Starmer's government has set the most dangerous of precedents: it can now outlaw any political group it chooses as a terrorist organisation – and thereby make it impossible to defend it. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-how...

Starmer's government has set the most dangerous of precedents: it can now outlaw any political group it chooses as a terrorist organisation – and thereby make it impossible to defend it. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-report...

How reporting facts can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-report...

The Met is using powers it doesn't have to quash protests against Israel's genocide, say experts. When it comes to Palestinian rights, the Met appears "not to care if it is acting within the law". More here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

While we are being demonised as racists, the technology and strategies used today against Palestinians will become the walls of tomorrow’s prisons for us. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-wes...

This Australian film on Israel jailing and abusing young Palestinian children is more than 10 years old. Israel wants you thinking it treats children this way because they throw stones. No. Children throw stones because generations of Palestinians have been treated this way.

Guardian, I'll let you in on a little secret: American corporate financiers have had access to "British high society" for a century or more.

Western elites fear a 'globalised intifada' because they are its targets, not Jews. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/western-el...

Sir Mark Rowley, your primary concern is not public safety but protecting the interests of the British establishment. And it has decreed that no opposition to Israel’s genocide will be tolerated. Matthew Alford reads my open letter to the Met Police chief: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-ope...

My open letter to the Met police chief: Let me tell you what 'Globalise the intifada' actually means. jonathancook.substack.com/p/open-lette...

The Bondi Beach attack: How western allies are enabling Netanyahu's grotesque logic. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bond...

The lobby is milking the Bondi Beach attack to silence critics of Israel's genocide. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-lobby-...

Important not to let leaders like Albanese and Starmer blind us to the fact that it's not just a couple of Islamic State-affiliated gunmen "driven by extremist ideology". It's also a western political and media class that have been readily colluding in Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Imagine a dystopian future where corporations run the politicians, promote endless war and covertly manipulate public opinion through the media. Thankfully, that could never happen here. Could it? Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-don...

A world where corporations run the politicians, promote endless war and secretly manipulate public opinion through the media. Fortunately, these bleak visions never came to pass. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/dont-worry...

The band Primal Scream had the audacity to tell its audience that the British government is complicit in genocide. They have been reported to the police for doing so, and the UK media is once again baying for blood. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-its...

It's antisemitic to call out Israel's genocide, says the Guardian. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/its-antise...

Is permanent discontent the human condition? David Edwards on a simple way to free our minds from a nagging need for more: medialens.substack.com/p/the-magic-...

Airwars' latest investigation shows how Israel's "human animals" policy in Gaza was enforced at bogus "aid" sites, where Israeli soldiers shot dead 1,300 Palestinians and injured many thousands more. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=drm5...

The media have all but ignored two important books by renowned investigative journalists that expose the political and financial corruption surrounding Starmer. Why? In part, because both reveal how the media colluded in Starmer's rise. More here: medialens.substack.com/p/blanked-a-...

The biggest con trick Israel has pulled off over the past two years is imposing entirely phoney parameters on a “debate” in the West about the credibility of Gaza's death toll, now officially standing at just over 70,000. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-isr...

Israel has penned us all into a 'debate', one entirely divorced from reality, that relates only to those killed directly by its bombs and gunfire – not the genocide it is waging by other means. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/israels-bi...

Don't wait for the BBC or Ch4 to report on the legal and human rights abuses of the Filton 24 – political prisoners jailed for trying to stop a genocide. We must rely on independent film-makers to tell their story. Please help here if you can: chuffed.org/project/oper...

The trial of six peace activists is proving just how determined the UK state is to hollow out the public’s civil, political and legal rights to justify its continuing support for Israel’s slaughter of Gaza’s children. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-has...

Has the British public been tricked about what the Filton trial videos really show? Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/has-the-br...

A story of a 1930s uprising against British colonialism is key to understanding Gaza today. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/pale...

Matthew Alford reads my latest on the media’s smothering of a story that should be on front pages: the first major hunger-strike in the UK by political prisoners since the IRA’s in the early 1980s. jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...

Hunger strikes by Palestinian political prisoners held illegally in Israeli jails receive more coverage from the Israeli press than the British media are giving to a weeks-long hunger strike by the political prisoners of Palestine Action. Read my latest here: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-12...

Six political prisoners who targeted factories arming Israel's genocide are weeks into a hunger strike. But in contrast to the IRA's 1980s hunger strike, this one is being blanked by the media. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-hunger...

John McEnroe, Tiger Woods, Ronnie O'Sullivan reached the very top of their sports. All admit that, after a brief celebration, their victories faded into irrelevance. David Edwards on the insatiability of the mind's hunger for recognition: medialens.substack.com/p/the-magic-...

Ousting the review judge in the appeal against Palestine Action's proscription, and replacing him with three new judges, is a desperate attempt to create a veneer of judicial authority in support of the actions of Starmer's outlaw government. My latest: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...

Israeli group B’Tselem notes that, since a supposed “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel has: * killed 345 Palestinians, * denied food to 70% of the population who need it, * demolished a further 1,500 buildings. All of this is in blatant violation of the agreement.

The people powerful enough to make heads roll at the BBC are also telling us the BBC is anti-Israel. It isn't. It's vigorously anti-Palestinian, as film-maker Richard Sanders explains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROB...

Starmer's government redefines "terrorism" to include for the first time civil disobedience and protest. Then it declares it's scrapping the ancient right to trial by jury (because juries too often acquit protesters). In a rigged justice system, injustice is assured.

Review judge pulled from Palestine Action hearing at last hour, in patent stitch-up. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/review-jud...

Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza, backed by the Security Council, is the international order’s equivalent of putting a convicted serial child abuser in charge of a primary school. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...

The new US rulers of Gaza theme each day to accord with a disaster facing its people: "Wellness Wednesdays" tackle Israel’s eradication of hospitals and schools, while "Thirsty Thursdays" concern Israel’s destruction of water supplies. Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realised – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell. Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...

Matthew Alford arrives in Moscow to find himself the only visible westerner. A local explains: "Russia is not a fortress. This time it is Europe that is drawing the Iron Curtain." More here: drmattalford.substack.com/p/the-last-e...

As ex-UK ambassador Craig Murray notes, the British government is self-evidently lying about a Russian ship being in "UK waters", and shining lasers into pilots' eyes. Why is every media outlet's defence correspondent echoing these lies? Answers here: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...

Genocide can take many forms. Leaving people to slowly die from exposure to flooding and cold, denied adequate food to sustain body heat, is just another way for Israel to kill more Palestinians.

With the rate of the genocide in Gaza slightly reduced, Germany announces it feels able to start restocking Israel with the weapons it will need when it returns to committing genocide with full force.

A new report by Israel's Physicians for Human Rights documents savage conditions of detention in Israel known to have killed 98 Palestinians over the past two years. However, the group believes Israel is concealing many more deaths. More here: www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...

A Swiss investigation reveals that an official with ties to an Israeli firm invested in the military and intelligence sectors was behind the decision to have journalist Ali Abunimah arrested and expelled – to stop a speaking tour about the Gaza genocide. electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...

The West's failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this. I know because for 20 years I suffered firsthand the same editorial pressures now faced by my colleagues. Matthew Alford reads my latest article: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bre...

The western media’s failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this. After years of personal experience reporting from the region, I explain why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...

The western media's failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this. Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine: jonathancook.substack.com/p/breaking-f...

Britain's ministry of defence has made 49 visits to Israel in the first 20 months of Israel's genocide in Gaza – 37 of those visits were in secret. More from Declassified UK: www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...

BBC presenters shared Israeli perspectives on Gaza 2,340 times, compared to Palestinian perspectives 217 times. Media Lens: “This appalling revelation was apparently not a resigning matter for senior BBC figures.” Read their latest here: medialens.substack.com/p/inversion-...

The BBC is now in a death loop: it grows ever more craven to the billionaires, shifting the political centre of gravity further rightwards, even as the billionaire-owned media claim it's too 'left wing'. Matthew Alford reads my latest article: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bbc...