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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: The war in Gaza has been an intense lesson in western hypocrisy. It won’t be forgotten

Children return to their destroyed homes in Deir al-Balah during the ‘pause’, 25 November. Photograph: Adel Al Hwajre/Images Live/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
Ćildṛn rtrn t ɖer dstroid homz in Der al-Balā jrñ ɖ ‘pōz’, 25 Nvmbr. Foṭgraf: Adel Al Hwajre/Iṃjz Lîv/Zuma Preswîr/Śuṭstoc

Ɖ wor in Gāza hz bn an intns lésn in wstn hipocṛsi. It w’nt b fgotn

Transcription of a Guardian article of 27 November 2023

Ppl hv sìn tù mć ɖt wl ste wɖ ɖm tù loñ. Trust in ɖ ‘inṭnaśnl cḿṇti’ wl nvr b ɖ sem

Nesrine Malik
Nesrīn Malic

Munde, 27 Nvmbr 2023

Ɖ  iṃjz v hosṭjz n priznrz biyñ ri-ynîtd wɖ ɖer faṃliz r olmst tù hopfl t abzorb. Īvn az Izreli oʈoṛtiz xpliṣtli trî t s’pres Paḷstińn “xpreśnz v jô” at ɖ rtrn v ɖer priznrz, ɖ fact ɖt ɖe wr rlist, n ɖt sm Izreli hosṭjz r nǎ sef n ri-ynîtd, signlz sm smōl promis. Bt īvn f ɖ wîldist hop z riylîzd – a lastñ sīsfîr – ẃt hz olrdi unfoldd ovr ɖ past 52 dez wl b hard t fget.

Ɖr z a śort vidio, postd on sośl mīdia a fy wīcs ago, ɖt I canot gt ǎt v mî hed. In ɖ clip, a man in Gāza z holdñ tū plastic bagz ɖt cari ɖ bodiparts v a ćîld, prizyṃbli hiz. Ɖr r uɖr dītelz. Ɖ lc on ɖ man’z fes. Ɖ we ɖoz arnd him avôd îcontact wns ɖe riylîz ẃt h z cariyñ. I si ɖz dītelz ofn nǎ, sudn n unbidn. Ɖ imośnl n sîc̣lojicl impact v ɖ wor on ɖoz ǎtsd Gāza – no matr hǎ intns – z a sort v priṿlij, haṗnñ, az it z, onli on ǎr scrīnz. Bt ɖr z smʈñ lastñ abt ɖz iṃjz. Uɖrz I nǒ r hōntd tù, bî difṛnt viźnz. Bî ɖ doctr hu cem acrs hr huzbnd’z bodi ẃl trītñ bomñvictimz. Bî ɖ faɖr strocñ n rocñ a dust-cuvrd bebi on hiz ćst wn last tîm.

In ɖ cors v evride lîf n in mî sośl-mīdia fīdz, I si ppl hu se ɖe fīl ɖe r gwñ mad. Ɖt ɖr r ʈñz ɖe wl nvr unsi. Ɖt ɖe c’nt slīp, ɖt ɖer inṭax́nz wɖ ɖ ćildṛn in ɖer lîvz hv bcm tinjd wɖ a sort v qīzi gilt. Ɖ fīlñ sīmz t b nt jst grīf, bt bwildrmnt at ɖ fact ɖt it hz ol carid on fr so loñ. Bt ɖe cīp woćñ. T stop lcñ z t admit ɖt y r hlplis. It mīnz y hv rzînd yrslf t ɖ fact ɖt ɖr z nʈñ y cn d, n ɖt y wl ivnć̣li s’cum t ɖt eṇmi v justis – a ftīg ɖt sīmz olrdi t b setñ in.

Ɖ truʈ, tù hard t axpt, z ɖt ɖr z nʈñ y cn d. Y cn rait t yr MP, y cn marć, y cn pṛtst. N ɖ cilñ cntinyz. Az ɖt hapnz, a jarñli bludlis acǎnt v ɖ conflict z gvn bî p’liticl līdrz in cuntriz lîc ɖ YS n YC, wn ɖt sīmz t omit ɖ śir fact n numbr v ɖ deʈs n rzorts instd t an olmst sriyl lanḡj ɖt cōlz fr “evri poṣbl pricōśn” t pṛtct sviłn lîf. YN ofiślz, nt noun fr intmpṛns, nǎ lūz ɖer cūl n yz ɖ strongist trmz poṣbl, in ẃt sīmz t b a d’rect rzult v ɖs wird insistns on nt cōlñ riaḷti ẃt it z. Ɖ de bfr ɖ trūs, Gāza oʈoṛtiz pt ɖ deʈtol at 14,532.

Ɖt’s ẃr ɖ sns v luzñ yr mînd cmz fṛm: ɖ fact ɖt it sīmz, fr ɖ frst tîm ɖt I cn ʈnc v, wstn pǎrz r unebl t creḍbli pritnd ɖt ɖr z sm globl sistm v rūlz ɖt ɖe uphold. Ɖe sīm t simpli se: ɖr r xpśnz, n ɖt’s jst ɖ we it z. No, it c’nt b xplend n yes, it wl cari on untl it dz’nt at sm pônt, ẃć sīmz t b ẃn Izreli oʈoṛtiz fīl lîc it.

Part v ɖt in’biḷti t rīć fr cnvinsñ naṛtivz abt ẃ so mni iṇsnt ppl mst dî z ɖt ivnts esc̣letd so qcli. Ɖr wz no tîm t set ɖ pes v ɖ atacs on Gāza, priper justiḟceśnz n hop ɖt ivnć̣li, ẃn it wz ol ovr, tîm n śort atnśnspanz wd cuvr p ɖ tol. Gāza hz bn a ynīcli, incnvińntli, intns conflict. “Xprts se ɖt ɖ pes v deʈ jrñ Izrel’z campen hz fy presidnts in ɖs snć̣ri,” ɖ Ny Yorc Tîmz sz. A militri xprt comntd it wz lîc nʈñ h’d sìn in hiz c’rir. Ɖ eria z so dnsli popyletd ɖt ɖ tol v sviłnz z tù hî, n evidns fr hvñ unḍmaind Hamas’z cepbiḷtiz, ɖ onli poṣbl justiḟceśn fr ɖ caźltiz, z tù lo.

N so ɖ past fy wīcs hv bn a spīdd-up lésn in ɖ iluẓri nećr v inṭnaśnl lw. Unlîc Irac, it hz nt tecn yirz fr ɖ bodiz t pîl p, fr ɖ evidns t mǎnt n t pruv ɖt ɖ vnćr md nwn sefr, wz mrsilis n msgîdd – n ultiṃtli fr confidns n trust in p’liticl līdrśp t lìć awe. Gāza z haṗnñ in riyl tîm, in sm instnsz lîvstrīmd. Ɖ bombardmnts r so rlentlis n consntretd ɖt intîr faṃliz hv bn wîpt ǎt. Ʈǎzndz hv bn dsplest, dragñ ɖer ćildṛn in mc-śift sledz (anɖr harowñ sīn). Ɖr z olso ɖ moṛl fors v ɖ ćildṛn. Nt jst ɖer deʈs, esṭmetd at p t 6,000 in les ɖn tū munʈs, bt ɖer orḟnñ, dsplesmnt, n depṛveśn v fūd n wōtr in a bsijd Gāza ɖt z nǎ, acordñ t YNIĆIF, “ɖ most denjṛs ples in ɖ wrld t b a ćîld”.

Hymnz cn b tòt t axpt an ōfl lot ɖt dz nt mc sns, bt ɖr z a limit t ẃt ppl cn b plōẓbli tld z nt poṣbl. Mć v cnsnt in poḷtics z s’krd bî popylr agrīmnt ɖt ɖr r ʈñz ɖt r simpli abv ɖ aṿrij sitizn’z pêgred, n īvn bynd guvnmntcntrol. Nt biyñ ebl t pswed “ɖ onli dmocṛsi in ɖ Midl Īst” v smʈñ ɖt sīmz plenli obvịs, ɖt ɖ hrific ivnts v 7 Octobr canot b irezd bî īvn mor horr, z nt wn v ɖm. Ɖ lésn z brūtl n śort: hymn rîts r nt yṇvrsl n inṭnaśnl lw z arbtreṛli aplaid.

I d’nt nǒ ẃr ɖt reṿleśn gz, wns it arîvz. Wn ʈñ I cn se wɖ mor srtnti z ɖt ppl hv sìn tù mć ɖt wl ste wɖ ɖm fr a loñ tîm. Ẃtvr hapnz wɖ ɖ frajîl trūs ɖt hz rlist a ʈin re v lît, a darcnis hz olso bn rlist intu ɖ wrld. Its fînl form z yt t tec śep, bt tec śep it wl.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Observer view on Suella Braverman: a home secretary who undermines the police has no place in government

Police officers and pro-Palestine protesters at a previous rally in central London on 4 November. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
P’līs ofisrz n pro-Paḷstîn pṛtstrz at a prīvịs rali in sntṛl Lundn on 4 Nvmbr. Foṭgraf: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Preswîr/Śuṭstoc

Ɖ Obzrvr vy on Suela Braṿmn: a homsecṛtri hu unḍmainz ɖ p’līs hz no ples in guvnmnt

Transcription of an Observer editorial of 11 November 2023

Ś md a dificlt sićueśn wrs bî ptñ preśr on ɖ Mét ovr ɖ proPaḷstîn marć

Saṭde, 11 Nvmbr 2023

Ẃn p’liticl tnśnz r runñ hî n ɖr r riscs t public ordr, eni rsponsbl poḷtiśn wd trî t rdys ɖ preśr, tec advîs fṛm p’līs on oṗreśnl matrz, n pubḷcli rj cām. Ɖ homsecṛtri, Suela Braṿmn, ćouz ɖ popylist rod in ɖ run-up t yesṭde’z marć in Lundn t pṛtst agnst Izrel’z militri ax́n in Gāza: t ʈro cōśn t ɖ wind, dplô inflaṃtri lanḡj n hint darcli at ɖ wrst-ces s’nārioz ɖt mt tec śep.

Braṿmn rout hr insnjri articl in ɖ Tîmz in ɖ nolij ɖt ɖr wz a funḍmntl dis’grīmnt btwn hr n ɖ cmiśnr v ɖ Metṛpolitn p’līs, Sr Marc Rǒli, on p’līsñstraṭji. Ś wontd yesṭde’z marć t b bánd bcz it cǒinsîdd wɖ ɖ s’lemṇti v Arṃstisde. Bt p’līspǎrz t ban protests r – rîtli – tîtli pṛscrîbd bî ɖ Public-Ordr Act: ɖe cn d so onli f ɖe b’liv ɖt pṛtstrz wl nt cmplî wɖ p’līs-rstrix́nz n ɖr cd b sirịs public dsordr, damij t proprti or dsrupśn t ɖ livz v ɖ cḿṇti.

It z tru ɖt ɖ marćz in prīvịs wīcs hv cntend unseṿri elimnts: ɖr hv bn a reḷtivli smōl numbr v arests, includñ fr ofnsz rletd t terrizm n insaitñ reśl hetrid. Bt ɖ marćz, involvñ hundṛdz v ʈǎzndz v ppl, hv bn pīsfl n cmplaid wɖ cndiśnz impozd on ɖm bî ɖ p’līs. Ɖt z nt t se ɖt evri marćr s’ports a pīsfl tū-stet s’lūśn in ɖ Midl Īst; sm hv adoptd ćants asośietd wɖ ɖ Hamas ćartr cmitmnt t dstrô Izrel. Ɖr z no moṛl justiḟceśn fr dwñ so, n it unḍstanḍbli cōzz dstres t mni Britiś Juz. Ys v ɖ ćants śd b cndemd.

Bt ɖs dz nt pṛvîd a līgl justiḟceśn fr banñ a protest, on ẃć ɖ gret mjoṛti v marćrz wl hv bn hoṛfaid bʈ bî ɖ apōlñ acts v terr cmitd bî Hamas on 7 Octobr az wel az ɖ hyj numbr v Paḷstińn sviłnz biyñ cild jrñ Izreli asōlts on Hamas in Gāza. Ɖ līgl ʈreśhold fr banñ a marć z rîtli hî – ɖ last tîm ɖs pǎr wz yzd wz ovr a deced ago – n it z ɖ rsponsbiḷti v ɖ p’līs t ases ẃɖr it hz bn met n t aplî fr pmiśn t ban it f ɖe juj it hz. It z nt fr ɖ homsecṛtri t inṭfir bî aplayñ p’liticl preśr on ɖ p’līs t ban a marć ś dz nt lîc.

Ɖt z xacli ẃt Braṿmn hz dn. N bî yzñ insnjri trmz lîc “hetmarćrz” n “mobz” t miscaṛcṭrize hol marćz v mni ʈǎzndz v ppl hu r ljitṃtli x’sîzñ ɖer deṃcratic rît t pṛtst, ś impliṣtli incurijd faŗît pṛtstrz t cm ǎt t cǎnṭdemnstret on Arṃstisde. Cm ǎt ɖe dd: ɖr wr sevṛl scrmiśz btwn ɖ faŗît n ɖ p’līs in sntṛl Lundn yesṭde mornñ in ɖ run-up t ɖ tū-minit sîḷns, wɖ masct men ćantñ Izlaṃfobic slognz yardz fṛm ɖ Seṇtaf, n arests wr md. Ɖr wr frɖr vayḷnt claśz in ɖ afṭnun, n ɖ p’līs hd t wrc hard t privnt faŗît pṛtstrz fṛm cnfruntñ ɖ marćrz.

Ʈrt ɖs, Riśi Sūnac hz mntend ɖt Braṿmn rtenz hiz confidns. Az prîm̦inistr, h z ultiṃtli rsponsbl fr hiz homsecṛtri’z bhevyr: hr unḍmainñ v ɖ oṗreśnl indipndns v ɖ p’līs n hr stǒcñ v tnśnz at a hîli snṣtiv tîm, in a we ɖt apirz t cǒinsîd wɖ ẃt ś b’livz t b in frɖṛns v hr ambiśn t wn de līd ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti. Ś mst b sact.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Labour losing voters over Gaza matters – whether it hurts electorally or not

‘Patience with Keir Starmer’s position is running out.’ Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
‘Peśns wɖ Cir Starmr’z pziśn z runñ ǎt.’ Foṭgraf: Mrdo McLaud/Ɖ Gardịn

Lebr luzñ votrz ovr Gaza matrz – ẃɖr it hrts ilectṛli or nt

Transcription of a Guardian article of 30 October 2023

Cir Starmr’z rspons hz xpozd a parti ǎt v tuć wɖ, n īvn cntmtẏs v, its grasrūts

Nesrine Malik
Nesrīn Malic

Munde, 30 Octobr 2023

Caʈi hd votd Lebr ol hr lîf. Ɖen ś hŕd an LBC inṭvy wɖ Cir Starmr. In it, h wz asct f it wz “aproprịt” ɖt Izrel śd bsij Gāza, cutñ of pǎr n wōtr. “I ʈnc Izrel dz hv ɖt rît,” Starmr rplaid. Caʈi imīɉtli rzînd fṛm ɖ parti, ẃć ś jônd ʈri yirz ago ẃn Starmr wz ilectd līdr. “Ɖs hz bn ɖ last strw,” ś tlz m. Prīvịs strwz, ś sz, includ a raft v poḷsiz ɖt Lebr hd wōtrd dǎn, n Tori poḷsiz ɖt Lebr wd nt rpil. Bt Lebr’z pziśn on ɖ sīj v Gāza hz cild of ɖ litl feʈ ś hd left.

Wɖ ɖt wn inṭvy n hiz rspons t its fōlǎt, Starmr hz demnstretd t sm Lebr votrz nt jst hiz fełr t ingej wɖ hǎ stroñli ɖe fīl, bt a wîdr, mor periḷs vulnṛbiḷti in hiz p’liticl project: a hartlis intranzijns ɖt ʈretnz t xōst ɖ gdwil so far xtndd t him.

Peśns z runñ ǎt, īvn amñ hî-profîl Lebr figrz. Sdīc Cān, Andi Brnm n Anas Sarwar hv ol brocn rancs wɖ ɖ Lebr līdrśp n cōld fr a sīsfîr. Az Izreli forsz step p grǎnd oṗreśnz in Gāza n ɖ hymaṇterịn sićueśn groz īvn mor despṛt, on ɖ cardz z nt jst a Lebr-parti rvolt bt a votrbôcót.

Ɖ cnsistnsi in ɖ pziśn v sevṛl Lebr votrz I spouc t ovr ɖ past fy dez z strîcñ. Ɖ mn asrśn: ɖe wl nt b votñ fr ɖs Lebr parti. Ɖ rīzn: ɖ parti crost a lîn bî ifctivli indorsñ Izrel’z cilñ n bsijñ v sviłnz. Ɖ lanḡj v a fînl rec̣nñ cem p a lot: “a red lîn”, “a lîn in ɖ sand”, “ɖ strw ɖt brouc ɖ caml’z bac”, a “masc hz slipt”. N ɖ angr z bî no mīnz secterịn. “It’s īzịr t frem it az a Mŭzlim iśu,” sz Caḷm, a membr hu hz left ɖ parti. “It’s nt a Mŭzlim iśu. It’s a hymn wn.”

Lebr’z damijliṃteśn rspons dd litl bt intrenć ɖs vy v an untruswrɖi, sinicl līdrśp. It tc Starmr dez t adres hiz LBC coments, n ɖen, bzarli, h clemd ɖt h nvr sd ɖm at ol. Ɖen ɖr wz hiz vizit t a mosc n Izlamic sntr in sǎʈ Wêlz, a saṇteśn x’sîz ɖt bacfîrd epicli. On sośl mīdia, Starmr postd iṃjz v smîlñ congrignnts, seyñ h hd “rpitd ǎr cōlz fr hosṭjz t b rlist, mor hymaṇterịn ed t entr Gāza, fr wōtr n pǎr t b swićt bac on, n a rnyd foc̣s on ɖ tū-stet s’lūśn”. A stetmnt iśùd bî Sǎʈ Wêlz Izlamic Sntr via ɖ Mŭzlim Caunsl v Wêlz rjctd Starmr’z vrśn v hǎ ɖ mītñ wnt, stresñ ɖt hiz “sośl mīdia post n iṃjz grevli misreprizntd ǎr congrignts n ɖ nećr v ɖ vizit”.

Ɖ dbācl z simbolic v ɖ tondefnis n rmotnis v ɖ upr rancs v ɖ Lebr parti. Ɖ episod left ɖoz involvd trōṃtîzd n unwilñ t coment frɖr on ɖ matr, ẃć mīnz ɖ sveṛti v ɖ afṭmaʈ hz nt bn fŭli graspt. Hvr, I spouc t Azim Āmed, ɖ secṛtri jenṛl v ɖ Mŭzlim Caunsl v Wêlz, n h tld m v a cḿṇti nǎ īvn mor angri at Lebr, bcz v hǎ ɖ vizit wz instṛmnṭlîzd; n v ɖ rzultñ damij t ɖ rleśnśp btwn locl partirepriznttivz n Wsminstr. “It’s riyli unḍmaind trust in poḷtiśnz az a hol,” h tld m. Fīlñz ran hî nt jst bcz v a “prínsipld abstract p’liticl standpônt. Ɖr r ppl in Wêlz hu hv hd ɖer faṃliz cmplitli wîpt ǎt in Gāza. Smtmz, ɖ dgri v seṗreśn fṛm smwn hu hz daid z tū dgriz, ʈri dgriz. Ɖs z ppl wurid abt ppl.”

Wn sīńr Lebr-parti membr dscrîbd ɖ reẓgneśn v Lebr caunslrz in rspons t ɖ parti’z pziśn on Gāza az “śecñ of ɖ flìz”. Ɖs aproć hz brōdli caṛcṭrîzd Lebr’z aproć t ɖ dsntñ vyz it hz atribytd en masse t a cranci left, bt it sīmz incrisñli risci ẃn a hî-octen p’liticl ivnt galṿnîzz ppl acrs a deṃgrafic profîl ɖt z tù larj t b so īẓli dsmist. S’leca, anɖr votr lost t Lebr in ɖ past tū wīcs, tlz m v an atṃsfir in hr locl eria in Hacni ẃr ppl r îdnṭfayñ wɖ ɖ Paḷstîn iśu ʈru “difṛnt inṭsx́nz” az it drwz in “grīnz, feṃnists n a brōdr libṛl cọliśn”. Mnẃl, poulñ rvilz a p’liticl istabliśmnt dṛmaticli at odz wɖ ɖ cuntri az a hol, in ẃć 76% r in s’port v a sīsfîr. Ɖt’s a lot v flìz.

Ɖr r uɖr riscs. “Ɖ grǎnd z śiftñ vri qcli,” Azim tld m. It’s bn so loñ sins Lebr hz bn in guvnmnt in ɖ YC ɖt “mni yuñ ppl d’nt īvn hv an xpirịns v ẃt ɖt mt lc lîc”. F ɖe form a stroñ neġtiv vy v ɖ parti nǎ, “ɖt rlayns on biyñ ɖ onli vaybl oltrṇtiv z nt a sef calkleśn at ol”.

Ɖr r sînz ɖt Lebr, practist nǎ in ɖ art v fiġrñ ǎt hu it cn śec of wɖt hrtñ its riilex́nćansz, z bginñ t cać on. In adiśn t Starmr’z atmt t rvrs hiz pziśn, ɖr hv bn mītñz wɖ Lebr MPz n caunsļīdrz. Bt it w’nt b inuf. Winñ ovr ɖoz ɖt hv ćect ǎt z abt mor ɖn Gāza. It’s abt adresñ ɖ growñ impreśn v Lebr az a parti incrisñli ǎt v tuć wɖ, n cntmtẏs v, its grasrūts, bʈ in poḷsi oḟrñ n ton.

Wns ɖt impreśn tecs hold, eni apilz t vot fr ɖ lesr v tū īvlz wl nt land. Ɖt risc wl nvr b fŭli graspt bî a parti constntli rdysñ protest t a numbrz x’sîz, a flìcalkleśn. I am tld bî a sīńr Lebr insîdr ɖt ɖ Paḷstîn iśu z olrdi biyñ aṇlîzd sol̦i in trmz v ẃć Mŭzlim sīts cd swñ awe fṛm Lebr, n ẃr wîld-card canddets cn swūp in, campen n win on ɖs sngl iśu, az Jorj Gaḷwe dd in ɖ past. Ɖ hop z ɖt ɖz r prospects unlîcli t cm t pas in a mtirịli daṃjñ we.

Bt let s fr a momnt rlis ǎrslvz fṛm ɖ tiṛni inflictd bî ɖ desṗreśn t gt rid v a c’lamiṭs Tori guvnmnt, n Lebr’z dmand ɖt w mst simpli hold ǎr nozz n folo its līd in ordr t aćiv ɖt end. Cnsrnz n fṛstreśnz abt Gāza stl matr, īvn f ɖe d’nt śo p in ɖ poulz, or f Lebr winz enwe. Akześnz ɖt eni objx́nz t ɖ Lebr project inebl ɖ Toriz xpoz a liṃtd, śruncn unḍstandñ v ẃt libṛl dmocṛsi z fr. It’s abt votñ, v cors, bt it’s olso abt cnsnt, abt ɖ fact ɖt votrz r riyl ppl wɖ fīlñz n visṛl rsponsz ɖt ɖe canot b xpctd t ńtr in ɖ srvis v a p’liticl sistm ɖt felz t repriznt ɖm, n ɖen blemz ɖm fr it.

Hold ppl t ransm az ɖe witnis a vast injustis prṗtretd n ɖe mt jst x’sîz ẃt ɖe si az ɖer onli mīnz v oʈntic p’liticl xpreśn. “It’s qt rer fr m t fīl ɖs mć angr twdz poḷtiśnz,” Franc, anɖr parti s’portr hu wl nǎ nt vot Lebr, tld m ẃn I asct him f h hz ʈt abt hǎ hiz abstnśn mt hlp ɖ Toriz, “so I’m gwñ t hīd ɖt.” It z a dámñ indîtmnt v ɖ Lebr parti ɖt ɖs rspons wl probbli b vyd nt az a moṛl rît, bt az a lux̣́ri.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Labour’s byelection victories: the party is edging closer to power

The Labour party leader, Keir Starmer, joins the newly-elected MP for Tamworth, Sarah Edwards. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
Ɖ Lebr parti līdr, Cir Starmr, jônz ɖ nyli-ilectd MP fr Tamwrʈ, Sẹra Edwdz. Foṭgraf: Crisṭfr Frloñ/Geti

Ɖ Gardịn vy on Lebr’z bîilex́nvicṭriz: ɖ parti z éjñ closr t pǎr

Transcription of a Gardian editorial of 20 October 2023

Ɖs hz bn a teribl wīc fr Riśi Sūnac. Bt Sr Cir Starmr nīdz t c’rect cors tù

Frîde, 20 Octobr 2023

Ɖ  public hz lrnt ɖt Riśi Sūnac’s poḷsiz sw him lebld Dr Deʈ bî ɖ guvnmnt’s sạntific advîzrz jrñ Covid. Hiz wīc hz got wrs. Ɖ twin dfits inflictd on Mr Sūnac’s guvnmnt in Ʈrzde’z bîilx́nz sjst h z in denjr v dstroyñ ɖ Toriz at ɖ nxt jenṛl ilex́n. Ɖ contests wr ć trigrd bî grubi ivnts, bt ɖ losz signl sgnificnt discntnt in tū wñz v ɖ cọliśn ɖt wún ɖ Cnsrṿtivz ɖ jenṛl ilex́n in 2019.

In Stafdśr’z Tamwrʈ, ẃć rejistrd wn v ɖ bigist līv̦ots in ɖ Brexit reḟrendm, ɖ 23.9% swñ fṛm Cnsrṿtiv t Lebr wz ɖ secnd hîist in postwor bîilex́n hisṭri. Wn v ɖ bluist v blu sīts, Mid Bedfdśr hz nvr hd a Lebr MP sins its crieśn in 1918. It dz nǎ. Ɖs z landslîd teritri, n Mr Sūnac nz it.

Trnǎt wz lo in bʈ bîilx́nz. It mt b argyd ɖt ɖ Toriz lost ɖz sīts, rɖr ɖn Lebr winñ ɖm. Bt ɖ Cnsrṿtivz hv t asc ɖmslvz ẃ ɖe cd nt cnvins tū-ʈrdz v ɖer 2019 votrz t trn p, ẃl Lebr’z vot hld p. Wɖ a jenṛl ilex́n lîcli wɖn a yir, ɖ Tori vot śoud sînz v fragmentñ. In Mid Bedfdśr, ɖ rîtwñ Rform parti sîfnd of inuf vots t privnt a Cnsrṿtiv vicṭri, ẃl ɖ Lib Démz, poulz sjst, wr ifctiv at winñ ovr disiluźnd Toriz.

Cnsrṿtivz r dludñ ɖmslvz f ɖe ʈnc ɖer probḷmz r jst abt gtñ ɖer vot ǎt. Lebr z aćivñ bîilex́nswñz on ɖ scel last sìn undr Toni Bler jrñ ɖ mid-1990z, ẃn trnǎt fél jst az heṿli. Ɖt z an omiṇs historicl presidnt fr Mr Sūnac t b folowñ. Tori MPz r dīpli dvîdd abt ẃt t d. Mni v ɖer līdñ lîts hv clozd ɖer mîndz t ny îdīaz n lac tolṛns fr opozñ vyz. Ɖ rzult z an inṭlecćl bancrupsi. Ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti z xōstd, p’liticli rudrlis n in despṛt nīd v a pirịd v rnywl ǎtsd guvnmnt.

Bt Lebr riscs biyñ cnsymd bî a fyrori ovr ɖ pziśn ɖ partilīdr, Sr Cir Starmr, hz tecn ovr ivnts in ɖ Midl Īst. Lebr hz dstnḡśt itslf fṛm ɖ Toriz in ɖ past bî hvñ an eʈicl foṛn poḷsi. Hvr, Sr Cir junct ɖs aproć ẃn h wz asct ẃɖr Izrel wz rît t le sīj t Gaza – cutñ of pǎr n wōtr – folowñ Hamas’z maṣcr v siviłnz. H rîtli cndemd ɖ horrz v 7 Octobr. Hiz imīɉt rspons wz olso t apaṛntli agri ɖt Izrel hd ɖ rît t bsij siviłnz, rɖr ɖn se ɖt its ax́nz me consttyt a worcrîm.

Ɖs ansr mt hv bn instñtiv, bt it hz damijd trust in hiz jujmnt, ispeṣ́li amñ Mŭzlim votrz hu hv flt tecn fr grantd az Sr Cir jetisnd past pziśnz. Lebr lcs unsimṗʈetic t Paḷstińnz. MPz wɖ larj numbrz v Mŭzlim votrz r bginñ t wuri. Sr Cir atmtd t mc amndz bî “claṛfayñ” hiz rmarcs. Bt rɖr ɖn wɖdrw̃ hiz coments, h sd hiz critics hd got it roñ. In rspons, Miś Rāman, a Mŭzlim membr v Lebr’z rūlñ naśnl-xektiv cmiti, rout: “Stop gaslîtñ n apoḷjîz.”

Sr Cir śd b bigr ɖn ɖs. Lebr’z bîilex́nwinz wr in līfi parts v Britn ɖt r untućt bî ɖs dbet. Bt hiz coments r daṃjñ hiz parti’z wîdr moṛl standñ. Seyñ sori nǎ wd g a loñ we t cāmñ a storm ɖt cd hit Lebr hard az ɖ deʈ tol mǎnts in Gaza. It’s sd ɖt votrz hv loñ meṃriz, bt smtmz ɖe cn b s’prîzñli śort. Brítnz r in a mūd t trf ɖ Toriz fṛm ofis. Lebr’z intrnl rǎz śd nt privnt ɖ public fṛm dwñ so.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Gordon Brown: coronavirus must be ‘eradicated in every continent’

Britain’s former prime minister Gordon Brown speaking at a Christian Aid Week event last year. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters
Britn’z formr prîm̦inistr Gordn Brǎn spīcñ at a Crisćn Ed Wīc ivnt last yir. Foṭgraf: Sîmn Dōsn/Rôtrz

Gordn Brǎn: c’roṇvîṛs mst b ‘iradcetd in evri continnt’

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 14 May 2020)

Britn’z formr prîm̦inistr sz onli inṭnaśnl cooṗreśn cn brñ ɖ pandemic t an end

Harịt Śrwŭd, Ʈrzde, 14 Me 2020

Gordn Brǎn hz wornd ɖt a secnd or ʈrd wev v c’roṇvîṛs infx́n cd eṃnet fṛm pur cuntriz wɖ undiveḷpt hlʈsistmz, seyñ ɖ riscs cn b cntrold onli bî coorḍnetd inṭnaśnl ax́n.

Ɖ globl crîsis v ɖ Covid-19 pandemic wl nt end untl it z “iradcetd in evri continnt”, ɖ formr prîm̦inistr sd.

“It z in ol ǎr inṭrests t privnt a secnd or ʈrd wev startñ in ɖ purist, līst pṛtctd cuntriz wɖ ɖ most unḍdiveḷpt hlʈsistmz. So a ʈret t uɖrz z a ʈret t s, n w hlp ǎrslvz bî hlpñ uɖrz. Pṛtctñ ǎrslvz loc̣li mīnz w nīd t act gloḅli,” Brǎn rout in ɖ fōrwrd t a rport bî ɖ inṭnaśnl dveḷpmntćaṛti Crisćn Ed.

“Tde w fes a globl medicl imrjnsi, n w canot end ɖ c’roṇvîṛs pandemic unls it z iradcetd in evri continnt.”

Ɖ rport, Tipñpônt: hǎ ɖ Covid-19 pandemic ʈretnz t pś ɖ wrld’z purist t ɖ brinc v svîvl, wornz ɖt ɖ wrld’z purist cuntriz r il-iqipt t cǒp wɖ ɖ impact v ɖ dziz.

Cuntriz olrdi dīlñ wɖ endemic poṿti, pṛtractd hymaṇterịn crîsīz, loñ-runñ conflict, fūd inṣkṛti, ic̣nomic śocs, dsplesmnt n unḍfundd hlʈsistmz r ispeṣ́li at risc.

Ɖ rport, publiśt jrñ Crisćn Ed Wīc, lcs at ɖ consiqnsz v ɖ pandemic in for cuntriz. It sz:

• Siera Līon z stl rcuṿrñ fṛm ɖ dedli Ibola eṗdemic ɖt startd in 2014, ẃć cild wn in fîv v ɖ cuntri’z hlʈwrcrz. Détcanṣleśn wd alǎ ɖ guvnmnt t spend mor on its rspons t Covid.
• In Bangḷdeś, mor ɖn 850,000 R’hinja refyjīz livñ in camps in Cox’z Bzar aftr biyñ forṣbli dsplest fṛm Mianmar r at grev risc fṛm ɖ pandemic.
• Sǎʈ Sdan z wn v ɖ cuntriz in ɖ wrld most vulnṛbl t Covid, wɖ a hymaṇterịn crîsis drivn bî yirz v pṛtractd conflict.
• In Gāza, ɖ ic̣nomic crîsis rzultñ fṛm a 13-yir bloced impozd bî Izrel n Ījipt hz bn xasbetd bî ɖ pandemic n hz trigrd a spîc in hymn-rîts vạleśnz.

Crisćn Ed z cōlñ fr feʈlīdrz t activli ingej in miṇmîzñ ɖ spred v Covid-19; a comprihnsiv détcanṣleśn dīl fr ɖ purist cuntriz; n fr donrz t sefgard cuṛnt hymaṇterịn wrc acrs ɖ wrld.

Patric Wot, Crisćn Ed’z poḷsi n campenz d’rectr, sd: “Covid-19 hz xpozd ɖ dīp fōltlînz in ssaytiz, n ɖ wez in ẃć ǎr icoṇmi z brocn. Wɖt cnsrtd ax́n, ɖ pandemic ʈretnz t dīpn ɖoz iniqoḷtiz, n set bac ɖ fît agnst poṿti bî a jeṇreśn.

“Bî tecñ steps nǎ t miṇmîz ɖ spred v ɖ vîṛs, miṭget ɖ wrst ifcts on ppl’z lîvlihdz, n pṛtct xistñ hymaṇterịn wrc, guvnmnts n sivl ssayti cn privnt a crîsis fṛm esc̣letñ intu a ctastṛfi.”

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