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 Famines are always man-made. This fact has been recognised at least as far back as the Victorian era; famines are never merely about a lack of access to food - they're about the active withholding of access to food, from one group of people, by another. And no famine in history has been more obviously manufactured than Israel's famine in Gaza, in which thousands of tonnes of food sit hundreds of meters away from scenes like this:  There are literally tens of thousands of trucks waiting to get food into Gaza. One phone call from Donald Trump could get them in. One order from Netanyahu could get them in. Israel, the US, and Israel's 'allies' (a better word would be accomplices ) in Europe, have chosen every day since October 9th 2023 to withhold food and water from an entire population. And this isn't the first time for Israel. Back in 2005, Israel launched Operation 'First Rain' on the people of Gaza. As the Israeli-British historian Ilan Pappé writes: ...

 "A land without people, for a people without a land": this was the dream for Israel, advocated for by Zionists as far back as the late 1800s. This single statement encapsulates the inherently genocidal logic (and the counterintuitive justification) used to construct a state of Israel on Palestinian territory. The land was populated by hundreds of thousands of people before the first European settlers moved there; very much not a "land without people". And as for the "people without a land", not only did most Jewish people have no interest at all in the creation of an Israeli state, many were actively opposed to it: the Jewish people, more than many other ethnic groups worldwide, knew first-hand where ethnonationalism leads, and wanted no part in it. On these two lies - that Palestine was "without people", and that it should become a Jewish ethno-state - Europe (led by Britain) founded the state of Israel. That state will use any means necessary ...

 We are going to have to sort this out. The plague of gender-bending perverts infiltrating our nation's bathrooms has gone on for too long. Women need protection. And I think the best way to provide that protection is to have national genitalia inspections by police officers. Now, as we all know, sexual assault occurs exclusively in public toilets. They are sites of national shame; one shivers to walk past a public toilet, knowing that in all likelihood, a trans person is in there, doing unspeakable things to innocent (biological) men and (biological) women. I've lost many friends to the dank dens of festering injustice that constitute gender-neutral bathrooms, whose existence I cannot accept - apart from in the case of disabled bathrooms (for as we all know, disabled people, the poor things, do not have either gender or sex, and so are safe to use the same uni-gender bathroom together).  It should go without saying that bathroom cleaners also have no gender, and should contin...

 Sir Kier Starmer, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, hath proclaimed across the Kingdom that there shall be a reduction in the pay given to the feeble and the sick. He hath come to this decision amid a time of great plenty; that new title 'billionaire' is claimed by three thousand men across the globe, five-and-fifty of whom live in our United Kingdom itself. The time has come to impose tithes on the great Robber-Barons of the world: Amazon, Meta, Google - and yet, as we have come to expect, the great burden of taxation falls hardest on the peasantry. Sir Starmer's Knighthood For many years now, we have laboured under the weight of ever-growing levies: the Water Lords, the Energy Lords, and the Land Lords demand from us poor vassals a monthly stipend, in exchange for the continuation of our own lives. There are those who still maintain that such taxes are voluntary arrangements within a system of Free Trade - that we are 'free to choose' which Lord will pro...

 It should go without saying: this election result is really bad, actually. Kamala Harris, proud supporter of ongoing genocide though she may be, enthusiastic participant in the police state and generally vapid vessel for status-quo Democratic complacency though she may be... she's not a rapist with an endorsement from the KKK . In fact, her entire campaign, based stupidly, fatally, on the one selling point - "I'm not Trump" - does at least highlight the raw fact that Trump is indeed a particularly repulsive bit of bile for the American electorate to spew up into the blood-soaked walls of the "White House". Those who voted for Harris as a means to avoid the full-blown meltdown of democratic order Trump will inevitably unleash are not, actually, all terrible people who don't care a jot for the lives of Palestinians - many will be principled and active organisers against Israel who simply fear for what will happen to trans people, migrants, all women in Am...

 Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon is sunbathing in Cyprus. Once invited to address the Oxford Union , the millionaire (who now goes by the name 'Tommy Robinson') is lounging in a five-star hotel, scrolling through his phone, sending messages to thousands of ardent followers. He had fled the UK after breaching a court order, after losing a libel battle in 2021. This wealthy, powerful, criminal terrorist, fleeing supposed political persecution in his home country in order to reap the benefits of a safer place abroad, is a figurehead of the anti-Muslim violence currently burning across the UK. He doesn't speak the local language, he's got a history of criminally stalking and harassing a woman , assaulting a police officer, and his libel case was against a 15 year-old. Naturally, this man, and all his followers, believe that powerful foreign terrorists are a great danger to our children, and that the best way to protect women is to close borders. Were the government of Cyp...