On 18 September, the Newham Independents took another Council seat from Labour: We are proud to announce that MD Nazrul Islam is the newest Newham Independent Councillor on Newham Council. It was a stunning victory. Newham Independents 913 votesLabour 436 votes We will continue to build on...
The most powerful and influential people in the UK remain five times more likely to have been privately educated than the general population. Members of this leadership elite are also twice as likely to go to university, over five times more likely to have gone to a Russell Group universit...
Within the last few minutes, independent MP and Your Party co-founder Zarah Sultana has issued a statement about the row that erupted last week in the nascent party about the issuance of a link for people to join as members. It has been described as a ‘reconciliation statement’ and in it s...
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has released a briefing following extensive legal visits to several Israeli prisons, exposing a grim and escalating reality for Palestinian political prisoners. Lawyers who visited Naqab, Megiddo, Ramla, Ofer, Shatta, Gilboa, and Damon prisons documented ...
On 18 September, a rift between Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn resulted in “chaos” for Your Party. On 19 September, a group calling itself ‘Our Party’ materialised with a proposal to temporarily manage the fledgling political organisation. One criticism was that it...
So Keir Starmer has announced the UK’s recognition – along with that of Canada and Australia – of the Palestinian state. A Palestinian state: no change over genocide The recognition of the Palestinian state means Britain joins the vast majority – more than three quarters of UN member state...
The Palestinian people needed nothing more than the Balfour Declaration to know that Britain had laid the foundation for their century-long tragedy. The declaration, issued in 1917, opened the door to the Zionist project and later led to the establishment of the State of Israel on the ruin...
On 21 September, the United Kingdom of Great Britain formally recognised the state of Palestine. The UK followed Canada and Australia, with the former being the first G7 nation to recognise Palestinian statehood. Following this, “over 150 countries” recognise Palestine, including the major...
After PETA approached the University of Kent detailing how animals suffer in cruel and ineffective sepsis experiments, the university has confirmed that it will not use animals in any future sepsis research. The decision marks it as the first UK institution to make this commitment to PETA....
At 78-years-old, Trump was the oldest man to ever be elected US president. On what we’re sure is an unrelated note, he posted what looks like a private message to his Truth Social platform on 20 September: It just keeps getting more insane. Trump apparently tried to send a DM to Pam Bondi ...
