Starmer pushed a terror story he thought would hold, but now the Filton trial is putting real pressure on the line he built. Right, so you know something’s gone very wrong in British politics when a single trial in Woolwich ends up carrying more political weight than half the speeches coming out of Westminster, yet here we are, watching a government that’s spent the year rebranding protest as extremism suddenly pretending it has nothing to do with the noise now swirling around the Filton case. Six people are on trial, the evidence belongs to the jury, and that’s where the line should sit, but the state keeps dragging the whole thing into its national-security fairytale because it needs the public thinking this is bigger than a break-in. And when ministers talk louder than the facts, you can see the real story forming: not what’s happening in cour ...