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The (MilIntel) Human Rights Industry Exposed; Starmer UK's First Ever Atheist PM... and nobody's noticed
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July 5, 2024, midnight
– UK General Election Triumph for Rockefeller Trilateral Commission and World Economic Forum (WEF)
– Donald Mack, freelance journalist and former stand-up comic, joins Tony and Martin. Labour wins general election with a landslide. Turnout down. How all the Parties faired.
– Although we were promised a room nobody to open it was to be found so this week’s show came from a hastily assembled trestle table in a corridor in St. Pauls’ Kuumba Centre.
– Starmer’s Labour: The “party of NATO” prepares a UK government of genocide and war The Labour Party’s key pledge to Britain’s ruling elite is that it can be trusted
– Starmer gets cool £500k from Israelis: Pro-Israel tycoon gives Labour half a million pounds Stuart Roden started a company with an Israeli special forces veteran
– Keir Starmer got 500,000 fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn
– After four and a half years the Workers Party of Britain are now the 6th largest Britain-wide party by votes cast:
– Labour 9,712,011 Cons 6,814,469 Reform 4,091,549 Lib Dems 3,499,933 Green 1,939,502 Workers Party 210,194 We gained over 200,000 votes.
– Are Ofcom, the UK broadcasting regulator election cheats? – how it works. Reform C4 undercover report – actor? Update on complaints about Channel 4 News’ ‘Undercover'
– Ofcom will not investigate Channel 4 News after Nigel Farage’s Reform UK claimed the broadcaster used an actor as a “plant” in its undercover investigation into his campaign.
– If the UK had a Proportional Representation (PR) voting system Labour 218 (+18) Con 132 (-240) Reform UK 104 (+104) Green 78 (+77) LibDems 76 (+68) SNP 19 (-29) ]
– General election 2024: What was the vote share and how Parliament would look very different under a proportional representation voting system
– How Starmer persecuted Julian Assange while DPP: The rest of Starmer’s speech. Starmer on Russia and Ukraine. Exclusive: Ken Loach calls out Sir Keir
– Starmer– Israel ‘has the right’ to withhold power and water from Gaza, says Sir Keir Starmer US to criminalise pro Palestinian speech. Starmer’s speech on defense.
– 1/2 UK population smoke cannabis. Farage’s opinion on decriminalisation of drugs. Who’s going to be new leader of Conservatives?
– Starmer more loyal to Davos than Westminster
– A video has emerged which places Starmer beyond anti-democratic, and towards technocratic fascism Starmer has launched a war on the limited democracy we have in the UK
– Hidden agendas of Starmer government. Labour plans House of Lords age limit and immediate end to hereditary peers – constitutional reform proposals explained
– WW3. Haiti. Victor Orban wants Russia to keep Donbass region and a peace deal. Reminisces of a Future website.
– Israeli Generals Want Truce in Gaza, Putting Them at Odds With Netanyahu – Israeli Generals, Low on Munitions, Want a Truce in Gaza
– Hamas not defeated, now stronger. CFR says,‘Hamas is winning’ US Foreign Affairs magazine confirmed on Friday: “Hamas is stronger today than it was on October 7.
– British Government inventing Skripal’s story – British Government Invents Phantom Skripals to Refuse to Testify in the Novichok Inquiry By John Helmer,
– Attacks on Mosques and Churches in Dagestan, Russia. Rockets fired at beach in Sevastopol, Russia. Ukraine turning to terrorism to win war.
– Covert Action magazine – Alfred de Zayas ‘ The Human Rights Industry’ – Russia excluded from UN. UN report – anyone supporting Israel could also be guilty of war crimes
– Intelligence Services Have Penetrated and Corrupted Human Rights NGOs, Says Former Senior Lawyer with the Office of the UN
– The Human Rights Industry De Zayas’s book, The Human Rights Industry, focuses on the politicization and weaponization of human rights discourse at the UN
– Amnesty International founded by Peter Benenson (1921-2005) who worked in military intelligence during WWII. In 1966, said Amnesty had been infiltrated by British intelligence
– Chris Hedges on genocide in Gaza and end of Israeli credibility. Nero’s Guests talk… Hezbollah bombing northern Israel. Hedges was hired by The New York Times in 1990
– EXPOSED: Israel and the American Empire | Matt Kennard, Lowkey, Huda Ammori & Ahmed Alnaouq Palestine Deep Dive live streamed book launch event at the Frontline Club,
– Michael Hudson on internationalism run by nationalist US leading to creation of BRICS. Russia and China CRUSH NATO’s Plan as Ukraine FALLS Apart | Michael Hudson
– The July 4 landslide defeat of the neoliberal pro-war British Conservatives by the neoliberal pro-war Labour Party poses the question of just what the media mean when they describe the elections and political alignments
– Keir Starmer is Britain’s 1st EVER Atheist PM & nobody noticed! Charles 1st Agnostic King since Alfred!
– Christian faith of UK PMs, SinceQueen Elizabeth II died we had the first nn-CHristian, Rishi Sunak a Hindu’used car salesman’. Does Keir Starmer’s atheism matter?
– NOT The BCfm Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling –

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Part One - Local and National News Review

Donald Mack, freelance journalist and former stand-up comic, joins Tony and Martin. Labour wins general election with a landslide. Turnout down. How all the Parties faired. Workers Party gets 200,000 votes but no MPs. Pro-Palestine candidates defeat Labour in several seats in General Election FOUR pro-Palestine independent candidates have won seats at Westminster in the General Election. Although the news has mostly been about Labour winning a landslide majority and the SNP performing poorly, four independent candidates who openly support Palestine have won in their constituency. Jeremy Corbyn, Adnan Hussain, Iqbal Mohamed, and Shockat Adam have all won seats at Westminster with a few of them causing a shock upset. Adam might be the biggest surprise as he beat Labour's Jonathan Ashworth in Leicester South by just shy of 1000 votes as he said “this is for Gaza” in his winning speech. The 51-year-old had previously canvassed for Labour but turned his back on the party as he felt they no longer listened to the local community. The war in Gaza was a big political point in Adam’s campaign as he told the Middle East Eye: “The Palestinian cause is very close to the community’s heart yet when they needed a loud and clear and distinct voice it was lacking. “How can we stand by when we are seeing massacre upon massacre?” Former Labour leader Corbyn managed to retain his seat as an independent in Islington, where he has been an MP for more than 40 years. Corbyn won 24,120 votes with Labour’s candidate Praful Nargund securing a total of 16,873. The now-independent MP had called for an end to the occupation of Palestine by Israel last year as he said it was “the only means of achieving a just and lasting peace”. Elsewhere, Mohammed gained Dewsbury and Batley from the Labour candidate Heather Iqbal after winning an impressive 15,641 votes, in comparison to Labour’s 8707. He previously said: “My initial focus will include fighting for a ceasefire and two-state peace agreement in Gaza, tackling the cost-of-living crisis, fighting to save the NHS and Dewsbury Hospital, funding for all essential services, town regeneration, safer streets, and environmental and consumer safety and protection.” Hussain beat Labour’s Kate Hollern in Blackburn by the slimmest of margins as just 132 votes separated the pair. The new MP had run his campaign with Gaza as the main focal point.


Although we were promised a room nobody to open it was to be found any time or anywhere so this week's show came from a hastily assembled trestle table in a corridor in St. Pauls' Kuumba Centre. LABOUR'S shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth, who played a prominent role in the party’s media campaign, lost his seat to a pro-Palestine independent candidate. The senior shadow cabinet member was beaten by Shockat Adam in Leicester South, with 14,739 votes to 13,760. Adam's policy pledges included protecting the NHS, standing up for global peace and justice and championing affordable housing. Adam said he would support a ceasefire in Gaza, something which Ashworth had failed to vote for at Westminster. In Islington North. ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn dedicated his victory as an independent to the people of his constituency, as he enjoyed sweet success over his former party. He successfully retained his long-held seat of Islington North in London, beating his Labour rival by more than 7000 votes. In his victory speech, he claimed his campaign had shown “what kinder, gentler and more sensible, more inclusive politics, can bring about”....


Starmer’s Labour: The “party of NATO” prepares a UK government of genocide and war The Labour Party’s key pledge to Britain’s ruling elite is that it can be trusted in government as “the party of NATO” and national security. Sir Keir Starmer’s keynote June 3 speech pledged to make the military “fit to fight”, as he boasted that Labour had ditched the pacifist baggage of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn. Starmer did so alongside 10 of the party’s 14 general election candidates with a military background. This was a record number for the party said Starmer repeatedly. On June 11, with Starmer about to launch a militarist manifesto, Labour boasted that the number of armed forces and veteran candidates had risen to 19. Labour’s manifesto states that every policy the party will pursue in government is subordinate to the primary mission of national security. “No policy commitment in pursuit of Labour’s missions matters unless we uphold the first duty of any government: to keep the country safe. Peace and security are hard earned. They require constant vigilance.” The manifesto complains that “over the last 14 years geopolitical tensions have risen, while the Conservatives have hollowed out our armed forces.” This is followed by a commitment to NATO’s de facto war with Russia, declaring that “Now Putin is attempting to break European security with his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Labour will meet this challenge by strengthening our armed forces and protecting our national security.” All defence policies are listed in this context. “Our commitment to the UK’s nuclear deterrent is absolute. It is a vital safeguard for the UK and our NATO allies. As the party that founded NATO, we maintain our unshakeable commitment to the alliance, and we will apply a NATO test to major defence programmes to ensure we meet our obligations in full.” Without naming Russia and China, the document then states, “in recent years, threats to our safety and security have multiplied and diversified. Alongside greater conventional threats, we are faced with the growing emergence of hybrid warfare, including cyber-attacks and misinformation campaigns which seek to subvert our democracy. To ensure the UK is fully prepared to deal with these interconnected threats, Labour will conduct a Strategic Defence Review within our first year in government, and we will set out the path to spending 2.5 percent of GDP on defence.”


Starmer gets cool £500k from Israelis: Pro-Israel tycoon gives Labour half a million pounds Stuart Roden started a company with an Israeli special forces veteran and a senior Conservative. He’s now among Labour’s top election donors. Stuart Roden, the chairman of Israeli venture capital firm Hetz Ventures, has given the Labour party over half a million pounds ahead of the UK’s general election, Declassified has found. His donations worth £570,000 were registered with the Electoral Commission after Rishi Sunak called the snap poll. He is among a number of pro-Israel businessmen in Britain to have contributed to Labour’s election warchest, with figures such as Gary Lubner also donating £900,000 to the party in recent weeks. Roden is joined at Hetz Ventures by an array of former Israeli soldiers, many of whom have served in elite intelligence units. He is also the prime funder of a Zionist educational programme in Britain which teaches children that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are acting proportionately in Gaza. Roden was filmed shouting at peaceful pro-Palestine protesters outside the Labour party conference in October. “You murdered children” he screamed at the crowd, which included elderly women, telling journalists the demonstration should be banned. Roden began working in the City of London in the 1980s and launched Hetz Ventures in 2018. His net worth was estimated in the following year’s Sunday Times Rich List at around £280m, putting him among Britain’s 500 wealthiest people. Roden owns a thoroughbred racehorse with Andrew Lloyd Webber that Frankie Dettori rode to victory at Ascot. His company, Hetz, describes itself as “the first choice investor for ambitious early-stage Israeli startups”. Based in Tel Aviv, the firm’s three founding partners are Roden, ex-Conservative party chairman Lord Feldman, and London-born former Israeli special forces soldier Judah Taub. Feldman was described by the Financial Times as “David Cameron’s oldest political friend”. Taub “served as an officer in a classified intelligence unit” and passed through Sayeret Matkal, Israel’s version of the SAS. He served 111 days for the Israeli reserves since 7 October, apparently in Gaza, which he describes as a “privilege rather than a burden”. Other members of the Hetz leadership team include Pavel Livshiz and Yael Barsheshet, both of whom have served in elite Israeli military intelligence units. The company has volunteered for the Israeli “war effort” in Gaza “with food packing, donations, and farming”. Roden defended the Israeli military during a recent interview with the British press.


Russian politics. Starmers speech outside Downing St.

Keir Starmer got 500,000 fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn

Voters are disillusioned and ignorant. How is Labour going to rejuvenate Country. Better pay, better housing, better NHS. How will wars/ financial collapse effect economy and spending? Workers Party statement.  General Election candidates – result After four and a half years the Workers Party of Britain are now the 6th largest Britain-wide party by votes cast: Labour 9,712,011 Cons 6,814,469 Reform 4,091,549 Lib Dems 3,499,933 Green 1,939,502 Workers Party 210,194 We can hold our heads high that we gained over 200,000 votes. Many however will be understandably disappointed we will not have an MP in the next Parliament. In Rochdale, Yardley and Hodge Hill we were only hundreds of votes away… Then again, with our fierce anti-imperialist and socialist politics the establishment put every obstacle in our way. From little Rishi’s address condemning our victory in Rochdale earlier this year, an almost total mainstream media blackout to the violence against our activists on the streets, the ruling class have used every dirty trick to undermine our party, our politics and the British working class. Our party will not disappear quietly into the night. Workers continue to die from austerity, Palestinians are still undergoing genocide and so all that has changed is the ruling class have brought in new management to do their dirty work. For the struggles ahead workers now need more than ever their own political party, it is the only way we can organise ourselves, educate ourselves and be united in action. For workers, our unity is our strength!


Are Ofcom, the UK broadcasting regulator election cheats? - how it works. Reform C4 undercover report - actor? Update on complaints about Channel 4 News' 'Undercover inside Reform's campaign' Published: 3 July 2024 - We received over 270 complaints about Channel 4 News' 'Undercover inside Reform's campaign'. Given the election period, we have urgently assessed them against the due accuracy, due impartiality and offence rules under the Broadcasting Code. For all of these complaints, we have concluded that they do not raise substantive issues warranting further investigation. Any person or organisation directly affected by a programme has 20 working days from broadcast to make a fairness and privacy complaint to Ofcom. We would not comment further on fairness and privacy cases, in line with our published procedures. Ofcom will not investigate Channel 4 News after Nigel Farage’s Reform UK claimed the broadcaster used an actor as a “plant” in its undercover investigation into his campaign. The UK watchdog said it had received more than 270 complaints about Channel 4 News’s programme titled Undercover Inside Reform’s campaign, which saw a canvasser named Andrew Parker filmed using a racial slur to describe Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. After the expose aired, Reform’s party secretary Adam Richardson said in a letter to the Electoral Commission that it was “entirely evident that Mr Parker was a plant within the Channel 4 news piece”, adding that the broadcast “cannot be described as anything short of election interference”. On Wednesday, Ofcom said after “urgently” assessing the complaints against the due accuracy, due impartiality and offence rules under the Broadcasting Code, “we have concluded that they do not raise substantive issues warranting further investigation”. A spokesperson for Channel 4 News said: “Since this report aired, Channel 4 News has strongly stood up for its accurate, rigorous and duly impartial reporting, which speaks for itself. “Ofcom’s decision underscores the integrity of Channel 4 News’s journalism and high editorial standards. “The programme will continue to refute any claims that we – or the production company we worked with – knew or paid the Reform UK canvasser, Mr Andrew Parker. “We met Mr Parker for the first time at Reform UK’s campaign headquarters in Clacton, and he was filmed secretly via the undercover investigation.” The row with Channel 4 stems from an undercover report on activists involved in Mr Farage’s bid to win a Westminster seat at the eighth attempt. The footage showed Mr Parker using the racist term about Mr Sunak and suggesting migrants should be used as “target practice”. Another canvasser described the Pride flag as “degenerate” and suggested members of the LGBT community are paedophiles. It comes as Mr Farage is embroiled in a dispute with the BBC, claiming the audience for Friday’s Question Time special was “rigged” and refusing to appear on the flagship Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg show unless the corporation apologises. A BBC spokesperson previously said the broadcaster refutes the claims.


If the UK had a Proportional Representation (PR) voting system this would be the outcome on Friday yougov Labour 218 (+18) Con 132 (-240) Reform UK 104 (+104) Green 78 (+77) LibDems 76 (+68) SNP 19 (-29) [no mention of Galloway's party] If the UK had Proportional Represention this would be the outcome on Friday If every vote counted for every party and was then represented in Parliament this would be roughly what the make up would be. Compare this on Friday to the First Past The Post system in which votes only count locally. A very different representation will emerge in which we effectively live in a two party state and no other party historically gets much of a look in. Do we want a state governed forever by two parties or do want something that is more closely resembling a democracy?


PR vs FPTP. What UK Parliament would look like under PR [see graphic].  General election 2024: What was the vote share and how Parliament could look with proportional representation Parliament would look very different under a proportional representation voting system Sir Keir Starmer's Labour party has won a landslide victory at the general election, securing well over the number of seats needed for a majority government. With just a handful of seats left to declare results, Labour has won at least 410 seats in the Commons, while the Conservatives are set to fall well below their previous low of 156 MPs set in 1906. General elections in the UK are held using the first past the post (FPTP) voting system, which involves the public voting for an MP from a list of candidates to represent their local constituency in Parliament. The government is formed by the party that wins the most seats. The system is criticised by some for favouring the larger parties and campaigners have instead called for proportional representation (PR) to be used at general elections. Proportional representation would see the number of seats each party has correspond more closely to the actual share of the vote they won nationally. The largest share of the vote has gone to Labour this year, with 33.9 per cent of the vote after results from 641 constituencies. The party has secured 410 seats, but under a PR system, that number would not be so high.


How Starmer persecuted Julian Assange while DPP: The rest of Starmer's speech. Starmer on Russia and Ukraine. Exclusive: Ken Loach calls out Sir Keir Starmer, what were his dealings in the Julian Assange case Don’t you dare get cold feet As DPP, Sir Keir Starmer tempered his supposed love of liberty by fast-tracking the extradition of Julian Assange (a process now making its way through the courts). He flouted legal precedents by advising Swedish lawyers not to question Assange in Britain: a decision that prolonged the latter’s legal purgatory denied closure to his accusers in Sweden and sealed his fate before a US show trial. Leaked emails from August 2012 show that, when the Swedish legal team expressed hesitancy about keeping Assange’s case open, Sir Keir’s office replied: ‘Don’t you dare get cold feet’. Documents released under Freedom of Information requests to Italian magazine La Repubblica confirm the very close relationship between the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Sweden in the Julian Assange case. The files contain hundreds of mostly redacted emails sent over a five-year period. But according to one authoritative source, the number of CPS documents relating to the case may be much greater than has so far been disclosed. In May 2017, the Swedish authorities announced they had ceased all remaining investigations into alleged sexual assault by WikiLeaks founder Assange. But the Metropolitan Police arrest warrant for skipping bail would remain in force. Subsequently, Assange’s legal team sought a ruling that the Met warrant should be rescinded, but the court ruled otherwise.





Starmer saying Israel does have right to cut of food and water to Gazans. US to criminalise pro Palestinian speech. Starmer's speech on defense. Israel 'has the right' to withhold power and water from Gaza, says Sir Keir Starmer 11 October 2023Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has decried the actions of Hamas as ‘terrorism’ and said Israel has the “right to defend herself.” Speaking to Nick Ferrari from the Labour Party conference, Sir Keir told LBC: “Hamas’ actions are terrorism and Israel has the right to defend herself. “Israel has the right to do everything it can to get those hostages back safe and sound. Hamas bears responsibility,” he added. He said the world has “obviously” witnessed terrorist acts carried out by Hamas. He also said “Israel has the right” to withhold power and water from Palestinian civilians. “Obviously, everything should be done within international law," he added. “I’d call on all responsible states to call this out for what it is in utterly condemning these actions from Hamas,” he added....


1/2 UK population smoke cannabis. Farage's opinion on decriminalisation of drugs. Who's going to be new leader of Conservatives? Starmer more loyal to Davos than Westminster. Nadine Dorries. Patrizia Opulenza poem. A video has emerged which places Starmer beyond anti-democratic, and towards technocratic fascism Starmer has launched a war on the limited democracy we have in the UK In January 2023, Emily Maitlis asked Labour Party leader Keir Starmer: You have to choose now between Davos or Westminster? Starmer replied: 'Davos' Davos refers to the World Economic Forum. Multinational corporations, usually with a turnover of at least five billion dollars, fund it as members. Starmer continued: Westminster is too constrained. It’s closed and we’re not having meaning. Once you get out of Westminster whether it’s Davos or anywhere else, you actually engage with people that you can see working with in the future. Westminster is just a tribal shouting place. So Starmer admits it, if he becomes prime minister, he’ll be working with the transnational capitalist class, over even parliamentary democracy. Starmer’s war on democracy? Of course, Starmer can’t simply dissolve the limited democracy we have. Instead, he is going to war with key parts of it, in favour of a concentration of power. For this election, Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) didn’t just select candidates. Five of them imposed themselves as candidates. But this war goes beyond the Labour leader and the NEC blocking local members from selecting prospective MPs. At the 2021 September Labour conference, Starmer tried to overrule the one member one vote system for electing the party’s leader. The system was introduced in 2014 and led to the rise of Jeremy Corbyn. He tried to replace it with the electoral college system. This reduces the say of members to just one-third of the vote. At the time, Labour MP Zarah Sultana called it an “elitist… stitch up”. But the one member one vote system remains. While members all get one vote, a percentage of MPs must first nominate the leadership candidate. The thing is, Starmer was successful in doubling that from 10% of MPs to 20%. Fast forward to 2024 and Starmer’s team aims to give MPs and only MPs the power to select the leader, if a contest is triggered while Labour is in government. This would be even more of an increase in concentration of power away from the democratic membership and towards MPs. And from Starmer’s comments on Davos, he then wants to reduce the power of MPs further in favour of transnational elites. Instead of joining the Tory Party, Starmer is controlling the labour movement through leading it. We must oppose him.


Hidden agendas of Starmer government. Labour plans House of Lords age limit and immediate end to hereditary peers – constitutional reform proposals explained The Labour party has committed to immediately legislating to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords if elected to government. It will also impose retirement on members of the House of Lords at the age of 80. This would immediately reduce the size of the upper house of parliament. There are 91 hereditary peers, and figures from 2020 show that, at that time, there were 154 peers aged over 80 and 297 peers aged 70 to 79. This is the first part of a two-phase reform set out in the party’s 2024 election manifesto. The second phase is less clear. The broad direction is to improve the appointments process to improve national and regional balance in the House of Lords. The manifesto reiterates Labour’s commitment to replacing the Lords with an alternative second chamber that is more representative – but this will be achieved via a consultation with the British public about how politics can best serve them. Join our readers who subscribe to free evidence-based news This is reasserting Labour’s commitment towards more significant constitutional change, in line with the recommendations made by a commission led by former prime minister Gordon Brown in 2022. But it is kicking a decision on what exactly this will look like, and when, into the long grass. Brown had wanted a fully elected house. The manifesto also hints at measures to restore the reputation of the upper chamber, with tougher requirements on attending (at the moment a peer has to be absent for months on end to be suspended). It will be easier to remove disgraced peers and the appointments process will be improved. However, crucially, there is no detail on any of these plans.


Bitchute video of complete show - Essentials: Michael Hudson | Blackrock/Vanguard | Tony on Brexit & The Traitors of Arnhem | Evolution | War between God & Lucifer | Plan for three World Wars | Nuclear Armed IDF Doomsday Cult | Armageddonists I have known: Nick Land (1975-8) | George Monbiot (1995-8) | Aanirfan | Manna for the Revelation Generation: CONSPIRACY CLASSICS, longer interviews/lectures
Part Two - International news review, Accelerationist, Armageddonist reports and investigations

WW3. Haiti. Victor Orban wants Russia to keep Donbass region and a peace deal. Reminisces of a Future website. 'Washington: War from Independence to Iraq'..?.. book. IDF against IDF Generals do, Netanyahu doesn't want Gaza ceasefire - story. Newborn babies can't survive in Gaza. Israeli Generals Want Truce in Gaza, Putting Them at Odds With Netanyahu - Israeli Generals, Low on Munitions, Want a Truce in Gaza - Israel’s military leadership wants a cease-fire with Hamas in case a bigger war breaks out in Lebanon, security officials say. It has also concluded that a truce would be the swiftest way to free hostages. Israel’s top generals want to begin a cease-fire in Gaza even if it keeps Hamas in power for the time being, widening a rift between the military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has opposed a truce that would allow Hamas to survive the war. The generals think that a truce would be the best way of freeing the roughly 120 Israelis still held, both dead and alive, in Gaza, according to interviews with six current and former security officials. Underequipped for further fighting after Israel’s longest war in decades, the generals also think their forces need time to recuperate in case a land war breaks out against Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia that has been locked in a low-level fight with Israel since October, multiple officials said. A truce with Hamas could also make it easier to reach a deal with Hezbollah, according to the officials, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters. Hezbollah has said it will continue to strike northern Israel until Israel stops fighting in the Gaza Strip. Known collectively as the General Staff Forum, Israel’s military leadership is formed from roughly 30 senior generals, including the military chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the commanders of the army, air force and navy, and the head of military intelligence. The military’s attitude to a cease-fire reflects a major shift in its thinking over the past months as it became more clear that Mr. Netanyahu was refusing to articulate or commit to a postwar plan. That decision has essentially created a power vacuum in the enclave that has forced the military to go back and fight in parts of Gaza it had already cleared of Hamas fighters.


Hamas not defeated, now stronger. CFR's Foreign Affairs magazine: ‘Hamas is winning’ US Foreign Affairs magazine confirmed on Friday: “Hamas is stronger today than it was on October 7. Its cause is more popular and its appeal stronger than before October 7.” The magazine wrote in a report: “After nine months of gruelling war, it is time to recognize the stark reality: there is no military-only solution to defeat Hamas,” adding that “Hamas is neither defeated nor on the verge of defeat.” It also noted: “Israel has invaded northern and southern Gaza with approximately 40,000 combat troops, forcibly displaced 80 percent of the population, killed over 37,000 people, dropped at least 70,000 tons of bombs on the territory (surpassing the combined weight of bombs dropped on London, Dresden, and Hamburg in all of World War II), destroyed or damaged over half of all buildings in Gaza, and limited the territory’s access to water, food, and electricity, leaving the entire population on the brink of famine.” According to the magazine: “Although many observers have highlighted the immorality of Israel’s conduct, Israeli leaders have consistently claimed that the goal of defeating Hamas and weakening its ability to launch new attacks against Israeli civilians must take precedence over any concerns about Palestinian lives. The punishment of the population of Gaza must be accepted as necessary to destroy the power of Hamas.” However, Foreign Affairs states: “The central flaw in Israel’s strategy is not a failure of tactics or the imposition of constraints on military force—just as the failure of the United States’ military strategy in Vietnam had little to do with the technical proficiency of its troops or political and moral limits on the uses of military power. Rather, the overarching failure has been a gross misunderstanding of the sources of Hamas’s power. To its great detriment, Israel has failed to realize that the carnage and devastation it has unleashed in Gaza has only made its enemy stronger.” “Despite its losses, Hamas remains in de facto control of large swaths of Gaza, including those areas where the territory’s civilians are now concentrated,” it added. “According to a recent Israeli assessment, Hamas now has more fighters in the northern areas of Gaza, which the IDF seized in the fall at the cost of hundreds of soldiers, than it does in Rafah in the south.” The report also pointed out that Hamas: “Could still strike in Israel;


British Government inventing Skripal's story - lawyer Holborn never met them British Government Invents Phantom Skripals to Refuse to Testify in the Novichok Inquiry By John Helmer, A new lawyer appeared in a London court on Friday claiming to represent Sergei (lead image, left) and Yulia Skripal. Jack Holborn, a barrister specializing in what he calls human rights, told Lord Anthony Hughes, who is conducting a public inquiry into the alleged Novichok death of Dawn Sturgess in 2018, that the Skripals should not be called to give evidence or testify in the case. Holborn claimed the Skripals are fearful for their security. “No security measures are perfect”, he said. Holborn has not been in contact with the Skripals, however. He refuses to answer questions put to him on what visual contact or other communications he has had with either Sergei or Yulia Skripal. Instead, he was told what to say at the hearing by the law firm of Kingsley Napley which the British government is paying to show that the Skripals are participating in the Novichok case. The spokesman for Hughes and the inquiry was asked to explain Holborn’s presence in court for the first time on Friday. She was also asked what authority the Skripals had given Holborn to represent them. The spokesman answered: “Kingsley Napley has been designated as the recognised legal representative of the Skripals under r[ule] 6 of the Inquiry Rules 2006. By rule 8, the recognised legal representative may appoint a team to assist them and Kingsley Napley have accordingly instructed counsel to appear on their clients’ behalf.” In other words, there has been no contact between the lawyers who say they represent the Skripals, and the Skripals themselves. The judge and government are refusing to give evidence that Sergei Skripal is alive, and that Yulia Skripal is not in prison. The problem for the British Government is that if the Skripals are allowed to give live evidence at the Hughes inquiry, there is no telling what they may say to contradict or discredit the six-year official narrative of the Russian Novichok attack in England. The lawyer for the inquiry, Andrew O’Connor KC, told Hughes on Friday morning this was a “difficult question as to whether either or both of Sergei and Julia Skripal should give oral evidence.” He also acknowledged there was the same problem in revealing what the Skripals have already said. “In the case of the Skripals, the transcripts of their police interviews have not yet been provided to CPs [Core Participants] but will be very shortly.” In fact, the Skripal transcripts will be so redacted, the officials and lawyers admitted in court, it is uncertain what the Skripals believe had happened to them, and why. Release of the redacted Skripal transcripts from March of 2018 risks being contradicted by fresh written statements to the Hughes inquiry from the Skripals, so that form of testimony is also being barred. Since March 4, 2018, when the Skripals slumped unconscious on a Salisbury town bench and were kept in hospital under police guard, three British prime ministers — Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Rishi Sunak — have continued the story that three Russian military officers attacked the Skripals with a Novichok nerve agent they had brought by plane into England, and sprayed on to the door handle of Sergei Skripal’s home; that was several hours before he and his daughter showed symptoms and collapsed....


Attacks on Mosques and Churches in Dagestan, Russia. Rockets fired at beach in Sevastopol, Russia. Ukraine turning to terrorism to win war. ‘Terror attack’ on synagogue, churches in Russia’s Dagestan: What we know What do we know about the victims of the synagogue attack? Russian authorities said on Monday that 20 people, including 15 police officers and five civilians, were killed. Sergei Melikov, the head of the Dagestan region, said the civilians killed included an Orthodox priest, Nikolai Kotelnikov, who had worked for more than 40 years at the church in Derbent. More than a dozen people are in the hospital after sustaining injuries in the attack, Al Jazeera’s Daniel Hawkins reported from Moscow. What’s the significance of Dagestan? Dagestan, with a majority Muslim population, is home to more than 50 different ethnicities. It is also known as “the Mountain of Languages” or “Mountain of Nationalities”. Russian President Vladimir Putin has long held the North Caucasus region up as a poster child of integration and loyalty to the Russian state. This was evident when the Kremlin chose Dagestan for its first Putin photo op following former Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed coup attempt last year. In Dagestan, Putin was seen mingling with locals, taking photos, in an apparent show of confidence. Dagestan also borders Chechnya, which has long been home to a simmering secessionist movement that Russia attempted to crush through two wars — between 1994 and 1996, and then between 1999 and 2009. Those tensions in Chechnya have at times spilled over into Dagestan. In 1999, a Chechnya-based armed group entered Dagestan with more than 1,000 fighters, evoking a Russian military response. After more than a month of fighting, Russia recaptured all parts of the region. More recently, Russia’s Federal Security Service arrested four people in Dagestan over Moscow’s Crocus City Hall attacks, pointing to Russian concerns over separatism in the region. Amid Israel’s war on Gaza, Dagestan also made global headlines when on October 29, 2023, a crowd stormed Makhachkala airport to protest against the landing of a flight from Israel’s Tel Aviv. The crowd chanted anti-Israel slogans. This prompted the temporary closure of the airport. At least 60 people were arrested. Russia blamed Ukraine and the West for the airport unrest. Who carried out the Dagestan attack? Some experts believe that a link between the attackers and the ISIL/ISIS armed group cannot be ruled out. “It is possible and probably highly likely that there is a connection with ISIS groups because as we know ISIS has a kind of a network. It isn’t a hierarchical structure. People who affiliate themselves with ISIS can carry out these kinds of attacks,” Domitilla Sagramoso, lecturer in Security and Development at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, told Al Jazeera. “I think what makes it likely that there is an ISIS connection is the kinds of targets: Orthodox churches, synagogues,” Sagramoso added. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin had received reports on Sunday’s attacks. Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s top state criminal investigation agency, said all five attackers had been killed. “We understand who is behind the organisation of the terrorist attacks and what goal they pursued,” Melikov, the Dagestan leader, said, adding that foreign forces had been involved in preparing the attack, without sharing any details. “This is an attempt to cleave apart our unity.”...


Covert Action magazine - Alfred de Zayas ' The Human Rights Industry' - Russia excluded from UN. UN report - anyone supporting Israel could also be guilty of war crimes - Black Rock and banks profiting from Gaza attack. Intelligence Services Have Penetrated and Corrupted Human Rights NGOs, Says Former Senior Lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner Jeremy Kuzmarov - June 7, 2024 On April 7, 2022, the UN General Assembly voted to exclude Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. The resolution received the required two-thirds majority of those voting, minus abstentions, in the 193-member Assembly, with 93 nations voting in favour and 24 against.[1] The vote was highly politicized and reflected the success of the Western information war against Russia, which was falsely blamed for launching an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, and for committing the overwhelming majority of atrocities in the war, including a massacre at Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, which independent investigators concluded was actually carried out by Ukraine.  Alfred de Zayas, a former senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner and Secretary of the UN’s Human Rights Committee, wrote in his book The Human Rights Industry (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2023) that the UN General Assembly’s decision to exclude Russia “added to the general atmosphere of Russophobia that we have seen over the last three decades,” and “to the world’s perception of engineered bias in the UN itself, where the manipulation of States’ votes was enabled by a failure to call for a secret ballot, as requested by Russia.”[2] Alfred de Zayas. Born in Cuba, de Zayas grew up in Chicago and obtained a law degree from Harvard and Ph.D. in modern history from the University of Göttingen. He worked with the United Nations from 1981 to 2003 as a senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Chief of Petitions. [Source: wikipedia.org] De Zayas noted further that, if exclusion were undertaken objectively by the General Assembly, one would expect the exclusion of other offenders, including but not limited to the following: Several NATO countries, for the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by their force during the wars of aggression against Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. Saudi Arabia, among others, because of its genocidal war against the people of Yemen and because of the gruesome assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018. India for its systematic war crimes and gross violations of human rights against the people of Khashmir, including widespread extra-judicial executions. Azerbaijan because of its aggression against the hapless Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) during the blitzkrieg of September-November 2020, where the crime of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed, including torture and execution of Armenian prisoners of war. Decades of systematic killing of human rights defenders, social leaders, syndicalists and Indigenous peoples by successive Colombian governments and lethal paramilitary forces. According to de Zayas, the UN’s Human Rights Council, since its creation in 2006, has not served human rights well; rather it has manifestly served the geopolitical and informational interests of the United States and the European Union. These interests center on the demonization of Russia, which guarantees “that the maw of the U.S. military-industrial-digital-financial complex can continue to be fed, and its war on the world, contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations, can be pursued, even when it pushes the purported ‘rules-based’ international order.”[3]


The Human Rights Industry De Zayas’s book, The Human Rights Industry, focuses on the politicization and weaponization of human rights discourse at the UN and double standards of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which has evolved into a neo-colonial instrument that prosecutes primarily African leaders and enemies of the U.S. and West. (the recent arrest warrant for Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu may be a step in the right direction, but where are the warrants for U.S. leaders for their many crimes?) Cartoon of a person on a barrel with a world map on it Description automatically generated [Source: worldwithoutgenocide.com] The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) characteristically caved to political pressure when it silenced whistleblowers who dissented from the position that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons on the Syrian people. [Source: thegrayzone.com] The Human Rights Industry further spotlights the fact that human rights NGOs have been compromised by corporate foundations and Western intelligence agencies. De Zayas writes that he supports the work of many NGOs and idea of people’s power but finds that too many NGOs “go to foreign countries primarily to create confusion, interfere in the internal affairs of those states, and pave the way for ‘color revolutions’ and undemocratic regime change.”[4] The human rights industry’s deceptions are especially insidious in that they manipulate people’s genuine concern for human welfare in a way that compels them to support U.S. military intervention or regime-change operations that are detrimental to human rights. The Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), a major source of Xinjiang genocide allegations, was among the human rights NGOs that received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA cutout founded in the 1980s that advances disinformation in the service of U.S. corporate-military power. he CHRD lists its address to the office of Human Rights Watch (HRW), which has long-standing ties to Western intelligence and a history of promoting fabricated atrocity stories against targets of U.S. regime change like North Korea and Iraq, while ignoring the plight of victims of U.S.-backed violence, such as the people of eastern Ukraine. Financed heavily by George Soros, HRW and contemporaries like Amnesty International spend a disproportionate amount of time discussing issues related to LGBTQ rights while failing to condemn neo-liberal economic policies that leave people without access to clean water or adequate health care and education, and support coercive economic measures (i.e., sanctions) that are in violation of the UN charter. A person in a suit Description automatically generatedGeorge Soros [Source: medias-presse.info] Amnesty International was founded by Peter Benenson (1921-2005) who worked in British military intelligence during World War II and, in 1966, admitted that Amnesty had been infiltrated by British intelligence agents. The CIA and Israeli Mossad were also said to have been involved in Amnesty, whose chairman at one time received instructions from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, according to de Zayas.[5] The long-standing intelligence and Western government connections may help explain Amnesty’s failure to address the plight of exploited indigenous people of North and South America, or the plight of exploited migrant workers, and Kafaa workers who live in conditions of modern-day slavery, along with that of people struggling for self-determination like the Bubi people of the Island of Bioko, the South Cameroonians, the Kashmiris, the Sahrawis, the Kurds, the Yemenis, the Ngonis of Nigeria, the Tamils of Sri Lanka, the Ryukyuans of Okinawa, the West Papuans, and the Catalans of Spain, among others. A group of women wearing headscarves Description automatically generatedKashmiris have suffered terribly under Indian occupation but their plight has not been spotlighted by Amnesty, HRW or other Western human rights NGOs because there is no benefit to Western countries in trying to save them and India is now viewed as a strategic bulwark against a rising China. [Source: blogs.dunyanews.tv] De Zayas makes clear that HRW has a particularly odious record in supporting illegal U.S. military interventions under the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine (R2P), which uses invented human rights crimes as a pretext for wars that have devastated whole societies—like Libya in 2011. HRW further helped justify Donald Trump’s extrajudicial execution of a top Iranian General (Qassem Soleimani), and has taken its resentment of China to unhinged levels, likening Beijing to Nazi Germany.


Chris Hedges on genocide in Gaza and end of Israeli credibility. Nero's Guests talk... Hezbollah bombing northern Israel. Hedges was hired by The New York Times in 1990. He covered the first Gulf War for the paper, where he refused to participate in the military pool system that restricted the movement and reporting of journalists. He was arrested by the U.S. military and had his press credentials revoked, but continued to defy the military restrictions to report outside the pool system. He entered Kuwait with the U.S. Marine Corps. He was taken prisoner in Basra after the war by the Iraqi Republican Guard during the Shiite uprising. He was freed after a week. Hedges was appointed the paper’s Middle East Bureau Chief in 1991. His reporting on the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein in the Kurdish-held parts of northern Iraq saw the Iraqi leader offer a bounty for anyone who killed him, along with other western journalists and aid workers in the region. Several aid workers and journalists, including the German reporter Lissy Schmidt, were assassinated and others were severely wounded. Hedges became the Balkan Bureau Chief for The New York Times in 1995 reporting from the besieged city of Sarajevo. He later covered the war in Kosovo. He and his photographer, Wade Goddard, were the first journalists to travel with armed units of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) at the inception of the insurgency mounted against the occupying Serbs.


Low Key on NATO, Israel, and the US empire -  EXPOSED: Israel and the American Empire | Matt Kennard, Lowkey, Huda Ammori & Ahmed Alnaouq Palestine Deep Dive live streamed book launch event at the Frontline Club, London for The Racket by Matt Kennard with Lowkey, Huda Ammori, Ahmed Alnaouq. Eight months into Israel’s ongoing genocide on Gaza - one funded, armed and enabled by the United States - it has never been more urgent to shine a spotlight on the American Empire and the mechanics of its operation. Matt Kennard’s 'The Racket' does just that. Matt Kennard is co-founder and chief investigator at Declassified UK Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers Lowkey is a critically acclaimed hip-hop artist, political campaigner and journalist, Huda Ammori is a Palestinian-Iraqi researcher, campaigner and co-founder of Palestine Action 27:30 Lowkey: The story of the killing of Harry Dunn 31:30 Lowkey: Grenfell Tower and F35 production: Arconic 34:00 Lowkey: US military personal in Israeli war rooms and US and UK military aircraft helping with “target acquisition” 35:20 Lowkey: Watch the movement of ships and planes - all that’s said on a political level is PR 36:20: Lowkey: Western media lies to manage people’s perceptions of the genocide 37:00 Lowkey: Palestinian resistance on the ground 37:15 Lowkey: Zodiac Maritime, British ships and Yemen 38:30 Lowkey: We should focus on material infrastructure more than what is said politically 40:00 Lowkey: Sitting with representatives of the British government means you are sitting with Israel 41:00 Lowkey: Direct action works - Palestine Action 41:45 Ahmed: The bomb that killed my family 42:00 Huda: Direct Action and starting Palestine Action 45:00 Huda: The crushing of Jeremy Corbyn and his politics 46:50 Huda: Palestine Action’s expansion to the United States 51:30 Huda: The Legality of direct action - “We are respecting international law” 55:00 Lowkey: A coup attempt against Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Mark Rowley


UK being subservient to US. Psychological warfare. Michael Hudson on internationalism run by nationalist US leading to creation of BRICS. Russia and China CRUSH NATO's Plan as Ukraine FALLS Apart | Michael Hudson  The July 4 landslide defeat of the neoliberal pro-war British Conservatives by the neoliberal pro-war Labour Party poses the question of just what the media mean when they describe the elections and political alignments throughout Europe in terms of center-right and center-left traditional parties challenged by nationalist neo-fascists.... What are called extremist right-wing parties are now the populist anti-war parties What is called the “far right” is supporting (at least in campaign rhetoric) policies that used to be called “left,” opposing war and improving the economic conditions of domestic labor and farmers – but not those of immigrants. And as was the case with the old left, the right’s main supporters are the younger voters. After all, they are bearing the brunt of falling real wages throughout Europe. They see that their path to upward mobility is no longer what it was for their parents (or grandparents) in the 1950s after World War II ended, when there was much less private-sector housing debt, credit-card debt or other debt – especially student debt. Back then, everyone could afford to buy a house by taking out a mortgage that only absorbed 25% of their wage income, and was self-amortizing in 30 years. But today’s families, businesses and governments are obliged to borrow rising sums just to maintain their status quo. The old division between right and left parties has become meaningless. The recent rise in parties described as “far right” reflects the widespread popular opposition to the US/NATO support of Ukraine against Russia, and especially to the consequences for European economies of that support. Traditionally, anti-war policies have been left-wing, but Europe’s “center-left” parties are following America’s pro-war “leadership from behind” (and often under the table). This is presented as an internationalist stance, but it has become unipolar and U.S.-centered. European countries have no independent voice. What turns out to be a radical break from past norms is Europe following NATO’s transformation from a defensive alliance to an offensive alliance in keeping with U.S. attempts to maintain its unipolar dominance of world affairs. Joining America’s sanctions on Russia and China, and emptying out their own arsenals to send weapons to Ukraine to try and bleed the Russian economy has not hurt Russia, but strengthened it. The sanctions have acted as a protective wall for its own agriculture and industry, leading to import-displacing investment. But the sanctions have hurt Europe, especially Germany. The global failure of today’s Western version of internationalism The BRICS+ countries are expressing the same political demands for a break from the status quo that national populations in the West are seeking. Russia, China and other leading BRICS countries are working to undo the legacy of debt-ridden economic polarization that has spread through both the West, the Global South and Eurasia as a result of the US/NATO and IMF diplomacy. After World War II, internationalism promised a peaceful world. The two World Wars were blamed on nationalist rivalries. These were supposed to end, but instead of internationalism ending national rivalries, the Western version that prevailed with the end of the Cold War has seen an increasingly nationalist United States lock in Europe and other satellite countries against Russia and the rest of Asia. What poses as an international “rules-based order” is one in which U.S. diplomats set and change the rules to reflect U.S. interests, while ignoring international law and demanding that American allies follow U.S. Cold War leadership. This is not peaceful internationalism. It sees a unipolar U.S. military alliance leading toward military aggression and economic sanctions to isolate Russia and China. Or more to the point, to isolate European and other allies from its former trade and investment with Russia and China, making those allies more dependent on the United States.





Christian faith of UK PMs, SinceQueen Elizabeth II died we had the first nn-CHristian, Rishi Sunak a Hindu'used car salesman'. Does Keir Starmer’s atheism matter? ... Starmer has made sincere efforts to reach out to believers. In 2022 he launched a network of ‘Faith Champions’, 16 parliamentarians with a brief to build links between religious groups and Labour – or as he Starmerishly put it: ‘MPs and peers will be message carriers and engage with specific communities.’ Last month he interviewed Sadiq Khan to mark Eid, and told a newspaper that, to keep up the Jewish traditions on his wife’s side of the family, the Starmers occasionally attend synagogue and say some Jewish prayers once a week. (Part of the Friday evening home time which he hopes to set aside when in office.) So Starmer does ‘do God’, in a way; just not very convincingly. He got 40 seconds into the conversation with Khan before shifting the subject away from Muslim belief on to the logistics of visiting Mecca (‘There is this theme coming up about visas…’). After mentioning his family’s Jewish roots last month, he mysteriously remarked, ‘They’re not Jewish for reasons I won’t bore you with’, and wouldn’t elaborate. Does Starmer’s insensitivity to religion matter? It just might. Take his policy of introducing VAT on school fees. Eton and Harrow can take it. But what about the Christian, Muslim and Jewish institutions with attendances below 300 and fees of, say, £6,000 a year, which run on goodwill and prayer? Again, the proposed ban on ‘conversion therapy’ was abandoned by the Tories partly because every way of framing it was an obvious threat to religious freedom: as the Evangelical Alliance observed, an expansive ban ‘would place church leaders at risk of prosecution when they preach on biblical texts relating to marriage and sexuality’ and could ‘criminalise a member of a church who prays with another member when they ask for prayer to resist temptation’. Labour’s manifesto promises to institute a ban, without explaining how they would avoid putting traditional religious believers on the wrong side of the law. ‘We met in a gender-neutral facility.’ Progressive politicians long to harness the public spirit and ethical seriousness of religious communities. As Starmer told religious charities earlier this year: ‘We will welcome anyone who wants to make our national life better to take their place at the table, to shape the future.’ But those communities’ deepest commitments often make them difficult to co-opt. Ask Pastor Irukwu. Ask Janet Daby, briefly Starmer’s shadow minister for faith, women and equalities, who had to resign after she publicly mused about protecting the conscience rights of Christian marriage registrars. Winston Churchill joked that, although he was not a pillar of the church, he liked to think of himself as a ‘flying buttress’ – i.e., supporting the church from outside. Starmer could never deliver that line: not just because it is too witty and knowledgeable, but because it implies a certain respectful distance from the church, a willingness to let religious communities get on with it. Starmer, on the other hand, gives the impression that he views faith as a resource to be exploited. But when he comes to religious groups with flattering words and promises of a ‘partnership’, the wisest answer may be: please, just leave us alone.
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