“The State Is Very Sophisticated In How It Deals With These Whistleblowers And It Knows It Can Rely On A Very Pliant Media That Is Not Going To Follow Up These Stories.” — Phil Miller A small English village is hardly the first place that comes to mind when mentioning the war in Yemen. Yet Warton in the northwest of England is playing an oversized role in what the United Nations has repeatedly called “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” The Lancashire village is home to an airfield and a manufacturing site where weapons dealer BAE Systems maintains, repairs and rearms Saudi jets responsible […]
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Racism In Britain Has A Long If Contested History By Angelique Richardson, Black Agenda Report. November 14, 2020 Racism In Britain Has A Long If Contested History2020-11-142020-11-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/britcolored_-_845x400-e1605376430329.jpeg200px200px The Brits practiced a nonjudicial form of Jim Crow against non-white immigrants from their colonial empire. “Racialization is one way of dividing labor and resources along unjust and oppressive lines; class is another.” The demobilized troopship HMT Empire Windrush that arrived at Tilbury Dock on 22 June 1948 was not Britain’s first migration ship, but its passengers were the first to be promised British citizenship, which the British Nationality Act of 1948 conferred on “every person born within the United […]
Using foreign military hardware is nothing new for the Ukrainian Army, where US-made weaponry, including patrol vehicles, fast boats, and Javelin anti-tank missiles are currently in service. Senior Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak said on Friday that the UK had expressed readiness to provide the country with a hefty lethal weapons contract, in addition to a £1 billion ($1.2 billion) loan to the Ukrainian Navy. The statement came as President Volodymyr Zelensky met UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London to sign a spate of bilateral cooperation agreements. Yermak claimed that recent mass protests in neighbouring Belarus pose a possible threat […]
Britain, by virtue of its long and often gale-hit coastline, is already the world’s leading producer of offshore wind power. Currently enough energy to power 4.5 million homes is produced by offshore wind turbines in the UK. Boris Johnson is outlining plans to turn Britain into the world’s “wind king”, creating 2,000 construction jobs and supporting 60,000 in supply industries. He says he wants more offshore wind farms to increase the amount of energy produced from 30 to 40 gigabytes by 2030. It is a remarkable about-turn by the Prime Minister who in 2013 famously said: “Wind farms couldn’t pull the skin […]
c“No one saw it coming, because second albums are notoriously shit,” Noel Gallagher recalled of the surprise success of Oasis’s second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? “We certainly didn’t see it coming. That’s for sure.” (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? celebrates its 25th anniversary this week. It was a career-defining moment for Oasis, a band that had burst onto the British music scene in a big way barely a year earlier with the massive success of its debut album Definitely Maybe, and a string of chart-topping singles. But (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?—which contained the hit songs “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look […]
The EU will negotiate with the UK “until the bitter end,” the head of the bloc’s parliament David Sassoli has said. The talks have been in turmoil since London introduced new legislation that would breach the withdrawal agreement. The lawmaker also said he felt “sad” about London’s move to undermine the Brexit agreement, insisting it should honor the earlier deals reached. “Britain has to respect previous deals or we won’t make any progress,” Sassoli said, during a press conference on Thursday. “The EU will negotiate with Britain until the bitter end.” The already-turbulent Brexit saga took a new twist early in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/01/1080629683_0:63:3071:1791_1200x675_80_0_0_9b01bf817b2d622693c6d239f473d737.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Chris Summers. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202010011080630825-uk-fishermen-welcome-new-deal-with-norway-as-britain-and-eu-haggle-over-quotas/ In the 1970s Britain’s then Foreign Secretary, Anthony Crosland, cut a deal with Iceland which decimated the fishing industry, especially in the port of Grimsby. Crosland died suddenly in 1977 but fishermen remain wary of politicians. Britain’s National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations has welcomed a deal between the UK government and Norway as negotiations continue over a post-Brexit arrangement to replace the Common Fisheries Policy. NFFO Chief Executive, Barrie Deas, said: “This is the established pattern of how coastal states with shared stocks work with each other to ensure that fish stocks […]
The story of how British Vulcan bombers successfully penetrated US air defences in the early 1960s to conduct mock nuclear attacks on American cities. Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers ‘Zero Night’ and ‘Castle of the Eagles’, both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can […]
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Leaning heavily on the words of two literary giants the Scottish National Party leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, savaged England’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the House of Parliament. The memory of Scotland’s Bard Robert Burns was deployed when Blackford borrowed from Burn’s superb ‘Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation’ poem to accuse Johnson and his Cabinet of being ‘a parcel of rogues’ who were intent in turning the UK into a ‘rogue’ nation with their plans to break international and domestic law in their Internal Market Bill: “This legislation breaks international law, but it also breaks domestic law. […]
The report builds from Downing Streets expectations of a 3-year delay to its 5G rollout and comes after the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced the ban in July this year. The UK government’s ban and removal of Huawei from national 5G networks by 2027 will risk a severe delay in the country’s 5G rollout targets, an independent report from research and analysis firm Assembly said on Wednesday. The report, commissioned by Huawei Technologies, found that such measures could cost the UK economy £18.2bn and the countries competitive lead in 5G. British mobile operators had made “significant” progress […]
David Frost, who took over the position of Cabinet minister in charge of the deadlocked Brexit talks with Brussels in January, assumed the EU’s obstinate position goes back to lax negotiations with Theresa May’s government. However, this time, he insists, London’s voice must at long last be taken seriously. The UK “won’t blink” in the crucial talks on post-Brexit economic arrangements, Britain’s chief negotiator David Frost warned his EU colleagues in an interview with the Mail on Sunday, insisting that the UK would not become a “client state” of Brussels by accepting its restrictions on fishing rights and vetoes of British laws. […]
Search terms such as “what is crippling anxiety” increased by 800 per cent via Google amid the exam results fiasco in the UK, according to research conducted by a health management firm. If left unchecked, anxiety and stress can have a serious impact on the mental and physical health of students, a long-time health access advocate tells Sputnik. Google search witnessed an explosion in terms centred around ‘coping with rejection’ and ‘crippling anxiety’ amid the UK’s A-level fiasco whereby 40 per cent of students saw their grades significantly downgraded by an algorithm, at a time when COVID-19 prevented them from sitting […]
Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo has warned ExxonMobil his government will pass legislation to make the transnational oil giant pay its way in the small South American nation. Guyana’s newly-elected government is looking to former colonial power the UK as a partner to expand its natural resources sector. Natural Resources Minister Vickram Bharrat, an MP for the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), met on Tuesday with the outgoing UK High Commissioner Greg Quinn and his deputy Ray Davidson, who will be acting in the role. “The dialogue centred on capacity building within the oil and gas sector, forestry, and Guyana’s access to UK markets for […]
How Co-operative Architecture Shaped Britain By Tess Pinto, Tribune Magazine. August 24, 2020 How Co-operative Architecture Shaped Britain2020-08-242020-08-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/the-co-operative-building-in-stirchley-birmingham.-credit-stirchley-historical-society.png200px200px Above: photo The Co-operative building in Stirchley, Birmingham. Credit Stirchley Historical Society. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Britain’s growing co-operative movement provided an alternative to capitalist business practices – and made its mark on cities and towns with ambitious building projects. Co-operative forms of organization have proliferated in the UK during the pandemic, with self-organizing networks of mutual aid groups forming and thriving at street and neighborhood level to meet people’s needs in a collective way. These kinds of relationships feel novel, but […]
February didn’t seem like halcyon days at the time, but you often don’t realize this sort of thing until later. As soon as he was finished talking for the day, Jarvis Cocker had plans to check out a cool, kinda underground venue in Brooklyn he’d been hearing about. The former Pulp frontman, Britpop legend and hero to literate overthinkers everywhere was planning on releasing his first album in over a decade in May, and he wanted to find just the right place for his first U.S. show in nearly as many years. Since this was an early February afternoon, it was […]
LONDON – Nearly 750 armored vehicles purchased by the British Ministry of Defence to combat the threat of roadside bombs in Afghanistan are being axed from the Army’s force structure. Mastiff, Ridgeback and Wolfhound armored fleets are to be pensioned off in the latest drawdown of vehicles under the Land Environment Fleet Optimisation Plan (LEFOP) by the British Army, MoD procurement minister Jeremy lawmakers this month. The plan includes the complete deletion of some fleets and the reduction in size of others, as vehicle numbers are right-sized to reflect the needs of the British Army. Some 733 of the vehicles built […]
Weapon sales to Saudi Arabia were banned in June 2019 after a U.K. Court of Appeal ruled that the government may have contravened international humanitarian law by approving weapon sales to the Saudis that might have been used in the civil war in Yemen. Britain is one of the largest exporters of defense equipment in the world, largely thanks to Saudi Arabia’s purchase over more than 30 years of Tornado and Typhoon combat jets as well as Hawk jet trainers. Raytheon Paveway IV precision-guided bombs, partly built in the U.K., are also among the list of recent significant sales to Saudi […]
“There’s so much pain and hatred in the world right now,” Paul Weller, the U.K. musical icon tells me as we sit down to discuss On Sunset, his album due out July 3rd. “I wanted to create something joyful and upbeat, that could give people hope in this moment.” And that’s precisely what On Sunset does. While it draws on everything from folk and psychedelia to freakbeat and musique concrète, at its core On Sunset is a soul album. Longtime influences like Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Betty Davis, and Ann Peebles creep through, as do more obvious nods to Bobby Womack […]
Amid an announced government “reset” as Britain emerges from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic to shift focus onto post-Brexit issues, the UK’s head of the civil service Sir Mark Sedwill has announced he will stand down in September, stating he would resign from the positions of Cabinet Secretary and National Security Adviser. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made conciliatory gestures by promising Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill that as part of his exit package, he will nominate him for the post of NATO’s next secretary-general, reports The Times. Although securing the NATO position was presented by Johnson as a […]
Iran envoy implies US failed to forge consensus for anti-Iran resolution at UNSC …from PressTV, Iran [ Editor’s Note: The US frustration over pushback against its unipolar foreign policy has Sec. of State Pompeo at his wits end, with a twist of election year theatrics. He knows that Russia and China will veto a formal UNSC vote to sanction Iran. Left out of the news reporting was that Britain, France and Germany have rejected the US position, continuing to insist that the JCPOA be fully implement, but Pompeo’s ‘Trump’ card there was to claim that, even though the US left the […]
[Editor’s note: Britons are thoroughly fed up of our American cousins right now, in particular the pile of horseshit you call President. It was inevitable, President Horseshit’s demented bloviations prior to Brexit made it clear – the US intends to foist on to Britain a whole heap of unpalatable shit we neither want nor need. There can be fewer more basic trade goods than food, and even at this level, Britain is mightily annoyed, nay raging, that our own piece of horseshit in Downing St is doing as he always does and doing the opposite of what he promised by trying […]
Britain, France, and Germany Oppose US Effort to Re-Impose Sanctions Against Iran – Joint Statement Source link
The UK is set to use a “decentralized” model proposed by Google and Apple for its Covid-19 contact-tracing app. The previous model developed by the NHS sparked privacy and usability concerns. The government is switching to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google. Despite the replacement, the user interface will stay the same. The news follows reports that the NHS app’s advisory board is considering dropping the current centralized model, by which data is stored on a central server controlled by authorities and opting for a decentralized approach touted by Google and Apple, by which data is kept on […]
The UK government has breached its own guidelines requiring it to conduct regular inspections of controversial weapons factories making bombs used by Saudi Arabia in its aerial campaign in Yemen, a new report says. The purpose of regular inspections is to check whether weapons producers fulfill the conditions of their export licenses. However, inspectors last visited US arms giant Raytheon’s missile factories in Glenrothes, east-central Scotland, in November 2016, and in Harlow, Essex, in November 2015. This means Britain has breached its own guidelines requiring the inspections to be conducted “every three years” at a minimum, investigative websites Declassified UK and […]
LONDON – Four international consortia have been shortlisted by Britain’s Ministry of Defence to enter the final stage of bidding to operate ground control facilities for its Skynet satellite communications network. Teams led by Airbus Defence & Space, Babcock Integrated Technology, BT and Serco, have been down-selected for the Skynet 6 Service Delivery Wrap program following the MoD’s Defence Digital organization release of an invitation to tender document to the remaining contenders June 12. The make-up of one of the teams vying for the ground station operations contract is already known, while others have yet to announce who their partners are. […]
The US has been rocked by over two weeks of protests over the police killing of an unarmed black man in a Minneapolis street in broad daylight, with the incident adding to strains stemming from the deaths of over 100,000 Americans from coronavirus, and lockdown measures which have thrown over 40 million people out of work. Trump National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien has accused Washington’s enemies of seeking of using the explosive political situation in the US to cause harm to America and its allies. “Our adversaries are attempting to take advantage of the current circumstances to do us harm or […]
Federal prosecutors investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring are asking British officials to turn over Prince Andrew for questioning, The Sun reported. This report comes nearly six months after Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Andrew had provided “zero cooperation” with their probe into Epstein, who sexually abused scores of underage girls. According to The Sun, the U.S. Department of Justice “has formally told the UK [that] the Duke of York is now caught up in a criminal probe for the first time.” (Prince Andrew and Buckingham Palace have denied the 60-year-old royal was involved in […]
VIENNA — Iran has continued to increase its stockpiles of enriched uranium and remains in violation of its deal with world powers, the United Nations’ atomic watchdog said Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported the finding in a confidential document distributed to member countries and seen by The Associated Press. The agency said that as of May 20, Iran’s total stockpile of low-enriched uranium amounted to 1,571.6 kilograms (1.73 tons), up from 1,020.9 kilograms (1.1 tons) on Feb. 19. Iran signed the nuclear deal in 2015 with the United States, Germany, France, Britain, China and Russia. Known as the Joint […]
Where the Virus Is Growing Most: Countries With ‘Illiberal Populist’ Leaders By David Leonhardt and Lauren Leatherby New York Times The four large countries where coronavirus cases have recently been increasing fastest are Brazil, the United States, Russia and Britain. And they have something in common. They are all run by populist male leaders who cast themselves as anti-elite and anti-establishment. The four leaders — Jair Bolsonaro, Donald J. Trump, Vladimir V. Putin and Boris Johnson — also have a lot of differences, of course, as do their countries. Yet all four subscribe to versions of what Daniel Ziblatt, a government professor at Harvard […]
The most serious political crisis that Boris Johnson has faced as British prime minister is getting worse. Johnson has become a lightning rod for the fury of the British public—frustrated and restless after nine weeks of lockdown restrictions—after his decision not to sack his top aide who was forced to admit that he traveled hundreds of miles during the pandemic, despite suspecting that both he and his wife had COVID-19. After days of Johnson trying to excuse the actions of Dominic Cummings, as well as an extraordinary televised press conference where Cummings emerged from the shadows in an unsuccessful attempt to […]
A British father-of-two and a 27-year-old woman have been charged after a woman’s body was found “sawed in half” and shoved into suitcases in a forest outside Birmingham, England, according to local reports. The remains of an unidentified woman were found near a quarry in the Forest of Dean on Tuesday night, after a member of the public reported a vehicle driving erratically in the area, according to The Sun. A source close to the investigation told the paper that the alleged scene of the crime—a property in nearby Birmingham—was “like a bloodbath.” Authorities said a post-mortem examination was inconclusive and […]
The queen gave a 75th anniversary VE Day speech Friday night that doubled as a rallying cry against coronavirus. “Never give up, never despair, that was the message of VE Day,” she told the British people. Second World War heroes would “recognize and admire,” the sacrifices the British were making today in the fight against coronavirus, the queen added. It was her second major coronavirus-themed speech to the nation. “It may seem hard that we cannot mark this special anniversary as we would wish. Instead we remember from our homes and our doorsteps. But our streets are not empty,” the queen […]
The competition to build up to three 40,000-ton vessels was expected to have been worth as much as $1.9 billion at the time the competition was unexpectedly terminated in November 2019. Source link