Everyone loves the excitement and sportsmanship of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games! Reading this morning about the #Praireland sentencing of peaceful anti-ICE protesters to between 30-100 years in prison for being part of a "North Texas Antifa cell" only makes the historical similarities all the more stark. There's only one word to describe a country and administration that is anti-anti-fascist. From the Guardian: "After a three-week trial, a jury found eight of nine protesters

Good riddance to the red Boris Johnson. A man incapable of telling the truth, who lied his way to the top all so he could arm, enable, and provide diplomatic and legal cover for a genocide. Beholden to corporate interests and the bigoted whims of the billionaire-owned press, he targeted the sick, disabled and marginalised, courted the far-right and demonised refugees, and gave the top ambassador job to a billionaire paedophile's best mate. He was never more than 2 metres away

I did a version of these new British Army recruitment ads back in 2010. The UK is the only country in Europe and Nato that still recruits 16 year old children into its armed forces. Kids can even start the application process at just 15 year and 7 months. Ad campaigns like this should be seen in that context. Former head of Army recruitment strategy Colonel David Allfrey said, “[It] takes a 10-year span. It starts with a seven-year-old boy seeing a parachutist at an air-show

Home Office ads on the Overground announcing some of the dystopian new rules that have been brought to bear against the #Filton25, now the Filton Four, who are being sentenced as terrorists on Friday, after being convicted by a jury on the charge of criminal damage. The jury were not allowed to know that this additional, and unjustified terror charge would be added post-trial, and the press were banned from reporting on it. This government's assault on civil liberties, the ri

The next Niger Delta Climate Change Conference is coming up at the end of June and Ogoni activists have asked if I could do a small crowdfunder to pay for Hell t-shirts, billboards and protest materials to be handed out to participants in the conference. We're hoping to 500 shirts locally, so would need to raise between £1500 and £2k. I'll be chipping in £300 to get things started. You can donate here.