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Britain’s ban on pro-Palestinian author Sally Rooney makes it a laughing stock

Alex Lo · South China Morning Post
Published 21 Oct 2026, 8:30 am·1 h ago·1 min read
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“Actions have consequences,” British Minister of State for Skills and former home secretary Baroness Jacqui Smith said of Palestine Action, the protest group proscribed as a terrorist organisation across the United Kingdom. She was lecturing the group’s members and supporters, who are legion in Britain, on taking responsibility for their actions. From where everyone else is sitting, she might as well have been talking about her Labour Party colleagues, such as fellow former home secretary Yvette...

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