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Manchester City's Abu Dhabi ownership provided investment that fuelled 'Manchesterism' and helped propel Andy Burnham into Downing Street. But at what cost?
My long story on Man City, the UAE and Manchester, for @MiddleEastEye
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Bayeux Tapestry sponsor Igor Tulchinsky is the honorary chair of the British Museum's fundraising ball this weekend. Tulchinksy is also reported to have sponsored a 'therapy yurt' in an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank middleeasteye.net/news/briti…
Igor Tulchinsky, the sponsor of the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, is also the sponsor of a 'therapy yurt' for Israeli soldiers in the illegal West Bank settlement of Efrat, which he visited last year. @DanielHiltonCFC reports middleeasteye.net/news/igor-…
Many Nepalese workers find themselves stuck in the Gulf, having lost loved ones and seen their homes and communities destroyed by the Himalayan country's devasting floods. @are_eb reports middleeasteye.net/news/i-am-…
Revealed: British Museum Bayeux Tapestry sponsor's links to Israeli defence-tech fund headed by ex-general who has promoted the use of remote-controlled military vehicles described as a 'direct tool for genocide' in Gaza w/ @DanielHiltonCFC and @nickjhunt middleeasteye.net/news/briti…
Jack Letts appeals for repatriations from Iraq in 'out of the blue' phone call to parents middleeasteye.net/news/jack-…
Exclusive: British Museum made false claims about its removal of ‘Palestine’ from displays middleeasteye.net/big-story/…
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We are being asked to accept that Keir Starmer was a principled politician who rescued Labour from oblivion before being destroyed by the media. Wrong. To understand why he fell Starmer only needs to look at the mirror. My column for Middle East Eye:
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Met's Deputy Commissioner cites use of Palantir tech by '72 NHS trusts' to argue why it was considered an appropriate supplier by the London police force even though recognised as a 'divisive' company. by @oscarrickettnow middleeasteye.net/news/sadiq…
How activists pushed the UK's largest pension megafund to divest from Israel middleeasteye.net/news/how-a…
Exclusive by @SondosAsem1 for @MiddleEastEye: Judges clear ICC’s Karim Khan over sexual misconduct claims middleeasteye.net/news/judge…
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MEE reports that after endorsing Nick Timothy's attack on British Muslims, Kemi Badenoch seems not to have sent out a message marking Eid al-Fitr. Leaders of other main parties, apart from Reform, all did so. Badenoch HAS marked Hanukkah and Diwali.
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Edward Heath sacked Powell. Kemi Badenoch defended Timothy on the basis he was defending British values. In this column for Middle East Eye I argue that last week was the defining moment for Badenoch's Tory Party as a cesspit of hatred and bigotry:
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Exclusive: Israel to keep Al-Aqsa Mosque closed through Eid al-Fitr and beyond middleeasteye.net/news/exclu…
'Suez moment': US missteps in Iran echo across East Asia to the Gulf and Europe middleeasteye.net/news/suez-…
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NEW: Great fanfare has surrounded the anti-Muslim hatred definition.
But the Labour government has also brought in sweeping new counter-extremism measures which will use an "authoritarian" definition of extremism first introduced by Michael Gove:
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This Home Office graph reveals the shocking spike in terrorism arrests in the UK since Palestine Action was banned last July. middleeasteye.net/news/uk-ho…
'Most of us don’t even know where our relatives are': Families of detainees in Syria, including Sally Lane (@CampaignforJack), fear 'extraordinary rendition' as US starts moving prisoners to Iraq. w/ @are_eb
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NEW: The UK admits for the first time a phone call between David Cameron and Karim Khan in which the then British foreign secretary is alleged to have threatened the chief prosecutor of the ICC over his investigation into Israeli war crimes in Gaza
Further to @middleeasteye's story about the cargo plane flying between the UAE, Israel, Bahrain and Ethiopia. On Thursday it returned to Abu Dhabi from Thailand and today it flew to Leipzig in Germany middleeasteye.net/news/uae-f…