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Andrew arrested, Mandelson probed - where it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, “nobody is above the law” is about to get tested hard. Right so Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince, has been arrested by Thames Valley Police on suspicion of misconduct in public office, and officers have been searching addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk, and that alone is enough to set the whole Epstein unive...

Trump’s Iran threats are now colliding with real-world red lines, a live military build-up, and a negotiation track detonating into war. Right, so Donald Trump has sent big, very loud signals at Iran while keeping the talks going, and those two things do not sit together unless the threat is the whole point. The second round of indirect talks in Geneva has ended, Iran’s side has described it as mo...

BBC Question Time panel leaves the Greens out while Labour bleeds councillors to them days before Gorton & Denton votes. Right, so Fiona Bruce is hosting Question Time tonight and the BBC has already published the panel list, which means the thing doing the damage is not a clip, not a quote, not a bad moment on air, it’s a decision that exists before the cameras even roll, because it names fou...

Israel is using a land-registry process to reclassify Palestinian land as “state land” when proof thresholds can’t be met - on their terms of course. Right, so this is the proof object. Land registration. A state registry entry. A file that turns Palestinian land into “state land” if the people living on it can’t satisfy an Israeli proof test. Bezalel Smotrich is Israel’s finance minister, and he’...

Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain is splitting Farage’s vote — and dragging the whole right wing further into a deportation bidding war. Right, so Rupert Lowe has launched a new party called Restore Britain, so now there are now two hard-right parties chasing the same voters, Reform and Restore, sat side by side, competing in the same turf. The far right starting to eat itself. So on the surface, that...

Labour’s Gorton & Denton dinner tape has triggered a police complaint - watch the clip, then judge what it says for yourself. Right, so Labour’s Gorton and Denton dinner tape is leaving a bit of a legal aftertaste, and I’m not asking you to take my word for anything because the proof is the tape itself. So here’s the deal, I’m going to play you the clip, I’m going to tell you what we can say w...

Greens “Zionism Is Racism” Vote Being Stopped? Here’s how the conference clock could stop a vote without anyone actually banning it. Right, so Green Party Spring Conference 2026. Motion A105. “Zionism is Racism.” Is the vote now at risk of not being reached? Because look at this. A stack of amendments are now sitting on top of the motion like a weight, and the only thing you need to know about con...

Right, so Donald Trump has just come out with the line that tells you where this is really heading. Regime change in Iran, he says, would be “the best thing that could happen”. Well for who, you big orange balloon? So when you now hear about how “talks are ongoing”, don’t picture diplomats leaning over a table looking for a deal. Picture a countdown with a polite label stuck on it instead. Because...

Yvette Cooper’s Observer column is now the evidence in a contempt complaint - but will the law apply to a minister? Right, so look at this. Yvette Cooper, former Home Secretary, now Foreign Secretary, wrote in a national newspaper piece about Palestine Action while criminal proceedings linked to them are still live, and she’s done it in the one way that creates the maximum legal friction, because...

Trump’s “very big force” threat ramps up as a second US carrier heads for the region, with Iran refusing to play ball at all... Right, so Donald Trump is sending a second aircraft carrier towards Iran while talks are still on, and he’s not even pretending what it’s for. He’s saying the quiet part in plain English: if there’s no deal, he “needs” the force, and if there is a deal, he can “cut it sho...

High Court rules Palestine Action ban unlawful as Starmer’s government appeals, keeping proscription in force and fuelling backlash already. Right, so Keir Starmer’s government has just been told by the High Court that the Palestine Action ban was unlawful, and instead of taking the hit and moving on, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is already saying they’re appealing, which means they’re choosing...

Iran’s offer puts Trump on the spot as Netanyahu pushes harder, with Oman talks, new US sanctions and the nuclear standoff back in the spotlight. Right, so Donald Trump is being offered a way out and it’s the kind of way out that makes powerful people uncomfortable because it forces them to admit what this has really all been about. Iran’s atomic chief, Mohammad Eslami, is saying fine, talk nuclea...

Iran calls Trump’s bluff as White House threats and sanctions raise global shipping risk, with Gulf routes and oil markets pricing the danger today. Right, so Donald Trump is trying to muscle a “deal” out of Iran by treating talks like a threat, and Iran has just made that approach look ridiculous in public. Because Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is saying enrichment stays, missiles aren’t...

Winter Olympics protests erupt in Milan over Israel and ICE as police deploy tear gas and chaos spills from the streets into the Games. Right, so The Winter Olympics has barely started in Milan and it’s already not about sport, because the people running this show have tried to sell you an “apolitical” Olympics while doing politics right in your face and then acting shocked when the public answers...

Israel High Court orders Netanyahu to justify keeping Itamar Ben Gvir as National Security Minister amid petitions over alleged police interference. Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has just been told by Israel’s High Court: stop dodging, put it in writing, explain why Itamar Ben Gvir is still in charge of the police. And if that sounds like a niche legal story, it isn’t, because this is the part of t...

Booing Israel at the Winter Olympics plus the bobsled burglary story shows the public mood has turned into brutal punchlines. Right, so Israel has walked into the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan and got booed, and that alone tells you the big lie of this whole event is already struggling to hold. Then, almost immediately, Israel’s bobsled team says their training place has been burgled,...

If Reform UK can’t keep its own election material compliant, you don’t hand it power and hope it learns accountability later. Right, so Reform UK has just pushed a “concerned neighbour” letter through doors in Gorton and Denton, signed off as if it’s a local pensioner doing the decent thing, and now their whole campaign is being forced to answer a question it cannot dodge: who exactly was behind i...

McSweeney quits after Starmer’s “full confidence” as Mandelson scandal deepens and No 10 scrambles to contain the fallout Right, so Keir Starmer stood up in the Commons on 4 February and told everyone Morgan McSweeney was essential, full confidence, the man who helped him remake Labour and win power. Four days later, McSweeney is out. Starmer’s words as worthless as ever it seems. That isn’t a tid...

A Las Vegas biolab raid has played into Israel Iran commentary as false flag talk starts after an FBI evidence seizure - but is there anything in it? Right, so Las Vegas police have hit a house and come out using the only two words that can turn an American audience into putty overnight: “possible biolab”. Over a thousand pieces of evidence seized, samples flown out for federal testing, and the na...

Trump hits Iran with fresh sanctions after first round of peace talks - cue Israel with talk of it all being a trap! Right, so Donald Trump is doing that thing again where he calls it diplomacy while tightening the screws at the exact same time, and people still pretend those two tracks aren’t connected. Iran turns up for talks in Muscat, Oman calls it “very serious”, their Foreign Minister Abbas...

Trump sanctioned Francesca Albanese and ICC officials over Gaza - now it’s exposed the Big Tech links even more. Right, so Donald Trump’s White House has taken the same US Treasury blacklist they use for terrorists and drug traffickers and pointed it at a UN mandate-holder and ICC officials after her Gaza reporting and the ICC’s Gaza track started biting at the people and firms who benefit from Is...

Iran talks in Oman show one thing clearly: Israel pushed too far, the agenda is trapped, and the US can’t widen it without the whole process collapsing. Right, so Donald Trump is back at it, threatening Iran’s leadership with one hand while sending Steve Witkoff off to “talk” with the other, and the talks are in Muscat today for one reason: Iran has already shown it will walk rather than let their...

China has officially blocked new investment into Israel, freezing money mid-deal and triggering panic inside Israel’s economy as genocide drags on. Right, so China has just cut Israel off from getting any more money, and it didn’t even bother telling anyone first. A Chinese fund has gone into an Israeli court and said their deal with the blue and white state is dead because Beijing now treats Isra...

The biggest Gaza flotilla ever assembled is preparing to sail, putting Israel’s blockade back under more pressure than ever before! Right, so Israel has already shown what it does to Gaza flotillas. Boats are seized. People are detained. Claims are made. And then nothing follows that actually settles it. Israel’s claims get debunked, the Gaza blockade remains in place however. The optics of each f...

Politicians and pundits attacking the Filton 24 acquittals are actively undermining the right to a fair trial while 18 related cases are still live. Right, so a jury has just acquitted six Palestine Action activists in a UK courtroom, but the verdict itself isn’t the real story. What matters is what happened next. Politicians, pundits, and media figures didn’t just criticise the outcome, they rewr...