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Retweeted by Isabel Oakeshott.
Very obvious that if Reform come to power, they will lock people up for criticising them.
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For as long as Labour exists as a cartel, divorced from a mass base, it will remain a playground for lobbyists and consultants whose interests directly oppose those of the majority.
Starmer learned this lesson the hard way. Now, it's Burnham's turn.
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As pundits rush to portray Keir Starmer as a ‘decent man’ overwhelmed by events, they overlook the defining feature of his political career: a willingness to deceive and betray in pursuit of power. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/06/goo…
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🚨 In more than 25 years of working on terrorism cases, I never thought I would see terrorism legislation used in a way that blurs the line between genuine national security concerns and the policing of political expression and protest.
The sentencing of the Filton 4 raises profound questions about the direction of our justice system. Counter-terrorism laws exist to protect the public from serious threats, not to chill political dissent, including direct action protest.
If we are not careful, we risk setting a dangerous precedent, one that many will view as driven not by principle, but by a desire to shield Israel from criticism.
I strongly oppose what happened in this case today.
🚨BREAKING: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists
Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case.
It is completely disproportionate to punish protesters for criminal damage as if they were terrorists, a sentence which stays with you for life.
The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them.
Today's decision shows how direct action protesters could be treated in the future.
The use of terrorism laws against direct action protesters must end.
Together we must continue calling out the abuse of power and fighting for our right to protest.
Read our position:
Criminal Damage, Direct Action, Terrorism: Misuse of counter-terrorism powers in the UK: amn.st/6015B87ZCx
ALT Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists, use of terrorism laws against protesters must end
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This is the dumbest tweet ever written by an American, an astonishing achievement given the depth of competition for that accolade.
It's hard to know where to even start.
I'll go from the top and try wade through it, to arrive at where the focus should already be. /1
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On behalf of their client, Zara Sultana, Bindmans Media and Information Law Practise Group requires that I publish the following statement on X, and that such statement must be clearly visible and pinned to my
profile for a continuous period of no less than 24 hours:
“On 30 March 2026, I published a post on my X account addressed to Zarah Sultana in which I stated that she encourages and incites violence and is friends with terrorists.
Those statements are false. I was wrong and offer my sincere apologies to Ms Sultana for the harm and distress caused to her.”
It is my very great pleasure to do this, and I reiterate my sincere and repeated offer to meet with Miss Zara Sultana in person to resolve our differences.
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Today is David Graeber day:
“The Labour Party under Starmer will abandon its core idealism & principles and it won’t even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it.” (April 2020)
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“The Green Party is riddled with Antisemitism”
Reality: its membership is statistically LESS antisemitic than Labour, the Tories, or Reform.
A staggering 17% of the Tories and 24% of Reform believe “Jewish people chase money”
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This ends any debate over the reality of Israel's apartheid regime.
The death penalty for one race only, enforced through military courts with a 99.7% conviction rate.
Shame on those who deny apartheid.
Shame on those who deny that West Bank settler terrorism and ethnic cleansing is Israeli government policy.
Shame on the Labour government for not ending the sale of weapons to Israel 2.5 years into a genocide in Gaza.
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Insane framing.
He was anally gang-raped.
He was severely beaten and then anally gang-raped on camera. Both a knife and a taser were reportedly used.
There was a hole in his rectal wall. He got surgery for it.
Because he was anally gang-raped by the IDF (on camera).
He also had 7 broken ribs and other injuries as well.
After it happened, Israelis staged multiple large protests in the streets. Not because they believe these soldiers did anything wrong, but because they were infuriated that the soldiers were arrested for anally gang-raping a Palestinian on camera.
These protests weren’t just random people. They included multiple high ranking Knesset members (their Congress) who defended the anal gang/rapists.
They didn’t stop there. They went after the lawyer who leaked the video. She was publicly smeared, was forced to resign, and was arrested.
And now the anal gang-rapists who were caught on camera have had their charges dropped. They didn’t win in court. They weren’t somehow exonerated. The charges were completely and indefensibly dropped. The Jerusalem Post reports that there was sufficient evidence to take this to trial.
This is part of a larger pattern of torture and impunity. NYT and many other major outlets have extensively detailed the abuses at the Sde Teiman torture factory. NYT reported that Prisoners lose 30+ pounds, a nurse was anally raped by a metal rod, another man was raped by a dog, and another was anally raped by a fiery hit rod until he died. Yes, the NYT reported all of that. I’ll share sources in the replies. Torture and sexual assault are commonplace at Sde Teiman, and many prisoners die in the process.
The UN concluded that rape from IDF soldiers is so commonplace that it constitutes official “strategy of war”.
And of course these monsters virtually never face jail time. Because Israelis by and large don’t have any problem with any of it.
This is just what their society does.
They torture Palestinians.
BREAKING: The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee. apnews.com/article/israel-ga…
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when we say “we’re not free until palestine is free”, it’s not a metaphor. a🧵on why:
1) starting off with the fact that israel armed argentina’s military dictatorship during the falklands war.
2) israel deliberately bombed the uss liberty while it was in international waters.
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BREAKING: Israel is now claiming they will try to assassinate the new leader of Iran, and murder anyone involved in appointing them. It is impossible to overstate how deranged these people are.
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Keir Starmer is the most dishonest UK prime minister in my lifetime, and yes I am counting Boris Johnson in that assessment
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Richard Tice & Nigel Farage would throw your town under the bus any day just to get an inch further up Trump’s arsehole.
They can smell the MAGA money & they’ll sell us all down the river to get it.
We at @reformparty_uk stand with and thank Israel and the US
Unlike the Labour & Lib Dem cowards
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The fascists don’t understand those they hate.
British Muslims just voted for a working white woman dog-breeder led by a gay Jewish man who defends trans rights.
Meanwhile, the fascists are accusing Muslims of wanting to ban dogs and force burqas on women.
Twitter is not real
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"If you don't like the changes that we've made, I say the door is open and you can leave"
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The key to getting paid a six-figure salary for being a political analyst, is to take several years longer than the average chump to recognise any political phenomenon.
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It's poetic justice that Starmer's most damaging defeat comes to a party which simply ran on the promises he cynically made to win the Labour leadership in 2020
