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Wes Streeting said Israel was committing war crimes. What now?

Post author:DANIA AKKAD
Post published:22 July 2026
Post last modified:22 July 2026

Andy Burnham’s new defence secretary is now responsible for the military treaty with a country he believes exhibits “rogue state behaviour” Late last July, as a famine unfolded in Gaza and Israeli settler attacks intensified in the West Bank, Wes Streeting texted a friend shortly before midnight. “Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes,” the then health secretary told Peter Mandelson over WhatsApp.“Their government talks the languages of ethnic cleansing and I have met with our own medics out there who describe the most chilling and distressing scenes of calculated brutality against women and children.”In messages that Streeting released earlier…

Inside Labour Together’s secret battle against Jeremy Corbyn

Post author:DANIA AKKAD
Post published:24 June 2026
Post last modified:2 July 2026

Newly released documents reveal the inner workings of Labour Together and its role in covertly undermining Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party. The documents were disclosed to Corbyn in response to a subject access request. They contain emails from Labour Together’s two key figures Morgan McSweeney and Josh Simons. McSweeney went on to be Keir Starmer’s chief of staff while Simons became a cabinet minister until he resigned following revelations that he had hired a reputation management firm to “proactively undermine” journalistic investigations into Labour Together, McSweeney and Sir Keir Starmer. Simons subsequently vacated his Makerfield constituency seat for Andy…

Could we be about to get wealth taxes in the UK?

Post author:oscar
Post published:7 June 2026
Post last modified:13 July 2026

This is an AI-written (but human-edited) summary of Gary’s recent video: The UK is closer to wealth taxes than ever before The UK is currently closer to introducing wealth taxes than at any point in the last 40 years. In this episode Gary unpacks the current political situation in the UK, and a potential route to getting wealth taxes from it. The Political Context The Labour government in freefall. Keir Starmer, who won an electoral landslide just two years ago, is now among the most unpopular prime ministers in modern British history. Labour were routed in local elections. Living standards have…