Kernow Damo

Right, so Saudi Arabia is reportedly bombing Yemen’s schools again in a headline reminiscent of the Minab School strike in Iran, though this time the media appear to have completely ignored it. Al-Rawdh School in Taiz has reportedly been hit for the third time. Then, the following day, another school, Al-Shaheed, was reportedly struck. But while While Saudi jets are again smashing Yemeni classroom...

Right, so the Greens for Palestine "Zionism Is Racism" motion has reached its climax as Green party Autumn Conference kicks off tomorrow and its opponents seem to have run out of arguments, though that never seems to ever stop them. Never letting reality get in the way of a good story, The Murdoch Times has very kindly invented a synagogue ban which they allege is part of the motion. That should i...

Right, so not content with plundering his weaselly black guts out for Venezuela’s oil, the greed-driven ghoul that is Donald Trump wanted Venezuela's gold in America too, as well as a lot more besides as it happens, rare earth minerals and the likes as well, he’ll try and get his tiny orange mitts on as much as he can. but it’s the gold that is key to this story and another hefty dose of karma to...

Right, so Thailand’s conflict with Israel-linked activity has escalated. Protests over Israeli tourists have been building for months, locals have become increasingly angry, and Phuket’s streets have echoed with calls for Israel to leave. But now the row has moved beyond the street and into building inspections, business investigations and land-ownership checks, because nothing quite sets the alar...

Right, so five British men were arrested near RAF Fairford after police spotted three suspicious vehicles and called in the bomb squad and after a round of questioning that probably felt like a particularly grim episode of The Weakest Link, all five were released on bail while the investigation dragged on. Donald Trump has taken one look at that it seems, helpfully given a cue to do so from our pa...

Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu strutted into the United Nations, a finger primed to wag at a room full of nations which had already done the diplomatic equivalent of changing the channel. He could hardly clear his throat before the delegates bolted for the exits as though there had been an announcement of a free bar and a fire drill in the lobby. Naturally, he called them cowards. Nothing screams mo...

Right, so Andy Burnham arrived at his first Labour Conference as Prime Minister, grinning like a toothpaste model getting their second advert. Unfortunately for Andy, Palestine protesters had pencilled in a different agenda-one that didn't involve applauding him in any way, shape or form and for whom the Burnham bounce and the honeymoon period, fizzled out a lot faster than for most. You see the i...

Right, so for months now, Trump has strutted about like a steroid-ridden satsuma and kept insisting that Iran is under pressure; it will break like an overripe melon. But now, in the face of a shift on the part of Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, a deal they have set on the table before Mr Dealmaker, Trump, for whom any pretence of power over Iran, the power of a US threat...

Right, so British universities have been insisting for almost three years now, that their Gaza protest crackdowns are all about safety, order and the sacred rulebook, because nothing quite says “academic freedom” like a security guard with a clipboard and a list of forbidden chants. Universities love to micromanage demonstrations: whether you report in advance, whether you are blocking a door and...

Right, so this was the view from a seat at the United Nations, from the position of Javier Milei, President of Argentina, who a day before had begun to wave flags, threaten legal action, and strut about the United Nations like a rooster on borrowed time. He had been making his moves for the past three days at the United Nations, and in his zeal to create an uproar he had managed to trip himself up...

Right, so an Israel lobby group has warned the Greens that it is ready to take legal action over their upcoming Conference motion declaring Zionism to be racist. Well, fortunately for we Green members, we get to make policy, and this particular motion, such has been the drive behind it, all in spite of such lobbyist whinging, has meant it has gone straight to the top of the E-motion queue, E-motio...

Right, so Andy Burnham's government has just dangled its new “Double Lock” on arms to Israel. It’s a solemn pledge to refuse new export licenses for any weapon which might actually assist the Israeli occupation, and it’s going to be added to the existing suspensions on the supply of arms to that country like an extra padlock on the very secure box such things are being locked in. Trouble is, it se...

Right, so as many of you will no doubt remember, on 1 April 2024, three British citizens were killed by Israeli forces when the convoy they were travelling in, working for the World Central Kitchen as they were, was attacked in Gaza. On that day, a British spy plane was operating over Gaza however, one of those surveillance flights where the footage gets shared with Israel, the claim being they we...

Right, so the tireless repairman of all things broken by himself, Donald Trump, has at last come up with what he says is the solution to the American major problem over fertiliser shortages. Or so he’d like us to believe. A supposedly 'massive' potash deal with Belarus. The slight hiccup being that there is no deal though, no potash either and that the man who had promised cheaper fertiliser is no...

Right, so Donald Trump strode into the United Nations with his chest puffed out, ready to present his ideal ultimatum to Iran. Nothing quite gets his blood pumping like threatening to obliterate another nation, declare the intent to commit a war crime as that would be if they don’t let him get his own way. All very grown up, a playground bully accusing another state of being the bully of the Middl...

Right, so Andy Burnham thinks the best thing to do during the air-bombing of Yemen by the Saudis is to send one of the RAF’s flying petrol stations in to refuel the perpetrators of the carnage. But of course it gets tarted up as anything but doesn’t it? Labour calls it "defensive," because, don’t they always? We’re not involved, honest guv. If you say something often enough eventually it becomes t...

Right, so, it seemed that Benjamin Netanyahu assumed Israel’s military superiority was something to be passed down like a hoard of treasure. Definitely not to be shared. Hardly to be questioned. Certainly not something Saudi Arabia should be allowed anywhere near without first handing him that lovely normalisation deal he’s been after for so long but there’s fat chance of that fairy tale coming tr...

Right, so Donald Trump has won Greenland. Apparently. He hasn't bought it. He hasn't annexed it. He hasn't even managed to claim sovereignty over a single Greenlandic wheelie bin. Still, none of that matters because Trump says he's won - and as we all know, reality is contractually obliged to catch up with his imagination sooner or later. According to Trump, the United States now has "permanent co...

Right, so the former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has joined Palantir. He has gone all-in and signed on as Palantir UK's Senior Vice President no less. What a convenient vacancy to have come up! The thing is though, since Tom Watson is still a Labour peer, and Palantir as we know is unfortunately very much already in the British public sector, the whole thing would be a nasty enough Labour Part...

Right, so the Saudis are claiming to have heroically struck down an Ansarallah drone that was heading for Mecca, before it even got to the gates. Who can tell? It might be so. It might well be that unicorns also occupy the sky over Riyadh. But before Riyadh starts preaching, expecting the world to sit obediently like a car dashboard figurine, let's actually look at the ground reality. This is the...

Right, so, five of Israel’s six major Mediterranean desalination plants had been shut down after an algae bloom clogged the seawater intakes of the plants. Five out of six. How could this have happened, is this the next Biblical plague after the bees and the rats that I covered the other day? No rocket had been fired. No Iranian missile had flattened the crucial machinery. No Houthi drone had give...

Right, so Malaysia has taken possession of three Israel-bound containers, which are now hanging around one of Southeast Asia's busiest ports like lost luggage. They have been sitting there since 19 August without batting an eyelid, awaiting divine intervention or for someone in Tel Aviv to explain why a Malaysian port should do as it’s told. Malaysia has banned Israeli shipping and Israel-bound ca...

Right, so carrot-coloured calamity Donald Trump’s war on Iran has consumed half to two-thirds of America's most advanced interceptors, the very missiles designed to prevent Iranian drones and ballistic missiles from turning American bases into costly fires. They're mumbling about a lack of strategic inventories, military speak for: we ran out of all our best toys, and our factory elves can't come...

Right, so Israel’s got rats and no I’m not talking about Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, I’m talking about literal rats and there’s not a Pied Piper in all of Hamelin that can fix this either, because Israel appear to have done it to themselves. They have turned up around houses, fields, and military barracks near Gaza. They are said to have bitten people, and the pest controllers are strugg...

Right, so it's been announced that the Labour Party has selected Sagal Abdi-Wali to replace Keir Starmer in Holborn and St Pancras, and the campaign slogans are being laid on thick and fast. She's local. She's a community champion. She says her priorities are tackling homelessness, improving housing, supporting families and giving local people a stronger voice. She came to Camden as a child refuge...