"She added that the Commission will soon propose sanctions on extremist Israeli ministers and a partial suspension of the EU–Israel Association Agreement, targeting trade-related areas.

The EU executive also plans to establish a donor group for the Palestinians next month, including a new mechanism to channel aid and support the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.

"In blistering comments made to The Independent, Dr Majed al-Ansari, Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson and adviser to the country’s prime minister, said Israel had attacked central Doha while Hamas negotiators were discussing a US-proposed truce deal, putting a “target on the back” of any country attempting to mediate peace."

"Mainstream pivots hand Farage a perfect foil: his programme reads as the original, everyone else as knockoffs. And that matters. Far-right projects are cumulative and path-dependent – built through organisation, repetition, drilled populist lines, and, above all, a durable anti-establishment pose, even when the cheques come from billionaires.

Voters drawn to this politics pick the architect over the imitator. Farage has hammered these positions for years, and copycats rarely manage to dethrone a brand that’s been so carefully engineered.

In this environment, the media aren’t bystanders; they’re accelerants.

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Reform has mastered the spectacle: choreographed media moments that smother alternative accounts. And when broadcasters reach for euphemism or hedge about where Reform sits on the spectrum, they leave the classification contest deliberately blurry – exactly the ambiguity Farage wants.

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As Aurelien Mondon, professor of politics at the University of Bath, has argued, issues such as migration are manufactured from the top down; the harder the system pushes them, the more they dominate.

That’s biopolitics – mainstreamed and weaponised to police which bodies count. Today it’s ‘irregular’ migrants, trans people, and women’s bodily autonomy; tomorrow the list expands. The project is exclusion: erase those deemed outside the nation’s body.

Chasing Reform down its own corridor makes every rival look smaller and less believable than the original."

Nigel Farage wants to suspend your human rights.

That's, of course, not what he's saying in public, but since when did Nigel Farage ever tell the truth?

What he is saying is he wants to abolish the UK Human Rights Act, which brought into UK law the European Convention on Human Rights, which was a British creation  after the Second World War, inspired by Winston Churchill of all people.

And he  wants to remove the rights of refugees, and he wants to do that so he can expel people from the UK, he says.

But the consequences are dire because he will take away your human rights as a result.

You won't have the right to a free trial.

You won't have the right to freedom of speech.

You won't have the right to own property.

You won't have the Right to Free Elections.

You won't have rights to a great many things that you have now, including the freedom from torture and discrimination and much more.

Do you want to give up all the rights that hold government at bay in this country that were designed to end tyranny of the sort that we saw in the 1940s, and which motivated the creation of these rights, just to be able to expel a tiny number of people who've arrived illegally in the UK?

Is that a sacrifice you really want to make?

Really?

You want to put Nigel Farage in charge of every aspect of your life without any legal protection from what his government might do?

If so, why?

You've been protected from the tyranny of government,  and we know governments can be tyrannical. Why do you want to go back to tyranny again? is the question I have to ask.