THERE is no West Bank. There is no two-state solution. There is only Israel’s destiny. So says Miko Peled, whose insights into the Zionist mind-set inform his advocacy for Palestine. Asked about Israel’s ‘endgame,’ Peled was forthright. It is a Jewish state. Israel will make sure it remains so. Arabs can support it or die fighting against it. According to Zionism, antisemites are everywhere. Antisemitism can be better dealt with in the Jewish state.

While some were surprised that a Labour government should boast implementing a draconian immigration regime, the issue has become more pressing and more divisive than almost any other, including the NHS and the economy. Reform’s rise in the polls, despite the absence of a coherent policy framework, has been largely based on its claim that it will stop immigration – some members talk about ‘remigration’ i.e. sending back people (i.e. ethnic minorities) with already settled status.

NORTH and South we are going backwards.  Instead of things improving the crises in housing, health, employment and cost of living continue to get worse and worse.

When there’s even a hint of a different approach (Labour’s ever diluted Employment Rights proposals or the NI Assembly’s Good Jobs Bill) that might move the UK towards hardly revolutionary European norms, the ear-splitting squealing of capitalist pigs is deafening. While some of their reaction is performative, it also hints at their vulnerability in that they know, historically, that collective, democratic challenge can stop the powerful acting with impunity.

THE decision by UEFA to allow Israel (a non-European country) to participate in the European Nations’ Cup competition despite the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank is deplorable.

WITH new revelations coming out every day it would been easier to name those who have not met Jeffrey Epstein. Those who up to now have not been named but were acquainted with him must be living in trepidation that they will be next.