Charges were brought after a re-purposed prison van was used to ram through the gates of the Elbit facility at around 3.30am, before being used to smash into one of the buildings inside.

It is said two groups of Palestine Action activists were involved in the raid, causing an estimated £1 million in damages.

It is said fireworks and flares were let off, and the activists are accused of being armed with axes, whips, hammers, and a fire extinguisher filled with red paint.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/bbc-writer-palestine-action-israeli-defence-weapons-activist-b1181879.html

They’re just peaceful protestors. Honest, guv.

I remember when I first tried to use Mastodon and struggled with how best to make it work, so I asked what was probably a basic question to the Enlightened™. Instead of being helped, I was met with “it’s easy, maybe you’re just dense?”.

Then I thought that maybe Mastodon doesn’t have the kind of people I’d want to interact with on it.

Imagine being labelled a terrorist after taking part in violent action in pursuit of a political goal…

Oh wait…

It’s a strange argument because it’s as if caring for a terminally ill person doesn’t cost anything.

Honestly, sometimes it feels like the supposedly left-wing outlets such as The Morning Star would prefer to have the Tories or Reform in charge than have a Labour government that’s not headed by Corbyn.

Of course they would. It’s so much easier to be in opposition after all.

Because churches and protecting paedos is standard fare.

It doesn’t really matter if this bill passes because it’s going to make it so difficult to even be able to use what it offers with all the hoops people would have to jump through.

He’s the Foreign Secretary. One of our chief diplomats. What do you expect him to do?

Libertarians everywhere are delighted.

Diplomacy means you have to be friendly with people you’d probably rather not be.

Start telling other world leaders to fuck off, and see where it gets you.

I would also like the size of the state to be shrunk, but Musk’s shrinking of Twitter is really not a good model to emulate.

When she said that the Tory party donor that made those comments about Diane Abbott should be excused.

She defied the party line at the time and called out the racist language used. If I remember right, her complaint was with the media talking about it for weeks, not dismissing the comments.

And for the record, Badenoch is a white supremacist.

Let’s look up the definition of white supremacy, shall we?

the belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society, typically to the exclusion or detriment of other racial and ethnic groups.

Right. Can you point me to where Badenoch has espoused views that think people of a different race, like herself, should be treated as lesser people?

The kind of language she comes out with herself or endorses is what you’d expect to hear from someone like Nick Griffin. I don’t know she gets away with it so often.

I find it interesting that both Sunak and now Badenoch have said similar things about the colour of their skin and the fact they have been leaders of their party not being a big deal. For them they are are British and that’s how they identify. Whilst in both cases Labour has congratulated them as being the first Hindu to be PM and now the first Black person to be leader of a party. Don’t get me wrong these are important milestones, but I find it fascinating that the people who broke these barriers don’t consider it a core identity point and the party that hasn’t yet does.

I think the reason is that we’re a multicultural society and one of the least racist countries in the world, and the fact that it’s not really a big deal that a person of colour is leading a major political party (and the previous one who was also PM) is a good thing. So yes, it is a historic moment (the first of anything happening automatically is) but it’s a good thing that we live in a country where it’s not remarkable that it has happened.

We tend to take the Mr. Pink approach to tipping over here.

The vast majority of voters for both main parties are not racist.

I mean, Conservative members (who are generally more right-wing than the electorate) have literally just voted for a black woman as leader over a guy throwing all the red meat he possibly could at them.

Johnson was in one of the main two parties and a popular figure (for some reason).

Farage is neither of these.

I don’t think it’s controversial to think that people should be an adult before making a life-changing decision such as gender transition, is it?

How does this amount to the ridiculous hyperbole of “killing trans kids”?

There’s a lot of words there, but not many of them make sense.

The chance of this happening is remarkably close to zero.