UK
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Emily Maitlis is right about BBC bias – but for the wrong reasons
Journalists aren’t too deferential and timid, as the ex-Newsnight presenter claims. They are only too ready to bare their teeth when it serves establishment interests Continue reading
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European police facial recognition system must be halted, warns new paper
A new position paper published today by the European Digital Rights (EDRi) network calls for MEPs to oppose plans to create an EU-wide police facial recognition system that may, in the future, also include the UK. Continue reading
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Half of Brits ‘disappointed’ with Truss as PM – poll
Britons do not appear particularly enthusiastic about Foreign Secretary Liz Truss taking over as the new prime minister, a YouGov poll published on Monday suggests. Around half of the people in the UK say they are ‘disappointed’, with one-third ‘very disappointed’. Continue reading
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British Media Turn on Putin War Plan. But Will They Turn on the New Clown in Downing Street?
To understand how the British media works and what’s behind the decisions it takes you don’t have to be very bright at all. In fact, you can be really quite dim and still get it, it’s really that simple. Gone are the days when a Brit would buy a paper, perhaps in the 70s and… Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Caught in a Cycle of Despair and Exploitation
After presiding over crippling austerity as a policy response to Gordon Brown’s massive handover of public money to the casino bankers, David Cameron’s attempt to control the lunatic right of his party by offering a Brexit referendum backfired spectacularly. Theresa May was brought down by that same right wing when she attempted to devise a… Continue reading
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RIP Great Britain
On July 7, when Boris Johnson finally stepped down as Prime Minister of great Britain, I wrote: A current poll says that party members would favor the current defense secretary Ben Wallace. But that does not mean they will get him as one of the two candidates to vote on as the MPs have the say over that… Continue reading
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Exclusive: How Shell and BP financed Britain’s Cold War propaganda machine
“Handsome” sums were provided by BP and Shell to the Information Research Department (IRD), which was Britain’s Cold War propaganda arm between 1948 and 1977, declassified files show. The IRD used the secret subsidies to fund British covert propaganda operations during the 1950s and 1960s across the Middle East and Africa, where Britain’s oil interests were substantial. Today,… Continue reading
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The Ukrainian ‘Counteroffensive’ Was Destined To Fail – Today It Did So
On August 24 the British prime minister Boris Johnson visited Kiev: In comments made next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Mariyinsky Palace, Johnson said Ukraine “can and will win this war.” Johnson’s visit was the start signal for the long announced Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive’ towards Kherson. In early April Johnson had called on and visited… Continue reading
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Lost in the Matrix – how police surveillance is mapping protest movements
How can British police, who have struggled for so long to justify its surveillance on alleged “extremists”, ever hope to adequately categorise something as subjective as people’s political opinions? As Netpol asked in March 2021, how do campaigners become “aggravated activists” – the new label applied to those taking action that challenges state and corporate interests? Continue reading
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In London: Free Assange Human Chain
The national Surround Parliament demonstration on Saturday 8 October is fast approaching. We need the largest possible turnout so we are asking for your help. We already have roughly one-half of the 5,000 links needed in the human chain that will surround the Houses of Parliament! Continue reading
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Labour sabotaged pro-Corbyn candidates in 2019 election
During the 2019 UK general election, Labour Party staff worked to undermine their party’s own candidates who were supportive of then leader Jeremy Corbyn. That’s the revelation contained in a confidential document newly obtained by The Electronic Intifada. Continue reading
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UK’s Truss ‘ready’ to use nukes
Liz Truss feels “ready” to launch Trident nuclear weapons, the frontrunner for Conservative leadership declared at Tuesday’s hustings in Birmingham, UK, saying that making decisions like this is an “important duty of the prime minister.” Continue reading
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State-sponsored behavioural science
The ubiquitous deployment of behavioural-science techniques – ‘nudges’ – to increase compliance with both covid-19 restrictions and the vaccine rollout has raised major ethical concerns. Particularly alarming has been the state’s strategic use of fear (or ‘affect’ in the language of behavioural science), shaming (‘ego’) and peer pressure (‘norms’). The tentacles of behavioural science have extended… Continue reading
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How One Spook-Run London College Department Is Training the World’s Social Media Managers
Alan Macleod’s latest investigation with MintPress delves into the relationship between Western intelligence agencies, the corporate social media giants, and the Department of War Studies at the King’s College of London Continue reading
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BBC assault on antiwar academics was apparent product of UK intel plot
Leaked emails expose the fingerprints of UK intelligence all over a factually challenged BBC special that aimed to deprive antiwar academics of their jobs and destroy their reputations. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Public Enemy Number One
Tory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has launched a furious, misguided, attack on Good Law Project and its founder Jolyon Maugham QC for “wasting time and money” in the Courts. And he has threatened judges he calls “recidivist” – a word meaning the tendency of convicted criminals to continue to offend – with legislation to force… Continue reading
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Statewatch Issue 14/22: Migration policy against transparency; Frontex’s “expanding footprint”; Keep Campsfield closed
Friday, 19 August 2022 — Statewatch Statewatch News 19 August (Issue 14/22, also available as a PDF) Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, featuring: Italy: Migration policy undermining freedom of information The “expanding footprint” of Frontex in non-EU states UK: New campaign to keep Campsfield immigration detention centre closed We will be taking a… Continue reading
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A Newsletter from Donbas by Graham Philips
For years now, I’ve been sending out a mailing, giving updates on my work, how to support, my reportage, etc. Recent times have seen an unprecedented level of contact, and interest, something I’m very grateful for, and which also puts it on me to up the game a bit in this sphere. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 