Some background on this footage. I think police swept in because they were desperate to get an arrest on camera. By this stage, several hours in, they’d arrested maybe 50 people. Unfortunately, they tackled her just as she’d finished telling me about her grandparents’ and

Michael Walker with…Britain’s next Prime Minister?!

When the wealthy are angry, you can be sure as day follows night that something positive has happened for working people.

This is a people who will never be defeated.

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Good to be on Novara Live with @StevenJMethven tonight to discuss the heavy topic of two years of genocide against the Palestinian people. We also covered Madagascar's Gen Z protests, the disastrous Conservative party conference and why young Tories never change. Link below.

Yeah but you never make any attempt to speak to the people conducting the protest. I’ve reported on almost every one. I’ve seen you at a couple, and all you do is talk to the people on the fringes. Not the people holding signs. You’re not doing journalism, you’re creating scenes

Today at Trafalgar Square I saw cops exhausted and over-strained. At one point a group retreated after one became emotional. But there were also police flown in from the North of Ireland, who handled protestors far more roughly than usual. Raising the costs, and the dangers too.

‘Enough is enough’ says chief of Police Federation as ‘exhausted’ officers arrest 493 at Palestine Action protest The bulk of the arrests were made at Trafalgar Square, where around 1,000 protesters sat silently, some holding signs. https://t.co/ESact8hyUQ

Novara Media journalist Kieran Andrieu has landed in Istanbul. We hope he will be back in London tonight.

Israel bombs two civilian vessels in Tunisia then pays a network of influencers to lie about it. Presumably UK government knew about it too and did nothing.

He shouldn't have to say this — and wouldn't if our repulsively cynical, racist national media and political class hadn't spent ages conflating Israel with Jews, using Jews as human shields for a genocide that our government is arming. Last 24 hours have been a disgrace.

Our journalist @kieran_andrieu is in Israeli detention, having been illegally captured alongside 462 other people while trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Here's what we know so far: - A lawyer from @AdalahEnglish met with him at Ashdod port yesterday, after waiting

What was the "skunk water" that Israel allegedly sprayed on the Gaza flotilla boats? On last night’s Novara Live, Steven Methven and @DaliaGebrial explained how the "putrid" liquid developed by Israel is routinely used as a weapon of collective punishment against Palestinians —

He's a former Israel lobbyist turned Labour MP. But when I interviewed @lukeakehurst at Labour Conference, he apparently didn't know what he was talking about. At all. Wild!

Palestine Action supporters, anti-genocide marchers and pro-Palestine celebrities have disrupted the start of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, which the party had hoped would be about anything but Gaza. @rivkahbrown reports from Liverpool:

https://t.co/lHf6vuF8Pa

The technocratic end of Palestine. Abbas takes the shrinking West Bank. Gaza becomes ‘temporarily’ the fiefdom of a colonial proxy (British Mandate 2.0). The stage is set to create internal political conditions - ‘jihadism’, ‘warlords’ - permanently preventing a united Palestine

To the left: nausea-inducing entitlement. To the right: aneurism-level opportunism. Both surfing on a wave of rubbish. This is our politics in a nutshell.

Difficult to imagine a more unhelpful, albeit potentially revealing, comment at this moment