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 »
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 »
“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 »
Palestine flag outside the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday – Reuters The Reuters piece reads: The co-founder of a pro-Palestinian campaign group on Wednesday won her bid to bring a legal challenge against the British government’s decision to ban the … Read More »
So: Palestinian statehood is not a right in this execrable man’s view. It is a bargaining chip for a deal with Bibi. He presumes to dictate to the victims of a genocide, one his regime has so richly enabled, … Read More »
Highly intelligent analyses, coupled with an easy familiarity with English vernacular – the better to convey matters of political-economy with vivid accuracy – have propelled Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister, to celebrity status on the international Left. A touch … Read More »
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