In September this year, Peter Mandelon resigned in disgrace over his links to Jeffrey Epstein. Now, it’s come out that Mandelson was still in contact with Epstein in 2016, which was eight years after Epstein plead guilty to soliciting a minor: Mandelson still in contact with Epstein in 201...
Today, 13 November, the UK is hosting a former Al-Nusra commander at an elite London thinktank. Asaad al-Shaibani is now Syria’s foreign minister, having previously led Al-Nusra, a splinter group of Al Qaeda. Co-director of Declassified UK, Mark Curtis, had strong objections: Speaking toda...
Sex workers in Scotland are taking to Scottish Parliament to protest against a bill which they say would threaten their safety. MSP Ash Regan is currently championing the Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill. This bill would make it illegal to pay for sex in Scotland and clo...
Nigel Farage has made no secret of how much he admires Donald Trump. This is becoming a problem for Farage, however, as Trump himself does keep secrets, as he wrote to his friend Jeffrey Epstein in 2003: may every day be another wonderful secret. We’re once again discussing Trump’s connect...
As COP30 Brazil now begins in Belém, the world once again gathers to promise salvation — a solution to the climate crisis. Global leaders fly in and meet under the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, pledging ambition, justice and preservation. Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sta...
As winter creeps into Gaza with its cold arrival, thousands of displaced people are enduring new chapters of suffering inside tattered tents that offer no protection from the wind or rain. After a long summer whose heat almost melted them, they now face the rainy season exposed, without co...
In Gaza, the war didn’t end when the bombs stopped. After the smoke from the explosions subsided, another kind of death began to creep in silently: death by starvation and disease. Children are no longer just victims of bombs, but victims of a deliberate deprivation of the most basic neces...
The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), which is named after a five-year-old girl murdered along with her family by an Israeli tank in Gaza and which pursues justice against Israeli perpetrators, says it has struck a triple blow this month. The targets: Israel’s habitual impunity and Europe’s col...
Riyasa, a young southern Lebanese girl living in Beit Leif — a small town near the border with Israel — says her life has completely changed since the last war between both sides. Her usual strolls near the forest have become more of a risk than a leisure activity, not because of wild anim...
Health secretary Wes Streeting has told NHS bosses to begin the next phase of Labour’s plan for the integration of NHS England with the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC). The government is claiming that, by the end of parliament, the NHS cuts from “unnecessary bureaucracy” will ...
