Spent the morning digging up brambles in an out-of-control garden in between seeing to the laundry and scanning soc media pics looking out for friends who were amongst those on a very important day out to London – looks as though at least 200 people are going to be VERY late home.

Then went into town, where the Old Town Festival’s on, so got jostled by witches, drummers, buffaloes and so on. I then got harangued from one side by Christians arguing that it’s necessary to save not lives, but souls, and a bloke who said anti-war protesters are violent, and that he wants to ‘nuke all the Arabs’. Some people are very, very strange and it’s really not the ones wearing all the furs and feathers and things.

But we saw what we came to town to see – Hastings’ most venerable, senior activists’ team standing up for peace and fair play.

The Met seem to have decided they can put a stop to the whole movement by systematically arresting everyone and warning them off attending demos. You know what, that isn’t going to work.

We really, really do need to do a marathon of political education in this country. Clearly, most people know why we have laws against military occupation, colonialism and genocide and those people are not going to be put off by arrests and warnings but — as well as the march for Palestine, the bike ride for Palestine, the Parliament Square anti-proscription protest and hundreds and hundreds of local demos, a lot of activists spent today defending asylum hostels from far-right protestors who think immigrants are to blame for everything this government has done to us. There are also a lot of people who now think Israel is full of the most evil people ever – and that’s not true, either. The destruction wreaked by Israel is exceptionally cruel and extensive because we haven’t yet managed to push our governments into stopping them.

But we will.

As soon as I get a day that isn’t full of brambles, laundry, anxieties over who has and hasn’t been arrested — oh and work — I’ll do a blog about colonialism down the years, especially settler-colonialism because it always throws up genocidal and pathologically cruel behaviour — and I’ll do a blog about virtue-signalling, and why people who do it will never, ever understand that there is no strategy in the whole history of the world that can ever stop most people protesting when they see cruel and murderous behaviour.

But not tomorrow, because I’m going on a sponsored walk for Palestine.

Dear Keir Starmer, I don’t think the people of this country are going to give up until you and your government face the full force of international law.

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