In democracy, police hold an exclusive power to use force against the citizens. So what happens when the police choose to step back and surrender that right? And how could this possibly connect to a football match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv? tinyurl.com/k79z6mwd

** Can the BBC Use the Licence Fee to Fight Costly Legal Battles with Trump?** On 17 November 2025, BBC Chair @SamirShah sent an internal message to all staff about the threatened defamation action from President Donald J. Trump over the BBC Panorama editing issue. In it

From Offender to Victim: How the BBC Rewrote Its Own Story in One Memo This is what Samir Shah told every BBC employee on 17 November: “There is no basis for a defamation case and we are determined to fight this… We are determined to fight this and defend the BBC vigorously.”

The Silent Reason Israel Keeps Arming Its Own Critics Germany takes delivery of Israel’s Arrow 3 next week — €4B deal signed 2023. UK just paid £118M more for Israeli Sky Sabre. Both countries embargoed Israel during the war… Yet Israel will NEVER cut them off. The one hostage

**Why do UK police arrest people at dawn or night for social media posts even if no crime's committed?** The parallels between Stalin's repressive tactics in the Soviet Union, as vividly documented in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago and modern UK social media

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Who Invented the #DeepState? Yair Cohen reveal the name of the man who thought out the idea of a Deep State. A group of people who sits above the elected representatives and whose role is to dictate society its values and codes of conduct. youtu.be/Qlpqk0NnHQQ?si… Patrick Byrne

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HARASSMENT OR DEFAMATION? (OR BOTH?) I’ve noticed a lot of people asking about how #harassment and #defamation can look very similar online. Many posts that feel like harassment also harm someone’s reputation, and many defamatory statements can cause distress. It can be hard to

Not everyone can afford to apply for a court order to force #Facebook to reveal the identity of an #Anonymous defamer. In reality, many people who are defamed on Facebook are ordinary working people, not large companies with unlimited legal budgets. The good news is that there

How to Stop the Unauthorised Sharing of Intimate Content at Work =============================== Some people think this is fun and surprisingly this goes on in more places of work than you would expect. There are still people who share private or intimate material in the