Yanis Varoufakis BANNED by Germany's Interior Ministry from carrying out any political activity in Germany!

Germany is banning political parties, just like the old days.

In fact Wilson made massive cuts to the defence budget. I seriously think that Paul has no grasp of Labour history at all. newstatesman.com/the-weekend-es…

This is total insanity. Germany has lost all sense of morality, AGAIN.

Especially crazy to ban someone who's a legitimate and established EU political figure. This is in effect the most powerful country in the EU saying being pro-Palestinian is a forbidden political position.

You're looking at German police officers arresting Jewish citizens for opposing genocide.

Yes, think we can all agree this is definitely washing away German's obscene historic sins.

Criticising ourselves in the U.K. is a national sport - but it’s an incredibly good thing that British civil society ultimately believes in basic freedoms in a way that Germany (clearly) does not.

Free speech matters - it’s the engine of enlightenment & human progress.

Pseudophilosophy strikes again.

The Roman Empire reached its maximum territorial extent under an Emperor who had sex with men.

My article in the current issue of The Journalist:

If he's pressing the button it's not worked as a deterrent has it

It turns out that, since German police decreed that Ghassan Abu Sittah would have broken the law if he dared post a video of the speech they did not let him deliver at our Congress, the same applies to me. Glad to have broken their pathetic law by posting my speech - see below.

Whenever a left wing journalist criticises Starmer, you get hundreds of messages like this. It’s not only a childlike view of how journalism works, it misses that the very people who want to hold Starmer to account do it because we *are* loyal Labour members. Or we wouldn’t care!

To give you an idea of the size of Gaza, it takes 10 hours to walk from the north to the south, about the same as from Newcastle to Hartlepool. 45,000 bombs were dropped by Israel into that tiny space, just in the first 3 months. This is what collective punishment looks like.

Thousands of people have joined our movement and donated. Together we’ve created a campaign fund to support candidates who are building the alternative.

This is just the beginning.

Is it too much to ask for any journalist to grill Wes Streeting on his substantial donations from Private Healthcare lobbyists and magnates??

This is the future Health Secretary ffs and if he's so committed to the NHS then he'd never accept such donations
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

There is no principled case for using the private sector. Just as the “spare capacity” in private health Wes talks about does not exist. Only #NHS doctors, nurses and the £million contracts Wes will give them.

The developed, liberal, free world, ladies and gentlemen

'At a time of record NHS waiting lists, depressed wages, public sector staff shortages, and rising poverty ... Polling consistently shows the two most important issues for voters are the economy and the NHS (defence is 10th)'

Me for i newspaper
inews.co.uk/opinion/labour…

The German police have shut down the Palestine Congress.

They've arrested Jewish activists.

They've banned a British-Palestinian surgeon from entering the country.

This is how Germany thinks it can make amends for its obscene past.