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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in party’s right flank, says Hope Not Hate

The term for that is White supremacy and any coverage of Reform that does not include that term is complicit in whitewashing White supremacy. Sometimes things really are that simple.

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The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

All Palestine Action activists cleared by jury of the politically motivated charges against them.

'The word terrorism is being used to remove empathy': Natasha Walter on how language dehumanises the Palestine Action hunger strikers Hunger striker Heba Muraisi has never been charged, tried or convicted of terrorism. But she and the other strikers have been stripped of humanity by how the government has labelled them. The repercus...

The remaining three hunger strikers have ended their strike. A good moment to reflect on how falsely labelling them as terrorists dehumanises the prisoners. Thought-provoking piece for the Nerve by @natashawalter.bsky.social

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You know when we said it was a bad idea to put these people in charge of all our NHS data?

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
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I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing.

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All of this is fascism. And not early stage either. This is the embedding of the Right Wing Daily Mail press consensus as the absolutely unshakable common sense of the UK state. Made possible because the "left wing" party has abdicated any kind of moral position on it.

Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN investigates the fate of Gaza’s missing aid seekers | CNN Ammar Wadi knew he was risking his life when he set out to get a bag of flour for his family from an aid truck near the Zikim crossing into Gaza in June.

This is just from soldiers firing machine guns at civilians trying to collect bags of flour, because after we all pretended to believe the UN aid agency was a Hamas front, the Israelis turned aid distribution into the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan for weeks edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...

Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart

Extremely thorough analysis of the BBC's distorted coverage of Israel's genocide in Gaza by @trillingual.bsky.social

The piece is very well sourced, fair, nuanced, sympathetic to institutional pressures on the BBC - making the verdict on its biased output all the more damning.

To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/

Labour demands clarity on Tory plan to strip thousands of right to stay in UK Anna Turley says legally settled people threatened by Katie Lam’s proposals deserve urgent clarification

Erm, no. No this policy does not need "clarification". It needs condemnation. They have been pretty clear what they want, the mass deportation of people living and working here, families ripped apart, and xenophobia and racism embedded further as government policy
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Vile stuff. At my own university all new staff are employed via a subsidiary company to avoid the TPS pension (remember: pensions are pay) and we all fear the costing staff will be next. Management think staff are so desperate that they’ll accept anything.

Remember: university managements are so…

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

Irony being that the entire Farage-isation of British politics is built on the phenomenon of white right-wingers who don't want to "integrate" with the reality of multi-ethnic Britain, don't want to accept migrants as their fellow citizens, and don't want people of colour moving into their street.

I mean it wasn't founded for this, that's the thing liberal institutions *tell themselves* to smooth over their actual role of doing propaganda for the state. What's changed in the last decade is that the balance of imperatives has changed more towards "smash the left at all costs".

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Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
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Read her own account here.

By contrast a Norfolk Labour MP, Clive Lewis, was expressly advised by police NOT to attend counter-protests at an asylum hotel in his constituency as he could "cause a flashpoint".

Must be that two-tier thingy the far-right kern on banging on about

In addition to basically serving as genocide apologia - because this is what this is, and make no mistakes - they also put it under the topic of 'Israel and Antisemitism.' They believe that fighting antisemitism means denying a genocide, and this makes everything more dangerous for Jews as well.

Is there any explanation for how we went from half of parliament and the whole national press up in arms - roaring that even a suspicion of racism is utterly unacceptable and those accused must be destroyed - to shrugs and awkward coughs as the main parties fight to do Enoch Powell speeches loudest.

“We’re here to talk about A levels”

“Free Palestine the BBC is complicit” 💀💀

Astonishing that this isn't being talked about more: the UK is still trading huge volumes of goods with Israel. Where are the sanctions? Non-existent. At this rate, Gaza will be completely destroyed before the UK Govt suspends trade. Via Private

Guys, every new bomb and bullet America sends Israel for use on Gazans is flown in via the British military base on Cyprus, the one that Sir Keir visited at Christmas and gave a speech on TV saying he appreciated all the hard work the lads were doing there, work that he couldn’t talk about openly.

Netanyahu’s Gaza City outrage fulfils his messianic fantasy of a Greater Israel. The world must stop him | Nimer Sultany This outrageous landgrab is ethnic cleansing in plain sight, says Nimer Sultany of Soas University of London, a Palestinian citizen of Israel

Dr @nimersultany.bsky.social wrote for @theguardian.com on the urgency and need for further intervention in Gaza.

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"controversial or unpopular opinions" is such a stupid phrase to include in a piece of legislation relating to academic free speech. because it encompasses both "hard truths that people don't want to accept" and "things that have in fact been proven incorrect numerous times by research".

What a vile individual. This is low even for him. You don’t use recognising Palestine - or anywhere else - as a *threat* to another country. You either have a sincere conviction that statehood is valid and deserved or you don’t. Unless of course you are a hollow vessel with no convictions at all.

So the reward offered to Israel merely for *partial* compliance with international law is that the UK will continue to deny recognition to a Palestinian state? This is the great Peace Plan that Starmer has served up?