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UK Activists Challenge Return of U.S. Nuclear Weapons with Two-Week Encampment at Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath
In anticipation of U.S. nuclear weapons returning to UK soil after their removal 18 years ago, activists from around the world gathered at the Lakenheath Peace Camp from April 14 to 25, 2025, with a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week vigil at the main entrance to the Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath base. Continue reading
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UK Lawyers for Israel suggests Gaza starvation reduces obesity
The UKLFI head Jonathan Turner comments on impending famine in Gaza, claiming it’ll help reduce obesity and thus increase life expectancy Continue reading
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Today is the day! Help stop UK Arms Exports
Update on Stop the UK’s profit from war I’m writing from the steps of court as we head into the first day of the High Court hearing. With our Palestinian colleagues at Al-Haq, we are demanding an end to the UK’s complicity in the ongoing Gazan genocide. Continue reading
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MI5’s Fake Terror Plots
Back in the “War on Terror” days, the UK security services fabricated multiple fake terror plots. There was, for example, the 2009 Easter Bomb Plot in Manchester, taking entire front pages of newspapers. Gordon Brown as PM hyped it as a “very big terror plot”. It was a total fabrication, nobody was convicted and it… Continue reading
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We brought MPs face-to-face with young PIP claimants
Last week myself and other young people living with severe mental illness took to Parliament to speak with MPs face-to-face about the dangers of the planned disability cuts. Continue reading
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RAF’s new armed drone given approval to fly freely over UK
The UK’s Military Aviation Authority (MAA) has issued ‘Military Type Certification’ to the UK’s new ‘Protector’ armed drone, meaning that it is now free to fly within UK airspace, including over populated areas. Continue reading
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THIS ANTI-RACIST LEAFLET FAILS AT EVERY LEVEL
By choosing the heading REFORM IS A RACIST PARTY it immediately brands the person receiving this leaflet and who is thinking of voting for Reform, as a racist. It is antagonistic not educative. The likely response will be to throw away the leaflet before reading it. There are many reasons people will vote for Reform. Continue reading
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The selfish fiction of “Safe Return” is reckless and unsafe
The “five safes”* Trusted Research Environments model has been tested over decades, meaning “safe people” doing “safe projects” on “safe data” in “safe settings” to produce “safe outputs”, and while the precise meaning of the five safes evolves with the context and the datasets, half baked additions of “new safes” weaken the whole model for… Continue reading
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GenTech regulations pass House of Lords
Thursday, 8 May 2025 — GM Freeze To our members and supporters, This message delivers the sad news that the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations were agreed by the House of Lords earlier in the week despite them being – in the words of Green Peer Natalie Bennett – “deeply flawed.” We expect the Regulations Continue reading
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Court rules anti-protest laws are unlawful
Recently introduced anti-protest legislation has been ruled unlawful in the courts this week, in a major defeat for the government. What is ‘serious disruption’ and why does it matter? Continue reading
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Update on Stop misleading patients – Physician Associates cannot replace doctors
PAs and AAs were introduced to help doctors by taking on some clinical tasks under supervision. They have only a fraction of the training that doctors do, and their training is geared towards working in an assistant capacity. Yet increasingly they are being used to diagnose, treat, and manage patients, often without proper supervision, and… Continue reading
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Aden: an imperial mess with modern echoes
The chaos in Basra has led to calls for troops to withdraw from Iraq. John Game looks at parallels with Britain’s exit from Aden in 1967 Continue reading
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A dirty war in Aden: Britain’s role in Yemen’s history
British forces killed hundreds in their war for the port of Aden, in today’s South Yemen. Western interference continues today causing bloodshed and division as Yemen becomes the new front in the ‘war on terror’, writes John Newsinger Continue reading
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Back to school with Mr Yusuf and his ‘remoralisation’ mission
WE HAVE been warned about the real agenda of Reform UK following that party’s substantial gains in last week’s English local elections. Continue reading
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UK: Citizens Arrest Thames Water Executive
A Citizens Arrest was made on Thames Water Chief Executive Officer, Chris Weston, at the company’s head office in Reading. A group of women carrying out the arrest, entered the lobby of the building and called for Weston and Alastair Cochran to come down to be issued with draft indictment papers and an evidence dossier.… Continue reading
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Western elites who want to play God with the Sun – who are they? 🌞
The UK government has unveiled a £50M ($66.6M) scheme to ‘fight climate change’ via experiments dimming the Sun, from the release of reflective substances mimicking natural aerosols to the use of seawater sprays to ‘brighten clouds’, increasing their reflectivity. Continue reading
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Everything Going To Plan For The British Oligachy
I wrote earlier about the role of the oligarch funded AfD, founded by neoliberal economists and now lead by the grand-daughter of a Hitler-appointed judge and acolyte of a neoliberal economist, as a party being kept in the wings in case oligarch rule through social democracy breaks down. With the CDU/CSU government immediately after its… Continue reading
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The Anglo-Nazi Global Empire That Almost Was
As VE Day approaches, Western officials, pundits and journalists are widely seeking to exploit the 80th anniversary of Nazism’s defeat for political purposes. European leaders have threatened state attendees of Russia’s grand May 9th victory parade with adverse consequences. Meanwhile, countless sources draw historical comparisons between appeasement of Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s, and the… Continue reading
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UK: Pandering to base populism
Home secretary Yvette Cooper’s shameless decision, in the run-up to the May local elections, to publish statistics on the nationalities of foreign offenders and their crimes, and her amendment to the Borders Security Bill to bar all foreign nationals on the sex offenders’ register from making asylum claims, haven’t gained Labour votes, but have added… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 