Mike Williamson

HOME secretary Yvette Cooper's move to proscribe activist group Palestine Action under anti-terror laws has been opposed by civil liberties groups, who say it lowers the bar too far to bracket paint attacks on planes or arms factory break-ins alongside groups like Al-Qaeda... To overcome squeamishness, Home Office officials had floated the unevidenced idea that the direct-action group is secretly funded by Iran. Before MPs voted on the proscription, an article in the Times last month reported that unnamed officials were investigating Palestine Action's source of donations "amid concerns that the Iranian regime, via proxies, is funding the group's activities" The Eve asked the Home Office if the article was correct and whether it was investigating covert Iranian support for Palestine Action. It told us it did not recognise this claim. The story was so thin the Times turned to an organisation called NGO Monitor - described as "a research institute that holds campaign groups to account and promotes transparency" - for supportive quotes suggesting there was something fishy about Palestine Action's funding. In reality, NGO Monitor is an Israel-based organisation whose latest annual report celebrates "naming and shaming of NGO "superpowers' - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, and Doctors Without Borders" over Gaza. The report opens with an account of its "evening with Douglas Murray", the extremely right-wing British pundit. NGO Monitor describes Human Rights Watch as having an "absence of professional standards" and a "deep-seated ideological bias against Israel" and has said Doctors Without Borders "abuses its status as a humanitarian organisation to launch venomous anti-Israel political campaigns". Perhaps not the most reliable authority on which to base the "Iran funding" claim.

One hand washes the other

Kristi Noem must resign now.

Edinburgh local creates handy tool to view planning applications across city  - Deadline News AN EDINBURGH local has created a nifty tool for staying up to date on planning applications in the city, called City Scope.

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The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.

So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

Having stand named in his honour was “almost like a fairy tale” says emotional Pat Stanton An emotional Pat Stanton described having a stand named in his honour as “almost like a fairy tale.”  The Hibs legend delivered the match ball ahead of Wednesday night’s game against Rot-Weiss Essen and was greeted by a huge standing ovation from all sides of the ground with chants of ‘There’s only one Paddy Stanton’ ringing out from the newly named stand.

Having stand named in his honour was “almost like a fairy tale” says emotional Pat Stanton

An emotional Pat Stanton described having a stand named in his honour as “almost like a fairy tale.”  The Hibs legend delivered the match ball ahead of Wednesday night’s game against Rot-Weiss Essen and was…

Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.

Thank you, Wes Streeting.

The Tories keep banging on about "disability benefit fraud" like 2000s TV presenters. The fraud rate for PIP is non-existent: 0.2%.

"That little girl that we saw.. paralysed from the waist down, who was brushing her teeth when there was an air strike on the shelter she was staying in. As she hit the ground she was still conscious & watched her friend die in front of her"

James Elder from UNICEF on #GMB

By learning to wield political power, Greens could fill the void at the heart of British politics | Adam Ramsay The task is to reconcile ‘realists’ and ‘fundamentalists’, and that can be done. It would offer voters a radical alternative to Labour, says Adam Ramsay, a journalist and Green party member

How to understand the Green leadership race, and why I’m voting for @zackpolanski.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... < by me

Zoe Gardner: "70% of the asylum seekers who've come to the UK in the last 20 years came from countries that we had previously colonised. That means they speak the language, they have ties to this country, we have communities here"

Yep. #GMB

Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas

Fire her. Blood on her hands.

I see your posts most days and can't stand the whining about media bias.

I'm a Marxist. The media has reflected your views a lot more than it has mine. Were you making the same complaints during the Corbyn years?

Broadcast media has been favourable to the centre-left. You're not an outsider.

More than a quarter of people think MPs expenses are one of the top three costs for government. A higher % than think the same for pensions or education.

Yeah I actually don't think that's very good. Businesses also pay tax! You're making government seem more expensive than it is.

Iraq war ‘made extremists of people’: ex-police terrorism chief looks back at 7/7 Exclusive: Former Met officer Neil Basu says there is link between UK foreign policy and radicalisation, and atrocity did lasting damage to race relations Foreign policy was a driver behind the 7 July 2005 attacks on London , with the atrocity leaving a “soul-destroying” legacy of a rise in hate, a former head of counter-terrorism has said. Neil Basu said governments need to accept that foreign policy, such as Britain’s stance on the Israel-Gaza war, can have a direct effect on domestic security. Continue reading...

Iraq war ‘made extremists of people’: ex-police terrorism chief looks back at 7/7

Oh this is funny from Spiked. Tell me you don't know mining history without telling me you don't know mining history.

"Bob Vylan must be stopped!"

"50 Palestinians dead"

"Antisemitic students to be deported!"

"42 Palestinians dead"

"Protestors banned!"

"67 Palestinians dead"

Again and again and again.

‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies

‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula

Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

What about biggest success? Here it’s not a particularly cheery verdict from the public. Asked in their own words, nothing dominates the word cloud, followed by the NHS.

🎂 It’s the anniversary of Labour’s election win. The Government had some early stumbles, but what do the public think is their biggest mistake? Asked to say in their own words, it’s one of the most stark word clouds we’ve seen. Winter Fuel Allowance drowns everything else out.

Thank goodness we have a presidential task force to combat antisemitism which will surely look into this pronto.

Lumbago features pretty heavily in Red Dead 2

Culture > Music > News Rap song calling for death of Dua Lipa, Bella Hadid and Mia Khalifa 'tops charts in Israel' 'Every dog will get what's coming to them', the artists apparently rap

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Completely avoidable even with the straitjacket, to be fair.

Electoral politics (especially when you're not in government) is largely performance art. Politicians should be doing that. They should be drawing attention to bad stuff and giving the public and media useful things to talk about.

The federal government could announce tomorrow that it will no longer recognize same-sex marriages and every single person in one would need to sue to enforce the recognition of their marriage. If you can't sue, it won't be recognized.

No right is safe.

Do all the Tough Guys feel safe yet?