Louis Theroux's film on Israel's violent settlers was a mirror. Resist the calls to look away.

Matthew Alford reads my latest article: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...

The sanctification of Churchill is part of our regression into national childhood inews.co.uk/opinion/keir...

UK continuing to send arms to Israel despite ban, report finds - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-continuing-send-arms-israel-despite-ban-report

UK spy flights for Israel are continuing.

Flight data suggests the RAF has undertaken 6 surveillance flights in the last 7 days.

👉 www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...

Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...

👉NEW VIDEO -- UK military chief squirms over Gaza spy flight questions

Watch our special report on how we managed to doorstep Admiral Tony Radakin, Britain's most senior military officer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIfI...

Israel's torture of an entire population, whom it has placed collectively on death row CONTINUES. Let us not forget. Let us not stop shouting it from the rooftops. Let is not look away. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Anneliese Dodds gives shape to ‘soft left’ unease in Labour

The former minister has established a coherent political position — shaped by recent diplomatic developments — from which hitherto nervous critics can begin to make representations

Latest weekend long-read for @politics.co.uk 👇

Don't let Elon Musk make Nigel Farage look moderate by comparison.

Both are trading off the exact same politics of hate. The only difference between them is that while Farage judged it would be bad for his career to associate with a criminal thug like Tommy Robinson, Musk is too far gone to care

War is peace.

Black is white.

Up is down

Political donations are institutionalized bribery.

Donors get access to policymakers, shape laws, tax privileges, lax regulations, govt contracts/subsidies, honours, power.

Banning political donations is a necessary step for free and fair elections and democracy
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...

Genocides can happen with gas chambers. Or machetes. Or they can be carried out with 2,000lb bombs and aid blockades. Genocides rarely look the same. But they're all designed to arrive at the same endpoint: the elimination of a people.

My latest on Gaza:
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

🔴The Politics of Farage and Reform is No Joke – The Established Media Must Learn Its Lessons and Start Holding Them to Account

The normalisation of racism will only get worse if the press continues to treat him as representing the ‘real views’ of the British people writes Hardeep Matharu

Yvette Cooper refuses to commit to arresting Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the ICC arrest warrant.

Following the ICC's arrest warrants, the Independent Alliance have written to the Prime Minister asking if he will comply with the ruling.

The UK government must decide: is it on the side of Israeli impunity or international law?

This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons.

A thread…🧵

The media constantly deploy an antisemitic trope: that on Gaza, it is Israel pulling the strings in Washington. They get away with it because this trope is crucially useful to the western power elite.

My latest article can be read here:
jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-guardi...

Here it is - my takeaways from Trump’s appointments so far. It’s not just “not good”, which most of us expected already. It’s far, far worse. bylinetimes.com/2024/11/14/d...