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Scores gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice in central London on Wednesday morning as a legal challenge made by the US government reached Britain’s top magistrates. The appeal looks to overturn a January ruling which stated that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could not be extradited to the US. Former …

Piers Corbyn has become a regular fixture at anti-lockdown rallies in London over the last year, getting himself arrested on multiple occasions for breaching mask mandates and other Covid-related restrictions. He’s compared mass innoculation to the Holocaust, and picketed vaccination centres. However, he’s apparently not above taking some cold, hard …

A group of British members of parliament have come to the walls of Belmarsh maximum-security prison in south-east London on Tuesday to protest the lack of transparency in Assange’s case. The MPs said their requests to meet with the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower website, who is wanted by Washington …

With London under draconian Tier-4 lockdown restrictions, a group of several hundred protesters assembled in Hyde Park on Saturday. Holding signs reading “freedom over fear,” they protested the government’s ongoing crackdown on civil liberties in the name of curtailing the coronavirus. Police arrested 17 of these protesters for breaching, with …

Multiple gatherings in violation of the UK’s strict anti-coronavirus rules took place across the English capital overnight. While some were merely New Year celebrations, other ‘parties’ carried quite a political charge as well. A massive gathering, dubbed the NYE Party of Parties, was staged by Piers Corbyn along the South …

Corbyn announced his Labour reentry on Tuesday, following last month’s suspension. “Our movement must now come together to oppose and defeat this deeply damaging Conservative government,” he tweeted. Corbyn found himself embroiled in controversy after dismissing a report from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission about alleged anti-Semitism in his …

Police said 14 people were arrested in Bristol alone, and at least 25 more in Liverpool, where a massive crowd gathered outside George’s Hall. Videos shot at the march in Bristol showed police arresting and leading or carrying away protesters, including one man who appeared to be dressed in an …

On October 29, 2020, Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from the British Labour Party – why? The Equality and Human Rights Commission, the UK equality watchdog, concluded its 130-page investigation with the claim that the Labour Party could have tackled antisemitism more effectively “if the leadership had chosen to do so,” …