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If Starmer thinks McSweeney going helps him, he’s more hopeless than ever
8 February 2026 @ 10:21 pm
Keir Starmer’s appalling chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, has quit. According to ‘mainstream’ media, Starmer hopes this will ease the pressure that he has been under from the ongoing Mandelson scandal. If he really thinks this, he’s more hopeless than we thought – and that’s a tough bar to cross. McSweeney: a horror McSweeney is […]
By SkwawkboxProsecutors prepared Epstein ‘death’ announcement — a day before it happened
8 February 2026 @ 8:11 pm
Official documents released by the US Department of Justice show that prosecutors prepared their announcement of Jeffrey Epstein’s death a day before it happened. As Skwawkbox has already covered, the same file release proves that an anonymous message board post, sent before the ‘death’ was made public by someone who claimed to be a prison […]
By SkwawkboxHow can the world remain silent about the collapse of healthcare in Gaza?
8 February 2026 @ 7:18 pm
Gaza is dying every day. Its hospitals are collapsing, its doctors are overwhelmed, and the world remains largely silent. Children are dying for lack of medicine. Patients are left untreated. Doctors are forced to decide who might live and who must be left to die. All of this is happening in full view of the […]
By Alaa ShamaliProxy militias: Israel’s hidden war inside Gaza
8 February 2026 @ 6:47 pm
Since 7 October 2023, reports indicate a dangerous shift in Israel’s tactics in Gaza. Rather than relying solely on direct military force, Israel has increasingly used local collaborating militias. These groups operate covertly within Palestinian society. Their roles include intelligence gathering, luring resistance members, and carrying out targeted assassinations under direct Israeli intelligence supervision. The […]
By Alaa ShamaliWhy is Israel preventing foreign journalists from entering Gaza?
8 February 2026 @ 5:57 pm
Since the start of the war on Gaza in October 2023, Israel has enforced an unprecedented media blockade. Foreign journalists and international media outlets have been barred from entering the Strip. This policy has become one of the longest media blackouts in a modern conflict. It raises urgent questions about Israel’s motives and objectives. Gaza […]
By Alaa ShamaliIsrael imposes control over more than half of Gaza; one million Palestinians trapped in displacement
8 February 2026 @ 4:57 pm
At a moment when the ceasefire was meant to open a path back to normal life in the Gaza Strip, Israeli occupation forces continue to impose military control over more than half of the territory. This policy has emptied the declared truce of substance, kept civilians under constant threat, and prevented hundreds of thousands of […]
By Alaa ShamaliParty bigwig says New Labour led to ‘perversion & paedophilia’
8 February 2026 @ 4:36 pm
Lord Maurice Glasman is the party bigwig behind the Blue Labour movement. To be honest, we’re not much of a fan of his. Credit where it’s due, though; he’s delivered what may be the greatest MSM takedown of New Labour yet: Lord Maurice Glasman just gave the wildest political interview I've seen in a long […]
By Willem MooreState-mandated anti-corruption measures only serve to do the opposite
8 February 2026 @ 4:35 pm
Anti-corruption is widely treated as an unambiguous public good. Investigations, prosecutions, commissions, and transparency initiatives are assumed to weaken entrenched power by exposing wrongdoing. Yet in practice, anti-corruption often functions in the opposite direction. Rather than dismantling corrupt systems, it fragments and neutralises public scrutiny. Corruption is continuously exposed in pieces but never confronted as […]
By Rares CocilnauSilwan: the Palestinian neighbourhood that’s a microcosm of Israel’s ethnic cleansing
8 February 2026 @ 4:17 pm
Jawad Siam is an activist and a resident of Silwan, a Palestinian neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem next to the old city. As we sit drinking coffee, he points to a plot of land adjacent to his home. No justice within the Israeli ‘legal’ system He tells the Canary: Settlers took this in June 2017. […]
By Charlie JaayReform councillor dramatically quits over council tax betrayal
8 February 2026 @ 4:15 pm
A Reform UK councillor in Worcestershire has dramatically quit the party. Councillor David Taylor made the decision as a result of the party’s plan to raise council tax — something which the far-right party previously stood against: Another Reform UK councillor down. This is significant though. It shows that Reform UK promised to cut tax. […]
By Willem Moore