Sam Walton
@samwalton.bsky.social
Quaker. Womble. Have Lyme disease so taking a bit of a break. He/him/his.
Latest article on arms industry complicity in Andrew’s abuse of women and girls:
"That photo, the one with his arm around Virginia Giuffre, was broadly part of his government job – where he influenced elites through sex and good times to buy British weapons."
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
"That photo, the one with his arm around Virginia Giuffre, was broadly part of his government job – where he influenced elites through sex and good times to buy British weapons."
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
The arms industry is complicit in Andrew and his ilk's abuse of women and girls
Andrew influenced the super rich through child rape and abuse to buy British weapons - and the arms industry actively facilitated him
www.thecanary.co
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Latest article on arms industry complicity in Andrew’s abuse of women and girls:
"That photo, the one with his arm around Virginia Giuffre, was broadly part of his government job – where he influenced elites through sex and good times to buy British weapons."
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
"That photo, the one with his arm around Virginia Giuffre, was broadly part of his government job – where he influenced elites through sex and good times to buy British weapons."
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
The only coverage on the Andrew Windsor story worth reading.
Every other media outlet bends over backwards to avoid mentioning that it was literally Andrew's job to 'entertain' despots to sell British weapons.
Every other media outlet bends over backwards to avoid mentioning that it was literally Andrew's job to 'entertain' despots to sell British weapons.
Did you know❓
The Foreign Office allowed ‘Prince’ Andrew to help deepen UK relations with its Gulf regime allies for 8 years after the Epstein scandal.
www.declassifieduk.org/prince-andre...
The Foreign Office allowed ‘Prince’ Andrew to help deepen UK relations with its Gulf regime allies for 8 years after the Epstein scandal.
www.declassifieduk.org/prince-andre...
Prince Andrew helped deepen UK relations with Gulf regimes for eight years after Epstein scandal
The queen’s second son has held 70 meetings with repressive Middle East monarchies in the decade since the Arab Spring uprisings. Most meetings took place after Prince Andrew’s role as official trade ...
www.declassifieduk.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The only coverage on the Andrew Windsor story worth reading.
Every other media outlet bends over backwards to avoid mentioning that it was literally Andrew's job to 'entertain' despots to sell British weapons.
Every other media outlet bends over backwards to avoid mentioning that it was literally Andrew's job to 'entertain' despots to sell British weapons.
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Front page of this morning's 'The National'.
"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
October 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Front page of this morning's 'The National'.
"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
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A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰
New report says police used excessive restrictions to protect interests of arms firms during Palestine protests
New report says police used excessive restrictions to protect interests of arms firms during Palestine protests
October 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰
New report says police used excessive restrictions to protect interests of arms firms during Palestine protests
New report says police used excessive restrictions to protect interests of arms firms during Palestine protests
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Netpol has updated and expanded our guidance on the government’s decision to ban Palestine Action, in response to the many questions we received. This includes fundraising for prisoners, criticising the ban and differences in the way offences are dealt with in Scotland netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...
July 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Netpol has updated and expanded our guidance on the government’s decision to ban Palestine Action, in response to the many questions we received. This includes fundraising for prisoners, criticising the ban and differences in the way offences are dealt with in Scotland netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...
Amazing pro-Palestine protests at the Vuelta today.
It sucks that my favourite sport is getting disrupted... but not as much as the genocide Israel is perpetrating.
Brilliant to see cycling paying the price for it's sport-washing. Bahrain, UAE & INEOS etc I hope you are next!
#Vuelta25
It sucks that my favourite sport is getting disrupted... but not as much as the genocide Israel is perpetrating.
Brilliant to see cycling paying the price for it's sport-washing. Bahrain, UAE & INEOS etc I hope you are next!
#Vuelta25
September 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Amazing pro-Palestine protests at the Vuelta today.
It sucks that my favourite sport is getting disrupted... but not as much as the genocide Israel is perpetrating.
Brilliant to see cycling paying the price for it's sport-washing. Bahrain, UAE & INEOS etc I hope you are next!
#Vuelta25
It sucks that my favourite sport is getting disrupted... but not as much as the genocide Israel is perpetrating.
Brilliant to see cycling paying the price for it's sport-washing. Bahrain, UAE & INEOS etc I hope you are next!
#Vuelta25
LETS GO!
The state’s crackdown on arms trade protests shows moral pressure is no longer enough—it’s time to target the war machine at its source, argues Netpol's Kevin Blowe freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/13/b...
Beyond civil disobedience: Why the Palestine Action ban demands an even bolder response - Freedom News
The state’s crackdown on arms trade protests shows moral pressure is no longer enough—it’s time to target the war machine at its source ~ Kevin Blowe ~ As perhaps it was intended to, the 5 July ban on...
freedomnews.org.uk
August 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
LETS GO!
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REVEALED: DSEI, the UK's largest arms fair, have quietly removed Israel from the list of 'International Pavilions' on its website.
Israel was listed as exhibiting in April but was removed in July.
Israel was listed as exhibiting in April but was removed in July.
August 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
REVEALED: DSEI, the UK's largest arms fair, have quietly removed Israel from the list of 'International Pavilions' on its website.
Israel was listed as exhibiting in April but was removed in July.
Israel was listed as exhibiting in April but was removed in July.
Not the biggest fan of the police?
Good at running shit?
Well now, we have something for you.
Good at running shit?
Well now, we have something for you.
Netpol is seeking experienced campaigners to work alongside our staff team as members of our volunteer Operations Group, making crucial decisions about resources, planning strategies, and helping us build relationships with social movements. Is this you? netpol.org/2025/07/16/d...
July 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Not the biggest fan of the police?
Good at running shit?
Well now, we have something for you.
Good at running shit?
Well now, we have something for you.
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This morning had been extremely serious for the future of protest rights, but it's still really hard not to laugh at the respected lawyer who presented South Africa's case to the International Court of Justice talking about a new protest group called 'Yvette Cooper'
July 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This morning had been extremely serious for the future of protest rights, but it's still really hard not to laugh at the respected lawyer who presented South Africa's case to the International Court of Justice talking about a new protest group called 'Yvette Cooper'
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"Westminster continues to exist inside a bubble: one where fringe groups like ‘We Believe in Israel’ and loud partisan cranks like Lord Walney are heard... but where the anger and resentment across Britain about the massacre of children in Gaza, every night on our television screens, is ignored"
Will the ban on Palestine Action terrify enough people into silence? A piece by Netpol's Campaigns Coordinator for @freedompress.bsky.social freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/08/w...
Will the ban on Palestine Action terrify enough people into silence? - Freedom News
The proscription is part of a wider push to stifle dissent in an increasingly authoritarian Britain ~ Kevin Blowe ~ The repression of political dissent in Britain has been escalating for years: first ...
freedomnews.org.uk
July 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"Westminster continues to exist inside a bubble: one where fringe groups like ‘We Believe in Israel’ and loud partisan cranks like Lord Walney are heard... but where the anger and resentment across Britain about the massacre of children in Gaza, every night on our television screens, is ignored"
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🚨BREAKING His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama confirms continued reincarnations and reaffirms that Tibetans will have the sole authority to recognise all future Dalai Lamas.
July 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🚨BREAKING His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama confirms continued reincarnations and reaffirms that Tibetans will have the sole authority to recognise all future Dalai Lamas.
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We have deep concerns about government plans to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
Nonviolent protest, and even acts of vandalism, should not be labelled as terrorism. Civil disobedience has been a powerful force for positive social change.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Nonviolent protest, and even acts of vandalism, should not be labelled as terrorism. Civil disobedience has been a powerful force for positive social change.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers speak out against proposed terrorist proscription of Palestine Action
Quakers in Britain have voiced deep concerns about the government’s plan to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.
www.quaker.org.uk
June 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We have deep concerns about government plans to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
Nonviolent protest, and even acts of vandalism, should not be labelled as terrorism. Civil disobedience has been a powerful force for positive social change.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Nonviolent protest, and even acts of vandalism, should not be labelled as terrorism. Civil disobedience has been a powerful force for positive social change.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Want to know what it's like to be called a terrorist by the UK Government and then vindicated by history?
I asked former ANC MP @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social.
Don't think it will take as long to be prooved right this time @palaction.bsky.social.
I asked former ANC MP @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social.
Don't think it will take as long to be prooved right this time @palaction.bsky.social.
June 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Want to know what it's like to be called a terrorist by the UK Government and then vindicated by history?
I asked former ANC MP @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social.
Don't think it will take as long to be prooved right this time @palaction.bsky.social.
I asked former ANC MP @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social.
Don't think it will take as long to be prooved right this time @palaction.bsky.social.
In 2017, we broke into a BAE Systems airfield to stop jets from going to bomb Yemen.
Our lenient treatment exposes the @palaction.bsky.social ban for what it is: racist and politically motivated.
Reverend Woody & I for @novaramedia.com.
novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/w...
Our lenient treatment exposes the @palaction.bsky.social ban for what it is: racist and politically motivated.
Reverend Woody & I for @novaramedia.com.
novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/w...
We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys | Novara Media
In 2017, we broke into a BAE Systems airfield to stop jets from going to bomb Yemen, write Sam Walton and Daniel Woodhouse. Our lenient treatment exposes the Palestine Action ban for what it is: racis...
novaramedia.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
In 2017, we broke into a BAE Systems airfield to stop jets from going to bomb Yemen.
Our lenient treatment exposes the @palaction.bsky.social ban for what it is: racist and politically motivated.
Reverend Woody & I for @novaramedia.com.
novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/w...
Our lenient treatment exposes the @palaction.bsky.social ban for what it is: racist and politically motivated.
Reverend Woody & I for @novaramedia.com.
novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/w...
As of Monday showing this film could be illegal, if @palaction.bsky.social is proscribed.
It'd be TERRIBLE if someone in say, Ireland, starting hosting this film. Then people could watch it using a VPN.
Let's make sure this doesn't happen!
It'd be TERRIBLE if someone in say, Ireland, starting hosting this film. Then people could watch it using a VPN.
Let's make sure this doesn't happen!
June 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
As of Monday showing this film could be illegal, if @palaction.bsky.social is proscribed.
It'd be TERRIBLE if someone in say, Ireland, starting hosting this film. Then people could watch it using a VPN.
Let's make sure this doesn't happen!
It'd be TERRIBLE if someone in say, Ireland, starting hosting this film. Then people could watch it using a VPN.
Let's make sure this doesn't happen!
Love @palaction.bsky.social but us at @quaker.org.uk have been taking anti-militarist nonviolent direct action since the 1650s and have never once been proscribed as terrorists.
If they are terrorists surely we have got to be?
If they are terrorists surely we have got to be?
June 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Love @palaction.bsky.social but us at @quaker.org.uk have been taking anti-militarist nonviolent direct action since the 1650s and have never once been proscribed as terrorists.
If they are terrorists surely we have got to be?
If they are terrorists surely we have got to be?
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So far, members of the Netpol Lawyers Group have confirmed four appeals against conviction already, as a consequence of the government's defeat.
Word is the government is dropping its appeal against the court victory by @libertyhq.bsky.social over regulations unlawfully defining serious disruption as anything "more than minor". The state must now be forced to review hundreds of arrests and convictions of protesters made using this definition
June 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
So far, members of the Netpol Lawyers Group have confirmed four appeals against conviction already, as a consequence of the government's defeat.
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Word is the government is dropping its appeal against the court victory by @libertyhq.bsky.social over regulations unlawfully defining serious disruption as anything "more than minor". The state must now be forced to review hundreds of arrests and convictions of protesters made using this definition
June 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Word is the government is dropping its appeal against the court victory by @libertyhq.bsky.social over regulations unlawfully defining serious disruption as anything "more than minor". The state must now be forced to review hundreds of arrests and convictions of protesters made using this definition
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The chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, John Mitting, is retiring before the inquiry completes its work, departing after an interim report. Its terms of reference were published a decade ago. The police have delayed, obfuscated and successfully kicked the scandal into the long grass
June 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, John Mitting, is retiring before the inquiry completes its work, departing after an interim report. Its terms of reference were published a decade ago. The police have delayed, obfuscated and successfully kicked the scandal into the long grass
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More political repression of Palestine solidarity
Today's L&SERWFL Trophy final vs Dulwich Hamlet Res has been abandoned.
The presence of Palestine flags among both sets of supporters was deemed unacceptable by the venue and the game was duly called off.
Clapton CFC were 2-0 up at the time through goals from Emily Link and Egle Trezzi.
The presence of Palestine flags among both sets of supporters was deemed unacceptable by the venue and the game was duly called off.
Clapton CFC were 2-0 up at the time through goals from Emily Link and Egle Trezzi.
May 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
More political repression of Palestine solidarity
In the 80s @quaker.org.uk installed a condomn machine in the toilets, specifically to help prevent the spread of AIDS.
The same biogotted tactics that are being used to attack Quakers now for allowing trans-women into their toilets were used then.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/27/q...
The same biogotted tactics that are being used to attack Quakers now for allowing trans-women into their toilets were used then.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/27/q...
Quakers refuse to exclude trans people: 'This is what Love requires of us'
Quakers in Britain are steadfastly refusing to exclude trans people from their facilities, committing instead to a policy of inclusion.
www.thepinknews.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
In the 80s @quaker.org.uk installed a condomn machine in the toilets, specifically to help prevent the spread of AIDS.
The same biogotted tactics that are being used to attack Quakers now for allowing trans-women into their toilets were used then.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/27/q...
The same biogotted tactics that are being used to attack Quakers now for allowing trans-women into their toilets were used then.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/27/q...
Delighted that @quaker.org.uk are "destroying" their reputation by refusing to obey unjust guidance that attacks trans people.
The FA could learn a lot.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
The FA could learn a lot.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Quakers accused of ‘destroying’ reputation with trans-inclusive lavatories
Christian group ‘appeared to have abandoned legacy of progressive attitude towards women’, campaigners say
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Delighted that @quaker.org.uk are "destroying" their reputation by refusing to obey unjust guidance that attacks trans people.
The FA could learn a lot.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
The FA could learn a lot.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
I want to see Serj Tankian cover Red Wine Supernova by Chapell Roan.
I would really suit his vocal style.
That is all.
I would really suit his vocal style.
That is all.
May 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I want to see Serj Tankian cover Red Wine Supernova by Chapell Roan.
I would really suit his vocal style.
That is all.
I would really suit his vocal style.
That is all.
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🧵 Unable to share this as it's paywalled but it's a good question: Britain is facing growing repression of protests rights, but WHY is this happening?
April 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
🧵 Unable to share this as it's paywalled but it's a good question: Britain is facing growing repression of protests rights, but WHY is this happening?