Julian Assange is 55 today
The British state took 14 years out of his life for doing award-winning journalism
2010-12 - house arrest
2012-19 - 'arbitrarily detained' (UN) in Ecuadorian embassy
2019-24 - Belmarsh maximum security prison
History will damn all those involved
I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.
you have to realise that without the @wikileaks secret documents, I would never have understood the full details of the role of #USMilitaryBases in #Italy.
This topic is a 'no-go zone' in Italian media, hence citizens are denied any chance to understand and act
capire dove ci vogliono portare gli #StatiUniti - indipendentemente da #Trump- a causa delle #BasiMilitariUSA in Italia, per cui #Berlusconi e la destra hanno ricontrattato gli accordi Italia-USA nel segreto, è l'assoluta priorità per salvare il nostro Paese
There has never been a genuine public debate in my country (#Italy) about the role of #USMilitaryBases on Italian soil: media coverage of this issue is heavily influenced by centers of military and political power.
More info, details, names soon!
Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.
Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.
A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
I had 20 patients in my Pediatric War Injuries Clinic today, for follow-up care.
Of the 20 children, Israel had killed one or both parents of 19 of them.
Presidente Meloni,
bene condannare Ben Gvir per l’umiliazione dei membri della Flotilla (un trattamento di lusso rispetto a quanto inferto ai palestinesi nelle carceri israeliane).
Ma le parole non bastano: l’Italia smetta di opporsi alla sospensione dell’Accordo UE-Israele.
Nigel Farage used to boast about his closeness to Donald Trump.
Now Trump’s war is pushing up bills, he’s gone very quiet.
So here’s a little reminder.
Reform want to round up migrants and detain them indefinitely in areas that don’t vote for them.
Yet for most of our media, it’s those marching for Palestine who are creating hatred & fear.
These disgusting plans are an affront to democracy — and must be fiercely opposed.
The Nigel Farage Guide to Being a Working-Class Hero
Step 1: Be born to a City stockbroker.
Step 2: Attend Dulwich College, fees currently £53,000 a year.
Step 3: Skip university. Become a City commodities trader instead.
Step 4: Run one of your metal broking firms into insolvency.
Step 5: Get elected to the European Parliament. Spend the next 21 years drawing a salary from the institution you're paid to dismantle.
Step 6: Claim £15,500 a year in expenses for an office your party was given rent-free.
Step 7: Put your wife on the EU parliamentary payroll. Take her off only when the rules force you to.
Step 8: Get investigated by the EU's anti-fraud office. Eventually have half your MEP salary docked to repay misused public funds.
Step 9: Throw a Brexit victory party at the Ritz. Decry the "professional political class" to a room of millionaires.
Step 10: Take £450,000 in personal gifts from Arron Banks. House. Car. Lifestyle.
Step 11: Take £5 million, undisclosed, from a Bangkok-based crypto billionaire. Days later, announce you're standing for parliament after all.
Step 12: Win Clacton. Take the £93,904 MP salary. Add £1.2 million a year from GB News at £2,300 an hour. Become the highest-earning MP in the House of Commons.
Step 13: Speak in parliament fewer times than any other party leader. Fly to America at least nine times in your first year. Refuse to hold in-person constituency surgeries. Holiday in France while parliament is sitting.
Step 14: Tell the working class you're one of them. Tell them to vote against their own interests, over and over again.
Pint, mate?