism is racism’, every establishment journalist is suddenly playing dumb about the most elementary of issues in international law.

How the BBC sets a trap to make sure leftwing politicians never get a fair hearing

There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale.

Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows the idea of a ‘free press’ out of the water

When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state.

Ed Sheeran does provide a ‘safe space’ – for the billionaires who own him

Sheeran’s ‘political neutrality’ is a cover story – hiding an implicit deal. He’s allowed to grow rich, on condition he denies a platform to anyone trying to hold the billionaire class to account.

The media can make us believe anything they want – even that Charles loved Diana

Why do billionaires buy up newspapers? Because by owning everything – and most especially the media – they can mould our minds into believing it would be a catastrophe if they did not own everything.

Ed Sheeran just learnt: Being pimped by the billionaires for genocide is a bad look

We must keep prising the fingers of the billionaire class off our throats until it is only the discredited, and morally bankrupt, who refuse to speak loudly in opposition to genocide.

Super-intelligent AI won’t kill us. Dumb billionaires are doing that all by themselves

The super-rich have already screwed up the planet in their pursuit of power and profit. AI simply gives them a new tool to hasten their story – and ours – to its dramatic finale.

It is chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis making British Jews less safe, not Ed Miliband

Mirvis confirms the antisemites’ worst assumptions when he keeps confusing Jews with Israel and using his influence to protect Israel from ever being held accountable for its crimes.

BBC asks: ‘What will you tell your grandkids about the summer of ’26?’ How much I miss it

The BBC suggests 2026 will replace 1976 as the ‘benchmark’ for a hot summer. It could not be more wrong. We will look back on this year’s succession of heatwaves with unbearable nostalgia.

The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents

The UK isn’t a dispassionate arbiter of justice in prosecuting anti-genocide activists. It has been aggressively colluding in Israeli crimes. That huge conflict of interest is the elephant in the room,

Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Her successors will be the same

Governments knew what was coming. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever.

A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can’t imagine life without capitalism

Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us. It’s time to find value in something more than a new iPhone or pair of jeans.

With Karim Khan’s dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete

Millions of people around the globe will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan’s accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court.

The West won’t punish the settlements. Its two-state solution was always a sham

For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel’s illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace.

Burnham’s contrition on Gaza is hollow. Watch what he actually does in power

Here is a list of the things Britain’s incoming prime minister is obligated to do to avoid collusion in Israel’s genocide, according to an International Court of Justice ruling. Will he do any of it?

Israel is an apartheid state – and its weird marriage laws show us how

Israel is the only country in the world that does not recognise its own nationality. Why? Because a common national identity would sabotage Israel’s carefully veiled system of segregation.

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