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Meltdown in the Oval Office!

by our Eastern European affairs correspondent

European leaders are set to meet in London to prop up the Zelensky regime and prolong the proxy war against Russia following the collapse of talks between the Americans and Ukraine in Washington this week.

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Starmer stiffs aid for guns

by New Worker correspondent

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says he’s going to increase military spending and it’s going to be funded by cuts in the foreign aid budget. Announcing the “biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War” Starmer said the arms budget is to rise to 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) within two years, an increase of more than £13 billion per year from the present figure of 2.3 per cent, and remain at that level until the end of this parliament. The Labour government will then aim to spend a full three per cent of GDP on war in the next parliament, a further rise of more than £30 billion per year.

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Editorial

The cowardly, craven BBC

Hundreds of film, TV and media professionals have condemned censorship and racism after the BBC removed a documentary about the children of Gaza. In a letter to BBC executives, they criticised the decision as “racist” and “de-humanising”, blaming pressure from pro-Israel groups. Billed as “following the lives of four young people trying to survive the Israel-Hamas war as they hope for a ceasefire – a vivid and unflinching view of life in a warzone”, the documentary has now been pulled by the BBC.

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