A barefoot pro-Palestine protester climbed Big Ben's Elizabeth Tower at 7:24am, waving a Palestinian flag and chanting "Free, free Palestine." The incident caused an emergency response, shutting down Westminster Bridge and canceling Parliament tours. The protester live-streamed the event, showing his bloodied feet as he continued to climb.

The Daily Mail reports that Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the 158th Speaker of the House of Commons, has spent £250k of taxpayer money on luxury travel to Gibraltar's famous Rock Hotel. He is said to make an annual pilgrimage to the hotel, which boasts a large outdoor swimming pool and has hosted celebrities like Winston Churchill, John Lennon, and Gemma Arterton.

Five members of a German far-right group were jailed for plotting to overthrow the government and kidnap Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, an advocate of strict Covid-19 measures. The group, associated with the extremist group "Citizens of the Reich", planned to use violence to trigger civil war-like conditions in Germany, including sabotaging the power grid and killing bodyguards if necessary. Four ringleaders were sentenced to between five years and nine months in jail, while a fifth defendant received a two-year and 10-month sentence.