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Part One – Local and National News Review
A local architect drew up some fantastic designs, and we’ve developed a robust business plan and commissioned an independent analysis of the social value the project would deliver to east Bristol. Progress update We’re at an exciting stage of the journey. In June 2026, Bristol City Council invited us to submit our plans in the form of an “Expression of Interest” (EOI) so it could decide on giving us a lease for the site we think is most suitable. This would be a Community Asset Transfer (CAT). What’s in our proposal? In our CAT proposal, the People’s Pool would be open all year and situated on the 2nd bowling green site, near the playground in Eastville Park – not on the site of the former outdoor pool, which now provides a wonderful habitat to local wildlife. The site we think would work perfectly has been rundown, fenced off and underused for many years. It would allow for the building of a pool big enough to serve our communities. To be run as a charity, the People’s Pool will be committed to tackling health inequalities, improving community cohesion and reducing loneliness. We are exploring the possibility of a community share offer so the pool could be part-funded and co-owned by the people who use it. A community-led social enterprise All this is basically the opposite of a private developer eyeing up the chance to make big money. As a social enterprise, our model would see any surplus from our income would be reinvested back into the charity to deliver even more positive social and environmental change in our communities. It would also give the People’s Pool financial stability. Net zero and sustainability Sustainability is central to the proposal because it will make the lido resilient for the long term – solar PV and an air source heat pump will insulate running costs from energy price rises and create a facility that can serve the community long into the future. The aim would be to position the project as a genuine model of climate-conscious public infrastructure, echoing the ambition behind other outdoor pools like Cleveland Pools and Jubilee Pool in Penzance. Our research suggests most of the pool users would be from nearby communities, so walking and cycling will be easier to encourage. An outdoor pool would also mean fewer longer drives to pools further away. Local jobs & economy There would be meaningful employment opportunities and increased footfall in the area would support local businesses and mean more natural surveillance for all park users throughout the year. What you can do to help We’re loving the support the People’s Pool is receiving across the city. We now need to show Bristol City Council how much the people of Bristol want it to happen. If you would like to help, please join our mailing list on the homepage, follow us on socials and for those of you living in Bristol visit our Get Involved page, which includes draft letters you send to your councillors and MP. We will send you updates and let you know what else you can do to make it happen. Thank you, The Eastville Park Lido CIC
In a report on the Government’s proposed changes to the NPPF, the County Councils’ Network (CCN) has raised a number of concerns and called for an end to the requirement that councils maintain a five-year supply where an authority has an up-to-date local plan. The Government launched a consultation on reforms to the framework in December last year, which will see the reintroduction of mandatory strategic planning through ‘Spatial Development Strategies’ (SDSs), changes to the approach to sustainable development and the tilted balance, and the strengthening of a focus on delivering economic growth, among others. However, in its response to the consultation, the CCN has said it is “concerned that the document will remove significant local control from councils, centralising decision-making policies with authorities having very little opportunity to set their own distinct policies for decision-making”. It described the NPPF changes as “highly permissive” that would make it difficult for councils to refuse development. It raised concern about the introduction of SDSs and the “lack of distinction” between the content of SDSs versus Local Plans. It urged a “much stronger direction” in national policy to give clarity to plan-makers, adding: “We also have concerns over the sequencing of plan-making as it currently stands. “We understand the need for local plans to be up to date, but given the requirement that local plans are in general conformity with SDS, we would urge these to come forward first.” It continued: “Bringing SDSs forward first will help to provide evidence for local plans which will ultimately save money. It will also save a significant amount of time bringing local plans forward once an SDS has been adopted, rather than local plans being updated now, only to require updating once an SDS is adopted.” Elsewhere, the response criticised proposed changes that would encourage development around train stations. It said new policy that says councils should approve development near any train station with four or more trains an hour, opens rural stations to “speculative and damaging development”. The CCN also said that, under the changes, councils will be told to approve development on the outskirts of towns and villages where there is ‘unmet need’, which could lead to increased piecemeal and speculative development, regardless of infrastructure capacity…
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Steve Hall on how universities have changed over the years, with privatisation and vested interests changing their competence [VIDEO]. Who’s to blame for Jason Arday? Arday isn’t a victim or a crook, but the product of a broken system By Steve Hall The Jason Arday affair has turned into a global furore. Arday is a young black man who, in 2023 at the age of 37, was appointed professor of sociology at the University of Cambridge.The scandal erupted after Arday was accused of plagiarism in his PhD thesis, among other publications, and of pepping up his biography with fake stories of remarkably diverse personal achievements. His fantasised triumphs ranged from authoring a non-existent book to running a 600-mile charity marathon that would have defeated a prime Mo Farah. Despite initial protests from staff at Cambridge, his PhD supervisors at Liverpool John Moores University, and many academic colleagues across the country, the allegations mounted to a point of demanding a formal investigation. Arday resigned on 5 August. Commentators with a stack of rather predictable axes to grind joined the fray. Far-right figures threw in crude racist tropes about the inherent cerebral inferiority of black people. Liberals and conservatives alike complained in haughty tones about the so-called long march of woke culture through Western institutions and the inevitable failure of equality, diversity and inclusion policies (EDI). Some rather uncharitable practitioners of science joined crustier academics from traditional humanities disciplines to condemn Arday’s qualitative brand of sociology as a low-value pseudo-science. Given that internal investigations had found some substance in the accusations, activists who might instinctively have sympathised with Arday were divided, hesitant and relatively muted in their support. Public reaction therefore quickly degenerated into a rather ugly free-for-all. However, as usual, underneath the noise lies a context. Academia’s top tier might well contain a number of over-promoted individuals, but Arday quickly became a scapegoat for what some see as a general decline in academic standards. And while that is a simplistic reading, Arday’s story belongs to higher education as much as it does to him, and his failures belong to academia. Over the past few decades, all academics have noticed a change. Students weaned on technological aids and soundbites seemed increasingly ill-prepared for academic study. Academia found itself compelled to meet the demands of indebted students who regarded themselves as customers, rather than apprentices in need of self-improvement. Academics struggled to do much about it. The time and energy they were able to devote to teaching preparation had been reduced by the demands of administrative roles, which meant floods of emails, and meetings to organise restructuring and networks of accountability. “Meetings about meetings” and “restructuring of restructuring” became standard faculty jokes as managerialism expanded to fill every available space in the working day. Academics also had to deal with the pressures of an increasingly competitive research culture. After 1992, the university system was allegedly “democratised’ and converted into a research marketplace. Each university was given a chance to impress, which ramped up the pressure to publish an increasing quantity of research. Success was rewarded with income and prestige. The Research Excellence Framework (Ref), which translates the quantity and metricised quality of “outputs” – formerly known as books, articles and reports – into government funding, made research compulsory at all levels of the system…
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Speaking during a vigil held for Professor Jason Arday on the steps of National Gallery on Monday, Labour MP Diane Abbott slammed a “vicious media campaign” for driving him to his death. Professor Jason Arday was victim of ‘public execution’, vigil hears Thousands gathered for a vigil to remember the former Cambridge professor and criticise the ‘racist witch hunt’ which preceded his death. Professor Jason Arday was the victim of a “public execution”, his friend and peer Lord Simon Woolley told a vigil which was attended by thousands of people. During his speech, Lord Woolley revealed his friend had said during a meal just days before he died, “they’re hounding me to death”, adding that he “couldn’t see a way out”. Organisers said more than 30,000 people gathered outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, central London, on Monday evening to pay tribute to the former Cambridge professor. Speakers included MPs Diane Abbott and Dawn Butler, along with crossbench peer Lord Woolley and director of the Good Law Project Jo Maugham. As he addressed the crowd, Lord Woolley described the press coverage of Prof Arday as a “public execution” and a “lynching”, to cheers of approval. He added that he had dinner with Prof Arday last week, along with Ms Abbott and activist Misan Harriman, because they knew he was struggling. Lord Woolley said: “We held him in our arms. We told him he was loved. He held Diane’s (Abbott) hands, and he said, ‘I love you, but’, he said, ‘they’re hounding me to death, and I cannot see a way out’.” Prof Arday resigned from his post as professor of sociology of education at Cambridge last week after accusations of plagiarism were made against him. The 41-year-old was found dead in Battersea, south London, on Friday. Prof Arday, who became Cambridge’s youngest black professor in 2023, had faced intense scrutiny over the plagiarism allegations and questions about his achievements. Lord Woolley said: “This wonderful man. Never stole a bag of crisps. He was exonerated from plagiarism. “But the dogs of hell, the hounds of hell, sought to pursue any inaccuracy that they could say Jason is a bad man, Jason doesn’t deserve to be in Cambridge. “For them, Jason doesn’t deserve to be alive. There needs to be some reckoning. There needs to be some justice.”…
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The cancellations and reckonings came in a rush over the following days. The book tour, an Edinburgh bookshop event, a fireside chat at the Royal Geographical Society, a speech in Cambridge. These were all called off. Scores of Cambridge academics organized with the professor of postcolonial studies Priam Vada Gopal signed a letter demanding an independent inquiry into the how the appointments ever been made in the first place. Durham University and Glasgow University announced reviews of their own hiring practices and Queens University Belfast opened an investigation into a 2021 article he had co-authored with staff from their university. On the 9th of August, he resigned his trustee ship of the British Sociological Association. And on the 11th of August, three days before Aray’s death, Simon and Schustster published his memoir in the United States. 9 days after his resignation last Friday on August the 14th, Arday was found dead. Now, when something collapses, you must ask, well, who built this particular entity? who built it up, who signed off on it. So, let’s go through the institutions one by one and name what each of them did. Liverpool John Moore University accepted, supervised, and examined a doctoral thesis that multiple independent assessors have since judged to be both extensively plagiarized and below doctoral standard. A thesis that one assessor said should have been referred back or failed outright. It then received a formal alert in 2023, ran an an investigation with the journalist Jack Groves 97 pages uh in front of it and in March of this year declared the overlap to be in the accepted range of compliance with the academic standards of the time. Remember that phrase from earlier? That phrase is a confession. What were the standards of the time at a post 1999 university under heavy market pressure competing for students and for a prestige story the like the likes of our day could confer? Whatever the answer, Liverpool John Moors University’s position remains that a confidential procedure was conducted and that Professor Arde’s PhD still stands. As of this weekend, it has announced no review of its own conduct. It is the only institution in the chain that has not even performed any act of accountability. The University of Cambridge’s conduct falls into four phases. first Arday’s appointment, an early career scholar hired into a senior chair and the Telegraph reporting has since examined how that appointment was made, including the involvement of the chairman of a scandal hit think tank and advice taken from a black pro black lives matter group before our hiring. Second, the protection he received, the warnings given to Harris and Hamsley in May of 2023. um the Cambridge officials who warned the journalist Jack Grove to stop contacting their professor and and then the the the letter issued by Carter Ruck, the legal firm and the investigation by the Metropolitan Police, which Cambridge denied that they instituted. But where else could it have come from other than either Arday himself or his employers? And when the evidence finally became public in July of this year, the university called it a vile campaign. Third, the reversal. On the 5th of August, faced with accumulating evidence, Cambridge announced its own investigation and ADA was gone within hours. Fourth, the postumous reckoning. On the 12th and 13th of August, Cambridge Vice Chancellor Deborah Prentice
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The Nerd Reich explains the origins, strategies and ambitions of Silicon Valley’s war on democracy for the first time. From San Francisco’s weaponised elections and secret billionaire projects to the White House, Durán exposes how the world’s richest men are building a new political order. The Nerd Reich is more than a hidden history; it’s an urgent warning: democracy is being dismantled, not by coups or tanks but by code, capital and the illusion of innovation. Durán insists there is still time to fight back – if we act now. I think we were witnessing the unmasking of Silicon Valley’s true politics. They finally were comfortable to reveal their full selves to everyone. And I think for many years, their democratic alignment was mostly self-interest because we had democratic presidents who had important contracts, government contracts, who had power. And so they needed to get along with whoever had power. And now that Trump was returning to power, they saw an opportunity to align with him and to try to realign the country’s politics to something more to their liking. I think it’s grown quietly, as we’ve seen many of these people become billionaires and multibillionaires and even one temporarily become a trillionaire. Once you have people who have so much wealth amassed, then they want power. But for some people in Silicon Valley, specifically Peter Thiel, this idea of using technology to amass wealth and then turn that into monopolistic political power is something that was not accidental. It was something that was carefully cultivated over many decades. And as you said, none of my book came from secret documents, or it’s not guessing. This is stuff that these guys have been saying on the record very explicitly for decades.
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More Perfect Union Ghislaine Maxwell wanted to use technology to create a new country, and although that might sound nuts Palantir’s co-founders and the Trump administration are making it happen. Tech oligarchs are thrilled at the idea of creating small “nations” that are essentially regulation-free zones where they can do whatever they want and exploit whoever they want. Now, under Trump, the federal government is helping them carve chunks out of other countries to make that happen.
What Are ‘Freedom Cities’? Billionaire CEOs’ Plan Could Reshape America A coalition of campaign groups opposed to regulation has called for the creation of “freedom cities” across the U.S, and the idea is backed by some of the most high profile billionaires in the U.S, including Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen. The cities would be pockets of deregulated areas, with the aim of promoting innovation and technological advancement. Newsweek contacted the Charter Cities Institute for more information via email. Why It Matters Deregulation has been a consistent talking point for conservatives and the U.S. entrepreneurial class for a long time, and freedom cities are the latest iteration of that approach. By condensing a lack of regulation into urban areas, it makes the implementation of the policy much easier than a full-scale federal repeal on existing rules. What To Know According to reports from Wired, some groups calling for freedom cities have already been in communication with the Trump administration. The Freedom Cities Coalition, a think tank pushing for the creation of unregulated areas in every state, said that it had informed the White House about the use of interstate compacts to create the cities. This would involve at least two states designating land along their borders to be allocated for the city, and agreeing on shared taxation and policy positions. Another organization pushing for the concept is Próspera, which is supported by Pronomos Capital, a venture capital firm which is in turn backed by Thiel and Andreessen. Thiel already has close ties to the Trump administration and has supported Vice President JD Vance’s political career since his run for Senator in Ohio.
“Almost one-third of the land mass of the United States is owned by the federal government. With just a very, very small portion of that land—just a fraction, one half one percent—would you believe that we should hold a contest to charter up to 10 new cities and award them to the best proposals for development? “In other words, we’ll actually build new cities in our country again. These Freedom Cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people—all hardworking families—a new shot at home ownership, and in fact, the American dream.” Other proponents have said that Trump could create federal enclaves with specific economic and jurisdictional zones that are exempt from other regulations via executive order, though this has yet to be tested. What People Are Saying The Freedom Cities Coalition describes the project on its website: “Freedom Cities are a once-in-a-generation opportunity to solve the housing crisis, bring American manufacturing home, and unleash the full potential of American entrepreneurs through the creation of special districts called Prosperity Zones.” What Happens Next It remains to be seen when the whole plan will get the green light, and which agencies will be responsible for bringing it to fruition.
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Some of Tony’s interviews with David Halpin [VIDEO] his aid ship to Gaza, his thoughts on Palestine/Israel, fascism – his websites – doveanddolphin.org – dhalpin.infoaction.org.uk – ‘Eyes Open Gaza’ film on You Tube. We are sad to hear of the passing of David Halpin. He was stalwart supporter of the Palestinian people. The things he witnessed in Gaza when he worked there as a trauma surgeon stayed with him throughout his life. He started the original ‘Gaza flotilla’ attempting to sail 2 boats with medical supplies and food in them to Gaza over 20 years ago. He truly was a remarkable person Eyes Open Gaza Published: 12 February 2009 The 2003 voyage of the Dove and Dolphin on MV Barbara from Torquay in the UK to Ashdod in Israel was conceived and lead by Dr David Halpin. The crew was Danish, there were four British passengers including David and there were 50 tons of flour, cheese, vegetable oil, milk powder and olive oil in the hold. There were also a thousand pounds worth of dressings from Dr Hamami, 1.2 tons of waste carpet wool for weaving, and clothes and blankets. This journey took place in the first two weeks of February 2003, six weeks before the illegal war on Iraq was unleashed. It was a cry for justice in Palestine, a shout against the looming war on Iraq and a demonstration of our common humanity. This film is a pastiche of TV broadcasts and amateur video recordings taken inside Gaza. It starts in darkness with the officer of the watch being interrogated from a fixed wing plane in the eastern Mediterranean.
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David Halpin on the rise of fascism post WW2 and Nagasaki, Hiroshima. Anne Widdecombe death, lived in same village as David.
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Mark Felton on MK Ultra mind control program started by the Nazis. Project MKUltra – Secret Nazi Origins Mark Felton The mysterious CIA Project MKUltra may have been involved in trying to create brainwashed assassins for the US Government who may in turn have been involved in a series of high profile assassinations between 1963 and 1980. That’s the conspiracy theory. However, many people don’t realise that MKUltra’s origins were at Dachau Concentration Camp and SS interrogation experiments using hypnosis and psychedelic drugs, and that many of the Nazi doctors were later recruited by the CIA and worked on MKUltra. Credits: US National Archives; Library of Congress; Ajay Suresh; Nazareth College
Part Two – International news review, Accelerationist, Armageddonist reports and investigations
“London’s actions will inevitably carry consequences for which ?it will have to answer,” the Russian embassy in London said in a statement on Monday. “The deeper its involvement in the conflict and the greater its support for Kiev’s terrorist machinery, the higher the price it will pay.” “London is deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis, while hypocritically professing a desire for peace,” the embassy wrote on Telegram. “In doing so, the United Kingdom is acting as an accomplice and co-perpetrator of the bloody crimes and terrorist attacks.” Former Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Fedorov told the BBC on Tuesday that “consequences” could include the possibility of attacks. He said many military experts advising the Kremlin are convinced that NATO would not respond forcefully if Russia were to hit the UK. “Trump will not allow NATO to answer,” he said. The threat follows reports that Ukraine has been using long-range drones to hit key Russian targets, including oil refineries and logistics facilities. Drones produced by two British companies have been used in a number of these attacks, according to the findings of an investigation by The Times newspaper in the UK. On Monday night and into early Tuesday, the mayor of Moscow said Ukraine had launched at least 637 drones in the direction of the Russian capital, of which 197 were shot down by Russian air defences. Britain’s Ministry of Defence has not confirmed that its drones have been used to attack Russian territory. Since ?the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2022, Moscow has repeatedly warned London and Ukraine’s other Western allies that providing long-range weaponry would be seen as an escalation. After Monday’s warning from the Russian embassy, however, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the UK government would continue to support Ukraine “100 percent”. “This is the UK doing what it has long said it would do, which is to support Ukraine 100 percent against this illegal war led by [Russian President] Vladimir Putin,” Burnham said. “We are providing support so that Ukraine can defend itself, and that’s been the British position all the way through this conflict by previous prime ministers. It remains the case with me. We are not fair-weather friends.”…
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Colonel Douglas McGregor on Ukraine war. General election in Russia.
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John Forman, former MI6 military attache for British Embassies in Moscow and Kiev, on GCHQ saying Russia is attacking us relentlessly – will they attack us directly?
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after Moscow threatened consequences for the reported use of British drones for strikes deep into Russia. When asked on Tuesday what his message to Russian President Vladimir Putin was, Burnham said: “This is the UK doing what it has long said it would do, which is to support Ukraine 100% against this illegal war led by Vladimir Putin. “We are providing support so that Ukraine can defend itself, and that’s been the British position all the way through this conflict by previous prime ministers. It remains the case with me. “We are not fair-weather friends. We will be there in Ukraine’s hour of need, and that won’t change.” Ukraine used drones made by two UK companies as part of a so-called deep strike campaign, the Sunday Times reported. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) responded to Russia’s warning on Monday night, saying: “Britain stands shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine.” Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drones increasingly targeting military industries and energy facilities. It has also targeted giant depots for Wildberries – Russia’s largest online retailer – burning billions of pounds of merchandise and bringing the war home to the Russian public more than four years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s embassy to the UK said in a statement on Monday that the reports “confirm that London is deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis”, accusing Britain of “seeking to contain Russia and inflict maximum damage on it by proxy”. “London’s actions will inevitably carry consequences for which it will have to answer,” it added. “The deeper its involvement in the conflict and the greater its support for Kyiv’s terrorist machinery, the higher the price it will pay.”
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Professor Michael Clarke, former Director of RUSI, on robotic war – drones, robot stretchers etc. Chatham House. Russia threatens UK with ‘inevitable consequences’ | Michael Clarke analysis Sky News Russia’s embassy in London has warned of a “price” for the UK to pay over the use of British drones in Ukraine. The British government, however, says it will stand by Kyiv.
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‘Slava Ukraini’ Nazi slogan. Chris Williamson interviewed by Crispin Flintoff – NATO coup of Ukraine in 2014 – Russia’s perspective. Judge Napolitano interviewing Douglas McGregor – Putin warning UK about supplying drones to Ukraine.
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The Gladio network of operatives is alleged to have been involved in various acts of terrorism, trying to influence policies through the means of ‘false flag’ operations. An interesting peek inside how these spook agencies or the ‘Deep State’ operates, and very relevant information for the current political climate if you can wade through all the subtitles! ”Operation Gladio was the codename for clandestine “stay-behind” operations of armed resistance that were organized by the Western Union (WU), and subsequently by NATO and the CIA, in collaboration with several European intelligence agencies during the Cold War. The operation was designed for a potential Warsaw Pact invasion and conquest of Europe. Although Gladio specifically refers to the Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind organizations, “Operation Gladio” is used as an informal name for all of them. Stay-behind operations were prepared in many NATO member countries, and some neutral countries. During the Cold War, anti-communist armed groups engaged in attacks on left-wing parties with torture, terrorist attacks, and massacres in countries such as Italy. The role of the CIA and other intelligence organisations in Gladio—the extent of its activities during the Cold War era and any responsibility for terrorist attacks perpetrated in Italy during the “Years of Lead” (late 1960s–early 1980s)—is the subject of debate. The US State Department published a communiqué in January 2006 that stated claims the United States ordered, supported, or authorized terrorism by stay-behind units, and US-sponsored “false flag” operations are rehashed former Soviet disinformation based on documents that the Soviets forged.
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As it was defending its handling of their agent who had attacked his girlfriend with a machete, MI5 lied to three courts when they said they had stuck to its policy of not confirming or denying their agents’ identities. They had actually given information about this agent to BBC investigations correspondent Daniel De Simone as they tried to persuade him not to continue his investigation. MI5 has apologised to the BBC and all three courts. Adam is joined by Daniel who explains the details of his investigation. MI5 lied to courts to protect violent neo-Nazi spy Spies lie, but they are not meant to get caught. On a wet Friday evening in December, three MI5 lawyers sat in a room at the BBC’s headquarters in London. On the other side of the table were the BBC’s lawyers and me. No MI5 officers were present, after we refused a request for the meeting to be secret. After exchanging strained smiles, we got down to business – and proved to them that the Security Service had been giving false evidence to the courts. The meeting took place after I told MI5 in November that we were planning to report it had lied and offered it a chance to comment. In response, the Security Service insisted – aggressively so – that it had been entirely honest. What it hadn’t realised until the December meeting, was that I had hard evidence to prove its position was false. The revelation of the false evidence matters because it raises serious concerns about how reliable MI5’s evidence is in the courts, where assessments from the Security Service are given enormous deference. It also raises fresh doubts about whether MI5 can continue with a core policy of secrecy – after we revealed it was applying it selectively. The organisation’s first lie came when the government took the BBC to the High Court in 2022 to block a story about a right-wing extremist working as an MI5 agent – the term for a paid and authorised informant. Former Attorney General Suella Braverman failed to prevent us publishing the story but succeeded in getting an order preventing the man from being identified, having argued he would be in danger. As a result, the man is known publicly only as X. We argued he should be identified so women could be warned about such a predatory and violent man. X had used his MI5 role to coercively control his ex-partner, known publicly by the alias Beth. He was physically and sexually abusive, and was filmed threatening to kill her and then attacking her with a machete. During the legal proceedings, MI5 said it could publicly neither confirm nor deny (NCND) whether X was an agent, in line with its long-standing policy. In public, MI5 emphasises the fundamental role of the NCND policy, which it says it follows in relation to its agents. Any exceptions are said to undermine the secrecy that protects such men and women and to damage national security.
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John Bosnitch – why he thinks there will be false flag attacks in England?
Why people believe all conspiracies rather than being more selective: 1) they are not journalists, 2) they like any story if it makes for a good yarn down the pub, 3) they are afraid those in their ‘awake’, ‘truther’ circle will reject them, 4) a lot of time and money goes into convincing disinformation 5) the London news media tells so many ‘big lies’ on Covid, Russia etc that they believe anything the ‘alternative’ media say. 6) they don’t have tome to check the facts. Aisling O’Loughlin interview with Tony about Richard D. Hall, Iain Davies, and David Hughes who think there was no bomb at the Manchester Arena – muddies the water for sensible investigations in to event. Cointelpro or just stupidity?
These journalists spread stories that helped the government while hiding anything that made people doubt the official line. Fast forward to now, and Google’s search engine acts like a modern version – it buries search results that smell like “conspiracy theories,” making sure only approved ideas rise to the top. A key moment came in 1967 with a secret CIA memo called Dispatch 1035-960. It was made public in 1976, but its effects linger on. The memo laid out a plan: paint anyone talking about conspiracies as either money-grubbers or fools who couldn’t think straight. The goal? Protect the official story about President John F. Kennedy’s assassination – the idea that one lone gunman did it all. People who questioned things like Lee Harvey Oswald’s possible CIA connections or weird details in the autopsy got slapped with the “conspiracy theorist” tag. Their voices disappeared in the media machine run by Mockingbird. In 1977, journalist Carl Bernstein wrote a big exposé in Rolling Stone that blew the lid off it. He revealed how more than 400 reporters from major outlets like The New York Times and CBS were tangled up in CIA boss Frank Wisner’s scheme, which he called the “mighty Wurlitzer” – like a giant organ playing whatever tune the government wanted. These reporters wrote stories against communists and ignored scandals, from lies about the Vietnam War to shady dealings in the Vatican. The phrase “conspiracy theorist” turned into poison, used to trash anyone digging into how power really works. What’s really scary is how often these so-called “conspiracy theories” turn out to be true. Ideas that got laughed off as wild dreams by skeptics end up proven as hard facts, making the people in charge look foolish for hiding them. Google makes it worse with programs like Project Owl from 2016, which pretended to fight fake news but really just pushed down searches about controversial topics – from cruel medical experiments to secret spying. A leaked document from 2024, gotten through freedom of information requests, shows how Google tweaks auto-complete to warn against “conspiracy theorists” talking about extra deaths during COVID, or slows down discussions to keep everything looking official and clean. This isn’t about keeping us safe; it’s about quietly punishing questions, turning “conspiracy theory” into a secret code for blocking info, and making the doubter the bad guy in a fight against curiosity. To understand this better, let’s look at a bunch of examples where “conspiracy theories” were mocked and buried, only to rise up as real scandals years later. These stories show the damage done by the media and tech giants who dismissed them, and how little real sorry they said when the truth came out. Arranged year by year, they reveal a timeline of hidden schemes that chipped away at public trust, one betrayal at a time. The timeline kicks off in the 1930s with the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in 1932, where U.S. health officials let hundreds of Black men with syphilis go without treatment, even after penicillin became available, just to watch the disease for “research.” Whispers in the Black press were ignored as racist nonsense. It wasn’t until 1972, after an Associated Press story and Senate hearings, that the world learned the truth. President Nixon gave $10 million to the 399 survivors in 1973 and promised better ethics rules, but 128 men had already died, and trust in doctors was broken forever. The New York Times raged on the front page afterward, but before that, they barely cared. Key proof came from CDC files and a whistleblower’s report. Right after, in 1933, came the Business Plot, where Wall Street bigshots like DuPont and GM planned a fascist takeover against President Roosevelt, using a general to lead it. The general’s warnings were old soldier talk. A 1934 committee said it was real, but no charges. It failed, but Nazi money kept flowing. Press downplayed it for elites, later adding footnotes. The general’s testimony was solid. Jumping to the post-World War II era, Operation Paperclip in 1946 saw the U.S. bring over 1,500 Nazi scientists, like Wernher von Braun, ignoring their war crimes to build rockets. Left-wing reports were red-scare junk. Partial releases in 1985 and more in the 1990s confirmed it. No apology – Truman’s no-Nazis rule was broken quietly. It helped the moon landing but on Holocaust blood. Media stayed quiet for patriotism, then New York Times looked back sadly. Freedom requests showed fake backgrounds. In 1948, Operation Mockingbird got underway, with the CIA controlling 400-plus journalists at big papers and TV to push anti-communist stories. Rumors were dismissed. Bernstein’s 1977 piece and Church Committee in 1975 exposed it, costing taxpayers $265 million a year. No refunds. It twisted news on Vietnam and Watergate. Media acted surprised but changed little. Committee records and Wisner’s notes proved the puppet strings.
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Fred Hampton from the Black Panthers was murdered by FBI – some of his speeches.
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Democracy Now – the people that broke in to FBI and looked through the Black Panther files – what they found.
The Grayzone UK, Kit Klarenberg Spy Ken – more money for secret services.
MI5 directors who plotted IRGC ‘terror’ ban exposed in leaked emails Kit Klarenberg·July 31, 2026 Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone show both a current and former MI5 director secretly lobbied for the British government’s move to label the IRGC a terrorist entity as well as the UK’s adoption of the draconian National Security Act. The correspondence reviewed here offers extraordinary insight into how the MI5 influences Downing Street and manipulates public perceptions of dubious or non-existent threats. On July 13, the government of former Prime Minister Keir Starmer officially listed the IRGC as a terrorist organization, citing supposed kidnapping and assassination plots by the Iranian military branch. Now, merely publishing Iranian-supplied casualty figures could be categorized as “terrorism,” potentially landing British citizens in prison for up to 14 years. Leaked correspondence reviewed by The Grayzone reveals that when first proposed in 2023, the push to proscribe the Iranian military branch was coordinated among the former heads of British intelligence agency MI5. Those plotting the designation included the MI5’s current Director General Ken McCallum and previous Director General Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller – who was privately credited with the passage of Britain’s draconian National Security Act. The spymasters appeared to view Labour’s then-Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper as a key ally in constricting civil liberties and convincing government officials to formally designate the IRGC a terrorist entity. In private discussions, McCallum acknowledged the “direct operational benefit” of proscribing the IRGC was likely to be “modest.” The MI5 chief nonetheless considered it “sensible to contemplate” such powers, and potentially extending them to include a ban on supposedly state-affiliated factions such as the now-defunct Russian private military company Wagner. McCallum’s behind-the-scenes lobbying of Cooper and Starmer was the culmination of a wider effort by veteran MI5 officials who’d sought to “help the opposition to be ready to govern” once they took office in July 2024. Starmer and his shadow cabinet proved highly receptive to clandestine approaches from McCallum and his veteran MI5 forebears. Meanwhile, McCallum deployed scaremongering about the supposed threat of China, Iran and Russia – frequently coordinated with Manningham-Buller – to justify ratcheting up budgets and powers for the spy agency, whose ultimate targets appear to be domestic dissidents.
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Saudi Arabia fined £3m for spying on dissident in London. Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3m to London dissident over Pegasus spying High court finds kingdom responsible for hacking phones of Ghanem al-Masarir and for physical attack on him A judge has ordered Saudi Arabia to pay more than £3m in damages to a London-based dissident whose phones were targeted with Pegasus spyware. In a judgment handed down on Monday, Judge Pushpinder Saini ruled that Ghanem al-Masarir was entitled to compensation for psychiatric harm sustained after discovering that his iPhones had been hacked, as well as a physical attack on him outside Harrods in central London. Saini said there was “a compelling basis for concluding that the claimant’s iPhones were hacked by Pegasus spyware, which resulted in the exfiltration of data from those mobile phones, and that this conduct was directed or authorised by the KSA [kingdom of Saudi Arabia] or agents acting on its behalf”. The judge also found, on the balance of probabilities, that Saudi Arabia was responsible for the 2018 physical attack on al-Masarir, a 45-year-old satirist also known as Ghanem al-Dosari, whose YouTube channels have garnered more than 300m views. “The KSA had a clear interest in and motivation to shut down the claimant’s public criticism of the Saudi government,” Saini said. Al-Masarir said the ruling “brings a long and painful chapter to a close. It affirms that standing up for the truth, no matter how powerful the opponent, is worth the struggle. No amount of money can undo what I have suffered, but I hope the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will now do the right thing and comply with this judgment, without the need for further enforcement action.” Saudi Arabia had sought to have the case dismissed on grounds of state immunity but that argument was rejected by the high court in 2022. After losing an appeal, the kingdom took no further part in the proceedings. The ruling marks a rare legal setback for Saudi Arabia. A US lawsuit accusing the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman of conspiring to kill the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was dismissed on the basis that he was entitled to sovereign immunity, despite the judge finding “credible allegations” that he was involved in the murder. Saini described Saudi Arabia’s actions towards al-Masarir, who has lived in England since 2003, as “grossly intrusive” and unjustified. It was established that his mobile devices had been infected with Pegasus spyware, manufactured by the Israeli company NSO Group, after analysis by the Citizen Lab in 2018. He began legal action the following year. The judge said there had been “exceptionally grave invasions of his privacy. It effectively converted these smartphones into ‘bugging’ devices which secretly transmitted huge amounts of his data and information on every aspect of his life to a hostile state.” The court heard that seven years after being targeted, al-Masarir continues to experience severe depression, is unable to work or perform many basic day-to-day activities and rarely leaves his home. Sapna Malik, a partner at Leigh Day law firm, which represented al-Masarir, said the judgment “vindicates our client for seeking to hold the KSA to account. The grossly intrusive conduct, by which huge amounts of our client’s data and information on every aspect of his life were secretly transmitted to it, has had a profound and long lasting impact on him.” Ron Deibert, the founder and a director of the Citizen Lab, said: “For years, victims of targeted espionage and transnational repression have lacked an avenue for justice. Thankfully, the United Kingdom’s courts have provided just such an avenue. We applaud the judgment wholeheartedly. “Ghanem’s experiences mirror those experienced by citizens the world over – being targeted by autocratic governments armed with sophisticated mercenary spyware tools whose aim is to hack, track and ultimately silence their voices.”
Imran Khan goes to hospital from prison – then back to prison.
Kevin Cahill on the recent case won against META and Zuckerberg, on these platforms harming children – Kevin has been campaigning on this for years. Kevin Cahill complains about the rude treatment from the Guardian, which he contributed and had front page stories. Kevin Cahill is Fellow of the British Computer Society who first joined Computer Weekly in 1979. He had spent the previous 10 years in the industry as a systems analyst and project manager. He later became Paddy Ashdown’s researcher in the House of Commons and is now an advisor in the House of Lords. He has sponsored a talk on supercomputers at the House and organises seminars on data protection issues there. He is a former associate editor of the Sunday Times Rich list and has published a number of books on landownership.
Mason was secretly working with notorious British military intelligence operative Chris Donnelly to turn Labour toward a hardline position on Russia and defense spending. Since the Ukraine proxy war erupted, Donnelly has secretly guided London on escalation strategies, including attacks on Kerch Bridge, and the creation of Gladio-style terrorist armies in Ukraine. All along, he and Mason have fed lines to Healey and other Labour frontbenchers on the conflict, while advising how Britain should respond to political and military developments, even authoring key speeches for Healey. Healey has consistently pushed for Britain to prime itself for direct conflict with Russia, even resigning over Starmer’s supposed refusal to increase defense spending. Leaked emails indicate these positions were influenced by Mason and Donnelly’s covert influence. As Chancellor, Healey can now fund their apocalyptic vision. John Healey, whose dramatic June 11 resignation as Britain’s Defence Secretary precipitated Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s fall, has returned to government as Chancellor under newly-anointed premier Andy Burnham. Healey’s departure was triggered by Starmer and his administration being “unable” and “unwilling” to “commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country,” making Britain “less safe.” This followed four years in opposition, then two in government pushing for more militaristic stances on Russia, and demanding ramped up state spending on defense. As Chancellor, Healey now has the chance to fund Britain’s military to the hilt at the expense of the country’s already hollowed-out social sector. Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone reveal how Healey’s militaristic stances on Russia were secretly influenced by a brain trust consisting of the former celebrity leftist and failed journalist Paul Mason, and the scandal-stained British intelligence veteran Chris Donnelly. See the leaked email communications between Paul Mason, Chris Donnelly, John Healey and other advisors here. Mason and Donnelly exploited their high-level access to Healey to foment wider support within the Labour party, and Starmer’s government, for the most aggressive policies possible on the Ukraine conflict. Along the way, Donnelly consistently advised Healey to support dangerously escalatory actions, arguing if Moscow was provoked as a result, then “so be it.” Donnelly is most notorious as the founder of the Integrity Initiative, a covert information warfare network spanning Europe, encompassing networks of pro-war influencers and journalists, and dedicated to the mission of flooding Western media with anti-Russian propaganda. For his part, the self-described “antifascist” Mason now cools his heels at a NATO-funded think tank after burning out as a maverick lefty correspondent for Channel 4 and the BBC. Mason’s public image as a celebrity leftist imploded after The Grayzone exposed him as a security state collaborator who covertly pitched the UK government on his own Integrity Initiative-style propaganda network, while furnishing British officials with a bizarre “mind-map” of the antiwar left containing targets he sought to neutralize. Those targets included this publication, which Mason plotted to sue for our factual reporting on his machinations. Emails reviewed by The Grayzone show both figures were in continuous contact with Healey from 2021 onwards, providing him with advice on how to escalate conflict with Russia and increase the defense budget, while angling for plum appointments as national security advisors.
Anti-Zionist activist cleared of inviting support for Hamas A JEWISH anti-Zionist activist has been cleared of inviting support for Hamas after the October 7 attacks. Tony Greenstein, 72, of Brighton, was charged with one count of inviting support for a proscribed terrorist organisation relating to three posts he made on October 7 2023, after the Hamas-led attack on Israel. Greenstein described Gaza as a “human prison” and told Kingston Crown Court that while he believed the attack was “justified”, he does not support Hamas. Advertisement He said: “When a colonial power holds another people down, they have the right to resist.” On Friday afternoon, a jury of five women and seven men found Greenstein not guilty after two hours 11 minutes of deliberation. Greenstein grinned and looked visibly emotional as the verdict was read out, and supporters in the public gallery gasped excitedly. Giving evidence to the court on Thursday, Greenstein said Palestinians had been “locked up” for 57 years and accused the judge of “turning a blind eye to genocide”. He said: “It was a cage in which people lived. On multiple occasions during his evidence, Judge Sarah Plaschkes KC halted proceedings to ask Greenstein to stop talking about the history of Israel and Palestine. Greenstein said to the judge: “That’s the problem with the ruling class in this country, they turn a blind eye to genocide.” Judge Plaschkes warned Greenstein about treating the trial as a “political forum” and said the jury was “not concerned with events in the Middle East”. The court heard that in the social media posts, Greenstein wrote the line: “Please share. Full support for the Gaza ghetto uprising.” Jurors were told the posts had links to a blog, which included the line: “The time to fight is now. Whatever criticisms one can make of Hamas, we should congratulate them on this well planned and audacious attack on the Zionist enemy.” Greenstein, whose father was an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi, argued “congratulating” Hamas was a figure of speech, and called the prosecution’s assertion “absurd”. He had also written extensively about disagreeing with Hamas in his blog which has more than 3500 posts, the court heard. Titles of pieces Greenstein had published included “Hamas does its best to make Palestinian lives a misery”, and encouraged those who had “illusions” in Hamas to “think again”.
The report treats Palantir’s own public statements – including its CEO’s claim that the company has “mostly [killed] terrorists” in Gaza – as evidence of executive-level knowledge and purpose in the unlawful use of force. At the same time, Palantir is embedding itself across UK public infrastructure: the NHS FDP, an MoD-wide enterprise agreement, the Crown Commercial Service Back Office Software framework, and National Highways’ IT Commercial Framework. That concentration of influence raises basic questions about separation of duties, resilience, and whether UK public money and data are being handed to a company identified by the UN as complicit in atrocity crimes. In my updated letter to my MP ahead of the 16 April debate, I have asked him to: Urge ministers to use the break clause and remove Palantir from the NHS FDP. Put the UN findings on Palantir’s role in Gaza formally on the record. Press for a cross-government human-rights due-diligence framework for all major IT and data contracts. If you are concerned about the NHS, data governance, or the UK’s international-law obligations, now is the time to contact your own MP and ask them to attend this debate – and to argue that the NHS, and wider UK public sector, must withdraw from Palantir engagement.
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Tony’s paperback Traitors Of Arnhem , Siege Of Heaven ; Siege Of Heaven Reader – all available for donation, or to buy, via www.bilderberg.org The Bristol Politics Show CANCELLED and attempts to intimidate us
July 2024 – Tony, Dave and Martin’s NOT The BCfm Politics show was CANCELLED/EVICTED from their PRSC studio in a no fault, no notice, no appeal, eviction by Chloe Slater of The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) arts centre – An email from Chloe and Keith Cowling explained that: ‘Transphobic’ leaflets, which we were not shown, had been left in the building by a recent guest (who denied it) making Transsexual users of the building feel ‘offended’ and ‘unsafe’. To quote: ‘Please let us know when you or Dave would like to come and retrieve your equipment and drop off your keys. Kind regards’ PRSC Directors (Keith Cowling, chair) PRSC / Stokes Croft China 17-35 Jamaica St Bristol BS2 8JP. Chloe Slater (formerly young man Jez and now self-defined as ‘she’) also made it difficult for us to retrieve the last of our equipment by inferring we couldn’t be trusted, we were made to wait in the cold outside their building for over 30 minutes to return their mixing desk and retrieve our remaining kit in December 2024. March 2020 – BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers was forced off FM, now online only by station manager Pat Hart. He decided the show should be ‘rested, due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020 and then refused to communicate at all when we requested to do the show remotely. Bristol Community FM (BCfm) charity ‘CEO’ Patrick Hart is a long-time personal friend of Bristol’s all-powerful right-wing ‘Labour’ mayor Marvin Rees. Pat Hart has a private property portfolio on the continent and also does Public Relations work for property speculators who are taking over community facilities such as Redfield Cinema . Now on Internet only NOT The BCfm Politics Show is available 17:00-c. 20:00 live on Fridays. Pat Hart replaced us with a dumbed-down student show repeating MSM stories called The Bristol Agenda . If you’d like to share your views on his deliberate dumbing-down and pro-Covid jab mismanagement you can contact UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom or BCfm board chair and the ‘Don’ himself, here .
i-Contact Video Network to distribute documentaries on VHS video and DVD and to make their own documentaries as well as attend news events and sell video footage to TV news channels. Amongst the films we distributed were Operation Solstice, Coconut Revolution, Mark Purdey and Organophosphates, McLibel, 9/11 In Plane Site, Ludicrous Diversion and The Battle of Trafalgar. These, plus books, and even a board game about drug dealing ‘Dollars and Dibble’, were all available via mail order and we supplied libraries around the world too. The bank had clearly been ordered to investigate us for money laundering, although they never admitted it. All the questions they asked Ben and I were about proving our identity through passports etc.. When we did, yet more letters kept arriving demanding more proofs, birth certificates etc. and eventually when one of us missed supplying the required information, within a week or so of being asked, the account was summarily closed and we got a cheque made out to one of us with the few hundred pounds that was in the business bank account. Since neither of us could get a business bank account up and running for at least a few months and the bank account meant nobody could any longer use the website, we made the reluctant decision to shut it down. Thus was a thriving business killed off by the Co_operative bank. Having said that, co-op were not quite the worst. We did apply to open an account at Bristol’s ‘ethical’ Triodos bank, who proceeded to string us along for several months and then said our business was too risky for them to provide an account!
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July 2024 – Tony, Dave and Martin’s NOT The BCfm Politics show was CANCELLED/EVICTED from their PRSC studio in a no fault, no notice, no appeal, eviction by Chloe Slater of The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) arts centre – An email from Chloe and Keith Cowling explained that: ‘Transphobic’ leaflets, which we were not shown, had been left in the building by a recent guest (who denied it) making Transsexual users of the building feel ‘offended’ and ‘unsafe’. To quote: ‘Please let us know when you or Dave would like to come and retrieve your equipment and drop off your keys. Kind regards’ PRSC Directors (Keith Cowling, chair) PRSC / Stokes Croft China 17-35 Jamaica St Bristol BS2 8JP. Chloe Slater (formerly young man Jez and now self-defined as ‘she’) also made it difficult for us to retrieve the last of our equipment by inferring we couldn’t be trusted, we were made to wait in the cold outside their building for over 30 minutes to return their mixing desk and retrieve our remaining kit in December 2024. 
[UPDATE channel restored by YT in July 2025] October 2022 – Tony’s Public Enquiry Channel opened in March 2008, with 13 million views, over 1,600 videos and 26,000 subscribers is removed under false pretences by YouTube – A video Tony recorded in New Zealand ‘Bill Gates, ID2020 & Revelation: Quaker Tony Gosling on Covid 19 & the Bible’ and uploaded on 8th April 2020 got a ‘third strike’ but YouTube’s ‘medical misinformation’ regime was introduced in September 2021 so should not have included as ‘strikes’ videos uploaded before that date. Documentary makers are just about the only public interest investigators left in the NATO zone. From the top down, our mainstream media, police, political parties & intelligence services are being compromised by feudal banksters, secret societies and the mafia. Key people intimidated by psychopathic black magic types and their pliable drones who will even kill to take over positions of power? Just search for “John Scarlett” and “Dodgy Dossier” and you’ll see what I mean. The Zionists are every bit as fundamentalist and twisted as the leaders and followers of ISIS. Register here and join us in the discussion as we wriggle free of the psychopaths, back to sanity http://www.911forum.org.uk
March 2020 – BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers was forced off FM, now online only by station manager Pat Hart. He decided the show should be ‘rested, due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020 and then refused to communicate at all when we requested to do the show remotely. Bristol Community FM (BCfm) charity ‘CEO’ Patrick Hart is a long-time personal friend of Bristol’s all-powerful right-wing ‘Labour’ mayor Marvin Rees. Pat Hart has a private property portfolio on the continent and also does Public Relations work for property speculators who are taking over community facilities such as Redfield Cinema. Now on Internet only NOT The BCfm Politics Show is available 17:00-c. 20:00 live on Fridays. Pat Hart replaced us with a dumbed-down student show repeating MSM stories called The Bristol Agenda. If you’d like to share your views on his deliberate dumbing-down and pro-Covid jab mismanagement you can contact UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom or BCfm board chair and the ‘Don’ himself, here.
February 2019 – Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories – It could have resulted in BCfm radio station being shut down if the complaint was upheld Tony Gosling reported to Ofcom by UK Lawyers for Israel after being accused of anti-semitism A Bristol radio station, which had one of its programmes reported for anti-semitism and racism has been cleared by Ofcom. The radio regulatory body received a complaint from “UK Lawyers for Israel’ over a show on BCfm radio, hosted by investigative journalist Tony Gosling. The weekly politics show, on the popular community radio station based in Easton, was reported for several allegations on a show which aired on November 23. Tony Gosling, who was a former BBC journalist between 1989 and 1993, has been producing and presenting ‘The Tony Gosling Politics’ show every week on BCFM radio for 11 years. They have released a statement which reads: “Whilst we are supportive of all our volunteer presenters, The Tony Gosling Politics Show only represents approximately ten percent of our political output content wise, and less than two per cent of our entire weekly output.” Mr Gosling’s programme looks at local politics and he interviews a range of councillors and MPs in the city. The show is also perhaps more well known for its alternative look at international politics, and he has a cult following online from across the world. Mr Gosling has made regular appearances on national media including the politics show with Andrew Neil on BBC One, and international channels such as Russia Today, Channel1 Russia, NTV, and recently for both Turkish and Lebanon TV.
November 2012 – Tony gets death threats on the phone from the Jewish Defence League – ‘you’re a dead man walking’ – a man calls him and Tony records the call. Audio of UK Jewish Defence League (JDL) death threat against British journalist Tony Gosling (2012) – Avon and Somerset police Special Branch investigate, trace the caller, and after six months report to Tony that the individual has been served a caution that they will proceed with a prosecution for harassment under the 1861 offences against the person act. Seems pretty clear this death threat was issued alongside the lies, copied below, which were published on their blog by London based UK JDL in November 2012. Firstly Tony Gosling is not a ‘homophobe’. That accusation was first made in an article published by the ‘Harry’s Place’ blog, penned by Zionist David Toube and propelled by him anonymously into Private Eye in 2008. It refers to Gosling’s criticism of senior teachers at Bannerman Road Primary school in Bristol who used homosexual early learning picture books against the express wishes of the parent governors. His criticism was about the deception by teaching staff not because of the homosexual content of the books. Secondly, if you follow the JDL link you’ll find what Tony Gosling actually says about the ‘Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion’ says “…I don’t think there is much doubt that the Protocols are fake…” Thirdly he is not a member of Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign and has never been to any of their meetings.
Autumn 2014 – Tony’s documentary production and distribution business shut down by its bank. Our thriving Co-op business bank account ordered closed for undisclosed reasons. Tony Gosling and Ben Edwards founded i-Contact Video Network to distribute documentaries on VHS video and DVD and to make their own documentaries as well as attend news events and sell video footage to TV news channels. Amongst the films we distributed were Operation Solstice, Coconut Revolution, Mark Purdey and Organophosphates, McLibel, 9/11 In Plane Site, Ludicrous Diversion and The Battle of Trafalgar. These, plus books, and even a board game about drug dealing ‘Dollars and Dibble’, were all available via mail order and we supplied libraries around the world too. The bank had clearly been ordered to investigate us for money laundering, although they never admitted it. All the questions they asked Ben and I were about proving our identity through passports etc.. When we did, yet more letters kept arriving demanding more proofs, birth certificates etc. and eventually when one of us missed supplying the required information, within a week or so of being asked, the account was summarily closed and we got a cheque made out to one of us with the few hundred pounds that was in the business bank account. Since neither of us could get a business bank account up and running for at least a few months and the bank account meant nobody could any longer use the website, we made the reluctant decision to shut it down. Thus was a thriving business killed off by the Co_operative bank. Having said that, co-op were not quite the worst. We did apply to open an account at Bristol’s ‘ethical’ Triodos bank, who proceeded to string us along for several months and then said our business was too risky for them to provide an account! 
