Right, so Britain has just jailed Palestine Action activists after Judge Jeremy Johnson slapped on terror sentencing to essentially double the jail time, all seen as the British state doing Israel favours since the target of these young people was a weapons factory because said weapons are genociding people across Gaza, invading Southern Lebanon and Syria and more besides. God forbid somebody stop that, God forbid an example doesn’t get made by tacking on a sentence that was never proven or charged in court. This was not just a punishment. This was a label. A warning. A great big legal cattle prod aimed at everyone else watching.

But the trouble with getting away with something like that, assuming they do that is, I don’t imagine this is the end of the Filton story yet, is that it inspires others and Germany has taken a look at what the St ...