The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property
The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.
This is absolutely insane.
The suffragettes used far more extreme tactics than Palestine Action.
They planted bombs, burned down private homes and smashed up art galleries.
They killed five people!
Her outrageous judgement is based on absurd historical ignorance.
The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property
The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.
kind of crazy how similar the sentences are between Corner, who arguably was the one person who did something actually egregious, and the others who did very little. Almost like it was a state show of force rather than a proportionate set of sentences
There are no words to describe the shame that this is. The entire government and court system should be ashamed. In the decades and centuries to come this will be in history books as yet another disgraceful act of this government in defence of a genocidal entity.
Here’s injustice Jeremy Johnson handing down the sentences at today’s disgusting stitched up Palestine Action trial.
Any faith I ever had in the fairness of the British justice system is completely is dead.
Tom Wainwright, one of the defence barristers, said of the destruction of drones:
“They may have been involved in taking the lives of men, women and children in Gaza. That is why they acted. That’s something that – in a sane world – would be commended.”
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Police violently attacked protestors outside Woolwich Crown Court, after draconian terrorism sentences were handed down for the Filton 4.
The four were sentenced as terrorists, after a jury convicted them of criminal damage for destroying Israeli killer drones.
Jeremy Johnson - in 50 years time this will be the only 1.39 minutes of your life you'll be remembered for. It'll be played in genocide museums to sum up the complicity and callous brutality of the British state in the face of the slaughter of the Palestinian people - and the courage of those who opposed it.
Here’s injustice Jeremy Johnson handing down the sentences at today’s disgusting stitched up Palestine Action trial.
Any faith I ever had in the fairness of the British justice system is completely is dead.
Today, four Palestine Action activists were sentenced as terrorists, for destroying over 40 weapons, including Israeli killer drones, inside Elbit's Filton arms facility.
Please donate to support those facing terror legislation for disrupting genocide. chuffed.org/project/filton24…
The concerns I raised about Gaza - including distressing eyewitness accounts from UK medics - were a result of moral urgency, not 'mid life crisis'.
It felt like hitting a brick wall at the time - now I know how casually those concerns were dismissed.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
The concerns I raised about Gaza - including distressing eyewitness accounts from UK medics - were a result of moral urgency, not 'mid life crisis'.
It felt like hitting a brick wall at the time - now I know how casually those concerns were dismissed.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Pro-Palestine prisoner Umer Khalid, a 22-year-old with muscular dystrophy, has been dragging himself across his prison cell floor because he has been denied a wheelchair.
He hasn't had access to a shower for over 20 weeks.
He has been waiting for a neurology appointment for over 12 weeks while experiencing chest pain and breathlessness.
This is happening in a British prison right now.
I've written to David Lammy to demand answers:
It’s performative nonsense that is simply there to make an example out of them in order to create fear in others resulting in people shutting up when it comes to the Palestinian Genocide and any other causes that the UK government is negatively involved in. It’s fear-mongering!
Given that I can hear from Hasan Piker and Cenk Uyger any time I like, what is the benefit, to anyone, of banning them from personal appearances in the UK? What is it about their physical presence specifically that "may not be conducive to the public good"?
Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.
His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.
Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.
Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.
Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Tony Blair thinks the answer to this country’s problems is AI, welfare cuts and endless spending on war.
Who benefits? Arms companies and tech billionaires.
Once again, Blair is wrong. The answer is a redistribution of wealth and power and the relentless search for peace.
Strongly recommend @DanielaGabor’s step by step account of what’s really happening with bond markets - and how to really deal with them without wishful thinking.
(The “Bailey premium” we pay govt borrowing costs also deserves wider circulation.)
Link below.
what if I told you the question is not we should borrow more, but we should borrow better?
we're spending extra billions of pounds in debt service because the Bank of England and the Treasury have made disastrous choices, again and again
theguardian.com/profile/dani…
The UK borrowed another £24.3 billion in April, above the £20.9 billion forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility.
The ONS said the debt interest bill rose to £10.3 billion last month – the highest on record for April, which marks the start of the new financial year. The government is paying more than £100 billion a year to service its debts. Yet a cacophony of Labour and Green pols think we should borrow even more.
BREAKING: The Court of Appeal judgment on the legality of the Palestine Action ban, will come out at 11AM on Monday 15th June at the Royal Courts of Justice, London.