BBC establishment drone Nick Robinson questions if anti-war protests should be banned

The BBC’s Nick Robinson has asked a guest whether anti-war protests should be “allowed to go ahead” or treated as some kind of treason.

Robinson is a former Tory student president and has a long record as an establishment mouthpiece. In 2017, he blamed the collapse of public trust in ‘mainstream’ journalism on left independent media. In the run-up to that year’s general election, he projected faux-horror that Jeremy Corbyn should say that police cuts – and Britain’s foreign military interventions – were making Britons less safe. He also misquoted Corbyn and then tried to cover it up.

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Robinson is also craven on the topics of Israel and Islamophobia. After the Bondi beach attack in 2025, he scrambled to make clear that he hadn’t really meant to “equalise the suffering of Muslims and Jews”. And in 2024, when he slipped and asked then-foreign secretary David Cameron about Israel’s “attacks and murders” in Gaza, he rushed to X to make clear that:

I should have been clearer that I was not expressing my own view let alone that of the BBC when I used the words “murders”.

But he wasn’t finished. He also wanted to remind his critics that he had also pressed Cameron on the UK “support[ing] Israel in confronting Iran”:

In this 15 minute long interview I asked the Foreign Secretary why ministers had supported Israel militarily; why they didn’t go further & support Israel in confronting Iran.

That’s not how protests work, Nick

Which brings us to this morning, 3 March 2026. Robinson interviewed British-Iranian actor Elika Ashoori. He asked her, with no apparent sense of shame or embarrassment, whether protests against the (illegal) war on Iran should be “allowed to go ahead”:

Ashoori has publicly propagated US-Israeli talking points that the people of Iran celebrated Israel’s murder of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and his family, despite abundant evidence of mass protests against the murder both in Iran and internationally. She claims to be anti-war. But she didn’t slap Robinson down and tell him not to be such a warmonger and stooge for the terror states that are attacking her country.

No. Instead, she appeared to agree with Robinson’s proposition, implying that attacking Iran was the only option because the “situation” of the Islamic Republic has been “ignored for so long”:

I have been against war all my life. But the war has happened and the reason it has happened is because this situation has been ignored for so long.

In response to Robinson asking her to agree that she wants the Islamic Republic “destroyed”, however, she did at least note that its destruction would not lead to democracy. But, she did not contradict his suggestion of a ban and appeared to endorse it by saying that people should be “studying” Iran instead of protesting against the attacks.

The Starmer regime continues to wage war on freedom of speech and protest in the UK. This applies nowhere more than against speech and protest against Israel’s murders and land theft. Establishment stooges and enablers are all too happy to smooth the path for both kinds of war.

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