Penny Wilson

Hiberno-Scottish, 18thC classical and higher ed interests, drawn into Twitter by Archers now locked in by the need to find hope and humour somewhere

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

@Keir_Starmer Hang on. This is bullshit. On your watch, people are getting arrested for having opinions. You have repeatedly framed opposing opinions as “far-right”. You have also removed the whip from the Labour MPs who disagree with you.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

890 people have been arrested for demanding an end to genocide in Gaza.

To call them “terrorists” is beyond disgusting.

Shame on you and this Labour government for criminalising solidarity with the Palestinian people, while continuing to sell arms to Israel that fuel genocide.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

The moment, mid-interview, that the daughter of a Holocaust survivor is arrested for protesting the proscription of Palestine Action.

[Penny Wilson @pbw1000]

@Keir_Starmer God's sake

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

This is a powerful statement by Paul Laverty on #Gaza

@PoliceScotland are subjecting themselves to public ridicule.

[Penny Wilson @pbw1000]

@7MohammedKhaled @FrancesNaggs .

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Top stories on the BBC website right now. They are to all intents and purposes the official Reform website.

[Penny Wilson @pbw1000]

@charbhardy To me this says duvet cover day, but then a proper Bank Holiday weekend! Enjoy.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Former UK ambassador Craig Murray publishes the document that proves British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has been lying about the grounds for proscribing Palestine Action: https://t.co/TOh3hmIBnn

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

If arrests for placards were taking place in Russia and China, our media and political class would be vociferously condemning the clear authoritarianism and draconian repression.

Apparently it’s fine when it’s in Britain though.

[Dr Brett Staniland @TwinBrett_]

Does he know he’s made it illegal for anyone else to say this and has been arresting pensioners for protesting exactly this.

[Penny Wilson @pbw1000]

Donald Trump is the only person who can lean on Israel to stop starving people to death in Gaza. Keir Starmer could convince Trump to do that. They're meeting on Monday, so we don't have long to get the PM to act. Add your name to the open letter now: https://t.co/mK9m7mNjpg

[Rosie Holt @RosieisaHolt]

Woman explains how the elderly who support Palestine at protests are terrorists.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

I wake up in morning to listen to doctors in Gaza describe the appalling injuries inflicted on starving children by Israeli soldiers & drones & then hear the lies of the IDF but hear nothing from my own government. Neither a word of condemnation nor of action to be taken. Why?

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

This 83-year-old priest was arrested today.

This is exactly why I voted against the ban in Parliament this week.

[Madoc Cairns @MadocCairns]

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

Why don’t British defence correspondents carry out this kind of investigation?

[Penny Wilson @pbw1000]

I'd forgotten about 'new' timing when I arranged the grocery delivery. Not quite the moment . . . . #TheArchers

[Penny Wilson @pbw1000]

@keridavies Much enjoying it so far. Father Crispin indeed.