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In Feb 2024, senior UK military sources leaked to Daily Express that Israeli F-35s were no longer permitted to use RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus The implication was they'd been landing there the previous 5 months We need a public inquiry into UK participation in the Gaza genocide. Now

"the dynamics of the conflict, viewed as a whole, now speak more for than against genocide" "a legitimate war aim is no longer recognizable" — two of Germany's leading international criminal law professors

This statement from the IDF about last night's massacre was also distributed to journalists. But in the version sent to reporters, it includes an off the record section that acknowledges the IDF did fire "to prevent several suspects from approaching the troops," which matches

So the UK looking to buy new nuclear-armed fighter planes. Because it wouldn’t be credible for it would use its submarine-based ICBMs, it prepares to fight a more ‘limited’ nuclear war. And increases its strategic independence by … buying these planes from Trump’s USA.

I’m old enough to remember when Israel’s supporters complained that people were ‘singling it out’ for criticism. Yet people always choose which causes to embrace - and there are usually very good reasons, as Zehra Imam suggests.

An admission of guilt (complicity in genocide)?

R2P and humanitarian intervention were designed to address genocide by second-tier states and armed movements. In the new age of genocide by P5 members and key Western allies, they have been abandoned.

A significant intervention, which emphasises the difference between the present genocide and the degenerate Israeli wars against Gaza from 2008-9 onwards. Even the people who authorised the previous brutalities can see it.

Hours after Starmer rejects ‘performative fantasy politics’, a new capitulation to Trump looms, with zero strategic justification and all about filling the coffers of US military industry. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

The lesson is: ‘Expensive planes, tanks and ships can be destroyed on the cheap’. Yet what does Keir Starmer want to spend the UK’s scarce resources on? You don’t spend 3% of GDP on drones and cyber defence.

I hope you’re taking note, Metropolitan Police

A sharp critique by David Edgerton: Starmer’s relaunch is neither a new defence policy nor an industrial policy.

My latest, reflecting on attorney general Richard Hermer’s speech about the need to uphold international law, in the light of the UK’s record of support for Israel’s genocide.

Disgraceful. Plainly, the current US gov't does not believe that Netanyahu or Gallant will prevail at the ICC. The unstated premise here is that if ICC judges are left to do their work, these men will be found guilty. The goal is to stop that happening, whatever it takes. 1/2

Well said, President Lula. Now, what about the Russian army killing women and children too?

Behind the question of whether the ICC prosecutors will fight back against US sanctions lies the question of international political support for the Court. Will the EU, its member-states, the UK & Canada stand up for the ICC, or will they continue to cower in the face of Trump?

Essential analysis of the geography of Israel’s genocide.

‘A responsibility not to recognise Palestine without the support of allies’ - France and the UK give the USA a veto. Forget strategic independence - they can’t even manage tactical.

The ICC should also be preparing genocide charges against Israeli leaders. However, it seems likely that the vicious attacks from the USA, plus the compromised support of European governments, makes that unlikely - despite everything Israel is doing,

Europe is vastly increasing its military spending when the huge sums it already spends are not delivering. Powerful antidotes to the unthinking new consensus from Adam Tooze.