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WATCH: Prof Ashton – The beginning of the end of Boris Johnson?
This is a government of slogans, where confusion now reigns. As Brexit crashes down the list of important policies and is replaced with public health, priorities towards key workers, education, policing and the economy – all behind tackling the C19 crisis, Boris Johnson is losing his new found base in the North, where casualties are… Continue reading
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A chaotic rent debt and evictions crisis: Write your MP!
Renters are being forced to choose between paying rent or buying food and other essentials. Many renters are already in debt. Fear of eviction and rent debt is forcing people to go out and work rather than staying home. The government is putting renters in danger and we’re heading for a chaotic rent debt and… Continue reading
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MINDSPACE – Influencing behaviour through public policy
A must read (and frightening) document that details the UK government’s programme to control our thoughts and opinions. Continue reading
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Refusing to die for a confusing slogan
THE government’s latest injunction–Stay alert, Control the virus, Save lives–has come under instant criticism as providing ineffective advice. Continue reading
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Covid-19: UK Column News – 11th May 2020
11 May 2020 — Youtube Must Watch Before it’s censored! See also: https://wp.me/paao7Q-urt Continue reading
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How to make a crisis far, far, worse
I was asked by Russia Today to write an op-ed on what had been happening to me in my work over the last couple of months. It has appeared on their website https://www.rt.com/op-ed/488075-nhs-made-covid-19-crisis-worse/ This is what I wrote: Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 8 May 2020
8 May 2020 — Welfare Weekly Coronavirus: Scottish unpaid carers set to receive £230 one-off Carer’s Allowance top-up UK Government urged to follow Scotland’s example and increase Carer’s Allowance. Read the post Continue reading
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We now know far more about Covid19 – the Lockdown should end
Virtually overnight our world has turned into a wasteland of closed towns, deserted streets and a few people scuttling along with masks and stricken faces. It’s a place bereft of imagination, the light sucked out; a padded cell in Psych Ward B. Continue reading
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COVID 19: Playing with the numbers
The mortality statistics for COVID 19 have been incessantly hammered into our heads by the mainstream media (MSM). Every day they report these hardest of facts to justify the lockdown (house arrest) and to prove to us that living in abject fear of the COVID 19 syndrome is the only sensible reaction. Continue reading
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Propaganda: Automated bots defending the government
If you’ve ever wondered whether social media is just a vast network of automated bots interacting with other bots, congratulations, your worldview may be dystopian, but it’s not exactly wrong. In fact, if anything you’re way ahead of what most people believe. Continue reading
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Where have all the right-wingers gone?
The right-wingers are very quiet these days. They must absolutely hate what Covid-19 is doing to their politics. Continue reading
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Government is using daily coronavirus death toll as a ‘propaganda tool’, claims expert
Professor Allyson Pollock, the director of Newcastle University’s centre for excellence in regulatory science, said coronavirus has “shone a spotlight on the widening inequalities” in Britain and called for the government to revisit its public sector policies. Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly Newsletter 4 May 2020
4 May 2020 — Welfare Weekly One in five UK households with children go hungry during Covid-19 lockdown UK Government facing mounting pressure to strengthen the social security safety net. Read the post Continue reading
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Media Washes Hands of—and With—Boris Johnson
As the UK quickly becomes a world leader in death and infections from the Covid-19 pandemic, corporate media are transforming British Prime Minister Boris Johnson into an international Coronavirus bugaboo. Continue reading
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UKC News: What’s Really Behind COVID-19 Lockdowns?
The data and numbers are now pouring in and it’s looking increasingly harder for leading lockdown governments to maintain their official narratives. While the rest of the world are approaching normal, the UK and US continue to report shocking casualty numbers, now the most in Europe and globally, respectively. What is driving these unlikely trends?… Continue reading
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XLUUVs, Swarms, and STARTLE: New developments in the UK’s military autonomous systems
In November 2018 Drone Wars UK published ‘Off The Leash’, an in-depth research report outlining how the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was actively supporting research into technology to support the development of armed autonomous drones despite the government’s public claims that it “does not possess fully autonomous weapons and has no intention of developing them”. … Continue reading
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NHS ordered to hand over security keys of NHS data to GCHQ
By Rob Woodward – TruePublica: Britain’s NHS has become the latest target for big tech to stick its money funnel into and harvest our most personal and private data. It was bad enough that the state illegally and secretly stole our privacy, captured our secrets, recorded our conversations, filmed our private moments, took images of… Continue reading
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Exercise Cygnus: UK Gov’t Response Was Modified Before COVID-19 Event
When one thinks of the NHS, intensive care is at the heart of most people’s perceptions of it. Yet the decline in the number of ICU beds over the last 30 years is so counterintuitive that it’s as if some monster deus ex machina has intervened and decided not only that the general numbers of… Continue reading
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COVID-19 exposes the weakness of Brexit
By TruePublica: There’s an irony being played out – a cruel one really. The COVID-19 crisis has unearthed some stark truths about how our country should be governed. One of those truths was just how important our key workers really are. Right now, the most dangerous job and most dangerous place in the country to… Continue reading
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More journalists barred from Gov’t daily press briefings – for asking wrong questions
By TruePublica: On 3 February, (remember how long ago that was) political journalists walked out of a Downing Street press briefing en masse after a Dominic Cummings associate attempted to ban selected reporters from attending. The Prime Minister’s Director of Communications, Lee Cain, tried to prevent journalists from the Independent, the i, the Mirror, HuffPost,… Continue reading
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