Craig Murray

UPDATE We got an expedited date to “reclaim” (appeal) against the suspension of the case, on 25 September.

Europe urgently needs to re-establish access to Russian oil and gas.

Dr David Halpin, a redoubtable campaigner over the murder of Dr David Kelly, and a friend of this blog for over twenty years, has died.

We still don’t have a decision on whether the Scottish judicial review of Palestine Action can proceed.

After eight months of obstructionism from the Labour Friends of Israel government of the UK, tomorrow is the day on which the Scottish Court of Session will finally decide whether to go ahead with the judicial review it granted in January, or kowtow to Do…

Between ten and five years ago, specifically in the light of Brexit, it was not in the least unusual for Scottish Independence supporters to discuss a declaration of Independence as the way forward.

Unlike the USA, where it is obsessively watched, the UK has no political culture of scrutinising the political composition of its Supreme Court.

The Scottish Government urgently needs a bold and radical approach to achieving Independence in spite of the firm London veto on a referendum.

Social media is not conducive to nuance.

An advert for the RNLI caught my attention because it indicated that the majority of their income comes from bequests in wills.

Unsurprisingly, today at the Court of Session Lord Young refused to lift his suspension or “sist” of the Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action.

Nigel Farage is the most consequential British politician of the 21st century.

I publish below in full the Note we have submitted to Court today to re-establish the separate Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action.

The provisional surrender document signed by Donald Trump appeared to represent a triumph for Iran and indeed for the world; but neither the USA nor Israel has the slightest sense of honour and they cannot be trusted to negotiate in good faith.

I was genuinely surprised by the Starmer regime’s refusal to state that the Israeli boarding of the Global Sumud flotilla on the High Seas was illegal.

Judge Johnson had proved his fascist credentials through rulings much earlier in the Filton trial than his vicious sentencing.

Just a quick note to say that I am very aware that lately I have been rather bitter, which is not good for anybody, especially me.

I went through yesterday’s preliminary hearing in the Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action with a sense of mounting horror.

The proscription of Palestine Action was sold to MPs and the media on the basis of a deliberate campaign of lies, fronted by Yvette Cooper, then Home Secretary, and Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Metropolitan police.

The furore around the election of Dr Manivannan to the Scottish Parliament is deeply troubling.