The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Crisis for Johnson not necessarily a crisis for the Tory Party
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns that if the current PM is replaced, the next leader will most likely have an even worse stance on effective Covid suppression as right-wing anti-lockdown factions now rule the Conservative roost
A Chilean court ruled that funds were illegally taken by the dictator to accumulate family wealth that is now disputed among his heirs, writes PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID HORSLEY remembers communist seaman Bill Bailey, the ‘Kid from Hoboken,’ whose heroics in tearing down a swastika flag from a ship’s mast inspired early anti-fascist resistance
Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
I went to bed planning for university, but woke to bombs falling on Gaza, losing my home, best friend, and nearly my hand — yet I am unbroken, and still dream of writing to carry Palestinian voices worldwide, writes EMAN GHASSAN ABUZAYED
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
WHEN you come under pressure in politics there are essentially two ways out of the crisis. You abandon what you were doing and go over to your critics, or you tough it out and stick to your beliefs.
To no-one’s great surprise Boris Johnson has chosen the coward’s way out and adopted the main agenda of Tory critics on his right. As scientists have warned, this risks a resurgence of the number of omicron cases in this country. This is while new deaths are still on the rise.
Many great crimes have been committed in high office. But this is an extraordinary case of a Prime Minister who is willing to let people die in even greater numbers simply to save his own skin. Greater self-love has no man than to lay down the lives of others to save himself.
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