Kernow Damo

Right, so the Cheeto-dusted Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump has declared there is a deal with Iran. A peace deal. A great deal. The best deal there ever was, obviously. All while, supposedly, he was about to attack Kharg Island, because nothing says calm diplomatic breakthrough quite like threatening to seize the other country’s oil hub before teatime. Pistol Pete Hegseth must be sobbing in a corn...

Right, so the bloviating orange oaf Donald Trump’s sales pitch in recent days was that Iran was going to pay, but the trouble with warfare is that they guy who signs off on it, doesn’t necessarily get to choose where everything ends up landing and this one did not stay where Little Donnie wanted it. It has now moved from Washington’s war room to a tanker off Oman, It has moved onto Indian sailors,...

Right, so this is Belfast, this is where the far right is attacking homes, looking for black and brown people, homes getting torched, cars getting burned out, families looking at the remains of homes they had nothing to do with losing. A pogrom triggered off the back of a serious attack, a knife attack, with the suspect having been charged and remanded in custody, all now being weaponised by this...

Right, so Israel built itself a buffer zone in Lebanon to tell the north that the danger had been pushed away, and then the Israeli army had to announce that one armed man crossed from Lebanon near Ramim Ridge and breached the border. That's the event with the military varnish scraped off. One man. Israel called him a terrorist, public reporting says it was unclear whether he was even affiliated w...

Right, so the tangerine toddler Donald Trump has managed the rather impressive feat of taking a helicopter incident near the Strait of Hormuz, using it as his excuse to hit Iran again, so much for claiming he wanted out of this mess, and then watching US-linked bases across Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan come under fire. Trump wanted a strong response, Trump ordered strikes on Iran, and Iran answered...

Right, so Israel hit Beirut, Iran answered having warned them against doing just that, and now the Houthis are back on the scene. The Yemeni Armed Forces have claimed missile strikes toward Jaffa and then declared Israeli maritime navigation in the Red Sea banned, with Israeli-linked movement treated as a military target. So not only is the Strait of Hormuz now shut, so is the Bab el Mandeb Strait...

Right, so Iran fired missiles at Israel after Israel struck Beirut, and COGAT, the Israeli Defence Ministry body that controls civilian coordination and access for Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territory, said crossings into Gaza would be closed until further notice as a result, including Kerem Shalom and Rafah. So Netanyahu's government took a hit from Iran, and then, right on cue, took it ou...

Right, so Israel struck Beirut's southern suburb after widening its attacks across Lebanon, Israeli-linked reporting framed it as a warning, an equation-setting attack, rather than some uniquely urgent assassination that could not wait all in defiance of that supposed ceasefire in place, things Israel never seems to trouble itself with anyway. And at this point, well, Iran then decided it had had...

Right, so Iran has just done something no enemy of the United States was supposed to manage. It has run the most expensive air force on earth out of drones. The US has reportedly lost nearly 30 MQ-9 Reapers in its war with Iran, and now the Air Force is going cap in hand to General Atomics, the company that builds them, only to be told there are fewer than 10 "new" MQ-9As left for any customer any...

Right, so Netanyahu just lost something money and lobbying cannot buy back, and he did not lose it to Iran or to Hezbollah. He lost it to America's own Pentagon. The US military's intelligence arm has reportedly moved Israel from high to critical on its counterintelligence threat list, which means America's closest regional ally is now being treated like a hostile spy service by the very people wh...

Right, so Starmer's courts are about to hang the terrorist label on four people no jury ever convicted of terrorism, and the jury that did convict them was reportedly never told it was coming. That is the move being made right now. No terrorism conviction. No jury finding that these people were terrorists. They were found guilty of criminal damage for an action at an Elbit Systems factory near Bri...

Right, so Kuwait's main airport has been hit. Terminal 1 wrecked. One person dead. Dozens wounded by Kuwait's own count. The runway frozen, the building emptied, flights diverted, and the national carrier crawling back to life out of a different terminal hours later like nothing happened. And the question half the internet is asking is the right one, in a lot of ways: why Kuwait? Why not the UAE,...

Netanyahu isn't so much jumping to Trump's tune as judging how far he can be pushed and 'crazy' frankly isn't a strong enough word... Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has just been told no by the one man on earth he was certain would never say it to him. He couldn’t afford to surely? Not a soft no, not a diplomatic cough into the sleeve, not one of those meaningless little Washington noises that gets...

Donald Trump has already had Iran demonstrate once that hitting them will see him hit back, but being hard of thinking, of course he's done it again... Right, so Donald Trump is out there telling everyone the Iran war is basically sorted, the deal is close, Tehran is desperate and the grown-ups have it under control. And then Kuwait spent this morning shooting things out of its own sky. The Kuwait...

Israel's ongoing problems with Hezbollah's FPV drones have peaked again, as his conquest of a castle blows up in their faces. Right, so Saturday night into Sunday, Israeli troops climbed a hill in southern Lebanon, walked into a 900-year-old Crusader fortress called Beaufort, and ran two flags up over it, the flag of the state and the flag of the Golani Brigade. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli pri...

Barring far right incitement from entering the UK is one thing, but now it is happening for the sake of protecting Israel only. Right, so Keir Starmer's government has just stopped two of the loudest critics of Israel in American media from getting into Britain, and the only reason it's prepared to say out loud is a phrase with no content in it. Cenk Uygur, the founder of the US online network The...

As Israel cheers sticking a flag on Beaufort Castle, it's Lebanon invasion belies utter failure back on their northern border... Right, so Israel has just planted its flag on top of a nine-hundred-year-old castle in southern Lebanon, and it still couldn't keep the schools open in its own north. That is the whole story in one breath. The Israeli military announced on Sunday that its troops had take...

The Starmer government's determination to see palestine Action sent down appears to now be providing cover for something even more sinister... Right, so a café owner in Manchester went to a police station to pick up devices the police had taken off him in an earlier case, and the police, instead of just handing them back, sat him down and tried to recruit him as a spy. Shams Sadiq, fifty-one years...

As Reform's Makerfield candidate cracks up further, Labour and the Greens seem intent on self sabotage. Right, so Reform UK walked into Makerfield looking for blood, and the first body on the floor turned out to be their own candidate. Makerfield is a working-class seat just outside Wigan, in Greater Manchester, an old Labour heartland Reform has spent two years desperate to crack open to prove it...

A hidden section of an upcoming US war bill is about to hand Israel the keys to the US defence kingdom and nobody is talking about it Right, so the week most of the American public turned against arming Israel, Congress quietly handed Israel something it has wanted for years and could never get through the front door. Not more rifles. Not another shipment of bombs. A merger. There's a single page...

Trump thought he was sending Iran a message; The reply came back with a new return address courtesy of Kuwait. Right, so Iran has fired a missile at an American air base in Kuwait, and the worst part of that sentence, for Trump anyway, isn't the Iranian bit. It's the American bit. Because it's the United States military itself, through Central Command, the lot who run every American operation acro...

Hezbollah's unstoppable drones have found a new target amongst the IDF - and it's causing some proper panic. Right, so the officer Israel handed one of its proudest armoured brigades is lying in a hospital in Haifa with a serious head wound, and the thing that put him there cost less than a second-hand motorbike. His name is Colonel Meir Biderman. He is forty-one, he commands the 401st Armoured Br...

The sham that is Trump's Board of Peace has come to a head with the announcement it's broke - so where did all the billions paid go? Right, so Donald Trump's grand Gaza peace machine has just been caught with nothing in the till. The official fund set up to rebuild Gaza, the one administered by the World Bank, endorsed by the United Nations, the one he stood up in January with all the fanfare of a...

Sheer lunacy from Trump as his Iran deal continues to implode, now threatening to bomb the mediators on camera! Right, so Trump did not threaten Iran last week. He threatened Oman. That is the tell. Not the bluster, not the sanctions announcement, not the press conference posturing, but the specific, deranged choice of target. When the man who spent months selling himself as the dealmaker who was...

Israel’s secret mosque theft plot has leaked, and the one thing they forgot could wreck the whole plan before it even starts. Right, so this past Eid al-Fitr, Israel did something it hadn't done since 1967. It shut Palestinians out of the famous Al-Aqsa Mosque altogether. Barricaded gates, the Old City sealed, worshippers down on prayer mats in the open road outside the walls because they couldn't...