A large humanitarian ‘Global Sumud Flotilla” has left Barcelona with essential supplies for Gaza, which continues to starve under Israeli blockade and bombing. Earlier flotillas and their volunteer crews have faced attack and abduction by the Israeli occupation, but have raised international awareness of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. The convoy, which will grow to more than 70 vessels and over a thousand participants as it sails, is the fifth flotilla to set sail since the beginning of 2025 and the largest so far.

Large crowds of well-wishers turned out on a grey day to see the volunteers on their way, as footage and photos provided by crew member and former parliamentary candidate Corrie Drew show:

The Israel lobby and its media brigades have already started their attacks. The Jerusalem Post crowed over the fact that bad weather means the supposedly “faltering” flotilla will not leave the Spanish coast until a local storm passes. It also questioned why the convoy is leaving during a supposed ceasefire in Gaza — ignoring the fact that Israel is murdering Palestinians and stealing territory daily in typical ‘you cease, we fire’ fashion, and continues its illegal starvation blockade.

However, spirits and defiance among the crew are high. Organisers say that boats will continue to sail until Gaza is free and open. Irish actor Liam Cunningham, who supports its mission, said that:

every kilogram of aid on these ships is a failure [of state government], because all the people on these ships who give their time to help their fellow human beings are doing what their governments have a legal obligation to do.

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Britain’s defence secretary, John Healey, has said that UK bases have been invaluable to the US military. This raises serious concerns, given that the UK’s involvement is supposedly only for ‘defensive purposes’

From the horse’s mouth: “in this conflict, the basing permission that we in the UK have provided to the US has been invaluable to their military operations.” UK Defence Secretary John Healey blows apart Starmer’s line that “we are not involved”. https://t.co/plAnaAi4dO

— Martin Shaw (@martinshawx) April 11, 2026

UK bases used for ‘Defensive actions’

Already, a retired RAF squadron leader has told Declassified that Starmer’s claim he only let the US use British bases for “defensive” actions against Iran is a “fiction”. Of course, that is clear to anyone paying attention.

He added that it was “glaringly obvious” that US missions from RAF Fairford were conducting offensive strikes.

Whether or not the US bombing of Iran resumes, the UK’s central role in facilitating it, in direct contradiction of Starmer’s claims, will need to be investigated:

‘RAF Fairford has … become the principal forward operating base for US strategic bombers in Europe.’ https://t.co/fULc2ixuRm

— Martin Shaw (@martinshawx) April 10, 2026

Of course, there is nothing ‘limited’ or ‘defensive’ about using UK bases to bomb innocent people.

The UK is literally facilitating war crimes.

Keir Starmer has once again misled the British people over our involvement in Israel’s war crimes

He must be held to account

The leader of Britain should work for us, the British people. Not Israelis. https://t.co/8A67teimdU

— Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel (@MirabelTweets1) April 10, 2026

Now, speaking at a conference in London, Healey said:

Even in this current conflict, the basing permissions that we in the UK have agreed with the US have been invaluable to their military operations.

If we focus on our actions rather than just simply the exchange of words and social media posts, then the fundamentals for me remain.

Being ‘invaluable’ definitely doesn’t sound very ‘limited’ or ‘defensive’ to me. It appears that, despite Starmer’s bullshit facade, the US and Israel are using UK bases to commit multiple genocides.

The US couldn’t have conducted the Iran Epstein Wars without our bases and support.

In it to our necks.
Slaughtering children. Destroying civilian infrastructure.

Putting the world in chaos to prop up a failing grasping empire. https://t.co/tdnILYHPWm

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The UK government does not appear to care about the US using UK facilities to carpet-bomb innocent people. Additionally, Starmer is still unwilling to stand up to Trump. 

All of this speaks to the continued colonial mindset of the UK government.

Colonialism in action

Earlier this week, the Guardian reported that:

Before the ceasefire announced by Trump late on Tuesday, which Starmer said countries in the region believed was “fragile”, the UK led a call of military planners from 35 nations on ways to secure the strait if there was peace, including the removal of Iranian mines.

The question has to be asked as to why the white Prime Minister of a Western Nation is leading a call which may help decide the fate of Iran — a majority brown country in West Asia? There’s a word for that.

Why is the future of the region in the hands of a white Zionist and not the people who actually live there?

Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS):

Every State has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles, measured from baselines determined in accordance with this Convention.

The Strait of Hormuz is 21 miles wide at its narrowest point — meaning that Iran and Oman have sovereignty over every mile of that water. Unlike the majority of the West would have you believe, it is not international waters.

Which is why it’s even more fucked up that the UK is trying to exercise so much control over the sovereign territory of a majority brown country. Meanwhile, Starmer continues to claim the UK’s actions are purely ‘defensive’ as if he doesn’t appear to want a direct stake in the control of the Strait of Hormuz.

The most important thing John Healey missed was that UK bases have been invaluable in an act of illegal aggression. Meaning, the UK is just as bad as the US and Israel. Starmer and the British Establishment are actively participating in genocide, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing.

There are not many problems that cannot be traced back to the British Empire — but you might have thought that in 2026, under a Labour Government, there might be a red line or two. Looks more like two blue lines from where we’re looking.

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On 12 April, Wes Streeting appeared on the Sunday interview shows. With the local elections fast approaching, you’d expect him to be on an election footing. As Saul Staniforth noted, however, it seemed like Streeting was actually gearing up to challenge his boss, Keir Starmer:

Words Wes Streeting uses to describe Trumps language and rhetoric: incendiary, outrageous.

Anyone might think there’s a leadership election coming up! pic.twitter.com/Po77FSCo7l

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) April 12, 2026

As if things couldn’t get any worse in this country!

Post-Starmer

As everyone knows, Labour are going to get hammered in the upcoming local elections. And when we say ‘hammered’, we don’t simply mean they’re going to get beaten; we mean they’re going to get smushed into paste:

‼️NEW | Projected seat change in local elections:

➡️ Ref +2,260
🟢 Grn +450
🟠 Lib +200
🔵 Con -1,010
🔴 Lab -1,900

(Source: Stephen Fisher / @ElectionsEtc) pic.twitter.com/pkPixJ3Ont

— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) March 30, 2026

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It’s shaping up to be Labour’s greatest defeat since… well, since possibly ever.

The worry for Labour is it won’t stop with one defeat, either, and that the local election loss will translate into a general election wipeout.

Accordingly, heavy losses in the local elections will mean Labour have no choice but to give Starmer the boot. This might not fix things, but it’s clear there can be no fix with him at the helm, so it’s a necessary step if nothing else.

Streeting manoeuvres

In the clip at the top, Streeting criticises Donald Trump for threatening to wipe out the civilisation of Iran. Staniforth identified this as Streeting gearing up for a leadership challenge, and there are two good reasons to think this:

1. Trump and his war on Iran are incredibly unpopular in the UK, so it makes sense to attack him.
2. Streeting has no personality traits besides political ambition, so he wouldn’t attack Trump unless it benefitted him.

Of course, you could say that Streeting attacking Trump is a sign that he doesn’t want to become PM. After all, as PM, he would have to engage with Trump one-to-one.

The reason why this doesn’t hold up is because Streeting knows what every other politician does – namely that Trump has a cheat code. If a person rolls over and shows Trump their belly, he doesn’t care what they’ve said in the past.

Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson are examples of British politicians who publicly spoke out against Trump only to roll over later on; JD Vance is an example of an American politician:

JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.”
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— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) April 7, 2026

Staniforth also highlighted the following:

Wes Streeting: “As for Mr Farage, the extent to which that plastic patriot is prepared to fly to Washington on a regular basis to slag off his own country to American audiences, I think is utterly shameful”

Streeting is in campaigning mode (and not for next months elections) pic.twitter.com/Yai3XvtLWd

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) April 12, 2026

Health

As much as Streeting wants to come across as a respectable and righteous politician, he simply cannot get over the disdain he feels for the medical professionals he represents:

Wes Streeting asks the BMA to stop pretending the govt could have solved everything in 2 years

The BMA never said you could. Resident doctors want pay restoration but recognise it can only happen over several years. That’s what they want to negotiate. And you are refusing. pic.twitter.com/bRQVe2ROX8

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— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) April 12, 2026

It’s no secret why Streeting is opposed to our once-successful public health model either, as James Wright wrote for the Canary:

Labour health secretary Wes Streeting has taken another £55,000 from the ODP Group Ltd—which provides headhunting services to the NHS and private healthcare providers.

The firm’s owner, Peter Hearn, has longstanding links to private healthcare.

Additionally:

This is not the first donation Streeting has accepted from a Hearn-linked company. In 2023, he took £48, 000 from the OPD Group, according to the National (Scotland). in donations from another company Hearn controls. And the Financial Times has reported that, through seemingly shell companies, Hearn previously donated over £1m to Labour and prominent individual MPs like Streeting from between 2014 and 2023.

Streeting — Starmer 2.0?

While some have said Streeting would be Starmer 2.0, we don’t think that’s the case. Streeting is more ideologically driven that Starmer, if only because our current PM isn’t curious enough to hold his own opinions.

The problem is that Streeting’s ideology is the toxic privatisation mindset of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. In other words, we’ll need to hold on to our public institutions if he becomes PM, because he’ll be selling off everything that isn’t nailed down.

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The Italian Football Federation has published a detailed report outlining the reasons behind the sharp decline in the standard of the game within the country, alongside a package of proposed solutions to rebuild the system, following the senior team’s failure to qualify for the World Cup finals for the third consecutive time.

Italian fans are in a state of shock and anger after failing to reach the 2026 World Cup, following the defeat to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the final of the first leg of the European play-offs, meaning the four-time world champions will miss the tournament for the third consecutive edition, after Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022.

On the administrative front, Gabriele Gravina announced his resignation as president of the Italian Football Federation on 2 April, under mounting political and media pressure. A new president is to be elected at an extraordinary meeting in the capital, Rome, on 22 June, whilst he will continue to lead the federation on an interim basis until then.

Prolonged structural crises transcends World Cup

The Italian Football Federation confirmed in its report that the country’s football problems are not new, but date back many years, with various indicators showing a worsening trend, noting that the crisis has become “structural” and requires radical solutions.

The report identified four main factors behind the decline of Italian football, as follows:

1- Declining reliance on domestic players

The report highlighted a clear decline in opportunities for Italian players within clubs, noting that:

• The average age of Serie A players is 27, one of the highest in Europe
• Foreign players account for 67.9% of playing minutes
• Only 89 Italian players out of 284 feature regularly
• The proportion of players under 21 does not exceed 1.9%
• Only two academies are among the world’s top 50 (Atalanta and Juventus)

2- Decline in technical quality

The report noted a decline in the technical quality of the Italian league, the most notable aspects of which are:

• A slower pace of play compared to the major leagues
• Lower dribbling rates
• A decline in attacking effectiveness and high pressing

3- A worsening economic crisis

The report revealed the difficult financial situation facing Italian clubs, the most notable features of which are:

• 194 clubs have been relegated since 1986 for financial reasons
• Annual losses exceeding €730 million
• Debts amounting to €5.5 billion
• Agent fees rising to over €300 million
• A large number of professional clubs (97) compared to other European leagues

4- Weak infrastructure

The report acknowledged that Italy remains outside the top 10 European countries in terms of stadium quality, due to weak government investment and a decline in sports facility development projects.

The report also highlighted regulatory and legal obstacles, notably the congested match calendar and European regulations limiting the imposition of specific quotas for domestic players, alongside the federation’s limited ability to impose direct structural reforms on clubs.

Proposed solutions to save Italian football

The Federation put forward a range of solutions, most notably:

• Tax incentives to support investment in youth and infrastructure
• Development of the youth sector and academies
• Reform of the league system
• Improvement of stadium infrastructure
• Reorganisation of the clubs’ financial system
• Reform of the refereeing system

The report concluded by emphasising that saving Italian football requires “radical and comprehensive reform”, based on unity among all parties and governmental and legislative support, placing the public interest above all other considerations.

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For micromanagers, malicious compliance can give them a taste of their own medicine.

Yana Iskayeva via Getty Images

For toxic bosses, it can be a protective response – but it can also have consequences.

But don’t be snarky about it or this defiance will backfire.

Palestine Action — On Sunday 12 April, Victoria Derbyshire interviewed Tucker Carlson on the BBC. At one point, Carlson suggested it’s a crime to criticise Israel in the UK. While this isn’t strictly true, it’s certainly the case that Keir Starmer’s government have limited the ways in which Britons can oppose Israel’s genocide.

He also made an absolutely brutal point that the BBC couldn’t answer: if not to suppress free speech, why did the government ban Palestine Action?

Carlson: “it is a crime for which you can be arrested.. criticising Israel. You say you’re for Palestine Action, you can be arrested..”

Derbyshire: “That is not true..”

“What is not true about that?”

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“Palestine Action is a proscribed group. It is banned”

“Why is it banned?” pic.twitter.com/wHpB1wjXJd

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) April 12, 2026

Suppression

In the clip above, Derbyshire asked Carlson about the US and Israel’s war on Iran:

Do you think Keir Starmer has made the right calls in this war?

Carlson responded:

I don’t think Keir Starmer makes any calls about anything.

It’s a fair point.

Starmer has denied dragging us into the war while simultaneously allowing the US to use our bases. In other words, we’re in Trump’s war, and we’re in it because Starmer was too weak to say no.

Carlson later said:

It is a crime for which you can be arrested in Britain right now – criticizing Israel. If you say you’re for Palestine Action, you can be arrested. A lot of people have been arrested. So in other words, it is not legal in Britain to criticise another country.

Derbyshire responded:

That is not true-

Derbyshire attempted to steer the conversation back to the war, but Carlson said:

I’m sorry, but what is not what is not true about that?

Derbyshire could have acknowledged that the government has indeed clamped down on free speech related to Israel. Instead, she flat out denied what Carlson said. This was a problem, because part of what he said was “if you say you’re for Palestine Action, you can be arrested” – an undeniable fact.

Carlson continued:

Have people not been arrested in Britain for criticising Israel? They certainly have been. There’s a videotape of it

Derbyshire noted that Palestine Action is a proscribed group, to which Carlson asked:

Why is it banned?

Exactly — why is it banned?

Carlson added:

It’s banned because the Israeli government wanted it banned.

How did the Palestine Action ban happen?

While we’re certain that the Israeli government was happy about the Palestine Action ban, we can’t say it happened because Benjamin Netanyahu gave the order.

At the same time, we can say that Israeli arms company Elbit Systems influenced the decision, as Channel 4 reported and Jonathan Cook summarised:

The four main takeaways from Channel 4’s documentary on Palestine Action last night:

1. It reminded us that the Starmer government’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation was done at the behest of Elbit Systems – the Israeli arms firm making killer drones used in Gaza targeted by Palestine Action.

Government officials regularly met with Elbit. A 2023 internal Home Office email, two years before proscription, states: “Reassure Elbit Systems UK and the wider sector affected by Palestine Action that the government cares about the harm the group is causing the private sector [arms industries].”

2. A senior official told the film-makers there was widespread belief among Home Office staff that the government was “wrong” to proscribe Palestine Action, and there was “disquiet” that the government was using Palestine Action as a way to curtail rights to protest and speech more generally.

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3. The government’s terrorism adviser, Jonathan Hall KC, made clear that there was zero evidence of any links between Palestine Action and Iran – a claim leaked to the press by government officials on the same day Palestine Action was proscribed. Private Eye had already reported in November that the claim was concocted by a PR firm for Elbit Systems.

4. Additionally, Lord Walney, the government’s former “independent” adviser on political violence, who has been at the forefront of demanding even more draconian legislation to ban protest in relation to Israel and its genocide, struggled through his interview.

It was only too clear that his views on the subject had nothing to do with the public good but were shaped by his ties to the arms industries and his role as an Israel lobbyist.

What the programme made clear was that Starmer’s government made the unprecedented decision to declare Palestine Action a terrorist organisation not because the group is a terrorist organisation but because large corporations – arms firms like Elbit – have captured the UK government.

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Oh, and for further evidence for how cucked the UK is by the US and Israel:

Surreal moment after the Tucker Carlson interview in which the former head of the UK intelligence services insists that Trump is being a “traditional” US president by “intervening in the Middle East, hanging out with Israel, and doing wars” 🫢 pic.twitter.com/QUPR05f6fI

— Nicholas Guyatt (@NicholasGuyatt) April 12, 2026

Shifting tides

In the US, Democrats and commentators have argued that Carlson is attacking Israel for cynical reasons. We’re sure that Carlson is thinking about his own career first and foremost, but that doesn’t change the fact that many of his criticisms about Israel and its relationship with the US are correct.

The dam of public opinion on Israel has burst at this point. Politicians can deal with that reality and join us on the right side of history, or they can get washed away.

Make no mistake; the proscription of Palestine Action was and always has been an attempt to limit criticism of Israel.

We oppose genocide, and we support all those who are saying the same thing.

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Morgan McSweeney is the man who manoeuvred Keir Starmer into power. At one time, this was something McSweeney could brag about; now it’s like admitting to being the guy who shat in the pool.

Not satisfied with bringing his own party to the point of electoral oblivion, McSweeney is now rumoured to have his sights set on Ukraine:

EXC w/@Gabriel_Pogrund

Morgan McSweeney will attend a security conference in Ukraine this month as he considers his post-Downing Street career

He is understood to be compelled by the question of how AI will affect the next election in Ukraine, which he believes will be one of…

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— Lara Spirit (@lara_spirit) April 11, 2026

Haven’t the people of Ukraine suffered enough?

Morgan McSwAIny

The above post finishes:

He is understood to be compelled by the question of how AI will affect the next election in Ukraine, which he believes will be one of the most consequential in recent European history

Friends believe he is interested in helping Zelensky in any future contest

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Oh, we’re sure McSweeney is interested in how AI will affect the Ukrainian election. And by that, we mean we’re sure the wretched, little weasel will be the one using AI to affect the Ukrainian election.

As the Times have reported:

McSweeney, 48, is particularly interested in the role AI could play in elections in Ukraine. According to the International Panel on the Information Environment, an independent group of Swiss-based scientists, AI was used in more than 80 per cent of elections in 2024, when a record number of countries held contests.

It’s difficult to understand what this means, because there are multiple technologies we now refer to as ‘AI’. The reality is it’s probably closer to 100%, because Western politicians are inherently lazy and feckless people, which means many of them are using ChatGPT to write emails and respond to constituents.

The Times added:

Russia, along with China and Iran, has a well-documented history of using the technology to disrupt elections, particularly using “deepfake” videos and bogus images, which the average voter may find difficult to identify.

Russia, China, and Iran, is it?

Is there another country which has famously leaned into AI?

pic.twitter.com/x2HrR939tn

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 3, 2025

The Trump regime have also used AI to present a false impression of its political enemies:

AI is definitely a problem, but let’s be real; that problem isn’t limited to the countries that the newspaper people tell us to be scared of.

Morgan McSweeney’s History

The Times added:

In 2024 a Russian operation used AI and other tools to mount a disinformation campaign in Romania, leading a court to nullify the results of the first round. A Russian campaign also created fake videos in last year’s presidential elections in Poland that suggested Ukrainian refugees were planning to disrupt voting.

Give McSweeney’s record, do you think he’ll be countering disinformation, or do you think he’ll be generating his own?

If you’re unfamiliar with said record, here’s what Paul Holden wrote in The Fraud:

McSweeney joined Labour in the mid-1990s as a receptionist and then a member of the party’s media operations. During the 2001 election he was given the task of feeding data into Peter Mandelson’s famed Excalibur computer that stored information to be used by the party’s rebuttal unit.

He was storing information to use against political enemies, in other words — using cutting edge technology to enact Mandelson’s ‘dark arts‘.

Is this the guy we want to be experimenting with how to use AI in elections?

Holden also wrote:

McSweeney is a long-time protégé of Peter Mandelson, the architect of New Labour who, in February 2017, publicly bragged that he was “working every day” to bring down Corbyn’s elected leadership. That doesn’t sound very unifying. Mandelson has been quoted saying of McSweeney:

“I don’t know who and how and when he was invented, but whoever it was . . . they will find their place in heaven.”

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If Peter Mandelson or Morgan McSweeney make it to heaven, we’re pretty sure that means all known religions are wrong, because clearly righteousness was never the point.

Holden additionally noted:

McSweeney explained that the Labour Together Project had two missions: first, it had to prepare for when Corbyn eventually stepped down, identifying and developing a candidate who could swoop in to take Corbyn’s place. This role would eventually be played by Keir Starmer. …

Second, Labour Together had to “ensure” that Corbyn “lost badly”, according to Maguire and Pogrund. Only Corbyn’s resounding defeat in a general election would remove him from the scene and trigger a new leadership contest.

That’s correct; Labour bigwig McSweeney sought to ensure Labour lost a general election.

How could anyone could trust this rat to help them fight an election campaign?

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