With the onset of winter, thousands of families in the Gaza Strip find themselves facing a tragedy that worsens day by day: dilapidated tents that leak rainwater, or destroyed, cracked houses that could collapse on their inhabitants at any moment. Between these two harsh choices, the circl...
I checked Labour’s 2024 general election manifesto on immigration. “We have a proud tradition of welcoming people fleeing persecution and abuse,” it says. Perhaps there was a mix-up at the printers, because they forgot to say, “Within the first year of the Parliament, we will make a speec...
I covered the Leeds ‘Lift the Ban’ protest on 18 November. And it was a highly disturbing event I’ll never forget – not least because of the conduct of the cops. The surreal event – marked by actions of the cops Anyone witnessing the quiet civility of the people holding up signs saying “I ...
Labour have announced plans to freeze rail fares until 2027, which will be the first time this has happened in 30 years. While a freeze is most definitely better than a rise, UK fares are two-and-a-half times higher than the EU average. This means we’d have to freeze rail fares for many ye...
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, as of November 22, Israel has committed 497 violations of the ‘ceasefire’ agreement, since it came into effect on October 11. Israel has killed 342 Palestinians and injured 875 since the ‘ceasefire’ agreement These ongoing violations have led to...
In London this evening, anti-Zionist Jews will gather in peaceful protest against an event arranged in a local synagogue aiming to recruit British Jews to leave the UK and move to the genocidal apartheid colony of Israel. The demo begins at 5pm outside St John’s Wood United Synagogue, 37-4...
On Sunday 22 November, the anti-migrant Pink Ladies group met in Chelmsford. On their website, the Pink Ladies note they’re ‘partnered’ with the Womens Safety Initiative. Strange, then, that some of them would pose with ex-Reform MP James McMurdock, who was infamously convicted of assaulti...
Israel has launched a deadly airstrike deep inside Beirut’s southern suburb, killing at least one person and injuring 21, in what Lebanese officials and observers are calling a massive escalation — and a blatant violation of the already-shredded ceasefire agreement: Yet another violation a...
Despite the documented violations and genocide committed by the Israeli occupation over two years in Gaza and the differences between this and Russia’s war on Ukraine, the most pressing question in sporting and legal circles remains: Why did FIFA rush to suspend Russia’s participation in i...
In May 1989, I sustained serious spinal cord injuries in a suicide attempt. When I was finally discharged, I went home to my mum, dad and brother. But soon my brother left home to go to university. Then, just after celebrating his birthday, my dad died suddenly, at the age of 50. That left...
