Barbara Spence

@lady_valor_07 The Singing Detective by Dennis Potter. About 40 years old now, absolutely brilliant

Name one

I predict very soon we will be unable to criticize Israel, IDF or any of their actions...however revolting or demonic they are. They are winning. Our politicians, journalists and even judiciary simply don't care. They're able to switch off Palestinian suffering. It's vile.

@HudaAmmori Isn't the point that these prisoners ARE being treated differently to other remand prisoners?

Timpson said he wanted to reform the prison system, he did absolutely nothing and is now saying he's willing to let unconvicted prisoners die. Can you believe this man says he monitors his employees progress with a "happy index". Psychopath.

@Jonathan_K_Cook How long before the use of the word Palestine or Palestinian becomes an arrestable offence?

Dear Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, I heard on the BBC News last night that you are planning to “take a more assertive approach to the way [you] police pro-Palestinian protests” in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack. I wondered what this might mean, given that you and other forces have already arrested thousands of entirely peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters – many of them elderly, a number or them disabled or infirm – for holding a placard opposing the Gaza genocide. Journalists have been detained by your counter-terrorism squad for writing, too critically it seems, about Israel’s slaughter of children in Gaza. Prominent Jewish activists like Haim Bresheeth and Tony Greensteinare being investigated or prosecuted on terrorism offences, for publicly echoing the International Criminal Court and major human rights groups in accusing Israel of committing crimes against humanity. What more are you planning? Tarring and featherings. Hangings in the public square. Let us hope not. The BBC says that, following the attack in Sydney, you will arrest anyone using slogans like “Globalise the intifada”. Last night your force arrested two people at an anti-genocide protest outside David Lammy’s ministry of justice building for using what you apparently term “racially aggravated” speech. Mr Lammy must be delighted by your intervention. After all, he doesn’t want the British public being reminded that, in his previous role as Foreign Secretary, he endlessly justified Israel’s genocide in Gaza and even warmly shook hands with Benjamin Netanyahu, a suspected war criminal and fugitive from international justice. In a statement you issued with the chief constable of Manchester, you wrote: “The words and chants used, especially in protests, matter and have real-world consequences.” Yes, isn’t that precisely the point? Alerting the public to Britain’s two-year complicity in genocide is exactly why protesters use these slogans – and to shame the British government. You’re right: that does matter! Is it because the government fears these “real-world consequences” that you are acting ever more harshly to choke off the last remnants of the right to protest on Palestine? This is an extract from my latest Open letter to Met police chief: Let me tell you what ‘Globalise the intifada’ actually means. Find a link to the rest in the reply post below ⬇️

@Jonathan_K_Cook The wall to wall coverage of this atrocity vs the uncaring shrug of indifference by the western media to daily killings of 16 civilians, or more, exposes the utter hypocrisy of the west

Videos from protests in Berlin show German police violently striking demonstrators, including an officer punching a man wearing glasses in the face and others being dragged and hit. The footage has triggered outrage, with critics saying police used excessive force against peaceful protesters. The demonstrations were held in solidarity with Palestinians facing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Protesters were demanding an end to Germany’s military and political support for Israel's genocide, including a halt to arms exports, and respect for international law. Critics say Germany is violently suppressing Palestine solidarity and criminalising dissent, using police force to silence opposition.

The israelis use a bulldozer to run over, crush & sever in half a wounded Palestinian boy in the most horrific murder —condemned by Euro-Med english.palinfo.com/news/2025/12/1…

One of the Palestine Action prisoners on hunger strike, Qesser Zuhrah, has been hospitalised. She's lost 13% of her body weight. I am urging David Lammy, the Justice minister, to get engaged now as this is a developing emergency.

The Labour Party is well and truly ruled by Tel Aviv

Israeli forces shot a sixteen year old boy in Gaza today, blocked first responders from reaching him, and a tank later ran over his body. Another normal day during a ceasefire!

Repost or like (and comment) so @DavidLammy knows who they are.

@Wilkmaster Not quite sure how the soldiers are poorly equipped ties up with the later para about the number of tanks, armoured vehicles and drones the Russians are producing each month. What are the equivalent no.s for Europe I wonder?

PROPAGANDA ALERT, BBC DISINFORMATION WARNING PROCEED AT YOUR PERIL: Russia's army is generally of a very low quality. Its soldiers are poorly equipped, poorly led and poorly fed. Their life expectancy in the deadly "drone zone" of eastern Ukraine is short. bbc.com/news/articles/…

After over two years of genocide in Gaza, chancellor Rachel Reeves tells Labour Friends of Israel: “The progressive friends of Israel – whatever their criticism of particular governments – must be willing to say, unapologetically, ‘I am a Zionist.’”

@AssalRad The cynical "ceasefire" was reached for this purpose. The Israelis have stopped bombing and withholding aid just enough so that the western media can pretend its a peace process without too much push back from the public.

There should be wall-to-wall media coverage for the slaughter of Palestinian journalists. But there’s barely a whisper from their Western counterparts.

@SaraLiberte @RamAbdu Indeed

@RamAbdu Real indigenous people would never do that. 🕊

Breaking: The Israeli genocide army is uprooting olive trees before the eyes of their owners in Qaryut - Nablus.

@danielgoyal Yes the "ceasefire" is one of the most cynical agreements ever made. The Israelis have slightly reduced their bombing and siege of Gaza and in return the western media have participated in this farce of a peace process.

Just so we are all clear, - Israel has shrunk Gaza by 50% - Anyone crossing the new (imaginary) border is shot (including children) - Strict limits on food and medical aid - Still no journalists allowed Their plan is working: make it intolerable to live in Gaza All illegal

@swilkinsonbc The banality of evil?

Three Palestinians abducted from Gaza by the israelis have “died” in israeli jails, amid reports of torture and deliberate medical negligence qudsnen.co/post?id=66827&…

@AaronBastani @DespoticInroad George Osborne based his austerity economics on the work of Harvard economists Rogoff and Reinhart. Which was found to have errors in it! I'd rather rely on someone with a maths degree

@DespoticInroad I’ve met economists in many places with an inferior cv. I’m playing this straight! He’s a campaigner, sure. But ‘pseudo economist’ is quite clearly meant to denigrate him as a quack. Curious tho. He’s Oxford mphil. If he finished for phd you’d concede he’s an economist?

Gary Stevenson did maths at the LSE (anyone familiar with that knows it’s serious) He was a trader with Citibank in multiple countries. He has an MPhil in economics from Oxford. Issue for Stewart is: he’s a working class guy with a million followers on Instagram & YouTube.

@DespoticInroad @AaronBastani I think insta friendly economists are probably preferable to economists with errors in their research, like the ones that Osborne relied on when he was Chancellor. In the govt that @RoryStewartUK was part of

I’ve got a history MA it doesn’t make me a historian. Stevenson isn’t an idiot but he’s not someone that the leader of a political party should be citing as an inspiration for an economic worldview. I’m not usually one to defend the likes of Stewart, but from the clips I’ve seen, his principal objection to Polanski is that he doesn’t seem to know the difference between debts and deficits, he (wrongly) says we owe “£70 billion” but that it “isn’t real”, and that he uses a series of Insta-friendly pop economists to defend a pretty garbled and confused interpretation of MMT. If Polanski had got his facts right, presented a coherent argument for a wealth tax (not a strange defence of defaulting or for monetary financing) then there would be no issue.

@garyseconomics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret Bit rich of @RoryStewartUK criticising anyone's economic policy. Osborne (Chancellor in govt Rory served in) based his policies on a piece of research with errors in it!

.@RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret