In what should be one of the biggest political scandals of the decade, the UK’s Prime Minister Theresa May personally blocked a powerful parliamentary committee’s access to witnesses and evidence about […]
A damning report issued by the House of Commons’ Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) finds the UK government and intelligence services guilty of knowing collusion in the rendition and torture of […]
A report by the US Center for Investigative Reporting has revealed that, according to federal court filings on behalf of children and families, holding centres for children who have been stripped […]
The government’s letter today to Libyan politician Abdelhakim Belhaj and his wife Fatima Boudchar, apologising for their ‘rendition’ – their forcible and illegal transport – to Gaddafi’s Libya after their […]
Last night, the Tories launched a major – if predictably misleading – propaganda campaign on social media, claiming that Labour’s attempt to defeat a bill about post-Brexit laws was an […]
Came across this great Storify article that gives an overview of various articles about the government’s ‘Nudge unit’ or ‘Behavioural Insights Team’ – which was part-privatised earlier this year, thereby […]
The news at the moment is full of the ‘revelation’ that the ‘enhanced (or coercive) interrogation’ techniques used by the CIA on so-called ‘enemy combatants’ amounted to torture. These techniques, […]
My series of posts about the fake psychometric ‘test’ and the DWP/Cabinet Office’s attempts to deny it, became big news earlier this year. Among the facts that the DWP denied, […]
Please read and share this widely – I think it might just be massive. I wrote yesterday about the psychological bullying being inflicted on unemployed people by Jobcentre Plus on […]