National Security State
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Files expose Britain’s secret D-Notice censorship regime
Documents obtained by The Grayzone reveal how British soldiers and spies censor news reporting on ‘national security,’ coercing reporters into silence. The files show the Committee boasting of a “90% + success rate” in enforcing the official British line on any controversial story – or disappearing reports entirely. Continue reading
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‘Cumulative Impact’: What does this mean for protest?
Wednesday, 19 November 2025 — NetPol The Crime and Policing Bill currently moving through Parliament contains worrying new proposals to allow the police to ban or restrict protests based on the “cumulative disruption” they have, or may, cause. Continue reading
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An End To Our Illusions
Earlier this year, Netpol and the Article 11 Trust published our State of Protest report, with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. We are currently collaborating on a new report for 2025 and it is hard to know what to call it this time. Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? Continue reading
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Stop Starmer’s dangerous ID cards
Starmer’s desperate rush for ID cards is a recipe for repression. It won’t reduce migration, but it will put our rights at risk. We need to come together and fight back – are you with us? Continue reading
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Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID)
Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives. Continue reading
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Spotlight on the Tony Blair Institute
5 August 2025 — #Together Probably the least surprising news in Keir Starmer’s “order” to push imposed Digital ID on us was the close involvement of Tony Blair and his “Institute for Global Change.” Continue reading
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UK judge grants permission for Palestine Action to challenge terror ban
The co-founder of a pro-Palestine campaign group won her bid on Wednesday to bring a legal challenge against the UK government’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws. Continue reading
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Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned
The UK government was secretly advised that Palestine Action is “highly unlikely” to advocate for violence while officials struggled to produce evidence the group posed a national security threat, it can be revealed. Continue reading
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Voices From the Terror List: Palestine Action Members Speak Out After UK Ban
On July 1, British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced that Palestine Action (PA), a crusading campaign effort, would be proscribed as a terrorist group. Describing the movement as “dangerous,” she charged that its “orchestration and enaction of aggressive and intimidatory attacks against businesses, institutions and the public” had “crossed the thresholds established in the Terrorism… Continue reading
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The Brass Checkers: Fact-Checkers ‘R’ the ‘New Age Censors and Parody for Brilliance. Part 1
In 1919, Upton Sinclair wrote a scathing exposé of American journalism as a racket, a system where truth is sold like a body in a brothel. Today’s pimps of public opinion aren’t just corporate editors or advertisers. They wear press badges labelled “Fact Checker” and claim neutrality. But scratch the surface, and many are professional… Continue reading
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Clive Stafford Smith: In support of Palestine Action’s right to protest
Supporting Palestine Action’s right to protest is not the same as supporting Palestine Action. It’s time for Keir Starmer to remember why human rights exist, says Clive Stafford Smith. Continue reading
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HART’s Pick of the Week 20th July
Monday, 21 July 2025 — HART SSRIs; WHO; Pushback on Assisted dying and late-stage abortion; No2digitalID Antidepressant withdrawal – why do researchers keep downplaying it? Maryanne Demasi, 10th July 2025 Another insightful analysis of a JAMA systematic review, in which Maryanne picks numerous holes in their methodology, undermining their conclusion that withdrawal symptoms are ‘mild’ Continue reading
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Can you help us fight against police repression?
With the banning of Palestine Action as a terrorist group, the crack down on protest has reached new heights. Continue reading
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⚠️ Privacy Alert: Protesters around the world are being watched — and tracked — like never before
No matter what cause you’re standing up for, joining a protest today can come with serious privacy risks. From facial recognition to phone tracking, surveillance tech is being used to monitor protests and intimidate participants. The risks are real, but there are ways to stay safer. Continue reading
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Will the ban on Palestine Action terrify enough people into silence?
The repression of political dissent in Britain has been escalating for years: first against Black Lives Matter and environmental campaigners and now the Palestine solidarity movement. Throughout the last 20 months, campaigners have been demonised, accused of ‘radicalisation’, placed under increasing police surveillance and subjected to a toxic and invariably racist discourse in both Westminster… Continue reading
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10 Year Plan for England’s NHS – Week One
The new “Ten Year Plan” shifts decision-making power from you and your family doctor to hospitals and technology companies. There are wordings from the political leadership about patients owning data, but the depths of the policy machine seems to suggest there be a day soon when you ask the NHS to opt your data out… Continue reading
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What will happen now that Palestine Action is banned?
Absurdly, the direct action protest group has now been designated by the Israel-backed UK regime as a proscribed “terrorist” group (despite the fact that it does not use violence and has never harmed people, as opposed to property). Continue reading
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Palestine Action ban in place from midnight
Yvette Cooper’s decision to ban the group came after a protest at RAF Brize Norton, in which red paint was thrown on military jets. Four people have been remanded in custody after the action, to appear in court at the Old Bailey on 18 July. Continue reading
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Palestine Action head tells the UK high court to delay the British government’s terrorist proscription
Friday, 8 June 2025 — MintPress News UPDATE On Friday, Huda Ammori, co-founder of the pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action, lost her bid to halt the UK government’s move to ban the group under anti-terror laws while she challenges the decision in court. Ammori, who co-founded the group in 2020, had asked London’s High Court to Continue reading
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10 year plan: say goodbye to your data (and say goodbye to your GP)
When the whole 10 year plan comes out tomorrow we’ll start reading it, but the night before what’s out is the last press release before the 10 year plan – ie only the bits that Government most wants to talk about because they think they’re the best parts… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 