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Boris Johnson gets short shrift from European Union leaders in Brexit talks By Richard Tyler
Boris Johnson’s first visit to meet senior European Union (EU) figures since he took power in July ended with the UK prime minister sent packing without receiving any concessions on Brexit. Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 16 September 2019
16 September 2019 • 22:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back ‘World order based on empires’: EU’s Verhofstadt ridiculed online for bizarre ‘Vote Leave’ rhetoric Boris Johnson says EU has had ‘bellyful’ of Brexit process https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49715705 Continue reading
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As David Cameron resurfaces ‘Broken Britain’ disintegrates
By TruePublica: David Cameron has no shame whatsoever. He has, cynically, come out of hiding – simply to promote his new book and make some money from an ongoing catastrophe of his making. For the last three years he hid from the political landscape he set fire to and finally pops up to say that… Continue reading
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The Brexit crisis and the struggle for the unity and political independence of the working class By Thomas Scripps
Britain’s Supreme Court will begin its hearing Tuesday into whether Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s proroguing of parliament is unlawful. Continue reading
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The World’s Most Important Political Prisoner
We are now just one week away from the end of Julian Assange’s uniquely lengthy imprisonment for bail violation. He will receive parole from the rest of that sentence, but will continued to be imprisoned on remand awaiting his hearing on extradition to the USA – a process which could last several years. Continue reading
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Trust and Disclosure: Are Civil Rights Being Sacrificed on the Altar of Brexit?
On Monday evening MPs voted to force the UK government to publish all of its no-deal Brexit ‘Yellowhammer‘ documents. A majority vote of 311 to 302 was passed in favour of what is known as a “humble address” to force the government to publish all the Yellowhammer documents available to the cabinet or a cabinet… Continue reading
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State Surveillance: Blacklisting and the secret habit employers can’t seem to kick
This article is part of a series we are publishing from the ‘State of Surveillance’ report written by BigBrotherWatch, the civil liberties organisation. Much of the mainstream media have completely ignored its findings. Regular readers of TruePublica know we have published many reports and articles over the last four years relating to state surveillance (database)… Continue reading
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British judge jails Assange indefinitely, despite end of prison sentence By Oscar Grenfell
In a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning, British District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange will remain in prison, despite the fact that his custodial sentence for “absconding” bail expires on September 22. Continue reading
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Billionaire Duke of Westminster carrying out social cleansing of working-class residents in London By Charles Hixson
Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster and the richest person in the world under 30, plans to evict tenants through the demolition of two residential blocks in Belgravia in order to build luxury flats and expensive shops. Continue reading
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The BBC has made a programme about ‘impartial journalism’. But wait till you see the contributors.
BBC Radio 4 is to air a discussion titled Impartial Journalism in a Polarised World. Sounds good. But sociologist Russ Jackson spotted a problem: Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 13 September 2019
13 September 2019 — The New Dark Age Legal challenge to Government Brexit strategy due before NI court on Monday Bercow warns PM against disobeying Brexit law https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49683797 Scottish Court Rules Suspension of UK Parliament ‘Unlawful’ Continue reading
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Fire destroys another residential tower block in London By Thomas Scripps
Another inferno has torn through a large block of London residential flats. Just over two years after the Grenfell Tower inferno, the raging fire completely destroyed an entire structure—this time in Worcester Park in the borough of Sutton, in the southwest of the capital. Continue reading
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UK: “Operation Yellowhammer” details savage austerity and confirms plans for state repression post-Brexit By Thomas Scripps
On Wednesday evening, Boris Johnson’s government was forced to release its forecast for a no-deal Brexit, codenamed “Operation Yellowhammer.” The six-page document affirms the social and economic catastrophe threatened by a no-deal Brexit and underscores the danger of authoritarian rule in the UK. Continue reading
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The Dogs in the Street Know By Craig Murray
There are some very obvious facts in British politics which nobody seems to be saying. Joanna Cherry stated in her successful court case that “the dogs in the street know” that the real reason that Boris Johnson had prorogued parliament was to prevent parliament from having an effective say on the outcome of Brexit. The… Continue reading
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The EU – do we stay or do we go? By Philip Roddis
For years I’ve called myself a peg-on-nose Remainer. While many fellow Remainers strike me as naive, deluded on the nature of the EU and frequently contemptuous to boot, my bottom line is that until Left Leavers show how Brexit can be a gain in the here and now for British workers,[1] I don’t see how leaving… Continue reading
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Brexit reveals Corbyn to be the true moderate By Jonathan Cook
If there is an upside to Brexit, it is this: it has made it increasingly hard to present Jeremy Corbyn, contrary to everything the corporate media has been telling us for the past four years, as anything but a political moderate. In truth, he is one of the few moderates left in British – or… Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 12 September 2019
12 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Brexit legal challenge dismissed in Belfast High Court Brexit reveals Corbyn to be the True Moderate Continue reading
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HALLELUJA! – BBC Updates Editorial Guidelines to Improve Scrutiny of Think Tank Pundits
TruePublica Editor: At last, someone at the BBC has finally seen the light. It’s at the end of the tunnel there somewhere. For four years TruePublica has complained about the detrimental effects of organisations like the so-called Institute of Economics Affairs – one of the most opaque and secretive think tanks in Britain that swings… Continue reading
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Corbyn addresses Trades Union Congress in a display of cynicism and hypocrisy By Richard Tyler
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed the assembled union functionaries at the annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton Tuesday in a vain attempt to boost his left credentials among workers. He did so, however, under conditions in which he has capitulated time and again to the Remain agenda of his party’s right-wing Blairites. Continue reading
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Bojo/Brexit News Links 10-11 September 2019
11 September 2019 • 21:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back New poll suggests increasing support for break-up of the UK http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/bTwkq4fSP24/ DUP politician indicates massive U-turn on the ‘backstop’ agreement http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/U5Qf8h2lzlo/ Continue reading
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