Editor’s Note: This is issue 108 of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly, covering events from Oct. 21-27. The Kyiv Independent is reposting it with permission.Ukrainian SOE Weekly is an independent weekly digest based on a compilation of the most …
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On Sunday 29 October, Peter Kyle (shadow secretary for science, innovation, and technology) appeared on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. He was asked about Israel’s invasion of Gaza, and specifically about whether he supports it…
Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan said it was not for her to say whether global rules were being broken in Gaza, with 8,000 Palestinians reported to have died during Israeli strikes.
She said the UK continues to “call for a …
The shadow science secretary said the Labour leadership would likely “continue engaging” with its own frontbenchers who do not agree with Sir Keir Starmer’s stance on the conflict.
Sir Keir has called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting to allow f…
She told the Daily Telegraph a “false equivalence” has been made in “an attempt to be impartial”.
“Given all of the footage that we saw, we were in no doubt that what we were looking at was a terror attack,” she said, defending the UK continuing to dea…
Lionel Barber and Alan Rusbridger analyse the way that the massacre of 7th October and subsequent war have been covered, including explosion at Al-Ahli hospital, which some media outlets initially blamed on Israeli strikes. Jake Wallis Simons, editor o…
Actor Martin Freeman is presenting a new podcast about The Beatles to celebrate the band’s upcoming new track release.
Now And Then, written and sung by John Lennon, has been redeveloped featuring the other band members for a release next month.
Freema…
The Welsh Parliament has recognized the Holodomor famine as a genocide against the Ukrainian people, the Ukrainian embassy in the U.K. announced on Oct. 25.The Holodomor, a man-made famine that took place between 1932-33, occurred during Joseph Stalin’…
U.S. prosecutors have filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit against the superyacht Amadea, worth around $300 million and beneficially owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov, the U.S. Justice Department said on Oct. 23.Kerimov, sanction…
THE world remains transfixed by the continuing tragedy in Gaza, and it is becoming starkly apparent that there is a clear hierarchy of sympathy in the Western media, a hierarchy which can only be described as racist.
This hierarchy has been evident for…