In 2019 Keir released this video at the launch of CamdenCouncils clean air action plan. The plan stated 'Large scale policy interventions.. will help us make a big inroad into air pollution'

Labour now 'The Green Party in Bristol refused to rule out expanding the Clean Air Zone'

'Its an incredibly calm atmosphere here. We do keep getting these threatening statements from George Washington University talking about what a disruptive atmosphere this is and how unsafe some students may feel. Its patently untrue...'

Shihab Rattansi reporting.

'In the long term we want to be able to tell our children and our grandchildren that as the genocide was happening we were standing up to object to it, and materially putting ourselves in the way of our universitys active support for that'

Nick, a student at Cornell University

If I lived in the North East, I'd be voting for Jamie Driscoll.

Journalist on board a Philipines ship: 'Beijing calls this the South China Sea. To these men & their govt, it is the West Philipines sea'.

Moments later the journalist calls it the South China sea. So not just Beijing, then?

The ICJ has refused to grant provisional measures to prevent Germany from exporting arms to Israel

Now: Total blockade of the road at the drone factory of Israel's most despicable arms company Elbit Systems in Shenstone, Staffordshire. How can they keep this factory when Elbit weapons have been used more than any other to kill 15000 Gaza children in 200 days?
#ShutElbitDown

There’s a bombshell poll showing we can win in the North East.
National media is covering polling in West Mids and Tees Valley? Why aren't they talking about the North East? Perhaps it doesn’t fit their narrative of Westminster party politics. Red vs Blue.

The people of the

“The political class can only radically constrain democratic choice for so long before generating a backlash. ⁦Mayor Jamie Driscoll’s⁩ simple message of wanting to make things better for ordinary people can be seen as the shape of politics to come.” tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/jamie-…

Keir Starmer had no problem saying that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine & those responsible should be hunted down and brought in front of the International Criminal Court.

Why isn't he saying the same about Israel?

Starmer on Israels actions: 'I think its unwise for politicians... to sit in TV studios & pronounce which acts may or not be in accordance with intl law'

Starmer sitting in a TV studio, on Russias actions: 'What I've seen amounts to war crimes'

'Dozens of protesters have barricaded themselves inside a building at Columbia university in New York. A group has taken over Hamilton Hall, which has a history of student takeovers, including during the Vietnam war. They unfurled a banner calling it Hinds Hall...'

'The police moved in at the behest of university leaders. Texas state troopers in riot gear surrounded the few dozen protesters, then one by one tore them away'

Events at the University of Texas in Austin.

Gideon Levy: 'This war is a game changer. After this war Israel cannot be perceived as it was before. Israelis are not exposed to the images of Gaza because no-one is showing it to them, but the world sees Gaza, and anyone sees Gaza cannot remain indifferent'

Gideon Levy explains why focussing just on Benjamin Netanyahu is wrong. Its a convenient over simplification that allows the pretence that if only he's removed, everything will be ok

Gideon Levy: war crimes are being committed in Gaza, but those crimes won't be investigated & no-one will be held accountable & brought to justice unless international institutions become involved.

Gideon Levy: the Israeli political establishment is frightened of being held accountable at the International Criminal Courtfor the ongoing occupation & the war in Gaza.

The US state dept says 5 Israeli military units committed human rights violations but they won't be taking any action

Patty Culhane explains they won't say what the violations were, what units were involved, how Israel remediated the situation, & what info Israel provided

'Until there's an end to Yales complicity in [the genocide in Gaza], we're going to continue mobilising, we're going to continue speaking out'

One of the protesters at Yale university, Chisato Kimura, explains what the students are demanding.

Nadeen Kabbani is one of the protesters at the University of Texas in Austin.