Omar Waraich

A labour government wants to make amendments to our laws to bring in conditions, and possible outright ban on protests in the UK because the Palestine movement got too big for them to continue to ignore.

A Labour government. Not Tory, not reform, but Labour.

Yun Sheng · Short Cuts: China’s Gen Z A passive-aggressive ‘lying flat’ attitude is easily dismissed as laziness, but Gen Z-ers have developed a...

‘Chinese Gen Z-ers don’t want their parents or colleagues to know what they say, watch or read in the virtual world. Plus, cyber violence is rife: who wants to be doxxed over a silly comment?’

Yun Sheng: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Foreign staff have ‘changed our lives’: Scottish farmers fear for future after changes to skilled workers visas Locals say staff from the Philippines and elsewhere have made life better, and plan to take their case to a government body

Foreign staff have ‘changed our lives’: Scottish farmers fear for future after changes to skilled workers visas

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another? In the past few years, as many as two million people have escaped the island’s repressive regime and collapsing economy. Those who’ve made it to the U.S. face a new reckoning.

Since 2021, an estimated 18 per cent of Cubans—as many as two million residents—have left. Many of these migrants once regarded the U.S. as a haven. Not anymore.

Canada recognizes State of Palestine, offers help to build peaceful future with Israel | CBC News Canada now officially recognizes the State of Palestine and is doing so with international partners to preserve the prospect of a two-state solution, according to a statement from Prime Minister Mark ...

Canada recognizes Palestine

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Tunisia’s top union UGTT challenges President Saied’s authority Since the start of the war in Gaza, the union has opened its headquarters as a space for pro-Palestine groups to meet and hold press conferences.

www.newarab.com/news/tunisia...

Once again tapping the sign of Article 55 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Travel influencers face criticism from Afghanistan community over viral videos A growing number of travel influencers are visiting Afghanistan where they are creating TikTok's describing their experiences, while the country's residents are painting a different picture on everyda...

Spoke to @nbcnews.com about why travel influencers visiting Afghanistan do so from a place of privilege. Their experiences do not reflect reality for most Afghans, especially women & girls facing harsh restrictions on daily life & bearing the brunt of Taliban rule. www.nbcnews.com/now/video/tr...

Starvation in Gaza and Our Global Shame Binaifer Nowrojee sees ample evidence that the country is committing the most serious of crimes in Gaza.

“Palestinians are being intentionally starved to death. Although signs of the coming horrors were clear within months of the war’s onset, many governments averted their eyes. Now, they are failing in their duty to prevent and stop a genocide.”

Rescue efforts continue in Pakistan as flash floods kill more than 320 people – video report The death toll from heavy monsoon rains that have triggered flash floods across northern Pakistan has risen to at least 321 people

A reminder that #SouthAsia is at the frontline of #ClimateChange thoughts and prayers www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply

USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

Opinion | Answering My Critics About the War in Gaza Why I believe American support for Israel in this conflict is a moral and practical failure.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Gaza represents not some distant and inevitable tragedy, but our own moral and practical failing,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. “We have blood on our hands.”

Africa’s youth driving a transformative future Young people on the continent are taking up new initiatives focusing on democracy, resource management and peacebuilding to shift power to people

At a time when many funders are retreating from Africa, we are reaffirming our commitment. As I write in an essay for The Mail & Guardian, this work is African-led and born of African realities: mg.co.za/article/2025...

Wife of South Korea's jailed ex-President Yoon arrested over corruption allegations Investigators say the former president and first lady exerted undue influence on the conservative People Power Party to nominate a specific candidate during a 2022 election.

Investigators say the former president and first lady exerted undue influence on the conservative People Power Party to nominate a specific candidate during a 2022 election.

Netanyahu: ‘If we wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’ PM falsely claims that Israel never halted entry of aid into Gaza, a policy his office announced in March and reversed 11 weeks later

The defense of “we could have killed more people more quickly” is not particularly compelling.

www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-if...

Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028? I was skeptical about a Stewart candidacy, but maybe ‘The Daily Show’ host is the right person to shake up the Democratic presidential primaries.

“I was skeptical about a Stewart candidacy, but maybe ‘The Daily Show’ host is the right person to shake up the Democratic presidential primaries.”

Me for Zeteo on the debate over ⁦‪Jon Stewart‬⁩ and 2028:

Forum Romanum. 1890.

Also, a crime against humanity.

What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.

Last week, OpenAI finally released GPT-5, which many had hoped would usher in the next significant leap in A.I. capabilities. But it is just the latest product to suggest that A.I. might not get much better.

A bigger problem than just Starmer with UK politics is that the country now has about five viable contending parties, a situation that FPTP is wildly unsuited for.

Myanmar security forces involved in systematic torture, UN report says United Nations investigators said on Tuesday they have found evidence of systematic torture by Myanmar security forces and identified some of the senior perpetrators.

Myanmar security forces involved in systematic torture, UN report says reut.rs/3HaQBo6

Southern Europe is sweltering under life-threatening heat that could last through Monday, fueling wildfires that have left at least two people dead. In Spain, soldiers have been deployed to battle the fires and hundreds of people have evacuated. nyti.ms/46STog7

Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? As the stock prices of Big Tech companies continue to rise and eye-popping I.P.O.s reëmerge, echoes of the dot-com era are getting louder.

It’s been more than a quarter of a century since the bursting of the great dot-com bubble. Is the current surge in tech following a similar trajectory?

This weekend, Neo-Nazis in Berlin attacked attendees of a queer pride festival at Ostkreuz, one of the city’s main terminals (for Londoners, the equivalent is Liverpool Street).

Miguel Uribe, Colombian Senator Shot at Campaign Event, Dies at 39 The presidential hopeful spent nine weeks at the hospital in critical condition after he was shot at a campaign rally.

Breaking News: The Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe has died at 39, two months after he was shot in the head at a campaign rally. The authorities have arrested four people in connection with the shooting, including a 14-year-old boy identified as the gunman.

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Israel's massacre of Palestinian journalists has been unconscionable.

And the silence of western journalists has been an utter abomination to our profession. And to humanity.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Or it just happens to be the case that an overwhelmingly white and male led political party disproportionately targets women of colour, and often Muslim women of colour

I) It’s a Labour joke that would find favour with the front bench and you’re the Labour columnist on the FT, ii) There has been unremitting hostility towards women of colour in Labour, iii) Rushanara Ali is merely the latest woman of colour to be sacked/suspended/targeted

The Dictator Augusto Pinochet is almost eighty-three years old, and justifying his actions, clarifying his place in history, is on his mind.

“I was only an aspirante dictator,” Augusto Pinochet told Jon Lee Anderson in 1998. “I read a lot, especially history. And history teaches you that dictators never end up well.”