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Writer and taker of pictures. Books like Beyond the Pale: white women, racism and history (1992), and Return of a Native: learning from the Land (2022) and coming soon England's Military Heartland: preparing for war on Salisbury Plain. http://vronware.org

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see also Swing Rioters attacking threshing machines, who, by 1930, were seen as incoherent oiks

09.08.2025 08:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Targeted by the right, Britainโ€™s asylum hotels are places of fear and disorder. Bad political decisions made it so | Daniel Trilling In the frenzy of racism and culture warring, the issue of why hotels are used gets overlooked, says author Daniel Trilling

I wrote this to explain how we reached this point, in the hope it would be a resource for people arguing with friends and family, people with questions, perhaps even people thinking of joining a protest. Do share with anyone who might find it useful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

09.08.2025 07:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 172    ๐Ÿ” 101    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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The inside story of how America sent nuclear weapons to Britain Nukewatch UK explains how it tracked the bombs being flown across the Atlantic.

๐Ÿ‘‰NEW -- The inside story of how America sent nuclear weapons to Britain

by Nukewatch UK

Nukewatch UK explains how it tracked the bombs being flown across the Atlantic.
www.declassifieduk.org/the-inside-s...

22.07.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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๐Ÿ“นNEW VIDEO -- We grilled Starmer's air force chief over his support for Israel

Britainโ€™s top air force officer angrily avoided questions about Gaza, while his colleague pushed one of our journalists out of the way๐Ÿ‘‡
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA7p...

21.07.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 72    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Exporting risk: how UK arms sales overlap with countries using explosive weapons in populated areas - AOAV This report examines how UK arms exports between 2021 and 2024, worth billions and sent to 84 countriesโ€”including many engaged in urban warfareโ€”raise serious legal and ethical concerns over Britainโ€™s ...

Exporting risk: how UK arms sales overlap with countries using explosive weapons in populated areas - AOAV
aoav.org.uk/2025/exporti...

20.07.2025 14:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good luck with MUP too

21.07.2025 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fantastic / about time too

21.07.2025 18:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Support independent investigative journalism Declassified UK is the leading media organisation uncovering the UKโ€™s role in the world. Stories, videos, join & support us here

Want to expose and challenge what the British establishment is doingโ“

This weekend, join us.

secure.declassifieduk.org/page/167716/...

12.07.2025 08:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 50    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

08.07.2025 02:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48671    ๐Ÿ” 6860    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1364    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2326
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Land Mines, a Cold War Horror, Could Return to Fortify Europeโ€™s Borders

"The Cold War horror" making a comeback....
@nytimes.com explores the human suffering caused by antipersonnel landmines & negative consequences of Ukraine & 5 EU countries withdrawing from the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/world/europe/land-mines-treaty-russia-ukraine.html

08.07.2025 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you very much I have all these stowed away already...but I don't suppose you'd like to help me consider why all those Nature Writing sites and supporters are not interested in my book about the British Army's co-optation of the conservation discourse since the 1970s?

09.07.2025 10:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jobs

We are hiring.

Declassified is seeking a talented video journalist to support and expand our existing video output.

Details and how to apply ๐Ÿ‘‡
www.declassifieduk.org/jobs/

25.06.2025 10:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Millions of tonnes of toxic sewage sludge spread on UK farmland every year Exclusive: Experts call for stricter regulation as current rules set in 1989 require testing for only a few heavy metals

Far be it from me to say I told you so, but I did and did anyone listen?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

07.07.2025 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fucking hell, this is something.

06.07.2025 06:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 110    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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The BBC isnโ€™t telling the truth about Israelโ€™s nuclear arms The UK broadcaster is writing hundreds of articles on Iranโ€™s budding nuclear programme while failing to inform the public about Israelโ€™s actual nuclear weapons.

๐Ÿ‘‰NEW -- The BBC isnโ€™t telling the truth about Israelโ€™s nuclear arms

by @markcurtis30.bsky.social

The UK broadcaster is writing hundreds of articles on Iranโ€™s budding nuclear programme while failing to inform the public about Israelโ€™s actual nuclear weapons.
www.declassifieduk.org/the-bbc-isnt...

02.07.2025 08:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 146    ๐Ÿ” 92    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Palestine Action ban threatens all our civil liberties Pouring paint on a plane is hardly 9/11. Non-violent protesters are not terrorists.

๐Ÿ‘‰NEW -- Palestine Action ban threatens all our civil liberties

by Richard Norton-Taylor

Pouring paint on a plane is hardly 9/11. Non-violent protesters are not terrorists.
www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...

27.06.2025 08:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 152    ๐Ÿ” 85    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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If We Want Peace, We Have to Prepare for Peaceย  - WILPF In response to the United States (US) bombing three Iranian nuclear facilities and the tentative ceasefire reached between Israel and Iran, WILPF reiterates its calls to prevent any further unlawful [...

Amidst recent attacks against Iran, Israelโ€™s ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and new commitments by Western states to spend even more money on militarism and mayhem, @wilpf.bsky.social calls for diplomacy, disarmament and demilitarisation.

27.06.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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When Britain backed Iranโ€™s dictator The UK armed the Shahโ€™s โ€œautocracyโ€ and directly aided his brutal security service in the decades leading up to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, declassified files show.

What do Washington and London want in Iran?

The last time the US/UK overthrow a government in Tehran, they propped up a dictatorship for 25 years and gave support to the regimeโ€™s brutal security police.

www.declassifieduk.org/when-britain...

21.06.2025 13:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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BBC chief downplays Britainโ€™s military support for Israel The broadcasterโ€™s director of news just let slip why his journalists are turning a blind eye to UK spy flights over Gaza.

๐Ÿ‘‰NEW -- BBC chief downplays Britain's military support for Israel

by Hamza Yusuf

The broadcasterโ€™s director of news just let slip why his journalists are turning a blind eye to UK spy flights over Gaza.
www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-chief-do...

18.06.2025 11:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Been looking forward to this analysis from @airwars.bsky.social.

18.06.2025 11:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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UK defence secretary walks away from Gaza spy flight questions John Healey tells Declassified he has โ€˜nothing more to addโ€™ about the UKโ€™s surveillance of Palestine

๐Ÿ‘‰ NEW -- UK defence secretary walks away from Gaza spy flight questions

by Martin Williams, Phil Miller & Alex Morris

John Healey tells Declassified he has โ€˜nothing more to addโ€™ about the UKโ€™s surveillance of Palestine

www.declassifieduk.org/uk-defence-s...

12.06.2025 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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UK ministers draw up law to fast-track removal of migrants arriving from โ€˜safeโ€™ countries Disclosure comes as calm weather and fuller boats leading to more Channel arrivals, Home Office says

If you're going to reheat a Blair-era policy you probably need to explain why, last time around, it was so badly run it ended up wrongly deporting thousands of people, some very likely to their deaths, and how you might avoid that this time.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

04.06.2025 06:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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A critical commentary on the Prime Ministerโ€™s Govan speech and the expansion of Britainโ€™s war economy - AOAV Keir Starmer's Strategic Defence Review speech in Govan reveals a worrying embrace of militarism as national policy, ignoring the humanitarian and economic costs of Britain's expanding arms trade.

A critical commentary on the Prime Ministerโ€™s Govan speech and the expansion of Britainโ€™s war economy

aoav.org.uk/2025/a-criti...

02.06.2025 16:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Britain must reject Trumpโ€™s nuclear deal. It makes us a target. It has nothing to do with British security interests and everything to do with US nuclear expansion. Starmer must stop the warmongering and focus on rebuilding public services, ending poverty and meeting Britainโ€™s climate action goals.

01.06.2025 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The UK badly needs an Alternative Defence Review: Here it is Labour is persisting with a โ€œnukes plus NATOโ€ defence policy that is likely to lead to further wars. A new independent report counters this disastrous narrative.

๐Ÿ‘‰ NEW -- The UK badly needs an Alternative Defence Review: Here it is

by Kate Hudson

Labour is persisting with a โ€œnukes plus NATOโ€ defence policy that is likely to lead to further wars. A new independent report counters this disastrous narrative.

www.declassifieduk.org/the-uk-badly...

30.05.2025 08:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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At the NPT PrepCom, the nuclear-armed states continued to defend their weapons and doctrines, trying to manufacture consent for the risks they create through their policies and practices. It is up to the rest of us to organise around them for disarmament.

๐Ÿ“ฐ: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...

04.05.2025 13:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Book review: 'Englandโ€™s military heartland: preparing for war on Salisbury Plain' - AOAV In Englandโ€™s Military Heartland, four authors explore how Britainโ€™s post-9/11 wars have inscribed themselves into Wiltshireโ€™s landscapes and lives, revealing the quiet militarisation of everyday space...

thank you AOAV much appreciated.
aoav.org.uk/2025/book-re...

03.05.2025 07:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

tbh I was trying to get them to read me but of course I need to
read Patrick now as I have been doing other things.

24.04.2025 12:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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