Murky think tanks lurking at Tufton Street and Westminster have begun the New Year with a shameful bang. That is to say, the usual way: by scapegoating benefit claimants.

Here are all the (largely) opaquely-funded organisations helping the corporate media manufacture consent for cruel welfare cuts. This is what they’ve been up to so far in their bid to ram forward further callous benefit ‘reforms’ and pit the public against people seeking state support.

Mealy-mouth-pieces in the media vilifying benefits

Shady benefit-slashing machinations abound across the mainstream media. Throughout January, the hate-mongers traded in a reprehensible assortment of stories maligning claimants. By our count, think tanks spawned these pieces in at least 56 instances:

The award for the most despicable attempts to vilify go to…The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) for puerile attempts to pit the public against migrants.

Notably, it tag-teamed with shadow Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) sec Helen Whately in an article for shitrag the Daily Mail. It made up more lies about the numbers claiming welfare to scapegoat refugees and asylum seekers.

So, the usual racist, xenophobic bullshit? We’re not linking to it here.

Other dishonourable mentions included:

• A Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) report triggered no fewer than 21 stories. The analysis attempted to drive a wedge between pensioners and welfare recipients on one end, and workers on the other. Multiple outlets framed it that Labour’s taxes are “hammering” working people, while pensioners and welfare claimants would be “better off”. This would be thanks to inflation-linked increases due to the triple-lock and the increase in Universal Credit’s standard allowance. Of course, every piece failed to mention that new disabled UC claimants will be thousands of pounds worse off after Labour cut the health element almost in half.
• The corporate media churned out no less than 13 articles for the Centre for Social Justice’s (CSJ) Rewiring Education report. Headlines blurted every variation under the sun on ‘700,000 graduates claiming benefits’. Put simply, the report essentially set about discouraging poor kids from going to go to uni — go figure.

And it wasn’t just the print press. Think tank spokespeople and research appeared in a number of TV and radio shows throughout January as well:

CSJ gears up for a vile propaganda drive against benefits claimants

An announcement from Iain Duncan-Smith’s diabolical brainchild drew multiple puff pieces for its latest project to smear claimants. These made the decidedly dubious (more like: utter bullshit) claim that six million Britons would be better off on benefits.

Notably, at the end of January, the think tank decided now’s a good time to amp up the antagonism on disabled welfare claimants. You know, right after a round of vicious benefit cuts that’s set to make some disabled people destitute. Not enough, says blatant misnomer the CSJ.

Now, the think tank has launched its so-called Welfare 2030 enquiry to:

diagnose the causes of escalating worklessness, its harms to struggling families and the cost to the taxpayer.

It says this will involve a “Big Listen” series with its 900+ strong “CSJ Alliance of small charities” throughout spring. Then it plans to take these ideas to the major party conferences. At them, it says it will host ‘debate’ about the so-called “welfare crisis”.

For the project, the CSJ has of course put together a dedicated webpage. There, an animated reel of right-wing foghorns screech out frontpage headlines bleating that “5 million paid not to work” and “Get a grip on welfare… or tax bomb will go off this Autumn”. Foregone conclusion much?

Introducing the enquiry, the ever-ghoulish former grim reaper of the DWP, IDS, was bandying about the establishment’s favourite trope. In particular, he was wanging on that:

The system must stop writing off thousands of people every day, and incentives to work must be restored to end this ruinous waste of human potential.

Hall of infamy (lobbyists not even being shy about it)

Think tanks rarely miss the opportunity to boast their role seeding regressive policy. Case in point:

The Canary’s formidable chief DWP botherer Rachel Charlton-Dailey recently did a scathing and on-point take-down of the government’s wilfully misleading PR about the farcical scheme. Contrary to its name, there’s actually no real evidence it’s actually ‘working well’.

Funnily enough, that’s precisely the title of its predecessor scheme, which the DWP based it on, and the Canary previously showed to be a sham. Needless to say, the CSJ has long been plugging the glorified work programme to coerce chronically ill and disabled people into work.

Weaseling into Westminster

Of course then, this nebulous back-scratching ecosystem would not be complete without Westminster. MPs and peers will regularly lean on think tank talking points that the mainstream media has propagated.

In this way, think tanks and the press are collaborators in manufacturing consent for benefit cuts and other punitive welfare policies. For instance, in January, Conservative MP Harriet Baldwin paraded the CSJ’s latest rotten report on graduates claiming benefits (mentioned above).

However, it’s not only think tank talking points getting around the Palace’s hallowed halls. It’s also the former think tank brains themselves.

As the Canary’s brilliant HG reported, the DWP has set the fox among the henhouse with the appointment of Policy Exchange senior fellow Jean Andre-Prager to the Timms Review steering group.

Meanwhile, former Labour Together bigwigs have also been sneaking their way into the department too.

Serving the interests of billionaires

Ultimately, the point is: from Westminster to the media, think tank ideologues are moving in all the right circles to spread vicious benefit claimant propaganda. The deluge of demonising stories across the pages of the mainstream rumour mill is no accident.

These elitist and covertly-funded capitalist front organisations are driving the attacks on the working class and disabled people from the shadows. All the while, the Labour Party has continued to flirt with ever-more alarming policy ideas these very shady groups have been cooking up.

It’s more than time to shine a searing spotlight on the hidden forces colluding with the billionaire press to dismantle the welfare state.

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Southwark councillor James McAsh has defected to the Green Party from Labour with a blast at Starmer’s factionalism and red-Tory austerity politics. McAsh was elected as council leader in July 2025, but the central party moved to quash the result and installed a tame Starmeroid.

In his resignation from Labour, McAsh said that he can no longer ask Southwark residents to vote for Starmer’s party because the Labour-run council is:

planning for funding gaps larger than those faced in almost every year of Conservative and Liberal Democrat austerity, this time imposed by a Labour government.

Unless something changes, Labour cuts will devastate the local services that as residents of this fantastic borough, we all rely on.

McAsh added:

I grew up in a Labour household and I’ve devoted much of my adult life to the party. I’m proud of the work I’ve done in Southwark – but Labour is no longer the vehicle for social justice I once thought it was.

He is the fourth Southwark Labour councillor to join the Greens since last year’s scandal and the seventh to resign from Labour. Southwark is part of a London-wide phenomenon of Labour councillors flooding to the Greens since Zack Polanski won that party’s leadership — including at least one deputy mayor.

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Arms Trade Corruption Tracker (ATCT) have exposed reported Elbit contract suspensions at the behest of NATO’s Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA). In a decision taken last year, the NSPA took action to suspend over a dozen contracts linked to the Israeli arms company after anti-corruption investigations involving former NSPA staff.

They add that:

not all investigations appear to link directly to Elbit but details are still emerging.

ATCT further added, in a ‘spicy detail’, that the US had coincidentally dropped its investigation into some of those implicated. This came two weeks after a meeting between US President Trump and Turkish President Erdogan. Funnily enough, one of the investigations dropped refers to a Turkish officer formerly employed by NSPA.

Once again, the right-wing US President appears to be choosing to cover up corruption, as opposed to trying to tackle it.

#UnravellingTuesday: Israeli arms giant Elbit Systems faced reported contract suspensions from NATO’s Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) in relation to several anti corruption investigations involving former NSPA staff. New case link below. pic.twitter.com/W67cfTcTJt

— Corruption Tracker (@ArmsTradeCT) February 17, 2026

Elbit — NATO’s ‘highest-profile corruption scandal’

ATCT reported that the contracts were suspended by NATO in July 2025 following four investigations into possible corruption. These investigations involved eleven suspects and stated that ‘not all cases appear to directly involve Elbit’. They further stated that the evidence of corruption gathered represents:

the highest-profile corruption scandal the Alliance [NATO] had faced since its founding.

The Corruption Tracker website has published a detailed timeline outlining the countries, weapons, and equipment linked to the suspended contracts. The investigations implicate arms sellers, naming Israel’s Elbit Systems and its subsidiary Orion Advanced Systems, as well as Global Defence Logistics (GDL) and an unnamed Italian company. The contracts reportedly involve officials in Israel, Italy, Turkey, Romania, and Luxembourg, who appear positioned to benefit financially.

ATCT stated:

Authorities from the US, Romania, Belgium and the Netherlands had been investigating eleven suspects accused of bribery, accepting bribes, money laundering and illegal kickbacks, tied to military procurement contracts awarded between 2015 to 2024.

A wave of arrests followed across Spain, Romania, Belgium and the Netherlands. Yet despite the scale of the investigation and the seriousness of the charges, the consequences proved remarkably limited. None of the detainees served more than six months in prison. Most were released under conditional liberty, while others ultimately saw the charges against them dropped altogether.

Referring to the meeting between Trump and Erdogan, and subsequent shady actions taken, ATCT added:

The case took a dramatic turn in early July 2025. Just two weeks after the US and Turkish presidents met on 25 June 2025 at the Hague NATO Summit – and only two days before the extradition of suspects was due to take place – the US abruptly withdrew all charges. Those cleared included Manousos Bailakis and Ioannis Gelasakis, accused of bribing a NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) official, as well as Scott Everett Willason alleged to have paid bribes, and Ismaïl Terlemez, accused of accepting them in order to steer NATO procurement decisions in favour of Willason’s client portfolio.

Suggesting internal whistleblowers are facing typical abuse and negative consequences as a result of raising concerns about internal corruption, they added:

The fallout did not stop with the suspects. Inside the alliance, senior officials began raising alarms of their own. The NSPA’s Director of Human Resources and its Chief Audit Executive and Head of Investigations flagged internal corruption and wrongdoing within NATO’s structures. Their interventions came at a cost: both saw their positions either suspended or left unrenewed.

Whilst the US step away, the rest of us must step up

The US and its “diplomatic might” sit under the control of a shameless, unrestrained leader who has made clear he will pursue financial gain at any cost. However, the ATCT point out that the US shows precious little concern for corruption. Instead, Trump seems happy for it to continue, leaving smaller countries in the alliance with the huge responsibility of exposing such a sinister web of corruption.

They added:

With Washington stepping away from the case, responsibility for its resolution now rests with Dutch, Belgian and Romanian authorities, who continue to handle the remaining proceedings. Questions remain about accountability at the highest levels of the alliance.

Since the deliverables under these contracts lead to the mutilation, trauma, and deaths of innocent civilians, conducting this investigation is essential in the interest of humanity.

Arms trade corruption investigator Andrew Feinstein spoke to the Canary about the clear corruption within the report from ATCT, stating emphatically:

Elbit is one of the deadliest company’s on the planet. It is central to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Israel is both a materially & morally corrupt country.

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This is seen most explicitly in its defence sector of which Elbit is a leading part. The company is the corrupt fulcrum at the heart of this murderous country.

Powerful elite might delay justice, but they cannot prevent it indefinitely

We have to face it: the US has abandoned justice and fully descended into a dog-eat-dog mentality where the richest and strongest are always right. Even though they’re so evidently and deplorably wrong.

These findings support yet another call for the UK to disentangle itself from US-led foreign policy rather than risk being dragged into its consequences. The powerful may delay justice, but they cannot prevent it indefinitely. After all, history books will not look kindly on those who permit corruption. Particularly when its consequences include civilian deaths in Gaza and throughout the Global South and Middle East.

We must demand that our government suspend all contracts with Elbit Systems now. Citizens must insist on a thorough and independent investigation into the relationship between Elbit and government officials. There are already serious concerns already raised about transparency and political conduct under the government of Keir Starmer, specifically in relation to Israel.

Therefore, there is ample reason to insist on scrutiny here at home as well.

You can read the Corruption Tracker’s full investigation and findings here.

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The president of the National Union of Students UK (NUS), Amira Campbell, said it would be “very difficult” for the Labour government to “ignore” the growing debate as it risks joining the list of “many things that really put their re-election at risk”.

The current student loan system was created under the Conservative government. The issue has exploded into life in recent weeks, however, after Chancellor Rachel Reeves insisted that her decision at the November Budget to freeze the threshold at which ‘Plan Two’ graduates start to pay back their loans was “fair and reasonable”.

Martin Lewis, the TV personal finance expert, said it was “not a moral thing” to do because it was essentially treating debt like tax, urging the government to “please have a rethink”. 

Meanwhile, people in the Plan 2 cohort have posted online about how they owe more money now than they did when they graduated, fuelling cross-party calls for a fairer system. 

Under the Plan Two agreement, graduates are charged interest on loan repayments equal to Retail Prices Index (RPI) plus up to three percentage points. However, monthly repayments often do not meet interest, leaving many graduates with debt larger than what they originally borrowed, years after leaving university.

PoliticsHome reported last week that Reform UK, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats were all looking at how the system can be changed as part of their policy work, while Labour MPs have had discussions with sympathetic ministers about what can be done to address the perceived unfairness.

Justine Greening, the former Tory education secretary, said Kemi Badenoch’s party should “lead” on the issue of student loans to help rebuild support with young people.

In an interview with PoliticsHome, Campbell said she is confident that “with the right amount of pressure, on a very small basis, we can see a U-turn on this freezing of the threshold specifically”.

“It just took enough people saying the same thing at the same time for it to suddenly build up legs,” she said.

“Everything aligned at the right moment. But also, that’s reflective of the fact that we’ve hit this point in time where the people who were the first generation of Plan Two loans… they’re now all 10 years into their careers, facing the worst moment of this loan.”

“There’s a clear political will and reasoning to do it.”

Notably, the 2024 general election saw a significant number of MPs on Plan 2 deals elected to Parliament, which is seen as having helped the issue gain traction in Westminster.

“I recognise that there are backbench MPs who are affected by this, and that’s helping,” she said. “That’s helping with pushing the fight. But broadly, the thing that’s going to take this over will be the wider political pressure that the Labour government are being put under.”

According to the NUS president, the student loans debate is part of a wider sense of intergenerational unfairness that is increasingly important to British politics. She said the country is “going to end up with generations of families where both their parents and the kids are paying off loans whilst the parent is still supporting their kid at university”.

“We’re trapping ourselves into a really bad cycle where essentially no one ever pays off their university loans.”

While much of the recent debate over student loans has focused on the changes around Plan Two, Campbell is also concerned about the long-term ramifications of the Plan Five loan, first introduced in England in 2023.

The Plan Five loan differs from its predecessor, Plan Two, in that it has a generally lower interest rate, but a longer repayment period of 40 years before the debt is wiped out.

“We’re basically talking about people who are close to retirement, still paying off their student loan,” she told PoliticsHome.

The NUS took its campaign to Westminster last week, gathering outside Parliament dressed in shark costumes and in Reeves face mask. Campbell said there was “a very serious message behind all of that”: “We’re seeing food bank usage for students double, we’re seeing parents from poorer backgrounds really struggle to support their child through education.”

A government spokesperson told PoliticsHome: “We inherited the student loans system, including Plan Two, which was devised by the previous government.

“Threshold freezes have been introduced to protect taxpayers and students now, alongside future generations of learners and workers. The student finance system protects lower-earning graduates, with repayments determined by incomes and outstanding loans and interest being cancelled at the end of repayment terms.”

They added that the Labour government had reintroduced targeted maintenance grants to support its target of two-thirds of young people taking a gold standard apprenticeship, higher training or heading to university by the age of 25. 

The spokesperson continued: “This is all alongside our ongoing support for working people starting off in life, as we build 1.5m new homes, expanding government-funded childcare, introducing free breakfast clubs and freezing rail fares.”

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Former PM, genocide supporter and on-the-loose war criminal Tony Blair has said another ridiculous thing — it must be a day ending in a ‘Y’. The hyper-wealthy friend of a cast of dictators, maniacs and war criminals to rival the steering committee of SPECTRE reckons his favourite film is Schindler’s List.

The 1993 film centres on the Nazi Holocaust and contains powerful lessons from history…

Not a single fucking one of which Big Tony has grasped in any way whatsoever given he has signed up to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Blair was one of the first names on the list for Donald Trump’s Board of Peace initiative.

Blair said the film’s greatest lesson for him was

You cannot be a bystander.

To which we must say ‘Jesus, Mary and Joseph, what on earth are you talking about, you rictus-grinned narcissist prat?’

He added that not being a bystander:

can lead you to right judgments and wrong judgments but it is not just your job to look after your country… you owe some responsibility to the bigger world.

Hmm…

Tony Blair — like a bad smell

To be fair Blair has never been a bystander when it comes to war, invasion and empire. He’s usually been an enthusiastic participant.  The interview was part of an interview series which nobody wanted or needed, but Channel 4, in their infinite middle class wisdom, decide to make anyway… head-in-hands…

The general public are less inclined to see Blair on TV:

Imagine watching Schindler’s List and your takeaway is that you should participate in the next genocide you see pic.twitter.com/TR3eYFw3xN

— Council Estate Media (@cem_uk_) February 17, 2026

One Blair fan described the ex-PM as:

an absolute utter fucking piece of Shit.

Say what you feel, mate.

Tony Blair is an absolute utter fucking piece of Shit.

He was happy to see hundreds of thousands of people die for a lie in Iraq and he was happy to see people murdered in Gaza. And yet he’s sitting here talking about Schindler’s list never again it meant to be never again for… https://t.co/SbsOdGuJzi

— Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei (@HussainShafiei) February 17, 2026

Another discouraged us from watching the series with reference to Blair’s famously terrifying Christmas card:

You don’t need to watch The Tony Blair Story. You just need to google “Narcissistic Sociopath” who poses for a Christmas card like it’s a fight outside a Wetherspoons at 2am and leave it at that.#LeaveItTony pic.twitter.com/kuKiTNYtBs

— Niecy O’Keeffe (@NiecyOKeeffe) February 17, 2026

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Someone else said that given Blairite ghoul John Rentoul has endorsed the film it was probably about as veracious as Flat Earth Theory:

if John “Blairite truths are eternal” Rentoul has seen your Tony Blair documentary and liked it, it may be something of a whitewash pic.twitter.com/oJUMsJeFg9

— Jack FR (@FrayneJack34043) February 16, 2026

Another was buzzing for Series Two which will presumably see Blair in a war crimes court. We hope and pray:

I’m looking forward to Series 2 of The Tony Blair Story.

The one where he and Alastair Campbell are tried in The Hague for war crimes, and the Dr Kelly ‘suicide’ files they had put away for 70 years, to be released many years after their deaths, are released to the public. pic.twitter.com/9dHcToibmD

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— MacPhisto (@BulletBlueSky2) February 18, 2026

In fact — big shocker — the war crimes thing was something of a theme:

Tonight 9pm The Tony Blair Story.
The only Tony Blair Story I want to see is when he’s sharing a cell with Radovan Karadzic.

— Ragged Trousered Philanthropist (@alfienoakes63) February 18, 2026

Another X user made the connection with, ahem, current events in the Massive Nonce… sorry… Labour Party:

It’s an Epstein Files who’s who in The Tony Blair Story on Channel 4 tonight 🫣😳

— Neil Robins (@neilarobins) February 17, 2026

There may come a day when the British press stop giving Blair, a figure whose legacy in Iraq alone is unutterably toxic, a platform whenever he fancies it. But it isn’t just a matter of his wars in the early 2000s. Despite being a figure of contempt across the political spectrum, Blair STILL insists on having an active role in world politics. Usually this is by standing shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the most grotesque people on earth.

If there was any semblance of accountability, the man would at the very least be an international pariah. And at best, he’d be held accountable for what he’s done.

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Eighteen defendants from Palestine Action have now been acquitted of aggravated burglary. Earlier this month, a jury cleared six of the Filton24 of aggravated burglary, while leaving the charges of criminal damage and violent disorder undecided. These charges are in relation to direct-action taken targeting Israeli arms company, Elbit Systems in Bristol.

Middle East Eye reported that:

Following the decision to drop the charges, five of the defendants  – William Plastow, Ian Sanders, Madeline Norman, Julia Brigadirova and Aleksandra Herbich – were granted conditional bail.

Plastow, Sanders and Norman have been held on remand for the longest period of the 18- spending 18 months in prison. Birgadirova and Herbich has been imprisoned since November 2024.

Bail applications for another eight defendants will be held on Friday.

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Palestine Action targeting

Today’s announcement comes as the prosecution have “reconsidered the sufficiency of the evidence”. This move appears to suggest it would be unlikely to achieve the guilty verdicts it is clearly aiming for. However, at this late a stage in a criminal case, the prosecution could not just drop the aggravated burglary charge against the remaining defendants. This left it no option but to concede defeat on that charge if it wished to change course.

Consequently, concerns have resurfaced that the prosecution and government could reconsider their strategy and pursue different charges with a stronger likelihood of conviction.

All of the Filton24 were acquitted of aggravated burglary. SAY IT. https://t.co/ohMIDuUYVb

— Huda Ammori (@HudaAmmori) February 18, 2026

Victory: for now

The Palestine Action defendants have received popular support amongst pro-Palestinian activists and groups. In fact, many pensioners across the country have been seen risking arrest for daring to show public support for then proscribed Palestine Action (PA). The direct-action group has protested against Israel’s settler colonialism for many years, and its members have long sought to call attention to those arming the Zionist entity. The case against them refers to a break-in near Bristol of an Elbit Systems site known to be providing arms and supplies to Israel.

Citizens across the UK have taken to protests in every city since October 7th, 2023, making it clear that the majority of British people do not support the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Moreover, leading Holocaust scholars across the globe and the International Court of Justice in The Hague have identified this as a genocide, while the International Criminal Court has moved forward with arrest warrants at the direction of Prosecutor Karim Khan.

We wrote a few days ago on the court ruling that the proscription of Palestine Action, brought because of their acts of protest, was deemed disproportionate. Yet little has really changed, as Skwawkbox wrote:

The decision was made by a panel of judges who all have strong links to Israel, underscoring just how far the Starmer regime overstepped human rights legislation. It is almost certain to try to appeal, despite the exposed web of lies it created to try to justify the ban.

Nevertheless, people are rightfully celebrating this reprieve across social media:

Victory after victory … what an incredible start to Ramadan, the month of victory https://t.co/zrI9NkAiNi

— Fahad Ansari 🇵🇸 (Stop the Gaza genocide) (@fahadansari) February 18, 2026

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Another victory for Palestine Action, defeat for the UK government’s support of genocide. https://t.co/Lw8wj3dV0l

— Syksy Räsänen (@SyksyRasanen) February 18, 2026

Great news BELOW!

There is a CHASM between what the politico-media “elites” think about the GENOCIDE in Gaza and what the general public think

The general public is decent & humane

The “elites” are immoral & cruel https://t.co/Hrw6j3dBgt

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— Tom London (@TomLondon6) February 18, 2026

Returning home to their loved ones

Some defendants have since been granted bail following being declared ‘not guilty’ of the original charge of aggravated burglary. This represents a huge relief for the defendants given they will now be able to return home to their loved ones. Nevertheless, some still remain on remand awaiting trial, signaling that not much has changed regarding our government’s intentions.

As Investigative journalist Asa Winstanley reported on X:

BREAKING: Aleksandra Herbich and Yulia Brigadirova both also granted bail in Filton 24 hearing. Both have been on remand for 15 months.

In total, five Palestine Action activists have been granted bail today. Four are expected to be released today.

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Brigadirova has a second case… pic.twitter.com/YO6Hkq9WHC

— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) February 18, 2026

Although we at the Canary recognise this as a significant victory, it should not be mistaken for a safeguard against future action by the UK government or the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

It is clear that accepting defeat on this charge will leave a bitter taste for the Starmer government. Their premiership is already facing serious scrutiny over its significant levels of funding from the Israel lobby. This announcement today raises legitimate concerns that the prosecution may return with renewed determination, pursuing alternative charges it believes are more likely to secure convictions.

The broader fear we must acknowledge is that this effort is not merely about this case, but about setting a precedent – using the Filton 24 as a warning to deter dissent and protest in support of Palestinians.

As Richard Sanders pointed out on X, the British Government have no love lost for these defendants. Something they made clear recently during the defendants’ principled hunger strikes:

A reminder that the government was prepared to let 4 of these people die on hunger strike. https://t.co/9zHFayUSP9

— Richard Sanders (@PulaRJS) February 18, 2026

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We must stay vigil

We reported on Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori’s comments on the CPS’ case against the six acquitted by jury. Skwawkbox wrote:

This case from the start has been heavily politicised.

The CPS are now publicly declaring, before the court hearing, that they’ll seek a retrial, despite the defendants having already spent 18months in prison without a single conviction.

This is political theatre.

Sadly, we believe today’s victory may prove similarly short-lived. The actors are currently off-stage changing their outfits and rehearsing their lines. But we must not forget, political theatre is still heavily permeating through this oppressive criminal case against the Palestine Action defendants.

We must stay vigilant and ready for whatever may follow this temporary reprieve.

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