UK
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What is the UK’s “Grey Eminence”, Charles Garrett, Doing in Kyrgyzstan?
It has long been noticed that the candidates appointed as US and UK diplomatic ambassadors all have impressive experience of military or intelligence service, which in a way shows that the tasks these countries assign to their foreign representative offices are rather of military and strategic nature, than simply a diplomatic mission. Continue reading
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UK: Sewell, stigma and the policing of race – IRR 9 April 2021
9 April 2021 — Institute of Race Relations While much has been said about the ideological approach, farcical methodology and flawed conclusions of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) report, there is yet another aspect to explore. For, as Byline Times report this week, it seems that the commissioners and their backers have ambitions to… Continue reading
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Why we must oppose vaccine passports
The vaccine passport is the nadir of ‘permission slip’ officialdom. It means that before you can go to the cinema, or a football match, or perhaps even to work, you must first have obtained official clearance. Continue reading
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UK: The end of civil liberty as we know it
Mission creep is defined as ‘the tendency for a task… to become unintentionally wider in scope than its initial objectives’. The government’s initial mission, when introducing Covid-19 restrictions across the UK, was to save lives and to ensure that the NHS was not overwhelmed, not destroy our civil liberty. Now, it is considering introducing a new… Continue reading
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Crony Capitalism UK: Abingdon Health: An update
Last week, the High Court granted permission to advance our case against Government for its award of contracts to Abingdon Health for rapid antibody tests. The deal with Abingdon Health has been marred by controversy since the very beginning, with Government suppressing reports that raised the alarm around the effectiveness of the tests and ignoring their own legal… Continue reading
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Know Your Rights: Fixed Penalty Notices and Protests
One of the potential consequences for people taking part in protests against the government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, or other protests in the coming months, is receiving a fixed penalty notice (FPN) for allegedly breaching health protection regulations. Continue reading
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UK: Contributing to Genocide in Rwanda
In the hundreds of media articles on the 1994 Rwanda genocide, there is barely a mention of Britain being a permanent member of the UN security council and in any way responsible for what happened. I recounted Britain’s role in my previous book, The Great Deception, so I will not repeat everything here. Since then,… Continue reading
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Privacy: End game for end-to-end encryption
Last week, Wired has reported that the Home Office is actively exploring legal and technical mechanisms to compel Facebook and WhatsApp to break end-to-end encryption messaging. Continue reading
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Letter to the BMJ: Do doctors have to have the covid-19 vaccine?
I have had more vaccines in my life than most people and come from a place of significant personal and professional experience in relation to this pandemic, having managed a service during the first 2 waves and all the contingencies that go with that. Continue reading
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The iWars Survey: Mapping the IT sector’s involvement in developing autonomous weapons
A new survey by Drone Wars has begun the process of mapping the involvement of information technology corporations in military artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics programmes, an area of rapidly increasing focus for the military. ‘Global Britain in a Competitive Age’, the recently published integrated review of security, defence, development, and foreign policy, highlighted the… Continue reading
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Make your town or city pesticide-free!
We need a London Mayor that will tackle the renting crisis and ensure renters have access to safe, secure and genuinely affordable homes. Will you join us in our call for a London Mayor for Renters? Ask the candidates if they will adopt Generation Rent’s policies to fix London’s housing crisis here. Continue reading
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London: Join our fight for a Mayor for renters
We need a London Mayor that will tackle the renting crisis and ensure renters have access to safe, secure and genuinely affordable homes. Will you join us in our call for a London Mayor for Renters? Ask the candidates if they will adopt Generation Rent’s policies to fix London’s housing crisis here. Continue reading
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LATEST REPORT: WHO OWNS THE UK MEDIA?
We have produced an updated version that suggests that, not only does concentrated ownership persist but that the problem may be getting worse. Sadly, the situation has deteriorated since then so make sure you read our very latest report on UK Media ownership Continue reading
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The Strange Convulsion in Scottish Politics
On 24 March, two of the SNP MP’s most closely aligned to Nicola Sturgeon, Stewart MacDonald and Alyn Smith, asked for a meeting with the British internal security service MI5 to discuss cooperation against Russia. MI5 is the agency charged with countering perceived internal threats to the UK state; Scottish nationalists, environmentalists and anti-nuclear campaigners… Continue reading
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Starmer isn’t ‘too cautious’ – he is ruthlessly tearing Labour apart
The completion of Keir Starmer’s first year as Labour leader might have passed without note, had it not been the occasion for senior party figures to express mounting concern at Labour’s dismal performance in opposition to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Pork Barrel Politics
The 2019 Towns Fund made unhappy reading for those who believe public money should not be used to promote Party interests. As a leading academic put it: “there is robust evidence that ministers chose towns so as to benefit the Conservatives in marginal Westminster seats”. And the Public Accounts Committee criticised the Government for transparency failures “which fuelled… Continue reading
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‘Kill the Bill’ protests continue across UK against Tory police bill
Protests have intensified across the UK demanding the withdrawal of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill proposed by the Tory government. On March 31, hundreds of people participated in the Kill the Bill protest in Bristol. Mobilizations were also held in Manchester and Sheffield on March 27. According to reports, in several places the… Continue reading
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“Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities: The Report”
4 April 2021 — theplanningmotivedotcom Defending statues rather than Black lives As Britain embarks on its new independent role in the world, the need arises to portray itself as a beacon of light, a model country ready and able to set an example to others, a country celebrating its triumph over its racist past. Instead… Continue reading
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Netpol’s guide to resisting police surveillance
The last few weeks have seen police mount a huge evidence gathering operation, tracking and targeting people for arrests and fines. Thousands have been filmed, photographed and logged on police databases after protesting against sweeping new police powers. Continue reading
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Western govt contractor entrapped British scholar in sting operation to cover up Syria corruption scandal
CIJA, a taxpayer-funded outfit that collaborated with al-Qaeda, lied to entrap a British academic in a sting operation. Its goal was to discredit critics of the dirty war on Syria – and cover up its own corruption. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 