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Labour disclosure ‘shows antisemitism was weaponised against Corbyn’, activists say
A group of Labour activists fighting through the courts to discover why they and others were investigated or expelled from the UK’s Labour Party for antisemitism say they have flushed out proof of bad faith from their accusers. Continue reading
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Submission: Clapham Common and Bristol Protests
15 April 2021 — NetPol Riot officers outside Bristol police station, 22 March 2021. PHOTO: Miles Cooper Submission to the Inquiry Into Respect For The Constitutional Rights To Free Expression And Free Assembly At The Clapham Common Vigil On 13 March 2021 And The Bristol Protests In March 2021. Continue reading
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Figures reveal scale of Bristol protesters injured by police
At least 62 people injured by police violence in Bristol, new figures reveal. With significant misreporting from the media Bristol #KillTheBill protests, including false reports from Avon and Somerset police that officers had received injuries including broken bones, Bristol Defendant Solidarity have been recording instances of police violence and injuries sustained by people attending the… Continue reading
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EXPLAINER: What does the new policing bill say about restricting protests?
Since the confrontational crackdown by the Metropolitan Police on women holding a vigil for Sarah Everard at Clapham Common on 13 March, a growing movement has condemned police intolerance to the right to protest and warned this will only become worse with the passing of the government’s 307 page Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.… Continue reading
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Schofield focusses on the Security Review 2021, to be followed by the next, ‘Security on a Dying Planet . . .’
In his March article (summarised here), Dr Steven Schofield denounces ‘Global Britain in a competitive age: The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy’ as encapsulating everything that is wrong with the British state. Continue reading
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WATCH: CN Live! — 2 Yrs After Arrest: ‘Lawmakers for Assange’; Exclusive: Labor Party Resolution of Support
On the 2nd anniversary of the arrest, Australian MPs joined CN Live! to tell PM Scott Morrison to pick up the phone and tell Joe Biden to release Julian Assange. Watch the replay here. Continue reading
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Coverage of Prince Philip garners most complaints in BBC history, but…
By Rob Woodward – TruePublica: The BBC’s wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Prince Philip has become the most complained-about moment in British television history. It has elicited one of the most negative reactions to BBC programmes ever seen. Continue reading
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Domestic Covid-19 Identity Documents Must Be Resisted
Discrimination against people on the grounds of their health status is not acceptable, while the ever increasing reach of the surveillance state is pernicious. The idea of people without Covid-19 antibodies being treated as second class citizens should be anathema to anybody with concern for human liberty. Continue reading
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What kind of “Peace” are Britain’s Private Military Companies Bringing to the Middle East?
The US government, with the UK hot on its heels, has long viewed the Middle East as a region where the presence of its army is indispensable not only because there are energy resources there, but due to the opportunity to control vast territories under the guise of “spreading democracy”. Therefore, American and British private… Continue reading
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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
The New Dark Age 