“The suffragettes… tried to blow up Lloyd George’s house. Someone tried to throw an axe at Herbert Asquith.” In her ruling that the government’s proscription of Palestine Action was lawful, the lady chief justice remarked that it was a different organisation to the suffragettes, which she claimed was a “civil disobedience protest group… operating transparently in the open”. On Novara Live, Ash Sarkar blasts her comments as “ahistorical nonsense”. She compares the case of Nelson Mandela to that of Marwan Barghouti, pointing out the state sanitises the legacies of protest leaders when convenient – and demonises them when it isn’t.

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