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UK PPE Fiasco
On Monday evening, Good Law Project is hosting a live panel discussion on our cases to challenge the award of huge PPE contracts to a number of companies, seemingly without any advertising or competitive tender process. Continue reading
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UK Immigration: We sued the govt and won (again!)
Wonderful news – our legal challenge has forced the government to abandon its racist visa algorithm. Lawyers from the Home Office wrote to us yesterday afternoon. The Home Secretary Priti Patel has agreed to scrap the visa streaming algorithm from this Friday – and pledged a full review of the system, including for issues of ‘unconscious bias’… Continue reading
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Fair Immigration: Dignity. Justice. Welcome. Action
Covid-19, it turns out, is not the great equaliser. The pandemic and lockdown, together, have exposed the different social realities experienced by those on either side of the race and class divide. One differential is that between citizens and those who crossed borders. Within weeks of the pandemic BAME essential workers started dying in disproportionately higher numbers… Continue reading
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Gove & Cummings: They think they’re above the law
Several weeks back we issued judicial review proceedings against Michael Gove for his decision to award an £840,000 contract to associates of his and Dominic Cummings, without any advertisement or competitive tender process. Continue reading
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Medact July Newsletter 2020
We kicked off July with the launch of our new report on the Prevent counter-extremism policy in healthcare, and there’s been lots more activity since! Continue reading
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UK: GE deregulation amendment is withdrawn – but there is more work to do
In its last meeting before the summer recess, the House of Lords finally debated Amendment 275 of the Agriculture Bill, which proposed to deregulate products of gene editing in UK agriculture. Continue reading
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Netpol calls for restrictions to police powers and a strict time-limit on ‘draconian’ Coronavirus Bill
While everyone is currently very anxious about the future, it is important that any emergency response the government plans to adopt and implement to contain the coronavirus is fair and proportionate. Continue reading
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IRR News 30 July 2020: Police forces are using software that links crime to race
Policing of black communities is at the heart of the protests of the past two months, since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Today, following the revelation that five UK police forces have used the controversial Origins software, which claims to link ethnicities to names, neighbourhoods and potentially to crimes, the IRR calls on local… Continue reading
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UK: The Tenants Taking on Their Billionaire Landlord
Jordan Osserman was knocking on doors in his east London apartment block in late April, asking his neighbours about their rental situations during the pandemic, when he noticed he was being filmed by a security guard hiding behind a stack of boxes. A few days later he was holding a banner saying “food not rent”… Continue reading
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Overview: USA vs Assange
Julian Assange faces extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he has been indicted on 18 counts for obtaining, possessing, conspiring to publish and for publishing classified information. The indictment contains 17 counts under the Espionage Act of 1917 and one charge of conspiring with a source to violate the Computer Fraud… Continue reading
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British grandmother dies weighing just 42 pounds after her benefits are withdrawn
The death of 61-year-old grandmother, Christine McCluskey, at the hands of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a criminal act. Christine, from Dundee, Scotland, was an extremely ill and vulnerable woman who died weighing just 3 stone (42 pounds). Millions were shocked when they saw her emaciated body in national newspapers and on… Continue reading
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Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse for the UK?
The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal behaviour. That’s the message put forward in a new report written by environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason and sent to the UK Environment Agency. It follows her January 2019 open letter to Werner Baumann, CEO of Bayer… Continue reading
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UK Labour party teeters on brink of civil war over antisemitism
New leader Keir Starmer spurns two chances to clear Jeremy Corbyn’s name, preferring instead to pay damages to former staff Continue reading
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UK ‘Russia report’ fear-mongers about meddling yet finds no evidence
A long-awaited UK report finds no evidence of Russian meddling, but that hasn’t stopped the fear-mongering. Continue reading
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Face coverings in shops: it’s all about store policy and its reward or punishment – so don’t make excuses to be allowed in
As stated in the article, a follow-up piece to last Thursday’s The coronavirus police state (5): the wear-a-mask-to-shop deception, was pending in expectation of UK Government publishing the pertinent legislation [which, as at the time of writing, has still not appeared]. The idea was to explore ramifications of refusing a fine in the event that… Continue reading
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Keir Starmer hints at Labour retreat on Israel sanctions
“The Labour Party is under new management,” UK opposition leader Keir Starmer told Boris Johnson, the prime minister in Parliament on Wednesday Continue reading
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Movement for Black Lives: an interview with Barbara Ransby Leading Black US organiser speaks to Race & Class
As we witness one of the largest uprisings in US history, led by Black working-class activists, Race & Class interviews Barbara Ransby, a US-based historian, feminist and longtime organiser, on the significance of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) uprisings across the US ignited by the murder of George Floyd. Continue reading
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Shutting out Parliament from trade deals “terrifying” for food standards, climate, and NHS
MPs have defeated an attempt by Tory backbenchers to ensure parliament has a vote on any post-Brexit trade deal. Continue reading
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British people won’t thank the NFU for its stance on gene editing
So if the NFU is truly defending higher UK food standards, why is it simultaneously enabling the introduction of this controversial, risky technology that the British public, if asked, would surely reject? Continue reading
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