UK
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Help stop the great British public space sell-off
TREASURED PUBLIC SPACES ACROSS THE UK ARE BEING SOLD OFF AND LOST TO PRIVATE INTERESTS AT AN ALARMING RATE. Now one community in Shropshire is going all the way to the Supreme Court to fight this – and to defend all of our public interest in our beloved green spaces. Continue reading
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Keir Starmer has returned western imperialism to the core of Labour policy
The local authority election results earlier this month in the UK were as bleak as expected for Boris Johnson’s government, with the electorate ready to punish the ruling party both for its glaring corruption and rocketing high-street prices. Continue reading
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Amnesty International Resists Calls To Designate Assange A ‘Prisoner Of Conscience’ As Extradition Looms
The international human rights organization Amnesty International has resisted calls to designate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a “prisoner of conscience,” even though the organization acknowledges he is the target of a “politically motivated prosecution” by the United States. Continue reading
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Who is responsible for unethical behavioural ‘nudges’? Not the SPI-B, claims their co-chair
As described in a previous HART bulletin, there has been a pervasive reluctance for the powers-that-be to discuss the questionable ethics of the covert behavioural-science techniques used by the Government throughout the covid-19 messaging campaign. Continue reading
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From offshoring to policing: How governments learn from each other
Our regular calendar of racism and resistance, which covers not only events in the UK but also across Europe, is not just an information-gathering exercise. We aim to provide our readers with opportunities to see how governments learn from one another. For instance, earlier this month, we reported on how the UK’s plan to send asylum seekers to… Continue reading
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The Price Of ‘Selective Inattention’ – Iraq, Ukraine, Libya, And The Climate Apocalypse
Thursday, 5 May 2022 — Media Lens Humanity’s great Achilles’ heel, the flaw that may well determine our fate, was summed up in a couple of lines in the classic Simon & Garfunkel song, ‘The Boxer’: ‘Still a man hears what he wants to hear ‘And disregards the rest.’ Continue reading
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Statewatch News 6 May (Issue 07/22)
Friday, 6 May 2022 — Statewatch Also available as a PDF Welcome to our latest edition, featuring: A new report from Statewatch and the Transnational Institute: At what cost? Funding the EU’s security, defence, and border policies, 2021–2027 Event: AI at the borders: negotiations, regulations and fundamental rights EU sanctions against “radical rhetoric”, intelligence agencies in… Continue reading
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Campaign launch: Defend Dissent and resist new police powers!
Over a year after it was first introduced, and in spite of widespread opposition and public demonstrations against its draconian measures, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act has finally become law in England and Wales. Continue reading
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The persecution of Julian Assange
According to UN torture expert, the UK and US have colluded to publicly destroy the WikiLeaks founder – and deter others from exposing their crimes The British home secretary, Priti Patel, will decide this month whether Julian Assange is to be extradited to the United States, where he faces a sentence of up to 175 years –… Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: The tests were never used
Civil servants described the Government’s shambolic testing programme as “unlegit” and “no way to do business”, in new internal emails we can publish today. The emails were uncovered in the course of our legal action over the award of multimillion pound testing contracts to Abingdon Health during the pandemic, which has reached the High Court this week. Continue reading
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Care homes and COVID19
I love the phrase ‘lessons need to be learned’. It always makes me laugh when I hear it. Usually intoned with a voice of great seriousness by the leaders of an organisation found to have made disastrous errors. It is right up there with ‘safety is our number one priority.’ About the only group I… Continue reading
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The Police Bill has received Royal Assent. Get ready to resist!
On 28th April, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill received Royal Assent. Thousands of us took to the streets to resist this draconian legislation. But the battle against the bill was never going to be won in parliament, and it’s now down to all of us to make it unenforceable on the streets. Continue reading
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Fighting regressive legislation: No defeat is ever complete – IRR News 28 April 2022
Thursday, 28 April 2022 — The Institute of Race Relations The fact that within the last 72 hours opposition in the House of Lords to four bills, including the Nationality and Borders Bill and the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, has crumbled, is, to say the least, a setback for the struggle for racial… Continue reading
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The D-Notice: A Very British Way Of Censoring The Press
On April 20, a British judge approved the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S., to face trial under the Espionage Act. Home Secretary Priti Patel will now decide whether to sign off on the decision. Continue reading
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Evidence Based Medicine – it was a good idea
Once upon a time I was a member of the General Practitioners Committee. A sub-committee of the British Medical Association that represents GPs. This was during a time when the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) system was being rolled out. There is hardly anyone working in the NHS, including almost all hospital doctors, who has… Continue reading
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US narrative won’t survive defeat in Donbass
An extraordinary thing about British diplomacy is that it continually looks for ways to stay ahead of the curve and provide added value to its customer across the Atlantic, the United States. That makes the remarks on Ukraine conflict by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at his press conference in New Delhi on Friday… Continue reading
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Israel’s fortress state is the model for the UK’s new asylum policy
There is nothing innovative or humanitarian about Britain’s new policy of shipping asylum seekers, “on a one-way ticket“, thousands of miles to central Africa. Nor is there anything surprising about the choice of destination: Rwanda. Boris Johnson’s government has simply copied wholesale a programme established by Israel eight years ago. Continue reading
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IRR50 and the revolutionary act
Thursday, 14 April 2022 — Institute of Race Relations Announced today the deal with Rwanda (whose authorities British officials accused last year of killings, disappearances and torture), to relocate asylum seekers there, spells the end of the Refugee Convention in the UK and a return to the 1930s and ‘40s, when desperate refugees from Nazism were forced to… Continue reading
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Russia’s Ukraine operation has no deadline
In his first extended remarks in nearly a month about the conflict in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that peace talks had reached a “dead end” and pledged that Russia’s “military operation will continue until its full completion.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 