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Australia has Revealed its Part in Afghan War Crimes, Now the UK Must Face Up to Its Own
After damning revelations of war crimes committed by Australia’s special forces were revealed to the public it is time the British Government faced up to its own bloody history in the Middle East writes Steve Shaw
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Completed COVID Care Home Tests Flown 300 Miles for Results
‘Test and trace’ chaos forced the Government to fly care home swabs from Bournemouth to Belfast, new documents reveal
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COVID-19 Testing Contracts Awarded to Firm Accused of Selling Equipment Used for ‘Genetic Surveillance’ in Xinjiang
Amid concerns over Government due diligence, John Lubbock and Iain Overton explore a series of COVID-19 contracts awarded to a firm accused of assisting the repression of Uyghur Muslims
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Why is Britain Not Sanctioning the Architect of China’s Most Orwellian Policies?
A Chinese Communist Party official, widely believed to be the mastermind of Beijing’s most draconian policies in Xinjiang and Tibet, needs international pressure applied to him over his systematic repression, say campaigners
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‘Sorry, But We’re Not Sorry’: The Untouchable Johnson Regime
Jonathan Lis argues that the British public would have more respect for the Government if it owned up to its many mistakes – a taking back of control the administration cannot bear
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The Government Cannot Build its Way Out of England’s Housing Crisis
Julian Mercer analyses the misguided policy of successive governments of building too many new houses, but not creating any more homes
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Frontline Workers Failed By Wasteful, Inefficient £15 Billion PPE Procurement Effort
The majority of protective equipment bought by the Government still hasn’t arrived, the National Audit Office has revealed
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Hong Kong Activists Face Jail As Pro-Democracy Movement Fades
Today, activists for democracy in the former British colony find themselves with no protests, no opposition law-makers and, soon, without their influential leaders
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Conservative Factionalism at War with Economic Reality
James Meadway assesses the political and economic pressures facing Chancellor Rishi Sunak ahead of tomorrow’s Spending Review
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The Wolves of Westminster: Inside the Escalating Conflict Between Local and Central Government
The infiltration of private companies into public sector work has been years in the making, reports former council accountant Gary Gowers
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Boris Johnson Politicised the Ministerial Code in 2019 – Now, Anything Goes
Leighton Andrews explains why the lack of action over the Home Secretary’s bullying was set up in advance through the Government’s ideological fixation on Brexit and assault on the rule of law
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Memetic Warfare: How the Targeted Propaganda of QAnon Weaponised COVID-19
Daniel Morrison looks at the Trump campaign origins of the ‘gamified’ global conspiracy theory which has now evolved into active Coronavirus denialism
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Hidden Trauma: Accident and Emergency Nurse Reveals Abuse of Disabled by Family Carers
Stephen Colegrave speaks to an Accident and Emergency nurse who has witnessed the unreported abuse of vulnerable people
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Hatred, Hypocrisy and Plain Bad Journalism at The Times
Brian Cathcart looks at the latest example of anti-Muslim bias at Britain’s newspaper of record
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Dominic Cummings’ Role in The Great Procurement Scandal Shows He is Not a Mastermind
Dominic Cummings failed to reform the procurement process, and in doing so exposed his hollow intellectual posturing, argues Sam Bright
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Russia Could Have Betrayed Armenia for Oil and Gas
Nikola Mikovic examines whether Russia’s decision not to support Armenia could have been linked to lucrative energy deals with Azerbaijan
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‘Love Jihad’ – Another Step Towards India’s Nazification
A new law based around a conspiracy theory that Muslim men are tricking Hindu women into marrying them to turn India into an Islamic caliphate is yet another example of the country’s descent, says CJ Werleman
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COVID-19 Testing Chaos Forced Almost Half a Million Tests to be Processed Abroad
Amid a backlog in domestic labs, the UK shipped tests to the United States, Italy and Germany for analysis, Sam Bright reveals
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Serco Lands Place on £7.5 Billion Government Contract to Provide ‘Employment Services’
After facing criticism for its work during the pandemic, the outsourcing giant is set to be paid millions of pounds more to assist the post-Coronavirus clean-up operation, reports Sam Bright
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Extreme Anti-Abortion Group’s New ‘Missional Network of Pregnancy Support’ Revealed
Sian Norris reports on plans for the provision of new services by a group which links abortion with Satanic Ritual Abuse, believes delaying abortion decisions is justified, and links it to suicide
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‘Institutionalised Impunity’: Chilean Police Shooting at Children’s Home Sparks New Wave of Unrest
Carole Concha Bell reports on another atrocity as Chile’s billionaire President Sebastian Piñera allows police violence to return to the horrific levels of the Augusto Pinochet regime
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Behind Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party: The Latest in Politainment
A key figure in Britain’s ‘culture war’ is being spearheaded by a PR group with ties to Vote Leave donor Jeremy Hosking
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Britain’s Cyber Security Operations Undermined by Swanky Spies
David Hencke reports on parliamentary criticism of GCHQ’s decision to use a large portion of its new budget on swish new London offices
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How Brexit and Biden Fuelled Chaos Inside Downing Street
Peter Oborne looks at broader compelling reasons why two top advisors left the Boris Johnson administration
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Brazil Welcomes Chinese Investment Regardless of the Consequences
Monica Piccinini charts the rise of Chinese investment in Brazil and how important it is becoming for the economy and the Brazilian Government
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The Civil War That Threatens to Destabilise the Horn of Africa
Steve Shaw reports on the civil war that exploded in one of Africa’s most stable countries in the shadow of the US election, and now threatens to spill across borders
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Trumpism Still Festers in Boris Johnson’s Britain – But it is Dying
Nafeez Ahmed tracks the export of populist demagoguery from America to Britain, and urges a campaign to snuff out its dying embers
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Australia’s Worrying Reaction to the Special Forces War Crimes Report
CJ Werleman reports on how the Australian right-wing press appears to be minimising the shocking murder of 39 Afghans
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‘Retraumatising Survivors’: Is Scottish Football Marking its Own Homework over Historic Child Abuse?
Adrian Goldberg reports on new concerns about the Independent Review into Sexual Abuse in Scottish Football
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British Troops Could be Made to Take a Bullet for French President Macron
Martin Jay writes that Boris Johnson could be about to make a terrible mistake by committing troops to fight in Mali for French national interests
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Saudi Arabia’s War on Academics, Intellectuals and Human Rights Defenders
Days before Saudi Arabia hosts the G20 Summit, British MPs have been told the kingdom is experiencing one of the worst periods of repression in recent times, reports Steve Shaw
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Up to £1.1 Billion in Government PPE Contracts Awarded to Firms Linked to Religious Sect
Byline Times and The Citizens have discovered dozens of deals awarded to firms with apparent ties to a little-known Christian group
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61 Pork Barrels: Jenrick Funnelled Billions of Public Money to Conservative Target Seats
David Hencke’s analysis of the Government’s Town Fund scheme suggests politically motivated deals that paid off in the 2019 General Election
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Government’s Rushed, Biased Procurement Process Exposed by Spending Watchdog
A new National Audit Office report – which found that the Government established a ‘high-priority’ lane for PPE suppliers with political links – does little to dispel the notion of cronyism at the heart of the Boris Johnson administration, explains Sam Bright
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A Top Priority for Joe Biden: Stop Information Warfare
Zarina Zabrisky urges the President-elect and his team to counter one of the gravest threats to modern democracy
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Citizens Disunited: The End of the Transatlantic Trumpist Alliance
Peter Jukes looks at the rise and fall of the dark money and online culture war strategies that put Donald Trump in the White House and pushed Britain out of the EU
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Fighting Fascism: Art As Activism
Jan Fuscoe, of the ‘Brick Lane: The Turning Point’ project, hears from Dan Jones, an artist, activist and campaigner for over 50 years
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Brexit’s Toll On Britain’s Creative Industries: The Sadness and Madness that Awaits
Composer Howard Goodall sets out what performers will need to know in a post-Brexit world and reflects on the sorrow of the Government’s desire to erect barriers, when the job of creatives is to tear them down
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The Government’s COVID response is Mired in Anti-EU, Anti-Public Sector Bias and Corruption
The Boris Johnson administration’s ideological decision-making is putting lives at risk, argues Mike Buckley
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Health Ministers’ COVID-19 Meetings with Conservative & Vote Leave Allies Revealed
MP alleges ‘special treatment’ as two former Vote Leave chiefs were drafted in by Matt Hancock’s department, reports Sam Bright
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Why the UK Could be the Source of the Next Pandemic
Intensive chicken farming in the UK is generating dangerous new viruses, reports Claire Hamlett
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Johnson Without Cummings – The Beginning of the End?
The Prime Minister must decide whether to conclude a Brexit deal with the European Union within days – will he use it as a marker to change his leadership of the country?
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Review of Controversial Prevent Strategy Being ‘Kicked into Long Grass’
Stephen Delahunty reports on developments with regards to an independent assessment of the Government’s counter-terrorism programme which was due to report in August
