With the BBC failing to normalise Israel's genocide in Gaza and British complicity, Keir Starmer needed a new strategy for bringing to an end the rallies that have been embarrassing him. The velvet glove of the BBC has been swapped for the Met’s iron first.

I was an eyewitness to events on Saturday. The Metropolitan police are lying when they claim the ex-Labour leader and MP John McDonnell forced their way through a police cordon.

There are so many lies, deceptions and misdirections in Sir Keir Starmer’s statement on the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas yesterday that they need to be picked apart line by line.

For years, the UK and Sweden stymied Freedom of Information requests to hide why prosecutors under Keir Starmer pursued the Wikileaks founder. Finally the game may be up.

Zuckerberg, Trump, Musk. None care about free speech, least of all yours or mine. They care about power and remaining billionaires – or, better still, becoming trillionaires.

Israel isn't eradicating 'the terrorists'. It's turning Gaza into a wasteland, a hellscape, where doctors no longer exist, aid workers are a memory, and compassion a liability.

Even now, many are listening to the “revelations” of Biden’s long cognitive decline and, just like the Wall Street Journal, not wondering how the US has been functioning for the past four years with a president barely able to read a teleprompter, one whose mind is so vacant he can wander off in the middle of a conversation.

Genocides can happen with gas chambers. Or machetes. Or they can be carried out with 2,000lb bombs and aid blockades. New reports by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and Medecins Sans Frontieres all agree that a genocide is taking place in Gaza. But for our media the genocide has become just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages.

Israel, not the ‘liberators’ of Damascus, will decide Syria’s fate. Its future under al-Qaeda spin-off HTS will come in two flavours only. Either submit and collude like the West Bank, or end up wrecked like Gaza.

HTS, the rebranded al-Qaeda franchise in Syria, is eager to reassure Washington that it poses no threat to Israel – or its continuing genocide in Gaza. But while HTS is 'liberating' Syria, Israel is busy capturing and bombing large chunks of the country.