March 8, 2024
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NUDGE DENIALISM: Why are the state’s psychological experts distancing themselves from behavioural science?
The state’s reliance on behavioural science strategies – ‘nudges’ – to facilitate the public’s compliance with covid restrictions has been widely documented. The many psychologists and behavioural scientists advising the government during the covid event (such as those in the SAGE subgroup, SPI-B, and the Behavioural Insight Team, BIT ) have, reasonably, been assumed to… Continue reading
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Project David Unmasked
MintPress unpacks The David Project, a scheme that uses AI and facial recognition to match people with online content critical of Israel on social media. Continue reading
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Border deaths & the criminalisation of people arriving on ‘small boats’
This edition of the IRR Newsletter is published as the number of people who have lost their lives attempting to cross the Channel since 1999 surpasses 400. Within the last nine days four more people have tragically died attempting the crossing. Highlighted in our calendar of racism and resistance is the devastating story of a… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 