including an arson attack on four Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green in March, which was in fact claimed by a separate group called.

Hi Deaglan, good to have you back. Sorry, called which, now?

If you can be imprisoned for fourteen years for saying something positive about Iran’s military, then the number of people willing to analyse the US-Iran conflict from anything other than the approved angle will decline, because the personal cost of doing so has been made very high. That is the point. It has always been the point.

They are as quick as lightning when it comes to geopolitical opponents but the ICC, the ICJ, the documented genocide, the sexual abuse of British citizens in international waters — on those matters, it is eyes shut and mouth zipped tight. And that’s because those matters implicate a friend who is generous with money and useful to the Empire’s strategic interests.

This is the free and democratic West they are so proud of. A country where supporting a foreign military defending itself from imperialism carries a fourteen-year sentence, provided it is the wrong foreign military. A country where thousands are arrested for holding signs while war criminals are welcomed with open arms. A country where the government uses counter-terrorism law to police political opinion while the justice system collapses under the weight of its own authoritarian overreach.

That’s really the crux of the matter, isn’t it?