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BREAKING: Starmer regime uses Terror Act to arrest Filton 24 spokesperson

11 April 2026 @ 7:59 pm

Filton 24Police have today, 11 April 2026, arrested Lisa Minerva Luxx under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. Luxx is a spokesperson for the ‘Filton 24 Defence Committee’ working to free Palestine Action activists imprisoned without trial for almost two years. Filton 24 organiser arrested The High Court ruled the government’s terrorism ban on Palestine Action […] By Skwawkbox

Your Party have endorsed an ex-Tory in the upcoming local elections

11 April 2026 @ 6:10 pm

Your PartyOn 4 April, we covered the accusation that Your Party’s Jeremy Corbyn had endorsed three ex-Tories in the upcoming local elections. As we reported at the time, Your Party (YP) and Corbyn denied that they’d endorsed these men, but the situation was clearly more complicated than they cared to admit. Now — a week later […] By Willem Moore

Lough Neagh pollution resurfaces as new factory farm looms

11 April 2026 @ 4:55 pm

Lough NeaghA user of the Bloomin’ Algae app has reported the year’s first sighting of blue-green algae at Lough Neagh, a reminder that the pollution crisis on the water body is not yet averted. The app is used for: …reporting the presence of blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria. The app helps speed up public health warnings about […] By Robert Freeman

The winners of Farage’s energy bill prize look oddly familiar…

11 April 2026 @ 4:46 pm

FaragePeople on social media have noticed that the winners of Nigel Farage’s energy bill prize are the same people pictured with the Reform leader at a Brexit party rally in 2019: Left: Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick meet the winners of Reform UK’s competition to have your energy paid for the whole year Right: Here […] By James Wright

Kensington council ‘can’t find address’ to fine Mandelson for public peeing

11 April 2026 @ 4:38 pm

MandelsonKensington and Chelsea council in London has said it “just can’t find an address” to issue disgraced former minister and senior Starmer adviser Peter Mandelson with a fine for public urination. Right. Mandelson was photographed peeing in the street after a “late night visit to the home of former Conservative chancellor George Osborne”. There’s no […] By Skwawkbox

Socialists speak out against leaked Your Party ‘purge’ motion

11 April 2026 @ 4:30 pm

Zarah Sultana, Stalin, and the Your Party conferenceAs several Your Party (YP) members have reported, a leaked motion shows that YP have plans to pass a motion which will lead to the expulsion of socialist members. Or it does if it’s real, anyway. We asked YP to confirm at 9:00am on Saturday 11 April, and they still haven’t got back to us. […] By Willem Moore

Breaking/watch: actionist takes hammer to US warplane in Irish airport

11 April 2026 @ 4:27 pm

US warplaneA direct action activist in Ireland has used a hammer to damage a US warplane on the tarmac in Shannon airport. While posturing as opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and US assistance for Israeli aggression, the Dublin government has allowed continued US use of Irish airports to supply Israel and attack peaceful nations. Just last […] By Skwawkbox

Tantrum Trump mulls pulling troops out of Europe. Oh well, never mind

11 April 2026 @ 3:12 pm

TrumpUS president Donald Trump is mulling pulling troops out of Europe. Which is really sad, we’re sure everyone will miss being a military colony of a fading, erratic imperial power which can’t even open a tiny little Strait of Hormuz. Reuters reported on 10 April that Trump was really very upset that few states has […] By Joe Glenton

Watch: Netanyahu threatens Spain — for being mean to IOF war criminals

11 April 2026 @ 2:44 pm

NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu is never one to shy away from a show of petulant monstrousness. And that’s on show again after Spanish PM  dared to condemn Israel’s illegal war on Iran and call for the EU to end its trade deal with the genocidal apartheid colony. Netanyahu is clearly short on ideas, even wheeling out again […] By Skwawkbox

Writer threatened for covering Reform donor’s conviction

11 April 2026 @ 2:34 pm

ReformBen Delo is a donor to Reform UK. He’s also a convicted criminal (since pardoned), who plead guilty to “bank secrecy act violations”. And we possibly wouldn’t have been reporting on any of this if not for the fact that his lawyers tried to bully writer James Wilson: Significant. Lawyers for Reform UK donor Ben […] By Willem Moore