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Essex Police Force Faces Backlash Over Facial Recognition Technology Linked to Surveillance in Gaza My piece for @bylinetimes.bsky.social about how Essex officers have been using technology used by Israel during its operations in Gaza and the West Bank bylinetimes.com/2025/02/24/p...

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AOAV’s written evidence submission to the UK government Foreign Affairs Committee: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict aoav.org.uk/2025/aoavs-w...

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The War on Law: are some in Britain’s military waging a fightback against accountability? aoav.org.uk/2025/the-war...

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Military transparency hits five-year low Britain’s defence ministry faces growing criticism for its increased secrecy and lack of accountability. My latest with Edward Lander for @declassifieduk.org www.declassifieduk.org/military-tra...

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The unbearable lightness of killing: how the Royal Marines’ latest recruitment film strips war of its weight My latest: aoav.org.uk/2025/the-unb...

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Question: How many civilians does your military have to kill before you are considered by the British government persona non grata? Answer: Anything official under 50,000 and you are still in with a fighting chance.

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Military transparency hits five-year low Britain’s defence ministry faces growing criticism for its increased secrecy and lack of accountability. My latest with Edward Lander for @declassifieduk.org www.declassifieduk.org/military-tra...

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The horrors inherent in this post by the MoD. Hundreds of British men live today with amputations from service in Iraq and Afghanistan - but increasingly they are footnote in history and here the closure of the statistic dataset that once captured their agonies.

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If you say you are a journalist and don't want to question the IDF's rules of engagement upon reading this, can I gently suggest that you are not really a journalist.

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Perhaps somebody at the @bbc might want to consider placing these two things apart.

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“I don’t think it is right for foreigners, including those from friendly foreign countries, to interfere so intensively in an election campaign,” said a German government spokesperson. JD Vance hits out at Europe’s ‘threat from within’ www.ft.com/content/b91b...

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The unbearable lightness of killing: how the Royal Marines’ latest recruitment film strips war of its weight My latest: aoav.org.uk/2025/the-unb...

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Eighty years since Dresden burned: the lessons of aerial bombardment In commemoration of the bombing of Dresden - 80 years on. aoav.org.uk/2025/eighty-...

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A human rights funder tells me they are 'inundated' with requests. Perhaps USAID pulling programmes is causing an entire sector to convulse. I am not sure the world will be a lighter one for it, when this smoke clears.

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A Labour official quoted in the FT: “Defence chiefs call for more defence spending, shock!”

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MoD seeks to block publication of key Afghanistan Inquiry evidence aoav.org.uk/2025/mod-see...

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The UK’s arms trade – former UK diplomat Mark Smith speaks out about systemic cover-ups and British complicity in war crimes My piece for Action on Armed Violence aoav.org.uk/2025/the-uks...

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My kitten: "I want you to draw me like one of your French girls."

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AOAV condemns U.S. sale of massive ordnance air blast (MOAB) bomb to Israel aoav.org.uk/2025/aoav-co...

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“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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I think this from @bylinetimes.bsky.social @iainoverton.bsky.social sums it up for a lot of media & especially social media "the triumph of sensationalism over substance." The Death of the Critic: From Cultural Visionaries to Vacuous Performers bylinetimes.com/2024/12/09/t...

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this quite good from @iainoverton.bsky.social at @bylinetimes.bsky.social porn industry investigation

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The arming of atrocity: Trump’s immoral defence of Israel’s war machine My op-ed for Action on Armed Violence aoav.org.uk/2025/the-arm...

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Just as the US cuts all global aid... you get this.

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Serco is now in charge of recruitment for the British military. So that's going to go well, then.

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Excited and proud to be part of this new MA in Investigative and Human Rights Journalism at SOAS If you want to study at one of the UK's best Universities on a subject matter vital in this age of conflict, please do sign up & tell your friends. www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-c...

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The idea we cede national defence to mercenaries would be considered - rightly - ludicrous; people would say the defence of the UK was not in their primary interest. But the idea we allow private companies to increasingly run the NHS is considered -increasingly- totally valid.

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🔴FREE PREVIEW: Who Truly Profits from Porn? The pornography industry is dominated by companies presenting a veneer of corporate respectability while thriving off exploitation. @iainoverton.bsky.social introduces his four-part investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/w...

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What does one psychopath give to another psychopath? Well, Trump was gifted a golden pager by Netanyahu, so there's that.

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SAS ‘not justified’ in 1992 shooting of four IRA men, inquest finds aoav.org.uk/2025/sas-not...

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Judge Dredd and SAS hard men: the allure of swift justice, the rise of authoritarianism and the erosion of human rights My thoughts on fascism and the simple attraction of hard justice for AOAV aoav.org.uk/2025/judge-d...

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Charity Commission Still Hasn’t Concluded Investigation Into UK Charity One Year After Revelation It Raised Money for Israeli Soldiers Using Video of Killed Palestinians My piece for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/02/05/c...

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I am not surprised Judge Dredd is proving a hit again. It speaks to a rise of a certain authoritarian politics; one where people don't see fascist concerns in Dredd's origins nor in his application of justice. They just see a solution to barbarism, not barbarism itself.

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Imagine treating 10,000 people like this. Well, two billionaires just did.

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After War, Leftover Bombs Kill. Trump Froze Funding for Cleaning Them Up. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/trump-us-aid-frozen-demining-bombs-marco-rubio-state-department/

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I am trying to work out which is more terrifying, the endless rise of AI, Trump's breaking the rules-based order or global warming.

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Google’s AI u-turn: why this is a major concern for global security My thoughts for AOAV aoav.org.uk/2025/googles...

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Trump, Netanyahu to meet in Washington: how this calculated embrace of convenience makes a mockery of justice My piece for Action on Armed Violence aoav.org.uk/2025/trump-n...

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How much UK taxpayer money has funded Rwanda’s proxy wars and human rights abuses? Questions need to be answered. aoav.org.uk/2025/how-muc...

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Enhanced soldiers and the dehumanisation of war aoav.org.uk/2025/enhance...

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UK’s $6.7 billion role in Israeli F-35 programme raises human rights questions and arms control concerns aoav.org.uk/2025/uks-6-7...

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Please come see the film - Voice Notes from Palestine: Stories of Resilience The film brings to life the deeply personal stories of students with disabilities living through the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:00 - 20:00 GMT, London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voice-note...

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New @iainoverton.bsky.social "America’s Second Amendment is ... a global phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. From the proliferation of firearms to the export of gun culture and the influence on international policy debates, its impact is felt in countless ways." aoav.org.uk/2025/op-ed-a...

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UK legislative push for ethical arms trade? Key highlights of the new Arms Trade (Inquiry and Suspension) Bill aoav.org.uk/2025/uk-legi...

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