Christian Ball 🇵🇸 #MUFC

Software engineer in London. Left wing. Manchester United fan.

[Christian Ball 🇵🇸 #MUFC @ChristianBall99]

@cenkuygur @AbdulElSayed The establishment in both parties serve the same masters, as you’ve talked about often.

[Christian Ball 🇵🇸 #MUFC @ChristianBall99]

@PaulEmbery I was there today. I've heard mixed things about the carnival, so wanted to see and judge for myself. I witnessed several confrontations between carnival-goers and police officers in attendance, but the overall event and atmosphere was largely positive.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Norm Finkelstein: “International law died…when the UN gave the deed of Gaza to Donald Trump…At this point Iran has no obligations whatsoever to abide by international law. It can target who it wants and what it wants for the sake of its survival. You don’t like that? Then look in the mirror. YOU created that situation.”

[Christian Ball 🇵🇸 #MUFC @ChristianBall99]

@SkyNews RIP 🙏

[Christian Ball 🇵🇸 #MUFC @ChristianBall99]

@AaronBastani Congratulations! 🎉

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Our report again demonstrates how the British state is destroying its jury system and any semblance of democracy to protect weapons factories supplying Israel's genocide machine

The British media is currently barred from covering this latest rigged Palestine Action trial

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

It is a rare thing for the editor of the Daily Mirror, Kevin Maguire, to speak a truth that echoes the pages of The Heartlands Tribune. Yet on Good Morning Britain, even the mainstream media found itself forced to state the obvious.

Discussing the government’s commitment and the order from Trump to ratchet up defence spending, targeting 3% to 3.5% of GDP by 2035, an extra £40 billion in today's money, Maguire laid bare the brutal trade-off:

"If your choice is to spend a lot more on warfare, you're going to have less on welfare or council houses or health or education filling potholes, whatever you want."

The case for the crown, fairly stated, argues that we live in a dangerous world requiring a massive commitment to deterrence. They tell us that without a militarised posture and total compliance with NATO spending targets, national security is compromised. Grant all of it. Assume the absolute worst-case scenario peddled by the hawks in Whitehall.

The reality is that's a useful bogeyman for the bottomless pit.

First, the threat itself is fundamentally mismanaged to justify the price tag. As Maguire noted, and as GCHQ and intelligence figures have conceded, Russia’s conventional military capability has been severely bled dry in Ukraine. It holds less capacity today as an invading force against NATO territory than at almost any point in recent history. Yet, every defence budget requires a bogeyman. Without a perpetual threat lurking on the horizon, the arms lobby cannot justify its subscription model.

Second, where does the money actually go? Westminster treats the Ministry of Defence as a sacred cow, exempt from the fiscal discipline forced upon hospitals, schools, and local councils. Public finances are throwing billions into a black hole, and nothing functional comes out. Despite decades of record funding, our conventional armed forces remain notoriously under-equipped, plagued by procurement scandals and breathtaking wastage. Former ministers resign, parliamentary committees issue scathing reports on procurement failures, and yet the public is asked to throw good money after bad.

The argument still leads straight back to austerity.

If ministers keep their self-imposed fiscal rules, refuse to tax wealth properly and insist on meeting ever-higher NATO targets, the money has to come from somewhere. That means fewer homes, weaker councils, longer waits, deeper cuts and another raid on the working class.

Real security is a council house, a GP appointment, more nurses, more doctors, a functioning school, decent social care and a wage that covers the bills.

The real #welfare state now props up defence contractors, private arms firms and their shareholders. Everyone else gets austerity.

[Toni Kroos @ToniKroos]

Football won

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Corporate media think we are really stupid. I cannot stress this enough.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

To the best of my knowledge I have never met a member of the IRGC. Neither expressed “a positive opinion” about them. An English woman named Shabana Mahmood has just made it punishable by 14 years in prison so to do so as a free-born Scotsman I will have to reconsider that. So far as I’m aware - as a UK legislator across five decades - this is the first time I have been explicitly told that I can go to prison literally for my opinion. For those of you cheering, remember, it will be your opinion next.

[Amnesty International USA @amnestyusa]

FREE DR. HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA
FREE DR. HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA
FREE DR. HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA
FREE DR. HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA
FREE DR. HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

BREAKING

84 year old Reverend Sue Parfitt arrested under the UK Terrorism Act for giving speech outside New Scotland Yard on the anniversary of the proscription of Palestine Action.

Stood on a soap box, Sue explained her motivation.

Join the Escalation: https://t.co/vqXWFPPScY

[Royally Sage @sage1411]

My brother posts this every year in the family chat on the 4th. Still hilarious.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is properly insane: quite literally the worst example of censorship I've ever heard of anywhere.

I checked the actual ruling (which you can see here: https://t.co/dBKFWZ2ZWm) and, to be clear, it isn't just censorship in the conventional sense - blocking access to a website or removing content from platforms - this is the criminalization of information relayed by private citizens, with prison sentences attached.

And the most insane aspect if that it does NOT matter if the information relayed is accurate or not. It just matters that it originates from RT or other media outlets banned in the EU.

In other words, truth isn't a defense anymore in the EU, it literally doesn't matter. It's purely based on the identity of the speaker.

The ruling is actually explicit about this: the regulation, quoted by the Court says that the prohibition applies to "any content," and they draw no distinction based on what the content actually says. If it originates from banned outlets, it's banned.

It is, quite simply, a complete unraveling of the entire post-Enlightenment legal and philosophical project where entire generations of Europeans fought to move from "who says it" to "is it true" as the operative question.

Think about the absurdity of it: if RT publishes a video saying the sky is blue and you share it on a publicly accessible website in the EU, you'd fall within the scope of this ruling, making you liable to criminal prosecution.

Completely and utterly absurd. But that's the EU today for you 🤷

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Some of us warned that this was the goal in October 2023 but we were told it was about the hostages. It was never about the hostages. It was always about conquest and ethnic cleansing.

[Christian Ball 🇵🇸 #MUFC @ChristianBall99]

@CraigMurrayOrg Stay strong Craig ✊

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

US lawyer and antiwar activist Dan Kovalik just had his devices seized and was interrogated by counter-terror police at Liverpool Airport

Meanwhile, Palestine solidarity activist Sarah Wilkinson is heading to trial on terrorism charges for a couple of Twitter posts, and refusing to give police her mobile pin

The Canary, one of the UK’s most doggedly antiwar independent media outlets, was just debanked by Lloyd’s

The UK recently refused entry to Hasan Piker and Cenk Uyghur, two of the most recognizable voices of the left wing of the US Democratic Party, on national security grounds

It did the same this month to US journalist Jeremy Loffredo

UK counter terror police detained and interrogated my colleague, Kit Klarenberg, seizing his devices, and grilling him about his investigative journalism. PM Keir Starmer’s Labour Together slush fund even hired a private intel firm to smear Kit and The Grayzone.

UK police raided journalist Asa Winstanley’s home and illegally seized his devices on suspicion of “encouragement of terrorism”

The UK Crown Prosecution Service attempted to prosecute journalist Richard Medhurst under the Terrorism Act, but failed

The list of journalists and activists repressed by the British regime goes on and on. And they have one thing in common: outspoken opposition to Israel’s genocidal agenda.

Who’s actually in charge in London?

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The US ended Germany access to cheap energy by destroying Nord Stream and then provided economic incentives for the struggling German industries to relocate to the US. However, our "journalists" can inform us the problem is a "full-blown assault" by China.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇬🇧 British journalists reporting from countries such as Iran could face “terrorism” prosecutions under a UK national security bill expected to complete its final stages in Parliament this week, according to legal experts cited by The Guardian.

Expert David Anderson warned the legislation could criminalize foreign correspondents for obtaining information from sources within state-designated groups because it lacks explicit protections for journalists.

Press freedom groups are urging ministers to amend the bill, but the Home Office insists legitimate journalism is protected and that claims to the contrary are false.

🔗 Story is linked below.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds

Lloyds have debanked the Canary with no warning or explanation, putting the outlet in severe financial crisis
https://t.co/tVuvgu3YYn
https://t.co/tVuvgu3YYn