Edward Torsney
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A UK education professional examines how British Values—democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect—require consistent opposition to apartheid, genocide, and fascist rehabilitation, regardless of whether the states involved are Western allies. This article applies the Department for Education’s fundamental British values framework to Israel’s occupation of Palestine and Ukraine’s state commemoration of OUN-UPA…
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Edward Torsney critiques Andy Burnham’s 2026 schools reform, asking whether tailoring the curriculum to local employers emancipates working-class pupils or grooms them for a life of servitude — drawing on Rousseau, Freire, Bowles & Gintis, Bourdieu, Gramsci, and Dickens
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The UK Government is running a public consultation called “Watch this space: a new strategic direction for UK media.” The proposals include mandatory changes to how content is discovered on YouTube. In further attacks against independent voices, after last week ‘debanking’ The Canary news platform, the British Government is now considering forcing YouTube to down-rank…
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A proposed UK national security law could impose terrorism-level penalties on those accused of quoting foreign groups or states designated as a “threat”, raising serious concerns for journalists, free speech advocates, and humanitarian organisations. Critics warn that vague wording around “support,” “foreign interference,” and information-gathering could criminalise public-interest reporting and chill democratic scrutiny
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Israeli forces are systematically targeting journalists in Gaza and Lebanon, killing them and their families in brutal “double‑tap” strikes. From the murder of documentary filmmaker Fatma Hassona to the assassination of reporter Amal Khalil, evidence points to a deliberate strategy of eliminating witnesses to conceal war crimes and genocide. This investigation traces the pattern, the…
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In the spirit of Roland Barthes, Ed Torsney’s philosophical analysis explores the terrifying alchemy of Israel’s “Generative AI for Good” deepfake initiative. By manufacturing synthetic testimony of rape survivors to justify political ends, we have entered a new rhetorical age where the image no longer records the world—it remakes it. This essay unpacks the semiotics…
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Final solution kill zone model revealed by IDF at GHF sites.
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In the Nuremberg trials, those guilty of atrocities were made accountable regardless of their rank. The excuse of just following orders was not acceptable. In the Gaza genocide, the Hind Rajab Foundation aims to apply the same principles and put all those guilty of atrocities on trial at courts around the world.
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Rigorous research shows that 680,000 people (mostly civilians) have now been killed by Israel in Gaza. British mainstream media is suppressing this information but The Canary and Skwawkbox thankfully are not.
