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UK: Johnson government considers post-Brexit snap election, while Labour’s Blairites plot “national unity” government By Chris Marsden
12 August 2019 — WSWS Plans by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government to force through a no-deal Brexit threaten to embroil the UK in a major constitutional crisis. Continue reading
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Disunited Kingdom? The Union Is Now All But Dead
TruePublica Editor: Boris Johnson declares himself a champion of the UK union, a prime minister who wants to strengthen “the ties that bind our United Kingdom”. This is just part of the propaganda game being played. But as the FT headline goes – “Brexit has become the enemy of the UK union” (paywall) and it… Continue reading
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Official Secrets: Priti Patel’s Early War on Whistleblowers By Nina Cross
As British ambassador to the US Kim Darroch tended his wounds of humiliation last month, following the leak of a cache of diplomatic cables and documents, including emails describing President Trump as ‘inept’ and ‘uniquely dysfunctional,’ an outraged UK government descended into panic over how to handle such an apparently sensitive and damaging betrayal of… Continue reading
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State Censorship: seizing journalists notes, restricting press freedom
By TruePublica: In our recent article entitled – Rise of the Techno Stasi-State we asked the question was that too strong a news headline after the High Court decided the government’s architecture of mass surveillance over the population was perfectly legal. The legal representative, Chamberlain QC, said on the High Court steps after Liberty-Human-Rights lost… Continue reading
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‘You have to prove Putin was involved’: Met Police push back against UK blame game in Skripal saga
A year and a half since the Salisbury poisoning, the UK appears to be left with egg on its face after Scotland Yard admitted it is impossible to build a criminal case due to a lack of evidence. The Metropolitan Police scrutinized claims that an order to target former double agent Sergey Skripal and his… Continue reading
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New Fears for Julian Assange
Legendary journalist John Pilger has been to see Assange in Belmarsh Prison in London and his report is not encouraging. Continue reading
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The Skripal Poisoning: Anonymous’ Revelations Point to UK Intelligence Motives By Karin Brothers
Initially, it appeared to former government whistleblowers that the motive might have been connected to Sergei Skripal’s relationship with his handler Pablo Miller, whose name had been protected by a government gag order soon after the poisoning. Miller was a colleague of Christopher Steele, author of the fabricated Russian dossier on Donald Trump: perhaps Skripal… Continue reading
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Norman Finkelstein on Corbyn and ‘anti-semitism’ in the Labour Party
Jewish academic and son of Holocaust survivors analyses the Labour Party anti-semitism scandal and its implications for the upcoming American elections Continue reading
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Brexit and Britain’s Media Landscape
For a country that prides itself on the acerbic publication, the punchy put down, and balloon piercing irony, the propaganda battles in a changed media scape must have come as a bit of a shock. No part of the country has been exempt from a tide that sees no signs of stopping. Continue reading
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BBC Panorama on anti-semitism: a catalogue of reporting failures
The BBC transmitted an edition of Panorama on 10 July called ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’, presented by John Ware. It contained allegations that senior Labour figures close to Jeremy Corbyn had interfered with the internal investigations process and that the Party was insufficiently committed to tackling anti-semitism within its own ranks. In response, the Labour Party argued that… Continue reading
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A life costs £10,000: how G4S’ Brook House detention contract works
In 2017, security company G4S was in the headlines again after the Panorama TV programme exposed new revelations of brutality in Brook House, one of two immigration detention centres the company runs for the Home Office. Two years later, the National Audit Office has published a report on G4S’ contract to run the centre. Continue reading
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More British complicity exposed in latest ‘CIA Torture Unredacted’ report
The latest report about kidnappings, rendition, ‘black sites’ and torture is a remarkable piece of investigative work. It provides us with nothing less than a litany of shocking evidence and testimony and at 403 pages it makes for truly grim reading. This article is made up of a very brief set of extracts from the… Continue reading
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UK housing crisis: 630,000 young people face homelessness in retirement By Alice Summers
Hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK risk homelessness when they retire because they will be unable to afford skyrocketing private rental costs. Continue reading
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Boris Johnson’s Fake Radicalism
We hear much about Johnson coming to power as an iconoclastic figure willing to cut a swathe through the ranks of the Establishment and especially the Civil Service, aided by blue skies thinker Dominic Cummings. In fact nothing could be further from the truth. There has never been a Prime Minister more entrenched in and… Continue reading
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UK “Up To Its Neck” In RussiaGate Affair, Secret Texts Reveal British Role In Trump Coup Effort
While hysteria raged about possible Russian “interference” in the 2016 US election, British intelligence officials were secretly playing a “key role” in helping instigate investigations into Donald Trump, secret texts have shown. Continue reading
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UK: Over 1,300 homeless people penalised last year under the 1824 Vagrancy Act By Joe Mount
Thousands of people are being prosecuted every year in the UK under the draconian Georgian-era Vagrancy Act 1824. This outlaws begging and rough sleeping “in any deserted or unoccupied building, or in the open air, or under a tent, or in any cart or waggon, not having any visible means of subsistence.” Continue reading
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Bojo Bans the Media
By TruePublica: Blatant state censorship of the media is something we all understand to happen in non-democratic countries around the world. But one of the very last places on earth you would expect the state to fully manage the media, and by manage I mean – gagging, refusing questions and actually banning the filming of… Continue reading
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Blair’s number two, Alastair Campbell, reveals how Corbyn tried to keep him in the Labour Party By Robert Stevens
Alastair Campbell, one of the key figures in Tony Blair’s 1997 Labour government, announced this week he no longer wants to be a member of the party. The sentiment among most Labour Party members was “Good riddance to bad rubbish.” Continue reading
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Boris-Brexit News Links 30-31 July 2019
31 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back The Brexit Party got taken down for spreading vicious, racist lies http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/JQ97QpkPHTo/ Today’s Links 31 July 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/07/todays-links_31.html Continue reading
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