Congratulations to the Stansted15, current record holders (781 days) for the shortest time as terrorists in the UK. You beat Nelson Mandela (911 days)! But watch out! P&le$tine Action could nab the record off you any day! I even made a graph: www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Quakers in Britain are continuing to work to ensure that all Quaker communities are inclusive of gender diversity, following a decision in 2021. A new document provides both theological background for this, rooted in the commandment to love one another, and practical guidance. 1/4

Met police agrees to pay £7500 to a woman arrested for "suspicion of committing a religious or racial offence" in November 2023 over her Gaza protest placard www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This happens *all the time*. Cops do what they want and it doesn't even occur to them that they might need a legal basis for their actions until they're actively challenged - and even then they carry on regardless.

Shout out to @samwalton.bsky.social

On the fifth day of ACAB, my true love said to me... "NO CAUTION – a caution is a legal admission of guilt – it's an easy win for the police" #12DaysOfACAB

Excited for this training next week!!

In the run up to Netpol's winter fundraiser on 13/12 #ACABDay, we'll be celebrating the 12 days of #ACAB! Every day we're sharing a key piece of Know Your Rights information for protest movements and political organisers. Beause all we want for Christmas is... an end to police repression.

The government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as ‘subversion’ netpol.org/2025/11/28/g...

Power has concentrated on the hands of the rich. No surprise there. What really strikes me is how weak the entire left are when it comes to policy ideas for how to break up media ownership. "Encouraging ownership diversity" won't cut it. Any ideas anyone? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Once again, the Metropolitan Police has demanded last minute changes to a Palestine Coalition march this weekend and imposed unnecessary conditions, which is deliberately disruptive and keeps no-one safer palestinecampaign.org/palestine-co...

Counter terrorism legislation has been used throughout my adult life to silence my friends. This Palestine Action ban is nothing new. It is inherently Islamophobic. My latest for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social: share.google/nSwzuvGqJyzS...

Supreme Court today: Government of Bahrain is challenging the decision to lift its diplomatic immunity in a hacking case that caused psychiatric injury to two dissidents. Oh dear #Bahrain. You screwed up big time. Press release: www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/20...

The ban on Palestine Action is inherently Islamophobic, writes one of Netpol's founders, Sam Walton, for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Here are the Royal Courts of Justice for the Palestine Action judicial review

The BBC here, reprinting a police press release. In reality, police officers unlawfully threatened antifascists with demands for personal details using powers under Exeter's Public Space Protection Order introduced to crack down on street drinking and "aggressive begging" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Latest article on arms industry complicity in Andrew’s abuse of women and girls: "That photo, the one with his arm around Virginia Giuffre, was broadly part of his government job – where he influenced elites through sex and good times to buy British weapons." www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

The only coverage on the Andrew Windsor story worth reading. Every other media outlet bends over backwards to avoid mentioning that it was literally Andrew's job to 'entertain' despots to sell British weapons.

Front page of this morning's 'The National'. "Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report". The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰 New report says police used excessive restrictions to protect interests of arms firms during Palestine protests

Netpol has updated and expanded our guidance on the government’s decision to ban Palestine Action, in response to the many questions we received. This includes fundraising for prisoners, criticising the ban and differences in the way offences are dealt with in Scotland netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...

Amazing pro-Palestine protests at the Vuelta today. It sucks that my favourite sport is getting disrupted... but not as much as the genocide Israel is perpetrating. Brilliant to see cycling paying the price for it's sport-washing. Bahrain, UAE & INEOS etc I hope you are next! #Vuelta25

LETS GO!

REVEALED: DSEI, the UK's largest arms fair, have quietly removed Israel from the list of 'International Pavilions' on its website. Israel was listed as exhibiting in April but was removed in July.

Not the biggest fan of the police? Good at running shit? Well now, we have something for you.

This morning had been extremely serious for the future of protest rights, but it's still really hard not to laugh at the respected lawyer who presented South Africa's case to the International Court of Justice talking about a new protest group called 'Yvette Cooper'

"Westminster continues to exist inside a bubble: one where fringe groups like ‘We Believe in Israel’ and loud partisan cranks like Lord Walney are heard... but where the anger and resentment across Britain about the massacre of children in Gaza, every night on our television screens, is ignored"

🚨BREAKING His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama confirms continued reincarnations and reaffirms that Tibetans will have the sole authority to recognise all future Dalai Lamas.

We have deep concerns about government plans to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Nonviolent protest, and even acts of vandalism, should not be labelled as terrorism. Civil disobedience has been a powerful force for positive social change. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Want to know what it's like to be called a terrorist by the UK Government and then vindicated by history? I asked former ANC MP @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social. Don't think it will take as long to be prooved right this time @palaction.bsky.social.

In 2017, we broke into a BAE Systems airfield to stop jets from going to bomb Yemen. Our lenient treatment exposes the @palaction.bsky.social ban for what it is: racist and politically motivated. Reverend Woody & I for @novaramedia.com. novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/w...

As of Monday showing this film could be illegal, if @palaction.bsky.social is proscribed. It'd be TERRIBLE if someone in say, Ireland, starting hosting this film. Then people could watch it using a VPN. Let's make sure this doesn't happen!

Love @palaction.bsky.social but us at @quaker.org.uk have been taking anti-militarist nonviolent direct action since the 1650s and have never once been proscribed as terrorists. If they are terrorists surely we have got to be?

So far, members of the Netpol Lawyers Group have confirmed four appeals against conviction already, as a consequence of the government's defeat.

Word is the government is dropping its appeal against the court victory by @libertyhq.bsky.social over regulations unlawfully defining serious disruption as anything "more than minor". The state must now be forced to review hundreds of arrests and convictions of protesters made using this definition

The chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, John Mitting, is retiring before the inquiry completes its work, departing after an interim report. Its terms of reference were published a decade ago. The police have delayed, obfuscated and successfully kicked the scandal into the long grass

More political repression of Palestine solidarity

In the 80s @quaker.org.uk installed a condomn machine in the toilets, specifically to help prevent the spread of AIDS. The same biogotted tactics that are being used to attack Quakers now for allowing trans-women into their toilets were used then. www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/27/q...

Delighted that @quaker.org.uk are "destroying" their reputation by refusing to obey unjust guidance that attacks trans people. The FA could learn a lot. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

I want to see Serj Tankian cover Red Wine Supernova by Chapell Roan. I would really suit his vocal style. That is all.

🧵 Unable to share this as it's paywalled but it's a good question: Britain is facing growing repression of protests rights, but WHY is this happening?

Today numerous frontline climate campaigners told UN Special Rapporteur for environmental defenders @michelforst.bsky.social about the grim state of repression from the police, the courts, in prisons and from probation. Forst was invited to Britain by Netpol to follow up an earlier visit in 2024

Not the best time to raid a @quaker.org.uk meeting house...

Our friends at the Article 11 Trust are looking for someone to help them raise funds to distribute to grassroots movements to support their rights to freedom of assembly article11trust.org.uk/call-for-con...

Face masks at protests: if not now, when? netpol.org/2025/04/02/f...

Cool work alert: Notice the recent repression of protest? The Article 11 Trust is looking for someone to help us raise funds, to distribute to grassroots movements to support their rights to freedom of assembly. article11trust.org.uk/call-for-con...

Excited to see that the extraordinarily detailed Spycops.Info website created by the Undercover Research Group is now live at spycopsresearch.info

👉NEW -- How Israel secretly armed Argentina during the Falklands war by @john-mcevoy.bsky.social Declassified files reveal how Tel Aviv deceived Britain while it supplied Argentina’s anti-Semitic dictatorship with weapons during the 1980s. www.declassifieduk.org/how-israel-s...

Labour’s decision to try and ban face coverings is based on an increasingly authoritarian state‘s understanding that masks represent one of the few remaining, readily available, and effective protections against the crackdown on protest rights. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/04/02/f...