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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...

Right, so twenty-four Israelis who served inside the military system used to target Gaza have just done something the IDF could really have done without. They’ve talked. Soldiers, intelligence officers, people who watched the screens, gathered the surveillance and helped produce the targets. Their testimony is now a documentary called NAZA, and it has just won the Special Jury Prize at Venice. So...

Right, so Doctors Without Borders, Medecins Sans Frontiers, are facing charges of terrorism on the part of a certain rather notorious pro-Israel group who are demanding that the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood considers banning the organisation. A powerful accusation, heaping out enough melodrama enough to choke an episode of Eastenders. There is a big fat snag though, because the organisation in q...

Right, so for decades, Israel has been flogging government bonds to anyone keen to prop up the state. You hand over your cash, Israel pockets it for the general budget, and in return you get a pinky promise that the state will pay you back with interest. What could go wrong? But if Israel wants to hawk these bonds to the average European punter, it needs a shiny prospectus rubber-stamped by an EU...

Right, so Israel has thrown a real temper tantrum against Britain, but not because Britain has stopped arming it, because of course we haven’t done that. Britain announced restrictions on goods from illegal settlements, curbs on British firms selling or promoting settlement property, sanctions on several extremist settlers and a refusal of export licences that materially sustain the occupation. Is...

Right, so, Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to send more troops to the war in Lebanon. He wished to drive Hezbollah away from the Israeli frontier, destroy its military infrastructure, prevent its reconstruction, and retain a security belt in southern Lebanon until Israel, as paranoid as they appear to be, is finally convinced that the threat is over. Not just one or two more attacks and a few raids. It’...

Right, so South Africa has stomped back into the World Court, brandishing a big fat new dossier and accusing Israel of treating those three binding orders the court had imposed like so much junk mail that’s come through your door that you shove straight in the bin without reading: stop genocidal acts and incitement, let aid into Gaza, and maybe don’t flatten Rafah while you’re at it. And as if Net...

Right, so Donald Trump decided the best way to make the Strait of Hormuz 'safer' was to lob a few bombs at an Iranian island because nothing screams 'secure shipping lane' quite like a handful of American explosives raining down from the sky. A few hours later, Iran fired missiles and drones against American positions in Jordan and the UAE. Jordan reported that eight missiles had crossed into its...

Right, so Finland and Israel had already signed a military-technical co-operation agreement. So far, so bad enough. The contract was to be renewed every five years and covered development, research and procurement. But when the old agreement was due for renewal in early 2024, Finland didn't just sign on for another five years. No, the Defence Ministry quietly wrote a brand-new ten-year memorandum...

Right, so a British military aircraft flying from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus to Tel Aviv. You can see it before you right there, so not exactly subject to supposition is it? The only thing we can’t see is what was stuffed inside it, though thankfully we have independent media helpfully providing what it could be carry in the form of journalist Matt Kennard, who has picked up that it was an Airbus A400...

Right, so Ratko Mladić is dead. And Israel has a problem it cannot put away with him as a result. The files. No, not those files, another set of files. The files which gather dust like a guilty conscience, or would do if I thought Zionism had one. Israeli records of arms-export licences and the Defence Ministry's decisions concerning the former Yugoslavia between 1990 and 1996 remain closed. Even...

Right, so Donald Trump's Iran war is eating away at the American Navy from the inside out, even more than we already knew about in fact. Not enough that sailors have tried throwing themselves overboard and have been wading through, their own effluence in the corridors, it seems that for the Trump administration they haven’t paid quite a high enough price yet, and I do mean pay. You see the Navy is...