Sir Jim Ratcliffe, co-owner of Manchester United, has come under heavy criticism for saying that immigrants are “colonising” the UK. He said:

You can’t have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in. I mean, the UK has been colonised. It’s costing too much money.

The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn’t it?

The racist shithead also claimed that the UK’s population grew by 12 million people in 5 years. That’s bollocks too, as BBC Verify reported:

it’s actually increased by 2.7 million.

And, that statistic doesn’t take into account the economic benefit of immigrants doing all the shitty jobs white people don’t want. And that, in turn, doesn’t take into account that we’re talking about people – people who have a right to safety and welcome.

Manchester United began in 1878 as Newton Heath, formed by railway workers who wanted solidarity and community within industrial labour. The club grew from working-class collectivism. Migrant communities in Manchester sustained it. Players of colour built its modern success. When the co-owner describes immigrants as colonisers, he positions himself against the communities that shaped the institution he now partially controls.

The Politics of His Non-Apology

Keir Starmer waded in to urge Ratcliffe to apologise:

Offensive and wrong.

Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse country.

Jim Ratcliffe should apologise.https://t.co/7mSnVV33oo

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— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) February 11, 2026

That would be the same man who made the now infamous “island of strangers” speech.

There is something deeply unsettling about watching Britain distance itself from the language of colonisation while still struggling to confront what that word represents in its own history. The state can condemn vocabulary, yet condemnation does not equal reckoning, especially when the same political culture continues to frame immigration through the language of control, pressure, and strain.

Starmer’s objection might sound firm, but it is utterly meaningless when his government are overseeing a hostile environment for immigrants.

His apology doesn’t change his stance

Ratcliffe did eventually apologise, but it was predictably a non-apology:

I am sorry that my choice of language has offended some people in the UK and Europe and caused concern but it is important to raise the issue of controlled and well-managed immigration that supports economic growth.

The apology focused on offence rather than on the framing itself. While discomfort was acknowledged, the imagery of invasion was left untouched. He did not withdraw the claim. He softened it. As a result, the premise stayed in place, only dressed in calmer language.

Language like this does not appear from nowhere, particularly not from someone operating at that level of influence. Words reflect assumptions. When a historically loaded term such as colonisation is replaced with managerial phrasing about “management” and “control,” the logic beneath it does not disappear; it becomes easier to defend. The adjustment feels strategic rather than reflective.

Meanwhile, the political exchange unfolds in a predictable way. Disapproval is voiced. An apology is requested. Regret is offered in careful terms. Yet ownership remains intact and authority remains intact. The tone shifts, but the structure does not.

Ultimately, this episode exposes more than a dispute over wording. It shows how power can absorb backlash without surrendering position, how language can be recalibrated without the worldview behind it being unsettled, and how accountability can be signalled without materially changing who controls the narrative.

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The Palestine Youth Movement (PYM) joined community members in Lambeth on Thursday 5 February to kick Labour out of their hometown. As a result, local people realised their democratic power in being the first community in the UK to launch the ‘Vote Palestine’ pledge campaign for the upcoming local elections in May.

Lambeth leading the way

The Lambeth event was led by Mariam of the PYM and London Votes Palestine campaign. Mariam gave an inspiring masterclass in how ordinary people can come together. In turn, she showed how voters across the country can use their democratic power to get the change they want to see in their hometowns.

Activists from Jewish Voice for Liberation (JVL) and Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) joined other local activists and people who have had enough of Labour’s ongoing complicity and willingness to ignore Israel’s flagrant breaches to countless international laws. Former ANC member and arms trade corruption investigator Andrew Feinstein also attended the event.

In true unity and solidarity, organisers inspired and energised local people to get Palestine on the ballot.

‘No divestment: No votes’

Mariam of the Palestine Youth Movement passionately introduced the Lambeth campaign and what it hopes to achieve:

Lambeth Vote Palestine is not just launching here, but it’s part of a national campaign that is launching in 12 boroughs across London because people are fed up of Labour councils that are not listening to people that are pushing resolutions for divestment from genocide. It’s launching in Manchester, in Greater Manchester, in Newcastle, in Birmingham and in Sheffield. And the first national launch is taking place here today in Brixton in Lambeth.

So, the way that Vote Palestine came together has essentially come from all these local organisers that have tried to push divestment resolutions to get money out of Israel and money into our council and into the people of this council. But we know that Labour councillors have lied to us about just how much political power they have in order to take on divestment. We know that Labour councillors have watered down resolutions that have managed to pass and protests have been tried, resolutions have been tried, all sorts of attention against Labour majority councils have been tried.

And we know that they’re not interested in divestment from Israel because it’s a party of genocide. It’s a party that’s done nothing against austerity. It’s a party that with Rachel Reeves’ latest budget is raising taxes on ordinary working people. And we see this in Lambeth as well. It is a council that has ignored us time and time again.

So up and down the country, We know that the elections are coming in May 2026. And we’ve gotten started a little bit early, but actually right now, Labour is preparing itself for who’s going to be standing in the next election, and preparing its candidates and other parties are doing that as well. But so is Vote Palestine. We are preparing to say: no divestment, no vote. So, we are asking two things nationally, as well as here in Lambeth.

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The first is what’s called a councillor’s pledge. We are asking that any sitting councillor or new candidate signs a councillor’s pledge that commits them to getting money out of Israel and money into our communities. No divestment, no votes.

But there’s a second portion to this, because this is also a grassroots campaign and a people-driven campaign, one that’s going to be powered forward by us giving it a little bit of time every month and getting a big impact out through just a little bit of labour together. And that is the People’s Pledge. So we are also asking voters to take a pledge that will say, ‘if this candidate has not endorsed the councillor’s pledge, we will not be voting for them’. And we’re going to take that to councillor’s and say, ‘hey, you know what? In Lambeth, hundreds of people have committed to the Palestine pledge, to the people’s pledge, and these people will not be voting for candidates that have not endorsed divestment, that have not endorsed Palestine.’

Mariam later referred to the response they receive on the ground from constituents in London, adding:

We’ve been talking to people all over London around what’s the issue that needs more funding? And no one says genocide. So this campaign is really about… We’re putting Palestine on the ballot. We know that the people are with Palestine. We also know from the last election, with the election of the Gaza Independents, that there is a Palestine-first voter. It’s time to show that in the local elections. And we’re going to make that known.

From Lambeth, from Brixton, all the way up to Newcastle and the country over, we’re going to put Palestine on the ballot and make it a non-negotiable issue. No divestment, no votes.

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‘At the expense of our NHS, our benefit system, and all local services’

In Lambeth, Feinstein discussed the clear corruption at the heart of our current UK government, namely Keir Starmer’s lucrative relationship with billionaire-owned Quadrature:

And the reality is, I’ve just come from a Zoom meeting with four Palestinian journalists who are fortunate to be alive. What sort of a sick world do we live in? When journalists start a conversation when they introduce themselves by saying, I’m thankful to be alive. Because hundreds of their colleagues are not.

But what relevance does that have for Brixton and for Lambeth? It has every relevance. The reality is that the biggest political donation in British electoral history was paid by a company called Quadrature Capital to the campaign of Keir Starmer for the 2024 local election. That resulted in a situation where Starmer, who didn’t once show his face in his own constituency because he knows he would have been drummed out of town, spent tens of thousands of pounds on direct social media advertising. Our independent campaign was allowed to spend £17k in total on everything. Because the political system here is fixed.

Within three weeks of coming to power, Keir Starmer announced two policy proposals. One is he went back on his commitment to a new green economic plan that he’d committed at least £20bn to. And then he increased defence spending by £3.5bn a year until 2027. At which point, defense spending will increase by £15.4bn. Quadrature capital’s asset value at the end of those three weeks of Starmer being in power increased exponentially for the expenditure of £5m in their political donations.

And that is why Britain today lives in the best democracy money can buy. Our politicians are bought and paid for. Keir Starmer is a puppet. He is a puppet, not just of Morgan McSweeney, the little worm who is his chief of staff, but he is the puppet of billionaires and corporate interests like Quadrature. Quadrature has invested primarily in fossil fuels and arms company. Of that £15.4bn increase in our defense budget in 2027, a huge proportion of it will land up being used against the people of Palestine.

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And that £15.4 bn is at the expense of our NHS, our benefit system, and all of our local services. Because frankly, and I’ll ask you to excuse my language here, but as you might gather, I’m a little bit angry about this. People like Keir Starmer and all of our establishment politicians don’t give a fuck about us. And if ever that was brought to our attention, it’s in the reality that people like them were more concerned about the fact that Jeremy Corbyn could not pronounce Jeffrey Epstein’s name properly, which they regarded as anti-Semitic. Then they are about the fact that Lord Peter Mandelson was who is an architect of the Starmer Project, is closest friends with a paedophile, with a man who has abused and sex-trafficked hundreds and hundreds of children for abuse by the old white men who run this world and profit from it.

‘Legal responsibility to take action’ in Lambeth

Local activist Jan O’Malley gave an eye-opening and inspiring speech about the sheer scale of Lambeth council investment in Israel and its ongoing genocide. Referring to the power of the BDS movement, O’Malley said:

BDS, you all know about BDS, boycott, divestment and sanctions. We are the D in BDS. So how big is this problem? PSC has done a massive amount of work on research on this, which has been a great resource for us all. And they have found that 81 local government pension schemes have collectively invested over £12bn in companies complicit with Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. It’s genocide, it’s apartheid and it’s illegal occupation. And the British government as a party to the genocide convention has a legal responsibility to take action to prevent further genocide.

PSC has sent a letter to every pension committee member across the country, telling them about this legal duty. It’s not worth waiting until the ICJ finally concludes there is a genocide, they’re meant to prevent genocides. And this means that we take immediate action to start divesting. So, in Lambeth, how big is the problem? Well, the figures that we got from FOIs that PSC did was that the Lambeth Pension Fund had £52.4m invested in companies complicit with Israel. And this included £25m in Amazon, £20m in Alphabet.

They may say, ‘oh, we all use them’, and at the council meeting, they were joking about that. ‘Do you mean we ought to stop us using Amazon and Uber and things in our everyday lives? This is what these unrealistic people who are petitioning us are saying.’ But both of those companies are involved in providing Project Nimbus, which is a computing technology system of surveillance, which has been used to target the journalists, the doctors, the people in Gaza that they wanted to target…. it’s used and bought and helps and supports the Israeli government and military. Other investments are arms companies like Boeing, Rolls Royce, but also Israeli government bonds, which are actually lending money to the Israeli government, and Barclays, which funds so many arms companies.

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Referring to a petition sent to Lambeth Council and its pensions committee, O’Malley finished by saying:

We took our petition. We presented it middle of November last year, thinking the council needed time to check the addresses and everything. And then we had to give them enough time. And they were meant to let us know in 10 days, if there was anything wrong with our petition. They didn’t until the day before the full council meeting, when they rejected the petition on the grounds that it was about something that they do not control, and they pointed a little item J in their constitution about petitions which will be rejected. They’re saying they’ve changed their constitution to take out the word control and amend all the weaselly words. They only administer.

So, what has the Pensions Committee been doing every three months when they meet and take decisions? It’s a total farce. It’s ludicrous. It’s dishonest. So shame on Lambeth Council. I was really shocked at this. It took me, I’m quite cynical and I’ve been demonstrating an activism since I was 14, but I’ve not known a council behave like this in my lifetime. So it shocked me. I wasn’t ready for it. So what are we going to do? We’re going to challenge. this attack on solidarity with Palestine, which is what it is, and democracy, which is what it is, by all available means, including in the local elections in May, which leads us to why we’re here tonight. And we will support alternative candidates who take the pledge for Palestine. And we will challenge Labour councillors who refuse to take the pledge and collude with this despicable denial of democracy. So let’s challenge them on the doorsteps. Let’s get busy with Lambeth Votes Palestine.

‘Get these shits out of their offices’

As ever, another powerful speech in Lambeth was delivered by Glyn Secker of what was formerly Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL). First Secker told us that the ‘L’ no longer stands for Labour, as a result of their pro-genocide actions, but now stands for ‘liberation’ in solidarity with Palestinians. Secker has long refused to be connected to the hostile state of Zionist Israel particularly as a Jewish man, stating:

We represent a very different perspective on what it means to be a Jew in this country, a very different point of view from the Jewish establishment, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council. I’m going to give you a perspective, a historical one, tied up with where we are now.

Jews in this country represent 0.5% of the population. Muslims represent about 5%. So you might ask, why is the Israeli lobby so damn powerful? Why is their establishment here has minimal concerns with Islamophobia, but maximal focus on anti-Semitism and its weaponization?

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But we can do no more than understand racism without understanding imperialism and slavery, than we can understand Islamophobia without understanding oil imperialism, which replaced slavery as a financial driver of the second stage of the development of international capitalism.

The economic foundations of Israel were laid by mercantile Jews, traders, financiers, and then developing into international bankers. the privileged upper-class Jews with a role in developing the first stage of capitalism. To jump very quickly from that to Israel and Zionism, Zionism translated that role into a nationalist form, a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of hostile Arabism, as a British colonial agent in the Middle East described it at the time. And what happened was the development of Israel took over that role of Jewish capital when the bankers began, the Jewish bankers, Rothschilds and so on, began to give way to the large financial institutions developing in the States.

And so Israel took on that role of American imperial interest in the Middle East. Like the financials before them, they slotted neatly into servicing the dominant economic and political order. And so you have the United States’ multi-billion pound transfers to Israel, not just now during the genocide, but it’s accelerated. It’s been going on for decades, from the beginning of Israel’s inception, pretty much. So it’s imperative to draw a distinction between Israel and its ideology, political Zionism and Jew. Because I have nothing to do with what’s going on there, as far as I’m concerned, and I will not be identified with that. And there are many hundreds of thousands, probably a couple of million of us around the country.

Secker finished with a bit of advice for those out on doorsteps facing the inevitable allegations of antisemitism for refusing to support mass-murder, advising:

So what do you do on the doorstep when you’re told that it’s anti-Semitic? Well, you just say, there’s a whole lot of Jews in this country, who are deeply committed to it, because they’re deeply committed against genocide, who are deeply committed against any Holocaust, whoever perpetrates it.

And if it’s Jews, well for me, I’m deeply against that from the bottom of my being, because that is not something that I identify with in terms of my integrity and my humanity. So, I can’t tolerate, as a Jewish pensioner, drawing a lamb of pension that my deferred wages are invested in weapons companies that are slaughtering Palestinians.

So, I am deeply behind this campaign to get these shits out of their offices so we can disinvest.

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Chris Wormald was appointed cabinet secretary in December 2024 (Alamy)

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For an interim period, the responsibilities of the cabinet secretary will be shared by Cabinet Office permanent secretary Catherine Little, Home Office permanent secretary Dame Antonia Romeo, and Treasury permanent secretary James Bowler.

A new cabinet secretary will be appointed “shortly”, according to the government.

Wormald was appointed as head of the civil service in December 2024, having previously served as the permanent secretary for the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education.

In a statement on Thursday, Wormald said: “It has been an honour and a privilege to serve as a civil servant for the past 35 years, and a particular distinction to lead the Service as Cabinet Secretary.

“I want to place on record my sincere thanks to the extraordinary civil servants, public servants, ministers, and advisers I have worked with. Our country is fortunate to have such dedicated individuals devoted to public service, and I wish them every success for the future.”

Starmer said: “I am very grateful to Sir Chris for his long and distinguished career of public service, spanning more than 35 years, and for the support that he has given me over the past year. I have agreed with him that he will step down as Cabinet Secretary today. I wish him the very best for the future.”

It has been widely briefed that Starmer intends to replace Wormald with Romeo.

However, in an extraordinary intervention on Wednesday, former senior civil servant Simon McDonald said the government must carry out “more due diligence” before appointing her.

McDonald, the former permanent secretary of the Foreign Office, told Channel 4: “The due diligence needs to be thorough. If the candidate mentioned in the media is the one, in my view, the due diligence has some way still to go.”

The Home Office permanent secretary was previously investigated by the Foreign Office while serving as Consul General in New York in 2017, over allegations of bullying, harassment, discrimination and misusing expenses.

Wormald is the latest senior figure to depart the top of government in recent days.

Morgan McSweeney has resigned as Starmer’s chief of staff, and Tim Allan has stepped down as the No 10 director of communications, amid severe criticism of Starmer’s decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador despite being aware of his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

It appears that The Jerusalem Post is allowing anyone to write for them nowadays. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (a.k.a. Tommy Robinson) wrote an opinion piece for them on Wednesday 11 February entitled “Jeffrey Epstein and the system that protected him.”

After months of silence on the Files, he finally spoke out.

But there’s several issues surrounding this piece that we need to look into. first is Robinson’s dramatic shift in prose. It uses clinical, polished language that stands in contrast with his usual street-level shouting.

And many are claiming he wrote it with AI:

It seems Israel’s PR crisis has reached rock bottom. This piece by Tommy Robinson for the Jerusalem Post is almost certainly AI written.

Anyone familiar with Tommy’s posting knows he struggles with the written word, and anyone familiar with AI slop will recognise the many… https://t.co/wGOE7Kae9n

— Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) February 11, 2026

We also need to ask why this prominent racist grifter is even being given a platform to spew his bile.

His use of AI isn’t the issue here

It’s certainly plausible that Tommy Robinson used AI for his article. It has all the tells, and to be honest, it would be more surprising if he had written it himself. Robinson can barely string a sentence together on Twitter, so these accusations hold a lot of weight.

But it’s not Robinson’s lack of literacy skills which are the problem here.

The problem is that, yet again, this racist, little grifter has completely fucked his own argument. By staying silent on the Epstein Files, literally the biggest white-led grooming gang of all time, all future input he has on the matter is null and void.

The Epstein Files have been out for a while. For months we have seen the censored images of women and children blasted across our screens. We have looked at thousands of redacted names of women who will never be able to come forward and tell their stories.

Why the fuck didn’t Robinson comment on this then? Why wait this long when you’re so desperate to ‘protect all women’?

The Epstein files have revealed what is probably the largest grooming-gang in the world.

And the guy running it was fucking white.

That’s why he’s been so silent. Because it doesn’t fit his ridiculously racist propaganda that he shovels down the neck of the British public. He is a hypocrite and a liar who is willing to ignore systematic abuse when the perpetrators look like him.

Oh, and the fact that he was in the files, because Epstein himself was a fan of his.

Tommy Robinson: a legacy of lies and hate

Nobody should listen to a single ‘take’ this opportunist has, whether it’s AI or not. Tommy Robinson’s history proves he is a danger to a better world.

I mean, it doesn’t really scream ‘protect all women’ when Robinson attacked a copper who was intervening in a domestic issue between himself and his partner. This cocaine soaked rat has so many convictions it’s hard to count. But they include intent to supply, harassing a literal child because he was an immigrant, leading football hooligans into a mass brawl, possessing and using a false passport, mortgage fraud, the list goes on.

Those actions alone mean that this little racist should be buried in the annals of history. But it’s made so much worse when this man does nothing but weaponise sexual violence to target migrant communities to stoke division.

For this convicted criminal, the abuse of women and girls was never the point. He only cares about sexual violence when he can turn the narrative and blame Black and Brown people.

Laundering his racist brand

Tommy Robinson is now leaning into a pro-Israel narrative to shield his racism. Hiding behind a literal genocidal state which is killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims is absolutely disgusting, but it didn’t stop Robinson going on a tour of the Zionist state. Robinson was called out by The Board of Deputies of British Jews for his trip, with them calling Robinson a “thug” and the “very worst of Britain”.

This AI slop in a shit publication shows how far Robinson has fallen. But he needs to fall further and into absolute oblivion. Robinson doesn’t give a shit about women. He only gives a shit about lining his greasy little pockets and shouting about innocent black and brown people to his legions of knuckle-dragging followers.

Rather than letting Robinson’s new grift flourished, it is time to see him for what he is. A racist little grifter who doesn’t give a shit about women and girls being raped.

He only cares about where he can get his next bag and how he can somehow turn the narrative on vulnerable marginalised groups.

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US attorney general Pam Bondi may have walked herself into a sticky situation after declaring under oath to congress that there is:

no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime.

Pam Bondi: liar

Ted Lieu instantly called this out as a lie under oath. Lieu is vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus and a former Air Force colonel. Continuing, Lieu quoted a deeply concerning transcript from the Epstein Files. This transcript has raised urgent questions about the US President’s potential involvement in serious criminal acts. The Epstein Files have revealed a significant and highly suspicious relationship between Trump and convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett also took Bondi to task, arguing that she and the Trump administration cannot distinguish right from wrong.

Pam Bondi, “There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime”

Ted Lieu, “You just lied under oath. There is ample evidence in the Epstein files”

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Pam Bondi, “Don’t you ever accuse me of a crime”

Ted Lieu, “You just lied under oath, and this is on video tape”

Ted… pic.twitter.com/v2Feci6P4u

— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) February 11, 2026

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‘Epstein should rot in hell, so should the men who patronised this operation’

Pam Bondi: There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime. Everyone knows that. This has been the most transparent presidency. He’s the one that asked that those files be released.

Ted Lieu: I’m going to claim my time. I got your answer. You said there’s no evidence.

Bondi: President Trump asked that he sign the legislation.

Lieu: This is time. Time belongs to the gentleman from California. Okay. I’m going to put up another document from… a witness who called the FBI’s National Threat Operation Center because I believe you just lied under oath. There is ample evidence in the Epstein file.

Bondi: Don’t you ever accuse me of a crime.

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Lieu: I believe you just lied under oath, and this is all on videotape. You said there’s no evidence of a crime. I’m showing you. Here is a witness statement who called into the FBI’s Threat Operation Center. He drove Donald Trump around in a limo. He overheard what Donald Trump said to Jeffrey on his cell phone. He was so angry, he was going to stop the limo and hurt Donald Trump. And he met a girl who said she was raped by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

She later had her head blown off, and officers at the scene said that could not have been suicide. No one, no one at the Department of Justice interviewed this witness. You need to interview this witness immediately. Epstein should rot in hell, so should the men who patronised this operation. And as we sit here today, there are over 1,000 sex trafficking victims, and you have not held a single man accountable. Shame on you. If you had any decency, you would resign right after this hearing concludes.

You cannot shame the shameless
Impeach her finished https://t.co/BOGYZ3m3GI

— Where We Going, We Don’t Need Britches 💙💛 (@RPHutch1975) February 12, 2026

Crockett: ‘protecting paedophiles and creeps’

Lieu wasn’t the only one to challenge Pam Bondi on her ability to recognise legal wrongdoing, which is quite a feat considering she’s a qualified lawyer.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett confronted Bondi directly, dismissing her denials of serious criminal conduct by the US President:

Crockett: Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. And to be clear, I’m not going to ask any questions of this witness because this witness has revealed that she has no intentions of answering questions. But instead, I’m gonna ask some very basic questions really quickly of my colleague Becca Balint if she will answer.

Right or wrong, raping children?

Balint: Wrong.

Crockett: Right or wrong, killing random citizens?

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Balint: Definitely wrong.

Crockett: Right or wrong, enriching yourself as the sitting president of the United States?

Balint: Definitely wrong.

Crockett: Okay, thank you. Cos I probably never would have got that with our witness. Our witness who somehow is a lawyer but does not understand how it works with witnesses. I’m not really sure what law school she went to and what all kind of cases she tried. But typically when you come into a space and somebody’s a witness, then they sit there and they answer questions instead of asking questions. And then we also have this objection that we use as lawyers called non-responsive, when a witness fails to actually answer the question, but nevertheless, let me address the survivors because that’s exactly who they are. They are not victims. They are survivors.

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Let me say thank you for having more courage and moral clarity in your pinky fingers than the entire Department of Justice. We are currently the laughing stock of the world partially because of the failed leadership within the DOJ as we see kings and queens fallen everywhere around the world. But we don’t know the basics of right and wrong in this country because it’s not about partisanship.

And that’s why I applaud Thomas Massie because he’s the only person on the Republican side that has a backbone and knows how to stand up to corruption. But nevertheless, let me keep going. My Democratic colleagues have been attacked this entire committee hearing. They have been lied on. And frankly, the American people weren’t looking for that. They were looking for answers about the corruption that they see coming from this administration. In the written testimony of this witness, of this particular witness, she stated that when she took office, she had two main goals.

The first was to end the weaponisation of justice and second to return the department to its core mission. Not only have you lied about both, you’ve intentionally done the exact opposite. You’re spending more taxpayer resources arresting journalists than you are prosecuting paedophiles and creeps.

Crockett went on to say:

But let’s circle back to you protecting paedophiles and creeps because I want to talk about the president and his possible involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. Now, I don’t know what the president might have done with Jeffrey Epstein, but unlike this administration, I believe that facts matter. So, let’s talk about the facts. Fact number one, Donald Trump is one of the most named people in the Epstein files. At least 5,000 files contains more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, or Mara Lago.

Fact number two, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell made young girls available to Trump on multiple occasions. For example, according to this file, Ghislaine Maxwell presented a young girl to President Trump, who spent more than 20 minutes apparently flirting with her.

Here’s another example. This shows notes from FBI investigators that describe Jeffrey Epstein transporting a victim to Mara Lago to meet with President Trump where he bragged to Trump that quote, “This is a good one.” Now, I’m not saying that the president is a paedophile, but there is a lot of evidence in these files that suggests that he’s very close friends with a lot of men who are paedophiles. What’s crazy about all of this is just that this is a big cover up and this administration is engaged in it. In fact, this administration is complicit.  Or how your agency is ready to give the president a $230 million day payday, which is unconstitutional. The Constitution is clear. The president shall not receive any payment except his salary while in office. The fact of the matter is that you will be remembered as one of the worst attorney generals in history. An attorney general who has prioritized obstruction over justice, corruption over the law, fielty to the president over loyalty to the constitution. And Mr. Chairman, I will yield.

For more on the Epstein Files, please read:

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In an era of state repression and mass murder backed by the most powerful nations on earth, it takes something special to speak truth to power. Nine Belfast Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) activists from have done just that. This February they face the full power of the genocide-complicit British state.

The Canary understands three of those charged will go on trial on 13 February. Another will be in court on 16 February and a fifth will face British ‘justice’ on 20 February.

The charges stem from two road blockades carried out on July and October 2025. In a powerful statement, the group made it clear that the real criminals are those who support Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestine.

Active genocide participants

BDS Belfast pulled no punches in their statement:

Stormont and Westminster have been active participants in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

Yet, it is 9 Belfast activists, from across multiple solidarity groups, who participated in peaceful civil disobedience, who the police are attempting to criminalise.

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They added:

The only thing that we are guilty of is standing for the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity.

We will not be deterred

The original protests were focused on the role of the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation‘ and the Global Sumud Flotilla respectively and, more broadly, Stormont and Westminster’s support for Israel.

The Canary understands the charges will range from “obstructive sitting” and “unauthorised procession”. So peaceful protest then….

The nine plan to plead not guilty to all charges.

The British state would suppress every trace of human solidarity with Palestinians if it could. And it will do this at any cost to basic freedoms and rights. These activists are heroic figures. The Canary will keep you updated in the case as it progresses.

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