Rishi Sunak was the UK’s last ever Tory PM. At least we hope that’s the case, anyway.

After leaving office, Sunak did what most successful politicians do now, and swanned off to work with the worst that the private sector has to offer. This has now seen standards activist Hugh Grant accuse Sunak and the Times of blatant malpractice:

I think that if you’re going to write a piece in the Times urging the government to use and boost more AI, the fact that you are paid by a major AI company should be in the first sentence, or at least first paragraph.
I also think that the best scenario for AI is that it… pic.twitter.com/XZ9f0Ltwu1

— Hugh Grant (@HackedOffHugh) February 14, 2026

Every CEO can do one

First things first, CEOs don’t exist to improve quality; they exist to improve profitability (as Sunak well knows):

Rishi Sunak (now employed by an AI company) implies that AI must have value, just because “CEOs are talking about it”

Putting the merits (or not) of AI aside, I’m 37yrs into an engineering career and I’ve yet to hear of a CEO who wasn’t an uninformed, meddling idiot. pic.twitter.com/YrS1IthcWi

— Carl Doran🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Oppose Geno–cide (@CarlDoran13) February 15, 2026

The white goods in your house which are knackered within two years – that’s the fault of CEOs.

Grant’s post reads in full:

I think that if you’re going to write a piece in the Times urging the government to use and boost more AI, the fact that you are paid by a major AI company should be in the first sentence, or at least first paragraph.

I also think that the best scenario for AI is that it destroys millions of jobs with the prosperity, dignity and community that goes with them.
The worst scenario is the destruction of the human race – a fear openly expressed by an increasing number of senior and experienced AI engineers who are leaving the industry.

And somewhere in between a myriad of horrors such as yet more screen learning and screen addiction for our children.

But I do see that it will make rich men even richer. And that’s the most important thing of course.

As reported by the BBC in October 2025, Sunak has advisory roles with Microsoft and Anthropic. If you’re unfamiliar with Anthropic, it’s the company which casually admitted to this:

“It was ready to kill someone, wasn’t it?”

“Yes.”

Daisy McGregor, UK policy chief at Anthropic, a top AI company, says it’s “massively concerning” that Anthropic’s Claude AI has shown in testing that it’s willing to blackmail and kill in order to avoid being shut down. pic.twitter.com/RuNO4LJKcu

— ControlAI (@ControlAI) February 10, 2026

In a normal world, a private company would not be allowed to work on an AI which is talking about murdering people. In a normal world, the above video would end with SWAT teams storming the stage and slamming these nerds to the ground.

At the same time, you should bear in mind:

• AI companies have been known to exaggerate the threat of ‘AI gone awry’ to attract more funding (the more powerful AI has the potential to be, the more investors believe they can profit).
• Just because the AI produced text suggesting it wants to kill does not mean it’s an intelligent machine with the capacity to commit murder.

They call this stuff ‘generative AI’ because it does exactly that – it generates content, be it text, imagery, video, or sound. The fact that these tools can generate a lot of stuff in succession can give the impression of intelligence, but it’s heavily disputed that it’s anything beyond a souped-up version of auto-type.

Whether this is all nonsense or not, though, Sunak and the Times need to announce who the ex-PM is working for, and what he stands to gain.

A busted flush – and that’s just Rishi Sunak

The other thing to bear in mind is that while every CEO is indeed talking about AI, many of them are saying: ‘oh shit, so this stuff doesn’t actually work?‘

This is why we’re seeing a return to companies hiring actual human beings:

bro what pic.twitter.com/EnEu09OTuI

— kanav (@kanavtwt) February 14, 2026

It’s also why we keep seeing stories like this:

A brighter tomorrow is sooner than we think! https://t.co/aEkD3nyafL

— Henry Arrambide (@Hisabelbide) February 14, 2026

We doubt Sunak will bring any of this up in his articles, and we further doubt the Times will tell you why that is.

Featured image via Number 10 (Flickr)

Javier Milei is the libertarian leader of Argentina. If you’re unfamiliar with ‘libertarianism’, it’s the childlike belief that everyone can just get their own way all the time, and that people shouldn’t look out for one another – just for themselves.

In practice, libertarianism means cutting ‘red tape’ for businesses so they face no restrictions on how poorly they can treat their workers. This is how that’s currently working out in Argentina (complete with quotes from the UK leaders who wish to emulate this chaos):

Nigel Farage on Milei “Doing all the things he’s done, that’s leadership, he is amazing”

Kemi Badenoch “Javier Milei would be ‘template’ for my government”

He just cut holiday days to 0, employers can pay in food and 12 hour work days. The result: pic.twitter.com/WgoFxN9EX9

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— Jake 🌹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@ToryWipeout) February 14, 2026

Class war

As reported by Public Services International, Milei’s proposed assault on workers’ rights would see the:

• Extension of the working day to up to 12 hours
• Elimination of paid overtime, replaced by a “time bank” system where employers unilaterally decide when – or if – accumulated hours can be taken as time off or reduced shifts
• Introduction of “dynamic wages” based on productivity, allowing salaries to fluctuate from month to month
• Deduction of days not worked during sick leave, ending payment for medical absences
• Fragmentation of the traditional 30-day annual vacation, with employers deciding when workers take their leave
• Complete elimination of severance pay, encouraging mass dismissals and “fire-and-rehire” practices under worse conditions
• Severe restrictions on the right to strike
• Sweeping empowerment of employers, destroying the principle of equal bargaining power and leaving workers completely submissive to management

Imagine having no holiday days.

Imagine working more hours for the same or less pay.

Imagine not knowing how much you’re going to earn from month to month.

Of course you’d riot.

And if you wouldn’t riot, you’re a slug.

A worm.

But hey, at least the people fucking you over would despise you a hundredth less than they despise the rest of us!

Maga & Musk hero Javier Milei just gutted Argentina’s labor laws.

12 hour work days
No more 30 day vacation
No more overtime
Cuts sick leave in half
Employees can be paid with food & lodging.

Meanwhile, Mexico is going to a 4 day work week.pic.twitter.com/kOaxMefXBB

— Cuckturd (@CattardSlim) February 14, 2026

The world’s first ultrapower vs the world’s first ninth world country https://t.co/X9UakNexqp

— Anti-Imperialist-Kun𒉭⛓️🪚🌹 | college arc (@BozarSlinger50) February 13, 2026

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It would be one thing if the world was actually running out of stuff, but that isn’t the case. Every year there’s more bounty; what’s changing is the concentration of wealth and power. In other words, the rich get richer and the rest of us get shafted.

The ideology of people like Milei and Farage is to constantly push things in the favour of their rich mates. There’s only so far you can push, however, and beyond that you get riots – riots and desperation:

In Argentina, a disabled libertarian spoke before Congress, telling them to cut disability pensions because ‘disabled people who get state assistance are simply lazy need to work harder.’

Now, he’s begging for money on Twitter to replace his prosthesis. https://t.co/o9esRV009G pic.twitter.com/DdGyh2nbpB

— BadEmpanada (@NukedVeterans) February 14, 2026

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Argentine Twitter is full of Milei supporters begging for money because they lost their jobs or don’t make enough.

This one is having trouble paying his rent because his landlord is taking advantage of the rental contract deregulation Milei implemented https://t.co/hdAjrYOL2m

— BadEmpanada (@NukedVeterans) February 14, 2026

Farage’s idols – including Javier Milei

As reported by the Guardian, Farage has praised other far-right leaders besides Milei:

Farage had huge praise for Javier Milei, the far-right libertarian Argentine president famous for posing with a chainsaw, saying he had been bringing in “Thatcherism on steroids – this is incredible, cutting and slashing public expenditure, doing all the things he’s done”, adding: “That’s leadership … he is amazing.” When asked to list the best leaders in the western world, Farage named Hungary’s rightwing leader, Viktor Orbán, a “strong leader”, and his “friend” Donald Trump, the US presidential candidate.

Previously, in 2016 on Fox News, Farage praised Vladmir Putin, the Russian president, who he said for “all his faults” was a “strong leader who believes in his own nation”.

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So to recap, Farage is taking notes from:

Out of all of them, though, we think Farage most wants to be Viktor Orbán – the corrupt overlord of a once prosperous European power. There’s no reason Britain can’t prosper now, of course, but where would the profit be in that?

Featured image via Gage Skidmore (Wikimedia)

Palestinian political prisoners in Ofer prison, near Ramallah in the West Bank, have been brutally abused by the Israeli occupation’s repression units. This happened under the instruction and in the presence of criminal far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

Ben Gvir gives orders for Palestinian political prisoners to be abused while wearing a hangman’s noose badge on shirt

The units fired stun grenades and broke into the cells. They violently assaulted the Palestinian hostages, throwing them onto the ground after confiscating their mattresses and bed sheets. Ben Gvir was wearing a hangman’s noose badge on his shirt at the time, aiming to show Palestinians, once again, that the Israeli occupation has control over them.

February 2026 figures from the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) show the total number of arrests in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, since the start of the genocide in Gaza has risen to approximately 22,000. These arrests are ongoing and escalating.

On 9 February, Israeli occupation forces detained over 20 Palestinians during a large-scale detention campaign across the occupied West Bank. From the night of 11 February 2026 until the morning of 12 February alone, occupation forces arrested at least 40 civilians across the West Bank.

Between 6 and 12 February 10 Palestinian women were arrested, including one minor across the occupied West Bank. This brings the total number of Palestinian female political prisoners in Israeli occupation jails to 66, including three minors. Since  October 2023, more than 680 women have been arrested in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.

Most common reason for arbitrarily detaining women is “incitement” via social media

According to the PPS, the most common “charge” against Palestinian women is “incitement”‘ via social media posts. Most female prisoners are held in Damon prison. In addition to the usual abuse suffered by prisoners at the hands of the occupation, they are also denied contact with their children and families, adding to their trauma. Since the start of the genocide in Gaza, female prisoners endure increased humiliation, including forced nostrils searches

The PPS claims these arrests are accompanied by unprecedented crimes and violations. These include “severe beatings, systematic acts of terror against detainees and their families, widespread destruction of homes, confiscating of vehicles, money and gold jewellery, demolition of  prisoner’s family homes, and the taking of family members as hostages.”

44 Palestinian journalists from the West Bank, occupied Jerusalem and Gaza, are currently being detained  by the occupation. Most are being held without charge and trial, under what the occupation calls “administrative detention”. These detention orders are indefinite, and renewed every six months.

Israeli occupation’s policy of daily arrests aimed at undermining any form of resistance

Arrests are exploited as a cover to expand settlement activity in the West Bank and, according to the PPS, the policy of daily arrests is “one of the most prominent colonial tools employed by the ‘Israeli’ system, to target Palestinians and undermine any form of mobilisation or resistance.” This policy has affected all segments of Palestinian society.

Under international law, Palestinians have a legal right to resist their occupier, in any way they wish, including by using armed resistance. These resistance fighters are fighting against Zionist colonisers who are intensifying their campaign of illegally displacement, imprisonment, ethnic cleansing and killing against Palestinians. And their struggle against illegal occupation and repression is more important than ever before.

Prisoner’s,  released prisoners, and their families are also targeted by discriminatory legislation. Netanyahu has recently signed deportation orders against two Jerusalem Palestinians. The first was released from prison in 2024, after serving 23 years in Israeli occupation prisons. The second is still currently in prison, serving an 18 year sentence, and is set to be deported once released.

The decision is based on a racist law, which aims at undermining Palestinian presence in the territories occupied in 1948 and in occupied Jerusalem. This is known as the Citizenship and Residency Revocation Law, approved by the occupation in 2023. The announcement marks the first time that this law is being implemented  to remove citizens from the state of ‘Israel’.

Palestinian detainees are subjected to systematic torture,  medical neglect and deliberate starvation. And the Israeli occupation is now preparing to implement the so called “prisoners execution law“. The Palestinian Centre for  Prisoner’s Advocacy says that proposing the death penalty under occupation lacks fair trial guarantees, and contravenes international restrictions governing the use of capital punishment.

Thousands of Palestinian prisoners’ lives threatened by “prisoner execution law”, thanks to Ben Gvir

According to the Hebrew News Channel 13 “Implementation of the law will initially apply to Nukhba [Palestinian resistance fighters and Palestinian hostages] who were involved in the 7 October “attack”, and will later apply to those [Palestinian resistance fighters and Palestinian hostages] “convicted of serious attacks” [against colonial Zionist settlers and the Israeli occupation army] in “Judea and Samaria” [the West Bank].”

Channel 13 also said the Israeli Prisoner’s Service is expected to travel soon to a country in East Asia to “study the legal and organisational aspects of implementing the [death] penalty.” Thousands of Palestinian detainees lives will be threatened by this dangerous escalation.

The systematic torture of these prisoners is an extension of the genocide and ethnic cleansing that occurs openly, on a daily basis against Palestinians. And it is the silence of the international community which empowers the Zionist regime to continue committing these crimes. Urgent action is needed to ensure the Israeli occupation is held to account. International silence only ensures the continuation of this never ending cycle of violence.

Featured image via the Canary

Yet another UK institution has caved in to the bullying of the Israel lobby. The British Museum has removed the word “Palestine” from its displays after demands from the notorious “apartheid lobby” group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI).

The British Museum caves to the Zionist lobby

Like its fellow lobby group CAA, UKLFI is under investigation for using vexatious lawsuits for political ends. The group was humiliated in January 2026 in its tenth attempt to get Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sitta struck off the medical register. The malicious case failed. But that wasn’t all.

The case judge derided UKLFI’s argument as biased, unreasonable and unevidenced – adding for good measure that it couldn’t even meet the lowest legal standard.

But despite this discrediting judgment, the British Museum folded rather than stand its ground against racist intimidation. UKLFI boasted that the museum is in the process of changing its displays to replace “Palestinian” with “Canaanite”. The group’s ludicrous argument was that using “Palestine” is “historically inaccurate” and:

erases historical changes and creates a false impression of continuity…

…For example, the information panels in the Levant gallery, covering the period 2000-300 BC, have all been updated to describe in some detail the history of Canaan and the Canaanites and the rise of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel using those names. A revised text devoted to the Phoenicians was installed in early 2025.

Supposedly, the British Museum changes are for “neutrality”. Zionists, who support the racist colony established in 1948 by violently expelling at least 700,000 Palestinians from their homes ancestral lands, claim that Palestine never existed. Its adherents even claim that the indigenous people simply simply “abandoned” their homes in 1948.

The group is also being investigated by lawyers’ professional body the SRA for “vexatious and baseless” threats to silence support for Palestine.

Featured image via the Canary

A Palestinian community, which lives in the village of Deir al Dik al-Tahta in the Tel al Samrat area of Jericho, has been attacked by Israeli colonial settlers and expelled from their homes.

Israeli settlers attack another village near Jericho

The attack, which occurred on 11 February and lasted most of the daylight hours, involved around 30 masked settlers. They arrived in ATVs, cars, and tractors, and stole 120-150 sheep, a car and a tractor:

According to the community, although they called both the Palestinian and Israeli occupation police, no one came to their assistance. The settlers, who are all armed by the government, pointed guns at the heads of the Palestinians, even children, and told them to leave or they would all be killed. They threw stones and assaulted members of the community. 10 Palestinians were beaten and injured, including women and children, and one person needed stitches in his head.

The settlers bulldozed and destroyed 19 buildings, including 15 residential homes, and stole jewellery and money. All 15 families, including 15 children, have been evacuated to temporary accommodation. They are currently too afraid to return to what is left of their homes:

Just above the community is an illegal outpost and a military camp:

So for the past two years, as in the rest of Palestine, settlers and the Israeli occupation army have joined forces and terrorised the community. There is no accountability or justice for Palestinians, and the occupation can literally get away with murder. They aim to ethnically cleanse the occupied West Bank of Palestinians.

No justice

Tel al Samrat is in the Jordan Valley. This sparsely populated agricultural area of the West Bank is rich in resources, and the Israeli occupation has wanted to annex the region since 1967. In the past two years settlers violence has increased considerably. So have demolitions of residential and agricultural structures. Large areas are also being declared so called “state land” or “military firing zones”, to prevent Palestinians from accessing their land. An Israeli law is then implemented, confiscating land from Palestinians.

The Israeli occupation recently expanded its control over Palestinian lands, by changing rules to land registration in the occupied West Bank. The changes will mean, among other things, it will be easier for illegal settlers to buy Palestinian land.

Featured image and additional images via the Canary

Celebrated Indian academic and Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy has withdrawn from the Berlin International Film Festival in protest. She described this as a reaction to the jury’s refusal to address Israel’s two-year-long genocidal war in Gaza.

Roy said her exit was prompted by “unconscionable” statements, as she described, from the festival jury about the need to keep art and politics separate. She outright rejected their position. In her view, it was an attempt to silence debate about the crimes Israel is perpetrating in Gaza. These are “unfolding before the eyes of the world,” she said.

False neutrality

The 76th session of the Berlin Film Festival, which began last Thursday, featured more than 200 films, with 22 competing for the “Golden Bear” award.

This year’s jury is headed by the multi-award winning German director Wim Wenders. During a press conference, Wenders warned artists and filmmakers against wading into politics, stating that:

We have to stay away from politics, because if we make films of a purely political nature, we enter the arena of politics. We represent a counterweight to politics, indeed its opposite, and we must serve the interests of the people, not the interests of politicians.

Another juror peddling the same line is Polish producer Eva Puszczynska. She objected to a question about Israeli aggression on Gaza and German support for Israel, sheepishly stating that:

Many other wars in which genocide crimes are committed and not talked about.

Puszczynska downplayed the question as “very complex,” suggesting that it would not be fair for the committee to provide an answer — Roy vehemently disagrees.

Art is political

Roy explained that while her participation had been inspired by the political solidarity from the German public towards Palestinians, she changed her decision after hearing the jury’s statements. Furthermore, she said that she was disturbed by the position adopted by the German government and cultural institutions towards Palestine.

She held the view that the jury was using the claim ‘art is not political’ to:

silence any discussion about a crime against humanity.

She stressed that artists, writers, and filmmakers have a moral responsibility to:

do everything in their power to stop what is happening.

Roy has consistently characterised events in Gaza represents as a genocide against Palestinian people. She held the governments of the United States, Germany and other European countries responsible for supporting and financing Israel, considering them “complicit” in these crimes.

She concluded by saying that she was shocked and disgusted, adding that history would hold accountable anyone who chose silence.

Featured image courtesy Arundhati Roy