Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb βcumulativeβ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action
π Calling opposition to #genocide antisemitic is always ignorant & sometimes wicked. My willingness to fight antisemitism, leads me to stand against emerging fascism, and the #genocide that the far-right #Israeli government has unleashedπ @tonybooth1.bsky.social
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10.10.2025 12:02 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
#FreeDrHussamAbiSafiya who refused to leave his immobile patients in Al-Shifa hospital. One of 10,000 hostages held in Israeli prisons including over 450 children. Where is the international outcry? Why are the humanitarian voices in Israel so few?
12.10.2025 07:57 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit
Livestock and water companies are accused of βextensiveβ pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.
Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
08.10.2025 17:30 β π 105 π 72 π¬ 2 π 4
We fasted for 25 hours in front of houses of parliament for Gaza Then we stopped. Not an option in Gaza or Darfur. But important to show where we stand on genocide.
08.10.2025 20:54 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1
I sat on the Defend our Juries protest as a Jew opposing genocide and antisemitism countering the absurd insult that to oppose genocide is antisemitic. @defendourjuries.bsky.social @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social @jewishvoice.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
07.10.2025 13:35 β π 74 π 24 π¬ 4 π 0
"I bore witness with my own eyes the appalling humanitarian catastrophe, the genocide that's being carried out. Each time I've been to Gaza its worse than the time before"
NHS surgeon Nick Maynard is asked about his reflections from working in Gaza
07.10.2025 07:22 β π 83 π 64 π¬ 2 π 3
"the IDF say they attack hospitals because Hamas use them as areas to fight from..."
NHS surgeon Nick Maynard: "Its disappointing to hear that this is still being raised by the media in our country... there has been no credible evidence to support those claims"
07.10.2025 07:18 β π 282 π 139 π¬ 7 π 2
Campaigning for Cam Uni Chancellor to be an ethical force. Focusing on its core purposes, education, research, and caring for all its staff and students. Severing all connections with oil and arms. @mikescialom.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
27.06.2025 22:50 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 2
Yaser's family have been ordered to move again in Gaza or face extermination. With no safe areas they have decided to stay. He calls for Cambridge University and its colleges to end complicity. The University can be an ethical force, follow @kingscollege.bsky.social and divest @susanjb7.bsky.social
23.05.2025 17:02 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Peter Freeman, chair of the anti-democratic Cambridge Growth Company, talked to Cambridge residents on 15th May. Tony Booth asks if his plans for massive growth will pay attention to the exhausted carbon budget. He did not seem to know it existed. @susanjb7.bsky.social
23.05.2025 16:36 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Finding a way to combine reality and hope in dark times @peaceandjustice.bsky.social
23.12.2024 23:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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