Kernow Damo

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...

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...