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Andy Burnham presents his new government as more leftwing. In reality, it’s barely moved at all | Owen Jones
By Owen Jones

The prime minister talks the talk about reversing decades of privatisation and austerity, but we’re yet to see any policies to this end

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/andy-burnham-more-leftwing-keir-starmer

#AndyBurnham #Labour #Politics #UKnews #TheGuardian #OwenJones

Andy Burnham presents his new government as more leftwing. In reality, it’s barely moved at all | Owen Jones
By Owen Jones

The prime minister talks the talk about reversing decades of privatisation and austerity, but we’re yet to see any policies to this end

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/andy-burnham-more-leftwing-keir-starmer

#AndyBurnham #Labour #Politics #UKnews #TheGuardian #OwenJones

Andy Burnham presents his new government as more leftwing. In reality, it’s barely moved at all | Owen Jones
By Owen Jones

The prime minister talks the talk about reversing decades of privatisation and austerity, but we’re yet to see any policies to this end

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/andy-burnham-more-leftwing-keir-starmer

#AndyBurnham #Labour #Politics #UKnews #TheGuardian #OwenJones

BBC editor's #libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here's why

Good coverage of the state of an important #pressFreedom case
#hasbara #AIPAC #censorship #statePropaganda #journalism #zionismIsWhiteSupremacy #islamaphobia #imperialism #stateMedia #antiWar #owenJones #owenBennettJones #palestineAction

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/bbc-editors-libel-case-against-owen

> Raffi Berg may be fighting for damages, but it's really the #BBC in the dock – for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in doubt

According to often cited claims, Hamas alone had around 30,000 militants at the start of Oct 2023, representing approximately 1.3% Gaza's population.

So if you took a random sample of 5,000 people in #Gaza at that point, you would have picked more #Hamas militants than the Israeli military managed to target in hundreds and hundreds of airstrikes.

The #Airwars report includes a detailed explanation of their methodology and links to their full dataset, and is available for free here: https://gaza-patterns-harm.airwars.org/.

The report has been usefully summarised by UK journalist #OwenJones in this 9 minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrhGKDpH0vA.