The culmination of so many longer-term trends in Israel: politicians who disdain the rule of law and encourage mob rule, a breakdown in the army's chain of command, near-total impunity, dehumanization of Palestinians. It all came together yesterday. axios.com/2024/07/30/isr…

1. The Haniyeh assassination is unlikely to drag Iran into a wider war. Iranians leaders understand that Israel is achieving tactical wins in the midst of a strategic defeat. Israel is making rash and escalatory moves because it is increasingly isolated, divided, and weak.

Listen to Lisa Nandy and then listen to Steve Bunce

Scientists think we could be just years away from finally discovering the opposite of "anti-fascist".

Great example of why the British media-political estab. is so unfit for purpose when it comes to tackling societal racism - because of their own complicity in it, peddling anti-immigrant rhetoric. The first step to solving a problem is to accurately name and describe it.

The problem with framing a far right insurrection as just “thuggery” creates pretence the violence is apolitical. It means the political tradition, their ideological parliamentary representatives and trans-Atlantic alliances evade scrutiny amidst a global resurgence for the right

Ash Sarkar breaks down the real reason British culture is crumbling. Hint: it’s got nothing to do with immigration.

"The biggest threat to this Labour government is despair, and yet instead of countering it with a programme of hope, Labour is feeding that hopelessness." Me for The i paper on the impotent miserabilism of Starmer and Reeves ... inews.co.uk/opinion/keir-s…

As another HPL building goes up in flames, a reminder that this did not come as a surprise. With the right political will, tough enforcement and building owners who really cared about safety, these blocks would have been made safe years ago insidehousing.co.uk/news/next-gren…

"In the first three weeks of August, according to UN figures, 128 Palestinians, including 26 children, were killed by airstrikes in the West Bank." In the West Bank. Not Gaza. theguardian.com/world/article/…

I wrote these words in 2018. They seem as apposite today as they did then ...

🚨 Grenfell Inquiry report 🚨 - "Complacent" govt "well aware" of risk of cladding disaster but failed to act - "Systematic dishonesty" by product manufacturers "very significant reason" for fire - "Chronic and systemic" fire safety failures by tower's social landlords

No, he’s been clear that he doesn’t want to end the war in Gaza, wants to expand it to the West Bank and wants to occupy Palestinian land indefinitely. The “conflicting messages” are from Biden officials who’ve been gaslighting for months and letting Israel do whatever it wants.

Breaking: A Dutch court has jailed Thanas B., an Albanian-Greek man considered to be one of Europe's most prolific undergrounds bankers, for seven years for laundering almost €250 million for criminals ad.nl/binnenland/nar…

🔥 Britain’s FBI is “on its knees”: our new report out today reveals that morale National Crime Agency (NCA) is at rock bottom and it is losing officers due to pay stagnation and few prospects of pay or career progression. A🧵:

3 eyewitnesses to the killing of 26-year-old American-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi told Haaretz.com that Israeli troops shot her for no reason and there had been no clashes at the time.haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

***NEW INVESTIGATION*** How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad - and won. I’ve been working on this story for 15 years. It goes from South Africa to Moscow via the London Stock Exchange. Now new documents illuminate a case that has rewritten UK law and is set to end with a