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I am shocked at how shocked I am. Why are we so unprepared when the inevitable comes to pass?Round at my mate's house, one Saturday morning when I was 17 years old, something astounding appeared on his television. This was 3November 1984. I know this for sure because I just looked it up. It was the day Indira Gandhi was cremated. Laid out on a sandalwood pyre, her head clearly visible, her body - her actual body - was in plain sight as her son lit the pyre to see his mother, in the words of most newspaper reports, consigned to flames.I was aghast, horrified. But my friend's dad said a thing that made me think again. It went something like this: No, I think it's very healthy. Death's too hidden away in our society. I was in my 40s before I saw a dead body, and it was my father's. What preparation did I have for that?" These words stuck fast in my mind.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Questionable timing and spelling didn't help Derek Myers from finishing dead last in a field of 11 for a House Republican primaryA Republican candidate for the House of Representatives raised eyebrows after he sent out an email conceding the election - before the polls had closed.Derek Myers, a Donald Trump devotee who was running in Ohio's second district, sent an email lamenting his loss at 3.19pm on Tuesday. Polls were not due to close in Ohio until 7.30pm. Continue reading...

Scott McAfee ruled Fulton county district attorney could continue prosecution of ex-president despite relationship with deputyThe judge overseeing the election interference criminal case against Donald Trump and others in Georgia on Wednesday ruled that the defendants can appeal the decision to allow the prosecutor Fani Willis to remain on the case despite a past romantic relationship with her deputy.Last Friday the judge, Scott McAfee, ruled that Willis, the Fulton county district attorney, could continue to head the prosecution of Trump for trying to undermine the 2020 presidential election in the state, as long as the top deputy agreed to step down. Continue reading...

State law that would allow local officers to arrest migrants halted hours after US supreme court allowed it

An emotional Caroline Wozniacki expressed her support for Aryna Sabalenka after the Belarusian tennis player's boyfriend Konstantin Koltsov died in Miami, ahead of Sabalenka's first match in the Miami Open. The former world No 1 said the situation was 'heartbreaking', wiping away tears at the press conference. Sabalenka was pictured on social media practising a day after 42-year-old former ice hockey player Koltsov died in Miami in what police described as an 'apparent suicide'

This year's women's NCAA Tournament is more anticipated than the men's. It's a wonder it took people so long to come aroundWhen South Carolina led LSU late in the fourth quarter of this month's Southeastern Conference Tournament championship game, they looked poised to salt the game away. Then a fight broke out between the two teams that cleared the benches and sucked in a player's brother from the crowd. The game was delayed for 20 minutes while officials sorted out the punishment (the family member was arrested.) Ultimately, South Carolina held on to win the tournament, remain undefeated for the season and claim the top overall seed in the NCAA tournament, where this year the women are the main event.After decades of dribbling in the shadow of men's college basketball, the women's game has seized the spotlight. It's where the stars are, where the rivalries are, where the fights are, where the eyeballs are. The South Carolina-LSU game drew almost two million viewers, making it ESPN's most-watched women's basketball game outside the NCAA tournament in 10 years. When the two teams played in January, more people watched them than an NBA matchup between the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat playing at the same time. The numbers for last weekend's Big Ten championship game between Iowa and Nebraska were even larger: the contest drew more than three million viewers on the way to becoming CBS's most watched women's college basketball game in 25 years. Continue reading...

Kanaan VyShonne Barton says he's following all other school rules but shouldn't have to cut his hair: My locs represent strength'A Black student at a Mormon university in Hawaii said he has been told by staff to cut his shoulder-length hair because it does not adhere to school policies, he said.Kanaan VyShonne Barton, a student at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, told the Salt Lake Tribune he has been engaged in a battle with the school since September over the length of his hair, which he has refused to cut. Continue reading...

SB4 law allowing state authorities to arrest people suspected of entering the US illegally has encountered a new roadblock. Plus: young people becoming less happy Don't already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning.Hours after the supreme court ruled to allow a strict new Texas immigration law, known as SB4, to take effect, a federal appeals court issued an order that prevented the state from enforcing it.What did the supreme court decide? The supreme court didn't address whether the law is constitutional and sent the measure to the appeals court. However, the panel did reject an emergency application from the Biden administration, which says the law is a clear violation of federal authority that would cause chaos.In a dissent, the liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson said their rightwing colleagues had invited further chaos and crisis in immigration enforcement" by giving a green light to a law that will upend the longstanding federal-state balance of power and sow chaos".How did the White House react to the supreme court ruling? The White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said: SB4 will not only make communities in Texas less safe, it will also burden law enforcement and sow chaos and confusion at our southern border." Continue reading...

Supreme court had earlier allowed strict law to take effect, letting state police arrest those suspected of crossing border illegally

Wannabe business moguls suggest we should all outsource our work to countries where cheap labour is easily available. Sound familiar?Did you miss out on getting rich quick via bitcoin? Don't worry: TikTok's legions of personal finance influencers have you covered with a cunning new moneymaking scheme called the Young Indian Method (Yim). The viral idea is this: you set up a business doing a service such as video editing or graphic design, but outsource all the work to India or somewhere else you can find cheap labour. Then you rake in massive profits off the back of exploited workers. Genius!Now, before you dust off your pitchfork, I should note that it's not clear whether every Yim evangelist is entirely serious. It seems that the concept was coined by an influencer as a joke - a satirical take on the way some American startup bros openly boast about how they maximise their profits by paying overseas workers as little as possible. And, obviously, it's hardly just startup bros making a buck by exploiting cheap labour. That's sort of the basis of capitalism. Continue reading...

All five finalists at the last Leeds piano competition were male - a far from unique competition scenario. Now, the event's CEO explains how they are dismantling barriers for female musiciansJust over a month ago a hard-hitting report about misogyny in music was published by the UK parliamentary women and equalities committee. The report contained personal accounts that showed not only that inequality is still pervasive in the world of classical music, but that women are enduring an unacceptable level of sexual abuse and harassment, often being silenced with non-disclosure agreements to protect those in power.Like so many of my colleagues, at first I did not recognise this version of our beloved profession, which after all, is going through a difficult enough time. But recently I was challenged after presenting our own research - an interviewer said: It clearly is sexism - how can you call it anything else?" And when you see the scale of the problem, it's hard to find another explanation. Continue reading...

These threats don't just seek to intimidate leftwing politicians, it makes them seem a risk to voters, tooIn Britain and other supposedly calm democracies, the ascent of leftwing politicians can arouse unusual fears of violence. Many conservatives and centrists associate the left with mobs, intimidation and revolutionary struggle. For some on the right, leftwing politics of any sort is a kind of violence, with the upsetting of the traditional order that it promises.Such fears are not always groundless. But more often they are exaggerated, sometimes deliberately, in order to smear the left as fanatical and dangerous. In reality, the left always contains plenty of pacifists and other principled opponents of the use of force - life's herbivores", as the writer Michael Frayn called them in a perceptive 1963 essay.Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Marianne Mair' Smyth scammed a television producer of $100,000 and will now face charges for swindling others in the UKA US-born woman who feigned being the heiress to a $30m fortune while scamming nearly $100,000 from a television producer who later sent her to prison and exposed her on a popular podcast has again been arrested, this time in connection with a raft of fraud charges in the UK.Marianne Mair" Smyth is awaiting extradition to Belfast, Northern Ireland, on charges that she bilked multiple people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars while she lived there between 2002 and 2009. Continue reading...

Doctors who have returned from volunteering at besieged hospitals to tell officials aid is meaningless without a ceasefireA delegation of American and British doctors is in Washington DC to tell the Biden administration the Israeli military is systematically destroying Gaza's health infrastructure in order to drive Palestinians out of their homes.The doctors, who have recently returned from volunteering at Gaza's besieged hospitals, are expected to meet White House officials and senior members of Congress this week to warn that pledges of increased aid to Palestinians under bombardment are largely meaningless without an immediate ceasefire to allow safe distribution of food and the revival of healthcare services. Continue reading...

A month-by-month look at Trump's evolving language as he attempts to assert it's Biden who will endanger the nation - and not himOn the cusp of the election year, Donald Trump made a decision: knowing Joe Biden would structure his campaign around the threat Trump poses to US democracy, Trump would use the same line back at Biden.It was an unlikely bet, given that Trump is facing 88 criminal charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. But Trump started laying out that message last summer, sprinkling into his speeches the idea that the US president was grossly incompetent" and that such incompetence posed a threat to democracy. As charges rolled in against the former president, none of them lodged by Biden himself, he added the claim that Biden was also using his power to shut down his opponent, threatening democracy by engaging in election interference".In a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump calls on the audience to complete the job" by sending him back to the White House so he can reclaim our democracy". Continue reading...

Jesse Marsch and Bob Bradley faced scepticism from many in the Premier League. But the antipathy wasn't wholly deservedJesse Marsch had a point to make. He made it rather well and at length. Given a chance to be a pundit on Sky Sports' flagship Monday Night Football last month, the Wisconsinite zoomed around the studio's touchpad with the same zest he would expect of high-pressing players. His casual garb of stonewashed jeans and shiny white sneakers did not deflect from the fact that this was a presentation aimed at future employers, club owners; MNF has become a regular vehicle for unemployed managers to announce they are ready to work again.I love the Premier League and I love the power of what the league means globally, but honestly the true answer is I want to find like-minded people that are committed to developing people, relationships and building something," he said. If Jamie Carragher occasionally harrumphed through the 45-minute coaching masterclass, little doubt was left that Marsch is detailed and has an authentic grasp on modern football. Continue reading...

After witnessing the deadly attack, I struggled with daily life and lost my passion for running. At the Frankfurt marathon, six months later, the emotional toll caught up with meIt was late 2013, six months after I had run the Boston marathon - the year two men detonated two bombs near the finish line, killing three people and injuring hundreds. Back in Germany, my home country, I had been struggling with my mental health for months, but I was determined to complete another marathon and maybe make it back to Boston. I had signed up for that month's Frankfurt marathon, but told nobody except Christina, mytherapist.I went to the starting line only acouple of minutes before the racestarted. For the first half or so, I felt good. The sun was shining. Mymind was empty and I was running faster than ever. Then I felta breakdown coming on. I could no longer run. I walked the rest of the way, crying. People kept stopping to ask if I needed help, or to comfort me. I knew their intentions were good, but I felt as ifI was in a different world. All Icould think was: why am I here, running, when others were killed and many more had been injured and could never run again? Continue reading...

In interview with Nigel Farage, Trump says I hear he's not the brightest bulb' when asked about RuddDonald Trump has taken a swipe at the former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd, calling him nasty" and claiming he won't be there long" as Australian ambassador to the United States.But the Australian foreign minister, Penny Wong, said the government would retain Rudd as American ambassador if Trump won November's presidential election, backing him as doing an excellent job". Anthony Albanese, who appointed Rudd as ambassador, accused the Coalition opposition of a cheap shot" attack over the comments, as the Liberal leader, Peter Dutton, said the government now needed to repair" the US relationship. Continue reading...

Nikki Haley gains votes despite dropping out of Republican race as Trump-backed candidate wins Ohio Republican Senate primaryDonald Trump and Joe Biden swept up more delegates in Tuesday's primary elections as they set their sights on a rematch in November.Trump and Biden picked up wins in Arizona, Illinois, Kansas and Ohio. Trump also won the Republican primary in Florida, where the Democrats are not holding a primary.Biden v Trump: What's in store for the US and the world?

Retired generals Mark Milley and Frank McKenzie, who oversaw evacuation of Afghanistan, said it was poorly plannedThe top two US generals who oversaw the evacuation of Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban in August 2021 blamed the Biden administration for the chaotic departure, telling lawmakers on Tuesday that it inadequately planned for the evacuation and did not order it in time.The rare testimony by the two retired generals publicly exposed for the first time the strain and differences the military leaders had with the Biden administration in the final days of the war. Two of those key differences included that the military had advised that the US keep at least 2,500 service members in Afghanistan to maintain stability and a concern that the state department was not moving fast enough to get an evacuation started. Continue reading...

Lawyers for UK tech tycoon facing 25 years in jail suggest US workers did not understand UK accounting principlesLawyers for Mike Lynch tried to highlight differences between UK and US accounting standards as they defended the British businessman against allegations he orchestrated a massive" years-long fraud.Lynch, who founded and led Autonomy, a UK software firm, is fighting to avoid prison after federal prosecutors in the US charged him with 16 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy. His criminal trial started in San Francisco on Monday. Continue reading...

Primaries are being held in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas and Ohio - get up to speed with all the live results as they happenFive states - Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas and Ohio - are holding their presidential nominating contests on Tuesday, with Florida holding only a Republican primary. Donald Trump and Joe Biden expect to sail to victory in their respective parties, growing their delegate counts in a march toward this summer's conventions, where they will officially secure their parties' nomination.Here are the live results from the five presidential primaries. Continue reading...

Josephine Wright caught national media attention for standing down developers trying to buy Hilton Head propertyJosephine Wright, a Hilton Head Island resident who died this year aged 94, spent her last days fighting to protect her family's ancestral South Carolina home from being taken by developers. Now, two months after her death, Wright's fight is finally over: Bailey Point Investment, the construction company that was vying for her land, has settled with Wright's family members after it initially sued for ownership early last year.The settlement concedes that the Wright family owns the property in the middle of Bailey Point's planned 29-acre neighborhood, according to South Carolina Public Radio. The company cannot contact the Wright family about purchasing the land, and there will be a privacy fence erected between the Wright family's land and the new construction. Continue reading...

Shasta county residents voted on 5 March on whether to recall Kevin Crye, the president of the board of supervisorsOn Super Tuesday, voters in northern California's Shasta county weighed the fate of a far-right official who promoted conspiracy theories that elections were being rigged and backed a controversial effort to do away with voting machines and pursue a hand-count system.But two weeks after the election, the recall remains too close to call, with the Shasta county supervisor Kevin Crye maintaining a hold of his seat by less than 50 votes. As of Friday, the county elections office still had 1,200 ballots to process and residents are anxiously awaiting results. Continue reading...

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Experts say FBI's finding crime numbers dropped should be viewed with caution but nonetheless the numbers are encouragingCrime in the US fell significantly in 2023, according to new FBI data, with a 13% decline in murder and drops in reported violent crime and reported property offenses.Both robbery and aggravated assault dropped by 5% from 2022, the FBI data shows, while all violent crime declined by 6%. Continue reading...

Stefanie Lambert released on bond after being apprehended by US marshals at Washington court hearing in separate Dominion caseStefanie Lambert, a lawyer who has crusaded to try to prove Trump's claims of voter fraud in Michigan, was arrested in federal court and released on bond after refusing to comply with court orders in a separate Michigan case alleging she tampered with voting machines after the 2020 election.During her arraignment on Tuesday, a judge released her on a $10,000 unsecured bond. Lambert has refused to submit fingerprints in the Michigan case accusing her and two other state Republicans of illegally breaching Michigan voting machines. Continue reading...

Palestinians are dying from hunger. The US must do more than express frustration with IsraelThe question is no longer whether Palestinians will starve to death in a famine, but how many will do so. Famine is imminent in northern Gaza, a coalition of UN agencies and aid groups has warned. Others say that it has already arrived: because mortality is one measure for establishing famine, it can only be declared once deaths have already mounted. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, the entire population is facing high levels of acute food insecurity or worse - an unprecedented level for any area or country - with many of those in catastrophic" need. Families are eating animal feed and grass, and drinking dirty water.No natural disaster has occurred; this is an entirely human-made famine, resulting from Israel's military offensive in response to the Hamas atrocities on 7 October, and the curbs on aid. Josep Borrell, the EU foreign affairs chief, has accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war. On Tuesday, the UNhuman rights office said that the restrictions on aid might amount to a war crime. Continue reading...

Shareholders may welcome the change in direction, but the chief executive's predecessors used similar tacticsHein Schumacher, Unilever's new-ish chief executive, has already dialled down the worthy corporate sermons on social purpose. Now he's ditching the ice-creams, including the famous names of Wall's, Magnum and Ben & Jerry's, and shedding 7,500 jobs elsewhere. Is this the hard-headed change of direction that shareholders, muttering about a sleepy share price and complacency in the boardroom for at least a decade, have been demanding? Well, possibly. But the script also has a familiar feel.Remember that Schumacher's two predecessors also tried slimming the corporate beast by offloading parts that were deemed low-growth or strategically challenged. Paul Polman, fresh from his close encounter with Kraft Heinz's would-be takeover merchants in 2017, offloaded the Flora and Stork spreads business. In its way, that was a more radical move because spreads were a core part of the original Dutch end of Unilever. Alan Jope sold the PG Tips tea business, which also had a lot of history behind it. Continue reading...

Mary Trump's first memoir concerned former president and family dysfunction new book will focus on herself and her fatherMary Trump, Donald Trump's niece, who wrote Too Much and Never Enough, a bestselling book on the former US president and his family dysfunction, will publish a second memoir this year.I've told you what growing up in this family did to Donald," Mary Trump wrote on social media on Tuesday. Now I'm telling the story of what it did to my dad and me." Continue reading...

Navarro, convicted for refusing to cooperate with House January 6 committee, reports to Miami facility with zoo next doorPeter Navarro, a former trade adviser to Donald Trump, on Tuesday became the first former White House official ever jailed for contempt of Congress.Sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to cooperate with the House January 6 committee, the 74-year-old economist appealed all the way to the US supreme court, claiming he could not testify as his work with Trump on attempts to overturn the 2020 election was covered by executive privilege. Continue reading...

Five other former officers who admitted to subjecting two Black men to numerous acts of racist torture are due to be sentencedA former Mississippi sheriff's deputy was sentenced on Tuesday to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men last year.Hunter Elward was sentenced by US district judge Tom Lee, who handed down a 241-month sentence. Lee is also due to sentence five other former law enforcement officers who admitted to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racist torture. Continue reading...

Ohio Republicans choose their nominee in key Senate race while California seeks to replace former speaker Kevin McCarthyWith a rematch set between Joe Biden and Donald Trump after both candidates crossed the delegate threshold needed to clinch their parties' presidential nominations, suspense around the next wave of Tuesday primaries shifts to a handful of key down-ballot races.Five states - Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas and Ohio - will hold their presidential nominating contests on Tuesday. Trump and Biden are expected to sail to victory, growing their delegate counts in a march toward this summer's conventions, where they will officially secure their parties' nomination. Continue reading...

The Japanese star is considered one of the most talented players in history. Now he finds himself in an unfamiliar role as a cultural ambassadorThe sport is American, the venue South Korean. But when the LA Dodgers and San Diego Padres open the Major League Baseball season with two games in Seoul this week, all eyes will be on a Japanese superstar: Shohei Ohtani.It says much about Ohtani's singular appeal that South Korean baseball fans are as excited about his imminent presence in the batter's box at Gocheok Sky Dome as his legions of admirers in Japan.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...

Woman alleges Adams, then a police officer, demanded sexual favor in 1993 but mayor says this did not happen'Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993 and demanding a sexual favor in exchange for his help advancing her career in the police department.The lawsuit, filed on Monday in Manhattan, offered the first public details of a sexual assault claim brought against the mayor in November. Continue reading...

What the parallel spats over a Guernica magazine essay retraction and the boycott of Standing Together teach us about how to build a movementIn early March, most of the all-volunteer staff of the leftwing political and literary journal Guernica resigned in protest of the publication of an essay by an Israeli woman about her struggle in the weeks after 7 October to tread the line of empathy, to feel passion for both sides".What they objected to most in Joanna Chen's essay, From the Edges of a Broken World, was what it left out: an explicit critique of Israel's longstanding policies of apartheid, its violent occupation, and the genocide it is currently committing in Gaza. Guernica's former co-publisher called the piece a hand-wringing apologia for Zionism". Grace Loh Prasad, a Taiwanese-born writer whose memoir was excerpted in Guernica last week, tweeted: I am alarmed & upset that my writing has appeared alongside an essay that attempts to convey empathy for a colonizing, genocidal power." Chen's essay was removed from the site.Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to The Intercept, and the author of five books Continue reading...

It's unclear if US Congress will have enough time to pass proposal before many federal agencies are expected to run out of money

More than 1m abortions performed in 2023, a 10% increase from 2020, according to Guttmacher InstituteAbortions in the US have sharply increased despite bans implemented in Republican-led states after the supreme court's overturning of Roe v Wade.More than 1m abortions were performed in the US in 2023, a 10% increase from 2020, according to research from the Guttmacher Institute, an American policy organization which advocates for sexual and reproductive health. Continue reading...

Donald Trump's son-in-law says Israel should move the people out' to Negev desert and clean up' Gaza

In the vital swing state of Michigan, growing fractures among the Democratic base could spell trouble for Joe Biden in the November election. As party loyalists canvas in the run up to a primary vote, a protest movement against the president's support for the war in Gaza gains momentum. Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone visit the state.

Kristel Candelario received sentence after pleading guilty to aggravated murder and child endangerment in death of daughterAn Ohio woman who embarked on a 10-day vacation while leaving her 16-month-old daughter behind at their home to starve to death has been ordered to spend the rest of her life in prison.Kristel Candelario, 32, received her sentence on Monday in a state courthouse in Cleveland after having previously pleaded guilty to one charge each of aggravated murder and child endangerment in the death of her daughter Jailyn.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...

Ex-president claims Jewish people who vote for Democrats hate Israel' and hate their religion'

The attempt to boost my immune system hasn't had the desired effects. I have been half-naked in public, and misunderstood Taylor Swift's advice with catastrophic results. But one change has worked ...Nobody tells you this!" For the first year of my now almost-three-year-old's life, that was my catchphrase. I would say it nonstop. Nobody tells you that you will hallucinate from sleep deprivation in the first few months after having a baby. Nobody tells you how much time you will spend thinking about a baby's bowel movements. Nobody tells you just how explosive those bowel movements can be.Eventually, after much complaining, I came to the sheepish realisation that people do tell you this stuff. They tell you all the time. I just hadn't been listening. Let's be honest: when you're not actively trying to procreate there is nothing more boring than hearing about the digestive issues or nocturnal routines of other people's children.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Neither the Tories nor Labour seem bothered by the climate mayhem that awaits us, but to save lives they must actIt's the August bank holiday in 2050 and the UK is sweltering under the worst heatwave on record. Temperatures across much of England have topped 40C for eight days running: they peaked at 46C, and remain above 30C in cities and large towns at night. The country's poorly insulated homes feel like furnaces, and thousands of people have resorted to camping out at night in the streets and local parks in a desperate attempt to find sleep. Hospital A&Es are overwhelmed and wards are flooded with patients, mostly old and vulnerable people who have succumbed to dehydration and heatstroke. Already, the death toll is estimated at more than 80,000.No, this isn't the beginning of a dystopian drama, but a snapshot of a mid-century heatwave unless we prepare for the increasingly extreme weather that will be driven by climate breakdown. To say that the government has no credible plan for this, as the UK Climate Change Committee did last week, is - if anything - an understatement. Britain is woefully underprepared for extreme weather, and in a number of key areas we are going backwards. About one in 15 of England's most important flood defences were in a poor or very poor condition in 2022, up from roughly one in 25 just four years previously. The government's Great British insulation scheme is operating at such a slow pace that it would take nearly 200 years to upgrade the country's housing stock, while Labour has rowed back on its ambitious plans to insulate 19m homes within a decade.Bill McGuire is professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at UCL, and the author of Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant's Guide Continue reading...

The war on Gaza brought out hundreds of thousands of protesters. This force could reshape our hollow democraciesThe pro-Palestine movement has grown spectacularly in a remarkably short period of time. Within a week of the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, and the start of Benjamin Netanyahu's mighty vengeance" on Gaza, central London teemed with tens of thousands of anti-war protesters.The protests continued apace, with weekly national and local demonstrations, tactical innovations such as sit-ins at train stations and direct actions at factories supplying arms to Israel such as Elbit Systems. Nor has the pace slackened much since. Many on the right have sought to depict the protesters as extremists, but the sheer scale and regularity of the protests and actions are in fact a sign of how mainstream pro-Palestinian feeling is within British society. The question, assuming the movement succeeds in ending the Israeli assault, is where does it go next? What becomes of movements when they stop moving?Richard Seymour is an author and founding editor of Salvage. His latest book is Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal CivilisationDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Navarro begins four-month prison term for refusing to cooperate with House January 6 committee. Plus, the people who made a new start after turning 90Good morning.Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to Donald Trump, will begin his prison sentence on Tuesday, becoming the first ex-White House official to be imprisoned for contempt of Congress.What about Trump? He faces 88 criminal charges, 14 related to election subversion. In addition, his lawyers on Monday said he was unable to post a bond covering the $454m civil fraud judgment while he appeals the ruling.Is this normal? Nearly half the fiscal year is over - it is very unusual to have disputes at this late stage. Continue reading...