UK
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Phone-hacking scandal gets closer to Cameron — RT
British Prime Minister David Cameron has had to defend himself over his close connections to the embattled Rupert Murdoch media empire before MPs, as he answered tough questions during Wednesday’s session in the House of Commons. Continue reading
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The Aaronovitch Code By Dan Hind
I’d more or less put David Aaronovitch out of my mind recently, what with the paywall and everything. But he turned up on Newsnight last night as part of the programme’s efforts to erase memories of the previous night’s now-notorious ‘ask the public’ episode. Continue reading
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Murdoch drops BSkyB bid as PM flounders in House By Roger Bagley
News Corporation announced abandonment of the bid just minutes after Mr Cameron’s sheepish Commons announcement of an inquiry into phone-hacking plus links between politicians, the media and the police. Continue reading
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Video: UK parliament bids to scupper Murdoch media deal
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has endured a torrid day at the hands of members of the UK parliament Continue reading
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Video: Bent Cops on Parade By Craig Murray
Aren’t members of parliament amazing? Suddenly they all have noticed that the Murdoch influence is a cancer in society, which is something the rest of us have known for 30 years. Equally suddenly they have noticed that Andy Hayman is a lying buffoon, whereas before they took him as a great bastion against terrorism whose… Continue reading
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Stop the EDL march in Tower Hamlets
On Saturday 3 September the English Defence League plan to march through the streets of Tower Hamlets. They want peddle their racism and hatred through the heart of one of Britain’s biggest Muslim communities. I am asking for your help to stop them. Continue reading
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Disregard the Blairite undead
It is difficult to imagine either of Ed Miliband’s predecessors as Labour leader deciding to force a parliamentary vote to delay consideration of Rupert Murdoch’s swallowing up of BSkyB until criminal investigations into the News of the World are complete. Continue reading
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Media Lens: BBC Bombast – Propaganda, Complaints And Black Holes of Silence
The newscaster – Huw Edwards, Fiona Bruce, perhaps Emily Maitlis or Nick Owen – looks directly into the camera with the requisite degree of gravitas. The message is clear: ‘You can trust us. We have no agenda. This is the BBC. This is The News.’ Continue reading
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Ibrahim Hewitt: Israel’s fifth columnists silence Sheikh Raed Salah
Thousands of words have been written about the scandalous arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah by the British government in what is being seen as an attempt to silence him at the insistence of the pro-Israel Lobby. Supporters of the Sheikh from all sides of the political and religious divide in Palestine and beyond have stepped… Continue reading
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6th Anniversary of 7/7
On the 6th anniversary of 7/7, J7 are once again forced to reiterate our demand for a fully Independent Public Inquiry held outside of the constraints of the Inquiries Act 2005. Continue reading
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Sheikh’s arrest is an attempt to sabotage the legitimacy of the Palestinian cause Ahmad Chaker Jomaa
What is truly appalling, though, is that Sheikh Salah was arrested after he had already attended a round-table discussion in Parliament on Monday and before he was due again as a guest on Wednesday. Continue reading
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Former IDF Gen Rothschild gets red carpet treatment while Sheikh Raed Salah gets prison cell By Dr Hanan Chehata
With what is appalling timing, given the arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah a week ago on the order of the Home Secretary Theresa May, a certain Maj-Gen (ret) Danny Rothschild spoke in London on Jul 4 at the Royal United Services Institute in Whitehall; he followed this on Jul 5 with a speech in parliament… Continue reading
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The Limits of Acceptable Controversy By Dan Hind
The British media in their current form can neither regulate themselves or report adequately on their own activities. These failures must be added to their demonstrable inability to describe the broad outlines of the economic system in the run-up to the crisis of 2007-8, and their failure to expose the government’s manipulations and deceits in… Continue reading
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UK “upping the ante” in Libya means “killing more civilians” – activist
British anti-war activist Dr. David Halpin says he hopes that British, American and Israeli politicians responsible for war crimes will be held accountable in his lifetime. Continue reading
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The invasion of Australia – official at last By John Pilger
The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words ‘European arrival’ in the official record with ‘invasion’. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word in describing how Aboriginal Australia was dispossessed by the British. Continue reading
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PRESS RELEASE: Mr. Raed Salah’s Appeal Lodged
“While the government is doing its utmost to change the British laws on Universal Jurisdiction to make it easier for suspected Israeli war criminals to visit the UK without the fear of arrest warrants being issued against them, at the same time they are happy to arrest Palestinian leaders who have committed no crime but… Continue reading
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Slash military budget not pensions – UK union leader — RT
British union leader Mark Serwotka says public sector workers, who are going on a nationwide strike on June 30, will not allow the cabinet to go on with the planned cuts of budget spending. Continue reading
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Britain accused of collaborating with Israel over Salah arrest
Arab Israelis and Palestinians say arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah in London is ‘strange’ and ‘illegitimate’, and call for his release Continue reading
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Arresting Sheikh Raed Salah: An Israeli trap for Britain By Haneen Zoabi
In arresting Sheikh Raed Salah, the UK authorities support the persecution of Arab citizens of Israel Continue reading
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Why teachers should strike (even if they don’t want to) By Ed
On June 30, although most of the teachers and lecturers in the NUT, ATL and UCU will be going on strike, not all of them will be. The following post, by Jacob Mukherjee*, presents a case for why those teachers should make the sacrifice and join the strike on June 30. Continue reading
