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Peter Mandelson’s involvement in Labour’s candidate selection process raises serious questions about the party’s 2024 parliamentary intake. Right, so We already knew candidates were being parachuted into safe seats based on loyalty to Keir Starmer. That wasn’t hidden, we saw it repeated across the country ad nauseum. What’s changed is that we now know who was strapping the parachutes on. Peter Man...

Iran is openly rejecting Israeli red lines, revealing the limits of US military pressure and exposing the stalled escalation right now in the Middle East. Right, so Israel has now publicly demanded that Iran dismantle its nuclear programme, scrap its missile capability, and abandon its regional allies, and the United States backed that demand with carrier groups already deployed in the region thre...

Labour accuses the Greens of a “grubby deal” in the Gorton and Denton by-election, but it's backfired exposing Labour’s own panic and hypocrisy. Right, so Labour is attacking the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election by accusing them of cheating and cowardice at the same time, and in doing that it has blown up its own case for why it deserves to win this seat at all. What Labour is saying is...

Media rush to frame the latest Epstein files around Russia while downplaying documented Israel-linked proximity, raises questions about bias again. Right, so more of the Epstein files have dropped, and before anyone’s even read them properly, the British media have already decided what the real story is here. Russia. Putin. Moscow. Intelligence intrigue. Straight in, no pause. The cost of that hit...

Trump’s Venezuela oil seizure drives China toward Iranian crude, blunting US sanctions pressure & giving Iran an unexpected payday! Right, so Donald Trump invaded Venezuela, took control of the oil, largely seen as the only reason he did it, and by doing so shipments of Venezuelan oil to China have dropped. No surprises there, but China is still going to want oil from somewhere and in news tha...

Dockworkers across more than 20 ports announce coordinated industrial action against Israel , escalating labour resistance over Gaza. Right, so dockworkers in more than twenty Mediterranean ports have announced coordinated industrial action against arms shipments linked to Israel, with dates fixed, unions named, ports confirmed, and that has just blown a hole straight through a confidence governme...

Saudi Arabia’s Washington visit exposes US Iran threat chaos as Trump talks tough without a plan or allied backing Right, so Khalid bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s defence minister, the crown prince’s brother, went to Washington, told the Americans that after weeks of threats you don’t just walk away from the noise you’re making without handing Iran a win, and then left without being told what the hell...

Peter Mandelson quits Labour at last over Epstein links, leaving Keir Starmer boxed in over standards and accountability. Right, so Peter Mandelson has quit the Labour Party in disgrace, though that almost goes without saying with his history and Keir Starmer has lost the right to pretend his standards work into the bargain. He talked tough because it was easy. Then it stopped being easy and he di...

Labour escalates Holocaust row in Gorton and Denton by-election as Greens take a lead and campaign turns toxic. Right, so Labour Peer and the party’s Faith and Belief champion Mike Katz has gone public and told voters in Gorton and Denton that a Green Party candidate “demeans Holocaust Memorial Day” and is therefore unfit to represent the seat, while Labour’s own candidate is presented as the only...

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....