SIX London councils have now said they will refuse to support the Home Office’s racist immigration raids. Thank you Lewisham, Lambeth, Southwark, Hackney, Waltham Forest and Haringey. These raids persecute migrants, tear apart our communities & seek to spread fear and division. We won’t let them.

Campaigners from Animal Rising, whose workshop was raided by police and who were wrongly arrested for planning to disrupt the King’s coronation in 2023, are taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Women mistaken for Just Stop Oil sue Met Police over arrests before King’s coronation

The animal rights campaigners said they were subjected to full-body searches and held for up to 14 hours

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Another Reform council leader, Andy Woolley of East Sussex, threatens to report critics to police for "inciting hate and potential violence" by naming him in criticism. This is not the first time Reform has used the prospect of arrest as a weapon against opponents www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...

mirror.co.uk

We very much enjoyed @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social infographic explaining the rather convoluted efforts that the state has gone to to supress juries and persecute Rajiv Menon KC.

On Friday we publish a new report about violent policing at the Carnival Against Fascism in Brighton, detailing the excess use of pepper spray, dangerous crowd crushing and lack of accountability of Sussex Police. We recognise, nevertheless, that this is the kind of sarky content you really want...

Netpol@netpol.org · 2d ago

Glastonbury will return in 2027. Rod Liddle, won't

Glastonbury will return in 2027. Rod Liddle, won't

This is not only tone deaf but actively dangerous language given 7 people were killed trying to cross the Channel in the last week, while French police attacked people on the beaches with tear gas. Borders kill. People need the same, safe routes as everyone else www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Burnham to be ‘relentless’ on small boat crossings after Ceuta crisis

Prime minister says UK needs to ‘bring back that control’ and safe routes for refugees are necessary to tackle trafficking

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This entire incident was a perfect example of policing directed by landowners and their priorities, not policing in the public interest or justice. They can stage full-scale operations for this, but ask them about illegal hunting, and it’s a different story.

Our Encounter with Northamptonshire Police - the private security for landowners and local hunts

How far will the police go to protect hunters and landowners?

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The Supreme Court has granted permission to Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori to appeal against the group's proscription. The appeal is likely to be heard later this year. gcnchambers.co.uk/supreme-cour...

Supreme Court grants permission to appeal Palestine Action proscription - Garden Court North Chambers

Garden Court North’s Mira Hammad and Rosalind Burgin are among counsel representing Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori.

gcnchambers.co.uk

This is chaired by a former Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and the lead counsel for several undercover police officers in the #spycops inquiry. You'll forgive us for thinking this has absolutely nothing to do with a "more effective accountability regime"

HJA Civil Liberties@hjacivillibs.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Home Office has launched a review into the police accountability system that ‘will look at how police officers are held to account, identify barriers that can delay outcomes, and consider how the system can be made faster, fairer and more effective’ www.gov.uk/government/n...

Former clients of Rajiv Menon KC call for contempt of court charges against him to be dropped www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jul...

We are shocked that Palestine Action barrister faces contempt proceedings | Letters

Letters: Former clients of Rajiv Menon KC, including Tariq Ali and Hillsborough family members Margaret Aspinall and Sue Roberts, say the charges against him must be dropped. Plus a letter from Andrew...

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Yesterday the Metropolitan police unlawfully arrested people at a Palestine Action protest who had not broken the law by showing or stating support for the proscribed group. They were simply in proximity to those who were novaramedia.com/2026/07/30/w...

Wrongful Arrests at Palestine Action Demo, Campaigners Say

The Metropolitan police have arrested people at a Palestine Action protest who did not break the law by showing or stating support for the proscribed group, campaigners say. Clare Hymer and Steven Met...

novaramedia.com

This event was cancelled by the Scouting Association because of objections to songs by bands performing at it: Hawxx's "Resistance Is Justified" about the Filton 24 and Active Slaughter's "It’s Not Anti-Semitic to Hate Fascists" . With no sense of irony, UKLFI claimed this was a "risk to children"

Free the MBR Beagles@freethembrbeagles.bsky.social · 5d ago

📣 Absolutely gutted for the Great Vegan Gathering who, weeks away from the event, have lost their venue & had to cancel- owing to the actions of UK Lawyers For Israel We stand in solidarity with the GVG & against oppression 🌱💚🍉

📣 Absolutely gutted for the Great Vegan Gathering who, weeks away from the event, have lost their venue & had to cancel- owing to the actions of UK Lawyers For Israel We stand in solidarity with the GVG & against oppression 🌱💚🍉

The latest annual data from the Independent Office for Police Conduct covering 2025/26 shows 27 people died in and following police custody, up from 18 last year. Of 12 people subjected to the use of force, 10 were physically restrained by the police and 5 were subject to the use of leg restraints.

Surely we can all sleep safely in our beds now...

Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 6d ago

Britain today: An elderly woman in a wheelchair is escorted away by the police and risks up to 14 years in prison for supporting terrorism since the Home Secretary proscribed a protest group in 2025. Her crime? She said: "I support Palestine Action and I encourage you to join".

Utter chaos in court tomorrow as, according to the daily court listings, 1855 people from Defend Our Juries are listed to appear in courtrooms at Westminster Magistrates Court on the same day. Many with incorrect names/details, relating to cases the court said were adjourned.

BASH BACK shatters Ann Widdecombe smear campaign – trans action group says hit-piece in The Times aims to “justify more crackdowns” on direct action groups freedomnews.org.uk/2026/07/29/b...

BASH BACK shatters Ann Widdecombe smear campaign - Freedom News

Group says "paranoia from the authoritarian right stems from a need to protect property, ideology, and profit".

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Netpol is speaking tomorrow at 7pm at Community Camp for Palestine, outside the US Embassy in London, on our report "One Day in Edgware" and the policing of the 'Great Israel Real Estate Event', where police stood by and did nothing as far-right and Zionist thugs ambushed pro-Palestine protesters

We're excited to launch our new report: One Day In Brighton: The policing of the Carnival Against Fascism in Brighton on Saturday 13th June 2026. 3pm Friday August 7th, The Plaque Junction of Frederick Place and Trafalgar Street, right by the Prince Albert pub. See you there.

"The misuse of counter-terrorism powers in this country is getting completely out of hand". It's time for a serious debate about abolishing them www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/uk-am...

UK: Amnesty asserts "completely disproportionate to punish criminal damage as terrorism"

Amnesty International responds to reports that five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for damage to a branch of Barclays Bank

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Here is our full response to Lord Walney's article calling for us to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation:

BASH BACK@bashback.bsky.social · last wk.

Tomorrow, Lord Walney, who was responsible in part for the proscription of Palestine Action, will publish an article in The Times arguing that BASH BACK be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. We will not be intimidated. Neither should you. xoxo BASH BACK

👉NEW -- Five more Palestine activists could be sentenced as terrorists by John McEvoy Defendants were not told criminal damage case could carry a terrorism connection until after they were found guilty www.declassifieduk.org/five-more-pa...

Five more Palestine activists could be sentenced as terrorists

Defendants were not told criminal damage case could carry a terrorism connection until after they were found guilty

declassifieduk.org

A petition in support of Rajiv Menon KC is approaching 40,000 signatures. Rajiv is accused of contempt of court for his closing speech while defending nonviolent actionist Lottie Head (Filton 25) Rajiv’s ‘crime’? Referencing the rights of jurors. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa... @netpol.org

A judge is moving to sentence five Palestine Action protesters who spray-painted a Barclays branch as terrorists. They were not charged with terror offences and the jury was not told that they could face terrorism-related sentences if convicted of criminal damage www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists over bank damage

Exclusive: Judge intends to consider ‘terrorist connection’ after convicting five for damage to Barclays in Burnley

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Lord Walnuts has a piece in the Times calling for another political ban on a group he disagrees with, this time militant trans group @bashback.bsky.social. He wants direct action movements criminalised as early as possible to prevent them becoming "entrenched" removepaywalls.com/https://www....

The #spycops inquiry has heard how senior Scotland Yard officers arranged for covert surveillance by New Zealand police on a leftwing campaigner visiting family in Auckland, to protect the identity of her former partner, the undercover police officer John Dines www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner

Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship

theguardian.com

A Black man accused of assaulting two police officers has been unanimously acquitted after a five-day trial at the Old Bailey after jurors took just EIGHT minutes to reject the allegations against him. This is why the attacks on jury trials matter www.blackcurrentnews.co.uk/p/black-man-...

Exclusive | Jury acquits Black man of assaulting police in just eight minutes after officers' claims crumble

The defence said officers treated NK as the aggressor after he had been racially profiled and attacked by security guards, with his trauma mistaken for criminal behaviour

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Breaking: The Court of Appeal has just ruled that the proceedings next week against Rajiv Menon KC have been stayed until his appeal has been decided #SaveOurJuries