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ICC changes voting rules to stitch up prosecutor Khan for US and Israel

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:3 July 2026
Post last modified:4 July 2026

The ruling body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has changed its voting rules in an apparent attempt to please the US and Israel and stitch up its chief prosecutor Karim Khan. Middle East Eye reported that: The executive body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has changed the voting process on the potential removal of Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan from a two-stage vote to a single vote in an apparent break with its own rules Effectively, the change lowers the threshold for the removal of Khan as prosecutor. ICC retributive manoeuvres Israel and the US have pressured and manoeuvred for Khan’s dismissal ever…

Count Binface Makerfield manifesto would stitch up Burnham

Post author:John Ranson
Post published:4 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

Count Binface is among the candidates for the Makerfield by-election. So voters will have at least one coherent manifesto to ponder. UK politics has a long and rich tradition of electoral candidates who apparently exist in a different universe from everyone else. It’s how we ended up with Boris Johnson and Liz Truss as successive PMs. But aside from the utter deadbeats standing for allegedly serious parties, there’s the novelty candidate. The Official Monster Raving Loony Party pretty much wrote the book on this sort of thing. And its leader, Alan ‘Howlin’ Laud Hope, will be lining up alongside 13 others…