Watch out Boris: Priti is after you!
29
Jul
Category Archives: uk
Those who looked the other way
28
Jun
“Those who looked the other way, because they disliked Julian Assange, when the Department of Justice indicted him on a legal theory – that publishing clear public interest journalism could constitute multiple Espionage Act violations – should reconsider where that … Read More »
Hancock gently rebuked by Pie
27
Jun
In the opening sentence of a post last month I spoke of Team BoJo as: … a spectacularly inept and – even by tory standards – venal party led by a serial liar … Perhaps that was a tad harsh. … Read More »
Black Ops in the Black Sea
24
Jun
The Royal Naval destroyer, HMS Defender Having a jail sentence hanging over him is doing nothing to stop courageous whistle-blower Craig Murray from calling out an increasingly criminal empire, and the willingness of its John Bull junior partner to do … Read More »
Priti Patel’s threat to British journalists
20
Jun
UK government’s little-known proposed reforms to Britain’s Official Secrets Acts pose far-reaching threats to the media and the public’s right to know. They could land journalists and others in jail for fourteen years for publishing information the government claims damages … Read More »
Why I bang on about the trans thing
8
Jun
Since I’m more at home calling out the lies on China, Russia and Syria – else laying bare those mechanisms which ensure we have no independent media, hence no true democracy – you might ask why I’m bothering with this … Read More »
Transphobia? It’s time the woke woke up!
6
Jun
This from the Sunday Times today, June 6. Fundraiser block after cash pours in for feminist charged with hate crime A fundraising appeal to pay the legal bills of a feminist charged with a hate crime over alleged homophobic and … Read More »
Murphy’s law
17
May
He backs Modern Monetary Theory. I do not. He is a Quaker. I am not. Nevertheless, I’ve a soft spot for economist Richard Murphy. (I give my reasons in a short intro to his February post on risible accounting in … Read More »
Sheffield shows Solidarity with Palestine
15
May
Of course Sheffield couldn’t match the 150,000 who today marched from Speaker’s Corner to the Israeli Embassy in London. Still, several hundred of steel city’s finest turned out in solidarity with their Palestinian brothers and sisters outside the Town Hall, … Read More »
Missing pieces: the trial of Craig Murray
12
May
Yesterday Craig Murray – whistle blower, Scots nationalist, former rector of Dundee University, former UK Ambassador and much besides – was sentenced to eight months for contempt of court in his blog coverage of the collapsed trial of former SNP … Read More »