Looking closer, it turns out the latest figures are not very solid, because the number of terrorism arrests in 2025 was in fact 3,034, a 1,114% increase on 2024. This striking uptick would be enough to alarm and dismay a country’s security services, except for the fact that almost all of them were related to protests on behalf of Palestine Action. All those proscription offences have been left out, according to Counter Terrorism Policing, “due to the ongoing judicial review and subsequent appeal”. On the one hand, this is reasonable. If on examination, Palestine Action turns out not to be a terrorist organisation, it would hardly make sense to count its allies in your terrorism data.