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On World Cancer Day, Gaza patients are caught in a collapsing healthcare system
4 February 2026 @ 7:31 pm
On World Cancer Day, patients in Gaza face a double and merciless threat: cancer itself and a devastated healthcare system. Thousands now face an uncertain future after hospitals were damaged and the only specialised cancer centre stopped operating. Border crossings remain closed, preventing patients from travelling for treatment. Gaza’s health situation is no longer a […]
By Alaa ShamaliIsrael is always the victim — BOD claims anti-genocide acquittal is antisemitism
4 February 2026 @ 7:08 pm
Israel is always the victim — in its own eyes. That applies to the groups that support it too, like the avowedly Zionist ‘Board of Deputies’ (BOD). So, naturally, as far as the BOD is concerned today’s exoneration by a jury of six anti-genocide Palestine Action activists is not justice. It’s a slight to the […]
By SkwawkboxBreaking: Starmer admits knowing all about Mandelson-Epstein BEFORE ambassador appointment
4 February 2026 @ 6:40 pm
Keir Starmer has admitted knowing all about his disgraced senior adviser Peter Mandelson’s continuing close ties to serial child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein. Before he appointed him to be ambassador to the US. It was already a matter of record that Starmer knew when he told MPs last September that he had full confidence in Mandelson. Mandelson […]
By SkwawkboxThe media circus around Epstein is erasing the experiences of victims and survivors
4 February 2026 @ 4:59 pm
BBC News reported yesterday that the US Department of Justice has had to remove thousands of documents related to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as they have compromised the identities of women who have been victimised by the elite-run web of sexual violence, abuse, and exploitation. The outlet further stated that the “flawed redactions” of the Epstein […]
By Maddison WheeldonOver 10,000 children homeless in Scotland
4 February 2026 @ 4:17 pm
The number of children who are homeless and in temporary accommodation in Scotland has passed 10,000. The latest figures from the Scottish Government show that, in the six months to 30 September 2025, 10,480 children were in temporary accommodation. People experiencing homelessness increasing In total, there were 18,092 households in temporary accommodation, a 9% increase […]
By HGFeargal Sharkey exposes dire state of water companies AGAIN
4 February 2026 @ 4:11 pm
Campaigner and singer Feargal Sharkey has, once again, dressed down the privatised water companies. Water companies: taking the p*ss On social media, Sharkey said: You’ll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of […]
By James WrightAmerica’s lost weapons are stopping it mining minerals in Pakistan
4 February 2026 @ 4:06 pm
The US left mountains of high-tech weaponry behind when it fled Afghanistan in defeat in 2021 – now, those weapons have flooded neighbouring Pakistan. And the resulting instability might be stopping the US mining the very rare Earth resources it craves. The US has its sights on vast copper mines just ten miles inside Pakistan. […]
By Joe GlentonICE leave Vietnam-style “death cards” after snatching immigrants
4 February 2026 @ 3:56 pm
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paramilitaries are leaving custom-made ace of spades ‘death cards’ at the scene of migrant snatch operations. The ghoulish practice has imperial origins. US troops used to stuff cards into the mouths of the Vietnamese dead. The practice – consider yourself trigger warned here, please – was even filmed for use […]
By Joe GlentonDawn Butler calls for scrutiny over Epstein link with NHS leech Palantir
4 February 2026 @ 3:46 pm
Evil tech giant and NHS leech Palantir has links with wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And Labour MP Dawn Butler has rightly called for scrutiny. Butler insisted we should “not ignore” the connection between Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel and Epstein, particularly because it has infiltrated our public health system: We can not ignore the fact […]
By Ed SykesFox hunt ‘desecrates’ tranquil burial site
4 February 2026 @ 3:44 pm
A pack of hounds from the Middleton fox hunt has run amok through a woodland burial site in North Yorkshire. The incident happened during the last week of January 2026. Footage captured by national animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports shows the hounds marauding through the Mowthorpe Garden of Rest within the Howardian […]
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