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Former military general and hard-right ‘think tank’ are lobbying for nukes

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Former military general and hard-right ‘think tank’ are lobbying for nukes

A hard-right think tank and a former military general with links to arms firms have released a report lobbying for nuclear weapons funding. The report, fronted by former top general Richard Dannatt, was published by the 878 Institute. The ‘think tank’ subscribes to the same bizarre ‘civilisational’ ideology loved by AI billionaires. Its ‘head of defence’ is a former soldier linked to another reactionary ‘think tank’ — The Henry Jackson Society (HJS). The 878 Institute published a new report on 1 August titled ‘Britain’s Military Deterrence Gaps’. Among other things, it warns that the UK’s nuclear weapons programme is being ‘hollowed…

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UEFA’s ‘rival’ World Cup threat rattles Infantino

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UEFA’s ‘rival’ World Cup threat rattles Infantino

A ‘rival’ World Cup could become the latest weapon against Gianni Infantino. UEFA and its allies are reportedly considering the idea as part of a wider challenge to FIFA’s leadership and direction. According to the Times, UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation and CONCACAF are weighing a series of measures to pressure FIFA. These include reviving the “World Nations League” concept as leverage in their dispute with Infantino. The proposal wouldn’t immediately create a rival to FIFA’s flagship tournament. Moreover, there is no indication that a launch decision has been made. But its revival shows how far opposition to Infantino has escalated.…

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Infantino’s Trump card cannot stop FIFA revolt

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Infantino’s Trump card cannot stop FIFA revolt

Gianni Infantino’s FIFA presidency is facing perhaps its most serious challenge since he took charge in 2016. Federations are turning against him, with former allies withdrawing support, UEFA openly challenging his decisions and critics questioning the way he runs FIFA. The immediate trigger has been the fallout over plans to privatise part of the World Cup’s commercial rights. What began as a dispute over a business proposal has grown into a wider challenge to Infantino’s authority and his bid to secure a fourth term as FIFA president. Until recently, Infantino’s path to another term appeared secure. However, the alliances that sustained…

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Palestinians face escalating settler attacks in the West Bank

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Palestinians face escalating settler attacks in the West Bank

Illegal Israeli settlers have intensified their campaign of harassment, intimidation and terror across the occupied West Bank. Recent episodes mark a significant ratcheting up of attacks against Palestinian civilians. Supported and protected by Israeli occupation forces (IOF), settlers have been assaulting residents, seizing land, and vandalising or torching property. Settlers desecrate Palestinian cemetery In Tal, southwest of Nablus, armed settlers returned a week after the deadly shooting that killed four Palestinians and two “Israelis”. They raided the village and its surroundings several times. They were accompanied by IOF soldiers who arrested several residents. In the same week, settlers vandalised a Palestinian…

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Right-wing press blame anything but human-made climate change for deadly wildfires

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Right-wing press blame anything but human-made climate change for deadly wildfires

Right-wing newspapers are blaming Europe’s blazing wildfires on anything but climate change and its human-made causes. As almost every scientist (>99%) agrees, fossil fuels primarily cause climate change. But that doesn’t stop the likes of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Times, Telegraph, or Daily Mail from deflecting beyond parody. (As a reminder, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp owns the first two of these.) Europe is burning, badly As wildfires spread across Europe, hundreds of thousands are evacuating homes. We’re on track to see 500,000 hectares burned within weeks. The fires have killed at least 32 people, but the heat is the real killer. In…

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US buys yen to stop Japan from wrecking America’s bond market

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US buys yen to stop Japan from wrecking America’s bond market

Japan is the largest foreign holder of US Treasuries, and its currency – the yen – is in trouble. The yen recently hit a 40-year low against the US dollar. The US Treasury had joined Japan’s finance authorities in an intervention last week ​to prop up the yen. Japanese investors collectively own about $1 trillion in Treasuries – so preserving them means preserving the world’s biggest buyer of U.S. debt. Because if Tokyo dumps U.S. debt, the U.S.’s $40 trillion borrowing problem just got a whole lot more expensive. So, the US is basically just avoiding a sell-off in US Treasuries by…

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Oil companies heist is so blatant even Trump is complaining

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Oil companies heist is so blatant even Trump is complaining

Ecocidal oil companies are raking in so much money that even the most corrupt American president in history – Donald Trump – has to make a public show of disapproval at least. US-based Chevron reported its largest quarterly net profit ever, at $12.1 billion; ExxonMobil’s $14.5 billion second-quarter income and Shell’s $10.8 billion in net earnings represented their most profitable quarters spince 2022, when they previously benefited from the Russia-Ukraine war. Trump pipes up Trump told reporters on Monday: I don’t like it. Chevron, too much money. ExxonMobil, too much. Too much money. Let’s hope this fake outrage from Trump isn’t fooling…

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‘Palliative and social care must be fixed before assisted dying debate’

‘Palliative and social care must be fixed before assisted dying debate’

Andy Burnham has said that the debate on assisted dying shouldn’t happen until palliative and social care are improved. Speaking to Sky News reporter Sam Coates after delivering a speech on adult social care in England, he said: I take the view that that debate, and I don’t say that there shouldn’t be a debate at some point about those issues, personally I think there’s something that needs to happen first, and that’s the fixing of the funding of palliative care and social care. I think it is very challenging to introduce that wider debate in a context of people not…

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Lawyers’ statement on Miller’s anti-Zionism win shows Bristol appeal smashed

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Lawyers’ statement on Miller’s anti-Zionism win shows Bristol appeal smashed

Academic David Miller’s explosive win this morning against Bristol University’s attempt to overturn an employment tribunal finding has shown how comprehensively the university’s appeal was defeated. The university sacked anti-Zionist professor Miller after an Israel lobby pressure campaign. To do so, it ignored two separate investigations by its own lawyers that concluded Miller had said nothing antisemitic in his critiques of Zionism and Israel lobby pressure. Comprehensive failure But to justify its appeal, the university put together a Byzantine document. It contained nine ‘grounds of appeal’, most of which were subdivided into smaller grounds – and some of those divided again. Yet…

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Campaigners demand Andy Burnham delivers Autism Strategy

Campaigners demand Andy Burnham delivers Autism Strategy

Disabled campaigners have written to Andy Burnham to demand he immediately establishes a new autistic-led Autism Strategy ahead of the Autumn Budget. Deliver for Autism, a newly formed advocacy group, has published an open letter calling on the prime minister to not let autistic people down. The letter was created by autistic campaigner Chelsea Webster, and backed by well-known disabled campaigners and allies, such as Elle McNicoll, Lou Chandler and Sally Phillips. Autism Strategy must be developed ‘now’ Webster says in the letter: I am asking you to support autistic people by committing to a working group made up of diverse…

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Manchester’s lowest-ever election turnout results broken down

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Manchester’s lowest-ever election turnout results broken down

After a string of high-profile elections, Greater Manchester has elected another Labour mayor in Bev Craig. On the face of things, that might seem like nothing much of a change. But having been around Gorton and Denton, local elections, Makerfield and the mayoral, I can assure readers that things have changed in the region. For progressives, that change isn’t looking too great. Burnham got over 420k votes last time so 251,449 is not good for Labour. — Lady Jane Simkins (@JaneSim66) July 31, 2026 Manchester experiences poor voter turnout The most striking statistic is undoubtedly dire voter turnout on Thursday. Only…

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Desperate US military asks analysts to brainstorm ways to beat Iran

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Desperate US military asks analysts to brainstorm ways to beat Iran

A desperate US government has asked junior analysts to brainstorm ways to beat Iran. The Trump administration is refusing to accept defeat despite having been locked into a stand off with the country. CNN described what it called a “crowdsourcing” effort in a report this week: “We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” an officer in US Central Command’s intelligence branch wrote in a message sent Wednesday to a broad group of military analysts, according to a source familiar with the message. Adding: A second source also said that a senior US military officer…

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Burnham’s donors have a history of spouting Zionist racism

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Burnham’s donors have a history of spouting Zionist racism

So far, Andy Burnham has not revealed who funded the Makerfield campaign that precipitated his rapid ascent to Prime Minister. However, on the same day as his by-election victory, upon which he automatically vacated his previous post as mayor of Greater Manchester, Burnham registered £27,000 in “mayoral campaigning donations”. One of the donors was ex-Blairite Minister and now life peer David Blunkett. Burnham and Blunkett In 2023, Blunkett, a long-standing supporter of Labour Friends of Israel, proclaimed that MPs calling for a ceasefire in Gaza were engaging in “gesture politics” and should “grow up”. He added that Keir Starmer was right…

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Your Party spokesperson resigns from officers’ group

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Your Party spokesperson resigns from officers’ group

The Your Party (YP) exodus continues in the wake of the several suspensions and Jeremy Corbyn having rejected the no-confidence vote in the central executive committee (CEC) chairperson and secretary. Noor Jahan Begum has resigned as YP’s elected spokesperson citing “serious concerns” over the party’s standards and legal compliance. In a resignation statement dating back to about three weeks ago, but which just leaked, Begum wrote: Dear All, I am saddened to inform you that, with immediate effect, I have resigned from my position as a member of the Officers Group. I was elected to serve as your spokesperson, and I…

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Reform UK re-hash failed, ridiculous plan to use navy to stop migrants

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Reform UK re-hash failed, ridiculous plan to use navy to stop migrants

Far-right Reform UK have re-hashed a failed plan to use the navy to stop channel migrants. The scheme was tried and discredited years ago, yet leading Reform figures are trying to promote it. Another day, another batshit fascist idea. And they even based it on recent events in Morocco. The Guardian reported on 3 July that Farage had claimed: his party would launch the “largest military operation in the English Channel since world war two” to prevent small boat crossings. Needless to say, Farage and co are currently under the hammer about massive, shady donations. Internal crises are usually when dubious…

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Tribunal confirms legally-protected status of anti-Zionism

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Tribunal confirms legally-protected status of anti-Zionism

Anti-Zionism is a legally ‘protected belief’ under UK equality law, a tribunal reiterated in the case of Professor David Miller, who was dismissed by Bristol University after an Israel lobby pressure campaign. The university’s own lawyers had twice found there was no evidence of antisemitism against Miller. His landmark 2024 tribunal victory against the university set the legal precedent that anti-Zionist beliefs are legally protected. The university appealed to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), which confirmed this morning that the precedent is legally binding. Taking to X this morning, Miller wrote: ANTI-ZIONISM PROTECTED BY UK LAW We have set a binding…

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15 year old Palestinian on life support five months after Israel arrest

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15 year old Palestinian on life support five months after Israel arrest

15 year old Mohammad Suleiman Hamed, was detained by genocidal Israel. Because he suffered no previous health conditions, his family was surprised by a call from Physicians for Human Rights, informing them their son would undergo surgery in the hospital. Hamed is now unconscious, on life support in the intensive care unit of the “Israeli” Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, in occupied Jerusalem. Israel carrying out systematic torture Hamed, from the town of Tuqu, Southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, was held in the juvenile section of Ofer Prison. He has endured torture, starvation, abuse, denial of family and International…

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NHS to reevaluate Palantir effectiveness following pushback

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NHS to reevaluate Palantir effectiveness following pushback

The NHS’s contract with Palantir is controversial for a number of reasons – not least because the US spy-tech company is supporting Israel’s genocide. Another issue with the contract is that the technology Palantir provides may not actually produce any benefits. And as the Financial Times (FT) are now reporting, the NHS is having to change how it evaluates Palantir’s effectiveness in response to wide-ranging criticisms: The pressure is mounting. Now is the time to act. Join over 83,000 people and message your local NHS Trust to say no to Palantirhttps://t.co/PsCDnjsTBl pic.twitter.com/mUhXXBbTaH — Good Law Project (@GoodLawProject) August 3, 2026 Palantir…

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India’s protests must unite against Rubio’s recolonization project

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India’s protests must unite against Rubio’s recolonization project

Marco Rubio, Secretary of State for the USA, earlier this year at the Munich Security Conference called for the “return to brutal Western colonialism.” This explicit messaging from the Western ruling elite about its plans for the Global South should be unifying masses in countries like India more than it has. Notably, protests in India are breaking out against the neo-liberal government everywhere and startlingly have also spread to the urban middle class. Surbhi Kesar, who teaches at SOAS, called the participation of the “urban aspirational classes” as  “striking,” given their unfamiliarity with engagement with public causes and sustained interaction with…

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Funny fascism: how Trump launders the unthinkable through jokes and memes

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Funny fascism: how Trump launders the unthinkable through jokes and memes

As the Canary reports, the White House spent last October recruiting ICE agents by using Halo video game memes. It cast agents as space marines and migrants as an alien invasion to be destroyed. Last Friday, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump wore his signature red cap, this time reading “Trump 2028,”, announcing his intention to run for president for a fourth time, which would break the USA’s two-term constitutional limit. He also insisted he had already won three elections, continuing to deny he lost the 2020 election to Biden. The Guardian‘s write-up that night ran under the headline “Donald…

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