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It should be The Character of the British Regime under Starmer, for Britain is not Labour or the regime. “Labour approved more arms sales than the Conservatives permitted over the previous four years…  [W]e cannot accuse Starmer of ‘inaction’ or ‘complicity’. For he is not a bystander, but a perpetrator…  [A]n adamantine commitment to upholding the interests of the powerful which sanctions even the most intense forms of violence, including the crime of genocide. “Rather than trying to resolve the war in Ukraine, Starmer proposed a major provocation: sending UK troops to the front line as part of a ‘coalition of the willing’. Rather than calming tensions with China, his government inflamed them by announcing that it is ‘ready to fight’ in the Pacific.” Palestine Action. “ The decree is without precedent in British history. Never before has the state taken such extreme measures to eradicate a protest movement. “During his time in office, environmentalists have reportedly receive...

Excerpts The coup in August 2020 was welcomed by a population tired of the corruption and incompetence of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s government.  But the new regime grew increasingly hardline and eventually banned political parties in May 2025. Most opposition figures are now in exile, notably the imam Mahmoud Dicko, who leads from Algiers the Coalition of Forces for the Republic, set up in December 2025, and the communist Oumar Mariko, president of the now dissolved African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence party, who tried unsuccessfully to mediate with JNIM to secure the release of 17 hostages in March 2026. Even so, the regime still retains some popular support. ‘The jihadists have failed to stir up the population as they’d hoped,’ says Senegalese journalist Abdou Khadre Cissé. Spending on military equipment and security is draining state finances, prompting new taxes on mobile phone top-ups and money transfers via phone. In jihadist-dominated areas, people endure rackete...

 Briefly… In the last 30 years (since June 1996),   eight   UK Prime Ministers have resigned from office. “While it is historically rare for a major political party to lose power without a resignation, the UK has experienced a highly volatile period of leadership turnover, particularly over the last decade. “The high number of UK Prime Minister resignations over the last 30 years—particularly the rapid succession of six departures over the last decade—is rooted in  chronic economic stagnation, deep societal divisions triggered by Brexit, and the collapsing quality of public services.” (Google AI search results)