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UK-News« Previous EntriesIs Britain moving to the right?Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Socialist Review | It’s hard to remember that only nine months ago 1 May was projected as a likely general election day. Then, the theory went, Gordon Brown would be able to take Labour to a fourth election victory, strengthen his position as elected prime minister and continue for another four or five years. Brown was at that time – again hard to remember – enjoying a honeymoon following ... tagged UK-NewsAlong For FluorideSaturday, June 28th, 2008SchNews | If you knew that someone was putting poison into your water supply, what would you do? Call the authorities? Well don’t bother cos it’s the government wot’s doing it! If you live in the West Midlands or the North East, the chances are that you already have a fluoridated water supply - and comments earlier this year from Health Secretary Alan Johnson made it clear that he ... tagged UK-NewsMI5: revealing areas at mercy of collapsing dams is a terror threatSaturday, June 28th, 2008By Michael McCarthy | MI5 and flood risk experts are at odds over whether to publish inundation maps highlighting areas under threat if any of the country's dams were to collapse. The Security Service says that the information could show terrorists where an attack on a dam might have the most impact. Experts in the Cabinet Office and the Environment Agency feel the time has come to make the ... tagged MI5 and UK-NewsCCTV doesn’t keep us safe, yet the cameras are everywhereFriday, June 27th, 2008By Bruce Schneier | Pervasive security cameras don't substantially reduce crime. There are exceptions, of course, and that's what gets the press. Most famously, CCTV cameras helped catch James Bulger's murderers in 1993. And earlier this year, they helped convict Steve Wright of murdering five women in the Ipswich area. But these are the well-publicised exceptions. Overall, CCTV cameras aren't very effective. This fact has been demonstrated again ... tagged Big-Brother and UK-NewsWe can strike backFriday, June 27th, 2008Socialist Worker | Gordon Brown says we must all take a wage cut – but up to 800,000 local government workers are set to walk out over pay. Gordon Brown, chancellor Alistair Darling, and Bank of England governor Mervyn King lined up last week to deliver pious lectures on why workers must accept wage cuts to help stop inflation. But it is not wages that are pushing up ... tagged UK-NewsPolice chiefs against universal DNA databaseFriday, June 27th, 2008The majority of police chiefs are against a universal DNA database for the people of Britain. At a meeting during the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) annual conference, 61 per cent of police chiefs voted against the idea of putting all UK residents on the national database. Only 38 per cent of those present at the vote supported a universal database with one per cent unsure. The national DNA database is a ... tagged Database-State and UK-NewsExposed: the arms lobbyist in ParliamentFriday, June 27th, 2008By James Macintyre | A senior arms lobbyist is gaining access to ministers, MPs and peers inside Parliament using a research assistant pass allotted to a member of the House of Lords who benefits financially from one of his companies, The Independent has learnt. Robin Ashby, who is chairman of a defence consultancy firm that offers to ask questions of government on behalf of its clients "without your fingerprint ... tagged UK-NewsUK uses lung-shredder to kill rebelsFriday, June 27th, 2008Quqnoos | BRITISH troops have used missiles in Afghanistan which suck the air out of human targets, shred their internal organs and crush their bodies, according to a leading British newspaper. The Hellfire missiles, also known as vacuum bombs, are condemned by human rights groups as "brutal". Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) admitted to the London Times newspaper that its soldiers had fired the controversial thermobaric weapons, used to kill ... tagged UK-NewsFortress BritainTuesday, June 24th, 2008By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad | “The public has to be more alert”, warned one “international terrorism expert” in the Daily Mail late last year, because Scotland “is set to become another Israel within five years”. “[A]nti-terror measures will soon become a common feature of life”, he assured the audience, and called for “routine arming of police officers” and increasing children’s “awareness of the dangers of terrorism” and for them to ... tagged UK-NewsGovernment rejects calls for greater debate on data sharingTuesday, June 24th, 2008By Tom Young | The government has rejected a call from the Joint Human Rights Committee that any legislation that permits greater data sharing between Whitehall departments should be open to debate in parliament. The committee's contention is that any such moves should be considered as primary legislation, which is subject to scrutiny by parliament and open to amendments. Secondary legislation simply amends existing acts and does not ... tagged Database-State and UK-NewsLetter to Ian Blair by George GallowayThursday, June 19th, 2008 I write in connection with the police operation surrounding the President George W Bush to Downing Street today. I am not a habitual complainer about the police, as a scan of the public record and my history of cooperation with Tower Hamlets police and the Muslim Support Unit will quickly show. But I must say I witnessed scenes today, some of them ...
tagged UK-NewsLorry drivers to stage M62 fuel protestWednesday, June 18th, 2008 By Jon Land | Police monitoring a proposed fuel protest by truckers on one of the UK's busiest motorways said today their primary aim is to keep traffic flowing on the route. Organisers of the demonstration on the M62 in West Yorkshire have predicted up to 170 lorries will take part in the action against high fuel prices.
The hauliers plan ...
tagged UK-NewsUK is world’s biggest arms dealerWednesday, June 18th, 2008 ABC | Britain was the world's biggest arms seller last year, accounting for a third of global arms exports, the Government's trade promotion organisation said.
UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) said British arms exporters had added $20.1 billion in new business last year, giving them a larger share of global arms exports than the United States.
"As demonstrated by this outstanding ...
tagged UK-NewsHow powerful is the mass media?Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Socialist Worker | Our rulers can’t fool all of the people all of the time, argues Sadie Robinson. The idea that the mass media controls our ideas is a very common one. According to this theory, the media acts as a kind of syringe that injects propaganda directly into our minds.
People are seen as sheep that follow the media ...
tagged UK-NewsPolice attack anti-Bush protestorsWednesday, June 18th, 2008 By Stewart Office | The ban on the demonstration down Whitehall to protest the visit of war criminal George Bush was enforced with violence by the Metropolitan police. Two protestors were hospitalised by baton weilding police. Stop the War Coalition have organised over 20 national protests all of which have been peaceful. We have written a letter of protest ...
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