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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The Swifties have reportedly conducted a coordinated strike on Islamic State targets in Northern Iraq on Friday, following the disruption of the pop star's Vienna concerts due to a foiled terror plot. This marks an unprecedented escalation in fan activism, raising questions about the potential for non-state actors to engage in military action. The attack...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The presumptive 2024 Democrat candidate and current Vice President of the USA, Kamala Harris has finally chosen her running mate for the November election. And while everyone had imagined her eventual pick would look like a run-of-the-mill rural politician, nobody could have imagined just how rural the bloke she has chosen looks. The rural vote is expected to soar off...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The UK Prime Minister has promised “swift criminal sanctions” for anyone who has taken part in the violent riots that have broken out in the country over the past week. As a former Crown Prosecutor who locked up thousands of drunk and excitable men during the 2011 riots, Keir Starmer has form with an absolutely no tolerance approach to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As of Monday morning, Kamala Harris is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for the 2024 US Election. This comes after the incumbent President Joe Biden declared that he will be leaving politics at the conclusion of his current term. It's an announcement that has had the Republicans running around in circles, after the Democrats waited until after last week's...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT As the race to the Whitehouse becomes to heat up, The Betoota Advocate has decided to break it's strict apolitical position and put forward a left field candidate. With Joe Biden officially pulling out of contention for the Democratic nomination in this November's US election, our humble regional newspaper is calling for Sydney Sweeney to be the 47th...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A growing number of senior Democrats - including Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Steny Hoyer - are reportedly 'sweating' today, as they wait on the result of a critical opinion poll regarding the party's replacement presidential candidate for the November election. Following President Joe Biden's abrupt departure from the the 2024 race, droves of senior Democrats have quickly backed...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT 81-year-old US President Joe Biden has officially declared that it would be in the best interests of the Democratic Party, and the American people, if he were to pull out of the race for the White House. Biden has also clarified that he will continue to serve the rest of his term as president, and has immediately thrown his...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Joe Biden has dramatically quit the race for president, bowing to pleas from key political allies who are worried he doesn't have what it takes to win a second time, especially that really cool photo of Donald Trump covered in blood under the American flag. The one-term President announced that he was ending his effort to seek another term,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite his disastrous debate performance, and several career-defining gaffes over the last 24 hours - President Joe Biden has insisted that he's staying in the race. With Congress returning to session, several senior House Democrats have called on Biden to step down - however, the wider Democratic Party remain confident in Biden. Onlookers also remain confident that the Democrats know...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT President Joe Biden has made a number of gaffes this morning that has only caused more nervousness within the Democrats. Moments ago the President accidentally referred to his Vice President Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump” while answering the first question at a high-stakes press conference that aimed to convince the rest of his high-ranking Democratic officials to re-endorse...