I was arrested at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act, Sec 12 because of my reporting. 6 police officers were waiting for me at the entrance of the aircraft. I was held for almost 24 hours and questioned. I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this

I think of "Hwæt!" (the opening word of "Beowulf") as the first word of English literature. Scholars write articles on what it might mean. If you were translating "Beowulf," how would you capture "Hwæt!" in our English?

“There are those who systematically work to push back migrants. When this is done consciously, it is a grave sin.” At the General Audience, Pope Francis makes an appeal for each of us to welcome migrants who leave their homes in search of a better life. vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…

It's far nastier to paint over a children's Disney mural at an asylum seeker dentention centre than to take down a portrait of Thatcher at 10 Downing Street. Tell me I'm wrong.

To all those people frothing at the mouth about Angela Rayner dancing, whilst she is on her holidays and parliament is in recess, remember the Tories did that in Downing Street when the country was in lockdown.

After the worst electoral defeat in decades, I decided I’d base my leadership campaign on going after national treasure, David Tennant.

Netpol This thread on Heritage Foundation's Robin Simcox - since 2021, Head of the UK Commission on Countering Extremism - may give you some answers: x.com/docrussjackson…

I've just realised what Labour's claim the economy would have crashed if they hadn't cut winter fuel payments to pensioners reminds me of: "Austerity is the economic theory that the global financial crash was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton." A.Sayle

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Keir Starmer is asked about abolishing the universal winter fuel allowance for pensioners & he says it was a tough choice. The tough choice for you would be making the man who buys you your suits and glasses pay more tax. Targeting the poor & powerless is the easy option

I do hope Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer look into this and strip ‘independent’ bodies of the far right. But judging by the ‘independent’ education panel stuffed with Academy heads, I fear my hopes will lay unrealised. Would love to be proved wrong.

Do consider signing. The WFP cut is so wrong and Rachel Reeves needs to cut this incoherent austerity nonsense out. As for Lucy Powell, dear me…

A strange thing: I can find not one word in the Guardian about the violent arrests of two British journalists under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act for posting about Israel's genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, the Guardian's busy emoting again about online freedoms in far-off China.

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The dark heart of this catastrophe lies in this simple, depressing narrative: the state stepped back, corporate greed stepped in and innocent people died. Bit by me for The Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Seems fair to me.

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