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Sicko UK
On the 73rd birthday of the National Health Service, the queen awarded the beloved NHS the George Cross for the valor of its staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. No one doubts the dedication of NHS staff, and its worthiness for the highest honor, but this medal now serves to cover the insidious dismantlement of the… Continue reading
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URGENT MANDATED VACCINES – CALL TO ACTION
Today the Government have snuck a Statutory Instrument onto the program of the day that would mandate vaccines for all care home workers. This would include not only the staff looking after the residents but also all cooks, cleaners, handy men and so on. This would result in thousands of people being forced to have the vaccine… Continue reading
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Overkill as the Met panics: “It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to realise that we’re an arts organisation . . .”
A Hackney reader draws attention to the ham-fisted action, recorded on a video of CCTV footage shared on Instagram by artist Damien Meade. It shows police forcing entry to Antepavilion, an East London multi-arts complex, on Friday, 25 June and a large number of police entering. Continue reading
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⛔ Stop Thermal Surveillance
Throughout the pandemic, we have all been subjected to surveillance measures like never before. Surveillance companies have been selling invasive and inaccurate thermal scanners on the false claim they can “detect fevers” or even detect coronavirus. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: What’s hidden in their inboxes?
Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and Lord Bethell have all been reportedly using private email accounts or WhatApp for Government business, discussing matters of national importance – from the spread of Covid-19 in care homes to the award of lucrative Government contracts. Continue reading
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BID’s response to the Nationality and Borders Bill
As our team digest the Nationality and Borders Bill and its dire implications for human rights we join many others in expressing our extreme dismay at the proposition of such a cruel and unworkable immigration bill. Continue reading
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Assange Extradition: British High Court Grants US A Limited Appeal
The High Court of Justice in the United Kingdom agreed to hear the United States government’s appeal in the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange but on limited grounds. Continue reading
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Whilst you’ve been distracted by Hancock’s affair, PHE released a report revealing 62% of alleged Covid deaths are people who’ve been vaccinated
Breaking news on the morning of Friday June 25th revealed Matt Hancock has been having a secret affair with his aide Gina Coladangelo. We imagine it’s all the nation has been talking about since the images of Hancock embracing the millionaire lobbyist were published, it’s certainly all over the mainstream media and we doubt it… Continue reading
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UK: Freedom’s coming home – we’re winning…
3 July 2021 — Big Brother Watch We have a lot to catch up on… Let’s start with some good news. Covid Passes could be on the way out! Multiple reports suggest that venues will be able to reopen from July 19 aka ‘Freedom Day’ without you having to produce unnecessary and deeply unfair Covid Passes. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: What else are they not telling us?
On Monday we published a short post, pointing out that the so-called “transparency” data – which is supposed to list all of the external meetings Ministers have – failed to mention a meeting on 1 April 2020 that Lord Bethell had with Abingdon shortly before his department awarded it the first of two contracts worth up… Continue reading
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UK: Sowing division through dog-whistle politics
1 July 2021 — Institute of Race Relations As we go to press, polls are open in Batley and Spen, where the scars left by the far-right murder of Jo Cox in the days leading up to the Brexit vote are far from healing. In a special section of our regular calendar on racism and… Continue reading
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Proposal for ‘Code for the Policing of Protest’ is Netpol’s Charter in all but name
An Inquiry report published today by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Democracy and the Constitution has endorsed the demand – by local and national organisations and tens of thousands of members of the public who have supported Netpol’s Charter for Freedom of Assembly Rights – for clear guidelines on the way protests are policing. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Breaking: VIP lane for Test and Trace
Good Law Project can reveal the existence of a VIP lane for Test and Trace spend – and that ‘VIP stakeholder engagement’ was run from a private gmail address. Continue reading
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A ‘duty of candour’ must extend to the policing of protests
Last week’s condemnation of proposed government restrictions on protests in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill as “oppressive and wrong” by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has somewhat overshadowed its call for greater openness and transparency over the way the police impose restrictions on protests. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Why are they misleading the public?
A Number 10 spokesperson has explicitly denied that Government Ministers have used private email addresses: “Both the former health secretary and Lord Bethell understand the rules around personal email usage and only ever conducted government business through their departmental email addresses”. Continue reading
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i News – Gov’t accused of introducing national ID cards via ‘backdoor’ after Covid Pass contract
The Government has been accused of introducing national ID cards via ‘backdoor’ after a company that was awarded a Covid pass contract bragged about ‘redeploying’ them into a national ID programme. Continue reading
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‘Leaked’ Documents: British HMS Defender Stunt Near Crimea Was An Intentional Provocation
Last week someone ‘leaked’ a number of confidential papers from the British Ministry of Defence to the BBC: Continue reading
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Safe Passage: Here’s what Priti Patel should do
Today, we – the Young Leaders of Safe Passage, Hummingbird and KRAN – have published our report “Safe Routes from the Perspective of Young Refugees: Our response to the New Plan for Immigration.” Continue reading
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Warmongering British Actions in the Black Sea
The pre-positioning of the BBC correspondent on HMS Defender shatters the pretence that the BBC is something different to a state propaganda broadcaster. It also makes plain that this propaganda exercise to provoke the Russian military was calculated and deliberate. Indeed that was confirmed by that BBC correspondent’s TV news report last night when he… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 