Animal welfare campaigners were locked up in cramped cages outside the Plaid Cymru conference in Llandudno on 2 October. They were highlighting the suffering pheasants and partridges face in cages. And they were calling for an end to their use to breed game birds in Wales. The campaigners ...
Ireland had barely closed the chapter on its controversial match against Israel when Palestinian solidarity again took center stage at Aviva Stadium in Dublin. The Irish national team’s match against Austria was halted twice due to pro-Palestine protests, highlighting the ongoing pressure ...
He's a millionaire footballer but Nigeria and Coventry City striker Taiwo Awoniyi still hasn't forgotten the lesson his father taught him - education is important. Awoniyi has just graduated with a diploma designed to help him go on to become one of football's future leaders. The Premier L...
UK outsourcing corporation Serco Group has again come under intense scrutiny as its insurer, Aviva, faces criticism from employees, union reps, and human rights experts. On 1 October, local campaigners in Norwich put up spoof Aviva adverts covered in CCTV cameras. They were highlighting ho...
The UK foreign secretary’s announcement of a “double lock” on arms sales to Israel earlier this month has had no impact, with the government declining to suspend any existing licences, despite reports suggesting otherwise. On 8 September, Ed Miliband announced the double lock during a Comm...
‘Israel’ has desperately been trying to hide its human rights abuses, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Palestine from the world. It is too late for that. There is no unseeing what has already been seen. But the occupation’s crimes continue, so does the intentional killing of thos...
Trump’s latest fascist ‘ICE’ boss, Homeland Security secretary Markwayne Mullin, was asked about his department’s record – at least 58 people have died in his racist concentration camps. Mullin’s reply? ‘We’re not providing Holiday Inns’. ICE are not ‘providing Holiday Inn’ Watch: https://...
Green Party conference will debate, and then vote on, the much-discussed ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion. In the run-up, I have witnessed and joined many discussions around it. People have told me the motion is “divisive,” “problematic” and “toxic.” I have also seen several procedural objection...
Mohammad Diriyya’s return to the football pitch was far more than just another appearance for Palestine. Reappearing for the national B-team in a match against Turkish club Konyaspor, the Palestinian midfielder made his comeback following a long absence to undergo treatment for cancer. On ...
The match between Konyaspor and the Palestinian reserve team was far more than an ordinary friendly. The stands of the Konya Metropolitan Municipality Stadium transformed into a powerful canvas of images and messages reflecting the war in Gaza. Throughout a night filled with Palestine flag...
In a further indication of the likely false-flag nature of the supposed FlyDubai ‘hijacking’, Iranian media were reporting — hours before the event — that Israel’s spy service was planning an aviation attack: Israel’s long history of false flags Israel has a long, long track record of ‘fal...
US spy- and killing-firm Palantir has put its latest parliamentary revolving-door hire Tom Watson to use — ‘threatening‘ other politicians for criticising it. Labour MP Clive Lewis has outed the manoeuvre, publishing a letter that the former deputy party leader sent him and categorising it...