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Israel lobby groups demand Burnham roll back even milksop Gaza comments

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:12 July 2026
Post last modified:12 July 2026

Israel lobby groups wasted no time in demanding Andy Burnham pull back from even his watery comments on Israel’s crimes in Gaza. Burnham refused last week to call the genocide a genocide. Instead, he said Labour “didn’t get right” its response. That would be Keir Starmer endorsing Israel’s crimes against humanity by cutting off fuel and water to the besieged open-air concentration camp. And ordering the RAF to provide active support for the slaughter of Palestinians — and almost certainly UK aid workers. And Burnham dared to suggest — after almost three years of slaughter, starvation, targeting of children, hospitals, schools,…

Reform in shambles as even right-wing media turn on it

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:10 July 2026
Post last modified:11 July 2026

Reform is in disarray over Nigel Farage’s already-backfiring resignation gamble, so much that even hard-right media can’t hide it. In fact, some are even joining in the mockery. Reactionary horror Julia Hartley-Brewer, for example. Reform’s awful spokeswoman Laila Cunningham was having an even worse day than usual yesterday (9 July 2026). She even tried to contend that being a privately-educated banker — as Farage is — didn’t make you part of the establishment. No defence for Reform But Hartley-Brewer mercilessly dismantled Cunningham on Talk TV, exposing the party’s utter lack of preparation and credibility on – for example – defence: REFORM…

Burnham plans to take Starmer’s ‘censor for Israel’ plan even further

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:10 July 2026
Post last modified:11 July 2026

Presumptive new PM Andy Burnham has indicated that he will not undo any of his defunct predecessor’s war on UK rights and freedoms in support of Israel. In fact, he has made clear that he doesn’t think it’s tough enough and intends to take it further. Burnham picks up where Starmer left off For example, Burnham has said that he wants the under-16s ban to be delivered with urgency and reinforced the lies about doing it to ‘protect children’. But he thinks it is only a starting point: a “critical first step”. Burnham made a milksop apology yesterday for Labour’s ‘stance’…

UK regime’s debanking attack on Canary too much even for Trump administration

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:2 July 2026
Post last modified:3 July 2026

Lloyds bank’s debanking attack on the Canary has reached the US White House and drawn comment from Trump’s senior diplomacy official. Trump’s sanction-attacks on Francesca Albanese and International Criminal Court officials to protect Israel have been widely and rightly condemned. But, surprisingly, Trump’s ‘Under-Secretary for Public Diplomacy’ Sarah B Rogers has condemned the financial attack on free speech and independent journalism. In a post on her official X feed, Rogers said that the attack was clearly political and signalled a world that nobody should want to live in: Any financial institution doing business in the United States should take care to…

Blunted? Even the Wall Street Journal admits the US’s favourite weapon is rusting

Post author:Nandita Lal
Post published:25 June 2026
Post last modified:26 June 2026

The Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) latest feature on how American sanctions on Iran failed because China built a yuan-powered workaround will be a difficult read for Atlanticists. China has built up international trade in the yuan, giving Iran and Russia a way to evade sanctions https://t.co/EviGCVtlXW — The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 24, 2026 The piece falls shy of praising China’s financial system, which it says is aimed at weakening Washington’s power to dictate world affairs. The failure of the US’s Economic Fury is explained by WSJ as: “…… in late April when the U.S. escalated its “Economic Fury” campaign against…

Starmer was even more dangerous for disabled people than the Tories

Post author:Rachel Charlton-Dailey
Post published:23 June 2026
Post last modified:23 June 2026

Well, that’s it, Starmer has finally shuffled off. From behind his sad beige podium, the sad beige prime minister announced he would be resigning. Speaking outside Downing Street, Starmer boasted about ending austerity and working to improve Britain for all. However, for disabled people, Starmer’s short reign was even more dangerous than the Tories. When Labour got in, it was a small glimmer of hope; surely they couldn’t be as cruel as the Tories? But Starmer heard that and went ‘hold my beer’. Starmer’s Labour far crueller than the Tories From the outset, Starmer’s government has been focused on change for…

Israel is targeting Palestinian education, even in its prisons

Post author:Charlie Jaay
Post published:22 June 2026
Post last modified:22 June 2026

The Palestinian National Prisoner Movement has had a long and proud history. Decades of struggle inside the walls of Israel’s jails and detention centres have seen important advances in basic rights for those incarcerated, including in education. Israel’s tally of abuses against detainees But since the start of the genocide in Gaza, Israeli occupation authorities have reversed and cancelled these gains. Prisoners have been stripped of all their rights by the occupation. Instead, they are systematically humiliated, abused, and tortured. Students of all ages are being arrested and imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces (IOF). These detainees must not only cope with…

Starmer has never put the country first – not even in his final, insipid act

Post author:Rachael Swindon
Post published:22 June 2026
Post last modified:23 June 2026

It has finally happened. Keir Starmer, the man who promised to deliver “change” with all the revolutionary fervour of a Lib Dem focus group, has slithered out of Downing Street like a deflated balloon animal after a kids’ party gone wrong. Two years. That’s all it took for the great anti-Tory Labour landslide of 2024 to collapse into a humiliating pile of U-turns, scandals, and moral cowardice. Today, as he stood outside No. 10 delivering his resignation speech – all misty-eyed about his fantastic wife and being the best dad to his kids – I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.…

Even whilst under investigation, Farage is still shilling for his crypto-billionaire benefator

Post author:Grace
Post published:19 June 2026
Post last modified:19 June 2026

Even whilst he’s under investigation for taking an undeclared £5m ‘gift’ from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, Nigel Farage is still attempting to block a new cryptocurrency plan at the Bank of England (BoE). Something which could obviously hurt his biggest donor’s bottom line. Harborne is part-owner of Tether Limited Inc. The company issues the eponymous cryptocurrency stablecoin ‘Tether’. Because Tether’s value is pegged to that of the US dollar, it allows users to trade their cryptocurrency for real-world money and vice versa. This fact makes it the most popular cryptocurrency in the world. Nevertheless, Tether Limited’s profits actually fell somewhat over…

Even eyesight is restricted for Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s tortorous prisons

Post author:Ben Marmarelli
Post published:6 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

Even eyesight is not taken for granted in the prisons of Israel. I am a human rights lawyer. I have had a client for four years now, and we have become good friends. I try to visit him as often as possible, sometimes without payment, sometimes for a tiny payment from his family. I have filed many petitions on his behalf without charging for them. I love him and he loves me. This client has been in prison since the days of the Second Intifada. Back then, he was a 22-year-old young man who helped his friends buy a pistol –…