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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.

The Labour MPs determined to show they represent Israel, not the British people

Labour wants the repression of Palestine Action to serve as a blueprint for politics. Why not lock up opposition party leaders and any constituents who protest government policy?

Legal profession revolt against the UK judge whose job is to protect Israel’s genocide

Judge Johnson so rigged the trial of anti-genocide activists that 1000s of legal professionals have urged him to step down from the sentencing hearing. But Johnson’s dirty work is not yet complete.

Like Midas, our rulers want to monetise everything they touch – and kill it

War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires cannot secure their profits without war, or the threat of it – whether against workers at home or against other nations abroad.

UK policing culture – from the Nowak murder to crushing protest – grows ever more rotten

The goal of the Israel lobby has been to loosen evidence thresholds, constrain critical thinking, and redefine racism and criminality. The effects have bled into dangerous new policing norms.

Western leaders play their part in our charade democracies. Can you spot the tell?

The super-rich and their vassals are deeply invested in the system because it richly rewards them. They’ll deploy everything they can – from the media to the ‘security’ forces – to prevent change.

The real story tying Starmer and Mandelson is being buried by a conspiracy of silence

The system is rigged – and the political and media class rigging it are not about to draw our attention to the ugly reality of what they have been up to over the past decade.

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