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Hunger striker Qesser Zurah has deteriorated significantly overnight, but would the prison call and ambulance? Not until an MP turned up... Right, so it tells you everything about Britain right now that a woman can be on Day 46 of a hunger strike, collapsing on the floor of her cell, drifting in and out of consciousness, and the people in charge still think the real emergency is an MP and two NHS...

Israel's mockery of the Filton hunger strikers exposes their own contempt, but also their own fear and weakness. Right, so you know exactly what you’re dealing with when a newspaper in Israel looks at people more than forty days into a hunger strike and decides the right response is a headline telling them to “eat a sandwich.” You don’t get that from a society grappling with the seriousness of sta...

A trio of troubles are impacting upon notorious software giant Palantir right now all relating to trustworthiness - and if you're right or wrong to do so. Right, so Palantir. A company that insists it’s just a neutral bit of software, while somehow popping up in conversations about covert attacks, military intelligence, and the inner workings of your healthcare system, and then acting surprised th...

Claims of the Bondi attack being a false flag persist as many questions remain unanswered, but given some of the reactions, does it even matter? Right, so nobody knows yet who ordered the Bondi attack, if anyone at all. That part is still unresolved, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. What is already clear, though, is who decided to grab hold of it, who rushed to define what it “meant”,...

Five more defections from Labour to the Greens are sending Labour into meltdown ahead of local elections that look increasingly badRight, so five Labour councillors in Brent didn’t suddenly wake up allergic to red rosettes. They left because Keir Starmer has dragged the party so far off its moral axis that staying would’ve made them look dishonest in front of the very people who elected them and b...

Journalist Richard Medhurst has been exonerated of the terror allegations levied against him - another lawfare fail for an unfit for purpose law! Right, so independent Middle East journalist Richard Medhurst has been exonerated, which is the polite way of saying the British state has spent more than a year waving the word “terrorism” around, smashing up a journalist’s life, and then quietly admitt...

The Bondi Beach attack was a sickening antisemitic attack, but worse has been the opportunism displayed by pro-Israel voices over it. Right, so the incident at Bondi Beach. A community is shattered at a Hanukkah celebration, sixteen people gone, dozens injured, a Syrian man shot twice saving families he’d never met, and still the loudest voices in public life somehow decided the real story here wa...

Israel has an all new 'Iran will have nukes in fifteen minutes' excuse, but it hasn't taken much to utterly shred it. Right, so Israel has rolled out another warning about Iran, delivered with that familiar mix of urgency and certainty that always seems to arrive before anyone checks whether the facts can actually stand up. And if you’ve been paying attention over the years, or even just this year...

The debate over the exact role Israel played on October 7th has blown apart again as the guy charged with finding the hostages speaks out. Right, so they told you it was the most moral army in history. They told you they were doing everything, everything, to bring the hostages home. They hung the yellow ribbons and they made the solemn vows. And then the man Netanyahu’s regime put in charge of act...

Israel thought an opportunistic assault on UNRWA over unpaid taxes would put them in their place. It's not worked out well for them. Right, so Israel’s latest stunt - storming the UNRWA offices in East Jerusalem, cutting communications, and raising its own flag - isn’t about overdue bills or taxes. That’s the official line, but we’re not here for Israel’s script. This was a test of a much bigger l...

Labour Migration MInister Mike Tapp has announced the need to investigate links between race and grooming gangs - but there aren't any, so why do this? Right, so there’s a particular move politicians make when they know the evidence isn’t on their side but they fancy sounding tough anyway. They don’t make a claim outright, that would be risky. Instead, they “ask the question”. They talk about “lin...

Itamar Ben Gvir might have been acting like the cat who got the execution cream, but no amount of noose lapel pins can save his bill it seems... Right, so he turns up in the Knesset with a gold noose pinned to his chest, grinning like he’s reinvented justice, and for a moment you’d think the only thing standing between Itamar ben Gvir and a functioning execution chamber is the will to hurry up and...

Israel has been caught spying on US troops stationed near Gaza as part of Trump's joke a peace plan but it's not exactly the first time... Right, so here’s the strange thing about this latest “shock” out of Israel: people are acting like the surveillance of US troops at a base in Kiryat Gat is some wild new departure, when the truth is it fits so neatly into Israel’s long habit of spying on the ve...

Starmer pushed a terror story he thought would hold, but now the Filton trial is putting real pressure on the line he built. Right, so you know something’s gone very wrong in British politics when a single trial in Woolwich ends up carrying more political weight than half the speeches coming out of Westminster, yet here we are, watching a government that’s spent the year rebranding protest as extr...

For all of Friedrich Merz's fawning towards Israel, he can promise as much loyalty & arms as he likes, but if nobody will deliver it for him... Right, so Germany’s government is still busy polishing its halo over Israel, parroting the same line about “unwavering support,” as if repetition might somehow justify it, but the country’s own national airline has just stepped in and quietly blown a h...

While Ben Gvir poses with a noose shaped lapel pin, record numbers of prison fatalities on his watch is hitting Israel hard. Right, so Itamar Ben Gvir turning up to the Knesset in a bright yellow noose pin is one of those moments where the performance finally catches up with the policy isn’t it? Because you do not need to be a legal scholar to see what a man is telling you when he walks into a par...

Five weeks on hunger strike is now a health catastrophe for the unconvicted Filton hunger strikers and the government denies all knowledge. Right, so you look at what’s happening to the Filton hunger strikers and you start to wonder how many people this government expects to collapse before it admits it knows what’s going on. Seven activists on remand starving in its prisons, two already in hospit...

Iran just found Israel's weak spot and are now busy exploiting it remorselessly. And there's nothing Israel can do about it either! Right, so Iran hasn’t fired a shot, hasn’t launched a drone, hasn’t even rattled the regional cage this time, yet Israeli media are acting like the Ayatollah has kicked a hole through their living-room wall. And all it took was a news channel being launched in Iran in...

Israel's delusions of Lebanese conquest have been dealt a big fat Hezbollah shaped blow from an unexpected source. Right, so you can tell something’s gone badly wrong for Israel when the person spelling it out isn’t a critic, or some regional rival they can laugh off, but US Ambassador Tom Barrack of all people — a man who’s moved comfortably through the same US power circuits Israel depends on. W...

An expose abroad has detonated the collusion between UK state and mainstream media - and it puts indy news outlets in the crosshairs. Right, so you know the state of British media is on its backside when an Australian FOI ruling ends up telling us how our own government runs censorship. Because that’s what’s happened here. A pile of Department for Defence Media Advisory Committee DSMA paperwork le...

With winter here and in desperation to keep warm, people in Gaza are burning rubbish, and one MK thinks it should cost them their lives. Right, so you look at the state of Israeli politics some days and think it can’t possibly get more brazen, and then a lawmaker sits in a Knesset committee and says Palestinians who burn rubbish should be shot or b*mbed and, somehow, the people in the room don’t f...

Microsoft is facing investor pressure from Norway and regulator pressure in Ireland for it's Israel links, so will they be held to account? Right, so Microsoft has spent years telling the world it’s the sensible one in Big Tech, the adult in the room, the company that doesn’t get itself dragged into political mud fights because it’s too busy selling trust and responsibility by the terabyte. Yet he...

The BBC has come out in support of the EBU decision to include Israel in next year's Eurovision - but then the BBC helps fund it out of the licence fee! Right, so here’s the thing about Eurovision this year, and the BBC I daresay might have really hoped nobody would join the dots on this – sorry, not sorry. Because while the Eurovision Broadcasting Union was busy insisting the contest is not polit...

The Trump plan for Gaza has taken an even darker turn as a UN block to a real peace plan to make way for it has just emerged. Right, so here’s the thing nobody at the United Nations wants to say out loud: Gaza didn’t get a peace plan this year, it got a paperwork barricade, and the only people it protects are the ones who built it. Colombia tried to drag the UN toward that fabled Uniting for Peace...

Eurovision has rolled over for Israel and four other nations have walked out over it, but another body HAS had the guts to so no to Israel... Right, so Eurovision has finally hit the point where the organisers can’t keep up the pretence anymore, because when Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Slovenia all walk rather than share a stage with Israel, it tells you the whole neutrality myth has rotte...