There's a reason @elonmusk has mock concern for the UK. He's distracting from the violence and lawlessness in his adopted country. The lack of justice for black people is what a 2-tier justice system actually looks like. They kill babies. Never trust the rich elites.
Good to get a bit of well-wishing from the guy who once tweeted that when he saw me in the street he booed and if his wife hadn't been with him, he didn't know what he would have done.
BREAKING: The Court of Appeal has backed the government's appeal against the High Court and reinstated the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
As I've been noting for some time, this was always going to happen.
The police ignored the High Court's ruling of proscription as unlawful and continued arresting people as terrorists for holding placards stating: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."
On Friday, Judge Johnson upgraded the criminal damage convictions of the Filton Four to terrorism offences in his sentencing, even though at the time of sentencing Palestine Action was not, in the eyes of the courts, considered a terrorist organisation.
It was as though the High Court decision never happened.
We have been subjected to legal threatre to make it look as if the judiciary have carefully weighed our most cherished and basic rights against the interests of the British state in continuing its complicity in the Gaza genocide.
This has all been a stitch-up to keep the focus on the faux-illegality of opposing a genocide rather than the very real illegality of the British state colluding in atrocities that have killed many tens of thousands – and more likely, hundreds of thousands – of civilians in Gaza.
Anyone who has supported this dangerous farce should hang their heads in shame.
@JohnHealey_MP Another warmonger gone who wants public money for his mates in the arms industry and military. Mobilise for peace and welfare and the removal of these warmongers from positions of power within the Labour Party.
These are not 'anti-migrant protestors'. They went house to house looking for foreigners and Black people to burn them out of their homes.
They are racist thugs carrying out a pogrom.
Police use water cannon against anti-migrant protestors
https://t.co/7XmzmlsKoX
Healey wanted to increase defence spending by £28bn/year from
£61bn to approx £89bn. That's an increase of 40%!
It was an ABSURD ask - UK would be the fourth largest military spender in the world after US, China and Russia.
Vast amounts of that would be siphoned off by rapacious, price-gouging contractors in the most corrupt industry in the world. And none of it would help - in fact, it would mostly worsen - the biggest threat to global security, which is climate change.
The right wing press will try and present Healey's ask as eminently reasonable, but it was a ludicrous cash grab at the same time that were cutting overseas aid, climate change mitigation and welfare spending.
The far-right love to see horrific incidents involving minorities because they can exploit them. They don't really care about the victims. Just look at what they were saying about Henry Nowak's family, especially after they found out that Henry has a mixed-race nephew.
Ironic the USA government wades in on far-Right talking points about 2-tier justice in the UK when it actually does have a real 2-tier justice system #13th
David Taylor received £10,000 from Labour Together to fund his election campaign in 2024.
One of LT's board members at the time, and one of its biggest funders, was Sir Trevor Chinn... who received the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honour in 2024, five months after the UK Gen Election, for services to Israel.
Another board member was Josh Simons, now revealed to be the center of the APCO/Labour Together scandal that targeted me and other journalists because we were reporting on Labour Together's 2018-2020 illegally undeclared donations, its role in covertly inflaming the Labour Party antisemitism crisis and launching a pan-Atlantic attack on free speech through the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
Also on the board at the time was Lord Jonathan Kestenbaum, formerly director at BICOM, one of the the most prominent pro-Israel lobby groups in the country, and also a one-time IDF soldier.
Met chief Rowley must resign!
The Met under Rowley's leadership has been conducting a campaign of political policing - openly lying about the intentions of Palestine protestors, giving favour to the far right, and systematically downplaying incidents of Islamophobic hate crime.
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Joint Statement: Paul Holden and Andrew Feinstein Regarding Labour Together, APCO and the Labour Party
On Wednesday last week we received documents from Labour Together following Subject Access Requests that we submitted to Labour Together in February 2026. The documents provided by Labour Together are deeply disturbing.
They show that Labour Together and APCO targeted us, our colleagues, our associates and Paul’s family with utterly false and highly defamatory allegations, and that this was done with the knowledge of the highest levels of the Labour Party. Indeed, we are now of the view that the operation to investigate us, our families and associates was effectively a joint operation run by the Labour Party, Labour Together and APCO.
This highly invasive campaign was launched because of Paul’s factually accurate reporting. This reporting raised serious questions about whether Labour Together and Morgan McSweeney deliberately failed to report £730,000 in donations to the Electoral Commission in violation of the law. It is now plain that Sir Keir Starmer benefited from the work funded by these donations and that they facilitated his rise to power.
We are calling for a full inquiry into Labour Together.
We also call on Sir Keir Starmer to clarify his role in this scandal. Considering the documents that have been disclosed to date, we find it nearly inconceivable that Sir Keir Starmer did not know about this despicable project that included Labour Together reporting us to the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, based on utterly false and highly defamatory allegations. These highly defamatory allegations were then shared with at least one major newspaper outlet.
The newly released documents reveal six important facts.
First, they show that Morgan McSweeney and Paul Ovenden were aware of the APCO and Labour Together investigation into us from at least January 2024. McSweeney was the Labour Party’s head of campaigns and subsequently Sir Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff in Number 10. Paul Ovenden was the Director of Labour Party communications and subsequently Head of Strategy in Number 10.
The emails show Simons arranging a meeting between himself, Ovenden, McSweeney and Tom Harper, a senior APCO employee, to discuss the investigation into us. A third Labour employee was copied into the email, but, because of redactions, we do not know who this is. We ask the Labour Party to confirm who else was copied into this correspondence.
The excellent @PeterKGeoghegan and Democracy for Sale have confirmed with a Labour Party source that the intended meeting did take place.
Second, they show that APCO’s Tom Harper actively coached Josh Simons and Labour Together on how to submit a ‘crime complaint’ about us to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ. Harper provided text for Simons to submit to the NCSC. The decision to complain about us to the NCSC was made only days after Simons had emailed McSweeney, Ovenden and Harper about APCO’s upcoming report into us, asking for a meeting to discuss its contents.
Third, Josh Simons has repeatedly claimed in public that he appointed APCO to investigate a ‘hack’ of Labour Together materials. But the new documents show that Labour Together and Simons did not conduct any meaningful cybersecurity review to establish whether materials had been hacked from Labour Together, or where else they may have been sourced from.
Labour Together did, however, appoint a cybersecurity expert to review a potential hack in late 2025. This review, a summary of which has now been disclosed to us, shows that there was no ‘hack’ of Labour Together. This is obviously true, as we have repeatedly explained that the investigation into Labour Together was based on documents legally leaked from the Labour Party by whistleblowers concerned about misconduct by the Party’s most senior officials, open-source materials, and Freedom of Information requests.
Fourth, they show that Josh Simons and Labour Together told the NCSC that they were reporting us because they were concerned that Paul’s reporting ‘may be a co-ordinated effort to discredit Labour Together in order to undermine Mr McSweeney and by extension, Mr. Starmer in the run-up to next year’s general election.’ It is our view that this joint Labour Together, Labour Party and APCO operation was launched because Paul’s factually accurate reporting would have shed light on the highly problematic and unlawful aspects of Sir Keir Starmer’s rise to power.
Fifth, they show that APCO had sent a ‘case summary’ to Josh Simons of Labour Together on the 20th of November 2020, on the basis of which APCO were contracted by Labour Together two days later. The ‘case summary’, setting out a proposed scope of work, clearly identified us as journalists. From the very beginning, therefore, APCO and Labour Together knew that they were looking to investigate journalists – the very journalists who were reporting accurately on Labour Together, Morgan McSweeney and undeclared donations.
Sixth, they show that Simons wrote to an unknown person at the Labour Party in November 2023 asking for ‘intel’ on us. This shows that Simons’ immediate response to announcement of Paul’s book was to seek the assistance of the Labour Party. At the time, we were both Labour Party members. The reply to Simons’ request has been redacted in our documents. We call on the Labour Party to release all documents to us relevant to this scandal, and to confirm whether Josh Simons, Labour Together or APCO were provided with any of our private, personal information.
@itamarbengvir Ah the far-Right man convicted for racism and supporting terrorism thinks he's the Master now 😂 Keep showing the world what your government really is.
What came up on the doorstep was Starmer and when probed this was a local election they said it’s all relative
- Winter Fuel
- Disability Cuts
- Gaza
- Vile Immigration Rhetoric
- Not funding councils
- Social Care
No matter what we did locally.
🧵 THREAD: I’m getting bored of hearing our losses were about what Labour didn’t do or is yet to do in power.
Let me be clear: voters switched on us because of what Labour HAS DONE in power.
They judged us for betraying our values through our actions. That came from the top.
Great piece of journalism. But we are told that it is Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson's far-right-led march on Saturday that are forces confronting anti-Semitism. A march Kemi Badenoch wants to go ahead while banning those opposed to it.
No, this is not an AI picture, this is a picture of Ben Gvir's wife on his birthday giving him a gift of a cake with a noose and a title written on it: “Sometimes dreams come true”.
Israel 2026.