I spoke to @BBCRadio4 about some of the ways UK charities are funnelling money to illegal Israeli settlements - and getting taxpayer subsidies for doing so.
This must end now; the @ChtyCommission have to act.
The many takes flying around about John Healey, resignation gossip and national security spending miss a fundamental point.
In Finland, where people have a strong social safety net and a real sense of shared national purpose, around 80% say they would be prepared to defend their country. In the UK, that figure is closer to 30%.
That should tell us something.
Until we change the financial architecture of our economy and bring the essentials of life out of the grip of corporate extraction and into public ownership, we will always be told to choose between bombs and butter.
But the reality is we need both.
Modern hybrid warfare means every public service is part of our national resilience. Energy, water, housing, health, transport, food security and social care are not separate from defence. They are defence.
If we want people to defend the country, we have to build a country people believe is worth defending. A thriving state. A fair economy. A society where everyone feels they have a stake.
I spoke about this on Peston on Monday night.
We need to make sure that were looking at defence to also include cyber security, threats to nature and the climate crisis and our resilience towards both pandemics and terrorist attacks.
Most of all we need a clear and consistent plan.
Anyone with legal knowledge able to explain to me why Nigel Farage,Tommy Robinson,Mr Musk & others have not been arrested by police for incitement to riot? Incitement to riot is a criminal offence.I'd really like to understand why they have not been at least questioned/cautioned.
Meet Sarah White.
Epping. Advance UK member. Arrested Sept 2025 at anti-asylum seeker protest.
Filmed in Belfast. Captioned: "They don't mess about in Belfast."
Advance UK dissolved June 2026 by Ben Habib. Members directed to Restore Britain.
This is the network we have mapped: Ben Habib. Richard Inman. Tommy Robinson. Steve Baker.
We document. You decide.
Meet Louise Owens.
Carrickfergus. 187 friends. 19K posts.
While Concerned Parents Newtownabbey were organising a protest at Chimney Corner Hotel, she replied:
"Target Mosques, hotels that are housing them."
52 people liked it.
Tucker Carlson: Like it or not, Iran are uniquely standing up for Palestinians and the people of Lebanon.
"The rest of the world is watching this in horror and no one else is doing anything about it."
Judge Johnson’s rogue manoeuvrings in the rigged trials of the Palestine Action activists have so incensed the legal profession that thousands signed a petition demanding that he take the chance last Monday to recuse himself from the sentencing hearing.
He, of course, refused to do so.
They call his behaviour during the trial “biased” and “discriminatory conduct” and have referred him to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office.
Here is David Whyte, professor of law at Queen Mary’s University of London, who handed the petition to the JCIO, explaining another reason why so many legal professionals are outraged by Judge Johnson’s actions:
He has shown exceptional “cruelty and vindictiveness” in holding the activists in remand for more than three times the normal maximums, even when the prosecution was not asking for them to be remanded, and for refusing them bail between their convictions and sentencing.
The Court of Appeal is due to issue a ruling on the government’s appeal against an earlier High Court decision declaring Palestine Action’s proscription unlawful this coming Monday, days after Judge Johnson’s sentencing of the Filton activists.
If this is all starting to look like theatre, that it because it is. In dictatorships, these are called show trials. Everyone understands that the outcome is predetermined. Everyone understands that justice is non-existent. The verdict is entirely political. It is a faux-legal rationalisation of what the security state wants.
Judge Johnson is the perfect judge to play that part.
The courts will do exactly what is expected of them unless they are worried that public revulsion will discredit their decision. Now is the time to raise our voices.
This is an extract from my latest article Legal profession revolt against the UK judge whose job is to protect Israel's genocide. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️
As of June 2026, 30 women have been violently killed in Northern Ireland since 2020. You didn’t go riot for them, did you? Fucking burning cars & houses with families and disabled children in them, you absolute dregs of humanity. Racist scum.
These aren't protests. They're racist riots. And it's time for the government to take them seriously.
The PM should be convening COBRA and setting out a real plan to end this horrific violence and bring communities together.
Now is a time for real leadership.
Richard Burgon just exposed the most glaring double standard in British policy
"Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately.
Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"