SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war

UNABLE to win arguments, centrists like to rely on “the rules” instead — even if that means making up “the rules.”
Take the attempt to stop the End the Siege of Gaza march this Saturday. The leadership of the Labour and Conservative parties and much of the national media want to back the IDF’s war on Gaza, so they oppose the march.
But they are struggling to find persuasive arguments to get people to back a war which so clearly seems to kill so many more civilians — including children — than Hamas fighters.

SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war

Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES



