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Who Are The Notable Mentions In The Epstein Court Documents?
8 January 2024 @ 11:00 am
Currently, we find ourselves in the fifth release of unsealed court documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking activities. US Judge Loretta Preska ordered the unsealing as part of a lawsuit filed by one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Giuffre, againstJohnson’s Leadership “At Minute to Midnight” over Partygate Scandals
11 January 2022 @ 7:00 pm
The UK Prime Minister is facing the wrath of MPs and the general public as more controversial information about alleged Downing Street parties during the 2020 Covid lockdowns continues to emerge. In the most recent set of shocking revelations, Boris Johnson and his wife, Carrie Symonds, are alleged to have been among 30 people who attended a “bring-your-own-booze” drinks gathering on May 20th, 2020, where as many as 100 people wereRoyal Navy on Standby After the French Seize Scottish Fishing Trawler
29 October 2021 @ 5:00 pm
The UK Government has stated that it will respond in turn if France continues with its trend of threatening the UK with various actions, such as shutting off electricity to the Channel Islands, amid post-Brexit fishing rights disagreements. Amid the escalation of threats from the continent, the Environment Secretary has Report: UK Anti-terror Body ‘Prevent’ “Hamstrung by Political Correctness”
20 October 2021 @ 7:00 pm
Floral tributes left in Parliament Square following the 2017 Westminster Islamist terror attackA new report, published in the wake of the murder of MP Sir David Amess last week, has criticised the UK’s flagship anti-terror program ‘Prevent’ for its emphasis on “political correctness” and the diversion of resources from the “gravest threat” of Islamic terrorism. UK Covid Scientists Call For Reimposition of Restrictions
19 October 2021 @ 4:00 pm
The UK government is facing increasing pressure from scientists to reimpose social restrictions.The calls come after the country recorded 49,156 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the largest number since mid-July, with the Office for National Statistics last week estimating that one in 60 people in England had the virus. Labour MP Claudia Webbe Made Acid Attack Threats
14 October 2021 @ 3:00 pm
The member of parliament for Leicester East may face jail time after being found guilty of harassing her partner’s former girlfriend.Appearing outside Westminster magistrates’ court on Wednesday following the verdict, Claudia Webbe, 56, said she was “innocent” and “deeply shocked” and would seek an appeal. Study Finds Gender Pay Gap Due to Life Choices
8 October 2021 @ 2:05 pm
A study by the taxation and public policy research institute, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), has found that women earn less than men in their twenties because they choose university degrees that lead to lower-paying jobs. According to the IFS, the first emergence of the gender pay gap occurs immediately after graduation from university, with male graduates earning on average five percent more than female graduates at the age of 25. BBC to End Its Stonewall Subscription
8 October 2021 @ 1:20 pm
The BBC is expected to end its subscription to the LGBTQ diversity programme run by the self-described lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights charity Stonewall. The move, revealed by VICE, will see the UK’s publicly funded service broadcaster resign from the organisation’s flagship ‘Diversity Champions’ programme which ensures that “all LGBT+ staff are accepted without exception in the workplace.” Beginning in 2001, the initiative allows its recipients “access toNew Culture Minister Berates BBC
5 October 2021 @ 2:50 pm
The UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has said that the BBC needs to depart from “tokenism” and “groupthink” in order to best represent the views of the country as a whole. Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference on Monday, Nadine Dorries, who replaced the former culture minister Oliver Dowden in September’s cabinet reshuffle, said that the publicly funded broadcaster was full of “people from a similar background with a certain political bias.” Polish MPs Criticise Australian “Covid Madness”
4 October 2021 @ 2:00 pm
Polish MPs have lambasted the Australian government for its “totalitarian” Covid lockdown policies and “human rights” abuses.Gathering outside of the Australian embassy in Warsaw, the group of politicians, which included the former leader of the Liberal KoLiber party, Jakub Kulesza, accused Australia of “unsubscribing herself from the civilised International Community” after “contracting Covid madness.” 
Other than repeated claims to be ‘on the side of working people’ Rachel Reeve’s Spring Budget statement sounded more like a Conservative chancellor’s speech than a Labour Party committed to ‘ending the status quo’. From [...]
Keep Our NHS Public is shocked and outraged by the government’s plan to cut disability benefits by up to £5bn. These cuts could affect more than a million disabled people across the UK. Disabled people [...]
Only days after Wes Streeting announced there would be massive cuts in NHS England’s (NHSE) workforce – halved from 13,000 to 6,500 to avoid ‘duplication’ of work by officials at the Department of Health and Social Care [...]
Academics and NHS professionals launch New Report in Parliament on how to Rebuild the NHSPress release on behalf of The 99% Organisation and Keep Our NHS Public Samantha WathenPress/Media Officer for Keep Our NHS PublicActing [...]
CRISIS IN THE NHS – WE DEMAND ACTION The winter NHS winter crisis is critical.KONP supporters have been out on the streets asking shoppers and passers-by what they feel about the NHS. The answer is [...]
John Puntis, Co Chair of Keep Our NHS Public analyses Keir Starmer’s plan for the NHS announced on 6 January 2025 ▪︎Crisis in acute care ignored▪︎Elective Care – embracing privatisation▪︎Plan disatrously enhances and entrenches role [...]
This article by John Lister is reproduced with kind permission of The Lowdown.John Lister is an academic and writer with a long history of campaigning for the NHS. He is one of the founder members [...]
Labour’s recent ‘big announcement’ on social care is the setting up of an independent commission (lead by Dame Louise Casey) which will produce an interim report in 2026 and a final report in 2028. While [...]
Article from KONP Data Working group The Labour government has been quick to introduce new draft legislation, the Data (Use and Access) Bill (DUA), which aims to make data, including our personal health data, widely [...]
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has appeared over 2 days in front of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, which is now in its third module – ‘Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare systems in the 4 [...]