Jonathan Powell is the National Security Adviser in the government of Andy Burnham. His wife Sarah Helm is a journalist, a writer, and most relevantly, a supporter of Palestine Action, a group that has been banned in the U.K. as a terrorist group. Therein lies a tale. More on Sarah Helm, and why her husband needs to be discharged from his current role, can be found here: “UK police assessing post by national security adviser’s wife supporting Palestine Action,” Reuters, October 16, 2026:
British police say they are assessing a social media post after the wife of National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell appeared to express support for Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian group banned as a terrorist organization.
Journalist and author Sarah Helm, who is married to Powell, responds on X to a post about the Irish novelist Sally Rooney, who this week announced her books would no longer be sold in Britain over her plans to use her royalties to support Palestine Action.
Helm said in the post: “God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action.”…
Asked for comment, a government spokeswoman says: “These views are held by an individual who does not represent the government in any capacity.”
Yes, that individual — the deplorable Sarah Helm — may not represent the government, but she is married to someone at the highest level in the national security apparatus of the state. Isn’t it obvious that as his wife, she surely has a great deal of influence on him? And she will naturally want to share her views with him, and will try to convert him to her dangerous point of view if, in fact, she has not done so already..
Will Sarah Helm be arrested, as 3,500 others in the U.K. have been, for expressing support for Palestine Action, as the law requires? Or does she get a pass because of who her husband is? And what about her husband? Can he be trusted with national security secrets if his wife is a supporter of a pro-Palestinian terrorist group? Would Mossad be willing to share its secrets, including about terrorist networks and plots in the U.K., and perhaps reveal sources and methods, with Jonathan Powell, now that it knows what his wife believes? Is it likely that he remains unaffected by, or even hostile to, his wife’s views? Should the British government not consider him a security risk and discharge him? Imagine during the Cold War, if the American National Security Adviser had been married to a deep admirer of the Soviet Union? No, you can’t imagine it. It’s unimaginable. So why has Jonathan Powell not already been handed his walking papers?
somehistory says
Pillow talk can be very persuasive Or even talk over coffee..
Big Dude says
Can you imagine what will happen to Britain if Israel perceives the country as inimical to their actual survival.
Edmund Carey says
No, Big, I can’t. What will happen?
Big Dude says
Israel will discover plots by parties inomical to Britain but realize that if they tell this to Britain the information will get back to the Palestinians who will kill Brits in another way and go after Jews.
If I were Israel and i knew the degree to which Britain dislikes Israel I’d get ever Jew out of Britain NOW. AND TO FIND OUT THAT THE POLITICAL CLASS IS TIED BY PILLOW TALK TO THOSE SWORN TO KILL ME AND ALL OF US .. .DO YOU THINK IM A FOOL.
carpediadem says
“pillow talk politics”. Very good. The idea, not the practice, especially here.
Big Dude says
Actually to Britain and Europe a dead Jew here .. a dead Jew there. What does it matter to you all? We Jews are a nuisance anyway.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Big Dude
Israel is already recalibrating on Britain. In the past, Israel was either pro-British or ambivalent on the Falklands dispute, but after both Millei embracing Israel and London regimes distancing themselves from Jerusalem, Israel has switched sides
We should do the same
Beans🫘 says
FRENCH COAST GUARD CAUGHT RED HANDED ON THE MIGRANT BOATS DRIVING THEM TO THE UK BY BRITISH PATRIOTS
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JKAuZ_MHtlA&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1VUw%3D%3D
Maybe I am over reacting, it’s possible we would do the same and move the migrants where they are being invited to. Why should they stay in France ? England wants them.
gravenimage says
Disgusting, Beans. And no–no decent nation sends Jihad terrorists to their neighbors and allies,
carpediadem says
France has never been decent. The govt has always been mealy mouthed mean minded, thieving and prejudiced to Jews.
Chris S Thomas says
Another security risk may be Tom Barrak
Rob Porter says
Why has Jonathan Powell “not already been handed his walking papers?” Because wisdom and common sense long ago departed from British leadership. This is a country whose treasonous leadership is cutting the country’s throat. Just as it allows Muslim rapist enemies to flood into the country, it allows totally unsatisfactory individuals to remain in office. Britain is a nation cutting its own throat. A once intelligent people have become astoundingly stupid and its young men don’t possess the courage to hit back against Muslim rapists of their girls.
But take comfort Britons, Canada is choosing to become a sort of colony to the utterly failed, stupidly-led by the imbecilic Ursula von den Lyon, European Union, and will follow Britain down the drain when Muslim migrants, the most useless of the useless, flood into a country with a faltering economy, housing and accommodation-shorttage, led by a man, Mark Carney, who Victor Davis Hanson recently publicly described as “stupid”
gravenimage says
UK National Security Adviser Is a National Security Risk
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Fox, henhouse….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If the UK no longer sees Israel as an ally, let alone islam as a threat, then Powell is not a risk of any kind, but rather, a key implementor of the plan to islamized the Ummah Kaliphate
gravenimage says
He is a risk to what is left of civilized British society–and a risk to every Briton.