36-year-old Darren Medhurst, who was filmed by Young Bob setting a bin on fire and rolling it towards police officers, has been jailed for three years and three months.
Darren has 51 previous convictions for 96 offences, including burglary and shoplifting.
It's pretty disgraceful that there has been absolutely no mention of this from the Prime Minister.
It's increasingly clear that some attacks, correctly, warrant disgust, emergency measures and days of media coverage.
Others seem to be met with silence.
Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.
Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.
A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1
Our political leaders have lost control.
First, they lost control of the narrative - allowing racism to pass off as legitimate concerns.
Now, they’ve lost control of the streets, leading to racist pogroms AGAIN.
This repeated failure to protect our communities is unacceptable.
This is a really grim decision alongside Cenk.
People often talk about dangerous road we'd go down under a Reform government - this is another clear warning we're down there already.
A Labour government doing everything possible to silence criticism of the Israeli Government.
Banning Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the UK is an absurd and cowardly decision from an increasingly authoritarian government.
Let us call this what it is: an attack on the freedom to criticise Israel, as well as the UK government’s own complicity in genocide.
“I want to kill someone today & it might be you"
"They wrenched my trousers & underwear down & I was RAPED by one of the soldiers"
"Other people had guns inserted inside them"
ISRAEL DID THIS TO INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISTS FROM THE GLOBAL SUMOD FLOTILLA.
Thameslink, Southern, Great Northern and Gatwick Express have transferred into public ownership today to deliver more reliable, passenger-centred services across the network 👇 (1/3)
King's College Hospital in London has opened a rooftop garden for critical care patients. Its first patient, a 29-year-old woman dependent on feeding tubes, said the outdoor space gave her 'a real boost to keep on going