UK
-
US Empire Seizes UK’s National Health Service
One of the recent roles of the Parliamentary Healthcare Committee has been to reassure the British public that any claims regarding the ‘Americanization’ of the National Health Service (NHS) were wildly overstated, “creating a climate that risks blocking the joining up of services in the interests of patients.” In fact, the penetration of the healthcare… Continue reading
-
UK Crony Capitalism: They want to derail us
This year, Good Law Project has exposed cronyism right at the heart of Government. It’s perhaps not surprising that those who benefit from these cozy arrangements are trying to derail us. Continue reading
-
Democracy: More Dictatorial Powers Sought By Johnson
2 December 2021 — True Publica TruePublica Editor: Make no mistake, the principles of democracy are being dismantled in Britain. I have written many articles making that very point. Continue reading
-
Dehumanisation, doublespeak and death: Countering Europe’s lack of humanity
2 December 2021 — Institute of Race Relations The phrase ‘liquid graveyard’, often applied to the Mediterranean, is now applicable to the English Channel, where the 43 boat-related deaths in the last 18 months are the result of Europe’s increasingly militarised border regime. The latest of these avoidable deaths occurred on 24 November, when seventeen… Continue reading
-
New update: Let’s stop Covid passes across the UK
Last week, Scotland dropped plans to expand their vaccine passport scheme and in fact added testing as an option. We’ve reviewed their new 70 page Covid passport report, and it’s damning – it found no evidence at all, in two months of their vaccine passport scheme, that it had any benefit to public health. We’re telling them… Continue reading
-
Go private for the treatment you need, NHS tells patients
One in five patients has been told by a doctor or another NHS professional that they would have to go private to get the treatment or test they need. That’s just one of the shocking results from a survey of nearly 7,000 openDemocracy readers – backed up by separate polling commissioned by openDemocracy. Continue reading
-
Authoritarianism is on the rise
Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and large parts of the US are sliding into a dark period of authoritarianism. We’ve seen a sudden imposition of vaccine mandates (which are soon to require boosters), domestic vaccine passports, and Austria even put millions of unvaccinated citizens under lockdown. As I told the BBC, this is a stain on… Continue reading
-
Safe Passage Breaking News: UK dis-invited to EU meeting
You may have seen that Priti Patel has been dis-invited to an upcoming summit of European Ministers this weekend to discuss the tragedy in the Channel. As the Home Secretary won’t be meeting with European Ministers to discuss policy, it’s more important than ever that the Government hears our calls for safe routes now loud… Continue reading
-
UK Crony Capitalism: They’re undermining Parliament
No 10 reportedly made these threats to force MPs to spare Tory MP Owen Paterson from suspension, after he broke parliamentary rules by lobbying for a private firm that paid him £100,000 a year. One backbencher said MPs were told “they would lose funding for their constituency” if they failed to vote with the Prime Minister. Continue reading
-
UK: Priti must resign
Yesterday 24 November 2021, at least 27 men, women and children died attempting to reach safety in the UK. Our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of all those who have lost their lives. Continue reading
-
UK Crony Capitalism: Government is appealing
Tomorrow, we’re in Court. The Government is appealing the High Court’s ruling that it acted unlawfully – that there was apparent bias – in its award of a contract to associates of Dominic Cummings and Michael Gove. Continue reading
-
Big Brother Watch calls for a vote on “draconian” Covid passes in Northern Ireland
Civil liberties group Big Brother Watch has called on Northern Irish Health Minister Robin Swann to ensure that Covid passes are voted on in Stormont, rather than imposed by a Minister. Continue reading
-
Ukraine, Belarus in the eye of the storm
Wouldn’t that be a delicious irony — the British defence secretary Ben Wallace rushing to Warsaw on Thursday to work up detailed plans to strengthen Poland’s border fence with Belarus? Britain had partnered the US in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and is now the self-appointed protector of the European Union from Iraqi migrants! Continue reading
-
So you think you’re British?
The IRR warned this week of the dangers posed by a clause inserted quietly, a couple of weeks ago, into the Nationality and Borders Bill, which will allow some British citizens (mainly dual nationals) to lose their citizenship without being notified in a wide range of circumstances, which could put them at grave risk. As vice-chair Frances… Continue reading
-
New files expose Australian govt’s betrayal of Julian Assange and detail his prison torment
Documents provided exclusively to The Grayzone detail Canberra’s abandonment of Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, and provide shocking details of his prison suffering Continue reading
-
UK Crony Capitalism: Then there were 50
Government was forced to release the names following a successful and long-running Freedom of Information battle by Good Law Project. We can reveal this list includes 50 names – rather than the 47 leaked to Politico – and includes three more significant Conservative Party figures. Continue reading
-
Voters are now turning against Brexit and Boris Johnson
It makes no difference what side of the political debate you wave your flag for, trust in the Boris Johnson government has now almost completely collapsed. Whatever you believe, one fact stares us in the face – Britain’s politics is as divisive and toxic as ever and trust in politicians and our political system remains… Continue reading
-
Why have we doctors been silent?
What has been most upsetting for me has been the unquestioning compliance from the medical community as increasingly draconian, non-evidence-based and destructive virus control measures have been implemented. Some of the overt corruption, financial conflict of interests and politicisation has been laid bare in editorials in prominent medical journals such as the BMJ. But the vast majority of… Continue reading
-
UK Crony Capitalism: They want to keep this secret
A leaked document has revealed which Conservative MPs and Peers funnelled companies through a ‘VIP lane’ for lucrative PPE contracts, without competition. A staggering £1.6 billion worth of contracts were awarded as a result of referrals from just ten politicians at the heart of the Conservative party. The leaked list of the 47 companies in… Continue reading
-
UK Crony Capitalism: We don’t have a written constitution
Until now, we haven’t seen the need for binding rules. We’ve relied on self-restraint. We’ve trusted politicians to behave themselves. We’ve assumed that only ‘good chaps’ – as Lord Hennessy memorably put it – will rise to high office. And those good chaps won’t need to be told how to behave. Being good chaps, they… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 