by barry | Feb 12, 2023 | Campaigns, censorship, freedom of information, Government, media freedom, whistle blowing
Last week at Prime Minister’s Question Time, Labour MP for Streatham in south London, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, asked the Prime Minister to come clean on how much public money has been spent on secretive Whitehall ‘counter disinformation units’...
by barry | Jan 24, 2023 | Campaigns, censorship, international, media freedom, Press, whistle blowing
Julian Assange still awaits his legal appeal against extradition to the United States to face charges under the 1917 Espionage Act. He has already spent nearly four years languishing in London’s high security Belmarsh Prison. Meanwhile, leading free press and human...
by barry | Dec 1, 2022 | Europe, media freedom
In a recent YouTube broadcast about the War in Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9pEotvlW-s the veteran investigative journalist John Pilger warns us that: ‘This is a war of propaganda’ and that we must be sceptical about everything. That’s sound advice when...
by barry | Nov 30, 2022 | Campaigns, censorship, international, media freedom, whistle blowing
The editors and publishers of the five media organisations who partnered with WikiLeaks – The Guardian, Le Monde, El País, Der Spiegel and New York Times – have called for end to the prosecution of Julian Assange. The New York Times reports...
by barry | Nov 10, 2022 | Campaigns, censorship, freedom of information, Government, media freedom
In June I blogged that the government had introduced its much heralded National Security Bill into Parliament: https://thespark.me.uk/2022/06/15/governments-new-security-bill-threatens-whistle-blowers-and-journalists-and-our-right-to-know/. In the government’s view...
by barry | Oct 10, 2022 | freedom of information, Government, media freedom, Press, whistle blowing
More than seven thousand people joined hands to form a human chain around the Palace of Westminster on Saturday to protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and demand his freedom. They linked arms outside parliament along Westminster Bridge...