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We’ve urgently questioned the legality of the Government’s Covid pass trials
In a letter sent today to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), we questioned how the stadium might use fans’ vaccination and test data and what the legal basis for the data collection is, citing multiple apparent failures in DCMS’ privacy policy. The letter sent by our solicitors, AWO, warns that the controversial vaccine passport trial appears… Continue reading
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Big Brother Watch questions legality of Wembley vaccine passport trial
Big Brother Watch has urgently questioned the legality of the Government’s vaccine passport trials at Wembley Stadium for the Euro 2020 matches. In a letter sent today to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the civil liberties group questioned how the stadium might use fans’ vaccination and test data and what the… Continue reading
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UK: medConfidential Bulletin, 11th June 2021
On 12 May, NHS Digital quietly announced there would be a new GP data collection, known as ‘GP Data for Planning and Research’, ‘GPDPR’ – or the #GPdataGrab, for clarity. NHS Digital and the Secretary of State, who on 6th April had Directed NHS Digital to run the scheme, hoped no-one would notice. Continue reading
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UK: State Suppression
11 June 2021 — Craig Murray Yesterday the House of Commons was debating “safety of journalists”. After reams of MP waffle about evil foreigners, the Alba Party was allocated 60 seconds and tried to use it to raise my case. That is a completely unedited extract from Hansard. So much for the “mother of democracies”. Continue reading
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Britain’s shame: supplying components enabling Turkey to bomb its own citizens
11 June 2021 — Airstrikes Link: https://politicalcleanup.wordpress.com/2021/05/28/britains-shame-supplying-a-crucial-component-enabling-turkey-to-bomb-its-own-citizens Continue reading
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Official: Lady Dorrian Rules Courts Should Apply Different Standards to Bloggers and Mainstream Media
We are racing to lodge our application to the Supreme Court by Friday, so I am just going to post an email I just sent my legal team: Continue reading
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Scottish High Court Denies Whistleblower Craig Murray’s Request To Appeal Conviction Over Blog Posts
In the United Kingdom, diplomat-turned whistleblower Craig Murray suffered a defeat at the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland on June 8, when three judges refused to grant him permission to appeal their earlier decision to convict him of contempt of court for his blog posts on the trial of former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: We Won!
Michael Gove broke the law by giving a contract to a communications agency run by long time associates of him and Dominic Cummings, the High Court has decided. Continue reading
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MoD report urges embrace of human augmentation to fully exploit drones and AI for warfighting
The MoD’s internal think-tank, the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) along with the German Bundeswehr Office for Defence Planning (BODP) has published a disturbing new report urging greater investigation of – and investment in – human augmentation for military purposes. The following is a brief summary of the 100+ page document with short comment… Continue reading
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NHS data grab *delayed*
The Government has buckled and delayed the NHS data grab! The collection will now take place on September 1, 2021. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: We are being targeted
Over the weekend the Mail on Sunday reported, quite explicitly, that our founder, Jo Maugham, is being “targeted by Ministers”. What is suggested is that Good Law Project is somehow “abusing” crowdfunding. But no evidence is given in support of that contention. Continue reading
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BBC sparks outrage after removing content following pressure from pro-Israel lobby
The BBC has removed a series of educational videos about Palestine and the origins of the ongoing Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing, following pressure from a pro-Israel lobbyist organisation, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). Continue reading
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G7 Summit police confused about duty to protect freedom of assembly
Protests against the forthcoming G7 summit, from 11-13 June in Carbis Bay in Cornwall, are expected to face a huge policing operation that includes exclusion zones and around 6500 officers from around the country. A coalition of organisations under the banner “Resist G7” are organising demonstrations on each day of the summit and separately, Extinction… Continue reading
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Investigation finds 33% of UK cabinet members funded by pro-Israel groups
A third of the members of the British cabinet, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have been funded by Israel or pro-Israel lobby groups, Declassified UK has revealed. The investigative journalism website uncovered the various ways through which the occupation state has courted members of the government over the years, a trend that was denounced as “disgusting” last… Continue reading
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The Notorious London Spy School Churning Out Many of the World’s Top Journalists
The fact that the very department that trains high state officials and agents of secretive three letter agencies is also the place that produces many of the journalists we rely on to stand up to those officials and keep them in check is seriously problematic. Continue reading
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IRR: Are some feminists inadvertently peddling a far-right agenda?
Last week, amidst widespread condemnation, Boris Johnson met Victor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary and leader ofFidesz, to ‘discuss the importance of the UK and Hungary working together’. As well as being accused of antisemitism, Islamophobia and dismantling human rights, Orbán’s increasingly authoritarian regime has attacked the LGBTQ community, passing a law last year that has… Continue reading
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UK: TRIGGERnometry – Your Government is Spying on You
2 June 2021 — Big Brother Watch Big Brother Watch Team Big Brother Watch Director Silkie Carlo joins Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster for the latest TRIGGERnometry podcast. Continue reading
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Matt Hancock has quietly told your GP to hand over your health data. Why?
The government wants your GP data, and it hasn’t given GPs much of a choice From 1 July this year, if you’re registered with a GP in England, the government will be taking a copy of every medical event your GP recorded on their systems since you first registered with them. (Your children’s records, too,… Continue reading
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Migrants Organise: Your solidarity is working!
Earlier this year we reached out to you, to support our legal challenge against the Home Office. We had significant concerns about the Home Office’s failure to provide EU citizens living in the UK with an accessible and humane process for settling here after Brexit. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 