Andy Pankhurst

Not british (doesn’t deserve capital), ‘never ever’ to be considered so again. 🇪🇺 & fellow 🌎 human. Green Grocer 🥦🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍉🍉🍉

[Andy Pankhurst @AndyPankhurst1]

Left: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Bad Government (detail), 1338-40, Fresco, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena - Right: Giotto di Bondone, Last Judgment (detail), c.1304-13, Fresco, Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mehdi Hasan, "We have the Geneva Convention"

"We have International Humanitarian Law"

"We have the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court"

"We have these metrics that were built up over the years, by the UK and the US; they led the world in writing these documents, these conventions"

"The European Convention of Human Rights, which everyone on the British right wants to pull out of, it was written by British lawyers"

"Much of that architecture is now being burnt down to protect Netanyahu, it's kind of insane"

"When historians come back to write these history books, it will be amazing to see how these laws, these conventions, they survived genocides, they survived some of the worst post war era conflicts"

"But they couldn't survive Gaza"

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

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.

https://t.co/1Onlpx9Nkh

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

If you had any integrity, @YvetteCooperMP , and if you hadn't taken campaign donations from Labour Friends of Israel @_LFI,
you would be doing the same. You seem to have forgotten that
their PM has an arrest warrant out for him in the Hague

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

More faux outrage from “Friends (funds) of Israel” politicians.

This is your genocide. You don’t get to be “appalled”.

Stop arming Israel.
End all military cooperation.
Impose sanctions immediately.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

Why aren't you summoning Israel's Ambassador and demanding immediate release of the captives with an apology? That's what France, Italy and the Netherlands are doing.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Lindsey German, "I'd like you to just look around at your neighbours here this afternoon on this demonstration."

"I'd like you to look at the diversity — the different nationalities, the different religions that are here."

"Then I would like to ask you whether you think this looks like a hate march, because we are the exact opposite of hate marchers."

"Despite what has been said by the police, by Keir Starmer, by the politicians and by the media, everybody is here today because they oppose hate, they oppose war, they oppose genocide, they oppose what is being done to the people of Palestine."

"And we are here today in solidarity with the people of Palestine, because it is still going on."

"Gaza was bombed last night. Lebanon was bombed last night."

"There is no ceasefire and no justice for the Palestinians."

"And if you want to see what a real hate march looks like, just look over St James’s Park to Parliament Square."

"That’s a hate march."

"They hate Muslims, they hate people from abroad, they hate migrants, they hate women, they hate absolutely anybody who isn’t like them."

"They are the real hate marchers."

"And we are here today to take a stand in solidarity with the Palestinians, but also against any form of racism and fascism."

"And one of the most shocking things about all this is the way the police have been criminalising our marches, the way they have been arresting people, the way they try to ban slogans, the way in which they say that people are not allowed to stand up for the Palestinians."

"And I’ve got a message for Mark Rowley and the Metropolitan Police."

"Do not start telling us what racism looks like."

"We know what racism looks like, and we know it much better than the Metropolitan Police know what it looks like."

"My final point is this."

"Keir Starmer is toast."

"He’s not going to last until the autumn, nor should he."

"And one of the main reasons he’s toast is because of his foreign policy, because of his support for the genocide, because of all those sorts of deeds."

"But do not think that whoever takes his place, they need to change their foreign policy."

"We have a big political crisis in this country."

"We do not want to have to pay for their crisis."

[ARPA-H @ARPA_H]

Would you knowingly drink a glass of water filled with dangerous pathogens, bacteria, and pollutants?

More than a century ago, water treatment and sewer systems transformed public health and saved countless lives. But we still have not done the same for the indoor air we breathe, where Americans spend roughly 90 percent of their time.

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ARPA-H’s BREATHE program is working to change that by building technologies and systems that can monitor indoor air quality, detect potential health threats early, and help make indoor spaces healthier and safer.

On this Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month and beyond, ARPA-H is working to make cleaner indoor air a standard of modern public health.

Learn more about BREATHE: https://t.co/7zzCmlygQN

@MayoClinic @virginia_tech

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"British Palestinians feel ‘gaslit’ and unable to speak out, says leading activist. Ahead of Nakba march, Sara Husseini says many feel they are being treated as suspects rather than victims of mass suffering"
https://t.co/O42YGN5SFt

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[Laura Pidcock @LauraPidcock]

Starmer’s job was to extinguish socialist left organising in Labour, to block any future prospect of a left fightback, to ensure there could be no socialist left leader in the near future & to create distance from the trade union movement- irrespective of the electoral consequences.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

@JohnSlinger Keir Starmer won a leadership election by lying through his teeth to the membership, and you know it.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

My reaction to Keir Starmer's last ditch press conference - an unsurprising reaction but possibly a helpful one (at least to those who, like me, consider him an abysmal PM).

Like many, I approached Keir Starmer's prime ministership with deep-seated pessimism, my expectations already set at rock bottom. Yet, I confess: I failed to foresee the clinical precision with which he and his inner cabal would sabotage their own administration and scar Britain.

The crux of their debacle lay, first, in a distinctly dictatorial, authoritarian reflex. And second—crucially—in a seething contempt for those who lent them their votes, while simultaneously performing a grotesque pantomime of flattery toward those who never would, and never will, support them.

Having exorcised from the Labour Party its most authentic voices—people of unimpeachable integrity, such as Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, a purge that eluded even Tony Blair’s repertoire—Starmer embarked on a rampage:

He slashed disability benefits; armed and fed intelligence to the Israeli government as it executed genocide in Gaza; channeled his own inner Farage, perhaps his inner Enoch Powell, to vilify migrants and treat refugees as vermin; gutted international aid to masquerade as a defender of defence spending; bulldozed wildlife and their habitats; unveiled a new lexicon of draconian anti-protest laws; left trans people suspended in legal limbo; clung with religious fervour to absurd, socially ruinous fiscal rules; allowed Rachel Reeves to squander £100 billion covering the Bank of England’s outrageous and wholly unnecessary Quantitative Tightening losses—a gift that keeps giving to the City’s banks—while imposing yet another round of austerity on government departments and public services.

Once the great hope of the downtrodden, Starmer’s Labour has become the villain - the genuinely nasty party.

Once a human rights lawyer, he has single-handedly plunged Britain into a shoddy, incompetent authoritarianism.

https://t.co/wIjnc9NfmJ

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

The High Court ruled the ban unlawful.

Therefore, you are intentionally wrongly arresting hundreds of protestors for holding signs to protect a foreign genocidal regime.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Tim Crosland from Defend Our Juries speaks out as police unlawfully arrest hundreds of peaceful protestors for holding signs.

He says the arrests are a result of the "crazy demented ideology" combining Zionism and corporate fascism being supported by Keir Starmer.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

What an incredibly immoral waste of resources.

Peaceful protesters quietly holding signs expressing forbidden opinions of solidarity against genocide, arrested en-masse by this ridiculous force on behalf of a craven, pathetic government.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

I’m still struggling to understand how this benefits the U.K. in any way.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

The whole world has to isolate this rogue Apartheid genocidal maniac, serial killing, pathologically lying state, isolate it & shame anyone who goes there.

Israel is exposed, Zionism is on its last leg & only exists on the weight of its own collapsed propaganda.

@AbbyMartin 🔥

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

BREAKING: An elderly man with a walking stick is arrested again for holding a sign in support of Palestine Action.

The police know the ban was ruled unlawful, yet they are wrongly arresting hundreds of peaceful protestors.

https://t.co/VvG6tJnqRO

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

One of Orwell's nightmares materialised would be this: potential war criminals and arm manufacturers implicated in a genocide allowed to roam and operate freely, while citizens get arrested for opposing a genocide.