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UK Govt: They want us gone
Correspondence with Government has revealed they expect to spend a staggering £1 million defending our judicial review of their decisions to award contracts criticised by the NAO. This is a sum unprecedented in our lawyers’ experience of judicial review proceedings. We can’t but wonder whether they are trying to scare us off – using the… Continue reading
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REVEALED: Public money is funding private healthcare
The UK government has used half a billion pounds of aid money to fund unaffordable private healthcare services in the global south. We need to take a stand and demand that public money is used to support universal public healthcare instead. Continue reading
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The UK’s Singapore-on-Thames Delusion
I will not spend much time on this topic because it is so ridiculous. But the notion that the UK can become a ‘Singapore-on-Thames’ seems to underlie some Brexit fantasies. Do these have any foundation? Continue reading
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UK: Why the Secrecy?
The UK now has the highest COVID-19 death rate of anywhere in the world. As we try and make sense of how we got our response so wretchedly wrong, just how significant will Government’s abandonment of transparency and proper process prove to be? Continue reading
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A race to the bottom’? Post-Brexit deregulation of workers’ rights – 1
The FT editorial board reports on the package of deregulatory measures being prepared by the UK’s business department with the approval of Downing Street. It has not yet been agreed by ministers — or put to the cabinet — but select business leaders have been sounded out on the plan, ‘according to people familiar with the… Continue reading
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New Leaks Show How British Spies Infiltrate And Undermine Lebanon’s Security Services
A new set of documents, just recently published, shows British efforts to influence and infiltrate the security forces of Lebanon. These programs are coordinated with Canadian and U.S. efforts to gain influence in the country and to use it on behalf of Israeli interests. Continue reading
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A Green transformation requires a new constitutional settlement
The report We the People, The case for Radical Federalism, prepared by a voluntary and independent think tank of Labour Party and independent members from Wales, Scotland and England, sets out some of the reasons for reforming the UK, the principles on which reform should be based and the process for getting there. Continue reading
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Brexit trade agenda threatens disastrous deregulation
The director of Global Justice Now, Nick Dearden makes an appeal to the public to support their work of restraining this government and its toxic policies centred around the recently negotiated Brexit deal. Continue reading
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“No one wants GM food – but Westminster wants to foist it upon Scotland anyway”
Beyond GM and GM Freeze will be sending out information very soon on how members of the public can best respond to the UK government’s public consultation on gene editing. GMWatch has been actively contributing to this information. Continue reading
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Watch UKC News: New Vaccine Death Claims, Trump Declassifies Russiagate
15 January 2021 — NEWS WIRE As the Government’s bold vaccine roll-out continues, more problems emerge regarding injury and death of people who’ve taken Pfizer’s experimental mRNA genetic COVID ‘vaccine’ – prompting [] China t[o] ban the jab. Meanwhile, the Government makes a power-play to censor media reporting – with the State agency now playing the… Continue reading
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IRR News 14 January 2021: Policing the Covid Crisis
14 January 2021 — Institute of Race Relations At a time when the Metropolitan police has had to concede more oversight of pre-arrest handcuffing, we publish the first ever investigation of the new Violence Suppression Units (VSUs), introduced without fanfare at the start of the pandemic in London. In the past, criticism has been levelled at the use… Continue reading
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Ken Livingstone to challenge EHRC in court
Ken Livingstone is going to court in the UK to challenge anti-Semitism allegations. The former mayor of London is contesting the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s controversial report that in October claimed he was guilty of “unlawful harassment” against Jews. Continue reading
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Don’t forget who is coming to pillage post-Brexit Britain
By TruePublica: No country has willingly left a postwar trading bloc, especially one of the three global super-powers of today. And because there is no precedent, it is true to say that not only does Brexit represent a very large threat to Britain’s economic future prospects – it does so because it’s just a gamble.… Continue reading
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Genetic Engineering, Agriculture and Brexit: Treachery in Our Midst
The type of ‘liberation’ Johnson advocates forms part of the usual neoliberal evangelism which this time revolves around the adoption of unassessed genetically engineered crops and food, while overseeing the gutting of food safety and environmental standards, especially in light of a potential post-Brexit trade deal with the US. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 5-7 January 2021
7 January 2021 • 15:40 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back The US and UK may not will Assange’s death, but everything they are doing makes it more likely https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/the-us-and-uk-may-not-will-assanges-death-but-everything-they-are-doing-makes-it-more-likely/ Assange saga: Real journalism is criminally insane… Continue reading
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Revealed: UK sets up media influencing project in Venezuela amid secretive £750,000 ‘democracy promotion’ programme
The UK government has established a journalism project to ‘influence’ Venezuela’s ‘media agenda’ while a Foreign Office-funded foundation is spending £750,000 on a secretive ‘democracy-promotion’ programme in the country, as Britain appears to deepen efforts to remove the Maduro government. Continue reading
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American right-wing funders back GB News ready for launch
By TruePublica: Benjamin Ward, the Deputy Director for Europe and Central Asia Division at Human Rights Watch recently and very publicly accused Boris Johnson of systematically dismantling the democratic fabric of Britain. The illegal suspension of parliament was cited of course, but so was the gaming of appointments to parliamentary committees that scrutinise government policies.… Continue reading
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Both Tortuous and Torturous
Magistrate Vanessa Bararitser walked into Westminster Magistrates Court No.1 at 10.12am this morning with the sunniest smile and most carefree disposition I have ever seen her adopt. Her shoulders appeared visibly lifted. She positively beamed at Clair Dobbin, counsel for the US government, as she invited her to put the case for the prosecution as… Continue reading
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British Judge Keeps Julian Assange In Prison, Despite Denying Extradition Two Days Ago
A British district judge denied bail for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after a hearing in which the prosecution argued he had helped NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden “flee justice” and would abscond if released from the Belmarsh high-security prison. Continue reading
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