When senior civil servant Olly Robbins was dismissed from the Foreign Office last week over Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador, some senior civil servants said it was unfair. But on Novara Live, James Schneider argues that - far from being "brilliant" and "saintly" - civil servants are “deeply enmeshed in power structures that work against us”. Robbins himself is no innocent. He personally oversaw the destruction of information leaked to the Guardian by Edward Snowden in 2013 – and did a three-year stint at Goldman Sachs in between appointments to public office.

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Zarah Sultana was suspended from parliament on Monday for calling Keir Starmer a “barefaced liar”. The prime minister said last week that he had no idea former US ambassador Peter Mandelson had failed vetting processes over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. On Novara Live, Sultana says parliament is “completely and utterly out of touch”. “You saw it on Monday when calling someone a liar was grounds to be suspended for five days – not that the prime minister knowingly appointed the close friend of a paedophile.”

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“Most of the people I know are quite disappointed with the direction of the Labour party.” Rivkah Brown visits the Ridley Road occupation in Dalston, where traders are resisting a landlord’s plans to redevelop the site of a 100-year-old street market and evict stallholders. One trader says it feels like the landlord and the Labour council are “more working to get us out than working with us.” Another says that the Ridley Road campaign has seen more support from the Greens than any other party. This is an excerpt from our full report on Hackney and Lewisham. Watch "Will The Green Party Destroy London's Labour Mafia?" on our YouTube channel now.

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Donald Trump's statements on Iran have been completely contradictory and erratic. One day he threatens to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure and bomb it back to the "Stone Age" if it doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz; the next day, Trump announces a US military blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Ben Norton explains. || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/Support Subscribe to our newsletter: https://geopoliticaleconomy.report/ Join our community on Patreon: https://patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy

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The man leading the Greens to their first ever seats in Wales was in a punk band in South Africa during apartheid. When he returned to the UK, he squatted all over London. In Cardiff, Anthony Slaughter tells Aaron Bastani what his squatting days taught him about taking control of where you live and how this has influenced his politics.

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"It's like climate change on steroids." Climate activists protested outside the Washington, D.C. corporate offices of Apple, Meta, Open AI and Microsoft, demanding a “moratorium” on hyperscale data centers. According to protestors, these data centers are gobbling up environmental resources and endangering the sustainability of human life. The march concluded at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, site of the 2026 World Data Center Conference.

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Don’t let corporate media fool you. People are fighting back, and sometimes winning. This week’s proof: 🔥 Warehouse workers have been pushed to the brink. One worker went viral after allegedly torching a warehouse, saying "Pay us a f*cking living wage." He now faces years in prison. But workers are also taking collective action. UNFI warehouse workers in Florida just won their very first union contract and a 31% increase in their wages. 📚 Teachers in North Carolina join the May Day call for a general strike. Mass sick-outs are already shutting down schools, and teachers across the state are expected to all march on the capitol come May 1st. They’re demanding better pay, free school meals, and the right to collectively bargain. What fight near you is being ignored? Drop it below. 👇 📣 Link in bio to join BTDisrupters.

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The walls are closing in on Kalshi and Polymarket. They're facing dozens of lawsuits accusing them of running illegal gambling platforms. Now, they're buying up DC insiders who can help them dodge regulation—and avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. Producer: Trevor Hayes Editor: David McCaw Supervising Producer: Court Fuller

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BREAKING: Israeli settlers opened fire on a Palestinian school in the village of Al-Mughayyir in the West Bank on Monday. The attack killed 14-year-old student Aws al-Naasan and 32-year-old Jihad Abu Naim, and injured multiple children. According to head of local council Amin Abu Ulaya, settlers and soldiers had entered the village and started shooting at the school, first against the students and later others who arrived at the scene. One of the shooters has been identified as Shmuel Vandy.

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“Lewisham Gateway has been an unmitigated disaster.” Liam Shrivastava is the Green party’s candidate to become mayor of Lewisham. While out on the campaign trail, he spoke to Novara Media’s Rivkah Brown about the “mess” left behind in London by Labour councils, especially when it comes to public partnerships with the private sector. Watch the full report from Lewisham and Hackney on YouTube, premiering on Thursday.

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“This is your ghost of Christmas future. This is what could happen in England at the next general election.” With Reform projected to become the largest party in Wales, journalist Will Hayward told Novara Media that the campaign for the Senedd elections on 7 May are a "training ground" for UK political parties and a "microcosm" of what could happen come the general election in 2028.

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Palantir “should be treated as a hostile foreign actor” and expelled from the NHS before it’s too late. On Novara Live, Harriet Williamson explains that in February next year, MPs will have an opportunity to trigger a break clause in a major contract with the “dangerous” US spytech firm. If they don’t, the consequences for Britain’s healthcare system, and broader society, could be severe. In the US, the company has used healthcare data to help ICE with its brutal and draconian crackdown on immigrants, something that could be repeated in the UK. “That’s really, really scary,” Williamson says.

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This is how Iran used asymmetric tactics to defend itself in response to the US-Israeli war of aggression, establishing deterrence and escalation dominance. Ben Norton explains. || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/Support Subscribe to our newsletter: https://geopoliticaleconomy.report/ Join our community on Patreon: https://patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy

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Some of Palantir’s activities, like organising frozen nugget supply chains, are banal. Others are not. On Novara Live, Steven Methven says that CTO Shyam Sanka speaks about killing people through military operations as if it’s just another process to make more efficient. “I find that a deeply extraordinary and corrupt way of speaking about two vastly different kinds of activity. And it is what they produce: extraordinarily efficient mass murder.”

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Hundreds took the streets of Madrid on Sunday to show their support for the Cuban people, calling for an end to Trump’s energy blockade against the island nation. Protestors carried signs with messages such as "Trump genocide, hands off Cuba," "Cuba, you are not alone," and "No to the genocidal blockade."

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At a private banker's association meeting in Berlin, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warns of impending global food shortages as a result of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

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“Since 2023, the European Union […] has facilitated the open and undisguised genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.” Speaking at a conference in Ireland, author Sally Rooney rejected the idea that the EU has “failed to act” since October 2023. “The EU has been taking decisive action," she said, "ensuring a ready supply of weapons and cash to the aggressors". Workers in Europe should take on their political leaders through industrial action, she continued. "We must refuse and constantly search for new ways of refusing to be complicit in what we know is wrong."

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Sorry liberals, we tried to warn you. In the wake of the Peter Mandelson scandal, centrists are finally waking up to the fact that Keir Starmer may not be the upstanding, transparency-loving leader they thought he was. On Novara Live, @nojusticemtg explains how Starmer’s leadership is a “project built on subterfuge… from the beginning”.

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"ICE is terrorism." Chicago Teachers Union president Stacy Davis Gates talks about May Day and the city's resistance to ICE. Is a general strike next? As part of the agreement that CTU was able to achieve with Chicago Public School Systems, May 1 will be declared a "Civic Day of Action" in the city and CPS will provide buses for students and teachers to attend a massive afternoon rally for International Workers Day. Watch The Freedom Side Live on BT's Youtube.

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"I just don't understand this Lebanese mentality at all." @raniakhalek calls out the Lebanese PM's cooperating and negotiating with the Israelis, which brought a "completely one-sided" ceasefire. Watch The Freedom Side Live on BT's Youtube.

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U.S.-Israeli bombings have internally displaced millions of Iranians since the war began. Meanwhile, the Iranian government has paid for them to stay in hotels while they await to return home. BT visited one such four-star hotel in central Tehran, which hosts dozens of families. Tehran’s municipality is not only paying for food and lodging in these hotels, it has vowed to assist in the reconstruction of their homes. The hotels also provides evening cultural and entertainment events for the families to battle the emotional toll of war.

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Keir Starmer claims nobody told him former US ambassador Peter Mandelson failed the vetting process. In the House of Commons, independent MP Diane Abbott points out that Mandelson has a thirty-year history of being forced to resign from public office for cavorting with millionaires and billionaires. “It’s one thing to say, ‘nobody told me’ – the question is why didn’t the prime minister ask?” says Abbott. "Peter Mandelson has a history."

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"As a Cuban born and raised in Miami, I'm so excited to tell my family about it." 🎥Cuba After Castro, directed by @abbymartin and Matt Belen, premiered in NYC to rave reviews! The film debuts in LA this Wed, April 22 at the Laemmle Theater, but tickets are moving fast. 🎟️Get yours at CubaAfterCastro.com

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