The Green Party has voted to put forward a motion entitled “Abolish Landlords” at its conference in Bournemouth. The policy moves towards ending landlordism through taking legal steps to reduce the number of private landlords and increase the amount of social housing. The problem with stat...
The BBC has just run scared from Green Party leader Zack Polanski’s truth-telling. Despite interviewing other major party leaders around the time of their conferences, Laura Kuenssberg refused to do the same with Polanski. And the Green leader has suggested this is because of his strong an...
Surya McEwen is an Australian volunteer among the almost five hundred humanitarians kidnapped by Israel as they tried to break Israel’s criminal starvation blockade on Gaza with baby food and other essentials. While the world’s attention has been on Israel’s violence and ritual humiliation...
In a scene reminiscent of the events of the Freedom Flotilla in 2010, a number of international journalists and activists participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla have recounted details of what they described as “violations and humiliating treatment” Israeli forces subjected them to afte...
For months now, Israel has banned fisherman on the Gaza coast – like the rest of the Palestinian people there – from going onto the water, under pain of death. Many have been murdered as they desperately tried to catch food for their families and neighbours. But as the Global Sumud Flotill...
The supposedly skeletal Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) this weekend chose to devote its scant resources to travelling to London, where they then proceeded to bundle peaceful pensioners into the back of police vans. Their crime? Opposing genocide by highlighting their support for...
Shurat HaDin, an Israeli advocacy group whose founder has admitted that it works closely with Mossad and other intelligence services, has warned – some would say threatened – a ‘wave of terror attacks’ targeting European Jews. Worryingly, the group has a history of ‘false flag’ incidents f...
Many people in the UK live with varicose veins without realising it. Symptoms such as aching legs, itchiness, swelling, or restless sensations are often overlooked or dismissed as fatigue. But these signs could point to underlying vein disease that worsens over time if not addressed. Varic...
An Islamophobic attack on four children outside a well-known Liverpool mosque seems to have been ignored by the UK’s ‘mainstream’ media. A statement from the Abdullah Quilliam Mosque, the first mosque established in England, describes the attack and an aftermath that has left parents force...
Brighton and Hove Albion FC has banned fan Roger Wade for five years – for wearing a Palestine shirt. Brighton FC: come on – seriously? Initially the club gave Wade a five-game ban in August for “failing to comply with stewards’ requests,” with no detail given beyond his “behaviour outside...
