They’ve Killed Journalism
Start with this video. Just watch it:
In under two minutes, it captures the rot in British media and politics better than most documentaries ever could.
The woman speaking in the video? That’s Marina Purkiss. 482k subscribers on Twitter, a podcaster and regular political commentator on TV. Very successful. She’s basically saying: to hell with children being shot in the head. And remember, this isn’t on some fringe livestream or YouTube podcast. This is daytime television — the Jeremy Vine Show.
She’s arguing, in plain English, that it’s okay Israel shoots babies in the head. Because they’re our ally. And apparently, that means we don’t get to criticise them. Doesn’t matter how many international laws they violate. Doesn’t matter how many human rights they trample. Doesn’t matter how many dogs rape their prisoners. Doesn’t matter how many seven-months-pregnant mothers they shoot in a ‘one shot, two kill’. Doesn’t matter if it’s apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide — it’s all fine. Because they’re ‘our ally.’
This is a state that expands its borders by force every single day. A state in violation of, I believe, more UN resolutions than every other country on Earth combined. Yet we stand by while it shoots babies in the head, while their mothers hold them. While it mows down 500 starving people going for flour. Because that’s what this is — genocide.
But we mustn’t criticise. Because they’re our ally.
Marina has a very big platform to say these things that defend sniping babies in the head.
Tell me this: where has Israel ever come to our aid? Did they help us in Iraq? In Afghanistan? The Falklands? Can you think of a single time Israel sent troops to help the UK in any war?
Here’s something that might even interest the so-called right-wingers — not that I love the label. Our entire military, it seems, is over there in the Middle East, protecting Israel’s borders and stoking the very conflicts that lead to the worst mass migration crisis since World War II.
Meanwhile, our own borders? Wide open. Anyone — Tom, Dick, or Harry — can show up on a dinghy, unannounced. Maybe, just maybe, someone should question the relationship between those two facts.
I wonder if Nigel Farage has ever connected those dots. I think not.
Yet we let them violate every law, every human right, and we say nothing. Worse — we silence anyone who does.
This is the United Kingdom shitting all over international law. And the only journalists who get to speak — who get reach, who get platformed — are the ones who don’t point it out. The ones who toe the line.
The ones who justify sniping babies in the head.
People like me? Moi? We get silenced. We get our reach throttled. Because heaven forbid these thoughts — these inconvenient truths — ever reach the political sphere.
This is the UK wiping its arse with the Geneva Conventions. With human rights. With international law — globally. We are torturing journalists, hijacking aid ships, backing genocides, and pretending we’re still the good guys.
And the media? They’re not just ignoring it. They’re enabling it.
Every time they look away from what Israel is doing. Every time they ignore the hijacking of the Madleen. Every time they pretend Julian Assange wasn’t psychologically and physically destroyed in a Belmarsh cage. Every time they let the government kick disabled people to the gutter with benefit cuts that border on eugenics. Every time they do nothing. That’s not neutrality. That’s complicity.
They are supposed to be the fourth estate. To hold power to account. Instead, they’ve become its PR department.
I saw this firsthand.
A few years back I was on a train, headphones in, but I wasn’t listening to music. Two journalists were sat nearby, talking shop. Both worked for the i Paper. They were discussing Ukraine or something. After a while, I introduced myself — told them I covered politics on YouTube. They asked what I thought of about the topic they were discussing.
I said this:
“I’ll tell you all you need to know about that. There’s a genocide going on in Yemen right now. The UK is backing it. Arming it. Training the pilots. With the help of the US, we’re even refueling their planes in mid-air. Every week a transport plane sends parts to Saudi Arabia from the UK to service the planes bombing water towers during the largest outbreak of cholera in human history. We’re doing everything but pulling the trigger.”
One of them looked stunned. She told me she’d been trying to get an article published about that exact thing.
She never got it published.
What she did get published some time later? A piece based on a press release from Ukraine’s so-called Ministry of Truth — claiming Russian soldiers raped dozens of women in a basement of a basement. 9 of them were pregnant. Human Rights Watch interviewed one of the victims by phone. No verification. No investigation. Just stenography.
It was published in just about every Western outlet you could find:
➡️ Ukraine war: Girls and women raped in Bucha basement, say officials
No evidence. No names. No medical verification. Just war propaganda dressed up as journalism — and it ran around the world before the truth even laced its boots. Each article had slightly different wording, but they all ran with the story uncrtically.
And let’s not forget — the Ukrainian official at the centre of these claims, Lyudmyla Denisova, wasn’t part of the Ministry of Defence, but was in fact Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner. She was eventually dismissed — for focusing too heavily on sensational, unverified sexual violence claims that experts said lacked evidence and harmed the credibility of actual human rights work.
Even Deutsche Welle reported that international observers were alarmed by how these unsubstantiated claims were being weaponised — prioritised for media attention while verified violations were underreported or ignored.
➡️ Why Ukraine’s human rights chief Lyudmyla Denisova was dismissed — DW
This is how propaganda eclipses justice: the fake gets the headlines, while the verified gets buried.
This is how the system works.
And the cost of telling the truth in this country? Ask the people who dared.
- Richard Medhurst — threatened with terrorism charges for reporting on Gaza.
- Craig Murray — imprisoned for ‘jigsaw identification’ in the Alex Salmond trial.
- Asa Winstanley — house raided and ransacked, charges later dropped, for his reporting on Palestine.
- Fiona Ryan — Raided multiple times by police, arrested on one occasion for saying “Make Christmas Palestinian Again.”
All of these are UK examples. All of them faced intimidation, arrest, or exile.
One of my friends is currently abroad. They know as soon as they return to the UK, they’ll be arrested. Not for violence. Not for hate speech. For telling the truth.
It’s not that journalists don’t know the angle. They do. But they also know what won’t get published. So they fall in line. Not because they’re being directly censored, but because they know what’s expected. They know what pays the rent.
Like Chomsky said to Andrew Marr:
“I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you say. But what I’m saying is if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”
There were train cancellations that day I met the i Paper ladies, and they were in the cheap seats with me. The train was packed. I remember them saying the word “scoop” about a dozen times, and how they were jealous of some colleagues who were more connected than they are, and more prolific with “leaks” from insiders. Scoops. That was the obsession. Not truth. Not justice. Just scoops.
If you come at stories through the lens of international law, you’re out. If you try to hold our side accountable, you get kicked to the edge. John Pilger. Robert Fisk. Glenn Greenwald. Chris Hedges.
The rule of law is supposed to be universal. But here? It’s a tool of power, applied selectively.
Let’s talk facts.
Israel has violated more UN Security Council Resolutions than any other country on Earth. As of 2023, over 45 binding resolutions have been passed against Israel — and either ignored, vetoed, or violated.
Meanwhile, the UK government has consistently blocked or watered down resolutions calling for ceasefires, arms embargoes, or investigations. In 2023, the UK abstained or voted against UN measures seeking accountability for war crimes in Gaza.
On nuclear weapons: Israel is not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. It has never declared its nuclear arsenal, yet is widely believed to possess between 80 and 400 nuclear warheads.
And the BBC? According to a new analysis by Declassified UK, the BBC published over 100 articles on Iran’s nuclear programme in just three weeks — while only 6 of them even mentioned Israel’s nuclear weapons. Five of those mentions were a single line, buried in the final paragraph, and always caveated with “Israel denies this.” Only one article explored the subject with any substance. In the 9th and final paragraph.
➡️ Declassified UK: The BBC Isn’t Telling the Truth About Israel’s Nuclear Arms
This is the scale of media complicity. It’s not passive ignorance — it’s active narrative management.
And when the rule of law breaks down like this, anarchy follows.
Not the kind with mohawks and petrol bombs. The kind where war criminals wear suits and the press hold their coats.
And here’s the thing — when the government no longer abides by the law, when they openly ignore international treaties, human rights conventions, and their own legal standards — why should anyone else?
This is how society breaks down. Not overnight. Not with riots in the streets. But with a quiet, corrosive loss of legitimacy. When people see their leaders commit crimes with impunity, something fundamental breaks.
This is what this government is flirting with. And the terrifying thing is — I don’t think they even know. Let alone have any plan for what happens when that dam finally bursts.
Take a few minutes to watch this video to see exactly what is in store for us if we allow our governments to continue.
When a people realize the law isn’t there to protect them, they turn to violence.
We are not in a democracy anymore. We are in managed decline. And journalism, the one thing that was supposed to hold the line, is too busy chasing click-throughs and Whitehall invites.
And the so-called “journalists”?
They know.
They just know it won’t get published.
A final word
And look — I’m really trying here. This is me, doing everything I can to keep the truth alive. To document the hypocrisy. To fight for people who can’t speak freely anymore.
I’m not asking for money. I’m not asking for fame. I’m asking you to share this. Just share it. With one friend. On one feed. Wherever you can.
Because silence is what they want. And your voice might be the thing that breaks it.
Julian Assange once wrote to me from Belmarsh:
“Truth, ultimately, is all we have.”
And as he said before:
“Censorship is always an opportunity — because it reveals a fear of reform.”
Remember that, next time they try to silence you too.