See footnote Yvette Cooper has continually lied about Palestine Action in a panicked attempt to defend the proscription of a direct action protest group which is opposing a Genocide in which Cooper’s government is deeply complicit. Craig Murray, below Just over a … Read More »
Introducing the Richard Murphy piece replicated below, Naked Capitalism’s Conor Gallagher says this: According to the Kiel Institute, the UK has shovelled 19.266 billion euros into the corrupt hole of death that is Ukraine, which is always worth remembering when elites … Read More »
Am I overthinking things? Wouldn’t be the first time. I’ve heard Owen Jones, George Galloway, Kernow Damo – even Andrew Neil FFS! – voice disgust at the arrest of a blind disabled man. My step-daughter, a criminal law solicitor, phoned … Read More »
Like a stopped clock right twice a day, even a Guardian much criticised on this site – here and here for instance – managed a decent cartoon by Ella Barton on the mass arrests at London’s Parliament Square on Saturday … Read More »
law-abiding britons are arrested en masse by the police of a state actively and variously complicit in the world’s first live-streamed genocide. their crime? the newly created one of holding placards expressing support for a non violent direct action group … Read More »
See this morning’s Sqwawkbox post Defend Our Juries is campaigning to lift the ban on non-violent direct action group, Palestine Action, listed last month by UK home Secretary Yvette Cooper as a terrorist outfit comparable to ISIS or Murder Maniacs … Read More »
Above, UK Telegraph gets it spectacularly wrong, November 8, 2024. Below, Kit Klarenberg yesterday. Amsterdam’s National Coordinator for Security and Counter-Terrorism (NCTV) has designated Israel a “state threat”. The agency’s annual assessment of “threat actors” for 2025 takes damning aim at … Read More »
August 4, 2025 Four days ago, in a footnote to Palestine Action set to challenge UK ban, I noted that Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori … … had won her high court bid for leave to appeal the UK home … Read More »
At what point does simple spill over into simplistic? It’s not always an easy call, least of all amid the fog of war – any war, let alone the shifting currents and swirls of one linked in diverse ways to … Read More »
“I didn’t set up this site to endorse the hypocrisies our corrupt media and politicians spew out” – steel city scribe “Pro-Israel sentiment is baked in, articulated constantly by our politicians and media. Anyone who condemns Hamas has no control … Read More »