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UK Police Arrest Greta Thunberg Over Palestine Action Support

December 24, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested in central London on 23 December during a demonstration supporting imprisoned Palestine Action members, who doctors warn are at “imminent risk of death,” due to a weeks-long hunger strike. City of London Police detained the 22-year-old under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 for displaying a placard backing the proscribed organization. Video footage captured by Prisoners for Palestine shows Thunberg holding a sign. It read: "I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide."

A Big Oil PR Firm Helped Top UK Cultural Institutions Defend Fossil Fuel Sponsorships

December 21, 2025 Ellen Ormesher and Kathryn Clare, DeSmog. , , , ,
Sadler’s Wells, a top performing arts theatre in London, hired one of the United Kingdom’s biggest public relations agencies — and one with close ties to the oil industry — to help it defend a sponsorship deal with Barclays. Brunswick Group — whose clients have included oil giants BP, Shell, and Aramco, as well as Barclays, a major financier of fossil fuel development — drafted a May 23 letter to the Financial Times defending corporate sponsorships of the arts, and signed by Sadler’s Wells and 10 other leading UK cultural institutions, according to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed by campaign group Culture Unstained and shared with DeSmog.

Doctors In England Strike For Jobs And Pay

December 20, 2025 People's Health Dispatch. , , ,
Resident doctors – formerly known as junior doctors, a term referring to qualified physicians undergoing clinical training – in England are on strike again from December 17 to 22, after the Labour government failed to adequately address concerns over pay and job availability. “Resident doctors need jobs, and when they find those jobs, they need to be paid fairly for them,” the British Medical Association (BMA), which represents tens of thousands of physicians, said in outlining the strike demands. The dispute over resident doctors’ pay restoration has been ongoing for years.

Ordinary Citizens Rush The Sovereign’s Throne In House Of Lords

December 20, 2025 The Canary. , , ,
Three people have jumped barriers in the house of lords to access the king’s throne and the chairs of state. They planned to announce the release of The People’s Charter – a new democratic mandate for the UK. Touring the house of lords chamber at 9:30am on 19 December, they climbed a barrier to take their place around the king’s throne. They unfurled a banner that read: ‘REPLACE THE LORDS’. Almost immediately they were intercepted by Metropolitan Police officers stationed in the room, and parliamentary security guards. They were removed, detained, and questioned on site before being released without arrest. The three took this action to signal the failure of UK democracy, while highlighting the most popular alternative to the house of lords: a permanent Citizen’s Assembly.

Doctors Warn Lives Of Palestine Action Hunger Strikers ‘At Risk’

December 19, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , , ,
Medical professionals in the UK have warned that eight Palestine Action activists held in British prisons are at "imminent risk of death," with concerns raised publicly during a press conference in south London on 18 December. Emergency physician and University College London lecturer Dr. James Smith said the detainees’ condition has sharply deteriorated and told reporters that “the hunger strikers are dying." Smith said accounts from inside the prison system point to “substandard monitoring and treatment." “It is my view, as an NHS doctor, that the complexity of the hunger strikers’ care needs must now be managed with regular specialist input if not continuous monitoring in hospital,” he said.

Is The Labour Government Willing To Let Hunger Strikers Die?

December 16, 2025 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
In Britain, pressure is mounting on the Labour government to respond to demands put forward by dozens of activists imprisoned for direct action in support of Palestine, many of whom have been on hunger strike since early November. “The hunger strike, which involves eight prisoners for Palestine, is now on day 40,” the campaign Prisoners for Palestine wrote on Friday. “They are in the danger zone, where irreparable harm is likely, and their health becomes critical.” Even before launching the strike, the prisoners had pressed for a set of demands, including fair trial, deproscription of direct action group Palestine Action, and an end of Elbit Systems operations in the country.

ICC’s Karim Khan Says ‘Senior UK Official’ Threatened Him

December 15, 2025 Sondos Asem and Imran Mulla, Middle East Eye. , , , ,
The British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has accused a senior British government official of threatening to withdraw the UK's funding and support for the court if he pursued arrest warrants against Israeli leaders. Middle East Eye understands the official to be the then foreign secretary and former prime minister David Cameron.  The allegation is contained in a statement submitted by Khan to the court which describes details of an alleged campaign of threats faced by the prosecutor in the leadup to his office requesting warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant in May 2024 over alleged war crimes in Gaza.

Comprehensive Study: Effectiveness Of Palestine Action’s Direct Action

December 15, 2025 CAGE International. , , ,
London – CAGE International has released a major new report documenting how direct action for Palestine - and Palestine Action (PA) in particular, has fundamentally reshaped Britain’s political landscape by directly disrupting the UK’s material links to Israeli genocide. The report shows how PA’s strategic focus on Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, has been exceptionally effective: closing factories, halting production, driving up costs, and forcing corporations, investors and logistics providers to reconsider their role in enabling genocide.

Palestine Activists Conducting Historic Hunger Strike Need Our Solidarity

December 12, 2025 E. S. Wight, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Seven people, all being held on remand pending trial for allegedly taking action in solidarity with Palestine, are on hunger strike in British prisons. Their names are Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, T Hoxha, Kamran Ahmed, and Muhammad Umer Khalid. An eighth prisoner, Lewie Chiaramello, who is diabetic, is also on a partial hunger strike, refusing food every other day at serious risk to his health. Today marks Day 40 without food for Qesser and Amu, who began the strike on November 2, the 108th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

Stop The Hate UK: The Shadowy Israel-Aligned Group Targeting Mintpress

December 11, 2025 Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod, MintPress News. , , , ,
A prolific writer who has penned 28 pro-Israel articles in the past two months alone, Sawer asked the British Palestinian journalist to respond to pro-Israel pressure group Stop The Hate U.K.’s campaign for him to be prosecuted for “anti-Semitic hate crimes.” Abul-Essad’s “crime” was attending an October 2024 demonstration in London protesting an event featuring former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert speaking on the future of Gaza – a case that the Metropolitan Police have already looked into and dismissed. Sawer has previous connections to Stop The Hate U.K.

UK Hunger Strike Is Not Being Televised

December 5, 2025 Jonathan Cook, Consortium News. , , ,
If we truly had a free media in the U.K., rather than one serving the interests only of the state and billionaire class, this would be a front-page news story: “Six political prisoners – held unlawfully for a year or more on remand, and retroactively deemed to be ‘terrorists’ for trying to stop the Gaza genocide – have been on hunger strike for many weeks in prison. At least one is already seriously ill.” There has been blanket silence from the media on these developments, and barely any coverage of the appalling conditions these political prisoners are being subjected to since Palestine Action was reclassified by Sir Keir Starmer’s government as a terrorist organisation – after their arrests.

High Court Trickery On Palestine Action

December 3, 2025 Jonathan Cook, Consortium News. , , ,
The High Court judge who granted a legal challenge to the government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action — the first time in British history a civil-disobedience organisation has been declared a terrorist group, one now treated as on a par with Al-Qaeda — was removed at the last minute last week.  The judicial review hearing began without Justice Martin Chamberlain. He was replaced with a panel of three judges. Justice Chamberlain did not suffer any timetabling conflicts. The Justice Ministry declined to offer any explanation for such a highly irregular change.

Gaza Reveals How Britain Is Run

December 2, 2025 Mark Curtis and Laura Pidcock, Consortium News. , , , ,
British history. Its political system has utterly failed to confront a genocide. Rather, that system has allowed the British establishment to be complicit in one of the worst horrors of our time — Israel’s two-year offensive against Palestinians, complete with ethnic cleansing, systematic attacks on schools and hospitals, and crimes against humanity. Now, under a current supposed ceasefire, Israel is still killing Palestinians and their plight in Gaza remains dire, as the world sees the extent of the mass destruction visited on them. Throughout the attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, British leaders have actively cooperated with Israel in their military, trade and diplomatic policies.

The Climate Briefing Britain Can’t Ignore

December 1, 2025 Monica Piccinini, The Canary. , , ,
On 27 November, the National Emergency Briefing on Climate & Nature took place at Central Hall Westminster, bringing together leading experts from climate science, national security, energy, food systems, health, and the economy. Their mission was to deliver a stark, science-led wake up call to politicians, business leaders, and the media of the accelerating threats facing the UK. The message left the room in no doubt: Britain isn’t ready for what’s coming. Naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham opened the event with a stark warning: This beautiful little blue planet is where we will either learn to live in harmony with the environment or we will destroy ourselves and much of other life, too.

Protests Continue As Court Prepares To Review Palestine Action Ban

November 25, 2025 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. , , , , , ,
More than 2,350 people have been arrested since the British government banned the direct-action group Palestine Action earlier this year, including over 250 detained during peaceful protests this month alone. Since the proscription in July, people across the country have mobilized against the government’s repression of Palestine solidarity, intensifying their activities ahead of a legal review of the ban scheduled to begin on Wednesday, November 26. Between November 18 and 29, sign-holding protests are expected in 18 locations across Britain. Several spots in London were chosen for their relevance to the crackdown on Palestine Action and related attacks on free expression, the network Defend Our Juries explained in its announcement.
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