Did Epstein Help Bring Down Theresa May for the Right? Did Epstein try to bring down a Prime Minister? Plus: Manchester United mogul Jim Ratcliffe called to apologise for saying the UK is ‘colonised by immigrants’. With NoJusticeMTG, Dalia Gebrial & Alfie Potts Harmer. https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/12/did-epstein-help-bring-down-theresa-may-for-the-right/

Activists Block Entry to Kent Arms Factory Making Drone Tech for Israel A crowd of around 150 people blocked the entrances to a Kent weapons factory that supplies drone technology for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, preventing staff and trucks from entering the facility for several hours on Thursday morning. The protest was planned by [Arms Embargo From Below][1], a new organisation that describes itself as “a group of ordinary people who want to keep civilians safe from Israeli weapons”. Protesters arrived at 7am and formed “a dense picket line of people at both gates”, a spokesperson for the group told Novara Media. “No trucks or workers have been able to get inside, putting it out of commission.” The Instro Precision factory near Sandwich “makes equipment that powers lethal drone strikes in Palestine,” the group said in a statement. “Israel has killed at least 20,000 children in the Gaza Strip in the last two years,” it added. “Drone strikes are at the heart of this violence.” Instro Precision builds imaging and targeting technology used in Israel’s Hermes 900 drone, the group said. “Israel continues to kill civilians, including children, in Lebanon and Syria and is attempting to illegally annex the West Bank,” it added. “The UK government has increased its arms trade with Israel throughout this, and it is about to lift its limited ban on trading arms with Israel.” [1]: https://www.instagram.com/aefrombelow https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/12/activists-block-entry-to-kent-arms-factory-making-drone-tech-for-israel/

Arsenal Employee Sacked After Criticising Israel Calls for Review of His Case A former kit manager for Arsenal who was fired after publishing social media posts criticising Israel has called for an independent review of his treatment. Mark Bonnick, 62, who worked at the club for 22 years before his sacking on Christmas Eve 2024, is suing the club for unfair dismissal and discrimination. Arsenal suspended Bonnick, then dismissed him, in December 2024 following media coverage of exchanges he had with pro-Israel X users, one of whom accused him of being a “neo-Nazi antisemite”. “I get a phone call from the operations manager telling me I’m suspended, and I’m sure he says I’m suspended for antisemitism,” Bonnick told the leftwing media outlet Raw Politik. Arsenal has denied that it suspended Bonnick for antisemitism, instead claiming it was because he brought the club “into disrepute”. Bonnick maintains that the club discriminated against him due to his anti-Zionist beliefs. “Israel is an apartheid state,” he [told Novara Media][1] last year. “I was sacked not for misconduct, but for expressing grief and outrage over genocide.” In the recent interview with Raw Politik, Bonnick said Arsenal’s leadership should “revisit the case” and “ask for an independent review”. Among the posts Bonnick published ahead of his dismissal was one that said: “Hamas offered to release all hostages in October. Zionist Israel refused. Persecution complex.” Another said: “It is all about Jewish supremacy & not wanting to share the land Ethnic cleansing.” Another read: “Why should they be protected anymore than any other community? Some see this as the problem Jewish communities thinking they should be put before others.” Israel has killed, at a conservative estimate, 72,000 people in Gaza since October 2023, including almost 600 since a so-called ceasefire began in October last year. The European Legal Support Centre, which assists people being targeted over their support for Palestine, is helping Bonner with his case, which is expected to go to mediation in June. “As Palestinian athletes are killed and stadiums destroyed, Arsenal punishes staff for opposing apartheid. You can’t claim neutrality while silencing dissent,” Tasnima Uddin, an advocacy officer for the centre, told Novara Media last year. [1]: https://novaramedia.com/2025/05/16/arsenal-sued-for-unfair-dismissal-of-employee-who-supported-palestine/ https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/12/arsenal-employee-sacked-after-criticising-israel-calls-for-review-of-his-case/

Labour Aren’t Incompetent – They’re Doing Exactly What They’re Paid to Do Green party leader Zack Polanski joins Aaron Bastani to discuss the Gorton and Denton byelection – and why he believes the Greens are going to win. https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/12/labour-arent-incompetent-theyre-doing-exactly-what-theyre-paid-to-do/

Over 2,000 Brits Have Served in IDF During Gaza Genocide More than 2,000 British nationals have served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) amid its genocide in Gaza, new figures revealed by Declassified UK show. The numbers, obtained by a freedom of information request to the IDF, include 1,686 British Israelis and a further 383 people with a third passport. Previously, the only public figures were for 54 Britons without Israeli citizenship. “The UK has clear duties to prevent genocide and avoid assisting unlawful military action,” Paul Heron, a lawyer with the Public Interest Law Centre, [told Declassifed][1]. “Where dual nationals have served in units implicated in atrocities, the authorities must investigate promptly and, where the evidence meets the threshold, pursue arrest and prosecution like any other serious crime,” said Heron. Novara Media [reported in January 2024][2] that dual British-Israeli citizen Levi Simon had received a hero’s welcome from a UK charity after returning from military service in Gaza, where he filmed himself rifling through women’s underwear drawers. There are over 50,000 IDF soldiers who have at least one other nationality, with the largest cohorts also holding US, Russian, Ukrainian, French and German citizenship. In April last year, the Metropolitan police said it was deciding whether to take action after lawyers, including Heron, submitted a dossier accusing 10 Britons of war crimes in Gaza. The 240-page report accused the suspects of “targeted killing of civilians and aid workers, including by sniper fire, and indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas”. [1]: https://www.declassifieduk.org/over-2000-britons-served-for-israel-amid-gaza-genocide/ [2]: https://novaramedia.com/2024/01/17/uk-charity-honours-idf-soldier-who-rummaged-through-gazan-womens-underwear/ https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/12/over-2000-brits-have-served-in-idf-during-gaza-genocide/

Starmer Under Fire for Elevating SECOND Paedophile Apologist Starmer called into question AGAIN Plus: Anthropic safety lead offers a chilling warning, and ‘Prince’ Andrew’s Ex In CARCRASH Interview. With Michael Walker & Aaron Bastani https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/11/starmer-under-fire-for-elevating-second-paedophile-apologist/

Israeli Volunteers Would Execute Palestinians by Hanging Under New Bill Israel’s prison authorities have begun preparations for executing Palestinians under a proposed law condemned by Amnesty International and UN experts. The preparations include the construction of a “green mile” facility to carry out the hangings, with groups of three volunteer executioners simultaneously pressing a trigger, Israel’s Channel 13 reported. Two prison rights groups described the death penalty bill as an “unprecedented act of savagery”. Meanwhile, eight UN experts last week called on Israel to withdraw the bill, which mandates executions within 90 days of a guilty verdict. The bill, which must pass two more readings in the Israeli Knesset to become law, introduces two tracks for the death penalty. In the illegally occupied West Bank, Israeli military courts would impose the death penalty for “terrorist” acts that cause someone’s death, even if it was unintentional; while in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem, the death penalty would apply under Israeli criminal law, and only for the “intentional killing of Israeli citizens or residents”. Only Palestinians will be executed, while Israelis convicted of similar offences will face prison sentences. If passed, the Israeli government intends first to target the law at the elite Hamas military unit that conducted the 7 October 2023 attacks. Palestinians in Israeli detention camps are subject to systemic torture, including rape, genital mutilation, sleep deprivation, electrocution and beatings. Many are held without charge, while those who are charged are routinely denied fair trials: the conviction rate of Palestinians in Israel’s military courts is over 99%. The expansion of Israel’s death penalty laws is a long-held dream of several members of its cabinet, notably national security minister and far-right settler Itamar Ben-Gvir. The country has never formally abolished capital punishment, though it has only ever meted it out twice: once in 1948, when it executed army officer Meir Tobianski for espionage; and once in 1962, when it hanged Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann. https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/11/israeli-volunteers-would-execute-palestinians-by-hanging-under-new-bill/

Trump Isn’t Destroying the International Order. He’s Just Turning It on the West [A red-faced man wearing a crucifix is held to the ground by a police officer] Just one year into Donald Trump’s second presidency, and commentators from across the western world are falling over themselves to pen [tearful obituaries][1] to the liberal international order, as if we weren’t also two years into a genocide that order has gleefully enabled. Following Trump’s imposition of scattergun protectionist tariffs, nakedly imperialistic intervention in South America and now empowerment of lawless immigration enforcement, maybe even to a European fellow Nato member, the chances of the international community surviving another three years seemed slim – until one heroic politician gave him a stern talking-to. When, last month, Canadian prime minister and former Bank of England governor Mark Carney took the stage at Glastonbury for tax avoiders, otherwise known as Davos, and delivered a rousing speech taking aim at Trump and the right-wing populism he represents, it seemed like the liberal international order had finally found its champion. In the face of mounting rivalry between China and the US, Carney [called for][2] the spectating western liberal democracies to “act together, because if we’re not at the table, we are on the menu”. Switching seamlessly from French to English, Carney has been characterised as [the “anti-Trump”][3]. The former bank chief is sophisticated where Trump, a former reality TV show host, is bombastic; he is stable where Trump is volatile. However, this framing of Carney as a defender of liberal internationalism relies on a particular historical myth: that the liberal international order was one of civility and mutual respect, where rules and the respect for them governed international relations. Liberals often point to the postwar decades as evidence that the rules-based order once worked. This period is remembered as the era of the Keynesian welfare state: progressive taxation, expanding welfare states and transnational institutions of governance produced rising living standards across the north Atlantic. However, this nostalgic picture of the 20th century collapses under scrutiny. For countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America, the postwar rules-based order justified violence, extraction and intervention for them, so civilisation, development and stability could be enshrined elsewhere. “The west saw itself as a spiritual adventure,” wrote Martiniquan psychoanalyst turned postcolonial revolutionary Frantz Fanon. “It is in the name of the spirit … that she has justified her crimes and legitimised the slavery in which she holds four-fifths of humanity.” The mythology of the international order masked the cruelty of its lived experience in many parts of the globe. From Fanon to Walter Rodney, Kwame Nkrumah to Michael Manley, leaders across the global south have demonstrated how international legal norms systematically reproduce economic dependency and justify intervention in countries that are ostensibly sovereign. For most of the 20th century, if you were based in somewhere like the Caribbean or in the Horn of Africa, the offer of international institutions to “liberalise” your country was one of the most violent threats you could imagine receiving. Seen in this light, the liberal international order was never simply a peace project. It was a global management system designed to stabilise capitalism and geopolitical power while displacing the costs of that stability onto racialised and colonised populations. From structural adjustment programs to humanitarian interventions, the grand narratives of liberal international law repeatedly functioned as a moral alibi for horrific levels of economic and military violence. To be fair to Carney, he has recognised the hypocritical way in which the liberal international order has operated over the past few decades. “We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false,” he admitted at Davos, “that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.” Unilateral military intervention, asymmetrical trade rules, setting lawless state agents on peaceful protesters – all of this may be new to westerners, but for many in the global south, it’s business as usual. What liberals experience as collapse is, for others, the loosening of a system that has consistently privileged western life, capital, and security over all others. The far right may attack liberal institutions crudely and opportunistically, but it does not invent the violence of the system it disrupts – it merely exposes it. So, in these turbulent times, is the answer to follow Carney in search of a new non-aligned liberal internationalism where middle powers in Europe and North America act as guardians of a smaller, more manageable version of the international community? And what about those countries in the global south? Should they join the abandoned west in mourning a liberal internationalism that, for them, only ever delivered misery? If there is to be a future internationalism worth defending, it cannot begin from the anxieties of institutions or the fears of elites but must begin from the perspective of those most routinely exposed to abandonment, those on the frontlines of global economic, political and climate crises. How do we build an internationalism that draws from the dreams of what was once positively known as third-worldism, rather than from a liberal internationalism built on dispossession and exclusion? Rather than free-marketism, multilateralism and economic growth being the foundations of the international arena, debt relief, reparative redistribution, ecological responsibility and political self-determination would be the building blocks of a world that does not reproduce catastrophe as normality. Of late, hope in the potential of international community has come not from the West but from flickers of south-south solidarity. See [South Africa filing a case][4] against Israel at the international court of justice, alleging that Israel’s actions in Gaza violate the 1948 genocide convention; or the [Bridgetown initiative][5] led by Mia Mottley of Barbados, which seeks to to reform the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to make them more responsive to the needs of developing nations facing climate and debt crises. To look beyond Carney’s much-celebrated call for the un-Americanised west to embrace institutional self-defence would require those who want more from the future to engage in a radical reorientation of our political imagination. And the resources that could illuminate how we might imagine this future might actually come from the corners of the globe that were, for so long, sacrificed in the service of the spiritual adventure that was the west. [1]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/09/liberal-international-order-death-trump-greenland/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921 [2]: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/davos-2026-special-address-by-mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada/ [3]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80y3m249z3o [4]: https://novaramedia.com/2024/01/11/south-africas-case-against-israels-genocide-begins/ [5]: https://www.stimson.org/2025/the-bridgetown-initiative-at-cop30/ https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/11/trump-isnt-destroying-the-international-order-hes-just-turning-it-on-the-west/

Israel Has Evaporated Thousands of Palestinians With US-Made Bombs US-made bombs dropped by Israel on Gaza have evaporated the bodies of at least 2,842 Palestinians, leaving no trace of the victims besides small amounts of blood, flesh and bone, an Al Jazeera investigation has found. Experts and witnesses told the outlet the phenomenon was caused by internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, supplied by the US, that burn at 3,500C. Gaza’s civil defence said it tallied the number of deaths from these bombs via a forensic process. “We enter a targeted home and cross-reference the known number of occupants with the bodies recovered,” spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said. “If a family tells us there were five people inside, and we only recover three intact bodies, we treat the remaining two as ‘evaporated’ only after an exhaustive search yields nothing but biological traces – blood spray on walls or small fragments like scalps,” he added. Al Jazeera identified several US-made bombs used in Gaza since October 2023 that are linked to the evaporation of victims’ bodies. They include the MK-84 Hammer, a 900kg unguided munition that generates heat up to 3,500C; and the BLU-109 bunker buster, which was used in a September 2024 attack that evaporated 22 people, the outlet reported. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed over 72,000 people and wounded over 170,000. A January 2025 study in the Lancet medical journal found that the death toll in Gaza had been underestimated by 41%. Israel has killed 586 Gazans since a so-called ceasefire took effect in October last year. The US sends over $3.8bn (£2.8bn) worth of weapons and military assistance to Israel each year. https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/11/israel-has-evaporated-thousands-of-palestinians-with-us-made-bombs/

Wounded Starmer Survives After Begging MPs’ Forgiveness The pressure continues to heap on Keir Starmer Plus: Wes Streeting reveals Mandelson Messages, an interview with Richard Sanders on Virginia Giuffre and the Epstein files, and Royal Biographer claims Epstein filmed a threesome with ex-PM & Ghislaine Maxwell With Aaron Bastani & Kieran Andrieu https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/10/wounded-starmer-survives-after-begging-mps-forgiveness/