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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
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UK govt weaponises its anti-terror laws against Palestine Action!
Amnesty International speaks up against the UK governments weaponisation of anti-terror legislation against Palestine Action Continue reading
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FOI documents show that Israel is behind the crackdown on dissent in the UK
You know how we’ve seen a massive wave of suppression in the UK with journalists, activists, social media users and protesters being treated as terrorists? Well, you’ll be unsurprised to hear this was being coordinated with the Israeli embassy. A series of freedom of information requests have shown that Israeli interference in our justice system… Continue reading
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Morgan McSweeney’s ‘plot without precedent in Labour history
A new book chronicles how Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used ‘any means necessary’ to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer. Continue reading
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We are the resistance
On 16th April 2025, five crusty old judges in the UK Supreme Court decided what a woman is (in the context of the Equality Act 2010). Hard luck, fellow women, it seems that our biology is our destiny. The Supreme Court ruled that the definition of a woman is based on ‘biological sex’ (an unclear… Continue reading
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Call-out: share your experiences of repressive protest policing in 2025
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 — NetPol Following the launch of “This is Repression”, our recent report analysing protests between January and December 2024, Netpol and the Article 11 Trust now seek evidence and testimony from protest organisers and participants covering events in 2025. Continue reading
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Heathrow airport security detain a UK citizen for wearing a Palestine shirt
The reason invoked for his detention by armed air port security was the Firearms Act. One of the officers present stated that due to the conflict tensions are high and a complaint had be received. The man was simply wearing a shirt, which should be his right protected under free speech. Continue reading
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Palestine Action adds to string of victories against Elbit Systems
Following a sustained direct action campaign, metal components manufacturer Dean Group has announced it will no longer supply parts to Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons firm. Continue reading
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Police detain Cambridge academic who criticised Israel’s genocide
A British-Palestinian professor called Dr Makram Khoury-Machool was detained at Heathrow airport for over four hours, under Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Regulations 2019. The Christian academic was interrogated on Good Friday in front of his 8-year-old son. His phone, laptop, and identification were seized under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act. He was released without… Continue reading
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