At the time of writing [2 May 2025] Reform has narrowly won the Runcorn and Helsby byelection, displacing the Labour Party from this seat. Reform is also set to do well in local elections including winning a mayoralty in Lincolnshire. The Workers Party has failed to make an impact in these elections despite having a … Continue reading The Great Reform Fraud—Editorial
Month: May 2025
KneeCap Statement
STATEMENT: They want you to believe words are more harmful than genocide. Establishment figures, desperate to silence us, have combed through hundreds of hours of footage and interviews, extracting a handful of words from months or years ago to manufacture moral hysteria. Let us be unequivocal: we do not, and have never, supported Hamas or … Continue reading KneeCap Statement
Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing
Mads Gilbert, Dr James Smith, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah Israel is starving the entire population of Gaza - to the point of death, for a growing number of Palestinians. There is not a single place in the world where starvation is an inevitability: not after major environmental disasters, amid drought and crop failure, or during armed conflict and … Continue reading Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing
The UK Nuclear Deterrent
Will David Lammy have to go “naked into the conference chamber”? Opposing a resolution in favour of nuclear disarmament at the Labour Party conference in 1957, Aneurin Bevan declared “if you carry this resolution and follow out all its implications … you will send a British Foreign Secretary, whoever he may be, naked into the … Continue reading The UK Nuclear Deterrent
Review of A Misfit in Moscow: How British Diplomacy in Russia Failed 2014-2019, by Ian Proud, self-published, 2023.
By Eamon Dyas The author was a member of the United Kingdom Diplomatic Service between 1999 and 2023. In that capacity he was responsible for the organisation behind the 2013 G8 Summit which took place in Northern Ireland and which was the last occasion Vladimir Putin visited the United Kingdom. Having applied to work at … Continue reading Review of A Misfit in Moscow: How British Diplomacy in Russia Failed 2014-2019, by Ian Proud, self-published, 2023.
USA Going to the Robodogs
By Gwydion M. Williams Trump is President for the second time, because he promises to do something about the long-term decline of the USA as a manufacturing power. Not just cheap production of US designs, which is how it started in the 1980s. Being aware that Mao’s China had launched satellites and exploded hydrogen bombs after … Continue reading USA Going to the Robodogs
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams Crimea, Victim of West Ukrainian Extremism Lies as the Poison of Democracy Squeezing Protestors Global But Ignoble Fading Fear of China Snippets Old World Civilisations Unite? Diversity for Superior Persons? Is Dyslexia a Woke Imaginary Illness? What Actually Works? US Pressure on India Crimea, Victim of West Ukrainian Extremism “Crimea is … Continue reading Notes on the News
Palestine Links
Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing (Mads Gilbert, Dr James Smith & Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Middle East Eye, 1 May 2025) Syria’s Druze fearful after deadly attacks on Damascus suburbs (Madeline Edwards, Middle East Eye, 1 May 2025) Amnesty International: Israel committing 'livestreamed genocide' in Gaza (Mera Aladam, Middle East … Continue reading Palestine Links
Uyghurs: why encourage an independentist Islamist group?
Compare two letters to the UN Human Rights Council sent in in July 2019. The first from 22 states (UK, EU states, etc) is critical of China about the Uyghurs; the second from 50 states (including most Muslim majority states) praises China's treatment of the Uyghurs. See The “22 vs. 50” Diplomatic Split Between the West … Continue reading Uyghurs: why encourage an independentist Islamist group?
Sahra Wagenknecht Group—Letter to Supporters
[Labour Affairs: This long letter from the leadership of the BSW comes at a difficult time for the party. After a strong showing in regional elections at the end of 2024, the failure to gain seats in the Bundestag at the recent general election in February came as a crushing disappointment. However, the letter is … Continue reading Sahra Wagenknecht Group—Letter to Supporters