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
‘My wife, my sons and my daughter all drowned. They left because life here is so bad with no electricity, no jobs and no salary’
The family of Rizgar Hussein attempt at the perilous crossing from France to Britain last month ended in tragedy. STEVE SWEENEY, who had met them, looks at the political background that leads tens of thousands to escape poverty and oppression
LEFT TO DROWN: Rizgar Hussein’s wife Khazal and children, daughter Hadia and son Mubin; location screen grabs
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
HUGH LANNING reports on an initiative that will aim at counteracting the anti-Palestine narratives spoon-fed to Western governments and the mass media by Israel’s propaganda machine
KEITH FLETT looks at the long history of coercion in British employment laws
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
“THEY were trying to escape from them,” Mohammad says as the Kurdistan Regional Government announced that the bodies of 16 people who drowned in the channel in November were being returned home.
“Now it is the Barzanis that are bringing them back. Even in death they cannot get away from them,” he tells me, his voice tinged with sadness.
His best friend is one of the thousands who have fled Iraqi Kurdistan in recent months, desperate to escape a brutally oppressive regime and deepening poverty that has blighted the region.
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