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- Harrowing accounts of Israel’s systematic torture of Palestinian prisoners have once again emerged 21/09/2025The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has released a briefing following extensive legal visits to several Israeli prisons, exposing a grim and escalating reality for Palestinian political prisoners. Lawyers who visited Naqab, Megiddo, Ramla, Ofer, Shatta, Gilboa, and Damon prisons documented testimonies from men, women, and children. Their accounts point to systematic abuse, deliberate medical neglect, degrading […]
- ‘Our Party’ speak on plan to get ‘Your Party’ over the finishing line 21/09/2025On 18 September, a rift between Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn resulted in “chaos” for Your Party. On 19 September, a group calling itself ‘Our Party’ materialised with a proposal to temporarily manage the fledgling political organisation. One criticism was that it wasn’t clear who was behind the proposal, although they did say they were […]
- For first time ever Israel is right – but not for the reasons it thinks it is 21/09/2025So Keir Starmer has announced the UK’s recognition – along with that of Canada and Australia – of the Palestinian state. A Palestinian state: no change over genocide The recognition of the Palestinian state means Britain joins the vast majority – more than three quarters of UN member states – and in the recognition and […]
- Britain’s recognition of the Palestinian state: a correction of history or an escape from responsibility? 21/09/2025The Palestinian people needed nothing more than the Balfour Declaration to know that Britain had laid the foundation for their century-long tragedy. The declaration, issued in 1917, opened the door to the Zionist project and later led to the establishment of the State of Israel on the ruins of the Palestinian people and the displacement […]
- Supporters react as UK ‘finally’ recognises Palestinian statehood 21/09/2025On 21 September, the United Kingdom of Great Britain formally recognised the state of Palestine. The UK followed Canada and Australia, with the former being the first G7 nation to recognise Palestinian statehood. Following this, “over 150 countries” recognise Palestine, including the majority of UN member states. In response to the declaration, UK activists and […]
- University of Kent pledges to end cruel sepsis experiments on animals 21/09/2025After PETA approached the University of Kent detailing how animals suffer in cruel and ineffective sepsis experiments, the university has confirmed that it will not use animals in any future sepsis research. The decision marks it as the first UK institution to make this commitment to PETA. Sepsis experiments: cruel and scientifically invalid Sepsis is […]
- Trump seemingly posts explosive ‘private message’ to public account 21/09/2025At 78-years-old, Trump was the oldest man to ever be elected US president. On what we’re sure is an unrelated note, he posted what looks like a private message to his Truth Social platform on 20 September: It just keeps getting more insane. Trump apparently tried to send a DM to Pam Bondi essentially telling […]
- Palestine ambassador demolishes Kuenssberg’s ‘propaganda’ question over statehood 21/09/2025On Sunday 21 September, Husam Zomlot (Palestine’s ambassador to the UK) sat down with the BBC‘s Laura Kuenssberg. As the UK is at odds with the UN’s verdict Israel is committing genocide, Kuenssberg was able ‘both-sides’ the conflict in a fashion which will likely look unimaginable twelve months from now. It didn’t really matter to […]
- New report beautifully visualises the state of ‘Rip-Off Britain’ 21/09/2025A new report from Common Wealth has beautifully visualised how privatisation turned our nation into “Rip-Off Britain”. Complete with a ‘Visual Story’ and ‘Data Dashboard’, the site takes you on a journey through every grubby scam that capitalists have inflicted on us. Somehow, they’ve also managed to make the journey through this information beautiful: If […]
- We’re in the middle of a genocide, and Your Party is engaged in a battle of whataboutery? 21/09/2025The word “genocide” is often deemed to be provocative and misleading by its perpetrators and enablers. Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish lawyer who coined the term “genocide” in 1944, tirelessly advocated for the recognition of genocide as an international crime, influencing the drafting of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of […]