Time really for all Jewish people to face Israel’s accountability for genocide in Gaza.

in my original post about the Sally Rooney affair I have been accused of oversimplifying what has happened. And that's fair - I did. But after going into this in more depth I realise that we end up in much the same place - books not on sale to the UK public because of the entirely unrelated activities of their author. After all who is to know whether the proceeds from books that would have been sold would actually be the money to be be donated to Palestine Action as opposed to money that Rooney has already made or is making elsewhere? Rooney btw, with scant regard for her readers, seems not to be unhappy for this to happen. I don't imagine that the government anticipated this outcome when it produced the ban and I'm not at all sure that Faber shouldn't have taken the risk of a prosecution that probably would never have happened. The result is the same - books not available for political reasons.

At PMQs @KemiBadenoch asked the PM if he was tired of putting his foot in his mouth. 20 mins later and it’s not just another gaffe but a comment that appears to prejudge a murder investigation. I have written to the Attorney General in the hope that she can remind the PM of his legal obligations.

Strong and much needed message from the UK foreign secretary on this third anniversary of those horrendous Hamas attacks.

This is a major victory for everyone who fought to defend trial by jury, and Conservatives led that fight from day one. Jury trials are an ancient English right going back to Magna Carta, so we fought hard – and I want to pay tribute to the brave Labour rebel, Karl Turner, who was treated appallingly by his party for sticking to his principles. Now Labour have been forced to abandon their central attack on jury trials in the Crown Court. But Labour are still restricting juries by the back door, scrapping the right to elect one and dumping those cases on magistrates whose backlog is at a record high. Nearly 81,000 cases are stuck in the Crown Court, yet there is no commitment to get courts sitting more often. But Labour did find time to write into law a review of how their reforms treat people of different identities. It’s always the same with them. 64 Crown courtrooms stand empty every day. We need to get those courtrooms sitting –so we can still defend the right to a trial by jury.

Congratulations to the Rt Hon Ellie Reeves KC MP, sworn in today as Attorney General, and to Andy Slaughter MP as Solicitor General. They have committed to tackling violence against women and girls and strengthening confidence in our criminal justice system.

Deeply concerned about the incident that occurred on the Flydubai flight to Israel and very relieved that the plane landed safely thanks to the actions of those on board. All of my thoughts are with those injured in the attack and all those on the plane, as well as their families.

When people speak of the political takeover of a country by Islamism, they imagine bearded sheikhs in robes. In reality, political Islam often looks exactly like this: Oxford English, fashionable clothes and progressive rhetoric. That is true of the Islamist @NYCMayor Mamdani and it is equally true of the Islamist @ShabanaMahmood. I sincerely hope, for the sake of the British people, that the lunatic BDS activists who have taken over their country do not drag Britain into an abyss from which there is no way back.

🚨🇮🇷 NEW: Ed Miliband meets Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly

Cox v DPP [2026] EWHC 2437 (Admin) Case stated appeal by man who was walking naked around Macclesfield. Appeal on basis that conduct was not disorderly, on reasonableness defence and on articles 8 and 10 of the ECHR. Appeal dismissed. judiciary.uk/wp-content/uplo…