Israel is threatening major violence against Lebanon again. It began its latest campaign with psychological warfare, with its military’s Arabic-language mouthpiece trailing this afternoon on X that an “Urgent Alert to Residents of Southern Lebanon” is “#BREAKING!! #SOON”, without providing...
In a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, actor Tom Hanks told the host: I’m doing a play right now so I cannot get sick… I’ve had COVID enough in my life, I don’t need to do that again. So I’m wearing this for health reasons. In the days before the broadcast,...
In December 2024, Owen Jones wrote an article for Drop Site News titled The BBC’S Civil War Over Gaza. His piece accused the BBC of bias on the issue of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, with a particular focus on editor Raffi Berg. Nearly 12 months later, Berg has launched legal proceedings agai...
Water regulator Ofwat has announced that its new rule for water bosses’ bonuses has blocked £4m in rewards over the last financial year. Ofwat gained the power to impose restrictions on bosses’ bonuses through the Water (Special Measures) Act 2025. The rule was applied for the first time t...
A Sky News ‘investigation’ has found that the algorithm of far-right billionaire Elon Musk’s X social media platform is prioritising sending far-right content to users: No one who is paying attention can be shocked by this ‘revelation’. Musk – as the Sky video notes – spoke via video link ...
Israel continues to use the so-called ‘ceasefire’ – still breached massively every day – to murder Palestinians and steal territory in the West Bank. After attacking Palestinian farmers to prevent the olive harvest, abducting dozens, burning farms and destroying water resources, the coloni...
A UK scholar says she has received death threats over her research into Chinese oppression of Uyghur communities. Sheffield Hallam University China expert professor Katie Murphy told how she and others were put under considerable pressure over their research interests. Murphy initially spo...
The American right have been losing it since the election of Zohran Mamdani. While there’s a lot of disinformation from people claiming to be New York residents who are set to flee the city, it is true that fire chief Robert Tucker is stepping down. The problem for him is that making his e...
One day after Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral election win, Trump appears to be in the middle of a public meltdown. The Democrats also won elections in California, Virginia, and New Jersey. Now, either Trump was trying to distract us from these huge victories, or he was having a little m...
The Sun newspaper has yet again agreed to pay through the nose because of its past reporting. In this instance, they’ve apologised to Christopher Jefferies and paid him “substantial damages”. Despite this happening fairly frequently, Keir Starmer has abandoned completing the Leveson 2 inqu...
