Quotations

"The victim of mind manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free." Aldous Huxley

“One of the senior interrogators had given instructions that because I was a senior consultant surgeon they should work hard to make sure that I lost [the use of my hands] and became unable to perform surgery”. Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia, director of al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza, who was arrested while travelling with a convoy of patients in ambulances after the Israeli army told him to evacuate the hospital in November 2023.

"What's happening in Panama with the "China-owned" ports (which actually aren't China-owned) is absolutely extraordinary: after the U.S. failed to have BlackRock buy the ports, they're effectively outright stealing them with the help of Panama's Supreme Court.

"I'm not exaggerating: Panama's Supreme Court just ruled that the 29-year old concession of the ports is suddenly "unconstitutional".

"Legally speaking, this means the concession was never valid so there's nothing to compensate for. Effectively the ruling says that CK Hutchison - the Hong Kong company that invested $1.8 billion to build the ports into world-class facilities and paid fees to Panama to operate them during 29 years - did all of this illegally, without anyone in Panama noticing for 28 years, until Trump decided he wanted the port." Arnaud Bertrand

“I was struggling to accept that in the 21st-century UK, I was being arrested, not for something I had done, but for expressing an opinion.” Richard Medway, a half English, half Syrian Christian journalist who was arrested for his reports about Gaza when he arrived at Heathrow.