Reports that “senior officials with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign” (PSC) were at an Israel lobby event on 28 September have shocked anti-genocide campaigners. PSC: WTF!? The “opaquely funded” lobby group Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) held an event at the Labour conference on Sunday. T...
According to a Unite whistleblower, the union’s general secretary Sharon Graham or her management team created a cushy, fake, ‘ghost’ job to incentivise a worker not to stand for election to the union’s executive council against a Graham ally. Sharon Graham: what now? The Heathrow airport ...
The battle between industrial polluters and public health advocates has intensified in recent years. As communities near manufacturing plants report higher rates of respiratory illness and contaminated water sources, the need for accurate environmental monitoring has become increasingly ur...
On 28 September, Keir Starmer described Reform’s policy on indefinite leave as “racist” in an interview with Laura Kuenssberg. For purely political reasons, it’s smart for Starmer to attack this policy, because it’s demonstrably unpopular with the public. It already looks like Labour are g...
Ahead of her speech at the Labour Party conference today, chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves announced the ‘youth guarantee’ – that she will guarantee paid work to under-21-year-olds – but of course, this is Labour, so it’s never as it seems. Tackling youth unemployment is good, but...
Youth campaigners from Green New Deal Rising set up a mock budget briefcase scene outside the Labour Party conference on Monday 29 September. It featured a figure dressed as Rachel Reeves, standing between two red budget boxes, one reading “billionaire’s budget”, the other “people’s budget...
The British government’s new Big Brother simulator, cunningly disguised as a digital ID scheme, has been roundly panned by parties across the North of Ireland. In a rare display of unity, politicians from across the ideological spectrum variously condemned the plans as “excessive and ill-c...
Abdullah and Nibal Al-Madahinah. The Jordanian army has shot dead Abdullah and Nibal Al-Madahinah, two Jordanian farmers and former soldiers, in the northern Jordan valley – home to some of Jordan’s poorest people. Their ‘crime’ was to enter a secret “buffer zone”, on their land, created t...
Keir Starmer’s war on anti-genocide protest and free speech continued on Sunday 28 September with the arrest of more than a hundred peaceful protesters outside Labour’s waterfront party conference venue. Cops arresting pensioners at the Labour conference The Starmer regime continues to mis...
It’s week one on Strictly Come Dancing! This might be confusing because the show started last week, but that was the launch show, and this is the show proper. However, you won’t be able to vote this week: that’s next week, so that will technically be the first proper week, but don’t think ...
