Ray Ellis

The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground. Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground. War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.

Gunners take home the Football Black List honours ❤️ Ebs has been recognised for his foundation which dedicates to empowering south London's youth through education and sport, while Mich has scooped the Cyrille Regis award, for her contribution to the game on and off the pitch.

Hi James Bembridge (@TheBembridge), are you going to put your views of the NHS on your @reformparty_uk campaign flyers?

The High Court ruled in February that the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful... The MET rightly said it would stop making arrests... But after the government launched an appeal, on Saturday the Police arrested over 500 protesters - with Amnesty observing the use of handcuffs on multiple peaceful protesters. If you think this is plainly disproportionate and absurd, you’re not alone. Thousands of Amnesty International Supporters have signed a petition calling for all prosecutions against these protesters to be dropped. Add your name today: amn.st/6012B6NuGk

We still talk about the British conquering India, but that phrase disguises a much more sinister reality. For it was not the British government that began seizing chunks of India in the mid-eighteenth century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in the city of London. Bringing together decades of meticulous research and masterful narration, William will tell us the remarkable story of how the Mughal empire, which then generated just under half the world's wealth, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the East India Company—an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational corporation. Do not miss the remarkable story of India and empire as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power. William Dalrymple Tickets & Tour Dates - Fane share.google/OX8Wub9Sp4xLae…

🚨Breaking: MPs pass draconian laws restricting repeat protests "Policing by consent is a deeply held British custom. Today the Government has upended that tradition. By empowering police to stop protests on the basis of "cumulative disruption", which can include the impact of totally unconnected events, the government have hollowed out a fundamental right. The police have a ration book for public spaces, and protestors can only hope for coupons. The right to protest is protected under Article 10 of the Human Rights Act. We urge the police to think carefully about their legal obligations, about the role they want to play in British public life, and about ever using this power in practice. We hope the Government will, or a future government, will think again. " - Jack Coulson, Head of Advocacy

Just like the vote on proscribing Palestine Action the government prevented a specific vote on the right to protest & grouped this issue in one vote with many amendments that were supportable. Nevertheless I voted against the government plans to restrict right to protest.

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.

Killing negotiators is a Zionist tradition (violating millennia of civilized customs). The problem is that they imposed the practice on the Trump administration.

🚨🇬🇧 They’re not documenting London’s “decline.” They’re manufacturing it. New GLA research found that: 🔺“London in decline” narratives have surged by 150–200% in just two years. 🔺Migration-related content is up 350%. And this isn’t happening organically. The push is being driven by coordinated networks: 🔺UK far-right ‘patriot’ accounts 🔺Russian and Chinese state-aligned bot operations 🔺MAGA-adjacent outrage merchants like Tommy Robinson and Adam Brooks One Vietnamese network reportedly used AI-generated imagery and fake local news branding to build an audience of more than a million followers. Meanwhile, London’s homicide rate is at its lowest level on record. So no, this is not fearless truth-telling or “citizen journalism.” It’s narrative engineering, disinformation dressed up as reporting. [SOURCE: GLA/BBC, April 2026]

Palestine Action defendants are blocked from explaining their motives or mentioning Israel, genocide, or the target of their actions The British state is destroying its own courts to protect Israel's apartheid system We are reporting this because British media can not

I am voting against the Government’s plans to further restrict the right to protest tonight. Step by step we have witnessed the erosion of basic civil liberties won by people protesting over centuries.

A shockingly corrupted trial that exposes the British state’s weaponization of censorship and secrecy laws has just begun. The Grayzone's @MaxBlumenthal details how six activists from the direct action protest group Palestine Action face terrorism charges and the possibility of long prison terms – but the jury in the case is forbidden from knowing this. The UK media is similarly banned from reporting on these facts, while the defendants in the case are blocked by court order from explaining their motives for damaging and occupying Israeli weapons factories on British soil. Blumenthal explains why Palestine Action is being targeted with such a draconian prosecution: because they are effective. Having caused the closure of Israeli factories, they have provided activists around the world with a workable model for raising the cost of occupation and genocide. Now, he argues, the British state is so determined to prevent their acquittal before a potentially sympathetic jury that it rigging the trial and perverting whatever's left of democracy, all to preserve its special relationship with Israel.

In a new extensive report, Euro-Med Monitor documented dozens of testimonies from Palestinians in #Gaza who reported systematic sexual violence, including rape, in Israeli prisons and detention centres. 🧵Thread featuring some of the testimonies

BREAKING - @zarahsultana exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial. UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details. “If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”

Our analysis of 22 countries reveals that tax-funded healthcare systems have lower admin costs compared to insurance-based healthcare systems. Administrative costs consume 2.2 per cent of health spending in tax-funded systems compared to 3.5 per cent in insurance systems.

Today @CHPIthinktank published a singularly depressing analysis of 760 private firms now providing NHS services in England such as CT scans, hip and knee replacements & mental health support. Companies like Spire & Circle are creaming off billions from these lucrative NHS contracts. £2bn of £12bn worth of contracts went to firms with owners based outside the UK. £533m of this £2bn went to companies owned by people living in tax havens such as Jersey and the Cayman Islands. I find it grotesque that while NHS patients are stranded on trolleys in corridors or waiting months or even years for care, taxpayers’ money is being siphoned off into offshore tax havens & lining the pockets of private equity companies. The government *could* be investing in growing NHS capacity – instead, it has elected to grow private companies’ grip on the NHS, a short-term folly that is already costing patients dear. Madness.

Israel’s bulldozers are wiping out civilian homes, tourist sites, and hotels in Naqoura, South Lebanon. Not military targets. South Lebanon is being erased — like Gaza before it. This is an American-backed, American-funded genocide.

Ah! We've gone from a "technicality" (Tice) to an "accountant mistake"/"some kind of mistake" (Kruger). As discussed, it is neither - the law was broken and the liability remains. Moreover, the reason the relevant law is complex is because Tice *elected* to turn his firm, highly unusually in context, into a tax-efficient REIT.

Creeping privatisation is destroying our NHS while lining the pockets of the wealthy. We need to kick these vultures out of our healthcare service and bring it back in house.