Bruce Bennett

It’s remarkable how vocal these ‘gender-critical’ academics are about being silenced by the institutions they work for. It’s almost as if it’s completely untrue…

Inspired, apparently, by the Tory governments attempt to transform the UK into a hostile environment for immigrants, extending the borderzones across the whole country, Starmer’s govt wants big tech companies to tell it how to turn the entire country into an open-plan prison.

Simply breathtaking that the Guardian can publish this article today, referring to the genocidal war on Gaza euphemistically as a ‘security failure’. Utterly I nexcusable.

There would have been a point where an atrocity like this provoked international outrage. By this point in the war on Gaza, it’s hard to keep up with the number of war crimes committed by Israel, a country that is relishing the licence it’s been given to commit crime after crime after crime.

Toxic masculinity.

Fascinating to see the war machine at work. Political journalists are playing a key role in treating the imperialist violence of Israel and the US as if it’s driven by a genuine concern for democracy.

The most immoral army in the world?

Genocide, it seems, is no reason not to continue business as usual for the UK govt. As for this headline, how about substituting ‘shameless hypocrisy’ for ‘garbled messaging’?

Pro-Gaza, anti-genocide graffiti at the Giro d’Italia today. It’s particularly pointed since one of the owners of the Israeli team competing in the race has described the war on Gaza as a matter of ‘good vs evil and civilisation against barbarism’

Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed Ibsais In Kosovo, Nato intervened in 1999 after mass killings and the threat of further ethnic cleansing. Why aren’t Gazans being protected in the same way?

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It takes a special kind of insight - the superior analytical skills of a political journalist - to write an article at this point in the genocide that insists both sides are to blame.

Well, I suppose, as the individual most responsible for imposing the disaster of Brexit on the UK, he’s got some experience in this field.

I wonder when professional political commentators will announce that we’re allowed to call this fascism?

BDS Movement calls for protests against Israel–Premier Tech at Tour de France | BikeRadar The BDS Movement accuses Israel–Premier Tech of sportswashing

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What?

Of course ‘cleanse’ is still a euphemism, but Israeli finance minister Smotrich is now open about Israel’s project in Gaza. ‘Cleansing’ is a key term in the lexicon of genocide and fascism

So Israel came second in Eurovision? Who’s have thought the overlap between fans of camp pop and genocide was so decisive?

Why I Use The F Word (And You Should Too) We have a fascism problem. Solving it requires that we correctly identify this problem and the dangers it creates.

I wrote this nearly 3 yrs ago & it's genuinely hard to believe that the "fascism debate" is still ongoing given all that has transpired since then. It's clear—both tactically & ideologically—what is unfolding before us. Nothing to gain at this point by continuing to give the benefit of the doubt.

This article exemplifies a key problem in British politics, which is the total, shameful failure of political journalists to interrogate the role of news media in shaping debates. Instead it imagines politics as a direct, unmediated conversation between politicians and voters.

This man is a ghoul. First he wants to follow Putin and grab areas of Ukraine for the US, now he wants to do the same with Gaza, exploiting Israel’s genocidal war for his own advantage.

The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees.

They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires.

If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.

I'm so old, I remember when 'British jobs for British workers' was a National Front slogan

I wonder what the difference is between mimicry of far-right scaremongering, and the real thing. Different outfits? Smaller flags?

Yvette Cooper gives an exclusive interview to GB News about her immigration plans, during which the interviewer tells her that some of their viewers live near asylum seekers and their "children can't leave home".

No push back from the Home Secretary

Labour voters today...

‘Incalculable’ is a carefully chosen weasel word, since all the global historical data indicates that immigration doesn’t damage economies or standards of living - and so the damage literally can’t be evidenced or calculated. But of course that’s not what you’re meant to hear.

He will know there's no statistical data to support the idea that immigration is economically damaging, and he will also know that one of the most important jobs of a political leader is to attempt to shape public opinion, so what conclusion to draw other than that this his 'core values' are racist?

So ‘taking back control’ of our borders is now a ‘core value’ of the Labour Party, along with austerity economics, transphobia and support for genocide. This is unforgivable. Starmer’s key achievement so far is stamping on any signs of a more progressive, more compassionate politics.

Israel is starving Gaza. It’s a cheap, silent and brutal way to kill | Ahmed Moor Starvation is a slow, painful way to die. And unlike bombs and tanks, it’s easy for western leaders to ignore

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One of the striking features of serious political journalism is its systematic, selective amnesia. Trump’s position on the genocide in Gaza has been obscene, but it’s not radically different from that of politicians who’ve attacked any criticism of Israel, however measured, as antisemitic.