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death penalty objections are too little, too late
The UK government joined France, Germany, and Italy in issuing a statement expressing their “deep concern” ahead of Israel’s decision to default to the death penalty for Palestinians charged with fatal crimes. This horrifying bill, which passed by 62 to 48, will undoubtedly further the extermination of Palestinians. The Israeli Occupation Army’s (IOF’s) entirely biased military courts apply these convictions, leaving powerless defendants with almost no access to justice.
The joint statement from Western nations read:
We, the Foreign Ministers of Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom, express our deep concern about a bill that would significantly expand the possibilities to impose the death penalty in Israel and that could be voted into law next week. We are particularly worried about the de facto discriminatory character of the bill. The adoption of this bill would risk undermining Israel’s commitments with regards to democratic principles.
The death penalty is an inhumane and degrading form of punishment without any deterring effect. This is why we oppose the death penalty, whatever the circumstances around the world. The rejection of the death penalty is a fundamental value that unites us.
We urge the Israeli decision makers in Knesset and Government to abandon these plans.
While Western opposition to the death penalty is welcome and aligns with international law, those who drafted the statement shamefully couldn’t bring themselves to even mention Palestinians. Since this law applies exclusively to Palestinians, while Israeli citizens remain exempt, such erasure is not just negligent – it is contemptible. And, it makes the UK, Germany, France, and Italy entirely complicit in the erasure of Palestinians that is central to genocide.
Israel – Western complicity
For decades, these Western governments have enabled Netanyahu’s administration through political, military, and diplomatic support. This unqualified support came despite mounting, indisputable evidence that Israel’s policies amount to a system of apartheid and genocide.
As such, it’s hard to take messages of opposition remotely seriously:
BREAKING: UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has put out a joint statement with France, Germany and Italy opposing the passing of a law in Israel which will make the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis.https://t.co/3X2Gb8T18Z pic.twitter.com/WuX6EDf6nI
— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 31, 2026
After all, Palestinians have been illegally murdered for years now – why would the legalisation of Israel’s genocidal policy change anything?
Israel receive condemnation
Military officials and other Israeli ministers have also raised concerns that this law violates international law. They further add that applying this law could expose Israeli officials to arrest abroad under warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Furthermore, Israel’s leading civil rights group, the Association for Civil Rights, have reportedly filed an appeal against the law with the Supreme Court saying the law is:
an act of institutionalised discrimination and racist violence against Palestinians.
Israel’s Supreme Court of Israel could still strike down this law, potentially curbing the most extremist and violent acts of Zionism. Yet whether it takes the form of so-called “polite” Zionism or outright violence, all versions undermine the rights of indigenous Palestinians.
Many have come out decrying the cruel and illegal punishment, with the UN Human Rights for Palestine underscoring the UN’s opposition to the death penalty “under all circumstances”:
Israel must immediately repeal the discriminatory death penalty law passed today by the Knesset, as it contravenes Israel’s obligations under international law.
The United Nations opposes the death penalty under all circumstances. The implementation of this new law would violate…— UN Human Rights Palestine (@OHCHR_Palestine) March 30, 2026
Lawyer Jessica Simor has also pointed out the sick rhetoric being purposefully deployed by those who still wish to protect Israel from accountability:
“Controversial” ? Seriously?
How about: “immoral”, “unethical”; contrary to all democratic norms”? How about: “in breach of international law”? How about “heinous”, “stomach-turning”, “irredeemably revealing of a sick society in need of help”? https://t.co/S27dPqv3qn
— Jessica Simor KC (@JMPSimor) March 30, 2026
UN representative Mohamad Safa pointed out the international laws that are contravened by this sadistic law:
Israel just passed death penalty law for ~10,000 Palestinian prisoners.
This violates the Common Article 3 applies to all four Geneva Conventions, but international law clearly doesn’t apply to Israel. pic.twitter.com/5m8HvCc2mi
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) March 30, 2026
Amnesty International has condemned Israel using the death penalty as “part of the system of apartheid, genocide and occupation” imposed on Palestinians:
Israel now has one of the world’s most extreme death penalty laws.
Israel is brazenly granting itself free rein to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards.
The death penalty will now become part of the system of apartheid, genocide and… pic.twitter.com/nKvf29vjAx
— Amnesty UK (@AmnestyUK) March 31, 2026
‘Justice’ delivered by an illegal occupier
We reported on the atrocious odds stacked against Palestinians in Israeli military courts, which conveniently see a 99.7% conviction rate. The impossible conviction rate alone highlights the unlikely justice to be found, making the court little more than a “place of transition“.
We wrote:
The trials usually last about 10 minutes and the testimony of an Israeli soldier is enough to secure a conviction.
The odds of a fair trial are stacked against Palestinians. They’re conducted in Hebrew and the poor translations do little to help Palestinians understand what is happening or even what they’re accused of. So each trial essentially boils down to plea bargaining. The Palestinian defendant pleads guilty to get a lesser sentence.
The likelihood that Israeli forces and prosecutors will manufacture crimes whilst pressuring Palestinians to plead guilty is practically a certainty. As ever the Israeli government haven’t shied away from making their intentions clear. The annihilation of Palestinians has always been their ultimate goal.
As these X posts highlight:
Open Incitement Against Our Mothers in the West Bank!
The extremist “Ben-Gvir” threatens mothers in the West Bank, vowing that their children’s fate will be “the gallows.” He asserted that the occupation will not bow to international pressure to halt these racist laws. pic.twitter.com/JUfNQhFGBt— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) March 30, 2026
Look at this photo.
A woman holds up a noose and a lethal injection, celebrating Israeli plans to introduce the death penalty for Palestinians.
Her husband holds a gun labelled ‘occupation’, a plane labelled ‘expulsion’, and a house labelled ‘settlement’.
This grinning, leering… pic.twitter.com/7PGzdIcD7n— EuropeanPowell (@EuropeanPowell) March 29, 2026
One X user commented:
Zionist Knesset deputy grinning with noose and lethal injection while her husband flaunts occupation, expulsion, and settlements. Pure sadistic bloodlust against Palestinians! Israel’s far-right monsters reveal their true genocidal face.
These are human beings
Citizens across the UK have been horrified as they watch their leaders attempt to shield and defend Israel whilst it conducts the indefensible. This has led to the murder of hundreds of thousands of men, women, children, and babies, while the rest of the world watches the genocide unfold on livestream.
It’s clear the statement from these Western leaders is mere lip service to recognise their legal commitments to oppose the imposition of death penalties. After all, they clearly fail to recognise the complexities and nuances unique to Palestinian people living under occupation, showing that they miss much of the gravity of the issue.
Enforcing a death penalty against a population of captive people, living for decades under oppression and brutality, is another method of state-mandated genocide.
Featured image via the Canary
Celebrities are not known for their common sense. From apologism for genocidal regimes to slathering themselves in Korean snail slime, they are a remarkably stupid caste. Nowhere is this clearer than in their treatment of JK Rowling, where the approved line among those with more Botox than brain cells is that her insistence that biology is real is ‘dangerous’.
The latest dullard sleb to bleat about Rowling is Andrew Garfield. The Los Angeles-based star of Spider-Man told Hits Radio last week that he still enjoys the Harry Potter films, despite the ‘controversy’. He declined to name their creator, instead referring to her as ‘she that shall remain nameless’ – a nod to Lord Voldemort, the series’ arch villain, variously described as ‘You Know Who’ and ‘He Who Must Not Be Named’.
Unlike Garfield, ‘she’ is a woman who has inspired generations of children, donated millions to good causes and built her success from scratch. And with a new Harry Potter series in the pipeline, ‘she’ is also quite capable of managing without the approval of red-carpet sniffers. Yet Garfield spoke as though sitting on his arse to watch the films inspired by Rowling was a radical and brave act. ‘I feel like, oh man, we can’t throw the baby out with the bathwater’, he said. ‘There are so many beautiful artists who worked on those films.’
Naturally, he did not elucidate which of Rowling’s beliefs or actions is so heinous that even her name must not be spoken. Perhaps it is her funding of a women-only rape crisis centre, Beira’s Place, which she did because survivors in Scotland were self-excluding because ‘trans inclusive’ policies had opened the door to men. Perhaps it is her thoughtful 2020 essay reflecting on her experience as a survivor of domestic abuse, in which she champions freedom of speech and calls for empathy. Or perhaps it is her view that gender-identity ideology is in tension with gay rights, and that placing children on a medical pathway with potentially sterilising consequences is negligent – a position now reflected in the findings of the Cass Review and in the growing shift among clinicians away from the ‘affirmation model’.
Garfield’s position that art should be separated from the artist is doubtless informed by his past. In 2016, he helped usher Mel Gibson back into polite company after years in the wilderness, following his anti-Semitic rants and allegations of domestic abuse. Garfield insisted that Gibson had ‘done a lot of beautiful healing with himself’, a generous assessment of a man once recorded blaming Jews for ‘all the wars in the world’. He added that Gibson ‘deserves to make films’ because of his ‘very, very big, compassionate heart’. Whatever one makes of Gibson’s misdemeanours or subsequent rehabilitation, the inconsistency in Garfield’s approach is striking.
Garfield has joined the tuneless chorus of cretinous celebs bashing JK Rowling. The ingrates she made famous – Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint – have all publicly and pointedly claimed that ‘transwomen are women’. Meanwhile, Pedro Pascal, star of HBO’s The Last of Us, has referred to Rowling as a ‘heinous loser’. Of course, none has dared to take on the beliefs of ‘she who must not be named’. That’s because, stripped of caricature, her arguments are not extreme but recognisably grounded in everyday reality.
It would be truly illuminating if actors like Andrew Garfield were ever asked to explain their own position. Why, precisely, should rapists be housed in women’s prisons, if they say they’re trans? Why should disabled people be denied the right to request same-sex intimate care? Why shouldn’t gays and lesbians be able to reject opposite-sex partners from their dating apps? These are not abstract questions but practical ones.
The lazy platitudes spewed out by the likes of Garfield are not the product of careful thought, but of a fashionable, elite worldview – one sustained at a comfortable distance from its consequences. Celebs won’t find themselves on an NHS ward, queuing for a public lavatory, or trying to protect their kids from trans ideology in the classroom. They can afford their fantasies precisely because they will never have to live with the consequences of them.
Jo Bartosch is co-author of Pornocracy. Order it here.
Our wonderful grassroots football team Great Western FC kicked arse on Saturday 28 March 2026. The reserves team played Coleview in the fast-paced semi-finals for the Swindon District Community Football League Plate final. This win is about more than football. It is about a community that refuses to leave its young men behind — championing them at every stage.
But the match was not so close as the scoreboard suggested. Great Western FC controlled the match for most of the afternoon. Our lads headed into half-time with a 3-1 lead. While a late penalty for Coleview made the closing minutes tense, the result was never really in doubt
A captain’s goal and a rare smile
The pressure was relentless on Coleview for the first half. Liam Irwin smashed two goals into the back of the net first. Team Captain, Levi Dunn, doubled down on the lead with a low-drilled free kick. This clinical finish helped the reserves head into the halftime break with a comfortable 3-1 lead.
Supporters said Dunn smiled for the first time this season when the final whistle blew. This squad is the antithesis of working class, and this victory was a glorious snapshot in working-class survival. The players come from diverse backgrounds, some of them rocking criminal records, who have found a stunning support network through Great Western.
In a system that discards young lads with a record, Great Western offers them hope and solidarity. Research shows that sports-based resettlement programmes can reduce reoffending rates significantly. And for these lads, many of whom have felt the sharp end of the justice system, the football pitch is the rehab that the state refuses to provide. And Great Western Reserves show exactly what can be achieved with the right support.
Late drama in Southbrook
Coleview pushed back in the second half, as Great Western expected. With only five minutes left until the end whistle, one of our players accidentally tripped an opponent in the penalty box.
Coleview won the penalty, bringing the score to 3-2. However, our young reserves held their nerve until the very end. The squad of 16, includes six players under the age of 21. Two of the lads have only just turned 18.
This young group is thriving, despite a national crisis in grassroots sports. Over 90% of grassroots clubs say running costs have skyrocketed recently. Almost half of those clubs estimate their weekly running costs at £250 or more. Meanwhile, we have big Football Association players on buck-wild wages that they can never hope to spend.
The FA doesn’t give a shit about small teams
The success of Great Western FC comes despite a complete lack of support from the football’s governing bodies. Whilst the FA claims a social return on investment of £15.6bn, very little of this wealth trickles down to the grassroots teams. Recent data shows that 95% of the annual broadcast revenue stays with the top 26 clubs. That is a fucking shambles.
The FA ignores the reality of working-class teams. For teams like Great Western FC, the survival of the club depends on the community in the form of fees, but these only go so far. The real money behind our little team comes from the dwindling wages of the members, not the bureaucrats in Wembley.
Most local games attract three spectators, and if they’re lucky, a dog. Saturday was different. Over 50 friends and family members cheered the team towards the final. And afterwards they celebrated the win in the most working-class way. In the fucking pub!
The reserves will now face Lambourne FC in the final on 9 May 2026. The match will be held at the Webbswood stadium, home of Swindon Supermarine FC. And the squad will spend next month training their arses off to make sure they bring home the win.
Featured Image via Great Western FC
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Karl Turner MP has had the Labour whip suspended after a series of strong public criticisms of No 10 and government policy.
Turner has been particularly vocal in his opposition to jury trial reforms, but has also publicly criticised the Keir Starmer operation.
PoliticsHome understands that the suspension did not relate to a specific incident and was in response to a pattern of behaviour towards colleagues.
Some Labour MPs were unhappy with an interview that the Hull East MP gave to campaigner Jody McIntyre, who stood against Labour MP Jess Phillips at the last general election.
Turner claimed that he had not been made aware that he had had the whip suspended before it was reported by the media.
Writing on X on Tuesday afternoon after the suspension was confirmed to PoliticsHome, he said: “I am being told that I have had the whip suspended but I have not had any notification from the whips about this. It seems journalists have been told but I have not.”
Turner, who was first elected in 2010, wrote in The House in December that he was prepared to break the whip for the first time since being elected to oppose the government’s plans to scale back jury trials.
It came after PoliticsHome reported that Turner was organising a backbench letter to protest proposals.
While some MPs had said they were opposed to the plans to scale back jury trials for less serious offences, the bill passed its first hurdle in the House of Commons earlier this month.
As a Conservative donor, I speak regularly with senior Tory figures, and I keep hearing the same optimistic lines about the party’s awful standing in the polls. ‘Kemi’s net favourability is improving’, they say. ‘She’s more popular than Nigel Farage’, they insist. Both are arguably true. Yet both miss the point.
Politics isn’t measured in favourability ratings. It is measured in votes. And by this metric, the Conservative Party may soon find itself in intensive care. The latest polling aggregator puts the Tories on 18.1 per cent, behind both Reform (28.5 per cent) and Labour (19.8 per cent), and only slightly ahead of the Greens (14.1 per cent). The Conservatives have become irrelevant, and the biggest barrier to recovery is the degree of in-house denial.
Some party figures are sanguine. They say the Tories’ standing is simply the legacy of 14 difficult years in government. They predict that time will heal the wounds of this torrid legacy. The truth is less convenient.
Outside a General Election, the real scoreboard in politics is voting intention. Opinion polls are the equivalent of the Saturday results for a Premier League manager. One or two bad weeks can happen to anyone. But a long run of defeats ought to lead to difficult conversations. At the moment, the Conservative Party is a team that is losing three-nil every week, but wants to talk positively about its possession statistics.
I say that with no pleasure. I became a donor because of Kemi. I like her directness. When she won the leadership contest and said, ‘The time has come to tell the truth’, I was genuinely inspired to write a cheque. But telling the truth must start inside the Conservative Party. It is time to ditch the self-delusion about favourability ratings. If they mattered at all, then Ed Davey would be prime minister.
To be clear, I am not arguing that Badenoch should go. Leadership musical chairs would only make things worse. Being known for moral honesty and purpose is a strategy, but denial is not. For Badenoch and the party to survive, there must be candour about the years of Conservative rule from 2010 to 2024. Voters will not forgive the party for its failures until they are acknowledged.
Candour alone does not win elections. Inspiring hope, however, will. And hope comes from sharing a heartfelt moral mission that the public can believe in: a fairer country where work is rewarded, where virtue matters and where bad behaviour carries consequences.
The Britain we need leading out of is a place where millions toil just to survive, while others idle at home on benefits. It is a Britain where MPs step over rough sleepers near the gates of parliament without breaking stride. There is a great moral argument waiting to be made, and whoever makes that argument the strongest will win the next election. Policy-wise, a four-year commitment to make the first £18,000 of earnings tax-free would be a start. Not as a gimmick, but as a statement of what the party believes: that work should pay, and that there is a Conservative answer to widely accepted decline.
Badenoch has the instincts for this fight. But instinct alone will not be enough. She must be honest about what went wrong, what must change, and what the nation she wishes to lead stands for. Many voters like Kemi Badenoch. But almost none are convinced to vote for her – yet.
Andy Preston was mayor of Middlesbrough from 2019 until 2023.
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The US has said it ‘respects Israel’s right to determine its own laws’. Meanwhile, it is denying countries with a Muslim majority, such as Iran, that same right.
BREAKING: US says it respects Israel’s ‘right to determine its own laws’ after Knesset approves death penalty for Palestinians
🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/jUFsTtQBHU pic.twitter.com/M7cIT20LOW
— Al Jazeera Breaking News (@AJENews) March 31, 2026
The whole premise of the US and Israel’s illegal invasion was ‘regime change’ and ‘freeing Iranian women’. Of course, they do that by bombing little school girls, blowing up hospitals, and killing United Nations (UN) workers. They have not freed a single woman; instead, they’ve murdered them.
Israel above all
Now, Israel has introduced yet another barbaric law solely for Palestinians.
Palestinians who Israel has detained illegally, and often without reason or trial, will face the death penalty. Israelis in detention for a variety of similar offences will not.
But in 2023, the US sanctioned Uganda for introducing the death penalty specifically for LGBTQ individuals.
US actually sanctioned Uganda for death penalty law against LGBQ. https://t.co/eqMdwNL3JX
— Francis Wanjiku (@TheNjoroge) March 31, 2026
Then-President Joe Biden called the move “a tragic violation” of human rights. Of course, Trump is not Biden, but we can presume that a fellow Zionist would be similarly atrocious at standing up to Israel’s repeated human rights abuses. All in the name of antisemitism, after all.
Some African nations have been unable to pass laws reflecting their people’s views due to U.S. pressure. Look at this…🤔 https://t.co/eYzEgWjQU6
— OAL (@Deji_Dokun) March 31, 2026
Additionally, Ghana passed the ‘Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill’ in February 2024. This effectively criminalises LGBTQ activities and advocacy.
The US stated that it would:
threaten all Ghanaians’ constitutionally protected freedoms of speech, press, and assembly.
The same could be said for Venezuela, Cuba, and Iraq.
The US seems extremely concerned with the ‘human rights’ and ‘freedoms’ in countries governed by Black and brown people. But where’s the outrage for human rights when the tables are turned, and genocidal Zionists are in charge?
Apartheid
The US respects Israel’s right to ‘determine its own laws’. More like, the US respects Israel’s right to apartheid.
“The US respects Israel’s right to apartheid” https://t.co/unVlmNaJuL
— @ (@wbn199) March 31, 2026
I guess there is always a trade-off between Western morality and oil.
Reason 12838339393949 why western morality is a joke https://t.co/Lxb9NqBEMP
— BTStani⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ (@btstanipk) March 31, 2026
The US doesn’t respect the laws in Black and brown countries, but it will respect the laws of genocidal terrorists and elite pedophiles.
So USA doesn’t respect other countries around the world then… they just respect satanic pedophiles…. https://t.co/CIsqqA0bzc
— Mtho (@MthoNgwenya06) March 31, 2026
Earlier this year, Iran executed three people for killing police officers and:
carrying out operations in favour of the United States and Israel.
Donald Trump described these executions as “terrible”.
The cop killer that was rightfully hanged in Iran last month was called barbaric by the West. https://t.co/5sTdHdQrO2
— Buhari (@Buharibawa) March 31, 2026
In January, Trump also said the US would take “very strong action” against Iran if it executed protesters. He earlier told Iranians that “help is on the way”.
But where’s the very strong action against Israel? Where’s the help for Palestinians?
Colonialism
The US’s unequivocal backing of Israel is nothing short of colonialism.
Western countries seem to collectively decide which countries’ sovereignty they should respect, and which need to be carpet-bombed to ‘restore order’, and it’s bullshit.
Interesting how the West decides which countries sovereignty should be respected whilst others need to be bombed to civilise them. https://t.co/kBMxUxVB1q
— Dr Rehana Parveen (@rehanaparv) March 31, 2026
The West gives some countries the right to kill whoever the hell they want; meanwhile, others are ‘regimes’ and ‘tyrants’.
Totally normal, so very normal. Some countries have rights to kill whomever they want to kill, others have regimes and tyrants. https://t.co/Ri0GvSX7ZX
— Maya Wardeh 🍉 (@maroshcka) March 31, 2026
Let’s face it – liberating women or restoring order usually means stealing oil and privatising it.
But they will bomb Iran to “liberate the people” or some shit. What about Iran’s right to make their own laws? This hypocrisy is nothing but a demonstration of colonial power and impunity, and they know it. https://t.co/Fm3dNfAESC
— Eclectic Eel (@zang808) March 31, 2026
The US and Israel care more about their illegal Jewish-supremacist ethnostate project than the lives of Black and brown people. That much has been clear since Zionists started colonising Palestine in 1922.
But Iran has the right to make its own laws free of Western interference, and Operation Epstein is showing us over and over again why Israel should cease to exist.
However, when Israel already has so much influence over US laws and is literally bankrolling its politicians, how can we expect the US to stop Israel from introducing genocidal laws?
Featured image via HG
Reform UK is a party that exists because the Conservatives weren’t right-wing enough. Restore Britain, meanwhile, is a party that exists because Reform UK weren’t right-wing enough.
The problem for the three parties is that they agree on most issues, so they have to find increasingly niche topics to stand out from one another. This is what led to the following:
We are a pro-dog political party.
— Restore Britain (@RestoreBritain_) March 30, 2026
To be clear, this isn’t niche because it’s a minority opinion; it’s niche because political parties don’t need to clarify that dogs should not be executed.
Ordinarily, this post would have warranted little more than a shrug. The reason it’s drawn people’s attention is because Restore leader Rupert Lowe once had his dog put down by shotgun.
According to him, however, he did it in a pro-dog fashion.
Rupert Lowe, shotweiller
According to the Standard, Lowe had 17-year-old dog euthanized by shotgun. If you’re worried this makes him sound like a serial killer, don’t worry; he didn’t take the shot himself. Instead, man of the people Lowe had his groundskeeper pull the trigger.
This is what Lowe told the Mail on Sunday:
My keeper shot our dog the other day. He was a Labrador of 17. Dogs do go through ups and downs for a bit, but in the end Cromwell’s back legs went and our keeper Kevin very kindly did the job.
Cromwell didn’t go anywhere, he wasn’t away from home and he wouldn’t have known anything about it. So much kinder. They are not driven to the vet, they don’t smell the vet, it’s just all over very quickly.
Obviously it’s hard to put yourself in Lowe’s shoes, because most of us don’t have grounds or groundskeepers.
And, there are same-day pet euthanization services in the UK. This would have been slower, obviously, but it would have saved Lowe having to tell people he had an employee merc his own pet.
Speaking on having his man make the kill, Lowe said:
I would find it difficult, which is why my keeper did it. So you can call me a coward on that basis, if you want.
I’ve got friends who can shoot their dogs. [They] just take them on a walk, put a shooting rifle at the back of their head and bang, done. They don’t feel anything. I would have found it hard. He was 17 and had been with us that long.
I would be proud to tell you it was me who did it, [but] I can’t claim that credit.
Poverty can’t buy you many things, but it does afford you the luxury of never having to say the above.
Commenters had a field day with all this, anyway:
The pending community note. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/demelYn5Om
— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) March 31, 2026
Restore Britain is very funny tbh. It’s literally just a party for the insane and incoherent nonsense that chronically online fascists believe and appeals to exactly no one else.
— cez (@cezthesocialist) March 31, 2026
Niche politics
If you’re wondering why Restore Britain are talking up dogs, it’s because – you guessed it – ‘foreigners’:
🚨NEW: Rupert Lowe:
“If a foreigner doesn’t want to live in a dog-living country, I’ll pay for their taxi to the airport myself.”
— GB Politics (@GBPolitcs) March 30, 2026
Let’s be real; we live in a country that has many problems, so most of us aren’t worried about who does or doesn’t love dogs.
You know who does have time to worry, though?
That’s right – rich people with no problems of their own.
Rich people who are wealthy enough to pay staff to shoot their pets.
Featured image via Parliament
Has Britain become ‘too dog-friendly’? Apparently, even as war rages in Iran and an energy crisis bites at home, the question of whether too many public spaces are welcoming to dogs is one that BBC News felt it had to address this week.
‘From coffee shops, restaurants and retailers… dog-friendly spaces are becoming easy to come by’, opens a news report from BBC Wales. ‘But people who are allergic to dogs, or afraid of them, say that the rise of these dog-friendly spaces is a concern’, the reporter continues.
Reeling off statistics conveying the extent of the UK’s love affair with dogs, the BBC presenter goes on to note that an increasing number of people feel ‘trapped’ in their homes due to their fear of other people’s pets. ‘What do you think? Has it all gone a bit too far?’, he asks.
Apparently, dogs are a major issue in the BBC newsroom. Along with the video report, BBC Wales also saw fit to publish a written piece on the horrors of our increasingly dog-friendly nation. It quotes Abi Wilson, a young woman from Worcestershire, who says she does not leave the house, ‘Unless I am 100 per cent sure that a place does not allow dogs’. ‘I can’t even step out the front door to go to the car without feeling sick and sweating’, she says, describing the symptoms of her ‘cynophobia’, or fear of dogs. She also bemoans the fact that many of her usual ‘safe spaces’ are becoming pro-dog.
It would be easy to dismiss this as yet more of the trivial and inconsequential fluff pieces that now make up much of BBC News’ output. However, as more than a few people have pointed out on social media, there could be more to the BBC’s story than a concern for cynophobes. It could, some have suggested, be yet another reflection of the growing influence of Islam in the UK – a religion that considers dogs to be impure.
This might sound like a bit of a stretch, but the link is not entirely tenuous. Indeed, the UK government itself has been leading the anti-dog discourse, seemingly on behalf of British Muslims. Earlier this year, when the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) outlined how it planned to make the English countryside ‘less white’, it claimed that dogs are one of the main impediments to ethnic-minority Britons enjoying rural England. ‘A lot of Muslims find dogs very difficult’, a Labour Party adviser and advocate of the policy told GB News.
Nor has DEFRA been the only state body with dogs in its crosshairs. In 2024, the Welsh government was widely ridiculed for commissioning a report as part of its ‘Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan’, calling for the introduction of ‘dog-free areas’ in parks – in order, you guessed it, to make them ‘more inclusive’. Camden Council in London has also proposed banning dogs outright, leashed and unleashed, from several of the parks under its control.
It was surely only a matter of time before the culture warriors came for man’s best friend. After all, everything else that the British people love and cherish, from football to the national flag to the local pub, has long been considered fair game.
Still, if the powers-that-be think Britons will give up their dogs without a fight, then they really must be barking mad.
Hugo Timms is a staff writer at spiked.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla with US President Donald Trump and his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, at Windsor Castle last year (Alamy)
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King Charles and Queen Camilla will meet US President Donald Trump on a state visit to the United States in late April, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.
The US trip has been expected for some time, and the palace confirmed on Tuesday that it will go ahead to “celebrate the historic connections and the modern bilateral relationship” between the countries and mark the 250th anniversary of US independence.
It will be the first UK state visit to the US since Queen Elizabeth II visited in 2007.
The King and Queen will attend a state dinner at the White House, with the King also expected to deliver an address to Congress.
The announcement comes at an awkward moment in UK-US relations, however, with Trump having repeatedly criticised Starmer in recent weeks over his refusal to commit the UK to greater involvement in the US and Israel’s war with Iran.
Trump attacked Starmer after the UK refused to permit the use of British bases for initial US-Israel strikes on Iran earlier this year.
Since then, the UK government has granted the US permission to use British bases for what it describes as defensive strikes on Tehran. However, Starmer has refused to go further, reiterating on Monday that the conflict in the Middle East is “not our [the UK’s] war”.
UK veterans were also angered by Trump’s comment in January that UK troops had stayed a “little back, a little off the front lines” in the war in Afghanistan, which appeared to downplay the UK’s military involvement.
On Tuesday, Trump suggested that it will be up to the UK and other countries to re-open the Strait of Hormuz — the vital shipping lane that has been brought to an effective standstill by the war — and accused them of lacking courage.
He posted on his platform Truth Social: “All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT.
“You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!”
Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, said he opposed the state visit taking place.
He said: “The Prime Minister is showing a staggering lack of backbone by pushing ahead with this state visit while Donald Trump treats our country with contempt.
“To send the King on a state visit to the US after Trump dismissed our Royal Navy as ‘toys’ is a humiliation, and a sign of a government too weak to stand up to bullies.
“What appalling thing does Trump have to do next to make the Government see sense and cancel the state visit?”
According to a YouGov survey last week, 49 per cent of the British public were against the state visit to the US, while 33 per cent were in support of it.
Fascist Israel minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has pushed through a law in the Knesset which will authorise the death penalty – by hanging – of Palestinians. Specifically, this law will apply by default to Palestinians who have been tried in military court and found guilty of committing a fatal attack.
62 Israeli officials voted for the fatal bill, with 47 voting against.
Of course, many have been horrified at this regressive and cruel Israeli law which will only work to further enable the genocidal entity’s colonisation of Palestine. They argue that enforcing this barbaric law will only work to provide a ‘legally-sanitised’ means of ramping up Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank.
These sentences would be imposed following convictions in Israeli military courts, where authorities often pursue charges that would not constitute crimes under international humanitarian law. Denied proper access to legal counsel and basic procedural rights, defendants face proceedings that amount to little more than sham trials designed to legitimise killing.
Horrifyingly, there are currently 9,300 Palestinians in Israeli detention, whose fates will now hang in the balance – either left to suffer and languish in prison, or face the noose.
Israel’s parliament has passed a law today authorising the death penalty – exclusively for Palestinians.
There are over 9,300 Palestinians in Israeli detention.
The executions will be carried out by hanging.
Does @Keir_Starmer still consider Israel an ally? pic.twitter.com/XWaGGDMyL4
— Declassified UK (@declassifiedUK) March 30, 2026
Israel institutionalising genocide
The death penalty changes will allow the occupying state to institutionalise large-scale violence against the Palestinian population under a thin veneer of legality. Such a horrifying development raises profound moral and legal concerns, particularly regarding the protection of civilian lives and adherence to international humanitarian standards.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas slammed the legislation, saying:
Such laws and measures will not break the will of the Palestinian people or undermine their steadfastness. Nor will they deter them from continuing their legitimate struggle for freedom, independence, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The Palestinian foreign ministry defiantly stated:
This law once again reveals the nature of the Israeli colonial system, which seeks to legitimise extrajudicial killing under legislative cover.
UN Experts also called on Israel to withdraw the bill back in February, and as per usual, Israel has taken no notice whatsoever.
Belgian MEP, Marc Botenga, has subsequently called on the EU to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel:
Israel just adopted the death penalty for Palestinians.
Last week, the @eu_eeas called the death penalty a violation of the right to life and to freedom from torture.
Logically, the EU should now suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement that demands respect for human rights.
— Marc Botenga MEP (@BotengaM) March 30, 2026
Disturbing historical parallels
Furthermore, this death penalty evokes disturbing historical parallels, including the systematic atrocities carried out during the Holocaust under Nazi Germany, where millions of Jewish people and other marginalised groups were murdered in gas chambers. Like Israel, Hitler enforced special courts called the ‘People’s Court’ to enforce the genocidal agenda of the Nazi regime, condemning thousands to death for “volk treason”.
While historical contexts differ, the comparison underscores the gravity of policies that oil the wheels of genocide.
Frankly, the joyful celebrations on display from Ben-Gvir and far-right allies simply underscore how murderous and bloodthirsty Zionists are:
VIDEO | Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir, outside the Knesset chamber, celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for Palestinian detainees, describing it as historic and saying, “Soon we will count them one by one.” pic.twitter.com/yc4Aan0dLf
— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) March 30, 2026
According to the bill, those who receive the death penalty will be kept in a separate detention center with no visitors apart from authorised personnel. Legal consultations, if they even get them, will happen by video link only with executions (murders) carried out within just 90 days.
The Guardian reported:
The measure will allow courts to impose the death penalty without a request from prosecutors and without requiring unanimity, instead permitting a simple majority decision. Military courts in the occupied West Bank will also be empowered to hand down death sentences, with the defence minister able to submit an opinion.
For Palestinians under occupation, the bill closes off avenues for appeal or clemency, while prisoners tried inside Israel could have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.
No justice in an apartheid State
This ruling from the Knesset has sent a chill across the world. People have powerlessly watched a live-streamed genocide against Palestinians, while their leaders continue to kowtow to Israel. Confronted with this unfolding reality, ordinary citizens have taken it upon themselves to learn the history of Palestine and stand in solidarity with their Arab brothers and sisters.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared in 2024 that this is indeed a plausible genocide with Iceland and Netherland recently joining the case against Israel. On the other hand, many western leaders have done precious little to bring an end to the mass murder of innocent people despite widespread protests at home. Nevertheless, it appears that a red line is finally forming.
An oppressor’s military court does not prioritise justice, instead it serves as another tool to further the colonial ambitions of Zionist Israel. As a result, this law will only exacerbate their murderous tendencies under a manufactured legal facade.
Western leaders must finally lift their heads out of the sand. This death penalty attempts to legalise the murder of a captive and oppressed population, with those same captors serving as judge, jury, and executioner.
This reality echoes the atrocities once sanctioned by Adolf Hitler during World War II. The world must act immediately to halt this rapidly accelerating descent into the abyss – instead of just watching from the sidelines as usual.
Featured image via The Cradle
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