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...
by admin | May 11, 2020 | Campaigns, media freedom, nuj, whistle blowing
On 23 January in an adjournment debate in the House of Commons on the UK-US Extradition Agreement, David Davies, the Conservative MP for Haltemprice and Howden opened as follows: “Since we agreed the UK-US extradition treaty in 2003, it has been abundantly clear that...
by admin | Apr 28, 2020 | Campaigns
This article was written for the May newsletter of the Action on Climate Emergency (ACE) Settle and Area. Many of us may have missed it, but Wednesday 22 April was Earth Day. Under normal circumstances climate change campaigners would have been holding demonstrations...
by admin | Apr 26, 2020 | Campaigns, media freedom
A report in this weekend’s Yorkshire Post drew my attention to the fact that Craig Murray, a former British diplomat, now journalist and human rights campaigner, has been charged with contempt of court after writing blogs about the recent trial of Alex Salmond which...
