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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
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⚠️ Biggest data grab in NHS history just weeks away
The Government has hatched a plan to copy the entire GP medical history from every patient in England to an NHS Digital database from July 1st 2021. Continue reading
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Big Brother Watch sends joint letter on unlawful Coronavirus prosecutions and convictions behind closed doors to the Secretary of State for Justice
Big Brother Watch, alongside other trusted rights groups, has written to the Secretary of State for Justice about the single justice procedure and unlawful coronavirus prosecutions and convictions behind closed doors. Continue reading
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Watch: Lowkey on the UK’s Complicity in Israeli Apartheid & Settler Colonialism
18 May 2021 — Youtube Host: Mnar Adley w/ Guest: Hip-hop artist and antiwar activist Lowkey Continue reading
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Don’t Be Stupid – Inform Your Decisions
Are you tired of having to watch everything you say, in case you’re accused of “hate speech”? Do you frequently have to bite back innocently-spoken words, when someone claims to be “offended” by them? Have you become used to avoiding lively debate or expressing frank opinions on social media, for fear of finding police officers… Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: This is shocking
Government gets a bona fide PPE offer from a would be supplier. The company has sourced the PPE, submitted a bid and passed through the technical checks. They’re close to signing on the dotted line. But at the eleventh hour they get dropped. Instead, Government buys the same thing from someone else. Someone who came… Continue reading
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iNews – Government accused of introducing ID Card via vaccine passport trojan horse
The Government has been accused of bringing in an ID card “by stealth” after it was revealed that ministers signed a vaccine passport contract that could last for years. Continue reading
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⚠️ Covid passes = ID cards *on steroids*
“NONE OF US LIKES THE IDEA OF COVID CERTIFICATION” Not our words, the words of Michael Gove… Yesterday he appeared in front of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee to receive a grilling on Covid passes. To say that it made for awkward viewing would be putting it politely! Continue reading
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Secret Documents Expose British Cloak and Dagger Activities in Lebanon
Classified UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) documents released by hacktivist collective Anonymous raise serious questions about London’s cloak-and-dagger activities in Lebanon, and whether they may have led to the ouster of the country’s government. Continue reading
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Palantir’s Tiberius, Race, and the Public Health Panopticon
The controversial data mining firm, whose history and rise has long been inextricably linked with the CIA and the national security state, will now use its software to identify and prioritize the same minority groups that it has long oppressed on behalf of the US military and US intelligence. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Recent attacks by Government
What should the campaigner do if he hears from an insider that a formal response to judicial review proceedings is “a work of fiction Government has created”? Should he close his ears? And if he is sent documents supporting that proposition, what then? What should he do if those documents show Ministers acting in ways… Continue reading
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