Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World

A compilation of terrorists, by Blake Morrison

Laura Murton
Armed police threatened to arrest Laura Murton for holding a Palestinian flag and having signs saying ‘Free Gaza’ and ‘Israel is committing genocide’. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

If Laura Murton is guilty of terrorism for holding a Palestine flag (Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester, 17 July), she’s in good company.

The Greenpeace ship crew arrested for piracy.
The Commies on a blacklist for McCarthy.
An 80-year-old who caused a ‘public nuisance’.
The Tiananmen Square guy standing up to tanks.
Five eco-freaks blocking a motorway.
Two Swedish women glued to a Monet.
Women campaigning to close a Migrant Removal Centre.
Bostonians throwing tea-chests in the harbour.
Wheelchair-users fighting cuts against Medicaid.
Nelson Mandela battling apartheid.
Anti-Putinites spoiling papers at the ballot.
A mass of trespassers on Kinder Scout.
John Lennon returning his gong to the Queen.
Martin Luther King and I have a dream.
The gay man removed from an LGBT parade.
Crowds in Minneapolis when George Floyd died.
The anti-oil lobby with its slogan Just Stop.
Weevils on trial for ruining a barley crop.
Gandhi on his salt march, Rosa Parks in her bus.
Emily Davison below the King’s horse.
Jamal Khashoggi, Martin Luther, Wat Tyler, Ned Ludd,
Alexei Navalny, Alan Turing, Joan of Arc, Robin Hood.
The naked woman sharing an apple with her mate.
The deity who put it out there to eat.
The tree surgeon who scaled Big Ben.
Three men spraying paint at Brize Norton.
Hundreds of Gazans at a food station.
Blake Morrison
London

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.