Journalist, Private Eye magazine. Also available @solomonhughes.bsky.social
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The Home Office openly saying Mahmood forcing migrant workers to have less rights for 15 years is designed to create a big class of workers totally dependent on (& exploitable by) bosses , not to reduce migration , in The Times thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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Can anyone remember the last time @BBCNews interviewed a Palestinian about their experience of the racism of Zionism? Having spent the last two weeks interviewing elderly Nakba survivors in Jordan, driven off their land in their teens because of their ethnicity and religion, I'd be happy to suggest some astonishingly articulate victims of Israeli racism who would be only too happy to tell their tragic stories of eviction, slaughter and dispossession. It is like reporting on the Civil Rights movement in the US and only interviewing outraged Whites
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“[Saying] ‘Zionism is racism’ is offensive, it’s antisemitic and it’s dangerous”
Broadcaster Jo Coburn says she “watched in horror” as the Green Party passed its motion on Zionism and criticises leader Zack Polanski's defence in his #BBCLauraK interview
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On 19 July 2024, I published two posts on my X account in which I made allegations about Mr Mothin Ali being involved in the Harehills riots. I have accepted these were incorrect and I have jointly made a statement in open Court in order to apologise to Mr Ali and correct the record which is below.
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As @SarahHelm1 comes under ferocious attack, read her extraordinary piece for us @MiddleEastEye - an in-depth interview with the son of one of Israel's founding fathers, who explained how he had come to regret the entire Zionist project:
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Louise Haigh to a govt minister last year: "It is impossible to conclude that this is anything less than a genocide"
Haigh is now a senior cabinet minister & the govt continues arming what she called the genocidal Israeli regime.
What price principles, eh?
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They actually do laugh at this, and why not? It’s all a fun game.
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Sally Rooney's books can no longer be sold in Britain due to her support for Palestine Action.
She refused to withdraw her support for the direct action group which targeted the Israeli arms industry, costing her the royalties from all of her UK sales.
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Labour Conference Party of key Burnham- backing "Tribune Group of MPs" funded by Palantir's former lobbyist, in current @PrivateEyeNews
ED Miliband, Lucy Powell, Wes Streeting and more end up making speeches surrounded by Kentucky Fried Chicken branding amidst pro-KFC speeches thanks to Labour Conference event sponsorship , in current @PrivateEyeNews
Rachel Reeves might have left Labour voters feeling cheated, but her former Special Adviser has a new career working for an investment bank, where she can help oppose more taxes on banks , in current @privateeyenews
A bunch of MPs want to get to grips with AI....by joining a Google funded training scheme. Its run by an ex Labour Special Adviser who admits she is "not a techy person " - presumably getting her job because of contacts, not expertise, in current @privateeyenews
John Healey ' new Special Adviser comes from lobbying firm Flint Global - where he agreed with the Flint line that Healey is in Labour's "conservative right wing tradition " and there will be no "big shift left " under Burnham. In current @PrivateEyeNews
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Short video about my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" published by @HurstPublishers. Took me 7 years to write. Starts in Barcelona's Plaça Catalunya, ends in Austria. Takes the reader to Aragón with Orwell's son, Gernika, the Ebro battle, the Valley of the Fallen. I wanted to understand the war by traveling through today's landscapes, the scars of violence still there, looking also how the war is remembered, dark clouds threatening today.
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I really don’t want to criticise former leaders but when this fella was in charge the Green Party got 3.4% (2017) and 4.8% (2019) in Holborn & St Pancras. Zack Polanski has just got 32.8% of the vote and Jonathan Bartley is demanding “soul searching”. Should be laughed off really
Exclusive: Former Green Party leader slams by-election result, claiming it will “demand some serious soul searching”
Jonathan Bartley says there is now a “toxicity of the Green Party brand” & allegations of antisemitism, along with the “Zionism is racism” motion “are clearly having an impact”
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(1)A classic piece of "externalisation" by Deliveroo (AKA 'you clear up the mess we made'). Deliveroo calling for govt ban on dodgy "E Bike conversion kits". The ones its riders have to use to make a living. Why not Deliveroo help riders get better bikes >deliveroo.co.uk/more/news-ar…
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"Are they still a friend?"
Middle East minister @SDoughtyMP: "Of course they are still a friend & indeed a partner"
Israel is a genocidal apartheid state led by someone wanted for war crimes. That's who we're friends & partners with.
(1) Last year Louise Haigh said there was "Genocide" in Gaza, demanding sanctions on "Netenyahu and members of his Genocidal Regime". Its on her own website. She is now a Minister, no sanctions on Netenyahu, Arms sales continue. That is more "shameful" than any Green motion..
(2)You can argue wether the wording in the Greens "Zionism is Racism" motion is right, but if Ministers believe Israel is guilty of "Genocide", and are still selling arms/having military cooperation/not joining the ICJ case,they should reserve "shameful" for themselves
(3) Haigh's website here louisehaigh.org.uk/uncategor…