July 24, 2020
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Shutting out Parliament from trade deals “terrifying” for food standards, climate, and NHS
MPs have defeated an attempt by Tory backbenchers to ensure parliament has a vote on any post-Brexit trade deal. Continue reading
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British people won’t thank the NFU for its stance on gene editing
So if the NFU is truly defending higher UK food standards, why is it simultaneously enabling the introduction of this controversial, risky technology that the British public, if asked, would surely reject? Continue reading
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Watch UKC News: Masks, COVID Culture are Dividing Society in UK, US
Today the UK government instituted mandatory masks in all stores and indoor public spaces, supposedly to ‘stop the spread of COVID’ – even though the virus has all but disappeared from the scene. But is their latest decree really based on real science, or are they just making it up as they go along? Also,… Continue reading
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Russia, Bountiful Hoaxes And The New York Times
There is a delicious irony in the Russia Bounty scandal. The Russians, funding the very entity that was financed, at least in a previous incarnation, by the Central Intelligence Agency, to supposedly kill the warriors of a country that had funded them. The karmic wheel of boggled minds finds its turn, and US forces, it… Continue reading
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UK: Two-Thirds of Coronavirus Deaths Are of People With Disabilities
“When the figures first came out from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), I shared it on my Instagram and thought, ‘Oh this is definitely going to pick up and make all the major news outlets,’” says Nina Tame, a disability rights activist with 17,000 followers on Instagram. Continue reading
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New UK laws could criminalise journalism
The British government is pushing ahead with “espionage legislation” that could criminalise the release of public information and impose even stricter controls on the UK media as part of an “epidemic of secrecy”. Continue reading
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What Will Lula Do?
What is now described as the Banestado leaks and CC5gate is straight out of vintage WikiLeaks: a list, published for the first time in full, naming names and detailing what is one of the biggest corruption and money laundering cases in the world for the past three decades. Continue reading
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Why the Russia Report tells us more about Britain than anything else
The long-awaited UK ‘Russia Report’, whose publication was delayed by 10 months by Boris Johnson, was finally released this week by the Westminster Intelligence and Security Committee, much to the excitement of those keen to demonstrate alleged ‘Russian interference’ in the 2016 EU referendum. However Britain’s ‘Russiagate’ has been something of a damp squib compared… Continue reading
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UK: They think they are above the law
On 11 July, we issued judicial review proceedings against Michael Gove for awarding an £840,000 contract to long-time associates of his and Mr Cummings’. You can read the documents relating to that claim here. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 