Ben Cowles

Journalist & podcaster. Founded @FleetCivil. Employed by Morning Star. Aspiring blues / punk rock guitarist. He / him. (Opinions, politics, and typos all mine)

[Ben Cowles @Cowlesz]

Check out the latest episode of my podcast...

[The Civil Fleet @FleetCivil]

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.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

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!

[Campaign Against Arms Trade @CAATuk]

🇵🇸🚨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.

[Ben Cowles @Cowlesz]

Come work with me at @M_Star_Online

Check out the link below, and if you're interested, email [email protected] for an application pack.

Also, feel free to DM me with any questions.

https://t.co/p4Q8p4LytZ

[Ben Cowles @Cowlesz]

Alright. Paternity leave’s over.

Time to confront ‘reality’ and catch up on current events… ☹️

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

"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)

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

This will happen until there are safe alternative ways to cross the channel.

It is that simple & we all know it.

[The Civil Fleet @FleetCivil]

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.

[The Civil Fleet @FleetCivil]

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

[The Civil Fleet @FleetCivil]

No borders, no Frontex, no so-called Libyan Coastguards!

Happy International Workers Day ✊

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

"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

[Ben Cowles @Cowlesz]

My first front page for a while

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

Tomorrow's back page:

Liv's future in doubt following Saudi Exit – PIF to step away from funding as breakaway tour seeks new backers

Subscribe to the Morning Star newspaper: https://t.co/IErMcVLkje

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

‘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

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The UK governments guide to terrorism:

Left: Terrorism

Right: Not Terrorism

[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.

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

Being unemployed is not always a bad thing.

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

‘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

[The Civil Fleet @FleetCivil]

🚨🎧🛟 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 ✊

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🚨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".

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

BiBiC is captured

This should read:

Watch: Israel targets British journalist in Lebanon strike

[Ben Cowles @Cowlesz]

Solidarity with my former colleague and housemate, @SweeneySteve

Hope your okay