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Miliband slammed for “constructive” call with Gideon Sa’ar amid Gaza holocaust

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Miliband slammed for “constructive” call with Gideon Sa’ar amid Gaza holocaust

Ed Miliband, the new Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in Burnham’s cabinet, was shamed for taking part in a ‘constructive’ call with Israeli minister Gideon Sa’ar and for Miliband’s ongoing denial of the Gaza holocaust. Today I had a frank and constructive first call with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar pic.twitter.com/48pIdbvwXt — Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) August 11, 2026 Miliband said that he told Israel it “must crack down on settler violence and must immediately end blockages on aid into Gaza,” but continued to deny the genocide in Gaza. Miliband: refusal to call it a genocide Both Zack Polanski…

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PSNI slammed for paramilitary policing cutbacks

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PSNI slammed for paramilitary policing cutbacks

Anti-racist group End Deportations Belfast (EDB) has strongly criticised the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) for failing to reallocate resources to tackling paramilitary violence. This comes in the wake of violent racist pogroms carried out by loyalist mobs, which the PSNI now confirm paramilitaries played a role in coordinating. As EDB note, in 2025 the PSNI chose to “collapse one of the three PCTF [Paramilitary Crime Task Force] investigative teams“. This followed Stormont’s decision to cut funding to the anti-paramilitary group by 21% for 2024/25. Upon the launch of the PCTF in 2017, the British National Crime Agency (NCA) described…

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Burnham slammed for saying he won’t renationalise Thames Water

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Burnham slammed for saying he won’t renationalise Thames Water

It’s been widely reported that Andy Burnham wants to ‘renationalise’ vital public industries and utilities. This sounds good, because people hate privatisation, and they want the UK to once more own its own assets. The problem, of course, is that Burnham isn’t planning to renationalise anything, as he keeps admitting: Andy Burnham says we could have a "localised public control option" for Thames Water What does that mean? Who is in charge? Where do the profits go? We need nothing less than permanent PUBLIC OWNERSHIP of Thames Water with households, workers and anti sewage groups on the board pic.twitter.com/0s1OT1mMzz — Cat…

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