Ben Cowles
20.2K posts
@Cowlesz
Journalist & podcaster. Founded @FleetCivil. Employed by Morning Star. Aspiring blues / punk rock guitarist. He / him. (Opinions, politics, and typos all mine)
NEW EPISODE: @MSF_Sea’s Juan Matias Gil tells us how the Italian government made it impossible for the medical charity to use its #GeoBarents rescue ship. He also tells us about #Oyvon, MSF’s new rescue vessel, and what happened on its first rescue mission.
BREAKING: Mass arrests under the Terrorism Act in Trafalgar Square, as hundreds defy the ban on Palestine Action. The police are knowingly unlawfully arresting peaceful protestors for holding placards which say: "I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action"
NEW EPISODE: Statewatch’s Frey Lindsey tells us how the Libyan Coastguard isn’t a unified organisation but a mixture of armed factions. We also discuss a leaked EU document proposing new ‘place of safety arrangements’ with non-European Mediterranean countries.
🚨BREAKING -- British journalist Steve Sweeney has been targeted by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.
I vowed to scale up removals of illegal migrants - and we have. Almost 60,000 illegal migrants and foreign criminals have been removed or deported, but we must go further. I will do whatever it takes to restore order and control.
I have just learned that Labour Together, the think tank run by Keir Starmer's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, paid a PR firm £30,000 to secretly investigate me alongside other journalists. Deeply sinister news. McSweeney should be nowhere near power. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-mo…
