This week, we got an idea of how Reform would govern if they got in power. Not by following through on their promises, but by going along with whatever nonsense comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth: When asked whether Trump was right about the link between Paracetamol and autism, Nigel Farage...
On Tuesday 23 September, United Nations (UN) experts called on FIFA and UEFA to suspend Israel’s participation in international competitions due to the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. The experts said in a statement that international sports bodies should not ignore gross human rights ...
Newly leaked documents obtained by US journalist Ken Klippenstein has exposed the pro-Israel talking-points script the Trump regime ordered US diplomats to use at the this week’s UN Security Council briefing on the West Asia. Trump regime: keep to the pro-genocide script Diplomats were ord...
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced that a Spanish warship will set sail tomorrow to accompany the Global Sumud Flotilla of volunteer-crewed humanitarian vessels as they sail to Gaza to try to break Israel’s illegal starvation blockade: The Spanish government demands full re...
A Belfast judge has ruled that statements made by other soldiers at the time are admissible as evidence in the trial of ‘Soldier F’ – to the horror of justice campaigners the only soldier to stand trial over the state murder in Northern Ireland of fourteen people on ‘Bloody Sunday’, 1972, ...
A powerful new video produced in partnership between suicide prevention charity Samaritans and Premier League football team Brighton & Hove Albion has highlighted the difficulties many have speaking out about their own mental health issues. Samaritans and Brighton & Hove Albion: #T...
In October 2023, Manaus vanished behind a suffocating wall of smoke. The capital of Amazonas woke up to one of the worst air pollution crises the Amazon has ever seen. The sky turned the colour of ash, more like a dystopian film set than the world’s largest tropical forest. The air grew so...
The far right has a new favourite prop: the Christian cross. From marches to online propaganda, extremists are parading religious symbols alongside Union Jacks and chants of “Christ is King.” This isn’t about faith. It’s about using religion as a weapon to give racism and nationalism a fal...
In a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September, Colombian president Gustavo Petro not only accused Trump of being “an accomplice to genocide”, and the UN forum “a mute witness to a genocide”, but also proposed the creation of an armed United Nations peacekeeping force t...
The Liberal Democrats’ Autumn conference ended just yesterday, 23 September. Apparently, this has temporarily reminded the big-brain political commentators that the Lib Dems exist. Not that that meant a break in the BBC’s breathless coverage of Reform, but still. Lib Dems: a party, still B...
