by barry | Nov 23, 2021 | Campaigns, Climate Change, international
Now that the media has moved on from COP 26 in Glasgow it’s time to take stock of the outcomes and consider how it impacts on us. So what was the United Nations global climate summit COP 26 all about? In Paris in 2015 195 nations committed themselves to work towards...
by barry | Nov 3, 2021 | Campaigns, freedom of information, international, media freedom, whistle blowing
The US appeal against the dismissal of its application to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, was heard over two days in London’s Royal Courts of Justice on 27 and 28 October, but the outcome may not be known for several weeks. The hearing arose from District...
by barry | Oct 4, 2021 | international, Tributes
An excellent Guardian obituary in the printed edition of the Guardian on 10 September by Pete Robinson covers the extraordinary life of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/17/otelo-saraiva-de-carvalho-obituary).Otelo was a former army...
by admin | Aug 7, 2021 | international, Russia, whistle blowing
This week Index on Censorship, an organisation campaigning for freedom of expression, held a webinar ‘Whistle-blowers: the lifeblood of democracy’ to mark the launch of the summer 2021 edition of ‘Index on Censorship’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixGnSlTq-98 As the...
by admin | Jul 16, 2021 | Campaigns, freedom of information, international, whistle blowing
Saturday 3 July was WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s 50th birthday, but he did not have much to celebrate. The attempt to extradite Assange to the United States was rejected in January, but bail was refused and he continues to be held in Belmarsh prison pending an...
by admin | Feb 19, 2021 | Europe, Government, international
‘I believe the Union is over-democratised.’ Herman van Rumpuy EU President from 2009 to 2014 (quoted by Perry Anderson in ‘The European Coup’ London Review of Books, 17 December 2020) I was fourteen at the time when on 3 February 1960, Prime Minister and old Etonian...
