Kernow Damo

Saudi Arabia went into Yemen, the UAE stepped aside, and Israel is stuck with a Somaliland Red Sea strategy that has lost its cover! Confused yet? Right, so Saudi Arabia has just enforced a hard boundary in Yemen, and Israel is now stuck with the consequences of its Somaliland move as a result. How’s that then Damo? Well, the UAE has pulled its remaining forces, Riyadh has shut down manoeuvring sp...

Spain didn’t condemn Israeli settlements — it turned them into a liability, and that’s a problem Israel can’t talk their way out of. Right, so Spain has just turned Israeli settlements from a political argument into a commercial problem, and that’s the bit Israel, the EU, and a lot of very comfortable companies are now stuck with. Not a protest, not a statement, not another round of concern, but a...

Trump’s strike talk didn’t deter Iran, it stripped Israel of cover, narrowed Netanyahu’s options, and handed Iran a win without a shot being fired. Right, so Donald Trump hasn’t restrained Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran as the two men meet once again - he’s actually overexposed him.. Netanyahu has always wanted to hit Iran. He did it in June. He has certainly suggested that he wants to go again. He’s...

A new report proves that Israel now fears criticism more than antisemitism - and once that’s on the record, there's no going back. Right, so Israel has just published a report on antisemitism in Australia, and in doing so it’s managed to expose something far more damaging than any protest ever could. Because once you strip away the solemn language and read it for structure, not reassurance, what b...

Starmer criminalised the Israel warning when it came from protesters, and now he’s trapped with it because it’s coming from the Army itself. Right, so Keir Starmer is now being told by former senior British Army officers to stop arming Israel — and that is not a position he ever planned to end up in. When the people you rely on for legal cover and military credibility start warning about complicit...

Israel recognised Somaliland to gain leverage, but once Somalia declared it an invasion, their next move either confirms the breach or concedes failure. Right, so Israel has now been accused of invading Somalia - not striking it, not threatening it, not posturing around it, but by recognising part of the country as independent and sovereign, which Somalia argues constitutes invasion under internat...

Israel has turned Somaliland into a permanent liability and the Houthis have now declared any Israeli presence there will be treated as a military target. Right, so Israel is now stuck with a problem it can’t walk away from, and it created all by itself. By recognising Somaliland, Israel didn’t score a quiet diplomatic win, it handed the Houthis a standing justification to widen the fight. Because...

Netanyahu can still travel, but every journey now exposes the law bending around him — and once that’s visible, it can’t be undone. Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu is still flying around the world under an ICC arrest warrant — and that’s precisely why his problem has just got much bigger. Because every journey now leaves a record, every overflight exposes a choice, and every silent accommodation tigh...

The UAE didn’t stabilise Yemen — it entrenched fragmentation and turned a war into a permanent Red Sea problem. Right, so there is supposedly a ceasefire in place between Israel and Gaza, though Israel has breached it repeatedly, which already tells you how stable that claim is. Nevertheless, the Houthis have paused attacks on Israel and shipping, not because they can’t act, but because that cease...

Recognising Somaliland locks Israel into a spreading diplomatic fight that delays Gaza de-escalation and buys Netanyahu time - or does it? Right, so Israel has just locked itself into a diplomatic fight it can’t quietly reverse, and Benjamin Netanyahu is the one who signed it in. The recognition of Somaliland isn’t a clever foreign-policy play or some niche Africa story that can be parked and forg...

A judge has quashed a private prosecution by the CAA as abusive and vexatious, forcing the charity to carry the judgment into future cases. Right, so the Campaign Against Antisemitism has just been handed a court judgment it cannot escape, cannot reframe, and cannot make go away because it’s been baked into how the justice system treats them from this moment forward. In their case against the come...

Somaliland recognition wasn’t diplomacy. It was preparation. Israel expects to need leverage later — abut now it’s stuck with the damage. Right, so Israel has recognised Somaliland as a state in and of itself, the first nation on the planet to formally do so. The decision is done, it’s public, and it’s already costed in. Israel has chosen to step into a sovereignty dispute most states have avoided...

This isn’t about bias — it’s about erosion. The BBC keeps managing reality over Israel instead of stating it plainly and more people are seeing it. Right, so the BBC has taken another hit over Israel and yet again they’ve asked for it. More and more people can see the move now. Israel signs off nineteen new settlements on occupied land — illegal under international law — and the BBC decides to tel...

This isn’t a mistake anymore. The UK is funding a system that depends on cruelty — and now it owns the consequences. Right, so the UK is now tied, directly and financially, to a system in Calais that works only by keeping people cold, unstable, and unable to stay put — and that’s no longer deniable. This isn’t a scandal because someone said something out loud. It’s a scandal because what’s been fu...

October 7 is stuck to Netanyahu now. Not because of the attack, but because he tried to control the reckoning. Right, so October 7 has stopped being a delayed problem for Benjamin Netanyahu and become a permanent one, because he’s now trying to run the reckoning himself. After resisting an independent inquiry for so long, he’s agreed to a process only on the condition that the government — meaning...

The lie didn’t survive Bondi. The consequences did. And the wrong people paid for both. Right, so the Bondi attack has done something very awkward for a very familiar lie. It blew it up. And the people now stuck with the fallout are not the ones who pushed it, but the ones who paid for it. That’s the bit being carefully stepped around. Because this was never just about a violent act in a shopping...

British defence of Maccabi Tel Aviv after events in Stuttgart is now even more tin-eared, but there's now no avoiding the fallout either... Right, so Maccabi Tel Aviv backfired — and ministers are stuck with the consequences. That’s not a prediction, it’s where this already is. They rushed out to defend a decision they didn’t take, attacked the police who did, and insisted the risk was imaginary....

The farce of watching the Nobel Peace Prize get handed to someone who wants the US to strike her own country is getting the Assange treatment. Right, so there’s a comforting fiction we’re encouraged to believe about the Nobel Peace Prize, which is that whatever else is happening in the world, this one institution floats serenely above it all, dispensing moral approval untouched by power, pressure...

Benjamin Netanyahu has found a way to scupper the Gaza ceasefire completely and he won't even have to say no to anything to do it. Right, so we’re being told the Gaza ceasefire is fragile, as if it’s some delicate ornament wobbling on the edge of the table. That’s generous. Fragile implies it might accidentally break. This hasn’t been left unattended. It’s being held exactly where it is, by design...

Keir Starmer has been hit with an overdue public humiliation, after he expelled the newly elected boss of one of Labour's biggest unions! Right, so Keir Starmer expelled Andrea Egan from the Labour Party and then, without missing a beat, congratulated her this week on becoming the most powerful trade union leader in the country and said he was looking forward to working with her. You can admire th...

Donald Trump has intitiated a blockade of Venezuela's oil and whilst you might think that's it for this story so far - it's actually already backfiring. Right, so Trump says this is about drugs, which is convenient, because the drug story fell apart the moment he started blowing boats out of the water without showing any evidence, and then finished the job by pardoning a former Central American pr...

Qatar has set Israeli sphincters twitching as they follow in Saudi footsteps in seeking F-35 jets from the US - and they only have themselves to blame. Right, so this is being sold as an argument about jets, as if Israel has suddenly developed a principled interest in the airspace of a country it doesn’t border, isn’t at war with, and routinely relies on to clean up its diplomatic messes. But nobo...

Keir Starmer's Labour government is set to delay local elections for those councils who wish to again next year - someone scared by any chance? Right, so councils across England are being told they can delay local elections that were due next year. Not because of a war. Not because of a national emergency. But because central government is reorganising local authorities and says the timing is inco...

Another Palestine slogan has 'suddenly' now become an arrestable offence, but since the law hasn't changed, what are the Met Police up to? Right, so here’s the thing. In Britain, words don’t normally become crimes because a police force decides it doesn’t like the sound of them this week. Parliament passes laws, courts interpret them, and everyone else is supposed to stay in their lane. But that’s...

Benjamin Netanyahu has had some self owns, but when it comes to shooting himself in the foot, this is a contender for the best yet. Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu insists the International Criminal Court has no authority over him, which makes his behaviour over the past year faintly hilarious in a very dark way. Because people who genuinely believe a court is irrelevant don’t spend months trying to...