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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

152: Protests, Placards, Palestine and Private Eye

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The story of the Eye reader who printed out a joke from the Eye, took it to a march… and got arrested. Page 94 interviews the man at the centre of the story, and the team discuss in a Free Speech Summer Special.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Joe Wiley. And I'm Soie Ball. And we're here to tell you about a brand new podcast, Digit.

0:06.3

Digit is all about the things that Joe and I love. From the kids to the parents and all the stuff in between.

0:13.5

There's a lot going on when you get to this age. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and watch every episode on Spotify. Dig it. Every week. Every week.

0:23.6

For the rest of time. Yes. Okay. Good.

0:29.2

Page 94, the Private Eye podcast. Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94. My name's

0:35.5

Andrew Hunter-Murray and I'm here in the Private Eye office. This episode is going to be a slightly upside down one. In the second half,

0:41.9

we're going to be joined by Ian, Helen and Adam. But in the first half, we're going to have an

0:46.2

interview. And the reason for that is that this is our summer freedom of speech special.

0:52.1

We're going to be talking about policing, about protest and about

0:55.8

proscribed organisations. The reason this is in the news so much at the moment was all kick-started

1:01.3

by a group called Palestine Action. Now a prescribed organisation, but until recently, simply a direct

1:09.4

protest group, their direct protests on behalf of the

1:12.5

Palestinian cause culminated at the start of July when some members of the group broke into

1:16.9

an RAF base and sprayed paint into the entrance of two military aircraft, which the group

1:22.0

claimed were helping to refuel American and Israeli jets.

1:26.0

Just a few days later, plans were announced to ban the group

1:29.1

by the government, and it is now categorized as a prescribed organization on roughly the same

1:35.0

level as Islamic State, say. When the government prescribed Palestine action, the Home Office

1:40.4

Minister Dan Jarvis said that that prescription, quotes, would not impinge on people's

1:44.8

right to protest. Those who wish to protest or express support for Palestine have always been able to

1:49.8

and can continue to do so. That has not been strictly true. Dozens of people have been arrested,

1:55.2

not only for holding placards supporting Palestine action, but many more for holding placards, which were not about the group

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