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Wings Over Scotland | A Dumber Nation
In politics, readers, evil and stupidity aren’t the same thing.
But nor are they exclusive.
Before we ask you to consider which of the terms applies to the Scottish Government led by John Swinney, we’d like you to read this letter sent to Wings by the auntie of two women imprisoned in Scottish jails.
“I have two nieces who have had to share prison space with men. I used to visit niece 1 in Saughton in Edinburgh and Greenock where men were housed, including Paris Green, Melissa Young and Alex Stewart. She got released in 2024 but then her sister (niece 2) was imprisoned and I would visit her in Polmont (Scotland closed Saughton for women and sent them all to Polmont in Falkirk (although Alex remains in Greenock). She was released last week. Both nieces gave testimony to FWS in their current court case against Scot Gov.
The first time I visited my niece in Saughton in Edinburgh I was wearing my WOMEN DON’T HAVE PENISES sweater. I had no idea she was sharing the estate with men. My sweater was something I would wear around town on a daily basis. As I was in the waiting area with other visitors, a guard told me I would need to take my sweater off if I wanted to visit my niece.
I asked him where is the lie in stating women don’t have penises. He told me, ‘that’s a matter of opinion’. I turned to the room and asked, ‘hands up, all the women here who have penises’. They all laughed, but I still had to take my top off in order to go visit my niece. That’s when I realised she was sharing the estate with men.
She told me of Melissa Young (Google him). He has had the operation, but my niece said his room was always ‘stinking’. Presumably because of the vinegar douche he needs to use, and because of the fact that the intestine is used to replicate a vagina.
She also said that he made the female inmates perform humiliation rituals in order to access his codeine tablets. He would make one woman, Mary, suck on his breasts, and my niece said he would show people his ‘vagina’ at every opportunity. He also battered a woman, and it was the woman who got sent to a different prison so that he wouldn’t be inconvenienced.
Paris Green would walk around with stretchy leggings on, showcasing his penis. Both he and Melissa have been guilty of assaulting prison guards (google it). Paris Green also entered niece 2’s cell and started stroking her hips. This was ten years ago (my nieces have had a very violent and abusive upbringing and have been in the system since the ages of 15).
Both of my nieces are caught in a cycle of poverty, crime and addiction. When this happened, years ago, it was the case that trans prisoners had to sit at the door of their cell. They were not allowed to mingle freely because the prison recognised that they were a risk. But when the ‘screw’ wasn’t looking, Paris made her way into my niece’s room and started stroking her.
In Greenock, in order to take a shower, females have to go through Nyomi Fee who killed her child. Inmates are given jobs, and it’s Nyomi’s job to hand out towels. Nyomi is in love with Alex the trans man. My niece hates a ‘beast’ and so she would wipe herself down in her room rather than have to go through a man, Alex, in order to get a towel. Alex and Nyomi are inseperable. Nyomi was in charge of distributing towels for women to enter the communal shower area.
Niece 2 is a lesbian, and in Greenock it is communal showering. I imagine most women don’t want to see a man in their washing area, but for lesbians it is particularly relevant.
The prison guards do not allow lesbian relationships. My niece’s lover was also in jail and they separated the two of them by putting them in different jails, but with Alex and Nyomi the guards allow them to freely interact with each other. My niece said the guards would often hang out in their rooms, laughing it up with the both of them.
Laws changed and most of the women were put in Polmont. Alex stayed at Greenock. My niece said Paris was always on a ‘rule’ (locked in his room) because he was always flashing his cock to the guards and the women. She also said that he is a very tall man, and can look over the cubicle when women are showering. She also said that she had to sit in the waiting area with him when waiting for a doctor’s appointment, unsupervised.
Both nieces were battered and abused by their father, but niece 1 went on to have a relationship with an abusive man who would hit her and handcuff her naked to a radiator. In her own words he ‘kicked babies out of me’. She miscarried twice because of the severity of the beatings he gave her. And yet Scot Gov are putting her in an estate with men guilty of the most violent crimes.
Lastly, there is a woman who is living as a man in Polmont. She has had top surgery and takes testosterone and has a beard and looks like a man. When she was charged, she was sent to a man’s prison. But when she got there they discovered she is a biological female and so they returned her to a women’s prison.
Women’s prisons are a dumping ground for the gender confused. If men who think they are women are allowed to be in the female estate, why can’t women who think they are men be housed in the men’s estate?”
Readers will doubtless already have their own opinions about the merits or otherwise of the Scottish Government’s apparent desperation to ensure that men like those described above continue to be housed among vulnerable women. But we’d also like you consider something else.
Because even if you think that putting violent men in women’s prisons is a simply super idea, you must be aware that the majority of Scots do not.
And so even if you agreed with the policy, you would presumably still be able to understand that there was a less moronic way to try to achieve it than the one the Scottish Government is currently pursuing.
Because the government’s core argument in the case heard at the Court Of Session last week is that it HAS to continue to allow the Scottish Prison Service to flout the Supreme Court ruling in the For Women Scotland case, because if it doesn’t it might find itself sued by a hypothetical transwoman who murdered or raped someone and then found himself locked up in a men’s jail.
Such a man, the Scottish Government’s counsel argued last week, might kill himself in such circumstances, which a great many people might consider no great tragedy but which would apparently upset the government sorely.
The First Minister was therefore faced with a choice between two options:
OPTION 1
– continue to house male prisoners in the female estate if they say they’re women.
– spend a bucketload of public money fighting for that position in court against For Women Scotland, causing the vast majority of the Scottish electorate to think you’re a bunch of scumbags who have lost their minds.
OPTION 2
– obey the Supreme Court ruling and immediately ban all males from women’s prisons.
– wait and see if at some point in the future, a transwoman prisoner assigned to a male prison did indeed bring a court case about it. (If they don’t, problem solved and it didn’t cost you a penny!)
– fight that case in the court, arguing for the Supreme Court ruling, with the backing of the vast majority of the Scottish electorate.
And here’s the thing, readers – it makes no difference to the eventual outcome. Whichever side you fight, the court will make the decision.
If you choose Option 1, almost everyone thinks you’re sewage whether you win or lose. If you choose Option 2, you win either way – you get all the benefits of taking the position that voters want you to take, and if you lose and the court rules in favour of the murderers, you’ve got someone else to blame it on.
(And if that’s the outcome you secretly want, you can always choose an idiot for your KC and send him in to throw it.)
Try as we might, even assuming the worst of motivations, we can think of no sane or sensible reason for doing as the Scottish Government has done and choosing Option 1. It’s not only evil, it’s also political suicide. The level of staggeringly obvious stupidity it requires stretches the bounds of credibility even for an administration as packed full of utter boneheads as this one.
Option 1 guarantees wasting yet more taxpayers’ money, enraging voters and getting terrible headlines in the months immediately preceding a general election. Option 2 not only gets you a lot more support, but it almost certainly kicks the issue down the road beyond the election where it can’t do you nearly as much hard.
Literally the ONLY halfway-logical explanation we can think of for what they’ve done is if the First Minister wants to make absolutely sure he doesn’t win a majority in May. And the reasons he doesn’t are rather easier to discern.
Making sure Swinney doesn’t have to try to secure independence in the next five years is just the latest in a long list of reasons why the SNP are willing to throw women under the bus, and subject people like our reader’s nieces to the grotesque suffering they’ve been made to endure at the hands of the state.
We don’t know about you, folks, but it makes us sick to our stomachs.
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Politics Home | Keir Starmer Says He Will Keep Fighting “As Long As I Have Breath Left In My Body”
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Keir Starmer has said he will not “walk away” from Downing Street as the Prime Minister looks to strengthen his position among Labour MPs.
Addressing the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday night, the PM said he had “won every fight” he had been in and would keep fighting “as long as I have breath left in my body”.
Starmer appeared before a packed room of Labour MPs on another rocky day for his premiership amid the ongoing Peter Mandelson scandal.
Earlier in the day, Tim Allan resigned as No 10 director of communications after just five months in the role.
Later, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar used an unscheduled press conference to call on Starmer to resign as prime minister, saying: “The distraction needs to end and the leadership in Downing Street has to change.”
Starmer told Labour MPs that he had consistently proved his critics wrong, pointing to how he reformed both the Crown Prosecution Service and later the Labour Party, leading the latter to a landslide general election victory in 2024 following a crushing defeat five years earlier.
“People told me I couldn’t do it. And then they gradually said, ‘you might just get over the line.’ We won with a landslide majority. Every fight I’ve been in, I have won,” he said.
The PM added: “I have had my detractors every step along the way, and I’ve got them now. Detractors that don’t want a Labour government at all, and certainly not one to succeed.
“But I’ll tell you this. After having fought so hard for the chance to change our country, I’m not prepared to walk away from my mandate and my responsibility to my country, or to plunge us into chaos, as others have done.”
Starmer, who was surrounded by members of his cabinet, apologised to Labour MPs for appointing Mandelson as US ambassador.
He also paid tribute to Morgan McSweeney, his former chief of staff and close ally, who resigned on Sunday over his role in the decision to appoint Mandelson despite awareness of his links to Jeffrey Epstein.
Multiple Labour MPs have told PoliticsHome that Starmer’s speech was well received and had successfully lowered anger levels within the PLP.
The Prime Minister promised to take a more inclusive approach to government, with his administration having regularly been accused of paying too little attention to the views of Labour backbenchers.
According to Labour backbencher Chris Curtis, who spoke to reporters after the meeting in Parliament, of 44 interventions from Labour MPs, just 4 were negative.
“He appreciated the scale of the challenge. Everyone in that room looked at him and knew he was the right person for the job,” Curtis added.
One backbencher who was in the room said the Prime Minister’s speech had “bought time”, but added “I don’t know how long”.
A minister told PoliticsHome that they thought Starmer was “stronger than he was at the beginning of the day”.
They described this month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, where Labour is at risk of losing to the Greens and Reform, and the May elections as “trigger points” for his leadership, but ones that are “already baked in, to large degrees”.
The meeting also demonstrated the tension between Labour in Westminster and the party in Scotland following Sarwar’s call for Starmer to quit.
Rachel Taylor, Labour MP for North Warwickshire and Bedworth, called the Scottish Labour leader’s intervention earlier in the day “selfish”, PoliticsHome understands, and said the party “needed to come together for the good of the country”.
Meanwhile, Johanna Baxter, the Labour MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire in Scotland, was in tears as she told the room that she had never known such treachery like Sarwar’s, PoliticsHome understands.
Additional reporting by Matilda Martin, Harriet Symonds, Adam Payne and Sienna Rodgers
Police have raided the launch event of an anti-Zionist group and arrested two people. The force said it was “working to understand the plans of organisers”. Police raids are to foster understanding now, apparently.
A woman was stopped – in her car – on the way to the event, on suspicion of “inciting racial hatred.” Separately, police said they are investigating a social media post, but have not made clear whether the woman was alleged to have written the post, or if merely being en route to the event is considered incitement. The force claims she was the subject of an earlier arrest warrant for speeches and protests, but did not provide details.
West Midlands Police said its officers had also arrested a 42-year-old man outside the venue, but its description of events raises questions about UK police again dancing to the tune of pro-Israel counter-demonstrators. The police said the man:
was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence after a member of the public who had come to observe the event told us he had been threatened.
The Israel lobby has a long history of falsely claiming to have been in danger from peaceful protesters – and of pointing UK police officers to the people it wants arrested and events it wants stopped.
It looks very likely that this raid was a continuation of Starmer’s ceaseless war on peaceful anti-genocide and anti-apartheid protest.
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Forces from Israel have kidnapped a Lebanese official close to the border and killed a father and child in an airstrike. Atwi Atwi of Islamic Group in Lebanon was captured in the village of al-Habbariyeh.
The New Arab reported:
Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya (the Islamic Group) said Israeli forces crossed into the village of al-Habbariyeh in the Hasbaya district after midnight and seized Atwi Atwi, who heads the group’s Hasbaya and Marjaayoun areas.
The group said Atwi’s family were assaulted during the raid and that they:
held the Israeli military responsible for “any harm that may befall Atwi”, describing the abduction as part of “a series of daily violations and barbaric attacks on Lebanese sovereignty carried out by Israel”.
They called on the Lebanese government to apply pressure to release Atwi and other detainees. The Lebanese state has not commented.
The Palestine Chronicle said:
The incident comes despite the ceasefire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel that entered into force in late November 2024.
Adding:
Lebanese and international sources say Israel has committed thousands of violations since then, killing and injuring hundreds and causing widespread material destruction.
The Israel military confirmed the raid in its own terms:
In a nighttime operation, forces from the 210th Division arrested a senior terrorist operative from the Islamic Group.
The New Arab described Atwi’s group as:
a Sunni Islamist political party founded in 1964 as the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It holds one seat in Lebanon’s parliament and was recently designated a “terrorist organisation” by the United States, along with two other Muslim Brotherhood groups in Egypt and Jordan.
Members were reportedly killed:
after joining Hezbollah in cross-border clashes with Israel in October 2023 in support of Gaza.
Israel kill father and child in airstrike
Israel also killed three people, including a father and child, in an airstrike in Yanouh – around four hours north of al-Habbariyeh. Lebanon’s LBC International reported:
Three people were killed in a Monday strike in the town of Yanouh, local sources reported.
Adding:
Among the dead were a child and his father, who was a member of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces and happened to be passing nearby at the time of the attack.
But this was just the latest attack.
Chemical warfare
Israel was recently spraying the so-called Blue Line with potentially cancerous chemicals. The Blue Line is a 120km strip which marks the line of Israel withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000. The UN and Lebanese army tested the chemicals. They found high concentrations of glyphosate, which can cause cancer.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said the “deeply alarming” attack may constitute a war crime:
The deliberate targeting of civilian farmland violates international humanitarian law, particularly the prohibition on attacking or destroying objects indispensable to civilian survival.
They added:
Large-scale destruction of private property without specific military necessity amounts to a war crime and undermines food security and basic livelihoods in the affected areas.
Israel is routinely aggressive towards Lebanon. And between kidnap operations, dropping cancer chemicals and killing a child in an airstrike, it is certainly business as usually for the global pariah ethnostate.
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The Indian government’s response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi being named in the Epstein files was that the allegations deserved to be treated with contempt.
We have seen reports of an email message from the so-called Epstein files that has a reference to the Prime Minister and his visit to Israel. Beyond the fact of the Prime Minister’s official visit to Israel in July 2017, the rest of the allusions in the email are little more than trashy ruminations by a convicted criminal, which deserve to be dismissed with the utmost contempt.
Nevertheless, Pandora’s box is now open. No matter how hard the global ruling class tries to contain it, the proverbial genie has escaped.
Recent documents disclosed by the US Department of Justice show Epstein communicating about Modi favourably.
On July 9, 2017, just three days after Modi’s official visit to Israel, Epstein wrote an email claiming the Prime Minister had taken his advice. In the message, Epstein asserted that Modi had “danced and sang” in Israel for the benefit of U.S. President Trump, concluding that the plan had worked.
Just three days before, on July 6th, Modi had shared a “romantic walk” on Olga Beach in Haifa, Israel. It was the first time ever that an Indian Prime Minister had visited Israel, smashing any remnants of Indian post-colonial solidarity with Palestine.
Later, in 2019, Epstein encouraged Steve Bannon to meet with Modi to counter China. Epstein chats have shown US bigotry behind the escalating war against China.
He told Bannon that Modi was a strategic opportunity, asking him to “look at your underwear” to see if it was made in either China or India.
Epstein Files — Indian elite implicated
Hardeep Singh Puri, now a senior BJP (Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party) official, is featured on Epstein’s list, with scheduled appointments at least five times between June 2014 and January 2017.
Puri is now busy sending “thugs” to his opposition. Indian opposition MP Mahua Moitra has claimed that Puri contacted her and asked her to delete her social media posts about his name appearing in the Epstein files.
Also do not appreciate @HardeepSPuri calling me to ask me to delete tweet & telling me if “people” come after me now he won’t be able to help it. I’ll take my chances, Sir. Your thug armies don’t scare me.
— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) February 3, 2026
Puri then worked with the International Peace Institute (IPI) in New York, now says he was making the case for India in these exchanges.
Ironically, the people Puri was meeting with were being racist to him behind his back. Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen, who once served as President of the IPI, made a racist remark about Puri in a 2015 email to Jeffrey Epstein, writing, “when you meet an Indian and a snake, kill the Indian first!”
Anil Ambani is the Indian tycoon who once held billionaire status but later lost his fortune; he was also an ally of Jeffrey Epstein, seeking his help in March 2017 to connect with Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon with the Indian “leadership.”
Tall Swedish Blond
Later that month, Epstein offered “a tall Swedish blonde woman” to Ambani to make it “fun to visit.” Ambani replied, “Arrange that.”
Deepak Chopra, an Indian-origin wellness guru, described Ambani as “very rich, very much wanting to be noticed, very celebrity conscious,” to Epstein, adding that he met him at a party in Bombay. Oprah and Indian socialist Parmeshwar Godrej also attended the party, Chopra adds.
Chopra is himself disgraced in the files. The Yoga guru emailed Epstein, saying that “God is a construct. Cute girls are real.”
The documents also show a connection to Indian royalty. In 2018, a redacted sender says to Epstein that they are organising an “amazing” birthday party near Rome at their “family castle” for the “Maharaja of Jaipur.”
Padmanabh Singh is the ‘king‘ of Jaipur in Rajasthan, India. Although he’s not officially considered a king by the state in democratic India. His mother is the BJP’s Deputy Chief Minister in Rajasthan — Diya Kumari.
Dalai Lama Meeting Implied
The Dalai Lama, a Tibetan spiritual leader from China who is currently exiled in India, has denied meeting Epstein, as implied by the released files.
An email in 2012, from a redacted sender to Epstein claims they are going to an event where Dalai Lama will be present.
The Indian connection could imply Epstein harvesting all allies he could get to confront a rising China.
Epstein and Bannon — both millionaires — referred to the Chinese government as “peasants”. And current US vice-president JD Vance has said the same thing. (Vance rose to prominence thanks to billionaire Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, who also appears in the Epstein files.)
Modi has been a good ally to the West — signing favourable trade deals with Israel, the EU and the US recently. Modi has also told Trump that he will not be buying Russian oil, Trump claims, abandoning BRICS solidarity in favour of alignment with the USA.
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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has stuck the knife into his former backer. Sarwar has called for Starmer to step down over his closeness to paedo-pal Peter Mandelson. And, Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth said:
Of course Keir Starmer has to go. He’s lost all moral authority and self awareness to do the right thing. It’s now a question of when Labour Members will push the button.
Heat grows on Starmer
Whilst the heat is certainly growing on the beleaguered prime minister, Sarwar’s remarks have been met with scorn.
Sarwar, levered into his position by Starmer – called for Starmer to quit because, he said, the people of Scotland are “crying out for a competent government” and that Downing Street leadership is becoming a “huge distraction” from Labour’s positive work across the country. No clues were provided as to where the ‘positive work’ might be located.
Sarwar went on:
The situation in Downing Street is not good enough. There have been too many mistakes. They promised they were going to be different, but too much has happened.
Sarwar claimed he had spoken to Starmer before his statement and said it was “safe to say he and I disagreed”. He was immediately and rightly called out for his own closeness to “old friend” Mandelson:
He responded that “Mandelson is not someone or something I want to be associated with”. Quite. I’m sure Starmer would wish not to be associated with in the public mind either.
But he certainly is. And, now that the Plaid Cymru leader has joined the growing calls for Starmer to go, the heat is very much on.
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Australia’s government has laid out the red carpet for genocide-inciting Israeli president Isaac Herzog. And its police have met mass protests against the visit with violence. Herzog’s ex-adviser Eylon Levy, meanwhile, prepared for the trip by dehumanising Palestinians.
Thousands oppose Herzog’s visit, and Levy spreads hatred
Thousands of anti-genocide protesters in Australia hit the streets on Monday 9 February. But police got special permission to crack down on dissent. And they used pepper spray, made dozens of arrests, and even threw punches.
Numerous MPs had previously called on the government to cancel the divisive visit, promising to join the protests. The Jewish Council of Australia, meanwhile, had also asked in an open letter for the cancellation of the invitation. Over 1,000 academics and community leaders from Australia’s Jewish community had signed.
Thanks to your support, our full-page ad is in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Over 1,000 Jews and thousands of allies have signed our open letter to say that Israeli President Isaac Herzog is not welcome here.
Help us spread the word! pic.twitter.com/sq1k2he7rf
— Jewish Council of Australia (@jewishcouncilAU) February 9, 2026
As usual, though, Levy struggled to hide his disdain for the people suffering or opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Dehumanisation has played a key role in the extermination campaign. And Levy continued this tradition by sharing an animation picturing a toad wearing a Keffiyeh, saying it was a “poisonous invasive species”:
Is Israel a poisonous invasive state? Hours ahead of Herzog’s visit to Australia, his spokesman (2021-2023) has promoted the visit by posting an animation depicting Palestinians as cane toads, calling them a “poisonous invasive species”. https://t.co/ubky81NXDJ
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 8, 2026
Levy has also tried to compare UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese with Hamas due to her opposition to genocide:
What’s the difference between Hamas and UN official @FranceskAlbs at this point?
🔎 Can you spot the difference? Let me know in the comments. pic.twitter.com/qtGuV3Yyhi
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) February 9, 2026
Australia’s mass protests
Thousands of people thought it was important to show their opposition to Herzog’s visit considering his role in inciting genocide. At the start of Israel’s campaign of mass murder in occupied Gaza, which followed the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, Herzog had said:
it’s an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true, this rhetoric about civilians who were not aware and not involved. It is absolutely not true.
A UN Human Rights Council report in 2025 found that Herzog and others had:
incited the commission of genocide
This is why many Australians called for Herzog’s arrest.
As Amnesty International said:
Welcoming President Herzog as an official guest undermines Australia’s commitment to accountability and justice.
Human Rights lawyer Chris Sidoti on the reasons why Israeli President Isaac Herzog should not be welcomed to Australia. #auspol #IsraelTerroristState #CancelHerzog #FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/feQ5ggHlz1
— Peter Murphy (@PeterWMurphy1) February 7, 2026
Australia is hosting Isaac Herzog, and he’s not coming alone.
His rhetoric blaming “an entire nation” was cited by the International Court of Justice when assessing the risk of genocide.
His delegation includes:
• Doron Almog, a former general linked to war-crimes allegations… pic.twitter.com/s97grpin2K— APAN (@APAN4Palestine) February 6, 2026
In Sydney, authorities mobilised 3,000 police officers against protesters. A local court, meanwhile, rejected a challenge to protest restrictions.
War Criminals not welcome#Herzog out of Australia#Herzog to The Hague pic.twitter.com/0scrMBaPRO
— Aidan Bradley 🇵🇸 (@Hannahstowncelt) February 9, 2026
A massive protest against the visit of Israeli President Herzog to Australia pic.twitter.com/0mIUOhqyrI
— Ounka (@OunkaOnX) February 9, 2026
Videos have emerged showing apparent police violence against some protesters:
⚡️🇦🇺BREAKING: POLICE IN AUSTRALIA ATTACKS PROTESTERS AND PRAYING MUSLIMS.
Police assaults protesters in Australia who were protesting against Israeli president Herzog’s visit and Israel’s warcrimes against the Palestinians.
Footage shows police assaulting a man with his hands… pic.twitter.com/9g5aKTGaqu
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws1) February 9, 2026
Herzog claimed people opposing his visit were seeking to “undermine and delegitimise” the state of Israel’s ‘right to exist‘. Francesca Albanese has previously clarified that no state has a right to exist under international law, but that people do:
Herzog must face accountability for his genocide incitement. Other genocide-inciters and war criminals from Israel (and elsewhere) should too. For that to happen, governments must stop normalising horrific crimes by inviting them on state visits. And that’s what thousands of Australians took to the streets to demand.
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President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement furiously denounced Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show, denigrating the Puerto Rican superstar and claiming he does not truly represent America.
Trump, who previously called Bad Bunny a “terrible choice” to head up the NFL’s largest annual broadcast, chimed in with complaints about the show’s first-ever mostly-Spanish performance: “Nobody understands a word this guy is saying,” he wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post.
At Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, Bad Bunny delivered a 13-minute homage to his homeland, weaving through a sugarcane field studded with bodegas and a traditional casita. His show was lauded by fans as a vibrant celebration of Puerto Rican heritage — but Trump and MAGA faithfuls weren’t so convinced.
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, the Puerto Rican-born singer better known as Bad Bunny, made his Super Bowl debut in 2020 alongside Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. But since the NFL announced him as the Super Bowl headliner in September, he became a focal point for conservative ire — thanks, in part, to his high-profile political activism.
An outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration crackdown, he declared “ICE out” onstage at last week’s Grammy Awards — where his album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” made history as the first all-Spanish record to snag the show’s coveted album of the year trophy — and left viewers wondering what message he might have for the millions of football fans tuning into his set.
But Bad Bunny did not directly call out any of the president’s policies or supporters during his Super Bowl show. The only English he spoke during Sunday’s show was him saying, “God bless America,” as he was marching off the field with a procession of Latin and South American flags — led by the U.S.’s flag. He then spiked a football that read: “together, we are America.”
His show also referenced the island’s long-struggling power grid.
In the hours after the performance, MAGA allies took issue with the show’s mostly-Spanish discography and Puerto Rican inspiration.
“Was a single word of English spoken during the Super Bowl Halftime Show?” Nick Adams, Trump’s pick to become ambassador to Malaysia, wrote on X. “Someone needs to tell Bad Bunny he’s in America. This is an abomination.”
Far-right influencer Laura Loomer railed against his set in a series of X posts, urging border czar Tom Homan to deploy an immigration raid on site.
“There’s nothing American about any of this,” she wrote. “This isn’t White enough for me. Cant even watch a Super Bowl anymore because immigrants have literally ruined everything.”
Meanwhile, MAGA-friendly influencer Jake Paul urged his X followers to “turn off this halftime,” decrying Bad Bunny as a “fake American citizen performing who publicly hates America.” Paul, who was recently seen with Vice President JD Vance at the Olympics in Milan, received swift blowback online, including from Paul’s own brother, Logan.
Many, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), pointed out that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens — and that Paul himself has been living there since 2021.
Other figures within the president’s orbit echoed their disapproval. Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino reacted to Bad Bunny’s performance in a podcast episode on Rumble titled “Kid Rock > Sad Bunny,” telling viewers the show “sucked.” Meanwhile, Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, wrote on X that she and her family “aren’t watching him.”
Conservatives did rally behind alternative programming. Turning Point USA, the conservative organizing group founded by Charlie Kirk, aired a rival halftime show headlined by longtime Trump ally Kid Rock, drawing support from Republican officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and House Speaker Mike Johnson, who praised the event.
Keir Starmer delivers a speech at Horntye Park Sports Complex in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, February 2026 (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
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Come the May elections, Keir Starmer will be gone. I suspect even in No 10 there are few who doubt this now.
While Peter Mandelson will prove to be the final nail in his political coffin, I’m afraid that it is only a symptom of the real issue: poor political judgement. The public has seen this clearly in the form of regular U-turns and the constant ditching of policies first leaked to the press, while incoherent party management has alienated the Prime Minister’s natural supporters.
The situation has got so bad that last week No 10 was forced to pull their own amendment when they realised too few Labour MPs had sufficient trust in their own government to support it.
When the trust is gone, there can be no recovery for the Prime Minister. You cannot relaunch when the fundamental problem is one of judgement, and the longer this goes on the more the many fantastic things this government is delivering in office are being swamped out by psychodrama, with the party’s polling trending towards zero.
As is widely known, the one lifeline which has enabled the Prime Minister to survive so far has been the lack of a candidate willing to put themselves forward and until the May elections no one will want to step up and take the political hit the party will likely suffer at the polls. This leaves Mr Starmer with a choice.
He can wait until May and force the country to endure the chaos of removing a sitting Prime Minister, followed by months of the governing party focusing entirely inwards – or he can act now and announce his departure in May.
Doing so would provide continuity for the country, avoiding the need for an interim Prime Minister, and enable Mr Starmer and his team the opportunity to prepare for the end of his ministry. For candidates it would remove the one obstacle currently preventing them from setting out their stalls and giving them time to pull together the people and the ideas necessary to hit the ground running in office.
Unfortunately for the party, internal campaigning will inevitably prove a distraction from electioneering, but given the central role the Prime Minister plays in the party’s current unpopularity, a deadline on his departure would at least enable canvassers to honestly sell the belief that genuine change will follow after the May elections.
The decision is, for now, entirely up to the Prime Minister. Whatever his mistakes, I believe Keir Starmer is a good man, who has made considerable sacrifices to enter public office. The fact he has proven poorly suited to the role of Prime Minister is not his fault – the role suits almost no one. While he no longer has a choice when his ministry will end, he can still decide how it will end, offering the country the stable transition the Conservatives so regularly denied us.
Peter Lamb is Labour MP for Crawley
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A source close to Jeremy Corbyn has said ‘Your Party’ will not survive unless his supporters win power within it, as voting opens today for members to elect the party’s leadership.
Members of the new party being founded by Corbyn, Independent Alliance MPs Ayoub Khan and Shockat Adam, and Zarah Sultana voted narrowly for a ‘collective leadership’ over a ‘single leader’ model during its founding conference in November.
With MPs barred from leading the party, which has been deeply divided since it began, Your Party will instead be led formally by a 16-member committee, including a chair and deputy chair who must be lay members.
But the contest has become a proxy for the battle between Corbyn and Sultana, who have clashed ever since the latter quit the Labour Party and joined the project last year. Two slates are battling it out: ‘The Many’, associated with the former Labour leader, and ‘Grassroots Left’, linked to Sultana.
If successful, Grassroots Left intend to elect a ‘parliamentary convenor’, expected to be Sultana. If The Many win more seats, they will elect him as parliamentary leader.
“Members have a choice,” a source close to Corbyn told PoliticsHome.
“They can vote to build a popular, mass vehicle that looks outwards. Or they can hand the party over to splinter groups that have spent the past six months attacking the most influential figure on the British left.
“There is only one way this party can survive: a victory for The Many.”
A source close to Sultana said: “Support for the Grassroots Left is growing by the day. Members have responded overwhelmingly to our positive plan to immediately recognise branches, give access to their data and stand Your Party candidates in the upcoming elections this May.
“We were also delighted to have received an endorsement from Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi and Ken Loach’s ‘Platform for a Democratic Party’ over the weekend, as they too can see the stark difference in visions for the party. We urge everyone to vote early, and vote Grassroots Left.”
Internal elections for Your Party’s central executive committee will see voting start at 5pm today and close in two weeks.
Endorsements for candidates indicate that support for each slate among members is finely balanced, with Grassroots Left winning in some regions and The Many coming top in others.
“We see things as quite existential in terms of the survival and viability of the party as a relevant force in British politics,” one insider associated with the Corbyn wing of Your Party told PoliticsHome. “The outcome will be determined by turnout.”
Corbyn allies believe that if turnout is low in these elections, those who back Sultana – accused of representing a “federation of Trotskyist sects” – are more likely to win positions.
Those close to the former Labour leader say they are concerned that Muslim communities increasingly alienated by Labour, who represent a significant proportion of Your Party’s potential electoral base, would be put off from supporting the party if it comes under Sultana’s control. They say it would be left with little support as urban graduates are gravitating towards the Green Party.
It is also thought that the continued involvement of two MPs, Adam and Khan, could rest on the outcome of the elections, as Sultana and her supporters have been highly critical of the Independent Alliance MPs.
From the parliamentary grouping, Iqbal Mohamed and Adnan Hussain have both already quit Your Party over tensions between them and Sultana, including ill feeling after she described them as a “sexist boys’ club”.
Only Sultana has officially designated herself a Your Party MP. Corbyn, Adam and Khan are all still listed as Independents. A Your Party source said she made the change “unilaterally”, and the other MPs are understood to believe that, as the party is only currently being governed by an interim authority, they are not in a position to declare themselves as Your Party MPs.
Corbyn said: “A vote for The Many is a vote for a mass, inclusive, powerful campaigning force. We have an opportunity to build a genuinely mass party that unites our diverse communities on the issues that matter to us all.
“Remember why we are doing this: so that every child has enough food to eat, every person has a roof over their head, and everyone can live in peace. That has always been my absolute determination – and always will be.”
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