While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
LET’S face it. It’s not as though our hopes have been dashed by this government.
After all, Labour is a party led by someone who deceived thousands of party members into voting for him as leader by making 10 decent pledges, only for almost all of them to be ditched within months.
The same someone who has an affinity for accepting freebies, for himself and party, yet insists he is restoring trust in politics! He takes advice from Blairites, and appointed an ex-banker who claims the money-laundering, customer-exploiting City is the “crown jewel” of the economy, to be his chancellor.
Trade unions call for windfall tax hike to fund social energy tariff to public’s energy bills
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE


