Kernow Damo

Right, so this is what a “withdrawal framework” looks like now, apparently. Not a convoy leaving. Not a border post being handed back. Smoke. Lebanon gets told there is a deal. A framework. A peace step. A route back to sovereignty. You can almost smell the conference-room coffee. And then the ground blows up, because Israel’s idea of withdrawal, by the look of it, comes with a detonator in the we...

Right, so Ben-Gvir was apparently meant to be heading to New York. For of all things, a police summit. Yes, Ben-Gvir at a police summit, because apparently irony died and was buried, complete with a judicial badge pinned to the coffin. But then something funny happened. Not so much funny ha-ha, more funny “oh look, there’s lawyers at the airport.” The Hind Rajab Foundation and the Center for Const...

Right, so Keir Starmer’s Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, a woman who has just now decided to take herself and her department off of Twitter due because despite it being her brief, legislating its behaviour appears to be beyond her has gone to Parliament with a plan for “trusted news” online, because apparently Independent media outlets are a much safer target. What counts as trusted news though? Pub...

Right, so Israel’s grand security zone in southern Lebanon has apparently reached the “put a shop-window soldier in the firing line and hope for the best” phase. Despite talks of some miracle new defence system in the offing, this is not a fancy laser, it is not a brand new air defence system to be deployed in Lebanon called the iron scrotum or some such other daft name, not one of those glossy st...

Right, so this is the bit of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Iran War victory lap that he’s been running for months now, no it wasn’t all about running away from his corruption trial apparently, that he doesn’t want anywhere near, because you can say “contained” as many times as you like. You can say “localised”, “manageable”, “operational”, all those lovely little words officials use when something is on fi...

Right, so Bezalel Smotrich has looked back at the Hamas hostage story, the families, the people who never came home, the deals he fought, the war his government kept selling as “total victory,” and somehow arrived at the conclusion that what this whole thing really needed was a round of applause for Bezalel Smotrich. Because of course it did. Why have grief, negotiations, pressure, families campin...

Right, so Palantir, the giant US surveillance-tech firm that keeps turning up wherever public systems, police data, health data and state power are being bundled into something shiny and expensive, has just hit a rather awkward patch of road, you’ll be broken hearted to hear I’m sure. Its boss has been boasting about Israel. Europe is starting to back away. France is moving off. Spain has reported...

Right, so Lloyds, one of the biggest banks in Britain, has cut off The Canary from its own cash. This isn’t demonetising a YouTube video. Not suspending a social media account. Not sending one of those cheery little “we’re updating our terms” emails that everyone deletes while making tea. A bank account. The thing a media outlet needs to pay staff, pay contractors, take donations, pay bills, and k...

Right, so Israel invaded Syria and lost the phone. Not a metaphor. Not a joke. Well, it is a joke, unfortunately for the IDF, tiny violin time again, but it’s also the news. Israeli forces went into Abdin, in southern Syria’s Daraa province and the locals said to themselves we’re not having this. Residents blocked roads. Stones were thrown. Young men and boys were apparently among those throwing t...

Right, so Israel has got itself a shiny new Lebanon deal. A ceasefire deal. A de-escalation deal. A Washington-backed framework, which means they don’t need to cease firing at all. Very serious people have apparently been very seriously working on this, which is always comforting, isn't it? Nothing says peace quite like a conference table full of people who won't be anywhere near the blast radius....

Right, so this is one of those stories where the danger isn't wearing a helmet, waving a flag, or kicking someone's door in at six in the morning. It's sitting in a Bill. Nice and quiet. Grey paper, serious title, national security sprayed all over it, but not in a nice way, more like a skunk. Starmer seems to be thinking just how much authoritarian borderline fascist policy can I ram through befo...

Right, so The Canary has just been debanked and this is something that should raise immediate alarm bells with all of us. An independent media outlet has just had its banking services withdrawn. A fundraiser is now being launched to help keep it going, and I’m covering this because when an independent media organisation is financially cut off like this, we are looking at something much bigger than...

Right, so Israel's war machine has run into a problem. Not more Hamas or Hezbollah tunnels. Not a wave of drones they didn’t see coming. Not the Iranian bogeyman wheeled out for the cameras because Netanyahu needs another week of political oxygen as his actions leave Israel gasping for breath. It’s an invoice. The little bit of paper that turns up after the speeches are over, after the flags are p...

Right, so before we even get to this war-crimes complaint heading Itamar Ben-Gvir’s way, let’s just remind ourselves for a moment at what this soulless psychopath apparently thought made him look strong. The minister, the flag, the detainees on the ground with their hands bound with zip ties, the little stroll-through like he's inspecting a prize-winning marrow at a village fair, except the marrow...

Right, so Donald Trump’s great Iran MoU has reached the stage every American peace deal in West Asia seems to reach sooner or later: somebody starts bombing the peace partner. Beautiful stuff. Tremendous diplomacy. The sort of peace framework where the ink is still drying, the Gulf is already lighting up, Israel is measuring curtains in southern Lebanon, and Nabih Berri, the Lebanese Parliamentary...

Right, so Britain's doctors have just done something the Israel lobby will absolutely hate. They have taken IHRA, one of Israel's favourite institutional weapons, the one that gets waved around every time someone criticises what Israel is doing to Palestinians, and they've put it straight in the NHS bin. And no, before the usual bad-faith sock puppets start limbering up, this is not doctors saying...

Right, so this is what peace looks like now, apparently. Burning tyres in Beirut. Lebanese anger in the streets. The army going in. Warning flyers over the south. And in Washington, a signing table dressed up like the birth of sovereignty while Israel is still talking about a security zone it very much gets to keep. They want you watching the handshake. They want you watching the pens. They want "...

Right, so Donald Trump's Iran ceasefire has now reached the completely normal and peaceful stage where the United States bombs Iran again. Not metaphorically. Not in sanctions language. Not with one of those anaemic State Department statements where everyone pretends "deep concern" is a policy. Actually bombs it. A target screen. A blast. Smoke. And "Unclassified" stamped across the top of it. Thi...

Right, so Israel’s latest Lebanon withdrawal apparently lasted about ten minutes. Ten minutes. You can boil pasta longer than that. You can sit through a Keir Starmer speech longer than that, although frankly nobody should have to, by minute seven consciousness will be touch and go. But for about ten minutes, Lebanon was told Israel had begun pulling back. President Joseph Aoun was reportedly info...

Right, so let’s start here. Start with a school because when Israeli forces are inside a girls’ school, and then a UN-mandated inquiry turns round and says Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted, it all takes a decided turn for the sinister. Israel would very much like this story filed in a dusty old drawer marked “UN bias”, because of course they would. UN says something about Gaza?...

Right, so Andy Burnham’s great Labour reset has barely got its shoes under the table and it’s already imploding on him, but then how many Labour leaders – it looks like he’s going to get the gig unchallenged at this point, so we mighty as well get used to referring to him as such – are going to repeat the word change without meaning to actually deliver any? New face, new tone, new start, new path,...

Right, so Netanyahu says Israel still has a free hand in Lebanon. Full freedom. No restrictions. No limits. The IDF can move as it likes, strike as it likes, stay as long as it likes, because apparently southern Lebanon is now just an patio extension north of the Israeli border with a few extra craters. Lovely. And that was the line he wanted to sell. Strong leader. Clear directive. Security zone....

Right, so that is not a resistance spokesman. That is not an Iranian negotiator. That’s a big orange wombat – waste of money, breath and time. However, if you can claw through some the digression there, an actual salient point was being made, in that Trump has looked at Israel’s ongoing military aggression in Lebanon, all in defiance of his Iran deal of course and said in effect: you keep flatteni...

Right, so Keir Starmer has finally got the message then. Good. Only about six years too late. And I know you are not supposed to say that too loudly on the day they finally show some emotion and choke at the lectern. Well, I’m not the mainstream media, I’m not going to go about eulogising this guy. Even his resignation speech wasn’t that original, it was like Theresa May’s all over again in some p...

Right, so get a load of this guy. If you aren’t aware of who this little sausage is, this is a chap by the name of Danny Danon, he pops up on TV interviews from time to time as a sometime go to motormouth of the Israeli regime – an excuse maker who is more than happy to raise his voice and shout down other people as so many Zionists seem to treat as their standard media tactic when someone dares b...