Counter protesters, organised by Stand Up To Racism, in West Parliament Square, Edinburgh, ahead of an anti-immigration protest outside Holyrood in Edinburgh ,March 21, 2026
THIS weekend’s Together march promises to be the largest anti-racist demonstration in generations.
It is needed as a confident assertion that we have an anti-racist majority in Britain and we will not allow the far right to turn communities against each other.
We have seen that anti-racist majority in action. In the summer of 2024 a wave of racist riots swept British towns. Neighbourhoods were trashed, hotels housing refugees targeted.
The community response was swift and magnificent, both the collective clean-up efforts in affected towns and the huge mobilisations, from Newcastle in the north to Brighton in the south, warning that the racists would not pass. The riots fizzled out.
But the far right has advanced since then. Donald Trump’s re-election that winter in the United States has emboldened it globally, as liberal governments cringe before a leader of the “free world” who peddles racist conspiracy theories, openly supports ethnic cleansing and unleashes state terror on immigrants, black people and entire communities like Minneapolis.
The US right is not just an inspiration for the Tommy Robinsons and Nigel Farages.
It supports them politically. The White House National Security Strategy commits to promote “the influence of patriotic parties” to “help Europe correct its current trajectory.” Last summer US Vice-President JD Vance used a “holiday” in England to meet a suite of far-right politicians and “influencers.”
It supports them financially. Reform UK is awash with foreign cash and tech tycoon Elon Musk paid Robinson’s legal fees last October.
Rolling in money, the far right is well placed to exploit the grievances felt by millions of people who — rightly — see Westminster politics as an insiders’ game where corrupt politicians dance to the tune of big business and ordinary people’s living standards and public services decline year on year.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (R) and a U.S. military official monitor operations during a briefing at the White House in Washington, United States, on March 02, 2026. [The White House via X Account – Anadolu Agency]
The Pentagon is preparing military options for a “final blow” in the Iran war, involving the use of ground forces and massive bombing, according to a report by Axios, citing two US officials and two sources with knowledge of the matter, Anadolu reports.
According to the report, a “dramatic military escalation” is expected if there is no progress in talks between Tehran and Washington.
The sources said that options such as invading the strategically important islands of Kharg, Larak, Abu Musa, and others, along with a blockade of ships carrying Iranian oil east of the Strait of Hormuz, are on the table.
The report stated that some US officials believe that a “show of overwhelming force” to end the conflicts would give the US greater leverage in negotiations.
A source familiar with the negotiation efforts said that Turkiye, Pakistan, and Egypt are continuing their attempts to organize talks between the parties.
The source noted that Iran has rejected the US’ initial demands but has not completely withdrawn from the negotiations.
Despite the sources’ statement, US President Donald Trump has reportedly not reached a decision yet on any of these scenarios.
Any potential ground operations are seen as “hypothetical” by White House officials.
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Firefighters at the scene in Highfield Road, Golders Green, London, after an apparent arson attack on four ambulances belonging to the Jewish Community Ambulance service in London, March 23, 2026
Jewish Socialists’ Group condemns those ‘using this appalling incident to whip up more hatred between minority communities’
CAMPAIGNERS have condemned an “appalling” arson attack on four Jewish community ambulances today, calling for unity against hatred and racism.
The incident in Golders Green, north-west London, was being treated as an anti-semitic hate crime by the Metropolitan Police but not immediately as terrorism, the Metropolitan Police said.
Detective Chief Superintendent Luke Williams, who leads policing for the area, said investigators are aware of a group apparently claiming responsibility for the attack online, but have not yet verified whether this is true.
A video has allegedly been posted on Telegram by an Islamist group called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, showing a map of the location where the ambulances were kept and footage of them on fire.
CCTV shows three people in hoods pouring accelerant on the vehicles, which belong to Jewish community ambulance service Hatzola, before setting them on fire and running away.
A Watchkeeper drone on display in 2010 (Photo: Jack Sullivan / Alamy)
Exclusive: Elbit Systems profiting from doomed drone programme which cost UK taxpayer £1.5 billion.
MoD splurged £1.5bn on doomed drone programme
Israel’s largest arms firm now benefitting from that deal
Dozens of drone components sent from UK to Israel last year
Those parts should be re-exported but are remaining in Israel
Airfield in illegally occupied territory likely being used to test the drones
Revelations suggest UK drone exports to Israel unlawful
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Shipping records obtained by Declassified reveal U-TacS has sent dozens of drone components including Watchkeeper engines to Elbit in Israel over the past 18 months.
Advanced radar systems used by the Watchkeeper have also been exported to Israel by Thales in Crawley.
This information might help to explain why the value of UK arms exports to Israel skyrocketed between October and December 2024, totalling more than the 2020-23 period combined.
Under UK arms export regulations, any Watchkeeper components sent to Israel should have been re-exported to Romania.
Yet they appear to have remained in Israel, with Elbit filing a “force majeure” declaration in its contract with Romania while testing the drones at a “secret airfield” in “northern Israel”.
Open-source information analysed by Declassified now indicates this airfield is located in the Golan Heights, a region of southwest Syria that has been illegally occupied by Israel since 1967.
The UK government acknowledges that Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights is a violation of international law, suggesting the export of Watchkeepers from Britain could be unlawful.
People are seen at the site of the February 28, 2026 bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran. (Photo by Mehr News Agency/Wikimedia Commons)
“This harrowing attack on a school, with classrooms full of children, is a sickening illustration of the catastrophic and entirely predictable price civilians are paying during this armed conflict.”
Amnesty International on Monday published an investigation that found the United States violated international humanitarian law by failing to take measures to avoid harming civilians before bombing a girls’ school in southern Iran last month and killing around 175 people, most of them children.
Evidence gathered by Amnesty “indicates that the school building was directly struck, alongside 12 other structures in an adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) compound, with guided weapons,” the group said. “This points to a failure by US forces to take feasible precautions to avoid civilian harm in carrying out the attack, which is a serious breach of international humanitarian law.”
“The fact that the school building was directly targeted and was previously part of the IRGC compound raises concerns that US forces may have relied on outdated intelligence and failed in their obligation to do everything feasible to verify that the intended target was a military objective,” Amnesty added.
NEW: Our in-depth investigation finds that US has violated international humanitarian law by failing to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian harm. US is responsible for deadly attack on school in #Minab packed full of children.
Satellite imagery analyses confirmed eyewitness accounts that the February 28 attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab was a “triple-tap” airstrike, in which an initial bombing was followed up with two additional strikes meant to kill survivors and rescue workers.
Fragments of a Tomahawk cruise missile found at the school and marked with the names of US weapons companies, a Pentagon contract number, and “Made in USA” added to the body of evidence pointing to the United States as the perpetrator of what numerous experts have called a likely war crime.
President Donald Trump, who initially blamed Iran for the attack, later said he is “willing to live with” whatever the military’s investigation concludes.
“US authorities must ensure that the investigation they have announced is impartial, independent, and transparent,” Amnesty said. “Investigations into the strike must consider the intelligence gathering and assessments, targeting decisions, and precautions taken, as well as how artificial intelligence may have been employed in each of these steps, to evaluate how targeting decisions were made. The results of the investigation should be made public.”
Both the US and Israel have increasingly relied upon artificial intelligence systems to select bombing targets, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) having first used Gaza as what on expert called “a live-fire, live-ordnance lab experiment on people.” Proponents of these systems note that they can select targets and approve strikes exponentially faster than humans, enabling more strikes, but critics warn such targeting methods are inherently more dangerous, pointing to higher error rates which translate to more civilian casualties and less accountability.
In the case of the Minab strike, Amnesty said, “Where sufficient evidence exists, competent authorities should prosecute any person suspected of criminal responsibility. Victims and their families have the right to truth and justice and should receive full reparation, including restitution, rehabilitation, and compensation for civilian harm.”
Erika Guevara-Rosas—Amnesty International’s senior director of research, advocacy, policy and campaigns—said in a statement Monday that “this harrowing attack on a school, with classrooms full of children, is a sickening illustration of the catastrophic and entirely predictable price civilians are paying during this armed conflict.”
“Schools must be places of safety and learning for children,” she said. “Instead, this school in Minab became a site of mass killing. The US authorities could, and should, have known it was a school building. Targeting a protected civilian object, such as a school, is strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law.”
“If the attackers failed to identify the building as a school and nevertheless proceeded with the attack, this would indicate gross negligence in the planning of the attack and would point to a shameful intelligence failure on the part of the US military and a serious violation of international humanitarian law,” Guevara-Rosas continued.
“On the other hand,” she said, “if the US was aware that the school was adjacent to the IRGC compound and proceeded to attack without taking all feasible precautions, such as striking at night when the school would have been empty, or giving effective advance warning to civilians likely to be affected, this would amount to recklessly launching an indiscriminate attack which killed and injured civilians and must be investigated as a war crime.”
“For their part, Iranian authorities must immediately remove, to the extent feasible, civilians from the vicinity of military objectives and allow independent monitors into the country,” Guevara-Rosas added. “They must also restore internet access to ensure that the 92 million people in Iran have access to life-saving information and be able to contact their loved ones.”
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Counter protesters, organised by Stand Up To Racism, in West Parliament Square, Edinburgh, ahead of an anti-immigration protest outside Holyrood in Edinburgh ,March 21, 2026
Firefighters at the scene in Highfield Road, Golders Green, London, after an apparent arson attack on four ambulances belonging to the Jewish Community Ambulance service in London, March 23, 2026
