by admin | Jun 26, 2020 | Campaigns, media freedom, nuj
Earlier this month Brian Cathcart, author and long standing campaigner for media reform, wrote an article in The Byline Times questioning why The Guardian had joined the deal negotiated with the Government by the News Media Association (NMA). In return for...
by admin | Jun 24, 2020 | Campaigns, international, media freedom, Turkey, unions
This year’s Solidarity with the People of Turkey (SPOT) conference planned for 28 March in London was a victim of the pandemic lock-down, Since then attacks on democracy have been stepped up with continuing crackdowns on civil society, independent media and political...
by admin | Jun 11, 2020 | Campaigns, international
Quite rightly and not before time a number of plinths that supported some abominable racist representatives of British imperialism are now vacant. Whilst the statue of Bristol’s slave trader Edward Colston has been dredged up from Bristol Harbour for its second coming...
by admin | Jun 4, 2020 | Campaigns, Press
“If elected on 12 December”, I wrote on 26 November 2019 in my blog The Tory manifesto – an Executive ‘power grab’ – we have been warned” will a new Tory government unleash an attack on some of the democratic traditions we have taken for granted for many years?...
by admin | Jun 2, 2020 | Campaigns, media freedom, nuj, unions, whistle blowing
Julian Assange was too ill to attend the latest court hearing in his extradition case at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 1 June. The hearing which is described as procedural, heard from Julian’s barrister, Edward Fitzgerald QC that his client did not appear by...
