Laura

[Laura @laurabot_]

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery...and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.” - Frank Zappa

[Nihal | نهال @nihalist___]

it’s mad to think that we now live in a world where public opinion does not matter at all. attempts at manufacturing consent are half hearted at best. it’s all just brute force now.

[Laura @laurabot_]

While we're being distracted by Binface & by-election theatre...

Britain has done nothing but assist in this genocide

Nowhere in the fluff piece of Starmer's exit interview was he held to account for complicity/proscribing those trying to stop production of weapons used in it

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

An Israeli soldier filmed this clip using a drone camera while proudly boasting about the destruction of all homes in Gaza.

A moment the world must never forget.

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

"Let them eat growth"

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.

Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.

That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.

The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

💥scrapping jury trials
💥cutting welfare and disability benefits
💥halving foreign aid
💥restricting protests for ‘cumulative disruption’
💥proscribing Palestine Action & arresting thousands of people for holding signs
💥AI boosterism
💥cosying up to Palantir & embedding them in the NHS
💥surveillance flights over Gaza & arms sales to Israel
💥allowing UK bases to be used for war in Iran
💥the most punitive asylum and immigration reforms in generations
💥halving the UK's contributions to the Green Climate Fund
💥banning social media for under 16s despite widespread opposition from child protection charities
💥taxing workers not wealth
💥refusing to nationalise water & energy or punish executives and companies pumping excrement into rivers
💥‘reforms’ to planning rules to remove environmental protections
💥freebies and cronyism scandals
💥a watered-down Employment Rights Bill
💥introducing policing via Live Facial Recognition using Israeli software used to “track, trace and abduct” thousands of Palestinians passing through checkpoints
💥 Peter Bloody Mandelson…

All brought to you by the most disliked Prime Minister since the introduction of modern polling, delivered to power with an unlawful slush fund filled with cash from millionaire and pro-Israeli donors.

Did anyone who voted Labour in 2024 expect this?

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Starmer will be remembered as one of worst, most regressive prime ministers of last century—and it was all entirely predictable

But Andy Burnham is cut from same cloth

The problem is not these empty suits. The problem is the Labour Party: it is set-up to sustain UK oligarchy

[Laura @laurabot_]

Lying while looking sensible. Complicit in genocide while looking sensible. Palestine Action proscription while looking sensible. Appointing Mandelson while looking sensible. Cutting disability benefits while looking sensible. Removing trans rights while looking sensible...

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

A compulsive liar.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Getting rid of Keir Starmer is not enough. We need to get rid of the politics he represents: corporate greed, anti-migrant rhetoric and endless war.

[Joe☭🔻 @ScottishCommie]

After watching you lot whitewash a genocide for almost 3 years its no wonder.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

A few people are ignoring the very sinister aspects of this case - either because they don’t know, or because doing so is discomforting.

Put it alongside reduction of jury trials, blocking various people from entering UK & locking up people for holding signs. Turnkey tyranny.

[Mohammed Elnaiem @m_elnaiem]

In Britain, you're a terrorist if you try to materially stop a genocide. If you join a pogrom, you're just "fed up".

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Jeremy Johnson - in 50 years time this will be the only 1.39 minutes of your life you'll be remembered for. It'll be played in genocide museums to sum up the complicity and callous brutality of the British state in the face of the slaughter of the Palestinian people - and the courage of those who opposed it.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Remember what the Filton actionists did

They decommissioned the machinery of genocide

The moral equivalent of destroying Zyklon B canisters at Auschwitz

A British judge is now sentencing them as 'terrorists' for it

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

I've said it before. What we have seen in the UK since Oct 7 is a lurch towards authoritarianism because the government is committed to materially and diplomatically supporting a genocide, and is utterly captured by the Israel lobby. It's really that simple.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

the uk has revoked my visa as well. all at the behest of israel. the west is betraying "liberal values" for a genocidal fascist foreign government. soon we will all become israel.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

There's a video on the timeline today of a Palestinian man weeping over the body of his dead 6-year-old daughter. She was killed in an Israeli attack on a tent. There is no ceasefire. There was never a ceasefire. And they have never stopped slaughtering the children of Gaza.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

On the 78th Anniversary of the Nakba – 15 May 2026

Seventy-eight years ago, Britain committed one of the most catastrophic acts of colonial injustice in modern history. With the stroke of a pen, the British government disposed of a land it had no right to give – uprooting an entire people from their homes, their soil, and their heritage to install a project built on displacement, exclusion, and dispossession.

The Nakba was no accident of war; it was a deliberate, calculated campaign of erasure. Hundreds of villages were demolished. Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children were driven from everything they had ever known.

Britain bears a historic and moral responsibility for this foundational crime – a responsibility it has never acknowledged, never atoned for, and never answered. Today, we name it plainly: what Britain inflicted upon the Palestinian people was a crime, and history will not allow it to be forgotten.

Yet, the crime did not end in 1948. The world’s governments, institutions, and international bodies chose complicity. For nearly eight decades, the international community has legitimised a regime built on stolen land, suppressed Palestinian resistance at every turn, and shielded Israel from accountability. They looked away – or actively enabled the oppressor – as war crime followed war crime.

The occupation deepened. Settlements expanded. The blockade tightened. The apartheid wall grew in length and height.

Now, before the eyes of the entire world, Gaza faces a genocide – a systematic campaign to destroy a people. Children are bombed in hospitals and schools. Families are starved by design as a weapon of war. An entire civilisation is being dismantled in real time. The collusion of world powers in this ongoing catastrophe does not merely dishonour them; it makes them active accomplices in every crime committed since the first.

And yet, Palestine endures. Through every massacre and siege, through expulsion, imprisonment, and collective punishment, through seventy-eight years of unrelenting assault on their very existence, the Palestinian people have never surrendered – and they never will.

Generation after generation has carried the flame: from those who fled with the keys to their homes in 1948, to the children of Gaza who today stand amidst the rubble and declare that they are still here. This is more than resilience; it is one of the most extraordinary acts of collective resistance in human history.

The Palestinian people have taught the world what it means to refuse to disappear. They will not be erased. They will not be silenced. And they will not rest until every inch of their land is free and every right is restored – fully, unconditionally, and without compromise.

The tide has turned, and the world knows it. The Zionist project, sustained for decades by propaganda, intimidation, and the suppression of truth, is losing its grip on the global conscience. Millions across every continent have taken to the streets. Students have risen on university campuses from London to Los Angeles. Artists, academics, lawyers, and doctors are raising their voices, and international courts have opened investigations.

The mask has been torn away, exposing the reality beneath: an apartheid regime, a colonial enterprise, and a system of terror and control that has no place in the modern world. The narrative that once protected Israel from scrutiny is collapsing. The impunity that shielded it from consequence is eroding. The end of the Zionist project as a viable political reality is no longer unthinkable; for the first time, it is inevitable.

On this 78th anniversary of the Nakba, the Global Alliance for Palestine makes this unshakeable pledge: we will not rest. We will not be silent. We will not be bought, intimidated, or deterred. We stand in full, unconditional solidarity with every campaign, movement, and act of resistance – legal, moral, cultural, and political – that advances the cause of Palestinian liberation anywhere on earth.

We will work without pause until the dream that has sustained an entire people across three generations becomes reality: a free Palestine, from the river to the sea. Full rights, full dignity, and full justice will be restored to every Palestinian – those living under occupation, those displaced in the diaspora, and those who gave their lives so that others might one day be free. https://t.co/nUI3OpUTup

The Nakba is not history; it is an ongoing wound. And we will not stop until it is healed.

Global Alliance for Palestine

15 May 2026

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

A cause for national shame.

This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI+ rights across Europe.

Until 2015, the UK was top.

We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe.

We're now near Albania.

[Laura @laurabot_]

@NoJusticeMTG Everything’s fine. It’s just a comms issue 🙃

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Ignore the noise

Polanski is winning

Today is another nail in the coffin of the UK establishment's most prized asset: the Labour Party

The uniparty (Tory-Labour-Reform) is offering more of the same - and worse

Greens are finally offering a break with the rotting consensus

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