In the next weeks we will see an intensification of attacks both on Zack Polanski & the Green Parties, as the Right media realise actually both GPEW & the SGs represent a real challenge to their man Farage delivering the country to the Far Right.

We can expect lies, distortion & extrapolations all intended to demonise the Greens, but given the new social networks the progressive left increasingly uses (like this one) unlike previous campaigns this one may be less successful.

#politics #media

Analysis: "Starmer’s ban on Palestine Action was done to protect the arms industry"

A Channel 4 doco on Palestine Action’s proscription as a terrorist organisation alleges the proscription was done at the behest of Elbit Systems.

The doco cites evidence - including a 2023 internal Home Office email stating: "Reassure Elbit Systems UK... that the government cares about the harm the group is causing the private sector".

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-02-10/ban-palestine-action-arms-industry/

#UKPol #USPol #CdnPoli #News #PalestineAction .

[The Washington Post] Minneapolis judge bars DHS agents from arresting peaceful protesters
Minneapolis judge bars DHS agents from arresting peaceful protesters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/16/minneapolis-ice-protester-arrests-judge/

Nigel Farage is playing both ends to the middle tight now; at once presenting ReformUK Ltd as the 'party' for anti-establishment voters who view the current political settlement as corrupt & distant from their interests....

while also moving to befriend business with (among other things) a deregulatory agenda that looks exactly like what the business/wealthy elites are looking for in economic policy.

The Q. is: how long he can keep this contradiction going?

#politics
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/reform-nigel-farage-business-lobbying-be-in-cabinet-policies-deregulation-finance/

"Blair’s record on the Middle East is one of repeated failures, brazen bias, and mass slaughter. Why on Earth should the bombed and besieged Palestinians of Gaza have their fate decided by a man already drenched in Arab blood?"

#Israel #Gaza #Blair #Trump

Tony Blair Should Be on Trial for War Crimes, Not Running Gaza
https://zeteo.com/p/tony-blair-should-be-on-trial-for

Has the control of the political narrative by the top 10% of earners in the UK, led to a defensive politics driven by a fear of downwards socio-economic mobility?

And if so, as Gerry Mitchell argues for @KSBylines is the democratisation of political narratives by sortition the first step in assembling a fairer more inclusive politics of the future?

And... if we accomplished that could we renew our broken social contract?

Well, it would be worth a try!

#politics

https://kentandsurreybylines.co.uk/politics/democracy/the-voice-of-the-nation-who-speaks-for-britain/

If you want to see how a privatised system of health care might work (or not work) in England, you can look at the USA (see earlier post) or nearer to home at the plight of patients seeking NHS dentistry.

The disaster of UK dental care continues to worsen, with little public emergency cover & patients resorting to pulling their own teeth.

Repeated 'solutions' to the dental crisis have failed, leaving us with a brutally dysfunctional dental sector.

#health #dentists
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/15/people-pulling-own-teeth-due-to-lack-of-urgent-nhs-dental-care-in-england-watchdog-finds