SCOOP: The UK gave £90,000 to an Israeli report claiming that Hamas used sexual violence as a “weapon of war”. The Israeli government used the UK-funded report in a massive propaganda campaign, while Israeli officials called it a “significant public diplomacy tool”.

After several recent setbacks in the courts (Maria Kelly, Sandie Peggie), the anti-trans movement celebrated a long-awaited victory last week when the Darlington nurses (mostly) won their case against the NHS. What does it mean for trans rights? Lawyers disagree 🧵

Some incredible comedy last night at the Union Chapel in aid of the Gaza Sunbirds, Gaza's paracycling team – kudos to @mrnishkumar.bsky.social and the nine other comedians for performing for free! Expect to see me cycling around town in a Sunbirds jersey in approx 10 working days 📭

Billionaire "rogue landlord" (a judge's words, not mine) John Christodoulou owes his former tenants £263,555.69. Instead of paying them, he's pressuring media outlets – including, unsuccessfully, @novaramedia.com – to remove negative coverage of him. My story: novaramedia.com/2026/01/16/t...

After six years in court and a reported £1m+ spent on legal fees, Allison Bailey – co-founder of LGB Alliance and a friend of JK Rowling's – has lost her appeal against Stonewall. Bailie tried unsuccessfully to prove that Stonewall had caused her chambers to drop her for her gender-critical views 🧵

Last week, the media declared a “partial victory” for Sandie Peggie, who sued the NHS for letting a trans colleague use the women’s changing room. In fact, the case was a flop. The gender-critical movement might be persuading journalists, but it’s failing with judges 🧵

Labour rescinded my conference pass over an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct". 10 minutes later, @owenjones.bsky.social received a similar email. This is a terrifying, authoritarian crackdown on press freedom.

Starmer wanted Labour conference to be about taking chunks out of Farage and his "racist" and "immoral" policies. That isn't happening. Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza. My report:

NEW: DESNZ cancelled a bake sale by staff for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, saying the charity was too politically sensitive. Union members wrote to secretary of state Ed Miliband citing "anti-Palestinian racism" and received no response. novaramedia.com/2025/09/18/g...

The belly flop is the signature move of this government. “Phase two of my government starts today,” Keir Starmer intoned on 1 September, signalling little more, it turned out, than his own hubris. A portrait of a PM in his final throes, by @joecguinan.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2025/09/15/a...

Marie launched Changing Politics in 2018. If she thought McSweeney had no idea what he was doing, why did she write this 5 days after Starmer made him chief of staff?

Glad mainstream journalists have finally asked Peter Mandelson some tough questions about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, which has been public knowledge since at least 2019. Here's me asking Epstein's beloved "Petie" about his late friend at 2023 Labour conference

Big scoop from @novaramedia.com's Harriet Williamson: BBC Global News execs wrote to BBC News (the UK service) telling them to correct their claim that Anas al-Sharif worked with Hamas, as the BBC had no evidence for it. BBC News *ignored their own colleagues* and the article remains uncorrected.

The first move of new Green party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social wasn't a policy (he'd already made a wealth tax his big thing) – it was a podcast. It's a sure sign of a leftwing leader who's learned from his predecessors' mistakes. Me for @thenewarab.bsky.social: www.newarab.com/opinion/zack...

Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer were handed a combined 3.5 years for doing £8-10k of damage to the frame of Van Gogh's Sunflowers. Turns out the gallery spent just £150 retouching it. And we're really still talking about 2-tier policing? novaramedia.com/2025/08/22/t...

A man claimed to be the victim of an antisemitic mob. His alleged assailants say he instigated the altercation, calling Arabic-speaking patrons ‘terrorists’. The Guardian printed one side of the story. This is how hysteria is manufactured. Me for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/08/11/w...

I had no idea that Fifa awarded the 1934 World Cup to fascist Italy despite Mussolini using the tournament as a propaganda tool. Just one of the many things *you too* can learn from Juliet Jacques's excellent @novaramedia.com peice about Fifa's revisionist history. novaramedia.com/2025/08/04/t...

Why was this story – which weaponises hostages' experiences to undermine Palestinians' claim to recognition – leading @theguardian.com's homepage until moments ago? “I suppose this is Kath [Viner, the paper's editor-in-chief] trying to both-sides a genocide again," one Guardian journalist told me.

Green leadership candidate Zack Polanski says would-be members of a rumoured new left party should "stop pissing about and join the Greens". My profile for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/06/25/z...

Which do we prefer: cute with a hint of sneer or straight-on with a hint of babushka?

How are political prisoners treated compared to, and by, other prisoners? How do they adapt to confinement? What's the most popular vape flavour at HMP The Mount? This and more on episode 2 of Committed ⛓️ open.spotify.com/episode/655Q...

@clarehymer.bsky.social and I have spent the past 5 months interviewing Britain's political prisoners about life inside – and thinking about the kind of people that give up their freedom for a cause. Ep 1 of Committed is out today, listen here or on the NM podcast feed novaramedia.com/committed/

Always blows my mind that Miriam Margolyes can be on the cover of Vogue one minute but the minute she opens her mouth about Palestine...............crickets

Running an inflammatory headline from a 3-month-old report on antisemitism today, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, is the kind of irresponsible, sensationalist journalism I'd expect from the Jewish Chronicle, not the Guardian.

Itsu said Jeremy Corbyn 4 PM

NEW: The Palestine movement is headed for a historic confrontation with police this Saturday as organisers say they'll go ahead despite a police ban. Police cite disruption to nearby synagogues – despite services finishing 2 hours before protesters arrive. novaramedia.com/2025/01/14/p...

There has been a notable shift here in the approach of the PSC, which previously changed the start time of its marches to accommodate the police's demands – but is now doubling down on its plans. Clear emboldening of the Palestine movement. By contrast, rightwing Jewish groups 1/

NEW: 700+ British Jews have signed a statement criticising the Met's attempted ban on Saturday's Palestine march, calling it a "brazen attempt to interfere with hard-won political freedoms by conjuring up an imaginary threat to Jewish freedom of worship.” novaramedia.com/2025/01/13/b...

Hugely enjoyed Allie Carr's thoughtful, vulnerable long read about falling in and out of love with Russell Brand novaramedia.com/2025/01/13/i...

SCOOP: BBC News global director Jonathan Munro lambasted journalists who said they feared the BBC could be "aiding and abetting genocide" by suppressing the ICJ ruling, suggesting the ruling wasn't as significant as they thought. novaramedia.com/2025/01/09/b...

Hisham was dismissed from his software company for calling for a ceasefire on LinkedIn. Disciplining him, HR told him that the CEO had a son who'd served in the IDF. He's now taking his former employer to court. Support his legal case: www.crowdjustice.com/case/got-ter...

3 years ago, DW fired 7 journalists from its Arabic service on inflated charges of antisemitism (including a post describing Israel as “IsraHell”). Now it emerges they let slide an employee who said egregious things about Muslims. Remind me who doesn't count? www.newarab.com/investigatio...

"How and why have the progenitors and advancers of concepts like ‘critical consciousness’, ‘decolonise/decolonisation’, and ‘epistemic and cognitive justice’ fallen so short of the mark in speaking ‘truth to power’?" doi.org/10.1080/1476...

People are tired of liberal identity politics, and the rainbow coalition lining up behind Trump proves it. @leninology.bsky.social's article debut for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2024/12/30/i...

Starmer isn't just trying to out-Tory the Tories on protest policing – he's following in a proud Labour tradition. An excellent potted history by @francescanwtn.bsky.social

Embarrassing watching liberal commentators try to distract from Owen Jones' 9k-word, months-long investigation on the BBC & Gaza by obsessing over him accidentally liking a comment underneath it. Thankfully most people aren't as weird and petty as James Ball. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/owen-joness-...

A class act? He was *close* friends with a convicted paedophile! And also, incidentally, with Sopel's podcast co-host, Emily Maitlis. This kind of shameless, utterly transparent circling of the wagons by the liberal centre is the kind of behaviour that got Trump elected.

What a tidbit: when Raffi Berg discovered that @owenjones.bsky.social was reporting on his allegedly biased editorship of Palestine coverage, he hired defamation lawyer Mark Lewis, former director UK Lawyers for Israel 🤦🏻‍♀️ www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-...

Wes Streeting weaponising his identity as a gay man to justify his puberty blocker ban, announced today and starting in January. Despicable.

Elon Musk is the perfect mascot for Trump's second presidency, writes @kojokoram.bsky.social: someone who promises not a return to a once-great America, but a glittering future rewired in the interests of the rich novaramedia.com/2024/12/10/e...

Perhaps Hodge could start by investigating herself, and what she did with all that money she made from her family's apartheid-era South African business? She previously said she donated the money to charity, but can't remember which. Strange!

Amnesty International has published a landmark report concluding that Israel’s assault on Gaza constitutes genocide, in a move that may normalise the term within political and media arenas, writes @rivkahbrown.bsky.social.

I'd like to speak to disabled people making preparations for the potential introduction of assisted dying in the UK – perhaps changing your care plan, informing friends & family of your wishes, changing your will. Email me at [email protected] 📧

Every time I see Labour press releases leading the Guardian, I think of this

It's good that Steve McQueen's latest film presents itself as a misty-eyed British war drama, writes Juliet Jacques – it needs to reach as big an audience as possible. novaramedia.com/2024/11/25/b...

Billionaire media will never care about the symptoms of climate breakdown, nor liberal media about its causes. I'll be sharing these and other ideas at the European Green Academy in Brussels later today, provided I don't catch my death in the meantime 🥶

After my April 2020 flight to Tokyo was cancelled (for obvious reasons), I'm finally going to Japan in the spring. What histories/fiction should I read?

Gonna be an extremely telling few months for the so-called defenders of democracy and the rule of law!

Clocking in for my first day at the content factory 🧢