Rivkah Brown
@rivkahbrown.bsky.social
commissioning editor & reporter @novaramedia.com
Labour rescinded my conference pass over an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct".
10 minutes later, @owenjones.bsky.social received a similar email.
This is a terrifying, authoritarian crackdown on press freedom.
10 minutes later, @owenjones.bsky.social received a similar email.
This is a terrifying, authoritarian crackdown on press freedom.
September 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Labour rescinded my conference pass over an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct".
10 minutes later, @owenjones.bsky.social received a similar email.
This is a terrifying, authoritarian crackdown on press freedom.
10 minutes later, @owenjones.bsky.social received a similar email.
This is a terrifying, authoritarian crackdown on press freedom.
Starmer wanted Labour conference to be about taking chunks out of Farage and his "racist" and "immoral" policies. That isn't happening.
Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza.
My report:
Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza.
My report:
Labour Is Struggling to Keep Palestine Off Its Conference Agenda | Novara Media
Palestine Action supporters, anti-genocide marchers and pro-Palestine celebrities have disrupted the start of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, which the party had hoped would be about anything...
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September 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Starmer wanted Labour conference to be about taking chunks out of Farage and his "racist" and "immoral" policies. That isn't happening.
Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza.
My report:
Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza.
My report:
NEW: DESNZ cancelled a bake sale by staff for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, saying the charity was too politically sensitive.
Union members wrote to secretary of state Ed Miliband citing "anti-Palestinian racism" and received no response. novaramedia.com/2025/09/18/g...
Union members wrote to secretary of state Ed Miliband citing "anti-Palestinian racism" and received no response. novaramedia.com/2025/09/18/g...
Government Department Cancelled a Charity Bake Sale for Palestine | Novara Media
Ed Miliband’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero cancelled a planned fundraiser after officials accused the charity, Medical Aid for Palestinians, of political lobbying. Rivkah Brown reports.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
NEW: DESNZ cancelled a bake sale by staff for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, saying the charity was too politically sensitive.
Union members wrote to secretary of state Ed Miliband citing "anti-Palestinian racism" and received no response. novaramedia.com/2025/09/18/g...
Union members wrote to secretary of state Ed Miliband citing "anti-Palestinian racism" and received no response. novaramedia.com/2025/09/18/g...
The belly flop is the signature move of this government. “Phase two of my government starts today,” Keir Starmer intoned on 1 September, signalling little more, it turned out, than his own hubris.
A portrait of a PM in his final throes, by @joecguinan.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2025/09/15/a...
A portrait of a PM in his final throes, by @joecguinan.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2025/09/15/a...
Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face | Novara Media
Liberals and lobby journalists jubilated last year when the grownups were finally put back in charge. Now, Starmer’s future and indeed Labour’s seem as certain as an iceberg lettuce, writes Joe Guinan...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The belly flop is the signature move of this government. “Phase two of my government starts today,” Keir Starmer intoned on 1 September, signalling little more, it turned out, than his own hubris.
A portrait of a PM in his final throes, by @joecguinan.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2025/09/15/a...
A portrait of a PM in his final throes, by @joecguinan.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2025/09/15/a...
Marie launched Changing Politics in 2018. If she thought McSweeney had no idea what he was doing, why did she write this 5 days after Starmer made him chief of staff?
September 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Marie launched Changing Politics in 2018. If she thought McSweeney had no idea what he was doing, why did she write this 5 days after Starmer made him chief of staff?
Glad mainstream journalists have finally asked Peter Mandelson some tough questions about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, which has been public knowledge since at least 2019.
Here's me asking Epstein's beloved "Petie" about his late friend at 2023 Labour conference
Here's me asking Epstein's beloved "Petie" about his late friend at 2023 Labour conference
September 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Glad mainstream journalists have finally asked Peter Mandelson some tough questions about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, which has been public knowledge since at least 2019.
Here's me asking Epstein's beloved "Petie" about his late friend at 2023 Labour conference
Here's me asking Epstein's beloved "Petie" about his late friend at 2023 Labour conference
Big scoop from @novaramedia.com's Harriet Williamson: BBC Global News execs wrote to BBC News (the UK service) telling them to correct their claim that Anas al-Sharif worked with Hamas, as the BBC had no evidence for it.
BBC News *ignored their own colleagues* and the article remains uncorrected.
BBC News *ignored their own colleagues* and the article remains uncorrected.
BBC Ignored Internal Request to Correct Claim Anas Al-Sharif Worked With Hamas | Novara Media
Exclusive: A leaked email shows that the BBC ignored an internal request to correct reporting that smeared Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, killed by Israel in August, as a Hamas operative. Ha...
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September 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Big scoop from @novaramedia.com's Harriet Williamson: BBC Global News execs wrote to BBC News (the UK service) telling them to correct their claim that Anas al-Sharif worked with Hamas, as the BBC had no evidence for it.
BBC News *ignored their own colleagues* and the article remains uncorrected.
BBC News *ignored their own colleagues* and the article remains uncorrected.
The first move of new Green party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social wasn't a policy (he'd already made a wealth tax his big thing) – it was a podcast.
It's a sure sign of a leftwing leader who's learned from his predecessors' mistakes.
Me for @thenewarab.bsky.social: www.newarab.com/opinion/zack...
It's a sure sign of a leftwing leader who's learned from his predecessors' mistakes.
Me for @thenewarab.bsky.social: www.newarab.com/opinion/zack...
Zack Polanski is doing what Corbyn couldn’t: Play the media game
The new Green Party premier’s first move? Launch a podcast. It’s a sure sign of a leftwing leader that’s not about to repeat past mistakes, writes Rivkah Brown.
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September 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The first move of new Green party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social wasn't a policy (he'd already made a wealth tax his big thing) – it was a podcast.
It's a sure sign of a leftwing leader who's learned from his predecessors' mistakes.
Me for @thenewarab.bsky.social: www.newarab.com/opinion/zack...
It's a sure sign of a leftwing leader who's learned from his predecessors' mistakes.
Me for @thenewarab.bsky.social: www.newarab.com/opinion/zack...
Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer were handed a combined 3.5 years for doing £8-10k of damage to the frame of Van Gogh's Sunflowers. Turns out the gallery spent just £150 retouching it.
And we're really still talking about 2-tier policing? novaramedia.com/2025/08/22/t...
And we're really still talking about 2-tier policing? novaramedia.com/2025/08/22/t...
The National Gallery Only Spent £150 Retouching Van Gogh Frame After Just Stop Oil ‘Souping’ | Novara Media
Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer were jailed last year after being found guilty of causing between £8,000 and £10,000 worth of damage. Yet emails between gallery staff show the amount actually spent on...
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August 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer were handed a combined 3.5 years for doing £8-10k of damage to the frame of Van Gogh's Sunflowers. Turns out the gallery spent just £150 retouching it.
And we're really still talking about 2-tier policing? novaramedia.com/2025/08/22/t...
And we're really still talking about 2-tier policing? novaramedia.com/2025/08/22/t...
A man claimed to be the victim of an antisemitic mob. His alleged assailants say he instigated the altercation, calling Arabic-speaking patrons ‘terrorists’. The Guardian printed one side of the story. This is how hysteria is manufactured. Me for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/08/11/w...
Why Did the Guardian Run an Unverified Antisemitism Story? | Novara Media
A man claimed to be the victim of an antisemitic mob. His alleged assailants say he instigated the altercation, calling Arabic-speaking patrons ‘terrorists’. The Guardian printed one side of the story...
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August 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A man claimed to be the victim of an antisemitic mob. His alleged assailants say he instigated the altercation, calling Arabic-speaking patrons ‘terrorists’. The Guardian printed one side of the story. This is how hysteria is manufactured. Me for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/08/11/w...
I had no idea that Fifa awarded the 1934 World Cup to fascist Italy despite Mussolini using the tournament as a propaganda tool. Just one of the many things *you too* can learn from Juliet Jacques's excellent @novaramedia.com peice about Fifa's revisionist history. novaramedia.com/2025/08/04/t...
The Fifa Museum Is a Masterclass in Reputational Whitewashing | Novara Media
Handing world cups to fascist dictatorships, brown-nosing Trump, endless corruption scandals - there’s an awful lot of history on display at Fifa’s Zurich museum and absolutely none of the stuff that ...
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August 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I had no idea that Fifa awarded the 1934 World Cup to fascist Italy despite Mussolini using the tournament as a propaganda tool. Just one of the many things *you too* can learn from Juliet Jacques's excellent @novaramedia.com peice about Fifa's revisionist history. novaramedia.com/2025/08/04/t...
Why was this story – which weaponises hostages' experiences to undermine Palestinians' claim to recognition – leading @theguardian.com's homepage until moments ago?
“I suppose this is Kath [Viner, the paper's editor-in-chief] trying to both-sides a genocide again," one Guardian journalist told me.
“I suppose this is Kath [Viner, the paper's editor-in-chief] trying to both-sides a genocide again," one Guardian journalist told me.
July 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Why was this story – which weaponises hostages' experiences to undermine Palestinians' claim to recognition – leading @theguardian.com's homepage until moments ago?
“I suppose this is Kath [Viner, the paper's editor-in-chief] trying to both-sides a genocide again," one Guardian journalist told me.
“I suppose this is Kath [Viner, the paper's editor-in-chief] trying to both-sides a genocide again," one Guardian journalist told me.
Green leadership candidate Zack Polanski says would-be members of a rumoured new left party should "stop pissing about and join the Greens". My profile for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/06/25/z...
Zack Polanski Is Done Talking | Novara Media
The Green politician’s surprise leadership bid has excited a rudderless left. Could he turn the Greens from a byword for well-meaning environmentalists into a mass movement? Rivkah Brown meets Zack Po...
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June 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Green leadership candidate Zack Polanski says would-be members of a rumoured new left party should "stop pissing about and join the Greens". My profile for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/06/25/z...
Which do we prefer: cute with a hint of sneer or straight-on with a hint of babushka?
June 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Which do we prefer: cute with a hint of sneer or straight-on with a hint of babushka?
How are political prisoners treated compared to, and by, other prisoners? How do they adapt to confinement? What's the most popular vape flavour at HMP The Mount?
This and more on episode 2 of Committed ⛓️ open.spotify.com/episode/655Q...
This and more on episode 2 of Committed ⛓️ open.spotify.com/episode/655Q...
April 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
How are political prisoners treated compared to, and by, other prisoners? How do they adapt to confinement? What's the most popular vape flavour at HMP The Mount?
This and more on episode 2 of Committed ⛓️ open.spotify.com/episode/655Q...
This and more on episode 2 of Committed ⛓️ open.spotify.com/episode/655Q...
@clarehymer.bsky.social and I have spent the past 5 months interviewing Britain's political prisoners about life inside – and thinking about the kind of people that give up their freedom for a cause.
Ep 1 of Committed is out today, listen here or on the NM podcast feed novaramedia.com/committed/
Ep 1 of Committed is out today, listen here or on the NM podcast feed novaramedia.com/committed/
Committed | Novara Media
Britain is locking up peaceful climate activists. You’ve probably heard of some of them – they’re the road-blockers, soup-throwers and spray-painters who’ve made headlines around the world with Just S...
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April 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
@clarehymer.bsky.social and I have spent the past 5 months interviewing Britain's political prisoners about life inside – and thinking about the kind of people that give up their freedom for a cause.
Ep 1 of Committed is out today, listen here or on the NM podcast feed novaramedia.com/committed/
Ep 1 of Committed is out today, listen here or on the NM podcast feed novaramedia.com/committed/
Always blows my mind that Miriam Margolyes can be on the cover of Vogue one minute but the minute she opens her mouth about Palestine...............crickets
February 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Always blows my mind that Miriam Margolyes can be on the cover of Vogue one minute but the minute she opens her mouth about Palestine...............crickets
Running an inflammatory headline from a 3-month-old report on antisemitism today, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, is the kind of irresponsible, sensationalist journalism I'd expect from the Jewish Chronicle, not the Guardian.
January 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Running an inflammatory headline from a 3-month-old report on antisemitism today, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, is the kind of irresponsible, sensationalist journalism I'd expect from the Jewish Chronicle, not the Guardian.
Itsu said Jeremy Corbyn 4 PM
January 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Itsu said Jeremy Corbyn 4 PM
NEW: The Palestine movement is headed for a historic confrontation with police this Saturday as organisers say they'll go ahead despite a police ban.
Police cite disruption to nearby synagogues – despite services finishing 2 hours before protesters arrive.
novaramedia.com/2025/01/14/p...
Police cite disruption to nearby synagogues – despite services finishing 2 hours before protesters arrive.
novaramedia.com/2025/01/14/p...
Palestine Marchers Set to Defy Police Ban | Novara Media
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has always cooperated with police, until now. Rivkah Brown reports on why the group is refusing to cancel Saturday's central London march, despite the Met doubling do...
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January 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
NEW: The Palestine movement is headed for a historic confrontation with police this Saturday as organisers say they'll go ahead despite a police ban.
Police cite disruption to nearby synagogues – despite services finishing 2 hours before protesters arrive.
novaramedia.com/2025/01/14/p...
Police cite disruption to nearby synagogues – despite services finishing 2 hours before protesters arrive.
novaramedia.com/2025/01/14/p...
There has been a notable shift here in the approach of the PSC, which previously changed the start time of its marches to accommodate the police's demands – but is now doubling down on its plans. Clear emboldening of the Palestine movement.
By contrast, rightwing Jewish groups 1/
By contrast, rightwing Jewish groups 1/
NEW: 700+ British Jews have signed a statement criticising the Met's attempted ban on Saturday's Palestine march, calling it a "brazen attempt to interfere with hard-won political freedoms by conjuring up an imaginary threat to Jewish freedom of worship.” novaramedia.com/2025/01/13/b...
British Jews Call Bullshit on Met’s Attempt to Ban Palestine March | Novara Media
Over 700 British Jews, including prominent human rights lawyers and academics, have signed a statement slamming the Met’s ban on an upcoming Palestine demonstration over supposed synagogue disruption....
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January 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
There has been a notable shift here in the approach of the PSC, which previously changed the start time of its marches to accommodate the police's demands – but is now doubling down on its plans. Clear emboldening of the Palestine movement.
By contrast, rightwing Jewish groups 1/
By contrast, rightwing Jewish groups 1/
NEW: 700+ British Jews have signed a statement criticising the Met's attempted ban on Saturday's Palestine march, calling it a "brazen attempt to interfere with hard-won political freedoms by conjuring up an imaginary threat to Jewish freedom of worship.” novaramedia.com/2025/01/13/b...
British Jews Call Bullshit on Met’s Attempt to Ban Palestine March | Novara Media
Over 700 British Jews, including prominent human rights lawyers and academics, have signed a statement slamming the Met’s ban on an upcoming Palestine demonstration over supposed synagogue disruption....
novaramedia.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
NEW: 700+ British Jews have signed a statement criticising the Met's attempted ban on Saturday's Palestine march, calling it a "brazen attempt to interfere with hard-won political freedoms by conjuring up an imaginary threat to Jewish freedom of worship.” novaramedia.com/2025/01/13/b...
Hugely enjoyed Allie Carr's thoughtful, vulnerable long read about falling in and out of love with Russell Brand
novaramedia.com/2025/01/13/i...
novaramedia.com/2025/01/13/i...
I Drank the Russell Brand Kool-Aid | Novara Media
His outsider status and unabashed spiritualism made TV star Russell Brand feel like a kindred spirit to a young Alison J Carr. As his alleged sexual misconduct and alt-right tendencies come to light, ...
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January 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Hugely enjoyed Allie Carr's thoughtful, vulnerable long read about falling in and out of love with Russell Brand
novaramedia.com/2025/01/13/i...
novaramedia.com/2025/01/13/i...
SCOOP: BBC News global director Jonathan Munro lambasted journalists who said they feared the BBC could be "aiding and abetting genocide" by suppressing the ICJ ruling, suggesting the ruling wasn't as significant as they thought. novaramedia.com/2025/01/09/b...
January 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
SCOOP: BBC News global director Jonathan Munro lambasted journalists who said they feared the BBC could be "aiding and abetting genocide" by suppressing the ICJ ruling, suggesting the ruling wasn't as significant as they thought. novaramedia.com/2025/01/09/b...