I went to Pizza Express the other night. To enjoy some music which I use an excuse to eat pizza. You need an excuse. Otherwise you are just ‘part of the problem!!’, getting four a week delivered by a blind-man-on-a-bike. Well that’s how they drive. Anyway… the venue was the one in Holborn. And on the way from the station to the gig, we passed a cafe ablaze with Palestinian flags and banners and apartheid shit and stop arming Israel and everything else you’d expect. I didn’t get a photo. The one above is from an archive, presumably ‘pre-war’. Nowadays it looks much more militant. But the food concept is interesting. A Palestinian restaurant.

Everyone was sitting around their tables drinking water and looking at the road. An hour later a big truck arrived filled with meals. The diners all made a mad dash for the truck but were pushed, shoved and beaten aside by guys in Hamas green who ran off with all the food. But it was very good value.

And so to ‘Palestine Action’, the ‘group’ (not like the Beatles, more ‘the group’, like the Bader-Meinhof). They’re being ‘proscribed’ by the government, which, let me tell you, is serious shit. Especially with this government who love nothing more than terrorists running round the streets of London smashing things up, daubing everyone in red paint and causing riots, in the name of ‘free speech’. Which, if you’ve ever read anything on these pages, is a concept I heartily believe in and desperately need to keep me out of prison. The irony of using free speech to fight for organisations and nations which ban free speech is for another day.

So why are they banning Palestine Action in a way only used for the likes of the IRA, Hamas, ISIS and really toxic groups of violent nasties? When bunging up the M25 for 28 hours by gluing yourself to exit 37 is deemed as ok, as is painting the entire frontage of Barclays Bank on Cheapside not any kind of problem?

Because of their target. Palestine Action, in all their stupid, leftist-inspired, brainless adherence to a flawed narrative, left their nice middle-class homes in Hampshire and West Sussex to break into an RAF airfield and spray the inevitable, if rather unimaginative, red paint onto a military aircraft.

Its not the damage itself, that, for some unaccountable reason, is deemed ‘acceptable’, even though it will cost over a million quid to put right. Its the fact that if you attack our military, in any way, shape or form, you immediately become ‘the enemy’. Even if you should always have been recognised as such.

The question of how a couple of dickheads on e-scooters breezed into a supposedly sensitive and secure base, armed with spray paint is another question.

So, to clarify, peaceful protesting is ok, and within the rights of free speech. But being a keffiah-wearing nob is now an arrestable offence.

Glad that’s sorted,

Happy Friday

A xxxxx