Well, it’s a start isn’t it ? I have been viscerally aware via personal experience of the total power of the Met (especially the force designated to protect MPs) and their Ihtelligence connections for decades. That was from my growing up within ruling class circles in central London in the 1970s and then working in film media until moving to Northern Ireland in 1996. My partner is one of the few from a British Unionist background who was an early member of Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in the 1960s. He was forced to leave Ireland after a death threat from local Loyalists. Like so many. When we got together we found so many crossovers from our different experiences of criminal behaviour by UK state operatives and their many police, political and media assets. It is, as you rightly write, a very big and very dirty iceberg going back decades.
Peter, your article shows HMG has a history of criminalising journalists, but you really need to talk about what is happening right now and is having a deleterious impact on freedom of expression. See this blog: https://www.campain.org/post/silencing-british-reporting-and-dissent.
They are connected. There is an historical trajectory backwards and forwards connecting longterm UK state criminal overreach in London and Northern Ireland leading inexorably to the journalistic silencing of today. Without full judicial exposure of how we got here, there is no hope of either redress for their many silenced victims from the past or any journalistic future civil rights protections.
Well, it’s a start isn’t it ? I have been viscerally aware via personal experience of the total power of the Met (especially the force designated to protect MPs) and their Ihtelligence connections for decades. That was from my growing up within ruling class circles in central London in the 1970s and then working in film media until moving to Northern Ireland in 1996. My partner is one of the few from a British Unionist background who was an early member of Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in the 1960s. He was forced to leave Ireland after a death threat from local Loyalists. Like so many. When we got together we found so many crossovers from our different experiences of criminal behaviour by UK state operatives and their many police, political and media assets. It is, as you rightly write, a very big and very dirty iceberg going back decades.
Peter, your article shows HMG has a history of criminalising journalists, but you really need to talk about what is happening right now and is having a deleterious impact on freedom of expression. See this blog: https://www.campain.org/post/silencing-british-reporting-and-dissent.
They are connected. There is an historical trajectory backwards and forwards connecting longterm UK state criminal overreach in London and Northern Ireland leading inexorably to the journalistic silencing of today. Without full judicial exposure of how we got here, there is no hope of either redress for their many silenced victims from the past or any journalistic future civil rights protections.