Dispatches

The Government's decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation has been met with waves of controversy, and thousands have taken to the streets to protest. Over 2,000 people who expressed public support for the group have been arrested, threatening to overwhelm the police and the justice system. Reporter Matt Shea investigates the truth about Palestine Action and why the Government felt the need to proscribe them alongside ISIS and neo-Nazis.

Political journalist Lewis Goodall assesses the origins of the downfall in popularity of the Labour government, from party infighting to policy U-turns, courting Donald Trump, the Mandelson-Epstein scandal, high-profile ministerial resignations and a by-election battleground. Lewis speaks to MPs, advisors and pollsters, as well as celebrity critics and journalists, and follows the unfolding story as the police make arrests, opposition closes in, and the clamour for information intensifies over what Keir Starmer and his top team knew about Mandelson and Epstein.

With unique access in Ukraine, with the US army, and from within Israel, Dispatches charts the new technological arms race and asks whether these tools will make warfare more precise and reduce civilian casualties; or will they lead to more wars that are ever more brutal?