Kernow Damo

Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to torch through what regional reporting is saying is the equivalent of thirty years’ of normal ammunition use in less than three. Thirty years. That’s Bibi’s idea of portion control apparently: empty the buffet, burn the kitchen down, then ask America if it does refills. You need Slimming World sunshine. His army is holding fifty-three thousand reservists...

Right, so tiny violins at the ready folks, because things seem to be going all wrong again for Benjamin Netanyahu. All of this war against Iran was meant to leave Tehran battered, isolated, and standing outside the Middle East's version of a nightclub as if they’d just turned up wearing Crocs. Instead, Saudi Arabia has signed a new defence pact with Türkiye and Pakistan, Iranian officials have bee...

Right, so you can tell your gold-plated security plan is going well when the big idea is to put the oil tanks inside a giant hamster cage. Because that is exactly what you are looking at here. Huge steel-and-mesh structures have been built around fuel-storage tanks in the United Arab Emirates, including near Dubai International Airport. Cages. Around the fuel. The UAE has spent years selling itsel...

Right, so Britain has just spent almost three years and a mountain of public money trying to transform three tweets from Tony Greenstein, a 72-year-old Jewish anti-Zionist from Brighton, into the Philosopher's Stone of terrorism convictions and all they produced for themselves was an even bigger mountain of embarrassment. Greenstein's supposed crime? He was accused of inviting support for Hamas, b...

Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu made Iran the defining mission of the man he personally installed at the top of Mossad. He even said it out loud at this chap Roman Gofman’s appointment. “This is your mission, Roman.” Barely nine weeks later, two of the most senior people working on that mission had reportedly been removed from their posts though. One headed Mossad’s Intelligence Directorate. The othe...

Right, so Britain would have us believe it is furious about the lack of justice in Gaza. Furious enough to call Israel's decision not to prosecute anyone over the killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers back in 2024 as "shameful". Three of those workers were of course British. But apparently Britain's anger fades as soon as someone suggests opening the filing cabinet of course, because...

Right, so Labour's crackdown on Palestine Action has just run into a jury-shaped obstacle at the Old Bailey. Eight weeks in court. Thirty-seven hours of deliberation. One conviction, but no verdicts against seven supposed organisers. And this has happened while Labour’s broader ban on Palestine Action has led to a prosecution backlog so large that 1,579 section 13 cases had to be managed through a...

Right, so Israel’s main airport has just gone to pieces on its busiest day. Check-in shut, landings were halted and passengers filled the terminal and Benjamin Netanyahu’s answer was to threaten to fire the workers. The problem for him? Twenty-four hours earlier, he’d turned up at the same airport for a visit about how those workers were keeping everything going, Israel was ticking over because of...

Right, so Israel has decided to lob a few bombs at a Syrian airbase, just a stone’s throw from the Turkish border. Turkey, ever the picture of calm, insists it had no troops there, wasn’t given a heads-up, and just watched Israeli jets cruise by like it was an airshow, while America’s envoy helpfully points out that Ankara could have, you know, started World War Three over this if it had felt like...

Right, so around 100,000 people are now calling for a media inquiry into what happened to Jason Arday. At the same time, Andy Burnham's Government is considering whether the solution to the internet being a dumping ground for fake news is to give the largest newspaper groups and television news channels special access to the top of your feed, because they are oh so trustworthy. Keir Starmer’s last...

Right, so Itamar Ben-Gvir appeared on former Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski's podcast to complain that Netanyahu had reduced strikes in Gaza under the ceasefire. He of course wanted the strikes ramped up again, to no surprise whatsoever, but while explaining his reasoning, he managed to undermine his own security justification in a single sentence, leaving Netanyahu holding the burnt remains of wh...

Right, so Saudi Arabia has spent years backing the government-aligned side in Yemen. Part of the promise was that its side could rebuild things, run things and offer people something other than permanent war, that of course the Saudi’s themselves in no small part have caused. Mocha port was supposed to be part of that. And then along came the Houthis. Saudi Arabia channels much of this rebuilding...

Right, so Israel's propaganda operation told everyone to check their facts about Gaza, and, unsurprisingly, checking those facts leads you right back to Israel's own state-funded propaganda. It’s like handing the burglar the keys to the evidence room, then acting surprised when the trail ends at his own front door. Bibi the Burglar apparently. Because when investigators actually did what Bibi sugg...

Right, so behold, Trump's Lebanon framework, presented in all its real-world mess. It’s turned out to be less art of the deal and more like finger painting whilst blindfolded. It's a US-brokered plan that ties Israeli withdrawal to Lebanese army deployment and some supposed 'verified disarmament,' but there's no deadline anywhere. Israel even gets a say in when it's time to leave, which is a bit l...

Right, so Israel decided it was time for another round of warfare inside Syria. Apparently, it is not a proper week unless something explodes across yet another border for them it seems. Nothing unusual here, though sadly is there? Israel bombing someone, be it Gaza or Lebanon or the West Bank has become so routine it barely gets a mention on the news, so maybe Syria will liven things up a bit. Ex...

Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has spent the last several months strutting around like a peacock with a megaphone, insisting Iran’s missile program was toast for years. Meanwhile, Pete Kegsbreath, who is never one to let a good exaggeration go to waste, said the US had definitely, most certainly and almost assuredly set Iran’s missile machinations back for decades. Decades! Which is a hell of a long...

Right, so Donald Trump's conflict with Iran was meant to show that America still dominates the region. He is of course also still deluding himself that the US controls the Strait of Hormuz. He says it's complete control. And yet as seemingly sure as night follows day, something else comes out to remind us as if we need it, that his grip on reality is a slippery one. American embassies are now gett...

Right, so Donald Trump's major campaign against the International Criminal Court has hit a rather big snag. The American people themselves. Well, some of them at least anyway. Four American organisations now say Trump's ICC sanctions have affected them as well. Not because Donald has personally marched into Human Rights Watch headquarters with his little book of sanctions, all written out in gold...

Right, so Israel has already faced criticism over Tommy Robinson, but it seems the fallout has not gone away and if anything, Israel’s problems off the back of this have only gotten bigger. In October 2025, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, AKA Robinson AKA Tommy Ten-Names travelled to Israel at the personal invitation of Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism. And...

Right, so there it is. Even Benjamin Netanyahu now admits Israel is losing ground with Americans. He just has a rather convenient explanation for why . It’s social media. It’s propaganda. It’s what young Americans are being shown. It’s Israel supposedly losing the information war. What it apparently isn’t is anything Benjamin Netanyahu or his government might actually have done. Funny that. And wh...

Right, so nearly three-quarters of England is now officially in drought, it is definitely boiling down here in Cornwall plus 30 degrees is not much fun when you’ve got no air con and the fan is merely fanning the flames of the furnace you’re trapped in. Forty-five million people are now part of the great English drought drama, with over 27 million of us cast as 'thirsty extras' under some water re...

Right, so it seems America has now come up with a fresh answer to the Strait of Hormuz. Greenland. Yes, Greenland again. Trump’s other fever dream obsession. Why try to untangle a massive Middle Eastern situation you in no small part helped create when you can just point to another spot on the globe and declare there’s plenty of oil there instead? Trump’s representative in Greenland, Louisiana gov...

Right, so that was Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan there, saying Iranians are no strangers to the region’s politics. Iran’s involvement is needed now. This is not exactly the outcome Benjamin Netanyahu had in mind for the Middle East is it? That’s a rotten turn of events, please do get your tiny violins out to play him a jaunty tune. Perhaps someone might want to hand Bibi a stress ball befo...

Right, so it seems the Strait of Hormuz might not matter anymore. Well there’s a twist after 5 months of war basically closed the bloody thing to most shipping, closed one of the most important energy transport routes in the world for the likes of oil and gas; presumably the orange wombat in the White House just blockaded it for s**ts and giggles then? Who knew? Yet after months of war, blockades,...

Right, so now it seems Donald Trump is in charge of the Strait of Hormuz. Good to know. Maybe someone should mention that to the people actually trying to get ships through in which case. Some unlucky corporate executive just paid twenty-three to twenty-five million dollars to rent a supertanker for a quick trip into the Gulf to pick up Iraqi crude. Bargain of the century, if your idea of a good t...