Paul Knaggs

Israeli ambassador denies Palestinians have a right to a state Israeli Envoy Dismisses Palestinian Statehood as “Absolutely No” Israel’s ambassador to the UK has sparked outrage after bluntly rejecting the notion of an independent Palestinian state in a television interview. Tzipi Hotovely dismissed the two-state framework as a “failed” paradigm that must be replaced, denying Palestinians a right to sovereign territory...

Footage shows bodies piled up after Israeli attack on Gaza school Harrowing images and testimony are emerging from a school in northern Gaza where witnesses say Israeli soldiers massacred civilians execution-style as they sought shelter from fierce urban combat. Survivors discovered piles of bodies inside Gaza's Shadya Abu Gazela school just west of the Jabalia refugee camp. They describe soldiers storming...

Sunak's Rwanda Gambit Teeters as Tory Rebels Threaten Revolt Yet another unelected Tory Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak faces a defining test of leadership as rebels threaten to torpedo his flagship Rwanda asylum policy when it comes to a crunch Commons vote on Tuesday. Despite frantic last-minute pleas, enough Tory MPs look set to abstain or vote down the bill to...

Big Brother Tightens Grip: Benefits Claimants Targeted... While The Rich Continue to Hide Their Wealth in Offshore Accounts in This New Age of Haves and have-nots... The UK government's newly unveiled bank account monitoring scheme targeting benefit claimants provides yet another example of how policies and systems disproportionately burden vulnerable populations. This dystopian intrusion into personal finances deals another...

From Afghanistan to Gaza: The Absurdity of American "Moral Clarity" The US has vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. The US, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, is the sole nation to vote against a ceasefire in Palestine. The UK abstained in the vote. This means that the resolution...

Galloway Lays Out "Breakthrough Plan" For Workers Party in 2024 Election In his barnstorming conclusion to the 2023 Workers Party Congress, veteran firebrand George Galloway outlined ambitious plans to achieve electoral breakthroughs in the next general election, likely in 2024. Galloway pulled no punches in mobilising delegates and supporters for an all-out campaign putting "up to 50 candidates" up for parliamentary...

The Battle for Online Freedom: Facebook's Subtle Stranglehold on Dissenting Voices Despite posturing as a digital public square enabling open sharing, Facebook increasingly squeezes dissenting voices. Politically inconvenient content and non-mainstream opinions face shadowbanning - covert censorship making posts invisible to others while the original poster remains unaware. This deceptive practice hides the scope of constrained expression. But telltale signs persist...

Starmer Triggers Outrage Praising Thatcher's "Meaningful Change" Spitting on The Communities She Decimated. In an inflammatory article bound to enrage Labour's base, Sir Keir Starmer provocatively praised Margaret Thatcher for "unleashing entrepreneurialism" and bringing "meaningful change" as PM. The Labour leader's inverted historical revisionism triggered immediate disgust. Union leaders and activists decried Starmer's servile fawning over an anti-working class leader who...

Khan Younis: A Funeral Pyre Emerges as Israel Escalates Bombardment As Israel intensifies its ruthless bombardment of Gaza, the southern city of Khan Younis now resembles a funeral pyre - its overwhelmed hospitals overflowing with dead and dying after the heaviest air assault of this lopsided war. Panicked residents described relentless bombing exceeding previous nights of horror as hundreds of thousands...

Lights Out: The Tragedy of Gaza's Communication Blackout and Israel's QR Code Charade As the tenuous 7-day truce expired, Israeli warplanes again pummel targets across Gaza with continuous airstrikes that Gaza health officials say have now killed over 100 Palestinians. Neither side announced a ceasefire extension, both reiterating readiness to resume hostilities. In a chilling cynical move on Friday morning, Israel's...