Nigel Farage and Nadhim Zahawi’s social media posts reveal history of enmity | Nadhim Zahawi

The former Conservative chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has been unveiled by Nigel Farage as Reform UK’s newest heavyweight political recruit. However, critical comments that both men made about each other in the past have led to awkward questions for Zahawi and his new party leader. Zahawi on Farage “I’m not British Born Mr @Nigel_Farage I am…

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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot

They are far into the lethal zone. Three people who are being held in prison on charges connected with the protest group Palestine Action have been on hunger strike for 45, 59 and 66 days. A fourth prisoner, Teuta Hoxha, ended her strike this week, after 58 days. She could suffer lifelong health effects. The…

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Why won’t Yvette Cooper criticise Trump over Venezuela? Look no further than Ukraine | Venezuela

Anyone trying to understand why Yvette Cooper studiously avoided saying whether the UK viewed the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro as a breach of international law only needs to look to what was planned in Paris a day later. After the foreign secretary’s 90-minute humiliation in the House of Commons on Monday night, a joint statement…

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Banaz Mahmod was murdered 20 years ago; the fight for a law on ‘honour’-based abuse goes on | Domestic violence

“I’m always looking over my shoulder. I’m never going to let my guard down,” Bekhal Mahmod said. For two decades she has been in hiding, living under a new identity, away from her Iraqi-Kurdish family. In 2007 Bekhal testified in the trial of her father and uncle for the “honour”-based murder of her sister Banaz…

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