Kernow Damo

The UK government owns part of the supply system of the Sudan genocide it claims to oppose and now its all comng out. Right, so the UK hasn’t just been caught selling arms to the wrong people again - what’s come out now shows the British state is financially tied into the logistics of a genocidal war it claims to oppose. That’s the change. The cost of that isn’t optics, it’s that a whole set of ex...

The US has walked away from international bodies, seized oil tankers at sea, and forced NATO to plan around a Greenland threat - its all connected. Right, so Donald Trump has just ordered the United States to walk away from sixty-six international organisations, including thirty-one UN bodies, at the same time as US forces, with British support, are physically seizing oil tankers in international...

UK Lawyers for Israel have been turned away by another tribunal, and that refusal makes one thing unavoidable: the tactic itself is now the problem. Right, so UK Lawyers for Israel has just lost again, another attempt to strip a British-Palestinian surgeon of his medical licence has gone nowhere, and the cost of that failure isn’t just embarrassment, it’s the slow collapse of a tactic that depends...

The US has pulled embassy staff from Israel and Lebanon, so is that an admission that Israel’s escalations are no longer containable? Right, so the US has pulled embassy staff out of Israel and Lebanon. Not a statement, not a warning, not a briefing — people physically moved. So why have they done that then unless something fundamental has already changed? Because governments don’t do that unless...

David Lammy smiled with JD Vance and posted the photo, and in doing so he blew Labour’s ability to claim ethical high ground after Minnesota. Right, so David Lammy chose to post a smiling photo with JD Vance on the same day Vance was out defending the killing of a civilian by US state agents, and that choice has just stripped Labour of its last excuse. Not outrage, not optics — cover. The Justice...

Donald Trump has exposed himself as a cowardly fraud who wants the language of moral authority without accepting its cost. Right, so this isn’t one of those moments where you say “we’ve seen this before” and move on, because we haven’t. Donald Trump is a president openly threatening another country by saying leaders are responsible when their forces shoot civilians, and then almost immediately pre...

The Maccabi Tel Aviv ban didn’t just upset the wrong people, it showed politicians can’t judge Israel without first picking a side. Right, so this isn’t just about a football match or a policing call that upset the wrong people, this is about Parliament showing, again, that when Israel is involved the rules bend, scrutiny softens, and the outcome is quietly pre-decided. The Home Affairs Committee...

Israel’s Iran strategy has stopped working, and Iran has made sure it can never pretend otherwise ever again. Right, so Israel hasn’t just annoyed Iran again, it’s blown a hole in the one thing that used to keep this confrontation from running off the rails, and it can’t pretend it didn’t see it coming this time either, because their reaction has completely given the game away. We’ve seen this rou...

Saudi-UAE infighting has broken Yemen containment — and Israel is now stuck with the Houthis who are actually the only winners! Right, so Saudi Arabia and the UAE haven’t just fallen out over Yemen - they’ve blown up the entire system that kept the mess off everyone else’s doorstep whilst they were at it, and I’m sure you’ll be broken-hearted to hear that Israel is the one left with the fallout. A...

The IHRA working definition's use inside the NHS has now created a legal problem serious enough to be tested in court - and not before time. Right, so The IHRA definition has just blown up in the NHS, and that matters because a non-binding definition has now dragged the health service into a judicial review no less. We’ve seen this pattern for years, where IHRA lands inside an institution, critici...

Trump’s Greenland threats have revealed NATO’s defence guarantee only works when the US allows it. Right, so Donald Trump has just done something that exposes a flaw NATO was never meant to show, and it doesn’t go away whether he acts on it or not. Denmark is affected, Greenland is affected, and the alliance that claims to guarantee their security has been forced to sit there while its leader talk...

Calling Nicolas Maduro illegitimate exposes Western hypocrisy over Venezuela’s historic dictators and oil and I've got the receipts! Right, so calling Nicolás Maduro illegitimate has now detonated the entire Western Venezuela narrative, because a sitting president has been seized in the name of democracy while the men who actually cancelled elections, ruled by decree, and filled mass graves before...

Israel recognised Somaliland and turned recognition into leverage - and global fears are proving justified. Right, so Somaliland has finally been recognised, and it turns out recognition wasn’t the prize, it was the bill. A territory that wanted legitimacy now has exposure, a parent state has lost control of its own borders, and Israel has demonstrated that recognition still works exactly how empi...

Trump has turned influence into conquest and forced South America to respond accordingly - and resistance is becoming unavoidable. Right, so Trump has just made conquest official again. Not invasion-by-invasion, not deniable pressure, but a written claim that all of South America will be subordinate to US authority, its governments conditional on that, its resources pre-tagged for the US, its bord...

Keir Starmer’s cowardice has turned silence into policy and submission to Donald Trump into the UK’s default position. Right, so Keir Starmer has just told Britain that it will not judge whether international law was broken when the United States seized Nicolás Maduro, because saying so might upset Donald Trump. That is the line. That is the policy. Britain will apply the law until the law becomes...

Trump hasn’t get caught over Venezuela - he put himself on the record though, and the law surely can’t ignore him forever? Right, so Donald Trump has managed to do what even seasoned warmongers usually avoid: he has walked himself straight into an array of legal messes, not just through what he has done, but also by openly bragging about it. He didn’t just authorise force, he narrated it. He didn’...

Keir Starmer chose silence after Trump’s Venezuela invasion - and permanently destroyed his credibility on international law. Right, so Keir Starmer has just volunteered Britain for permanent irrelevance. Donald Trump removed Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela by force, and the British prime minister responded by waiting for Trump’s press conference to offer a response to it, as if the law only switche...

Trump seized Maduro - and turned that single act into a permanent liability for the United States that there's no coming back from. Right, so Donald Trump has removed a sitting head of state by force and, in doing so, has locked the United States into a problem it cannot resolve, cannot disclaim, and cannot walk away from. Venezuela hasn’t collapsed, the government hasn’t vanished, and authority h...

Trump has turned Iran’s protests into standing war pretext - except the facts on the ground don't match the words in his mouth. Right, so Donald Trump has just treated protests inside Iran as advance grounds for a US war, before any verified massacre, investigation, or threshold exists. The people hit by that aren’t going to be limited to Iran though; they include anyone protesting anywhere who no...

Mamdani scrapped IHRA, kept antisemitism enforcement, and therefore has stripped Israel of the leverage it used to shut debate down. Right, so Zohran Mamdani has just taken office and, with one administrative move, made it impossible for New York’s institutions to keep pretending that antisemitism and the defence of Israel are the same thing — and Israel’s political ecosystem is now stuck dealing...

Trump didn’t solve Venezuela — he broke the rules that let the US pretend its power was lawful, and that damage isn’t going away. Right, so Donald Trump has turned Venezuela into a permanent liability for the United States, and that damage is already done. A US president has bombed a sovereign country, seized its head of state, and in the process stripped away the last pretence that American law s...

Israel has turned humanitarian aid in gaza into a massive problem for itself - legally, politically, and permanently. Right, so Israel has now made humanitarian aid conditional, and that decision has closed off all of its escape routes by default. Thirty-seven aid organisations are being barred or suspended, including Doctors Without Borders, and they’re being made to own that decision. Doctors, m...

Israel's Iron Beam laser defence system doesn’t make Israel’s air defence cheaper - it doubles them and makes the costs permanent! Right, so Israel has just locked itself into a problem it can’t engineer its way out of, and it’s called Iron Beam, they’re fancy new laser defence system being sold as a cheap as chips alternative to the likes of the Iron Dome and David’s Sling. The trouble is, somebo...

Starmer's government has escalated the Kneecap case again after it collapsed embarrassingly once already - cue more shame in which case! Right, so a terrorism charge against Mo Chara of the Irish band Kneecap collapsed because the state failed to meet its own legal requirements. The magistrate said the court had no jurisdiction. That should have been the end of it. Instead, Keir Starmer’s governme...

When Israel’s tech workers start leaving in numbers, that isn’t panic — it’s the growth model admitting it can’t absorb the damage anymore. Right, so Israel’s tech sector isn’t pausing or riding out a rough patch. It’s structurally breaking apart, and the people taking the decision first are the people Israel’s entire economic model depends on: engineers, founders, senior staff, the globally mobil...