Article by Rebel News staff.

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Early Sunday morning, a farmer driving home near RAF Fairford — the Gloucestershire air base the Americans use for their big bombers — spotted three vans parked in her village and eight to 10 men with covered faces who ran when her headlights hit them. She called the police. Five men were arrested under the Explosives Act, then further arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack.

All British nationals. All in their 20s. All from London. And yet, they were home by Monday, all five released on bail. 

"To be very clear," counterterrorism police said, "this does not mean that the investigation is over." On Monday night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra asked: "Then why did you let them go?"

The same week, Prime Minister Andy Burnham went on BBC and was asked whether Danny Tommo — a 37-year-old roofer, father of four, with another baby on the way — is a racist. His answer, in full, was that it's "hard to conclude that he's anything other than someone who has racist views," that this is "the worst kind of hateful behaviour," and that he doesn't "just throw labels on people."

He admitted in the same breath that he hadn't read what Danny said and hadn't followed what Danny had done.

"He labels Danny a racist and then in the very same breath says he doesn't throw labels on people." Ezra remarked. A jury will one day be drawn from people who watch the BBC. The head of government just told them what to think — before any trial. In any serious legal jurisdiction, that has a name: prejudicing a trial.

Danny Tommo has been denied bail. He was charged — after police initially threw the Explosives Act, the Aviation and Maritime Security Act, the Merchant Shipping Act, and endangering the safety of a ship at him — with criminal damage to a rubber boat and failing to hand over his iPhone PIN.

He pleaded not guilty to both. The judge who refused him bail is Deputy Senior District Judge Tan Ikram, who in 2024 convicted three women for displaying paraglider imagery at a pro-Hamas march one week after October 7th and gave them conditional discharges. His words to them: "Your lesson has been well learned." 

Paragliders celebrating a Hamas massacre: go home. A rubber boat: straight to jail.

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For comparison: Lucy Connelly, a childminder from Northampton and wife of a local Conservative councillor, wrote an angry post on X after the Southport murders of three little girls at a dance class, a post she deleted within hours. 

She was denied bail and jailed for 31 months. She served about a year, separated from her daughter. "A mother who writes a nasty tweet, no bail. A man who cuts a migrant boat, no bail. Five men arrested near an American bomber base on suspicion of preparing terrorism. Home by Monday," said a flabbergasted Ezra.

At the Labour Party conference in Liverpool the same week, Home Secretary Shabbana Mahmood announced new fast-tracked refugee routes into Britain, specifically prioritizing Afghan women and Gazans. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told the same conference that the people who had marched through London month after month since October 7th chanting for an intifada: "You were right." 

Ezra's said the remarks don't amount to foreign policy; rather, "That's a Labour party trying to win back the votes they lost to pro-Gaza extremists in the last election."

Pew Research — a liberal think tank — found that 97% of Palestinians surveyed held unfavourable views of Jews, and that 99% of Afghan Muslims want Sharia as official law, with 79% of those supporting the death penalty for leaving Islam. 

Meanwhile, the Sunday Times revealed that a former bodyguard to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh had been granted asylum in Britain, then citizenship, then played what the paper described as an essential role in a foiled plot to murder Jews in Berlin or Vienna. A British court granted him 100 years of legal anonymity. It took the Sunday Times to get that lifted.

"Not one day of bail for Danny Tomo. A Hamas bodyguard? Welcome to Britain," said Ezra. 

Ezra himself was banned from the UK in May by the Home Office, whose words were that his presence was "not considered to be conducive to the public good." There was no appeal, which means he cannot be in the courtroom for Danny Tommo's trial.

But Rebel News will be. Alexa Lavoie was on the ground covering Danny's case, and Rebel News has committed to fund his legal defence at Crown Court, where he will have a senior barrister. Danny asked for help through his friend Tommy Robinson, and Rebel News said yes.

"If they can do this to Danny and to Lucy, they can do it to you," warned Ezra.