Peter Oborne
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3 days ago |
middleeasteye.net | Marco Carnelos |Peter Oborne |Taqadum al-Khatib
The Egyptian news website Mada Masr recently reported that Saudi Arabia was pushing to establish a US military base on the islands of Tiran and Sanafir, reigniting one of the most dangerous files in Egypt’s abandonment of its sovereignty. While the Egyptian regime issued unofficial denials via its media mouthpieces, the government has not formally responded.
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1 week ago |
londonfreelance.org | Peter Oborne
“PENNIE, we last met,” Peter Oborne remembered to the May Branch meeting, “at Shireen’s memorial service a St Bride’s, which you laid on. Don McIntyre was there and Duncan Campbell, the [late] Guardian crime reporter. They were the only two representatives of the mainstream press: I did a careful head-count. There was nobody from the BBC. Nobody from CNN, nobody from Sky.
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3 weeks ago |
middleeasteye.net | Peter Oborne
One of the Labour Party's most senior Black MPs has strongly criticised UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's immigration rhetoric, warning it could incite civil unrest and repeat the injustices of the Windrush scandal. Earlier this week, Starmer caused consternation among several MPs when he said the UK risked becoming "an island of strangers" during a speech unveiling major immigration reforms in a newly published White Paper.
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3 weeks ago |
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Peter Oborne
On Tuesday, staff at the British Museum were reportedly told there would be a "large corporate event" that evening. They said they were asked to leave work early. That evening, British ministers and prominent politicians were seen arriving at the country's largest museum. So was Jimmy Carr, one of Britain's most prominent television personalities. The event, which had not been advertised, was no corporate affair.
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3 weeks ago |
middleeasteye.net | Peter Oborne
It’s been almost a year since British Prime Minister Keir Starmer led the Labour Party to one of the largest landslide victories in modern history. The reason for the triumph is easy to comprehend. Britain had endured 14 years of degradation and despair under a series of incompetent and corrupt Conservative governments. The British people hoped that Starmer’s Labour would restore decency, honesty, administrative capability and national pride. This has not happened.
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Now that Starmer has joined Badenoch and Farage in the battle for a relatively small group of racist voters a vast space has opened up for a party ready to make the case for honesty, decency and humanity in public life. My column for Middle East Eye: https://t.co/CS3AcXhJp4
