62 points gmargari 1 day ago 13 comments
OgsyedIE 1 day ago | parent
The UK populace has immense opposition to Westminster's handling of the events because of a great lack of transparency.
If they were told the truth (that the country has to do what the White House says or else the new blackshirts do to Downing Street as they've recently rehearsed in Southampton, Belfast, Rotherham and Hull, plus the UK police and troop numbers are too small to affect the outcome) they could start to think more realistically about the situation.
bbg2401 1 day ago | parent
There is so much misinformation in your comment that it’s difficult to find a good place to start. Even if one were to bother, you’ve started from such a point of disingenuousness that it would be futile.
absqueued 1 day ago | parent
Sometimes it feels like the West is going backwards. Censoring voices and publications due to expression of freedom? Back to Victorian era soon I guess.
tourmalinetaco 1 day ago | parent
Absolutely. The fact that you can be fined or jailed in Germany for insulting politicians like Friedrich Merz is insane. And of course, he’s perfectly allowed to call his opponents whatever he pleases if it benefits him. Now I wonder what other regime in Germany’s past has laws against criticizing the chancellor…
SpecialistK 1 day ago | parent
The gap in my understanding is, why this particular group? There are endless groups and movements in favour of the Palestinian cause that haven't been marked by the UK's overbearing security state, so why not just lend her support to one of those instead?
pygar 1 day ago | parent
This is a direct action group that attempts to disrupt organisations that support or trade with Israel. The other ones just uselessly annoy passers-by in a few state sanctioned streets for a few hours.
She is an avowed Communist (and Irish) this group might just fit her world view.
butlersean 17 hours ago | parent
I think the issue here is: the books could be for sale but the publisher doesn’t want the liability of having supported PA via funds. They could sell the books and not pay the author but that’s a different moral problem.
Fred27 14 hours ago | parent
What a deliberately misleading headline. She can sell books in the UK. She just can't give the money from those sales to terrorists - and she has said she intends to.