Hilly Cooke

“We are putting Palantir on notice. This is a military surveillance company tied to authoritarian surveillance and the devastation in Gaza — and it has no role in our NHS.” Green Party leader Zack Polanski on why Palantir must be kept out of the National Health Service.

"There's even an airport, something that Gaza hasn't had" Gaza international airport opened in November 1998. The Israeli military destroyed it in 2001.

I can't believe this is really happening. I feel sick to my stomach.

@malonebarry Absolutely disgusting

BOARD OF PEACE - Season 1

Israel's merciless mass-murder of Gaza journalists continues "Three journalists among 11 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. Reporters had been in car on way to new camp as two 13-year-old boys killed in separate incidents" theguardian.com/world/2026/jan…

@DalrympleWill It’s utterly relentless. And this fantasy of a ceasefire is a triumph of government and media gaslighting

Not one hint of a perpetrator in this headline.

Zack Polanski is the most effective left-wing communicator in Britain for generations. This is it. This is the chance. And we'll probably not get another one. x.com/i/status/20144…

"They're raining down bombs.. 60% of the energy in Kyiv has gone & people are having to put tents up in their living rooms to keep warm" Now do Gaza. Except there you're supporting & arming the regime dropping the bombs and freezing people to death.

The people of Gaza deserve better than Trump’s gang of rogues. The Palestinian people — and only the Palestinian people — should determine their own future.

As soon as the UK listed Palestine Action as a terrorist group it was made clear to the entire western world that there is no limit to how far our governments will go to stomp out speech that is critical of Israel. Literally no limit. Once you're arresting old ladies in wheelchairs for holding a sign that says "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action," you're making it clear that there's nothing you won't do to bludgeon the populace into line regarding this one particular foreign state. That was a real turning point for western society, in retrospect. Up until then it'd been horrific genocidal depravity in Gaza and some ugly shenanigans with TikTok and university campuses, but actually proclaiming that an activist group is a terrorist organization and arresting anyone who supports it was a wildly unprecedented escalation. From that point on it's been clear to every decent person throughout the western world that we're in the imperial crosshairs now. They're coming for us directly. Our rights are on the chopping block. There's no limit to how dark and dystopian things can get from here.

ICE stopping doctors and ambulances from helping someone they've shot. Straight out of the IDF playbook.

The US is a country descending into fascism. Unless we fight back, a dark future beckons not just for the US, but for the whole West.

Juliet Stevenson: "There are 4 fully equipped mobile maternity clinics waiting to cross the border.. they're not allowed across... the Israeli govt has blocked [them].. we have to stop selling arms to Israel, we have to stop supporting that regime" Well said.

Israeli soldiers know they can execute Palestinians in cold blood, and in full view of the world, with no consequences. Here are the consequences of the impunity granted to Israel by Western governments and the Western media.

@RashmiWriting @jasonlyon_ @QuartoKids Congratulations Rashmi! Absolutely well deserved ♥️♥️♥️

@netty_ooo @TrevorMLambert Absolutely hopeless!

@HillyCooke @TrevorMLambert Ive only just listened and similarly *very* frustrated at the treatment of Zoe. Introduces her late in the show. then turns to MR for a comment on her speciality. Is the show now coming from the Cardiff studio still? I really miss the days of Rev Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir

Crikey. Adrian Chiles is really struggling with this format. #SaturdayLive

I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom. 1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel's 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction. 2) The Israeli maritime blockade has been in place for 17 years and is an intrinsic part of the long term occupation found illegal in the ICJ advisory opinion 3) It is therefore not a short term measure in time of armed conflict as specified in the San Remo manual 4) In any event the San Remo rules explicitly state that humanitarian supplies may not be blockaded 5) The UN Commission of Inquiry has already determined that Israel is committing genocide. The blockade is plainly a part of the machinery of such genocide. For reasons 1 to 5 the Israeli attack on the flotilla is plainly illegal. 6) On the High Seas, the law applying on each ship is the law of its flag state. An attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked. 7) Acts of illegal possession of vessels or abduction of crew on the High Seas should be pursued by each flag state as crimes within their domestic jurisdiction, not only in international law. 8) So the Metropolitan Police and DPP have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas. This applies to each flag state mutatis mutandi. I hope you find this helpful.

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