nick hunt

MPA Creative Director, cultural tourist, doting father, Reggie’s gwagwa, Europhile, Spurs fan, increasingly intransigent old lefty.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

You were part of a cabinet that armed and supported a genocidal apartheid Israeli state.

Spare us the crocodile tears.

No amount of revisionism erases your role in that. You’re complicit, whether you like it or not.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

For the past two and a half years, the UK government has armed a genocide as it was livestreamed around the world.

Now, some politicians are pretending they have always been against the crimes they enabled.

Too little, too late. Your complicity will never, ever be forgotten.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

Netanyahu is a criminal. First he perpetrated a human genocide. Now he’s attempting a cultural one. And no world leader will do a thing to stop him.

#BeaufortCastle #Lebanon

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

For all the genocide deniers. You lying bastards.

[Dr Ellie Chowns MP @EllieChowns]

Once again the UK govt condemns Israel's actions and says they are prepared to take further action - then fail to do so.

This inaction is unacceptable. Ban settlement trade, sanction Netanyahu, stop all military cooperation with Israel, punish war crimes.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Former UK ambassador Craig Murray assesses the manifold ways Judge Johnson hearing the case against the Palestine Action activists rigged the trial to secure a convictions of violence to justify the government's proscription of the group – and yet still the jury saw through his various ruses:

"Judge Johnson ruled that the defendants were not permitted to refer to their motives.

He ruled that the jury may not be informed of their absolute right to acquit.

He attempted to have the leading defence barrister, Rajiv Menon KC, prosecuted for contempt of court for informing the jury of their rights.

He ruled that terms including 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' may not be used in court.

He ordered that the notebooks and other writings of the accused be redacted to withhold from the jury any information related to Elbit’s supply of weapons to Israel.

He enforced the concealment from the jury of the nature of the weapons and equipment that had been damaged.

He granted anonymity to senior Elbit staff and admitted their evidence without the defence being able to cross-examine.

He ruled that the trial had *not* been prejudiced by the Secretary of State [Yvette Cooper] and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police [Sir Mark Rowley] stating the offences as fact throughout national media.

He allowed the release to the media of highly edited and selective prosecution video footage during the trial which gave a false impression of events.

He permitted the admission of Metropolitan Police video evidence which they had given over to Elbit’s sole custody for an entire year.

He ruled that the jury must not be told of his stated intention to consider adding terrorist aggravation to any convictions – which adds 150% to time served in jail."

Murray rightly concludes: "That is an astonishing list of nefarious actions by Judge Johnson. Read it again. Many people will surely conclude, it is Judge Johnson who should be in jail."

The Achilles' heel in this establishment stitch-up – apart from the independence of juries – is the separate jurisdictions of Scotland and England. Murray has been allowed to bring a judicial review in the Scottish courts of the government's proscription of Palestine Action. The hearing begins tomorrow.

If he wins, he can make the government's efforts to crush our rights to speech and protest – to protect Elbit and Israel's genocide – untenable. You can find ways to support the legal challenge at the end of his post.

https://t.co/ptvG6MSyZh

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

🆕My latest column for The Nerve has dropped:

“Over 2000 British Citizens have served in the IDF during the Gaza War. Our Government Doesn't Want To Know’”

It’s time the U.K. Government fulfilled legal obligations & investigated.

Please read and share.

LINK HERE https://t.co/gn7xVQoFCs
@thenerve_news

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.

His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.

Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.

Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.

Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.

https://t.co/1Onlpx9Nkh

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Tony Blair.

What the billionaire class have paid for.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

https://t.co/pDHSOYG0ZK

“At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets at close range. Tens of people’s bones broken,” organizers of the Global SumudFlotilla posted on the Telegram social media app.
“While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality Israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages.”

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

Cooper & the Labour gov. have spent their time in power crushing dissent to Israel’s genocide ,supplying weapons & ignoring reports on human rights abuses of Palestinians. Having created all the conditions for evil like Ben-Gvir to prosper she now pretends to be outraged by him.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Pep Guardiola is much more than just an unbelievable manager.

He spoke up for the people of Palestine, Sudan and Congo while others looked away.

Pep used his platform to defend our shared humanity. That will never be forgotten. Thank you, Pep.

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

Another example of Yvette Cooper defying prosecutors advice and deliberately prejudicing the Filton trial.

Why isn't she facing contempt of court charges, like the leading barrister did for successfully defending his client?

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

THIS is how to articulate the argument against the continuing unconscionable actions of the Israeli genocidal apartheid state.

My thanks to Dr Myriam Francois for her words of truth.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/X5gVIajJau

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Among the reasons most EU states and EU institutions are quiet about Israel's daily slaughter of civilians in the region, is that they do not care: Lebanese, Palestinian, Iranian lives are disposable, their loss negligible.
And this is so wrong.
Immoral.
Illegal.
Irresponsible.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Gosh. Guardian reports CPS warned Yvette Cooper that her Observer op-ed about Palestine Action risked prejudicing jury. That’s contempt - an imprisonable offence for both author & publisher…what likelihood any action taken? 🤔

[Irene Montero @IreneMontero]

¿Cómo es posible que Rusia esté fuera de Eurovisión pero se permita que Israel siga ahí lavando su imagen de un genocidio?

[Rep. Ilhan Omar @Ilhan]

The Nakba never ended. The genocide of Palestinians continues as the Israeli military escalates violence in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.

I'm joining @RepRashida in co-sponsoring a resolution to recognize the 78th anniversary of the Nakba and Palestinian refugees’ rights.

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

Led By Donkeys do it again 😭👏👏👏👏

Immigration makes Britain brilliant ❤️

Let’s make this go viral 👇