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Donald Trump faces renewed Epstein scrutiny as Iran rhetoric resurfaces, raising fears of escalation used to drown out domestic fallout Right, so Donald Trump has been named again in Epstein-related material, and the important part isn’t shock, outrage, or whether anyone thinks this finally changes anything because it doesn’t. What’s changed is procedural. The material has come out through a forma...

Labour faces growing scrutiny as their by-election candidate’s professional record sparks questions over privatisation. Right, so Labour has picked its candidate for Gorton and Denton and then acted surprised when people started looking at the record that came with her, as if candidate selection is meant to be beyond question rather than a concrete political choice with consequences attached. Espe...

Israel turns Rafah into a pressure valve as Gaza concentration camp plans and aid cuts expose a dangerous new phase Right, so Israel has begun clearing ground in Rafah for what Israeli military figures themselves describe as a tightly controlled camp, with monitored entry and exit, biometric surveillance, and direct linkage to the only crossing Israel intends to open, but which they will never rel...

Apple’s billion-dollar purchase of an Israeli AI firm has sparked controversy over privacy and growing BDS pressure seems certain to follow. Right, so Apple has just bought an Israeli company whose technology reads facial micromovements to infer speech, and that decision immediately pulls Apple into a political space it has spent years trying to pretend it can sidestep. Until now, Apple could sell...

Green Party shakes up the Gorton by-election as a local plumber takes on Labour’s machine politics and Reform’s media grift in ManchesterRight, so the Greens have just selected a local plumber, Hannah Spencer as their candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Labour has of course blocked Andy Burnham from standing, and a privately commissioned by-election poll by one of their donors managed...

Trump escalates confrontation with Iran as US carrier deployment wipes out any remaining diplomatic exit routes Right, so Donald Trump has put a carrier strike group back into the Arabian Sea, moved long-range strike aircraft forward, reinforced missile defences across the region, and done it all while threatening “far worse” action unless Iran submits to a deal. I thought making deals was an art...

Houthis among other groups issue warning as US carrier nears Iran, raising Red Sea risks and regional escalation stakes. Right, so the United States has moved an aircraft carrier group into the Middle East, flown extra jets into neighbouring countries, and senior figures are openly talking about striking Iran. In response though, it’s not just Iran talking up a response, but armed groups aligned w...

EU blacklists Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist organisation, breaking its own legal precedent and exposing a double standard the bloc will never fix. Right, so the European Union has put the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC on its terrorist list. And by doing that, the EU has changed what it can say without being challenged, has changed the definition of terrorism itself. It has said that a s...

Greens surge in Gorton and Denton by-election as Labour pushes a decidedly dodgy poll to try and shut them down. Right, so the polling company Find Out Now has published a by-election poll for Gorton and Denton based on just 143 people, commissioned by a private company, with Reform ahead, Labour close behind, and the Greens written off. That poll is already being used as proof that voters only ha...

The Green Party has tabled a motion at Spring Conference seeking to make the party anti-Zionist, triggering a major political debate in UK politics. Right, so the Green Party has accepted a motion for its Spring Conference saying that Zionism is racism. It’s in the system. It’s got a number. It’s on the agenda. And that’s the bit people weren’t expecting, because this is the argument that’s suppos...

Belgium has closed its airspace to Israel-bound weapons during the Gaza ceasefire, shredding the idea it actually means something. Right, so Belgium has blocked its airspace to weapons heading to Israel, including flights that don’t land, during a period everyone is calling a ceasefire, but of course we all know isn’t really one. Israel is still firing. That pulls away a prop people were leaning o...

Britain stripped Shamima Begum of citizenship - now Iraq and the US are forcing this back into Britain’s hands, whether ministers like it or not. Right, so the US military has started moving ISIS detainees out of SDF custody in northern Syria and into Iraq, and Iraq is telling European governments to take their nationals back because the arrangement is temporary. That pulls the ground out from und...

Labour barred Andy Burnham from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election — and the fallout starts before polling day. Right, so Labour’s National Executive Committee has blocked Andy Burnham from standing as the party’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, and that decision has already removed one of Labour’s most relied-upon assumptions, which is that if you can clearly win a seat...

So Zelensky did a Davos podium speech, but where he should have stayed in his lane over Iran, he didn't, and got exposed for the clown he is. Right, so Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky went to Davos, criticised Iran over the protests there, and Iran’s foreign minister replied by calling him a confused clown. Not diplomatically. Publicly. By name. And this matters, not just because diplomacy wen...

Trump talks up taking Greenland — and suddenly impeachment language is being used before anything has even happened. Right, so Donald Trump has started talking again about the United States taking Greenland, and he’s doing it without threatening war. No troops, no orders, no plan — just the idea, put back on the table. The immediate cost is this: the thing people normally rely on to stop president...

This by-election isn’t about the seat — it’s about whether Labour’s control model still works when voters stop playing along. Right, so Andrew Gwynne has resigned as a Labour MP, which means a parliamentary by-election is now locked in, whether anyone likes it or not and that certainly applies to Keir Starmer, this being his first parliamentary test since conning his way into power 18 months ago....

Trump is escalating his threats against Iran again, but he’s doing it after already showing exactly how far he was willing to go last time. Right, so Donald Trump is escalating the threats against Iran again. The language has hardened, the plans are back in circulation, the warnings are bigger, louder, more absolute and the machinery is being spun up as if this is the first time he’s done it all o...

As the war on Gaza drags on, BDS pressure is turning ordinary commercial links with Israel into reputational liabilities businesses no longer want. Right, so Boker Tov is an Israeli-owned food chain that’s been operating in Belgium, selling Israeli street food under a softened “Levantine” label, working on the quiet assumption that food sits above politics if you soften the language enough. Well i...

When pension funds start questioning US debt because of political behaviour, something deeper than Greenland is breaking. Right, so a Danish pension fund has just moved to exit US Treasuries. Offload US debt in other words. Not stocks, not defence firms, not some symbolic gesture, but US government debt, because US political behaviour itself has been judged a risk and this is the kind of response...

Israel’s fruit exports are being hit as European retailers respond to consumer-led BDS boycotts without public announcements. Right, so Israeli fruit exporters are losing routine access to European supermarkets, with orders cancelled, buyers pulling back, and harvests being left unsold. Mangoes and citrus that used to move as a matter of course are now only being bought when there’s no alternative...

The hunger strike ended, but the most dangerous medical phase began after they were sent back inside. Right, so Sodexo is a multinational outsourcing company that runs prisons for the British state, including HMP Bronzefield, and it’s now been accused of abusing Palestine Action prisoners for one very simple reason: a hunger strike ended and the system rushed to move on while the danger was still...

US pressure was pushed to leadership level, Iran answered at deterrence level, and nothing about this confrontation reset when the strike didn’t come. Right, so the United States has threatened Iran at the level of leadership, talked openly about regime change, hinted at intervention, and then stopped. Not resolved it. Not de-escalated it. Just stopped. The strike didn’t happen, the language didn’...

A UK court has now accepted that Israeli citizenship is not automatic protection from persecution and its bad news for Team Keith! Right, so the UK has just granted refugee status to a Palestinian who holds Israeli citizenship, after the Home Office fought it for years and lost. That single decision removes a shortcut British politics has relied on for decades, which is that Israeli citizenship au...

Donald Trump has tied tariffs on allies to taking Greenland — but the assumption that Europe has no leverage isn't actually true... Right, so Donald Trump has announced tariffs on European allies because they won’t agree to him taking Greenland, with a 10% levy next month and 25% after that on eight NATO states, explicitly tied to whether opposition stops. That move removes a basic assumption peop...

ICE has been publicly compared to the Brownshirts in Minneapolis and after Gregory Bovino’s appearance, that comparison has stuck. Right, so ICE carried out an operation in Minneapolis that ended with a civilian being shot, in public, during enforcement, and the system closed ranks around it. But since then, federal leadership has now turned up, visibly, unapologetically, dressed for command in th...