Arms lobbyist Lord Walney wants to introduce another level of proscription so groups can be banned without having to label them as terrorists Porritt: "Lord Walney has a long record of seeking to introduce ever more repessive legislation.. curtailing peoples right to protest" 🎯

Jonathan Porritt explains why he became involved in the the @defendourjuries.bsky.social campaign to lift the ban on Palestine Action.

Arms company lobbyist Lord Walney on Palestine Action being banned Well done to Sky for introducing him as a former chair of Labour Friends of Israel, & Porritt was spot on - PA was banned because it was so effective in its campaign against the UKs complicity in Israels genocide

Luke Pollard: the Ministry of Defence owns 1% of the UK

"This demonstrates the underhand tactic by which manufacturers make profit by shrinking the size of the products you buy" #GMB reporting on shrinkflation. Clip edited to remove statements from each of the manufacturers trying to justify their profiteering.

Hani Mahmoud reports that despite the ceasefire Israeli drones continue to fly over the Gaza strip 24 hours a day.

"Morning everybody, it's Tuesday the 28th of October and we start the day with news that hundreds of asylum seekers..." Of course you do.

Why won't anybody think of the rich!

"[King Charles] is now facing so many questions about what he knew and when about Prince Andrews relationship with Jeffrey Epstein" King Charles was heckled during a visit to the East Midlands #GMB

The US investigation into the shooting of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by an IDF soldier found it was not intentional. But a retired US colonel who was part of the team that reviewed the scene shortly after the shooting says the evidence showed a soldier deliberately shot her.

"People in Gaza have been burying the bodies of dozens of Palestinians released by Israel.. many.. show signs of torture & mutilation" If these were Israeli bodies the story would have dominated the headlines for days & Starmer would have condemned Hamas's murderous brutality

Palestinians in Gaza gathering to watch the film 'The Voice of Hind Rajab'

Steve Reed admits that yes, the govt is lowering the requirement on developers around how many of the home they build in London are affordable from 35% to 20% (and of course, 'affordable home' is a misnomer anyway)

Steve Reed is asked, in relations to Awaabs law, what about the 4.6m households renting in the private sector "We want this to apply everywhere" So they'll do it straight away? No. They'll "publish guidance which shows how & when it'll start to apply to the private sector too"

Asked about problems in the Home Office, Steve Reed says "Shabana [Mahmood] is working at pace to fix the problems we inherited" From Yvette Cooper?

"you have to take it through a process in parliament, you have to allocate funding in the budget, we have to get the economy growing" Steve Reeds reply when he's asked about Awaabs law being applied to the private rented sector more quickly

Last year Labour set up a Child Poverty Taskforce that they said would report in autumn 2025. Its now almost November 2025 and the govt still won't say when it'll be released. Steve Reed this morning: "You're going to get it very very soon"

Hind Khoudary reports a few minute ago that despite the terms of the ceasefire the amount of aid entering Gaza is still very limited.

Israel continues to murder people in Lebanon.

Nour Odeh reports on the continued search for the bodies of Israeli hostages in Gaza, including the involvement of teams from Egypt & the International Committee of the Red Cross.

#GMB reports on how NHS nurses are being subjected to increasing racist abuse.

Ibrahim al Khalili reports on unexploded ordnance in Gaza

Politics East Midlands out and about in Leicester South (the seat held by @shockatadam.bsky.social)

Plaid Cymru won the Caerphilly by election, beating Reform into second place. So does #trevorphillips interview someone from the winning party? Of course he doesn't! Instead he interviews Zia Yusuf from Reform.

#BBCLaurak "Trump has made progress.. that Biden & you, I know you worked hard on this, failed to make" Biden could have stopped the genocide at any point but instead supplied Israel with the means to continue, & asked if she'd have done anything different to him Harris said no

Wes Streeting: "What we have seen on our streets.. is a return of 1970s, 1980s style racism that I thought we had left in the history books" You're right. But shamefully you & the Labour govt aren't a bulwark against it. Instead you've opened the door & emboldened the racists.

Streeting is asked about the Caerphilly result & he says the way to respond is to have a values driven agenda, which he explains is about modernising & reforming public services We all know what right wing politicians mean when they talk about modernising & reforming

Sonia Sodha: whats going on at the moment is a lack of trust in politics. I'm shocked. Do we have any idea when & how this happened?

Wes Streeting, from the party of organised labour, threatens workers that if they go out on strike over pay he'll cancel their essential training. Labour, on the side of working people until they stand up for themselves, & then its sneers & threats.

Wes Streeting on the lessons of the Caerphilly defeat - Labour aren't telling a compelling story about who they are, who they're for & what they are driving to do. On the contrary, I'd argue voters have a very good idea who you are, who you're for and what you're doing.

"Despite the heroism, steadfastness and dignity of the Bloody Sunday families and wounded, a coward walks free from the dock today"

Gaza needs flooding with aid. Instead, Israel is still restricting the amount of aid that can enter Gaza and has opened just 2 of the 5 crossings. The genocide continues.

BBC News reports on yesterdays ruling by the ICJ, for all of 17 seconds. They forgot to mention Israel was found to have violated the Geneva Convention when it blocked aid from Gaza & also that Israel had failed to substantiate the allegations it had made about UNRWA.

"One of its founders... "There will no longer be Gazans in Gaza"" Part of a report by Secunder Kermani on an Israeli elite military academy

Josh MacAlister: "Weetabix, Sainsburys, Morrisons & Magic Breakfast.. British businesses stepping in" Weetabix is owned by a US company, the largest shareholder in Sainsburys is Qatars sovereign wealth fund, Morrisons is owned by US private equity & Magic Breakfast is a charity

Step Vaessen reports on yesterdays ruling by the International Court of Justice. The court concluded that Israel violated intl law by depriving Palestinians of their basic needs and that it failed to substantiate the allegations it made about UNRWA.

Imagine the reaction if the bodies of returned Israeli hostages were handcuffed, blindfolded & showed signs of torture. It would be on the front page, leading every news bulletin, & the govt would be condemning the murderous brutality of Hamas But Palestinian bodies? Nothing

The Hind Rajab Foundation have identified the IDF soldiers who murdered 6 year old Hind and her family, & their names have been submitted to the ICC. Professor William Schabas discusses the possibility that they'll face prosecution.

The Hind Rajab Foundation have identified the IDF soldiers who murdered 6 year old Hind and her family. Many of the soldiers are dual nationals, and their names have been submitted to the International Criminal Court.

"On Bloody Sunday 13 unarmed civilians were gunned down by the British army" #GMB

Knell tells us the Israeli bodies being returned were hostages. But she doesn't say the same about the Palestinian bodies being returned. Instead they were being held in "Israeli custody". She does say there is concern about what happened to these people while they were held

@zackpolanski.bsky.social speaking from Swindon where 3 Labour councillors have defected to the Green Party. Zack also points out that the Greens are on track to double their membership since he was elected leader last month.

The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour. Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"

The govt spent days telling us that the banning of Maccabi fans was antisemitic. This was @ianmurraymp.bsky.social last Friday. They were lying. And on the basis they must have been briefed on the police intelligence, they knew they were lying.

96% of households in Gaza don't have enough water to meet basic needs.

"Dawn in Gaza city"

Emma Reynolds, the minister in charge of the environment & rural affairs, is asked about all of us being ripped off by the private water companies. Reynolds says shes angry & frustrated about it & is disappointed to see bills rising If only she could do something about it, eh?

"We are introducing swifter and in some cases automatic penalties for water companies because we want to drive behavioural change in the industry" Emma Reynolds on what the govt is doing about private water companies pumping sh*t into our rivers and seas.

Step Vaessen reports on the latest case being brought against Israel at the International Court of Justice. More and more of the world now sees Israel as a rogue state, and its isolation is only going to grow.

Kevin Maguire: "Food inflation is 5.1%" Daily Mail 'journalist': "The food & drink federation say it will be 6% by xmas, & its basic commodities" We need price controls on essential goods. Oh, and lets go after the wealth of tax dodging billionaire newspaper owners too #GMB