Critical South

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On 23 June 2026, Britain marks ten years since the Brexit referendum. We were promised £350 million a week for the NHS. We were promised the easiest trade deals in history. We were promised sunlit uplands. Research now shows the economy is 6-8% smaller, business investment fell 18% and 63% of us would vote to rejoin. And you want to vote the man that hurt so many of our pockets and got us here? Vote tactically on the 7th of May. Stop Refrom. We deserve better. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧☕️🫖 thedailybritain.co.uk/ten-years-brex…

St George was born in Turkey and is the patron saint of Palestine St George never visited England St George represnts much of Europe, the middle east and Africa If St George came here today, Reform UK would deport him Happy St George’s day

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Tony Benn would have been 101 today. His "Don't arab women weep when their children die, doesn't bombing strengthen their resolve?" Is as relevant now as it was 25 years ago.

SA UK Chair in Political Theory Public Lecture next week Wednesday @Wits_News @WitsPolitics @Dept_of_POLIS (see details below) linkedin.com/posts/lawrence…

The largest social movement in the Americas, Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), is sending tons of medicine and seeds to Cuba, and asking people around the World to pressure their governments to send petroleum. My story for @telesurenglish

BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The three countries voting against it? 🇺🇸 USA 🇮🇱Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina Nearly all of Europe abstained.

Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor in political theory, to be based in the Department of POLIS at Cambridge. The post will be available from 1 September 2026. For more details: polis.cam.ac.uk/job-opportunit…

Public Lecture Series: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Semester One, 2026 All seminars take place on Thursdays 12pm to 2pm at the Postgraduate Research Hub, 2nd Floor, Solomon House. There is also a hybrid option. Links for joining online will be circulated closer to time.

BREAKING: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk sends a shiver down Trump's spine by announcing "Investigation Team No. 5" — a powerful task force designed to investigate the Epstein scandal. Since the MAGA Justice Department won't take action, the rest of the world is stepping up... “We cannot allow that any of the cases involving abuse of Polish children by the network of pedophiles and the organizer of this satanic circle, Mr. Epstein, be treated lightly,” stated Tusk. The announcement from Tusk, a conservative, comes as the Trump administration refuses to even acknowledge that Epstein was running a child trafficking network. At this point, it's an undeniable fact of the case, clearly laid out in the documents. But Trump — who is accused of sexual abuse and rape in the files — won't acknowledge that reality because doing so would increase the pressure for a full investigation. He's desperately hoping that this entire scandal will just evaporate into thin air. Poland is making sure that doesn't happen. Tusk said that the possibility of Polish victims gives their government the authority to dig through the 3 million pages of documents, images, and videos released so far. He pointed specifically to a group of individuals from the Polish city of Krakow who informed Epstein that they had "women or girls" for him, a clear indication that Poland was a nexus for Epstein's network. "There are more such leads,” said Tusk. Investigation Team No. 5 will now proceed with preliminary inquiries into "an organized criminal group of an international nature." This is an incredibly welcome development and exactly the kind of police work that the United States federal government should be conducting. Every single person in the Epstein files should be questioned. Once authorities start pulling on these threads, more leads and evidence could come tumbling out. The Polish task force is composed of three highly experienced prosecutors, denoting a high level of priority for the government. Once they conclude their preliminary probe, a decision will be made on opening a full-blown criminal investigation. On top of that, the Polish Justice Ministry announced a separate task force led by Justice Minister Waldemar Zurek to review the Epstein files, synthesize the data, and present the relevant parts to the Polish public. “It is our duty to provide a reliable and impartial explanation of all Polish aspects in the so-called Epstein affair,” said Zurek. "The Polish state must check whether crimes have taken place on the territory of the Republic of Poland and whether Polish citizens were involved in the case." They will also request access to all of the classified materials currently being held by the American government. This is exactly what people have been screaming in vain for the Trump administration to do. Finally, the world is taking a major step towards justice. Please ❤️ and share to thank Poland!

Conchita Sarnoff was one of the first journalists to expose Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking—starting her deep dive in 2006 after a shocking tip in Mexico. While at a dinner in Mexico City, a former Foreign Minister accused Americans of hypocrisy: trafficking weapons, drugs, "and now you’re stealing our children." This led her to investigate human trafficking, where she uncovered Epstein's case. Having known Epstein socially since the early 1990s (and met Ghislaine Maxwell shortly after), she had unique access. She interviewed Epstein himself during his 2008 house arrest and expanded her probe into blackmail reaching from Harvard to the White House to Buckingham Palace. Her book TrafficKing: The Jeffrey Epstein Case (finished in 2008, finally published in 2021 after 27 rejections) details the "sweetheart deal," elite influence peddling, and how Epstein used power to evade justice. Key quotes from Sarnoff: “The people implicated ranged from Harvard to the White House to Buckingham Palace.” “The Epstein story wasn’t only about child sexual exploitation. It was also about blackmail and influence peddling at the highest levels of power.” She tried to tell the story. No one wanted to hear it.

🚨 MAJOR BOMBSHELL: Ted Lieu says the full, unreleased Epstein files show Donald Trump R*PING children. That’s what’s being hidden. That’s why the files stay sealed. That’s why there are no arrests. Release everything. Let the truth come out. Or RESIGN!

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🚨 BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene just admitted the Epstein files were blocked by Donald Trump himself. “He fought the hardest to STOP these files from being released.” Not Democrats. Not the DOJ. Not “the deep state.” Trump.

Applaud Gary Lineker please This time on Jim Ratcliffe: ‘Billionaires seek to divide us’ ‘He’s an economic migrant’ ‘In Monaco avoiding tax’ ‘Not contributing here’ ‘Man U have welcomed players from all countries’ ‘Would he say the same about white people?’ Superb analysis 👏

Dear @FIFAcom, this is the distinguished winner of your 2025 Peace Prize. What depths will this degenerate not go to?

Join us for the launch of @claraemattei’s new book Escape from Capitalism. 11 February, 5-7 pm Pelican House, London

New paper on "Representative Democracy Against Oligarchy" in New Political Science by Prof Lawrence Hamilton (@lhamilton365) Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/47…