UK
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Former Tory Party advisor wants us to swallow GM food
An article has been published in the Financial Times, with the headline, “We must overcome the fear of genetic engineering in our food”, and the subhead, “From countering climate change to saving bananas, new gene-editing technology could prove crucial”. Continue reading
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These Uppity Brits Need A Slap-like Lesson
The Brits were getting a bit uppity today so the Russians responded by opening fire: Continue reading
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Technology and the future of UK Foreign Policy – Our submission to the Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry
23 June 2021 — Drone Wars Peter Burt In a timely and welcome move, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee has recently launched an investigation into ‘Tech and the future of UK foreign policy‘. Recognising that new and emerging technologies are fundamentally altering the nature of international relations and the rapidly growing influence… Continue reading
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UK: Black Ops in the Black Sea
Sometimes it is worth stating the obvious. The United Kingdom does not have a coast in the Black Sea. British warships are not infesting the Black Sea out of a peaceful intent, and there is no cause for them to be entering disputed waters close to anybody’s coast. This is not a question of freedom… Continue reading
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Illegal DNRs, ventilators and involuntary euthanasia
The rise in the use of Do Not Resuscitate orders (DNRs), and the suggestion that patients are being compelled to sign them, or even having them signed on their behalf in secret, has been one of the more concerning narratives to come out of the last year of “pandemic”. Continue reading
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GPDPR – An Open Letter to GP Practices
GPs are raising the alarm about plans to make 55 million NHS patients’ data available to corporations for profit. A group of GPs in East London are taking action to withhold the data and protect the privacy of their patients by refusing to share data from their Practice. They’re encouraging medical practitioners throughout England to… Continue reading
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New protest restrictions breach human rights, say MPs and peers
A legislative scrutiny report on the public order section of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, published today by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), a parliamentary committee made up MPs and peers, says proposed restrictions on protests are “inconsistent with our human rights and… deeply concerning.” Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: They didn’t want to reveal these names
Good Law Project is now able to reveal the names of six more companies awarded PPE contracts through the controversial ’VIP’ fast-track lane for associates of ministers and advisers. These six firms landed nearly half a billion pounds of public contracts – all without competition – and were uncovered in documents prised from Government in the course… Continue reading
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Assange Is Still in Jail
Julian Assange remains in a maximum security jail, despite never being sentenced for anything but a long ago served spell for bail-jumping, and despite the US Government’s request for extradition having been refused. Continue reading
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Watch: Russia’s Lavrov Chews UP UK’s Raab in Fiery Call
18 June 2021 — Youtube Alexander Mercouris The Bear Stamps on the Mouse (With thanks to Andrei Martynov’s Reminiscence of the Future…) Continue reading
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The Mind of Lady Dorrian
This paragraph is from Lady Dorrian’s original judgement on Craig Murray. It oozes malice and prejudice in its very plain twist of both logic and fact. She seeks to make something obviously to Murray’s credit work to his detriment. Continue reading
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Statewatch News 18 June (Issue 12/21, also available as a PDF)
18 June 2021 — Statewatch Statewatch News 18 June (Issue 12/21, also available as a PDF) Global call to ban public biometric surveillance As public and private sector institutions push ahead with the development and deployment of remote biometric surveillance systems – currently best-exemplified by facial recognition technology – opposition is increasing. Continue reading
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£1m council fines for covid offences such as ‘mingling’
A new Manifesto Club report is out today, which includes the first ever data on councils’ enforcement of Covid penalties. Councils issued over £1m in fines to restaurants and pubs for offences such as customers ‘mingling’, tables less than 2m apart, and allowing non-household groups to sit together. Continue reading
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This Refugee Week we want to share our New Dreams
18 June 2021 — Migrants Organise Continue reading
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Institute of Race Relations 17 June 2021: Abolition – a roadmap to the future?
17 June 2021 — — Origin: Institute of Race Relations This week we draw attention to a new article by Liz Fekete, Looking Back to Look Forward: imagining a world without state violence, published by the Stuart Hall Foundation as part of their Imagined Futures series. At a time when social movements are coming together in… Continue reading
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Morning Star – Met Police ‘misrepresented Covid rules’ against protesters
London’s Metropolitan Police have been accused of ‘misrepresenting Covid rules’ after warning that protesting is against the law. Continue reading
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High Priest of ‘The Science’ Whitty Decrees: ‘Children Need Covid Jabs to Avoid More School Closures’
Not a day goes by that the UK government’s team of experts isn’t announcing some new pivot on ‘The Science’ of COVID-19. Increasingly, their decrees are becoming more arbitrary, and rather conspicuously geared towards leveraging even more restrictions, and driving record sales of corporate vaccine. Continue reading
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Matt Hancock ‘I tried’
As a GP working mainly with elderly patients in Care Homes and Intermediate Care I witnessed, at first hand, the absolute disaster that was the Government policy at the start of the COVID19 outbreak. Elderly patients who were COVID19 positive, or not tested, perhaps even negative, were simply shovelled out of hospitals and into care… Continue reading
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Grenfell Anniversary: Activist Rapper Lowkey Takes Aim At Boris Johnson and UK Neoliberalism
14 June 2021 — MintPress News Corporate Greed Four years after the Grenfell Tower fire, rapper and activist Lowkey revisits the tragic fire that tore through the North Kensington tower block on June 14, 2017 — killing 72 low-income residents of housing owned by real-estate moguls. By Lowkey Lowkey Continue reading
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Big Brother Watch signs open letter to MPs to protect end-to-end encryption
68 million of your constituents are at risk of losing the most important tool to keep them safe and protected from cyber-criminals and hostile governments. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 