Another fail at Guardian towers over an extremely unsavoury article which appeared to justify vandalism on a branch of Gail’s bakery. The paper suggested opening a Gail’s near a Palestinian-owned cafe was provocative and said the Israeli-founded chain’s expansion was “aggressive”…
A spokesperson for the Israeli Embassy said the article was “an astonishing exercise in bigotry disguised as moral commentary.” Inevitably a correction has been issued and reads:
“This article was amended on 17 March 2026. A reference to the arrival of Gail’s feeling like “an act of heavy-handed high-street aggression” has been repositioned to clarify it meant to refer to the described fears about the chain’s impact on small traders. Also, a comment contrasting activism that is capable of influencing global events with “small acts of petty symbolism”, which was not intended to minimise local vandalism but rather to suggest its misdirected futility, has been removed to avoid misunderstanding.”
Sure it meant that. Sure it did…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”