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Rajiv Menon KC stands accused of contempt of court for a closing speech which simply explained a point established in law. Do you stand with Rajiv Menon KC? Please RT after voting - thank you.

An Observation on Angela Rayner and the Labour Government: One cannot help but feel a measure of sympathy for Angela Rayner. I know her well enough to say that she came into politics for the best of reasons: a desire to serve, a determination to improve the lives of people whose struggles she understood from her own experience. But the further up the ladder one climbs in politics, the more insistent the temptations become. This is not simply about individual weakness or personal failing. It is structural. Over the past 40 years, Britain has built a society in which consumption, status, and proximity to wealth have become defining features of the political class. The gravitational pull of money is now so great that even those who arrive in Westminster with the clearest sense of purpose find their heads turned. Angela’s story is not unique. She came from humble beginnings, but the wealth that circles political life today is more concentrated, more brazen, and more intrusive than in the past. The old checks and balances, party rootedness in mass membership, trade union accountability, a press less entangled with oligarchic interests, have all weakened. Where once honour, public service, even a sense of historical duty could command respect, today those values are dimmed in comparison to the pursuit of material position. The mechanism is subtle but relentless. It is not corruption in the brown-envelope-under-the-table sense. It is the slow, almost invisible turning of heads. You are introduced to those who walked this path before you, former ministers who now sit comfortably in boardrooms or on the payroll of consultancies with six and seven-figure salaries. You are invited to corporate boxes at sporting events, to private dinners, to concerts and premiers. Lavish clothes or spectacles can be “within the rules,” provided they are declared. But by then the damage has been done. The message is implicit but unmistakable: play the game, listen to us, and you too can enjoy more of this. The logic creeps into your personal life. You stretch to buy the house that can host the right gatherings. You measure your worth by the standards of a world that equates success with possessions and proximity to privilege. And once you are on that path, it is hard to step off. This is, of course, a simplification of a complex socio-economic and political process. But as someone who came from a council estate myself, I see it all around me in Westminster. And it is not going to be changed by media witch-hunts, the tutting of ethics advisers, or even the occasional burst of public outrage. As Gladstone once warned, “Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.” But in our current system, what is morally questionable is too often normalised, excused, and rebranded as “just the way things are.” Real change will only come from a collective decision to choose a different path: to stop outsourcing our state to private interests, to end the revolving door between government and corporate boardrooms, to challenge the idea that the role of politics is to serve vast concentrations of wealth. We can choose differently. We can once again put community, solidarity, and public service at the heart of our political life. We can insist that worth is measured not in the size of one’s house or the company one keeps, but in the contribution one makes to society and the integrity with which one serves. Until we do, until we decide as a polity to hold up those values rather than the glittering prizes of private gain, hese scandals will not just recur. They will define the very character of our politics.

To summarise Rajiv Menon KC is a brilliant lawyer who has successfully defended his clients in part through powerful opening and closing statements that enable jurors to understand the laws of the UK. He is being prosecuted for this. It sounds mad because it is.

Misan Harriman is a highly respected and influential Black man. He is being attacked by the Telegraph with smears. His crime is to point out that the Golders Green attacker also attacked a Muslim man. I stand with Misan.

Statement by Barristers Chambers re Prosecution of Rajiv Menon Kc Rajiv Menon KC, a highly respected silk at Garden Court Chambers and a former head of chambers, is facing proceedings for contempt of court. The alleged contempt concerns a closing speech that Rajiv delivered to a jury at the Woolwich Crown Court in January 2026. The trial involved pro-Palestine activists causing criminal damage to weapons and other property at a factory in Filton, Bristol belonging to Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer. Not only is this the first time in English legal history that a barrister is being prosecuted for contempt in respect of a closing speech at a criminal trial, but the procedure being used to prosecute Rajiv is wholly novel and without historical precedent. Until this week, any publication about Rajiv being prosecuted for contempt has been prohibited by various court orders. As a result of reporting restrictions now being lifted, Garden Court Chambers is at last able to comment publicly on this matter. We have supported Rajiv throughout the proceedings, including significant numbers of our members attending court hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice. Rajiv is independently represented by solicitors and leading counsel who have made powerful arguments about the jurisdictional legality and procedural propriety of the contempt proceedings being brought against Rajiv. Judgment is currently awaited from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division). It is hoped that the arguments being advanced will prevail, and that the proceedings against Rajiv will be swiftly concluded without Rajiv having to stand trial. Whatever the outcome, Garden Court Chambers will continue to support Rajiv. It is important to note that the prosecution of Rajiv for contempt has wider constitutional implications. We are extremely concerned about the chilling effect on the Bar of the state seeking to criminalise barristers for their representation of their clients. Such action is bound to undermine the confidence of the public that those charged, particularly in political and controversial cases, can receive the committed representation that they would expect to be provided.

THE REGULATOR THAT MARKS ITS OWN HOMEWORK @Channel4 Dispatches sent a reporter undercover into the Financial Ombudsman Service @financialombuds. What came out on camera was a scandal. A staff member told the camera: "I'm not proud to admit it but I've done it myself. Just taken a chance and just slung stuff through, with any old decision." Another one explained the math: "You're more likely to meet your targets if you're not upholding them." So the fastest way to hit your numbers was to side with the bank. Not because the bank was right. Because reading the file took too long. 11,000 cases went unanswered for two years. Some of those people wrote in saying they were about to lose their house. The FOS said the footage was "not representative." Parliament demanded answers. Baroness Ros Altmann @rosaltmann called it shocking. MPs threatened an inquiry. Then everyone moved on. Nothing changed. My own complaint against @rsagroup / @IntactInsurance is now being formally handled by Gary Smith @G8GWS of @MeridianLegals. Gary is the solicitor leading the FOS Litigation Group, built on over 1,000 documented FOS failures. He is preparing a judicial review of the FOS. My case was submitted through Meridian as my regulated representative because what happened to me fits the exact same pattern Channel 4 filmed in 2018. FOS has been broken for years. The difference is now someone is actually taking it to court. If your complaint was dismissed by the FOS and you think it was never properly looked at, contact Gary Smith directly at Meridian Legal Services: 0121 516 0675 @MeridianLegals The full transcript of what @Channel4 filmed inside the FOS is in the comments. Read it. Shocking testimonies. Source: Channel 4 Dispatches "Undercover: Who's Policing Your Bank?"

At the time I wrote of Rajiv Menon KC's closing speech for the defence of Charlotte Head: "This is the one of the greatest legal speeches – including historical speeches – I have ever read." He now faces loss of career and two years in jail for it. craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/…

Those who lied about Corbyn, and those who gave credence to those lies, delivered Starmer's miserable, treacherous, malicious, aggressive and genocidal regime. They knew exactly what they were doing, and the mainstream media knows exactly what they did. It was a Zionist scam.

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Fuck Tommy Robinson.

Dr Ellen Kriesels (@EllenKriesels) has just been arrested by the london met police on behalf of the 'israeli' jewish lobby for two X posts. Ellen is a senior consultant paediatrician with an unblemished record. The lobby began hunting her in September because of her sign at a Palestine national demonstration. They doxxed her and smeared her in the press. 3000+ zionist jews and pro-'israelis' complained to her hospital (that she had worked in for 15 years) She was suspended from the Whittington Hospital within 4 days. They (UKLFI and CAA) reported her to the medical board (GMC) and then to the tribunal (MPTS) where she had her licence suspended for 9 months. And now they've had her arrested. Her crimes: - Opposing the Holocaust in Gaza - Naming and criticising jewish supremacy. Britain is doing this to our NHS doctors for 'israel'. Britain is occupied.

NHS DESTROYED THE WOMAN WHO CAUGHT ITS DOCTORS STEALING FROM IT Sharmila Chowdhury @sharmilaxx gave 30 years of spotless service to the @NHS. Not one disciplinary mark. Not one complaint. She was the budget holder for radiology at Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, which means she could see exactly where the money was going. What she saw was two consultant radiologists billing the NHS for shifts they were spending at a private hospital down the road. The Trust lost £250,000 of public money through those arrangements. She reported it to her line manager. Her medical director. HR. Counter Fraud. The Department of Health. The Treasury. Number 10. She had a paper trail so airtight that @ITV undercover surveillance later caught the same consultants still absent during paid hours, and caught Miranda Harvie and Akkib Rafique taking direct cash payments from patients for private ultrasounds inside the NHS building, money going straight into their own account. So what did the Trust do with this documented, camera-confirmed, publicly broadcast fraud? They sacked her. On fabricated counter-allegations from a subordinate she had herself reported for breaching patient safety. The man who filed those allegations later sent an email signed off with "0800-F***-YOU-B****." He received a Top Mentor award from the Trust that same year. Sharmila won the Interim Relief Hearing. She won the internal appeal. The judge asked the Trust to reinstate her. The Trust said no and refused to let her return. She was blacklisted. Job offers were withdrawn the moment employers discovered who she was. She settled out of court in 2012 with two years pay, out of which she had to pay £77,500 in legal fees alone. 38 Degrees38 Degrees In July 2013, she was diagnosed with breast and lung cancer. Multiple consultants believe this is a direct result of the sustained stress of her treatment as a whistleblower. The consultants she reported kept their jobs. George Osborne said he could not get involved. Andrew Lansley said he could not get involved. David Cameron said he could not get involved. Every single official body, every single minister, every single department looked at a proven, camera-documented NHS fraud case and decided it was an employment matter. Read Sharmila's full case: sharmilachowdhury com Sources: Health Select Committee written evidence | @DailyMail | @Independent | @BBCNews | @Channel4 | @guardian | @thetimes | @DailyMirror | @Channel4News | @ITV

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants. Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict. Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences. Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670? It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide. Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-01-1…

Sir Mark Rowley's is STILL Chief of the Metropolitan Police. Please RT this - until he no longer is - thank you.

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer. In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll. We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

A video the Media won't show you. Thousands of Orthodox Jews gathering in New York to protest against Israel.

Let's make hope normal again.

We will carry on marching for humanity. We will carry on marching for Palestine.

Crazy isn't it Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party had an 'antisemitism crisis' and now Zack Polanski's Green Party does. While Nigel Farage's Reform party, with Nigel Farage and loads of Nazi lovers, doesn't. It's like it's some kind of scam used against Left Wing parties.