Journalist & podcaster. Founded @FleetCivil. Employed by Morning Star. Aspiring blues / punk rock guitarist. He / him. (Opinions, politics, and typos all mine)
NEW EPISODE: @MSF_Sea’s Juan Matias Gil tells us how the Italian government made it impossible for the medical charity to use its #GeoBarents rescue ship.
He also tells us about #Oyvon, MSF’s new rescue vessel, and what happened on its first rescue mission.
Bootlickers like this will always be a total mystery to me.
“Of course an elite class should continue to gatekeep opportunity behind walls of wealth” - how bizarre as a worldview!
🇵🇸🚨Over 60 Parliamentarians, led by @switherdenMP, have written to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade over the UK military equipment to Israel that was seized in Belgium.
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"The Labour Party under Keir Starmer will abandon its core idealism and principles and won't even gain tactical advantage.
It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it."
- David Graeber (from 2020)
NEW EPISODE: Esmé from an activist and chef with the @gbsumudflotilla tells us what she saw during the Israeli navy's raid on the humanitarian fleet in international waters off Greece.
Global Sumud Flotilla accuses Israeli military of torturing, beating & kidnapping its activists
Meanwhile, US government threatens to ‘impose consequences on those who support’ the flotilla
https://t.co/rRgcqB78yw
"Real love, the only kind genuinely worthy of the name, is a kind of dialectical overcoming. It only becomes possible at the point where one comes to understand the full reality of one’s beloved, which necessarily, means encountering even those qualities one finds infuriating, loathsome, or detestable.
For surely, if you know enough about anyone, you will find something in them that you hate. But it’s only when one encounters that, and decides nonetheless to love them anyway, that we can talk of love as an active, redemptive, and powerful force.
Real love can only be love if it conquerors hatred, but not by annihilating but by containing and transcending it, and not just once, but forever."
- David Graeber
Tomorrow's back page:
Liv's future in doubt following Saudi Exit – PIF to step away from funding as breakaway tour seeks new backers
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‘This is piracy:’ Outrage as Israel abducts aid flotilla crew in international waters - Activists, campaigners and politicians condemn Israeli raid on the Global Sumud Flotilla in European waters
https://t.co/Oy2AA2zKAS
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.
‘It’s about going against the mainstream, doing things for yourself’ - Ben Cowles speaks with Manchester Punk Festival 2026 organiser IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON about this weekend’s upcoming shenanigans
https://t.co/N7QvFcwXob
🚨🎧🛟 New episode coming soon! 🌊🎧🚨
Keep an eye on your podcast/YouTube feeds for episode 87! In the meantime, be sure to check out our last episode with StateWatch's Frey Lindsey 👇🎧
Solidarity ✊
🚨UPDATE -- The Foreign Office has now issued a response to British journalist Steve Sweeney being targeted by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.
It said: "The foreign secretary set out the Government's position on the conflict in the Middle East yesterday".