The Guardian asks: 'What would potential Labour leadership candidates do differently to Starmer?' and manages to make no mention of Gaza, Israel, Palestine; and almost nothing on foreign policy. Says it all. archive.ph/ADPg9

Corbyn was an MP for 32 years until elected Labour leader in 2015. No of media accusations of antisemitism from 1983-2015 = 0 No of media accusations of antisemitism from 2015-19 = 11,251 Media Lens on the establishment's revisiting of its smear campaign: medialens.substack.com/p/starmagedd...

'Starmageddon' - The Anti-Polanski Smear Campaign That Ate Itself @medialens.org medialens.substack.com/p/starmagedd... #mustread

Media Alert: 'Starmageddon' - The Anti-Polanski Smear Campaign That Ate Itself medialens.substack.com/p/starmagedd...

Superb journalism. A powerful reminder of why nobody should rely on the ‘mainstream’ media to understand what’s going on in the world. Please watch and share widely. Well done, @doubledown.news and Richard Sanders. 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kI9...

One from the archives. "If you don't like the changes that we've made, I say the door is open, and you can leave"

This deserves to be circulated. A former Red Cross staff member got in touch. She testifies about @zackpolanski.bsky.social's role. For transparency: her name is Brea Thibodeau. The whole thing is a desperate smear.

For years, Israel has exposed UK government hypocrisy and lawbreaking by openly using British weapons to commit war crimes and genocide. So the government has come up with an elegant solution: simply shutter the unit dedicated to monitoring such war crimes. 🙈🙉🙊

Peter Mandelson worked every day to try and prevent a redistribution of wealth and power in Britain. That is why he was rewarded with a top job. Our political system is built by - and for - a corrupt clique. We will carry on campaigning for a society that works for us all.

👉 NEW VIDEO -- "Straight up murder": Former Marine Commando EXPOSES Israeli war crimes in Gaza WATCH HERE 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Qr...

Following our revelation that Israeli group Shivat Zion is helping Britons move to the illegally-occupied West Bank, independent MP Shockat Adam asks Yvette Cooper to look into the matter urgently. #DCUKparliament

Pat McFadden is still defending the original decision to appoint Mandelson. "You had a former business secretary & a former trade commissioner, & thought to have done well in both of those jobs" You forgot the words 'for himself'

"The tank is perfectly symbolic of the ego, of its hostility, aggression, rejection, hatred." On a visit to a tank museum, David Edwards seeks answers to the question of why war is such a perennial feature of human experience. medialens.substack.com/p/a-lefty-pr...

Cogitation: A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum medialens.substack.com/p/a-lefty-pr...

Kuenssberg on Starmer: ‘foreign policy - one of the few arenas where the prime minister is generally considered to have a decent record.’ Just the sort of crass comment you’d expect from a courtier journalist ignoring Starmer’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keir Starmer boasting at #PMQs to score a point over Kemi Badenoch: "These were [RAF] pilots who within two hours of this conflict were up risking their lives taking missiles out of the sky" But remember folks, we're not involved

👉 EXPOSED: Israeli operation to help Brits move to West Bank by Martin Williams UNDERCOVER investigation reveals charity touted "awesome" illegal settlements and claimed it could benefit from UK tax subsidies www.declassifieduk.org/exposed-isra...

Our latest media alert, in case you missed it. Clearly, very few of us are willing to tolerate the threat of nuclear genocide: medialens.substack.com/p/nuclear-ge...

Matthew Alford has very kindly and rapidly produced an audio version of today's media alert: 'Nuclear Genocide - The Threat And The Ceasefire' www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeok... medialens.substack.com/p/nuclear-ge...

Media Alert: Nuclear Genocide - The Threat And The Ceasefire medialens.substack.com/p/nuclear-ge...

'What Blair wants is for the left to be utterly silenced so that its protests do not rouse uncomfortable twinges of guilt forcibly reminding him that long ago he became a soulless creature of the West’s war machine.' Jonathan Cook explains:

We visited ‘RAF’ Fairford with a ladder and some ingenuity and saw pallets of 2,000lb bombs being loaded onto US warplanes bound for Iran. Watch 👇 youtu.be/LO9J4cqN7L0?...

UN News on Easter weekend: 😱 Israeli attacks on the UN and healthcare sites in Lebanon 😱 UN warning to US on illegal strikes on Iran civilian infrastructure 😱 Update on Israeli attack on Gaza water plant Just another weekend for UK allies Israel & US news.un.org/en/story/202...

Excellent piece by Barry Malone. 👏 'When it comes to covering western adversaries, international media continue to do the bidding of Israel, the US and anyone else who wants to illegally attack Middle Eastern nations'. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/what...

Argentina invaded the Falklands 44 years ago today. Declassified files reveal how Israel deceived Britain while it supplied Argentina’s antisemitic dictatorship with weapons during the 1980s. www.declassifieduk.org/how-israel-s...

Granny holding a cardboard sign = terrorist. Former al-Qaeda leader wearing a suit = honoured guest of the British government.

Another reminder that, contrary to expectations, Bluesky is by far the most hostile social media platform for genuinely progressive writers like me. I grow my reach by a follower or two a day. Better to follow me on a site where algorithms aren't a factor, like Substack: jonathancook.substack.com

The end of US empire. That's looming over the catastrophic illegal war on Iran. Brilliant as ever from @krystalball.bsky.social

Israel has passed the death penalty solely for Palestinians, enforced through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. Israeli Minister Ben Gvir popped champagne. The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.

Marco Rubio: "Imagine an Iranian regime who instead of spending billions.. building up all these weapons had invested that money into Iran for the people of Iran" The US defence budget is currently around $900 billion/year and the US doesn't have universal healthcare

Paul Holden on BBC interview with Josh Simons, former director of Labour Together: “At no time was it acknowledged in this discussion that this allegation – that I might have received hacked materials – is entirely false, and I have repeatedly proven it to be false.” archive.ph/SGPwM

On this day in 1964 a US-backed coup overthrew president João Goulart and ushered in a brutal 21-year military dictatorship. The UK played a covert role in the coup, declassified files show. www.declassifieduk.org/britains-hid...

‘Defensive missions’ BBC News and ‘defence’ stenographer Jonathan Beale performing their usual establishment role of promoting state-approved narratives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Metropolitan Police arrested pro-Palestine activists against its own internal guidance, documents seen by Declassified suggest. www.declassifieduk.org/met-police-f...

Keir Starmer: "It only happened because of a Lab govt" You personally suspended 7 Labour MP's from the Parliamentary Labour Party for voting to scrap the two child benefit cap. It only happened because you were forced, kicking & screaming, to do it.

251 stories in UK media referred to Russia’s “illegal invasion” of Ukraine in its first week. Only 82 stories described the US/Israeli bombing of Iran as an “illegal attack” in its first week, and many of those were just reporting comments by others. www.declassifieduk.org/they-attack-...

Look at this propaganda headline. 👇 It’s important for BBC News to emphasise the ‘total repression’ of Iranians even as the US and Israel are relentlessly bombing their country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yvette Cooper demands Iran stop its attacks in the region but makes no call on the US or Israel to cease their bombarding Iran in their illegal war of aggression. She "condemns" Hezbollah's rocket attacks on Israel but is only "worried" about Israel's attacks on Lebanon.

Over 150 London councillors and Assembly members are calling in an open letter for divestment of pensions from Israeli abuses against Palestinians. palestinecampaign.org/sign-the-cou...

The BBC's Anthony Zurcher calls it 'a war of choice'. Yes, but above all, it is a war of aggression. Also, no mention of the words 'illegal', 'crime', 'unprovoked', or 'full-scale'. 🤔 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Recall that BBC insiders have repeatedly identified Raffi Berg ‘as the figure who most keenly shapes BBC coverage in ways that have soft-soaped Israel’s crimes in Gaza.’ As one former BBC journalist said: ‘This guy’s entire job is to water down everything that’s too critical of Israel’. 👇

Two interviews by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg – one of an Iranian leader, the other of an Israeli leader – reveal the starkly different standards the two states are held to by the British media. As Media Lens show, this isn't journalism, it's propaganda: medialens.substack.com/p/how-on-ear...

This Guardian story amplifies anger at Russia's return to the Venice Biennale. You'd never know from reading it that Israel and the US are currently engaged in an illegal war of aggression on Iran. Isn't that "whitewashing war crimes" too, Guardian?

Our new media alert: ‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy medialens.substack.com/p/how-on-ear...

'Belligerents argue that attacks on oil facilities are militarily legitimate but in Tehran the civilian impact has been huge.' ceobs.org/black-rain-t...

We've been nominated in the Amnesty Media Awards 2026, for our film on the UK's Gaza spy flights. Not seen the film? -- the first on British complicity in Israel's genocide. Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fk3...

Media Lens unravel the tapestry of lies the media have helped weave over decades to justify the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran: www.medialens.org/2026/operati...

"Beirut is under assault too. The Israeli military orders hundreds of thousands of people to leave the southern suburbs" What do we call a regime that terrorises hundreds of thousands of people in a neighbouring country? A terrorist state.

The White House sent this out a few hours ago with the heading: 'JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY' Dear Keir Starmer, Is this a country you really want to have a 'special relationship' with? Nod if you're being held hostage.