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Part One – Local and National News Review
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A change was a-coming – and he would work tirelessly to make it happen In the end, it wasn’t even close, Andy Burnham taking well over 50% of the vote and Rob Kenyon departing the stage without a murmur, never to be heard of again. Rob will probably be happier that way. He never looked as if he was much enjoying the attention of being the candidate for Reform in Makerfield. “What a scene, what a campaign,” he began as he thanked the volunteers and people of Makerfield who had helped elect him to Westminster. Then a special thanks to Simons for having made way. Who had understood the message – the instruction – to change that had been given by voters at the May local elections and had made the ultimate sacrifice for the once and future king. Not just king of the north. But king of the whole UK. Move over, Charlie. There’s a new kid in town. He made it sound like a grail quest. This was the last chance to change. The country had been given a bonus shot at redemption. The previous government had failed. Had let down the very people who had placed their trust in it. He was talking of Starmer. Not Rishi Sunak or any of the four Tory prime ministers before him. Andy was the outsider: the mystic with a sacred mission. And he sounded the part. An economy that worked for everyone, not just the few. If a policy wasn’t good for Makerfield, it wasn’t good enough for the country. Industry, education and the NHS would flourish anew. Then to the communion. The most sacred part of the speech. Tory, Lib Dem and Reform supporters had lent him their votes. Hope had triumphed over darkness. There would be no more division. Today would go down in history as the moment that changed the nation. There would be no more sadness. No more despair. A change was a-coming. And Andy would work relentlessly to make it happen. All you needed was a bit of faith. Only the glory days lay ahead. Burnham fell back. Overwhelmed with emotion. Wondering if perhaps he had oversold his victory. These were promises we had all heard before from other prime minister-designates, yet time and again they had been broken on the wheel of incompetence, party politics and reality. Andy sounded different to the others. There again, the new kid on the block often does. Because, deep down, we all need a reason to believe. But when the levels of hope are this high, so too are the depths of possible disappointment. Somehow, though, just saying you will do your best is not enough. We all need a promised land. There was just one thing missing. Or rather, one person missing. Normally, after a party wins a landmark byelection, the leader airlifts himself to the constituency for a photo op with their new MP. To bask in the reflected glory. But Keir was nowhere to be seen. His first reaction had been to post a curt “congrats” on X.
SOCIAL MEDIA BANS FOR UNDER 16S: Minister Narayan has strongly championed a proposed ban on social media for children under 16. Big Brother Watch firmly opposes this, labeling it “extreme technological censorship” and warning that age-verification checks would turn social media sites into invasive “digital ID checkpoints” that would make internet anonymity for the British public “dead”.NATIONAL DIGITAL IDENTITY: Big Brother Watch is running a campaign against proposed government plans for “spycoins” or digital identity programs. When pressed by Conservative and Reform MPs about the cost of a national digital identity scheme, Kanishka Narayan stated in parliamentary answers that no firm decision, estimate, or assessment had yet been made, but noted the government was looking into whether digital IDs could help public services.FACIAL RECOGNITION AND POLICE SURVEILLANCE: Big Brother Watch has consistently condemned the government’s expansion of mass surveillance and facial recognition technology. Civil liberties groups, including Big Brother Watch, have challenged the government on the use of passport photos for police databases and advocate for limits mirroring Europe’s strict AI laws. A short look at the career and background of the UK’s Minister for AI and Online Safety, Kanishka Narayan: To see more about Big Brother Watch’s efforts to defend civil liberties and oppose these tech-monitoring initiatives, visit the Big Brother Watch Campaigns Page.
The US issued the unprecedented order for all foreign nationals in and outside the US last week, promoting Anthropic to take the two AI models completely offline to ensure compliance. Anthropic had granted 200 institutions across 15 countries access to their frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, to test for vulnerabilities. The two public versions of the model, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, were due to be released in early June. Anthropic said the US government did not provide a reason for the order, but that it was its “understanding” that the Trump administration believed it had become aware of a method of “jailbreaking” Fable 5. The Trump administration’s ban immediately sent shockwaves across Europe, which is heavily dependent on US-developed AI. French President Emmanuel Macron told a meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) nations this week that while the Trump administration’s order was a “wake-up call” about the dangers of AI, the limits were a “bad thing”. “The reaction is in some regards strictly nationalist,” Macron said on Wednesday. While the US has targeted adversaries like China and Russia with numerous tech restrictions, the Trump administration’s Anthropic order applies equally to allied countries that have intelligence-sharing and mutual defence pacts with Washington. The decision was a first for the AI industry, but it comes on the heels of other transactional policy moves by the Trump administration. Over the past 18 months, Trump has launched a global trade war, and threatened to annex Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, and withdraw from the 77-year-old North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) alliance. He also threatened to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine unless European allies helped reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which was in effect shuttered by Iran after the US and Israel launched their war on the country on February 28. US allies are now waking up to the realisation that they are “far too vulnerable now to the US techno-industrial complex,” Dex Hunter-Torricke, president of the Center for Tomorrow, told Al Jazeera.
The group, called Dialog, is a private, invitation-only organization cofounded in 2006 by the billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel. It convenes US officials, foreign government figures, and Silicon Valley executives at off-the-record annual retreats. Dialog has spent two decades declining to disclose its members. A directory in the website’s code was first revealed by the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew. Known for exposing the US government’s No Fly List and breaching the surveillance-camera company Verkada, crimew tells WIRED the directory surfaced via an anonymous tip. WIRED independently verified its contents. A source separately provided WIRED with the registration list for Dialog’s 2026 retreat, which names 222 people and records what the list describes as each registrant’s membership status and attendee type, including “active member” and “guest.” The retreat is scheduled for August 12-16 at a venue near Dublin, Ireland. The same data lays out a program of off-the-record sessions, including: “Money (Does?) Buy Happiness,” “Bring Back Nuclear,” “Navigating WWIII,” “Battlefield Technologies,” and “How’s Your Sex Life?” Other talks include “Build-a-Cult,” moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray.com, and “Build-a-Party,” run by a former White House national security official. Together, alongside the mundane fare of a typical thought leadership conference, the documents show an extraordinary convergence of power. The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in July 2025 and is recorded on the leaked list as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country’s largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.
Leaked staff notes attached to around 50 dossiers provide additional insight into what the group’s scores and grades measure. Wealth is one of the most common justifications found in the data, with one investor summed up by the money he oversees—$30 billion in assets under management—while another is marked down with a two-word verdict: “Small AUM.” Fame is a close second. In one note, a staffer assigned a member a grade “so she doesn’t get seated with grade Cs” indicating that they wanted to avoid this member sitting with VIP attendees. Dialog’s algorithm consistently fixates on whether the “average person” would recognize someone. It repeatedly weighs whether people are “widely recognized” or sufficiently “prominent” and, in a handful of cases, measures them against “a Fortune 500 company or a top celebrity.” For example, Reihan Salam, the president of the Manhattan Institute, was given a “B” rating because, it said, “the Manhattan Institute may not be as widely recognized by the average person as some larger organizations.” Salam did not respond to a request for comment. Dialog staff revisit and revise grades after every retreat—an internal process the records call a “post-retreat code review.” Alongside a letter grade, most people also carry a separate “value-add” score of 1 to 4, averaged from ratings by several staff. Members can be disinvited from events with explanations ranging from “Value Add Too Low” to “Poor Culture Fit” to “Grade Fell Too Low.” A separate “moderation tier” tracks who is most trusted to moderate discussions, run Dialog’s workshops, or hold “Soapbox” sessions. The grades are used in part to determine what attendees are charged to attend Dialog events, which can extend into the tens of thousands of dollars. Bottom-grade attendees are placed on the full-price tier roughly 70 percent of the time, compared with about a quarter of those considered VIPs. Staff set prices by hand, one balking at raising a best-selling author’s fee “just because her boyfriend has $$.” A quantum-computing startup founder was flagged to be cut after one gathering: “Doesn’t have significant following. [Value add] not high enough to keep.” The records also define the makeup of the group itself. Women account for roughly a third of those graded, but hold only 18 percent of top marks. The leak shows that Dialog also tracks invitees’ apparent political leanings. Members are urged to disclose their own, but staff make separate internal assessments, and the two do not always match. Eleven members were assigned labels despite disclosing nothing, and the self-descriptions of 15 others were overridden. The head of one of the world’s largest conservation groups described himself as left-leaning; Dialog’s staff placed him on the right. In the data for August’s event, 165 people disclosed their politics: More than half identified with the left. Even so, those on the right were more than twice as likely to carry a “C.” The leak also points to a built-in matchmaking system that pairs members for both networking and dating. (Roughly 10 percent of respondents opted into a singles pool.) More than three-quarters already have a list of algorithm-suggested matches, which staff appear to refine by hand. One note pairs two members because “you’re both in New York and work in government.” Each introduction comes with a photo and a short bio shown to the other person. Dialog also maintains a list of people who should never be paired. The database flags “do-not-pair” combinations for a variety of reasons. Some are spouses, others already professional associates. A former ambassador is flagged against being matched with the head of his family’s organization. Others carry no reason at all: A prominent tech founder and an author are simply flagged against each other. The largest group, though, is members barred from being matched with Dialog’s own staff and organizers…
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Lethal Intelligence Clips Sam Altman: “Doctor, I think AI will probably lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies created. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. The bad case, and I think this is like important to say, is like lights out for all of us. ” Don’t worry, they wouldn’t build it if they thought it might kill everyone. But Doctor, I AM building Artificial General Intelligence.
We can reveal that Palantir was required to but failed to seek prior approval from NHS England (NHSE) for its campaign to promote its contract to run the Federated Data Platform and brief against Good Law Project. Now NHSE has confirmed to Bloomberg UK that it will be investigating whether Palantir violated the contract terms just weeks after signing it. A leaked briefing and emails from the campaign shows that Palantir used Tory-linked PR agency, Topham Guerin and marketing agency, Disrupt, to approach social media influencers to ask them what they would like to be paid to take part. This was done at arms-length, with the briefing asking influencers not to mention Palantir in their content. Quoted text from the ‘Things to avoid’ section of the Topham Guerin Briefing. Quoted text starts: “Things to avoid ? When the content is posted, please keep the brand confidential and not tag Palantir. ? If responding to comments, please refrain from mentioning the brand. Timings DEADLINE: 22nd December ” Quoted text ends.The Federated Data Platform contract was finally published on the last working day before Christmas. Page after page of this three-part contract has been redacted – including a section on the protection of personal data. But one of the sections we can actually see – which covers ‘Publicity and Branding’ – states that Palantir is not permitted to use the Authority’s name or brand in any marketing or publicise the contract without the prior written consent of NHS England. An NHS spokesperson told Bloomberg that the NHS takes any potential breach of contract by a supplier seriously and is investigating what happened. An excerpt from the Federated Data Contract signed between the NHS and Palantir which reads: “24 PUBLICITY AND BRANDING 24.1 The Supplier shall not: (a) make any press announcements or publicise this Agreement or its contents in any way; or (b) use the Authority’s or any Authority Service Recipient?s name or brand in any promotion or marketing or announcement of orders; without the prior written consent of the Authority or relevant Authority Service Recipient, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.” “Palantir is not – and frankly never has been – a company that can be trusted with this nationally important contract with our NHS” says Good Law Project’s Executive Director, Jo Maugham. “By its own behaviour it is telling us exactly that.” “Within weeks, it commissioned a covert smear campaign against a prominent critic and appears to have broken the terms of that contract. If this Government won’t act to protect the national interest, the next one must.”…
He said, “The last year has been very bad for our political rights and freedoms. There is an absolutely crucial principle of British justice called jury equity. This goes back to 1670, when a judge sent two Quakers to prison for preaching in a place where they shouldn’t have. The jury decided the two Quakers were not guilty. The judge said, “You have to find them guilty.” And the jury said, “No.” So the judge sent the jury to prison! There was an outcry over crushing the right of a jury to make its decisions on the basis of their conscience, so eventually they were freed by a higher judge, and the two Quakers were found not guilty. There are lots of trials going through the courts at the moment, and they will continue to go through the courts into 2026, 2027, and some even into 2028. Jonathon explained “If we still have jury trial for some of these things, and that’s by no means guaranteed any longer, a lot will depend on whether a judge allows the jury to hear why defendants have done what they’ve done, what their motivation has been, was it proportionate to the action they took, and to learn a bit about the basic science of climate change, which many juries don’t have when they hear a Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain or Extinction Rebellion case. So, for a judge to say ”no, we’re not going to share any information about climate change” is a way of ensuring the jurors have no access to the basic knowledge which would allow them to decide according to their conscience. And when juries do have that chance, many juries have found people not guilty of the crimes for which they’ve been accused, even though they obviously did what they did. If you break windows at JP Morgan Bank and cause £250,000 worth of damage, you can’t really deny the evidence. If you spray orange powder on private jets, the evidence is there, but the jury can still say “we get that”. But we’re still going to find the defendant not guilty. And that’s happened more times than you can imagine.” Defend Our Juries is the organisation defending the principle of Jury Equity. The name tells us a lot. Could you imagine five years ago that we would need a new organisation, specifically to protect jurors from being bullied?
It is possible that Gareth had unwisely and improperly accessed material within MI6 which was not relevant to his work, and specifically the guest list for an event in London which was to be attended by Bill Clinton. It seems he did this for a friend. If known by the Russians and not known by his bosses, that could certainly be a lever for blackmail. In the days between 11th and 15th August, three payments of £2000 were paid into his bank account and then withdrawn on subsequent days. These might have been the £2000 tax-free sums he was paid monthly as a London supplement. More unusual were the two piles of notes, each totalling £500, which were found in his flat after his death. And the week after the discovery of his death, the Mail on Sunday revealed the claim that £18,000 had disappeared from one of his bank accounts two months earlier, and at that point its destination had not been traced. Also in his flat were designer women’s clothes worth £20,000. They were in bags, unopened. To add to the financial mystery, the paper the following week suggested that Gareth’s bank and credit cards were used in the week between his death and the official discovery of his body in the bath. Where does all this leave us? I do not believe that Gareth was anything other than a good man, loyal to his country. His reaction to the Russian attempt to compromise him would, I think, have been to tell his line managers. And suppose they then encouraged him to play along with the Russians, and pretend he had fallen under their spell. But Gareth was a mathematician, a crypto-analyst, not someone versed in counter-espionage and he made a fatal mistake. Boris Karpichkov has provided a narrative for the episode immediately before his death. Crucially, I have as part of the research for this story received broad confirmation of his version of events from a separate and entirely independent inside source. According to Mr Karpichkov, he was visited by an East European businessman codenamed Lukas whom he let into his flat. Lukas was there to turn Gareth into a double-agent, past the point of no return. But in the conversation, Gareth revealed that he suspected the identity of a Russian mole in a senior role at GCHQ. This was the fatal mistake. This man, codenamed Orion, was a key person for the Russians and they could not risk him being outed, so Gareth had to be kept quiet. Permanently. According to Mr Karpichkov, his wine was drugged to render him unconscious and then a specialist Russian team was called in to finish the job, with a plant-based poison cocktail, designed to leave no trace at post mortem. I believe therefore that the Russians did not come to his flat with the express intention of killing him, but with a Plan B to do so if necessary. The fact that he was placed in a bag suggests that the intention was to remove him from the flat so that he became a missing person rather than corpse, so delaying any investigation. Otherwise why not just leave him lying around? The fact that the bag was not retrieved suggests that the Russians were somehow interrupted or that their surveillance told them that MI6 had discovered the body before they were able to return. If MI6 was aware of the alleged double agent in GCHQ, they may well have concluded it was pragmatic not to officially discover the body, and prudent to try to present the death as some sort of personal sexual event. That might give them time and opportunity to identify the mole in GCHQ. If that is what happened, who is to say that MI6, with the national interest at stake, was wrong to make that call?
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Settling down in front of David Dimbleby’s new three-parter, and looking at that confrontational title, you wonder why the question it asks is not debated more often. Dimbleby himself has trailed the series by worrying aloud that during his stint as a BBC staffer he was part of an organisation that didn’t challenge the monarchy robustly enough. But retirement means the shackles he wore when he was the corporation’s top politics presenter have been loosened. The opening episode cleaves closest to the titular question – parts two and three are more like “Is the Monarchy a Giant Ponzi Scheme?” and “Are the Monarchy Personally Repellent?”, respectively – with its theme of how much power the monarchy has and how it wields it. Much of the hour is spent trying to ascertain whether King Charles influences government policy by advocating for his own beliefs. He certainly has politicians’ ear: the prime minister takes a weekly trip to Buckingham Palace for an in-person chat, while nobody interviewed here denies that letters from the king – he is a notoriously prolific epistolarian – are routinely placed at the top of the relevant minister’s pile. It was therapeutic. But is the monarch’s access to top politicians democratic? Dimbleby is, however, entertaining, particularly in the hands of this newly combative Dimbleby. He ably drives a cart and horses through a plain silly piece of sophistry from Dominic Grieve, who during his time as attorney general refused a freedom of information request from the Guardian to publish Charles’s letters. Charles is entitled to advocate for certain positions, argues Grieve, and his letters inevitably reveal his personal views, but if you want to have the benefit of his experience being fed into government, it has to be done in confidence, because of his need to maintain public neutrality. When Dimbleby points out that this is pure hypocrisy – Charles has the right not to be neutral, but also has the right to maintain the appearance of neutrality? – a floundering Grieve weakly denies it.
According to reports, the changes will see BBC Radio 4 classic The World Tonight closed, with hundreds of staff members being made redundant as further programmes face major changes in the coming months. Radio 4 will also cancel Midnight News, Money Box Live, AntiSocial, The Law Show and Crossing Continents in 2027. The World Tonight is set to be replaced by Newshour. Radio 5 Live’s Weekend Breakfast will be cut down into a two-hour programme from April 2027, down from three hours. On the TV side of things, BBC Breakfast will no longer air on Sundays, instead being replaced by the BBC News channel. Newsnight, meanwhile, will be moved into a peak time slot on Fridays after the “success of its refreshed format”. The news team behind that show could possibly merge with the production team for Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, according to a BBC proposal, which would not change the format for viewers. In addition, the BBC’s Today programme will be cut from five to four permanent presenters, with just one presenter appearing on Saturdays. Up to 2,000 jobs are set to go in total, after BBC News and Current Affairs interim chief executive Jonathan Munro said in a memo to staff: “Our news presenters have a unique relationship with our audiences. However, given the savings we need to make across the whole of BBC News, we are carrying out a review of our chief presenter roles.
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW FROM 15 YEARS AGO – a eulogy. Tony’s interview with Roger Cook in 2012 – News of World managed to stop his renowned ‘Cook Report’ programme – the programme where they bought a nuclear bomb on the black market in Russia. His investigations into international organised crime, satanic ritual abuse and black market nuclear weapons have never been surpassed. And Rupert Murdoch destroyed his mass media TV career. Investigative journalist and broadcaster Roger Cook dies aged 83In a career spanning five decades, journalist was best known for ITV current affairs programme The Cook Report The investigative journalist Roger Cook, best known for the current affairs programme The Cook Report, has died aged 83, his family has said. Cook was born in New Zealand and grew up in Australia where he began his broadcasting career before moving to the UK in 1968. His distinctive style of investigative journalism, based on confronting and exposing criminals and conmen, began in the form of the BBC Radio 4 show Checkpoint, which he created in the 1970s. The veteran journalist has been credited with pioneering the TV doorstep confrontation format, which would later become a staple of on-screen news reporting. Cook’s family said he died peacefully on Saturday after a short illness. “Alongside a distinguished and award winning career in journalism, Roger was first and foremost a beloved husband and father,” they said in a statement. “He will be deeply missed by all of us, and we ask for privacy as we navigate this difficult loss.” In 1981 during a report for BBC Newsnight, Cook was beaten with a metal bar by an antiques dealer he had exposed with his undercover investigation. He would later take his journalism to the nation’s TV screens when the Cook Report launched on ITV in 1987 and ran until 1999. Over its 16 series, the show, which attracted up to 12 million viewers at its peak, exposed a wide range of corruption and injustice. Examples of investigations by the show include programmes on protection rackets in Northern Ireland, the adoption trade in Guatemala and the infected blood scandal. His undercover stings also led to police investigations and criminal convictions, including its exposé on a huge money laundering scheme by the notorious criminal Johnny “Goldfinger” Palmer, which contributed to him being handed an eight-year jail sentence years later for timeshare fraud. In 1997, Cook was given a special Bafta award for 25 years of outstanding investigative reporting. He later became a target of the tabloid press. In 2000, he sued the News of the World for its claims that he had faked scenes in his programmes and even conspired with criminals to set up easily solvable crimes. Two years later, he settled his libel action with the Sunday paper after it admitted its reporting was wrong and should never have been published. A statement from ITV on Monday said: “In a career spanning an incredible five decades, Roger Cook’s ground-breaking approach to investigative journalism made him one of broadcasting’s most trusted and respected figures. On his eponymous current affairs programme, The Cook Report, Roger worked tirelessly to expose criminal wrongdoing and injustice, helping to drive important and lasting changes in the law. “His fearless contribution to journalism will long be remembered, and we send our deepest sympathies and condolences to his wife, family and friends at this difficult time.”
You Tube channel where The Cook Report can be found. https://www.youtube.com/@rogercookreports
Part Two – International news review, Accelerationist, Armageddonist reports and investigations
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Harris, 56, said the events on the night of Hess’ arrival are either “highly coincidental” or “strongly suggest a conspiracy of the sort we have concluded”. For instance Prince George, a serving member of the RAF, is believed to have been in Scotland on the day of Hess’ arrival and was a friend of Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, the 14th Duke of Hamilton, whom Hess demanded to see when captured. General Sikorski, meanwhile, ended a fundraising trip in the United States to fly back to Prestwick, near Glasgow, the next day, putting his life at risk by commandeering a new type of plane that was fast but notoriously difficult to control. The RAF have also yet to release any report into the affair, prompting Harris and Wilbourn to conclude that their intelligence department were also implicated. Harris added: “It may seem incredible to think that a member of the Royal Family could have been ready to do a deal with Hess and Hitler, but 25 years of research and digging has led us to this conclusion. “Of course, nothing can be proven. The Secret Service is under no time-bound obligation to declassify documents in the same way as the Government and the Royal archive has been unable to assist with our enquiries into the exact whereabouts of Prince George on the night of May 10th, which is suspicious in itself, as his movements before and after that date are well documented. “We believe the key to the whole affair is the involvement of MI6 agent Tancred Borenius, who was familiar with Prince George and Queen Mary, had been approached by MI6 deputy Claude Dansey, and is recorded as having met with General Sikorski shortly before the Hess Flight. “There is strong, documented evidence for his covert mission to Geneva to pass a message inviting Hess to come to Britain to talk peace, but if it had been a clever lure by the Secret Service then Churchill would have known about it from the onset, which he didn’t, and Borenius would surely have been decorated for his bravery like other war heroes instead of being airbrushed from history for over 70 years.”
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Scott Ritter on Ukraine/Russia war – will there be a peace deal with US? Delusional news stories – Ukraine winning the war. West losing wars or making money? “Russia Has Already Made Its Decision!” Scott Ritter Reveals Nato’s Worst Nightmare Begins “Russia Has Already Made Its Decision!” In this video, Scott Ritter examines Russia’s evolving military strategy and explains why he believes NATO may be entering one of the most dangerous periods since the conflict in Ukraine began. Ritter argues that Moscow has moved beyond short-term tactical objectives and is now pursuing a long-term strategy that could fundamentally reshape the security landscape in Eastern Europe. He suggests that Russia’s recent military and political decisions signal confidence rather than compromise, forcing NATO to confront increasingly difficult strategic choices. From battlefield developments and military readiness to economic pressure and geopolitical realignment, Ritter explores why the next phase of the conflict could have consequences extending far beyond Ukraine. He also discusses the risks of miscalculation, the limits of deterrence, and the possibility that continued escalation could deepen tensions between Russia and the West. As the war continues to evolve, governments across Europe and Washington face difficult questions about security, diplomacy, and the future of NATO. Could Russia’s next moves redefine the balance of power in Europe—and leave the West confronting an entirely new strategic reality?
A brief walk across the grounds of the Hotel Royal summit venue turned into one of the most talked-about moments of the G7 summit hot mic Macron Trump Zelensky coverage, after French President Emmanuel Macron was inadvertently captured speaking candidly to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The moment unfolded away from the main press pool, where Macron and Zelensky were seen conversing informally while moving between meetings focused on Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. What made the exchange stand out was not just the setting, but the offhand tone that slipped into public view. Macron was heard referencing a recent interaction with Donald Trump, saying, ‘Yesterday we had a difficult discussion with President Trump’. The remark, picked up unintentionally, quickly became a focal point in discussions about shifting Trump foreign policy tensions Europe dynamics. The audio did not come from a formal press conference or staged briefing. Instead, it surfaced during a candid walk-and-talk between leaders, the kind of moment that usually stays behind closed doors. That is exactly why it gained traction. In a summit built on carefully controlled messaging, the idea that a private diplomatic assessment of Trump had slipped out in real time added weight to the G7 summit Ukraine talks narrative. Macron’s wording, especially the phrase ‘difficult discussion’, immediately sparked interpretation across diplomatic circles. While no specifics were disclosed, the phrasing suggested friction rather than routine disagreement, particularly given the sensitive context of Ukraine policy coordination. The timing of the exchange added another layer. According to summit reporting, Donald Trump arrived roughly 50 minutes late to a morning session focused on Ukraine, a detail that did not go unnoticed by other leaders. Initially, Trump and Zelensky did not engage directly upon arrival. Zelensky was instead greeted by other G7 counterparts, a sequence that subtly underscored the uneven rhythm of the day’s diplomacy. Later, however, the tone shifted. The two leaders eventually held a private conversation, with images shared by Zelensky showing them seated together in discussion. The shift from distance to dialogue became a key feature of the Trump-Zelensky G7 meeting storyline.
Now doubtless there are chortling people in the UK security and military industries self-congratulating themselves over how clever they are. But while this may be a clever ruse de guerre, it is hardly a ruse de paix. It is not going to survive scrutiny by an international court. An unexpected change of registration, forced upon the owners, is very difficult to complete instantly, but doubtless one was in train and perhaps finished. The UK actions are patently – and deliberately – unreasonable. Politicians seek to drum up cheap popularity by stupid jingoism. Starmer has won a cheap headline. The world inches closer to the next world war. The UK loses yet more legitimacy in the eyes of the wider world. Meantime Trump claims as a great victory a possible return of the Strait of Hormuz to the open status it enjoyed before he started an illegal war in the interests of Israel. Freedom of navigation was a principle worth defending. It has been abandoned in favour of a return to the rule of the seas by those with the strongest navies. Fortunately Putin is neither as war hungry nor as politically desperate as Starmer. However Russia will now be obliged to send at least a frigate to keep the Strait of Dover open. The drums of war beat ever closer.
For example, the Intelligence Community previously warned that a US-funded biolab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to longstanding threats of Russian attack, seizure, or damage. Until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from the American people. The information surrounding the existence, history, locations and funding of these US funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by powerful people falsely, claiming that they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traitors to America. Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases to include dangerous Gain-of-Function research, with very little visibility or oversight. President Trump understands the serious threat dangerous Gain-of-Function research poses to the American people, which is why he took decisive action on May 25, 2025, signing EO 14292 to end federal funding of Gain-of-Function research around the world. “Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth. ODNI will continue to work closely with partners across the government to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain to end dangerous Gain-of-Function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and people around the world,” said DNI Gabbard.
1. Iran, the US and their allies would stop fighting across the region — including in Lebanon. 2. Tehran would reaffirm its pledge never to build a nuclear weapon. 3. The US and Iran would work out what happens to Tehran’s enriched uranium stockpile. 4. Both sides would open talks on Iran’s future enrichment activities and nuclear needs. 5. Iran would maintain the “status quo” of its nuclear program — which has been largely decimated — while negotiations continue. 6. The US would lift its naval blockade, hold off on new sanctions and refrain from sending more troops to the region. 7. Iran would guarantee safe, toll-free passage for commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days. 8. Washington would release an unspecified amount of frozen Iranian assets once the MOU takes effect. 9. A final deal reached after the 60 days would see the US withdraw its forces within 30 days and lift all sanctions on Iran. 10. It would pave the way for a $300 billion ($424 billion AUD) reconstruction fund for Iran. 11. The US would allow Iran to resume oil sales through temporary sanctions waivers. 12. Iran, Oman and Gulf states would negotiate new shipping and maritime security arrangements for the Gulf. Oman and Iran have already begun discussions on the last point, and are aiming to charge a fee for “services” provided, a senior regional source told The Post. Under the proposed agreement, Iran, the United States and their respective allies would stop all hostilities in the region — explicitly including in Lebanon, where US ally Israel and Iranian proxy Hezbollah are currently warring. Importantly for the US: the memorandum also includes a renewed Iranian commitment not to develop or acquire nuclear weapons — a signature feature of the 2015 Iran deal signed by former President Barack Obama but rescinded by Trump in 2018. Other points also focus on Tehran’s nuclear program — but make no changes to Iran’s position, only establishing that the US and Iran will have general discussions about it “US and Iran to discuss enrichment issue and Iran’s nuclear needs,” the text said, according to Channel 12. Rather, the “status quo” will be maintained during the 60-day negotiations — meaning Iran can technically state they have not given up their program, which was set back years after the US destroyed key nuclear sites during Operation Midnight Hammer…
Mr Trump “is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time,” Mr Vance continued. “If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.” Israel ‘needs to wake up and smell the reality’ Many of Israel’s allies, including Britain, France and Canada, have criticised what they say are avoidable civilian deaths and suffering in Israel’s military operations in Gaza and Lebanon. Polling also shows Israel’s standing has plummeted among Americans. “Over the last three months, two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars,” Mr Vance continued. “Anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the President of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in.” Mr Vance also criticised Israel for having previously derailed negotiations by launching attacks on Lebanon. “All of a sudden there’s a major explosion that goes off in a civilian population centre in Beirut, and a lot of people who have nothing to do with Hezbollah lose their lives. That’s not acceptable,” he said. In a New York Times interview published on Thursday, Mr Vance criticised Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, two Israeli cabinet ministers, for attacking the peace deal. “My response to them would be: What is your exact proposal? You’re a country of nine million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have,” he said. Mr Ben-Gvir responded on social media: “This is the proposal… To deal with the Nazis of the 21st century, just as the United States dealt with the Nazis of the 20th century.”
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Satanic inversion, favoured doctrine of the ‘Lords of Chaos’… DEMONIC INVERSION The Inversion of Reality. The definition of the word inversion is ‘a reversal of position, order, form, or relationship’. Good and Evil are in a constant battle of reversal. When the Devil reverses good of creation we call it inversion. When Jesus reversed evil and restores and elevates the goodness of the world we call it redemption.Redemption is powerful and efficacious whereas inversion is mostly symbolic and empty show. The devil cannot create or redeem. He can only twist, corrupt or change creation. Creation is binary. It is an ordered complimentarity of opposites. The devil, through inversion, can distort these opposites to create disorder for his advantage. In the beginning God created a binary world through the act of separation. He separated light and darkness, the air and the sea, day and night, sea and land, small animals and large animals, sea animals and land animals, a man and a woman, male and female. God declared the whole binary world was created good. Humans engage in binary thinking all the time. Part of how we understand the nature of a thing is to learn its opposite. We use antonyms to help us pin down the meaning of a term or concept. Discovering what a thing is ‘not’ often tells us what a thing ‘is’. Binary reality gives life an interesting texture; it presents us with options and facilitates free will. We prefer light because we are afraid of the dark. We like our coffee hot because it tastes bad when it’s cold. However, with free will comes the possibility of sin and the power of inversion. Think of Genesis chapter 3 (the Fall of Adam and Eve). Inversion happens when the truth becomes a lie, God at the center is replaced with self at the center and humility is swallowed up by pride. The created thing becomes de-created, distorted and fallen. Order lapses into chaos and the harmonious union of Eden is flipped upside down by discord and division. The binary world becomes weaponized against itself as the antonyms turn on each other in a fierce war of contant redemption and inversion. Advertisement – Continue Reading Below In Catholic theology, specifically demonology, inversion is used as a tactic in spiritual warfare and as a call sign of the Devil. He uses inversion to achieve two ends: to confuse us and to mock God. Inversion for the Sake of Confusion Inversion also refers to the tactic of demons to present good as evil and evil as good thus altering the human perception of reality. In moral life inversion sometimes confuses us. We get turned around and start to go in the wrong direction. Right may actually seem wrong when evil masquerades as good. In the midst of this diabolical disorientation, we are susceptible to euphemisms that play on our emotions and imagination through the inversion of good and evil. Such as ‘reproductive health services’, ‘gender affirmation care’, ‘assisted suicide’ or ‘death with dignity’. It’s remarkable how the devil has been able to make evil appear to be good especially in the area of abortion, euthanasia and gender theory. In an excellent article on Catholic Answers, Leila Miller explains that demonic inversion associated with gender theory is meant to confuse people. “The lies of gender theory have no momentum unless we elevate imagination and emotion over what is tangible, scientific, and real. Kuzma is explicit in her admission that feelings determine reality: her physical body “did not ring true to me” (emphasis mine). It should go without saying that no one is permitted a private “truth” about objective things. Truth is what corresponds to reality. The physical world that God created, that can be known by the senses, is reality. In an inverted reality, created things are suspect, and imagination holds the truth.”….
The Bristol Politics Show Android and Apple app is now in its second year and gives listeners a weekly update every Friday evening plus a searchable database of longer interviews/stories from many years of broadcasts Tony’s paperback Traitors Of Arnhem , Siege Of Heaven ; Siege Of Heaven Reader – all available for donation, or to buy, via www.bilderberg.org NOT The BCfm Politics Show CANCELLED and attempts to intimidate us
July 2024 – Tony, Dave and Martin’s NOT The BCfm Politics show was CANCELLED/EVICTED in a no fault, no notice, no appeal, eviction by The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) arts centre – An email from Chloe Slater and Keith Cowling explained that: ‘Transphobic’ leaflets 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 Jez and 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 outside their building for over 30 minutes to return their mixing desk 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 longtime personal friend of Bristol’s all-powerful right-wing ‘Labour’ mayor Marvin Rees. Now on Internet only NOT The BCfm Politics Show is available 17:00-c. 21:00 live on Fridays. Pat Hart replaced us with an inane 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 in a no fault, no notice, no appeal, eviction by The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) arts centre – An email from Chloe Slater and Keith Cowling explained that: ‘Transphobic’ leaflets 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 Jez and 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 outside their building for over 30 minutes to return their mixing desk 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 longtime personal friend of Bristol’s all-powerful right-wing ‘Labour’ mayor Marvin Rees. Now on Internet only NOT The BCfm Politics Show is available 17:00-c. 21:00 live on Fridays. Pat Hart replaced us with an inane 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! 
