Sarah-Jane Brownlie

independent Advocate researching disability-related poverty, Working in Africa, Asia & The UK

[Sarah-Jane Brownlie @BBBuster1]

renamed for the second year now let's get people into the work the way they need

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

I travel through the West Bank. Settlers in control. Near total impunity as they loot, burn and kill. Palestinians say they were SAFER when the army was in charge. But a spirit of stubborn resistance (sumud) survives. My despatch for Middle East Eye:

https://t.co/ZC961IIOM3

[Normal Island News @NormalIslandNws]

Huge concern in New York that Zohran Mamdani is spending $122 million on schools and hiring 1,000 school teachers when that money could be buying bombs for Israel

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

78 years ago, 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. Britain made it possible.

Today, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Britain made it possible.

78 years of the Nakba - and 78 years of British complicity in crimes against the Palestinian people.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

This is what the Israeli Police did to an Arab Israeli Lawyer after they entered his home without a warrant and beat him unconscious.

This is an Israeli citizen, beaten in his own home after they broke in without a warrant.

Imagine what they do to Palestinians.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Lebanon says the israelis have destroyed over 139,000 acres of farm land — the size of Chicago, & killed over 1.8 million poultry & livestock https://t.co/9CC60g0iHl

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants.

Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict.

Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences.

Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670?

It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide.

Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: https://t.co/RyDHG3Iz81

[Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite]

Spain's 🇪🇸 PM Pedro Sanchez awards the Order of Civil Merit to Francesca Albanese:

Unwavering support for Palestinians 🇵🇸

Speaking for children of Gaza 🇵🇸

Exposing 🇮🇱 the genocide in Gaza 🇵🇸

Refusing to be silenced by 🇺🇸 threats

Standing up for humanity

Viva España 🇪🇸

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

In any rational society, a citizen driven to suicide by government policy would be major news. There would be demands for an inquiry, for reform, for measures to ensure nothing like it ever happens again.
Not here, though.

[The Aftershock @The_Aftershock_]

BREAKING: HSBC fully withdraws its shareholdings in Israel's biggest weapons producer, Elbit Systems.

In the previous quarter, the bank dumped 96% of its shares in Elbit.

After sustained direct action, HSBC has now ended all of its investments in Israel's Elbit Systems.

[John O'Connell @jdpoc]

There have been ~10 attacks on UK Synagogues in the last 12 months.

There have been ~300 attacks on UK Mosques in the last 12 months.

Why is the former a problem ... but the latter isn't?

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Just met a Reform UK voting couple who didn't know it opposed:

Rise in minimum wage
End of two-child benefit cap
Expansion of free school meals, free breakfast clubs
Help with school uniforms

Horrified that they would lose big from Reform

How many others voted without knowing?

[Tim McKane @timmckane]

No one had heard of Farage before the BBC started putting him on #bbcqt multiple times. To this day we don’t know who enabled this. Last night is the result of over 16 years of propaganda on our national broadcaster. It’s a coup by modern media methods. #R4Today

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

Repost if you do not stand with Israel 💪

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Here's the DIRTY SECRET of the British Establishment.

They are OK with the idea of a racist, authoritarian Farage govt.

They are TERRIFIED at the idea of a Polanski govt which would threaten their power & privilege and make them pay their fair share of tax.

[Bubblejet @Bubblejet]

My husband gave up his academic career to be my full-time #carer. He went from a university lecturer's salary to £7,000 a year.

1. #Benefits are NOT a "lifestyle choice".

2. #SocialSecurity payments (or #Welfare as politicians now call them) are dangerously low in the UK.

[michelle maher @mmaher70]

DWP PIP increases have nosedived since Labour took over
PIP increase to PIP awards has dropped where it was usually around 10%;
7.93% Nov 2025,
5.41% In Dec 2025,
5.99%. Jan 2026
15% Labour claim have had PIP awards increased, by adding 5 year's together
#r4today #GMB #Labour
https://t.co/9qBeTRlj9i

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🚨 TUCKER CARLSON: “The UK is NOT a sovereign country it’s serving Israel”
In a brutal clash with journalist Victoria Derbyshire, Tucker Carlson dropped the hammer:
Britain is no longer acting independently. It’s making political decisions to protect Israel even if that means arresting its own citizens.
He pointed directly to the wave of arrests targeting Palestine Action activists, arguing people in the UK are being detained simply for pro-Palestine expression.
His closing blow:
“If your government limits criticism of another country, you are not a sovereign nation. The same applies to the United States.”
This is the conversation the establishment doesn’t want happening.
Is the West still free… or just well-managed?

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

If you're Jewish or non-Jewish, please, let the world know:

An openly anti-Zionist Jewish community in NewYork Protested

Millions of Jews around the world reject Zionism and reject the claim that Israel represents them but mainstream media almost never mention this.