Helen J Perry

Queer English writer of Reverse Harem, Gay, & LGBT romance. Pro-porn, pro-sex & anti-censorship. Feminist. Socialist. Too opinionated. NB Likes don't mean agree

[Aboo Hafsah @AbuHafsah1]

Former teacher Jamie Varley has been found guilty of the murder, sexual assault, infliction of grievous bodily harm, and four counts of child cruelty relating to 13-month-old Preston Davey.

His partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley, was also found guilty of allowing the death of a child, child cruelty, and sexual assault.

White people will not be collectively held responsible for their crimes, there’ll be no wall to wall coverage on their backgrounds and no riots in the streets.

[Will Hampshire @WillHants100]

I have written to the Thai authorities about Christopher Harborne and @Nigel_Farage . Specifically re the application of the Thai Anti Corruption Act (2018) enforced by a department of the Royal Thai Police -the National Corruption Commission.

Cc @thaiemblondon
@FCDOGovUK

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

New from @EmpirePodUK
THE ORIGINS OF GOD
Where did the idea of one God come from? Not the God of any particular faith — but the very concept that there is only one, that all others are false, that monotheism itself is possible? This week on Empire, we go looking for the answer. It leads somewhere extraordinary.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Your reminder that Israel is one of only four rogue states in the entire world that refuses to ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Barbarians.

[El 🍉🚂 @ellasrhapsody]

When I was too ill to go to school my council left me without education for 18 months. If it hadn’t been able to access educational content on YouTube like Mr Bruff and Free Science Lessons, I would never have passed my GCSEs.

This is going to harm disabled children.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

REVEALED: Jewish activists @JAZA_UK have shown us material from inside an Israeli property event in London yesterday, which shows that illegal settlements on Palestinian land were on sale in the UK.

Activists gained access to the event, spoke to numerous developers about the properties for sale in Israeli settlements - which are illegal under British and international law - before they were ejected for disrupting the speeches.

The Board of Deputies, which calls itself a representational body for British Jews, claimed that all properties being sold were inside Israel, however these pamphlets clearly show the opposite is true.

[Fiona Rose Diamond @CoviLeaks]

Look closely at what the government is promising you here (published 15th June). They claim that if your account is over 16 years old, you are safe from the dragnet. But then comes the casual, insidious trap: if you do have to prove your age, they say it will be 'as simple as a facial recognition check.'

Do not let that soft language fool you. 'As simple as a face scan' means surrendering the unchangeable, mathematical architecture of your human identity.

Here is the brutal reality: this is a biometric harvesting operation masquerading as child safety. Your biometrics - your face, your irises, your unique biological signature - are the most sensitive pieces of data you possess. If a password leaks, you reset it. If your biometric blueprint is hacked, leaked, or scraped into a government database, your identity is compromised for life. They are normalising the idea that you must scan your body just to access the public square. It is the ultimate blueprint for a permanent digital cage.

Once your biological data is stored in their centralised databases (which it will be) your privacy is dead forever. You aren't just logging into an app - you are voluntarily handing over the keys to a corporate and state surveillance engine.

An app-level 'under 16s ban' is universally recognised by security experts as unpoliciable and structurally broken.

Following the mass backlash from tech companies, the UK government reconsidered its stance... But this is what they're not telling you - something we have warned you about for years.

The UK Gov already appointed an expert panel to 'fast-track' a national, official Digital ID scheme earlier this year, that will (despite their current lies) eventually serve as the master credential to 'solve the problem' with an unenforceable 'under 16s social media ban.'

It has NEVER been about Children's safety. Ever. So, to coerce compliance of all UK adults, we will soon see the beginning of another textbook manufactured crisis.

Do not be fooled by the ongoing political theatre. The predictable failure of this ban is completely by design. As the system intentionally glitches, the media will flood the headlines with weaponised fear - amplifying stories of online horror and grooming to rile up panicked parents.

Once again, they are engineering a crisis of fear so severe that the public will ultimately beg for the exact Digital ID grid they would have otherwise rejected.

Cast your mind back to September 2025: 'mass illegal migration' didn't work as an excuse for Digital ID, did it? So the Epstein Class now use Children's safety as the excuse.

By wrapping the digital credential inside the emotionally charged issue of child safety, dissent is effectively silenced. Anyone arguing against the tracking framework is politically painted as being against child protection.

https://t.co/0I7TNOXtJq

[Elizabeth Lilburne @besslilburne]

Banning YouTube for teenagers is obviously nuts. Clearly no one is using TikTok for educational purposes but YouTube is for everything! Why the hell would you try to stop 14 year olds accessing guitar tutorials? History documentaries? News clips?

[Johannes M. Koenraadt @johannesmkx]

😂 The UK social media ban will be "enforced at the device level".

Everybody will have to upload their passport and face to Google/Apple to be able to use their own phone's internet connection!

Will this also apply for tourists visiting the UK? What a dystopian madness.

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

Hussam Ebu Safieh, "İsrail'in rehineler için ölüm cezası" ile öldürülecek olan Filistinli doktorlardan biridir (diğer 95 doktor arasında).

Onu öldürmelerine izin verme.
Bunu yeniden yayınlayın.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

.@MikeTappTweets, nine questions. Each yes or no.

1) Did the International Criminal Court issue arrest warrants on 21 November 2024 against Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, including the use of starvation as a method of warfare? Yes or no.

2) Is the United Kingdom a state party to the Rome Statute, legally obligated to arrest Netanyahu if he enters British territory? Yes or no.

3) Has the UK government continued to license arms exports to the State of Israel since those warrants were issued? Yes or no.

4) Has the UK government continued diplomatic and political cooperation with the government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu since those warrants were issued? Yes or no.

5) Does the United Kingdom's existing criminal legislation, including the International Criminal Court Act 2001, contain offences applicable to those who provide assistance to persons under ICC arrest warrant for war crimes? Yes or no.

6) Could a UK government minister who has personally and publicly endorsed the continuation of arms exports and political cooperation with a government headed by an ICC indictee face individual legal exposure under those same provisions? Yes or no.

7) Is it the case, as documented by the Campaign Against Arms Trade and Transparency International UK, that the United Kingdom maintains an extensive and ongoing revolving door between government and the arms industry, including the movement of former ministers and senior Ministry of Defence officials into companies that profit from continued UK arms exports to the State of Israel? Yes or no.

8) Does Section 53 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 require the consent of the Attorney General, a political officer of the government, before any prosecution under that Act can be brought? Yes or no.

9) Does the availability of procedural or constitutional defences to government ministers acting in their official capacity alter the underlying factual conduct of those ministers? Yes or no.

If the answer to each of the above is yes, the following should be happening under the United Kingdom's own legal and policy framework.

The Strategic Export Licensing Criteria requires the government not to issue or maintain licences where there is a clear risk that the items might be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian law. The government has already made that assessment for around thirty licences.

The ICC arrest warrants, and the charges they contain, materially strengthen the case that this risk applies more broadly. Full suspension of the remaining relevant licences is the only position consistent with the UK's own published rules.

Continued authorisation of exports in these circumstances also raises serious questions about potential ancillary liability under the International Criminal Court Act 2001. An investigation by the Attorney General into ministerial decision-making, with knowledge of the ICC warrants, would be the appropriate next step.

Parliament has a duty to hold individual ministers to account for these decisions.

None of this is happening.

Tell us, Tapp, why none of this is happening?

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Unlike William and Kate, I couldn't afford to put my son's name down for Eton. But I did manage to get him on the waiting list for an NHS dentist, which is at least a start.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Young people 16 to 18 are overwhelmingly against the genocidal terror state of Israel.
Because they know the truth from social media.

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

With a steady voice despite her arrest, this British girl exposed what is happening in London: They assaulted us, spread hate speech, and when we exposed them for auctioning off West Bank land, the response was to arrest us, not the aggressors!

[Josie Long @JosieLong]

Everybody was told in 2010-15 that austerity was painful but necessary to improve living standards. And then no improvements came, ever.

[nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR]

For those wondering the visa bond implemented by the Trump admin against Cape Verde is $15,000 per person. Many players in this tournament are here without family or personal support because they literally cannot afford the visa.

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

The parliamentary debate on 22 June about Israeli influence on UK politics will take place with this as its backdrop: a government dominated by Israeli interests.
Any speaker in that debate should be required to state publicly whether they have taken money from Israeli sources.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

In almost 100 years, no World Cup host has ever forced game breaks just to show commercials, or harassed the very referees & players of the competition because of where they're from. So emblematic of how the US interact with the planet. Capitalism & imperialism on steroids.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The illegality of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is one of the most well-established positions in international law, resting on four distinct pillars:

📜 GENEVA CONVENTIONS
Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) explicitly prohibits an occupying power from transferring parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. Israel ratified the Convention in 1951. The International Committee of the Red Cross, the authoritative interpreter of humanitarian law, has consistently held that this provision applies directly to the settlements.

🌐 UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS
The Security Council has repeatedly affirmed settlement illegality — including in binding resolutions the US did not veto:
• Res. 446 (1979): settlements have "no legal validity"
• Res. 465 (1980): calls on Israel to dismantle existing settlements
• Res. 2334 (2016): passed 14-0 (US abstained), explicitly states settlements constitute "a flagrant violation of international law" and have "no legal validity"

⚖️ ICJ RULINGS
• Advisory Opinion on the Wall (2004): the Court found settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, had been established in breach of international law, and that the wall built to protect them compounded that illegality
• Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (2024): the Court went further, ruling that Israel's continued presence in the OPT — including the settlement enterprise — is itself unlawful, and called on all states not to recognise or assist it

🏛️ UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Countless UNGA resolutions have reaffirmed settlement illegality, including Res. 77/247 (2023), which requested the landmark 2024 ICJ opinion.

No serious legal scholar disputes this consensus. The settlements are illegal. The only remaining question is whether the international community will act on it.