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 »
As noted seven years ago in the fab four: a personal view, my childhood was milestoned and made bearable by the Beatles. Not far behind, however, was the arrival in early adolescence of a Cambridge outfit which first caught my … Read More »
No coherent alternative to the economically and morally catastrophic consequences of the ‘austerity’ embraced in all but name by Starmer and his incompetent Chancellor is possible without decisively defeating the notion that “balancing the books” – i.e. repaying a creditor … Read More »
“In just 200 years we’ve progressed all the way from expecting our leaders to slaughter brown skinned people while saying racist things, to expecting our leaders to slaughter brown skinned people while condemning racism” – Caitlin Johnstone I opened a … 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 »