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Consider the potential consequences for trade unions - if multiple days of picketing during an industrial dispute can be presented as cumulative disruption, then lawful strike action could become another area vulnerable to heavy-handed intervention.

April 12, 2026, I visited Marwan Barghouti in my capacity as his lawyer. What I confirmed through this visit is deeply alarming. In recent weeks, Marwan Barghouti has been subjected to three violent assaults. On April 8 in Ganot Prison, he was severely beaten and left bleeding for more than two hours. He requested medical care and was denied treatment. On March 25, he was assaulted during his transfer from Megiddo to Ganot. On March 24, in Megiddo Prison, guards entered his cell with a dog, forced him to the ground, and the dog repeatedly attacked him.  These are not isolated incidents. They form a clear pattern of escalating abuse: violence, medical neglect, and treatment that places him at immediate risk. He had a great deal to say. Above all, he wanted to know more about his family and the Palestinian people, What is happening in Palestinian and Israeli scene I tried to tell him everything I know. But even that conversation took place under absurd conditions: the phones did not work, so we had to shout through the glass just to hear each other. For five hours, I sat there without food or water, trying to make sure this visit meant something. This is what a legal visit looks like today: basic conditions denied, communication obstructed, and even the most elementary human and professional standards ignored. And still, despite all of that, his mind was sharp, focused, and deeply engaged with everything happening outside those prison walls.

Why isn’t a newspaper south of the border willing to spell out what the overwhelming majority of us want?

Two headlines less than 24 hours apart. Second‑worst in the developed world for avoidable deaths because of underinvestment and bad spending decisions. Yet private companies providing NHS services walked away with £1.6bn in profit. How has this been allowed to happen?

Tonight MPs will vote on the govt's latest attempt to crack down on the right to protest - this time through restricting recurrent protests. Myself and fellow Green MPs will be voting against these plans; peaceful protest is a cornerstone of our democracy and must be defended.

Zarah Sultana MP invokes parliamentary privilege to inform the British public about reporting by The Grayzone on the corrupt trial of six Palestine Action activists Sultana stated that if convicted, the defendants "will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that” “They could convict them on criminal damage charges with no idea that terrorism sentences will follow," she continued. "Not a single terrorism charge has been brought forward. The proscription has been ruled unlawful and the defendants themselves have been banned from telling the jury that they acted to stop genocide under threat of contempt charges”

I’ve just voted against another clampdown on the right to peaceful protest. Like the ban on Palestine Action - which I also voted against - this attack targets the Palestine solidarity movement. But it threatens everyone’s rights. I’ll keep fighting to defend our hard-won freedoms.

French lawmakers set to push bill criminalising speech on Israel, with penalties of up to five years in prison