Podcasts about English Defence League

Is misogyny implicated in radicalisation, across the political spectrum? Laurie Taylor talks to Elizabeth Pearson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London about her primary research among two of Britain's key extremist movements: the banned Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, and those networked to it; and the anti-Islam radical right, including the English Defence League, For Britain and Britain First. Also, Katherine Williams, a former post-doctoral student in Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University, explores women's engagement with the far right and queries the notion that women do not support such politics, given the contemporary resurgence and global electoral successes of the far right, in its many guises. Producer: Jayne Egerton

Trong gần một tuần, bạo động đã nổ ra tại nhiều thành phố ở Vương Quốc Anh sau vụ một thanh niên 17 tuổi tấn công bằng dao làm thiệt mạng ba bé gái tại Southport, tây bắc nước Anh. Chính phủ của thủ tướng Keir Starmer quy trách nhiệm cho những nhóm cực hữu đứng sau các cuộc bạo loạn. Nguyên nhân sâu xa của vụ việc này là gì ? RFI Tiếng Việt đặt câu hỏi với nhà báo Nguyễn Giang, định cư lâu năm tại Anh Quốc.**********RFI Tiếng Việt : Trước hết, anh có thể giải thích rõ thêm về nguyên nhân thực sự của những vụ bạo loạn ? Phải chăng di dân luôn là vấn đề « nhạy cảm » tại Anh Quốc ?Nhà báo Nguyễn Giang : Mười ngày bạo động, đốt phá ở chừng 10 thành phố, thị trấn của xứ Anh (England) và Bắc Ireland cho thấy có hàng loạt vấn đề trước mắt và lâu dài mà chính phủ của Công đảng phải giải quyết. Đó là sự hoạt động kín của các nhóm dùng mạng xã hội, là thái độ bài ngoại, phân biệt chủng tộc âm ỉ trong dân bản địa Anh đã lâu, là các vấn đề kinh tế khó khăn, câu chuyện di dân, người nhập cư và cả bệnh tâm thần và tệ nạn say xỉn, nghiện ngập.Đầu tiên là việc những kẻ theo phái cực hữu, dân tộc chủ nghĩa Anh nghe theo những lời kêu gọi lan truyền trong các cộng đồng mạng dùng chatapp khép kín, người không được mời không thể tham gia, để tổ chức các đợt tấn công vào khách sạn có người nhập cư, tỵ nạn được chính quyền cho tạm cư. Họ cũng nhân đó đốt phá xe cảnh sát, đập cửa tiệm, ném gạch đá vào một số ngôi đền Hồi giáo ở những vùng mà căng thẳng sắc tộc đã có sẵn.Nhắc lại đợt bạo loạn tương tự năm 2011 ở Anh, các tờ báo lớn đều cho rằng chỉ xử phạt, bỏ tù những kẻ gây rối thôi sẽ không giải quyết được gốc rễ của vấn đề tha hóa trong thanh thiếu niên thất nghiệp, sự nghèo nàn về sinh hoạt cộng đồng và các căn bệnh xã hội bấy lâu nay ở các đô thị thua thiệt trong kinh tế.Cảnh sát Anh cáo buộc nhóm cực hữu English Defence League đứng sau cuộc bạo loạn. Anh có thể cho biết rõ thêm về nhóm cực hữu này ? Chủ trương hành động của họ là gì? Nhà báo Nguyễn Giang : Nhóm cực hữu này đã bị cấm từ 10 năm qua, nhưng các nhà báo Anh khi đến các điểm bạo loạn thì họ nhận ra là có các thành viên cũ của English Defence League (EDL) tham gia đốt phá, hoặc đứng ngoài xem, quay video. Cựu thủ lĩnh của tổ chức này là Tommy Robinson thì không ở Anh nhưng vẫn có thể phát biểu qua mạng xã hội thúc giục những người tin theo ông ta ra tay.Cũng phải nói rằng báo chí Anh vẫn trích dẫn lời Tommy Robinson để hiểu ra vì sao ông ta và những kẻ bài ngoại nói và làm như vậy. Điều đáng chú ý là EDL không còn chính thức hoạt động, nhưng các lập luận của họ vẫn có ảnh hưởng nhất định trong một số giới. EDL cũng không phải là tổ chức công khai phân biệt chủng tộc, bài Do Thái như một số đảng cực hữu ở châu Âu.Trái lại, họ nói là văn hóa bản địa của người Anh bị đe dọa bởi hai thứ: một là làn sóng dân nhập cư quá cao, hàm ý người Hồi giáo và châu Phi, và hai là thái độ thờ ơ, bỏ mặc của tầng lớp trên ở Luân Đôn, gồm cả chính phủ và giới truyền thông.Dù bị luật chống khủng bố Terrorism Act 2000 cấm, những cựu thành viên của tổ chức này vẫn tuyên truyền trên mạng xã hội, đôi khi trả lời phỏng vấn đài báo chính thống như SkyNews. Họ có cả các nhóm thân hữu tập hợp người Do Thái, người theo đạo Sikh và LGBT.Trong vụ việc này, chính phủ thủ tướng Keir Starmer còn quy trách nhiệm cho các mạng xã hội. Thực hư cáo buộc này là gì ?Nhà báo Nguyễn Giang : Điều đáng nói là bạo loạn nổ ra đúng 9 tháng sau khi Anh thông qua Luật An toàn mạng (Online Safety Act) nhằm ngăn chặn việc lan truyền tin giả qua các nhóm dùng mạng khép kín. Thế nhưng trong vụ việc mới đây, tin giả nói thủ phạm chém chết ba bé gái ở Southport, Anh Quốc “là người di dân vừa vào Anh bất hợp pháp” đã lan tỏa rất nhanh, thúc đẩy làn sóng bài ngoại lên cao.Sự thật là hung thủ sinh ra ở Anh chứ không phải người nhập cư, nhưng điều đó không được các nhóm phân biệt chủng tộc nghe theo. Đây là bằng chứng cho thấy trong một xã hội tự do, việc giám sát mạng xã hội rất khó và sắp tới, chính phủ của Thủ tướng Kier Starmer nói sẽ làm chặt hơn, nhưng sẽ không dễ, ví dụ như luật Anh cấm tuyên truyền kỳ thị chủng tộc, chống di dân nhưng không ai cấm cả các công ty điều tra dư luận và đài báo hỏi dân chúng về thái độ của họ đối với người nhập cư.Trên thực tế, nhiều người dân ở Anh gồm cả người không phải gốc bản địa Anh cũng lo rằng kinh tế khó khăn, nhà ở đang thiếu mà làn sóng di cư trái phép cứ tiếp tục thì gánh nặng cho chi tiêu công sẽ tăng, trực tiếp hoặc gián tiếp ảnh hưởng đến đời sống của họ. Sự thất vọng trong cuộc sống đẩy cao tâm lý nghi kỵ, bài xích người khác họ.Trong vụ việc gần nhất đây, hiện tượng người Hồi giáo ở một số vùng phải đứng ra bảo vệ cơ sở tôn giáo của họ cũng bị phe bài ngoại cho rằng cảnh sát chỉ bênh người Hồi giáo và bắt giữ toàn người gốc Anh bản địa, khiến cho tình hình thêm căng thẳng. Phải tới cuối tuần qua, số người biểu tình chống phân biệt chủng tộc, gồm rất nhiều thành phần sắc tộc, xã hội, mới tụ họp đông đảo ở Luân Đôn và các đô thị khác, nêu lên tiếng nói hòa bình của đa số, khiến tình hình giảm nhiệt đi trông thấy.Tại sao bạo động đặc biệt diễn ra dữ dội tại các thành phố Sunderland, Liverpool, Hull… , những thành phố phía bắc nước Anh ? Và đây cũng phải là lần đầu tiên những cuộc bạo loạn bài chủng tộc diễn ra ở Anh ?Nhà báo Nguyễn Giang : Không phải ngẫu nhiên mà nơi nổ ra bạo loạn ở vùng miền Trung và Bắc nước Anh, cộng thêm một số điểm ở phía Đông Luân Đôn và ở Bắc Ireland đều là những nơi có tỷ lệ nghèo khó cao nhất nước. Ví dụ như Blackburn, Blackpool, Hartlepool, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester và Middlesbrough nằm cả trong số 10 đô thị xuống cấp, nghèo đi so với trước, theo thống kê của chính phủ trong bảng Indices of Deprivation (Hạng mục suy thoái, xuống cấp).Tại các vùng này, nơi người nhập cư từ Nam Á đã sống cạnh người Anh mấy thế hệ nhưng việc làm ít, đầu tư công bị cắt giảm khiến căng thẳng sắc tộc thường cao hơn các vùng khá giả. Không ít gia đình người Anh sống trong cảnh vất vưởng về việc làm, về cơ hội vươn lên trong khi đầu tư công, chi phí cho xây dựng cộng đồng, hỗ trợ thất nghiệp bị cắt giảm liên tục.Trong một số vụ bị xử tù tuần qua vì gây bạo loạn, người ta thấy có những ông già người Anh và có các thiếu niên 17-18 tuổi, trẻ nhất có em 14 tuổi, chứng tỏ những vấn đề nghiêm trọng đã bao phủ mấy thế hệ. Một em trai khác, 15 tuổi, thuộc dạng lêu lổng, đi từ North Lincolnshire tới Hull thăm bạn thì thấy bạo loạn nên tranh thủ hôi của, cũng bị xử tù. Đây không phải là những chuyện vui vì các tệ nạn khác trong giới trẻ người Anh như tỷ lệ bệnh tâm thần, nạn nghiện hút, rượu chè, nay vì các vụ bạo loạn cũng được nói tới.Tân chính phủ Công đảng nếu không thay đổi chính sách thì sẽ khó giúp người dân trở nên lạc quan, có thái độ tích cực hơn, thay vì tâm lý bài xích, phản kháng (anti-social attitude). Cũng ở một số địa phương đó, năm 2011 đã từng xảy ra bạo loạn tương tự và đây là dấu hiệu nhiều vấn đề sâu xa chưa được các nhiệm kỳ khác nhau của chính quyền giải quyết.Phải chăng cuộc bạo loạn đang diễn ra hiện nay minh chứng cho những gì ông David Cameron từng nói năm 2011 là chủ nghĩa đa văn hóa đã thất bại tại Anh Quốc ? Giới chính trị gia có trách nhiệm như thế nào về tình trạng hiện nay ở Anh?Nhà báo Nguyễn Giang : Ở Anh từ lâu nay không có định nghĩa cụ thể về chủ nghĩa đa văn hóa (multiculturalism) như cách hiểu ở Đức, Pháp hay một số nước châu Âu là văn hóa người châu Âu đón nhận các dòng văn hóa của người di cư từ châu Á, Trung Đông, châu Phi tới.Lý do là lịch sử Liên hiệp Vương quốc Anh, trên danh nghĩa, đã chứa đựng yếu tố đa văn hóa của các nhóm bản địa gốc Âu từ lâu: Anh, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, sau này thêm dân Đức, Pháp, Do Thái, và Đông Âu nên người ta cho rằng việc có các văn hóa khác như Hồi giáo, văn hóa Á Đông bổ sung nào cũng không sao cả.Cũng vì thế, chính trị gia Anh nói khác nhau về chủ nghĩa đa văn hóa. Hồi năm 2011, ông David Cameron không tin vào điều này và cho rằng cần có một yêu cầu mạnh hơn buộc người nhập cư bỏ chủ nghĩa cực đoan để chấp nhận các giá trị của nước Anh, nhưng một cựu thủ tướng Anh khác của đảng Bảo thủ, Rishi Sunak, người gốc Ấn, lại cho rằng Anh đã rất thành công khi tạo ra “nền dân chủ đa văn hóa” (multicultural democracy).Điều này người ta nói tới không phải là đa văn hóa nữa, vì nó khá trừu tượng mà vấn đề di dân. Một điều tra của Viện Ipsos hồi tháng 2/2024 cho thấy 52% người được hỏi ở Anh tin rằng số người nhập cư vào là quá cao, so với 42% vào năm 2022.Trong bối cảnh này, tân chính phủ thủ tướng Keir Starmer chủ trương đường lối cứng rắn với những kẻ gây bạo loạn. Liệu thủ tướng Anh có đủ các phương tiện cũng như sự ủng hộ của người dân để thực hiện các biện pháp đó ?Nhà báo Nguyễn Giang : Năm 2011, khi Anh nổ ra các cuộc bạo loạn lần đầu, ông Kier Starmer là trưởng công tố quốc gia và đã đích thân chỉ đạo việc xử tù những kẻ gây rối. Tuần qua, ông cũng tỏ ra cứng rắn, yêu cầu toà án, công tố viện làm việc ngày đêm để xử nhanh khoảng 150 bị cáo gây bạo loạn. Tuy thế, các báo Anh nói ở cương vị thủ tướng, ông Starmer cần có cái nhìn dài hạn và tìm giải pháp sâu rộng cho các vấn đề gốc rễ của bạo loạn tức là sự rạn nứt xã hội (social rifts). Án tù sẽ chỉ ngăn được những kẻ liều lĩnh tràn ra phố vì tức giận, nhưng không hóa giải, thuyết phục được khá nhiều người khác lo ngại về xung đột sắc tộc ở Anh.Bạo loạn nổ ra một tháng sau khi Công đảng giành được đa số tuyệt đối trong cuộc bầu cử Nghị Viện. Tuy nhiên, trong cuộc bầu cử này, lần đầu tiên một đảng cực hữu là Reform UK đã có chân trong Nghị Viện Anh. Cuộc bạo loạn này phải chăng cho thấy là cũng giống như nhiều nước châu Âu lục địa, tân chính phủ Anh đang phải đối mặt trước đà trỗi dậy của phe cực hữu ?Nhà báo Nguyễn Giang : Công đảng thắng cử vừa qua chủ yếu là vì cử tri ở Anh chán đảng Bảo thủ cầm quyền đã lâu, sau 5 đời thủ tướng trong vòng 14 năm cả thẩy, chứ không phải vì cương lĩnh tranh cử của Công đảng quá hấp dẫn. Cùng lúc, đảng Reform UK thu được 14% tổng số phiếu bầu và về nhì ở trên 90 khu vực bầu cử trên cả nước mà chỉ có 5 ghế nghị sĩ trong Hạ viện, do hệ thống bầu cử Anh tuân theo nguyên tắc « Được ăn cả ngã về không » (first-past-the post-electorial sysem). Điều này khiến một phần phe thiên hữu trong đảng Reform UK của ông Nigel Farage và cả trong đảng Bảo thủ cảm thấy họ bị thiệt thòi và đang dùng mạng xã hội đe dọa chính phủ Công đảng là “sẽ có bạo loạn còn to hơn”.Tuy phe thiên hữu đã hiện diện công khai trong Nghị viện và có thể dùng các thủ tục lập pháp để thay đổi chính sách, nhưng họ lại thích dùng mạng xã hội để gây sức ép “ngoài luồng” lên chính phủ. Điều này đang gây đau đầu cho chính phủ Anh và cũng cho thấy phe cực hữu, thiên hữu ở Anh nói riêng và ở châu Âu nói chung ưa thích các cách đấu tranh, công kích phi truyền thống, ngoài nghị trường và các chính quyền sẽ không dễ hạn chế ảnh hưởng của họ.Nhiều đời chính phủ gần đây đã có các chính sách siết chặt di dân nhưng bất thành. Anh có thể điểm lại sơ qua các chính sách đó và cho biết thêm tân chính phủ Anh sẽ có đối sách ra sao đối với hồ sơ di dân ?Nhà báo Nguyễn Giang : Trong nhiều thập kỷ, Anh là quốc gia di cư, có dòng di dân đi nhiều hơn đến, tức là số người ở Anh đến các xứ sở khác sinh sống luôn cao hơn số người nhập cư. Nhưng từ năm 1994 thì Anh là nước nhận người nhập cư nhiều hơn số ra đi. Theo một số cơ quan nghiên cứu thì trong thập niên đầu tiên của thế kỷ 21, cụ thể là tính đến năm 2011, mỗi năm số người vào Anh làm việc, sinh sống cao hơn số ra đi tới 360 nghìn.Các chính phủ qua nhiều nhiệm kỳ coi đây là quy luật đất lành chim đậu, dân số tăng thì kinh tế tăng trưởng theo, và cũng vì dòng người tới từ Liên Hiệp Châu Âu mà Anh là thành viên có quyền tới theo nguyên tắc tự do di cư trong EU nên Luân Đôn không có chính sách gì cụ thể.Chỉ khi Brexit xảy ra thì vấn đề kiểm soát số người nhập cư mới thành vấn đề và chính phủ của đảng Bảo thủ chấp nhận trưng cầu dân ý Brexit năm 2016 một phần để tìm giải pháp tái kiểm soát biên giới, để người từ EU không thể tự do vào Anh nữa.Tuy thế, trong một năm từ tháng 3/2019 đến tháng 3/2020 thì vẫn có trên 700 nghìn người vào Anh, trừ đi gần 400 nghìn người di cư đi nơi khác thì con số ròng vẫn là khoảng 347 nghìn. Dịch Covid có làm ngưng trệ số người vào Anh và sau khi Brexit có hiệu lực từ đầu năm 2021, số dân EU sang Anh có giảm nhưng các nhóm khác vẫn vào đều, thậm chí còn tăng cao.Họ gồm cả người tỵ nạn chính đáng mà Anh đón về từ các vùng chiến sự, từ những nơi Anh có dính líu quân sự như Afghanistan, từ cả các nước như Việt Nam. Chính phủ Bảo thủ muốn chặn dòng người vào Anh bằng đường biển, nên đã ký với Rwanda thỏa thuận mở trung tâm cứu xét hồ sơ xin tỵ nạn ở nước châu Phi đó, nhằm làm di dân trái phép nản chí, không từ châu Âu sang Anh nữa, nhưng chính phủ Công đảng vừa lên đã xóa dự án Rwanda và nói sẽ tăng cường lực lượng chặn biên giới trên biển để ngăn các  thuyền phao chở di dân từ Pháp, Bỉ bơi sang.Cho đến nay chưa thấy chính sách này có hiệu lực, vì không nước châu Âu nào sẵn sàng nhận lại di dân bỏ nước họ sang Anh. Cũng không rõ tới đây chính phủ Anh sẽ làm gì với số người nhập cư lậu đã vào Anh, lên tới hàng trăm nghìn. Giả sử hàng nghìn người bị bác đơn xin tỵ nạn thì sẽ đưa họ về đâu, vì các nước xuất xứ sẽ không dễ dàng nhận.Còn về thị trường lao động, Công đảng muốn giảm việc cấp visa việc làm cho nhân công nước ngoài và mở các khóa huấn luyện tay nghề cho người ở Anh làm các việc đó. Cho tới nay còn quá sớm để biết việc này triển khai ra sao và liệu có hàng trăm nghìn người ở Anh sẵn sàng đổi việc làm để lấp chỗ trống trên thị trường lao động hay chưa.RFI Tiếng Việt xin cảm ơn nhà báo Nguyễn Giang.

Shownotes and Transcript Our latest interview with Tommy Robinson covers the recent events in the UK, where Tommy talks about his interactions with various media outlets and the attacks he's facing from the government and police forces. He discusses the rallies he has organized and how they were managed peacefully despite challenges. Tommy also delves into the manipulation of mainstream media to portray the protests as far-right extremism rather than addressing the concerns of British citizens. He highlights the double standards in how the authorities handle different groups and the bias in labelling demonstrations. Tommy shares his experience of being detained under counterterrorism legislation, where he was interrogated without the right to remain silent and pressured to reveal sensitive information regarding his work as a journalist. He emphasizes the abuse of power and lack of evidence to support the accusations against him. Tommy also addresses the recent riots in Southport and the media's portrayal of him as instigating violence, which has put his life at risk. The conversation shifts to the role of social media, especially platforms like X (Twitter) and the impact of individuals like Elon Musk in supporting free speech. Tommy reflects on the support he has received from various figures and the importance of amplifying voices like his to challenge the narrative created by mainstream media. He acknowledges the danger he faces for exposing truths and the need for open discussions to combat censorship and control of information. Tommy expresses gratitude for the opportunity to tell his story, including his interview with Jordan Peterson, which he believes can contribute to a cultural revolution in Britain. Connect and support Tommy... X                          x.com/TRobinsonNewEra BOOKS               trsilenced.com WEBSITE            urbanscoop.news Interview recorded  10.8.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... X/TWITTER        x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA  heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop/ Transcript Hearts of Oak: And hello, Hearts of Oak. And it's wonderful to have the enemy of the state, Mr. Silenced, Mr. Tommy Robinson, back with us once again. Tommy, thanks so much for your time today. Tommy Robinson: I've had a bit, yeah. I've had a bit. I know. I want to get your thoughts on what's happened in the UK over the last 10, 12 days. And then look at the difference between the mainstream media and the alternative media. And, of course, where we are with Keir Starmer and the UK government clamping down, all of that. but you've been, I mean, I appreciate your time because I know you've been in crazy demand. What have you been, what shows have you been doing recently where people can find you? I've done Ann Coulter. I've done Alex Stein. I've done, I've been on Alex Jones. I've been on, I've been on loads, man. I haven't, yesterday I didn't sleep. I went all through the night doing America, America, America. I've done Fresh and Fit. I've done, I've done so many. Which is a great opportunity because at the minute I've got I'm under a full-on attack where of total lies total lies saying I instigated that I encourage violence all these did from my sun lounger which is I fled the country because of the riots it's all lies there's no evidence to back up any word of what they're saying but they've put a massive target on me huge there's now Somalian's making videos to murder me there's men doing videos of machine guns saying they're going to kill me all of this slander and this these lies are propagated by my government and police force so every video I've put luckily I've still got a platform here on X I've been able to show people here's what they're saying and here's what I said I've called for non-violence people protests I've actually said you're moronic put the bricks down I've told older men to go get hold of the youth take their masks off they're going to go to jail they're angry young men they're angry because their country is being destroyed they're being neglected they've been forgotten they're angry and I understand their anger so I've been saying look you need to show them we had two successful rallies one on the 1st of June one on the 27th of July just before these riots we had 100,000 people there they weren't they weren't. They weren't peaceful because, they were peaceful because we managed it. We harnessed and directed that anger into a festival of celebration and showed people, let us be your voice. What you're seeing the week after that is a rudderless ship, a total rudderless ship with no leadership and organic. They want to portray this organized far-right network. They weren't an organized far-right network. network there was individuals in towns and cities across the country coming out in the streets. Outraged at what they've been made to watch not just for a day or a week but decades and anger spilled over so and what they've done what they've successfully done when I look at now by the government rather than have to talk about one or any issue of open border mass migration filling all the hotels not giving winter um not uh taking away from the old age pensioners when they can't can't afford their heating. They haven't had to address any of these issues, immigration, knife crime, terrorism. They've not had to talk about any of it because they've just gone far right, English feds league. They've resurrected an organisation that's been dead for 10 years and then they've used their propaganda in the media to pump it across the whole nation that there's a hundred far right riots planned when there wasn't one. There was one peaceful demonstration planned that night in Ormshaw and it was totally peaceful. So they created this hysteria and then literally their propaganda machine of the national media run the same front page across every single newspaper in our land run the same front page about defeating the racist extremists so they managed to paint the entire situation as racial and extremism rather than concerned British citizens sick to death of being ignored so their machine and what they've done and then point it all at me so then they can justify whatever imprisonment or whatever they want to throw at me, locking people up for 26 months for shouting aggressively at police, that you can stand in the centre of London and you can stand under the platform of Hizb ut Tahrir, the prescribed terrorist organisation, and you can call for jihad and Muslim armies and the Metropolitan Police Force will put out a statement saying there's plenty of different meanings of jihad. They'll defend your right to do that, but they'll lock you up for 26 months if you shout, if you're angered by the death and murder of three young girls. I want to get into that and obviously how you've been a target for, certainly not as much, I haven't seen this attack on you for many, many years. So this is a new, and people can obviously read your stories, Enemy of the State, the first book. You need Enemy of the State, new and improved, but that's in silenced, the second book. All the links are in the description. But can I, first of all, before how you fit into this and how you become once again a target of the state, what kind of sparked this all from last Monday for the WarRoom Posse, the US viewers who've got bits of this, your assessment from actually what happened from the beginning of last week? When this goes out on Monday, it'll be two weeks ago. Okay. What day did the riot start in Southport? What day? Was it the Tuesday or Wednesday after? I think. I don't know. I need to check. Was it so I we held a rally 100 000 people the biggest gathering of patriots Britain's ever seen and we we know the infiltrators like January 6th we know that the security services would want to disrupt in fact anyone listening to this google special demonstration squad these are organizations that the British government use and they go into peaceful demonstrations and they provoke violence And they send in agitators to create the scene that they want. So they don't want a 100,000 multi-ethnic, different religions, diverse group of the British public having a voice. They don't want that. What they want is loads of people labelled as hooligans, folks on far right, who are easy to dismiss, which means all of their policy failures, they do not have to have a discussion about. But they've met that they've seen what we've done we have combined men and what our instruction was to the men of England and Britain who were on the streets at both of our demonstrations if anyone turns up with face coverings we will confront them ourselves so we within our own crowd if you get four or five men because they can't do it bare face because people find out who the security service are who they're because they'll get found out now within there so every one of these like Like in America, like here, like Antifa, like all these groups, they dress in total black, all black, and then they go smash things up and they provoke a riot. But it was impossible to do that on our demonstrations because we put out the instructions to all of our lads from all over the country. Every football club had representations there. We had the tough men from England. The instruction was if anyone turns up with their face covering, pull their face covering off and pull them up and say, what are you doing? If anyone tries to instigate violence, we'll deal with them. And we told the police this in the build up to the meeting. So you're not going to be needed because if anyone comes there for violence, we will sort them out because we're not going to allow them to commit violence in our name, our demonstration. And we and that would have sent a message to the establishment that would have scared them they were terrified that they couldn't control how this group were portrayed and the reason they couldn't control it because even though the mainstream media on the day of the 27th and the day of the 1st of June where there was no arrest no trouble no violence even though they pumped headlines saying football hooligans fucked we had nearly a million people watching each one live on X and we invited and gave press passes to every citizen journalist there is every rising star of citizen journalists they were who we focused on we give them the we give them first treatment we told the mainstream go away yeah you're not welcome here okay because you're just gonna lie we know what you're here to do so that day both those days which they can't control very fast across all social medias and everywhere was a real portrayal of our movement which was a beautiful coming together to celebrate British culture and British identity it wasn't far right it wasn't racism wasn't fucked and their weapon of the media wasn't successful in demonizing targeting us so we had these events we went from 30,000 to 100,000 I guarantee the next one will be 250,000 so what do they do at that point what do they do well I probably get to the docks the next day. So we're talking about Sunday and I'm detained under counterterrorism legislation, so I'm detained. I think you're a terrorist that was new to me Tommy New to me mate no no No, in fact, let me tell you their words. The officers who detained me, first thing they done was took my phone and they said, you're not under arrest, but this legislation means you're detained. So I said, am I free to go? No, you're not. They said, but this is what matters. You do not have a right to remain silent. You have no right. So they showed me the legislation paperwork and what it says, as they read it out, is we believe that you may be in the preparation or involved in a preparation investigation of terrorism. And then they said, we don't. We know you're not. Both of them said it. We know you're not. But this legislation gives us the opportunity at airports and borders to put you in for six hours we've got from the start of when we started interviewing you. We have six hours. You do not have a right to remain silent. And they'd already taken my phone. So and to make you aware, you have to give us the the password on your phone so we can download every bit of data from it. And I said, and I was upset. I was obviously pissed off. I said, you've got genuine terrorists that you're not monitoring. Genuine people flying terrorist organisation flags across our capital since October 7th that you're not prosecuting. But here you've got me, and I'm sat here now under terrorism legislation. And then they start asking me questions. So then they sit me down. They take me in. They sit me down. And then they start asking me questions. Questions such as, what's the next stage of planning for your movement? I said, so I have to answer this. So what happens if I don't answer this? If you don't answer this, you're guilty of a terrorism offence. So it's basically a fishing expedition to find out what you're up to. Total fishing expedition to find out what I'm up to, who's involved, what our plans are. Which I said, one of their questions is, what's your opinion of the UK? I said, honestly, a totalitarian shithole. That's what my opinion is. And they said, well, can you explain that? I said, I'm sat here under counter-terrorism legislation, and you know I'm not a terrorist. Is you've got me in here so you can ask me questions about my legal lawful activity and work as a journalist so you can dig which is not which is not you're you're absolutely abusing your rights here you're abusing your power and you're taking my rights away from me but I went through and I had to answer their questions one of the questions was how do you think you're going to stop the great replacement so is this is this for real yeah is this actually for real and then Another question was, why can't there be a two-state solution in Palestine? I just said, but I kept asking him the questions. I said, okay, would you give ISIS a statement? Simple question, would you support a state for ISIS to be in total governance and control of? If the answer's no. And then, so we're going back and forward. Six hours they groomed me for, six hours, yeah. Then they come in and said, right, we're giving you an opportunity. And by this time, because they'd sat me there for an hour first before the interview, I'd read their paperwork. Now, they weren't allowed to question me on anything that would reveal sources of information for my journalism, because they're not allowed to know your sources. At which point, when they said, give us a pin code for your phone, I said, you know, I'm a journalist. I'm a full time journalist. You know, that's my work phone. So every bit of information that's on it, you're not having. And I'm explaining to them, I said, let me tell you why you're not having it. Because I have dealt with grooming gang, which is Islamic jihad rape gangs, yeah? I have dealt with the survivors of them to put together a five-part series so far, and I'm working on episode six. Episode six, we expose a politician, one of your Labour politicians, who's involved, yeah? So we have covert recordings. We all set up for my work. Also, these girls don't trust you, but they put their trust in me. So they want to have a voice. The reason why they don't trust you is because we've already exposed your senior ranking police officer in Telford was taking money off the gangs. We've done that in episode two or episode one. We've also, we know from government reports now that your police officers were destroying evidence in Rotherham. We know that they were collapsing cases in Manchester after the death of a 15-year-old girl. We know that your officers have cooperated and operated to conspire to hide these cases and these facts that's a fact that's not my opinion that's a fact so what you're asking have any. Police been prosecuted for the evidence you produce in those films none they haven't even Done it no they've ignored it so the mainstream media of course none and then even they said I said now in one of our episodes that we showed you in telford your police gave the gangs the location of the girl. So you want me to give you the pin code for my phone? I'm just saying this out loud so you understand how ridiculous this is. You want me to endanger the sources of information because that's what it's going to do. You're going to put it on your little computer system that every Muslim police officer in the country has access to. I said, I'm sorry, lads. I'm not willing to do that. And I don't believe you have a right to do that because you know I'm a journalist. So I'm not giving you the pin code for my phone. well now we're going to move from detaining you to arresting you you're arrested under blah blah blah the terrorism act and you will now be transferred to a police station to undergo to to undergo interview under caution and you will then be charged so I said okay so be it then that's that's how I'm not and again if this is meant to be worrying for me you need if you want to prosecute me as a terrorist you prosecute me as a terrorist I'm not going to let these girls down and I'm not going to let any source of information down that's helped me expose your corruption or politicians corruption especially and then there are even they asked me so but and I said information on that phone is legally privileged I'm back and forward you're prosecuting me as you know for contempt of court I have information on there about my case going back and forward with my lawyer and they asked me in the interview in the interview they asked me I had a case um Justice Nicklin where so basically they're doing me for contempt of Court for showing a film. Now, new evidence has come to light since the conviction that Justice Nicklin fell out with his own father, who's a supporter of me. So they would love access to my phone. Of course they would, yeah? Because they're preparing to send me to jail for a film which has now had 42 million views. So they're pretty upset, yeah? But so I said, this is counterterrorism. So they then transferred me to a police station where I'm waiting for my lawyer. I then underwent an interview where I explained exactly the same again. You are not having access to my privileged information and you're not having access to sources of information. So I'm sorry, you're not going to have access to my phone. At which point, and my solicitor had been told I was being charged. I'd been told I was being charged because it's pretty black and white. If you don't give them your PIN code, you're guilty. So this was. On the Sunday. They want to charge you after their six hours of terrorism investigation. And they took me at eight in the morning, half eight in the morning. And by the time I got to interview, so I'd had six hours, and I'm at a police station. They put me back in the cell after interview, and I'm waiting to be charged and get my court date. And they're obviously outside. I don't know what's going on outside of the cells, but this is blowing up. People are outside down the street, I believe. There's 7 million views on the fact I've been arrested on X, which again, remember, if we didn't have X, they'd have total control of the narrative. So they could tell people what they want. And I saw the interview with Nigel Farage. And this is the problem. When you elect politicians who are supposed to represent the people and supposed to be counter to the establishment, room he just parrots the establishment's message every time every time so his own reform voters would have been contacting his party they've got five five members saying this is an abuse of power yeah which it totally is and when Nigel Farage was interviewed on trigonometry he said well we got told it was due to terrorism but it wasn't it was a passport violation well that's nonsense and he knows that's nonsense because our forms as soon as I got out so I get out at 11 o'clock at 11. Morning to night. Morning to night. And they didn't charge me. So my solicitor said, something's gone on here. We know you were getting charged that why haven't they charged you? And I don't think they charged me because the embarrassment of it. And because actually, because I'm a journalist, it's a very difficult case for them because you can't have access to my work phone. Yeah. And this is going to go to court if you charge me. The public are going to watch it. You're going to have to admit what you've already said is that you know I'm not a terrorist. You know I'm not involved in terrorism. So you're blatantly abusing the powers that you have. Now, the problem is, it's like the Patriots Act in the United States. They we have mass problems from open border immigration so they bring in ideologies that wish to destroy our nation destroy our people they act in a certain way jihad bombs beheadings stabbings they do all this then the government bring in new law and legislation which they tell us is to tackle them but then they use it to tackle anyone who embarrasses them or challenges their narrative or exposes their own corruption so that's what they're doing and that's what this was and I was bailed unconditional bail so there's been a lot of talk that I fled the country because of the riots so let's just get the timeline in frame here yeah I'm at a demonstration on Saturday I'm meant to have been out of the country on the sun no I'm at a demonstration on Sunday Saturday I should have been leaving the country Saturday morning I had a pre-planned holiday booked 18 months prior to this with my three children yeah so i wasn't fleeing the country because of riots, because they hadn't started yet, yeah? And the police took my phone. So when I left the country on the Sunday, I had no phone. So then I've left the country. I've gone all the way through France. I was dropping a car off. That was what I was doing. I was getting paid to drop a car off to someone, to my friend, for him, into the south of Spain. So I'm driving. It's not until I even get into Spain that I pick up a phone. I pick up a phone, and then I'm able to take my arrest sheet out, my bail conditions out, my bail forms out. So Nigel Farage, before he makes this video, and if I'm led to believe that he hasn't researched this before talking about it or he hasn't seen the social media posts he's even mistaken or he's an out and out liar right and what I believe is that he's too much of a coward to have a discussion just like I know he come out in the end and challenged the banks closing people's banks but he didn't do it for nine years we had our I had my bank accounts closed in 2009 they all knew this they knew the treatment we're receiving and it's always it's me today it's you tomorrow so stop me under terrorist legislation let them get away with this abuse of power and you know what I covered, journalistically, a similar case to this on Paul Golding from Britain First. He travelled to Russia. When he landed, they abused the power exactly like this. I went to his case because I said, if they do it to him, they'll do it to us. And I went and listened to his case, and they accepted in that case they knew he wasn't a terrorist. So it's a total abuse, but he still was convicted of terror offenses. Paul Golding is convicted of terror offenses for refusing to give the government and the police access to his phone and computers, right? It's a total liberty. They know he's not. Now, this legislation was only brought in in case, say, they know there's going to be a terrorist attack. There's been a terrorist attack here. They know other terrorists are in the knowledge of where the next attack is. They detain them. Then they have this legislation that means you can't remain inside them because you've got to tell us because we need to save lives, yeah? That's what it was brought in for. Not this. not to ask people about their lawful political movement or their demonstrations or their organisation or their cultural movement because that's what they asked me for they grilled me for six hours everything to do with this so now I've been released, At the same time as this, then I think the next day or whatever, three little girls have been butchered to death and a dozen have been snapped. And let me say, six, seven, and nine, three little girls, and that was on the Monday, yes, the day after your... So that obviously... If it was on the Monday, I didn't even have a phone. I didn't even have a phone. So whenever that attack was, I didn't even own a phone. So I couldn't go on the internet, I couldn't message back if it happened on the Monday. I don't know what day. Let me have a look what day. Can I look now quickly? I think it was Monday. I think it was Monday the 29th. I think. I didn't have a phone. I didn't have a phone. It's impossible for me to have a phone because I was driving. I drove for 20 hours. Yeah. I drove the whole way. So I didn't have a phone, man, if that was when it happened. Yeah. But somehow, somehow, the media are saying I'm orchestrated. So these attacks happened in Southport. Now, when you're saying, so your viewers understand, Southport is a close-knit, working-class community. I spoke to one, a few days after the attack, I spoke to one uncle of a girl who was stabbed. He described that when the man come into the classroom, this girl must have been coming back from the toilet or something. His niece, it was his niece. He grabbed her by the hair, stabbed her straight for her face. So he destroyed her forever. Stabbed her for her face. Stabbed her took her bicep off stabbed her in the body dropped her like a bit of meat yeah gone on to the room started stabbing them all but he thought she's dead then he's gone on so this one man this uncle of this child he said tommy you gotta understand that happened to one side the family on my other side the family it was the god door one of the god doors was murdered seven years old, stabbed seven times. So imagine the anger, the frustration, the boiling over. So the local community have come out for a vigil for these goers. So all the men in this town are at vigil. Now, it's impossible to have been organised by any group. It's a vigil. So they're at this vigil, and then word spreads because what visibly looks like an Arab has been detained with a balaclava and a knife in the road around the corner. There's a video of the man being arrested. He's got a big knife. So word spreads. Bearing in mind the tensions that are already there, the frustrations that are already there, the fact I believe that the government or the police come out and said it wasn't a terrorist attack after about an hour. And everyone's like, how can you possibly know that? and bearing in mind so your viewers understand a day or two or three before this a soldier in full military uniform has walked out of his barracks and a migrant who's been in the country about six months gets off a motorbike and runs over and butchers him stabs him and stabs him and stabs him this doesn't really make British news okay the controlled media it doesn't really make the news and as the wife comes out and tries to help her husband and as other people do this migrant doesn't stab anyone. Only targets the man in military uniform. We've seen exactly this previously with Lee Rigby. Michael Adebolajo, a Nigerian convert to Islam, someone we previously made videos about and warned about, him and another Nigerian convert stabbed to death Lee Rigby, and they behead him in the street. Again, they don't stab any passers-by, because what they say in their view is he was a fair and legitimate target of war because he was in a British uniform for military. So when we've seen this one we're then told that this mental health episode was it was mental health so that the man who was totally mentally ill only chose the soldier to stab yeah and there was no political or ideological motivation for that attack now I'm sorry we don't buy it I don't buy it the British public don't buy it so and I'll get I'll tell you why we don't buy I'll tell you my reason why I don't believe them and and what they said after the murder of the three girls is when We're managing the situation of what's told. They're managing. Now, in 2016, and I ask anyone listening to this, go on your computer and Google Russell Square attack. If you're in America, one of your citizens was butchered to death in this attack. You won't see it under the terrorist attack list because they didn't class it as a terrorist attack. So a Muslim went in to his mosque, which was nowhere near Russell Square. He goes into his mosque and he says he wants to kill non-Muslims. Now, rather than bring the security services to the police, his imam said a prayer for him. They prayed for him, okay? There's a process they're meant to follow if there's extremists within the mosque, and that's called the prevent strategy, which is by our government. They didn't do that. So they should have faced prosecution, but they prayed for him. He then left Brussels Square, mentally ill, didn't establish Muslims, where his area where he lived was all Muslims. He went into the area of tourists and non-Muslims, and he butchers seven people, one of them dying, American tourists, And in between butchering each person, he screams, Allah Akbar. Yeah. Which we're told means hallelujah in Islam. It couldn't be further from the truth. Well, guess what? This wasn't a terrorist attack either. This was an episode of mental health. There's another case where a Muslim. How come these Muslims who keep committing murder when they're having mental health, how come they only target non-Muslims in those mental health episodes? sons. There's another case. A grandma had her head cut off in a garden in London. In London, she's 88 years old. She's beheaded. Whilst he was screaming, Allah Akbar. But of course, this wasn't a case of terrorism either. So when, and look, this may have been an episode of mental health. He targeted a Taylor Swift concert. I think we've just had another Taylor Swift concert. Two or three Muslims have been arrested who were planning to blow up and kill and stab have children again at a Taylor Swift concert in Austria within the same two weeks. So the local community around, they're angry, they're upset, they're broken hearted, they're grieving. Another Arab, an identified Arab, looks like an Arab, has been caught with a knife and screwdriver and their frustration boils over into total fury. And then as they riot with the police... That night, a statement's given by the police saying that it was the English Defence League. Now, as soon as I saw this, I knew. As soon as I saw this, I knew what was coming. I knew. I know what they're doing. I know now what they're doing. I know what's going to happen from this. So I knew. Well, the English Defence League, and so your listeners understand, I started the English Defence League in 2009. And I left it in 2014. By 2015, it was gone. Now, if you want to check out Google searches, yeah, because they're trying to hide all this, Since 2017, it hasn't been mentioned. Do you know why it hasn't been mentioned? Because there is no organisation called the English Defence League. So for the lead police officer to say it was the English Defence League is a total falsehood and a total lie and a total manipulation of the truth. The truth is that the British public are furious of mass open border immigration. Endangerment of their women, their daughters and their safety. The rapes have gone on up and down our country. the migrants have been invited in and continually raping and killing from these hotels as well they're in the hotels so this developed into a riot watch my video so they keep saying I've instigated the riots and I've called for violence and attacks against mosques there's that but they don't quote any evidence or show any video footage or any quotes of what I've said in fact what they use is evidence that I've done that is one tweet where I said mass deportations needed now I'm not going to apologize for saying mass deportation is needed because they are needed every one of these migrant men who have come through 16 safe countries into our country who are economic migrants not refugees they're illegally entered our country so they broke the law anyway they're not here for safety because they were safe in France they were safe in every other country they went here they're here for economical reasons yeah many of them many of them and they're not there's not women and children we're not talking about families here and it would be a different conversation if we was we're talking about fighting age military men who we know nothing about criminal records ideologies are they members of ISIS were they members of ISIS how do they we don't know anything but then they're not just born in this country but they're plumped into hotels in every town city and they're done at a time when the British public are suffering they're suffering financially as a country economically can't get a dentist appointment people are pulling their own teeth out can't see a doctor the NHS rate list is ridiculous cancer page after Covid after they after that other manipulation of the truth all of these things have wound up the British public yeah they've been. Crying out for help and they've been ignored and every time they try to have a voice. Like that this evening Southport families have come out men have come out they're. All called far-right racists and that's what the automatic go-to was far-right extremists English feds league and then since then it's been directed at me. Everything's been directed at me doesn't matter what I've said you know what it doesn't matter I've said If you go and search my name now on TikTok, you can't find one video. You search my name on Instagram, you can't find one video. Facebook can't find one video. So whilst they delete the truth of what I've been saying, they use the propaganda and their weaponized media to flood every day for the last seven days, every day. Every talk show, every radio host. And once they started that lie, but Piers Morgan's done a video again saying that I have called for violent attacks against mosques. Now, what does that do when someone lies like that on such a high profile show with Andrew Tate that goes to tens of millions of people? Somalians are now making videos calling for my death and saying they're going to murder me. They've directed so much hate at me. And what it does is to protect their policy failures. People are upset because you, your failure of open border immigration has destroyed the cohesion of our country and our towns and cities people feel like foreigners in their own land you've destroyed it and you wish to continue to shut the public up until it's too late and basically what the labour government have come out since this has said is you will be replaced shut up and sit down and if you don't shut up and sit down we'll put you in jail yeah if you say mean hurty words online we're going to lock you up as well so and they've made I believe direct messages to me talking about people who are abroad who think they can fan, I'm sorry, but give the British public the reality of the situation in their country. He's not fanning the flames. It's reality. I want to pick up just on two of those because I know time is short. But let me just, two quick things. One, how social media has worked. And watching Elon Musk coming out and actually going head to head with two-tier care and highlighting what's happening. And when he was threatened by the Labour government, he just started just reposting all the videos. On the other side you've got the the lamestream media actually putting something different but what does that mean because your voice is amplified on twitter and it is Elon Musk for all the the other negative side maybe stuff he's done actually he is a free speech advocate absolute free speech and he seems to be the main opposition to the labour government Would we do without X currently what would it look like about X well what it would look like is Muslims have rioted for seven days they've walked around with machetes swords baseball bats poles they've savagely beaten English people on the floor who are innocent going home from work none of you would even know any of that because no mainstream media have bought it they've totally gone with a totally different narrative yeah they're painting a totally different picture of the reality of what's been going on over the last seven days yeah they're painting a picture of far-right white racists, rather than concerned parents. They've totally manipulated the entire situation, and every mainstream media has been part of that. Now, the reason why they hate us, citizen journalists, is because we're giving the public, here's what's happening. Now, if there wasn't an X and there wasn't an Elon Musk, people, we're already under total communist control. That's the reality. There is no freedom of speech. There's none in Great Britain. For the last five years, remember, I made a video showing, here's what I said, here's what they're saying, I said, on X this week, it's had 7 million views. And those 7 million people can see the total lies they're telling. But if I didn't have X, people would just believe that I've instigated and I've coordinated and I've sent my foot soldiers to burn the country. Because that's what they've been told. There's no evidence to it. But that is the power of the media. Now, the one sticking thing in their way at the minute is Twitter, X, and Elon Musk. And Elon Musk, I think, will be remembered not for sending things to space, not for Tesla, not for any of these things. I think in history, he's going to be remembered at the forefront of the battle for freedom of speech. If they take our speech, which they've took, they've already took it. We're fighting back to get it through X, but they took it for five years. They control everything you've seen here. And the mass awakening that's happened since their COVID lies is people realize when we were censored, they justified it because we're talking against Islam. We must be extreme racists. But then their censorship spread to doctors, nurses and scientists. So the mass awakening of the public to make people question what they're being told spread as well and that has created a mass mass awakening who do not trust the media in anything they say basically if you read the story and my film, the reason why they're so upset my film that's on 42 million views now totally, 100%, exposes the corruption of the British judiciary and what the American audience and anyone watching this, this film is bigger than my story. This is what they're doing to Donald Trump. This is the weaponization of the media. So they can't get you one way. They'll use the media to destroy you. If that doesn't work, if the public is still siding with you, then they'll use their corrupt judiciary without a jury, which is what they keep doing to me. No jury. Bring me into court. It doesn't matter what evidence you bring to court. So I'm watching now. And yes, I'm worried. I'm watching now as they tell the world I've instigated riots. And I'm thinking, they're going to lock me up. There's no evidence. But they don't need evidence. I know that. I've been through their system. I know what this does. I know what they're doing. I can see it. I Googled my name this morning, Peter, and looked at articles for the last 24 hours and could not believe what I'm reading. I can't believe what I'm reading. Now, this then, so this is their attack, but will it have the adverse effect whilst we've got social media? Because there's now 20 million, 30 million, I think 50 million people a day reading my messaging. Yeah they're people who are seeing the lies they're exposing themselves through this so yeah I'm their target but am i the target you're the target everyone listens to this it's you yet they want to take get rid of me because they want to control what you see they want to tell you how to think and what to think about certain characters and people and ideas they want total and out of control and at the minute Elon Musk is in their way now you saw the attempt on Donald Trump's the assassination attempt. He shouldn't be here. I think that's headed for Elon Musk, because Elon Musk is in the way. The reason why he's in the way is because with free speech, with citizen journalism, we can expose them. We can bring them down. We have the power to awaken the world. We was, with 100,000 people on the street and a million people watching live on the 27th of July, we're on the verge of a cultural revolution in Great Britain. They have to do this. What you're seeing now, but there's a borderline. There's a borderline between coming down hard on us and creating a martyr. And they're going to go, I believe their stupidity is going to create a martyr in myself. That's what I believe, yeah? Not good for me. Not good at all. Not good at all. But for our cause... I just want to finish off with one thing about the support you've had, because I've been intrigued and you've gone through different phases. And I've had the privilege of knowing you back 17, 18 years ago when I first met you. But actually, you've had times where huge support and times where you've been pushed on and the state has been winning for a while. But actually seeing people like Carl Benjamin, seeing people like Mahar Tousi, seeing people like Lawrence Fox, seeing people like Calvin Robinson. And that was one thing of seeing people standing up and supporting you who maybe are regarded as a little bit more mainstream. And that's not a negative term at all to them. And that's been super. But then actually watching your interview with Jordan Peterson, I watched the whole interview with you and Jordan and Tammy. And the interesting thing was whenever he interviewed Elon Musk, it was Jordan interviewing Jordan. And Elon didn't really get much to say. whenever Jordan was interviewing you you had 90% of the time and that showed he was genuinely Interested in your story and wants to do a part two and whenever you've got people like that amplifying your voice and what you're doing to me that shows that actually we're winning and actually we can win this thing To me I was so grateful that Jordan Peterson gave me that opportunity to tell my story and I'm very grateful because I believe my life's currently in danger yeah I believe my life is in danger for telling the truth for waking them people for showing the public what they're not showing you yeah and Jordan Peterson sitting down with me I've watched him for years he's a very influential man he he didn't have to do that and Jordan Peterson doesn't have to cover these topics Jordan Peterson is a very successful intelligent man who could go into and lead a very comfortable life so I have massive respect and admiration for anyone who decides to put their face on the forefront, take risk of sitting down with people who they don't. And this isn't to think that Jordan Peterson agrees with me on everything I stand for, because he said to me he doesn't, yeah? And that's the same with everyone. But to sit down and have open discussions is what we need. We need massive open discussions. We need more speech, not less of it. We don't need you to control our speech. The public aren't stupid. If I'm wrong, it's like when this judge tried to hide this film. Well, if it's such a clear-cut case, why don't you let the public see the evidence? Why do you need to hide it? And 42 million people have watched that film. I guarantee you there's not one. The public now know that I was prosecuted. I was bankrupt. All on a lie. My only crime is telling the truth. That's my crime. And if you want to send me to jail for telling the truth, then you do that. Because that's going to say more about you. And I'm lucky now. Am I lucky? I'm lucky that 42 million people have watched it. So I know, no matter what happens here, Because last time when they convicted me of this case, they just used their weapon, the media, to tell everyone I lied. Well, now, that narrative ain't going to wash. You can't do that this time. You want to send me to jail? Everyone knows the soldier truth. 42 million people, 52 million, 62 million, 100 million people by the time you get me in a prison cell. 100 million people. So for me, success. Success. Well, not for me personally. For my cause. My cause is about, and this is. Even like Nigel Farage. I believe Nigel, Nigel, speak up. And like, I think he wants to be part of the establishment. I want to bring the establishment down. Yeah. I want to bring them down. So I want to bring their fraudulent, corrupt politicians, the sell-outs, sell-outs to the new world order, sell-outs to the World Economic Forum, sell-outs. None of the, they're not working for the interest of the British public. So, but yeah. Anyway, Pete, I think I've got my next one.  

Welcome to "Movie Night with Greg Hall," where we dive deep into the world of conspiracy-themed movies and documentaries. In tonight's episode, we dissect the provocative documentary "Lawfare" by Tommy Robinson, once a prominent figure in the English Defence League. We critically examine Robinson's narrative, exposing manipulative editing, factual distortions, and propagandistic techniques. Throughout the episode, we discuss Robinson's controversial past, the misuse of statistics, and the portrayal of extremist views as common sense.We'll question Robinson's self-proclaimed crusade against a so-called totalitarian state, while highlighting his own history of inciting division and exploiting sensitive topics like immigration, race, and public health. From comical misrepresentations to dangerous rhetoric, we leave no stone unturned. We also share personal anecdotes and historical context, bringing to light the ongoing struggle against right-wing mobilizations and the importance of preserving truth and integrity. So grab your popcorn and get ready for an enlightening and entertaining deconstruction of a film that aims to provoke but falls flat under scrutiny.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/some-dare-call-it-conspiracy--5932731/support.

Last weekend saw the continuation of violent far-right riots that have erupted across the country in the wake of a devastating attack in Southport that left three children dead and eight injured. A man was pictured raising a Nazi salute in Piccadilly Gardens, where a black man was chased and attacked by a gang of white men and women, protesters in Bolton set off missiles and threw bricks at police, and rioters gathered outside hotels housing asylum seekers in Bredbury and Newton Heath. Greater Manchester Police made 19 arrests in connection with the violence over the weekend, and Andy Burnham has promised that the force will “pursue every legal means to prevent a repeat” of what happened. Some politicians have cast blame on the supposedly-defunct English Defence League, but is there truly one single organiser of the riots? Recommendations:Southport mourns. Then burns, The PostI thought we'd die in Southport Mosque. I almost jumped, The Sunday Times Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the 29th of July this year, three children were killed in a mass stabbing incident in the town of Southport in the United Kingdom. Following the killings, riots broke out across the United Kingdom, after the attacker was falsely identified as a Muslim refugee on social media platforms such as Facebook and X, formerly twitter.  The riots have been lead by members of Far-Right British organisations such as the English Defence League, who have targeted Mosques, Muslim owned businesses and members of the Muslim community.  Oto spoke to Dr Neal Curtis, a professor of media and political theory in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland, to discuss the cause of the UK riots and the rise of the British far right.

İngiltere'de yaşanan ve pek çok insanın adını “iç savaş” olarak koyduğu olaylarla ilgili sosyal medyada karşıma çıkan onlarca gönderiden biri şu: “İngiltere, MOSSAD ve Birleşik Krallık Güvenlik Servisi Ajanı Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon'dan ilham alan ayaklanmaların ardından bir iç savaşa uyandı.” Lennon ya da kendisine sonradan verdiği isimle Tommy Robinson, 1982 doğumlu bir aşırı sağcı. Ona, “aşırı sağcı” da denilmez aslında. Zira kurduğu English Defence League'nin temel amacını “İslam karşıtlığı” olarak belirliyor. Her ne kadar çeşitli süreçlerin ve iddiaların ardından EDL'den ayrılmış olsa da sonrasında benzer fikirlerle yola çıkan Hearts of Oak'ı kurdu. HOK'un ilk faaliyetlerinden biri ne oldu dersiniz? İngiltere'deki tecavüz ve taciz suçlarından bütünüyle Pakistanlı göçmenleri sorunlu tutan bir kampanya yapmak. Peki, gerçek neydi? İngiltere'deki taciz ve tecavüz olaylarının yüzde seksen beşinin “beyazlar” tarafından işleniyor olması. 2015'e gelindiğinde Lennon, birkaç kez hapis yatmış, birkaç kez konuşması ve eylemlere katılması yasaklanmış bir isimdi. Yine de bu, İslam ve mülteci karşıtı İngilizler için adeta bir “rock yıldızı” olduğu gerçeğini değiştirmiyordu. 2015'te Avrupa'nın en tehlikeli İslam karşıtı şebekesi Pegida ile işbirliği yapmaya başlamıştı bile. 2017'de, bütün finansmanını MOSSAD'ın sağladığından kimsenin kuşkusu olmayan aşırı sağcı ve İslam karşıtı medya grubu Rebel Moons'ta muhabirlik yapmaya başladı Lennon. İşe bakın ki bir yandan Rebel Moons'a haber yapıyor, bir yandan da anti semitik olarak anlaşılabilecek bazı hareketler de çekiyordu. Aynı yıl “Muhammed'in Kur'an'ı: Müslümanlar Niçin İslam İçin Öldürüyor?” isimli deli saçması bir kitap yayınladı. Herifin hikâyesi uzun ama şunu anlatmazsam olmayacak. Lennon, 2018'de, 16 yaşındaki bir Suriyeli mülteciyle ilgili “iki kişiye saldırdı” yalanını dolaşıma soktu ve bildiniz. “İngiltere İngilizlerindir” diyen Lennoncu akıl hastaları tarafından işkenceye maruz kalan Suriyeli çocuk ve kız kardeşi ölümden dönerek uzun süre hastanede tedavi gördü. İnsanların “iç savaş” dediği İngiltere olaylarında işte tam da bu Lennon yani kendine verdiği yeni isimle Tommy Robinson başrolde gördüğümüz kadarıyla. 2000'li yılların başlarından itibaren verdiği uğraş, İngiltere'de sonunda bir çatışma dalgasına dönüşmüş görünüyor. Bu, burada bir dursun.

On the 29th of July this year, three children were killed in a mass stabbing incident in the town of Southport in the United Kingdom. Following the killings, riots broke out across the United Kingdom, after the attacker was falsely identified as a Muslim refugee on social media platforms such as Facebook and X, formerly twitter.  The riots have been lead by members of Far-Right British organisations such as the English Defence League, who have targeted Mosques, Muslim owned businesses and members of the Muslim community.  Oto spoke to Dr Neal Curtis, a professor of media and political theory in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland, to discuss the cause of the UK riots and the rise of the British far right.

After a weekend of violence and disorder, Sir Keir Starmer has said police will have access to a "standing army of specialist officers" to deal with the riots.   Hundreds of people tried to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham on Sunday, while a children's library in Liverpool and a Citizens Advice centre in Sunderland were burnt over the weekend.    Mosques have also been attacked and shops looted.       The prime minister is facing mounting pressure to take a stand against the far right.   On today's episode of the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks with Ivan Humble, a former leading active member of the English Defence League who now works to tackle radicalisation and extremism in the UK.   Plus our political correspondent Rob Powell talks about the government's response to the crisis.   Producers: Rosie Gillott & Alex Edden  Editor: Philly Beaumont    Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku   

Moin zum Fleckenhörer am 5. August 2024. Noch immer werden Menschen, die vor über 7 Jahren zum G20-Gipfel in Hamburg gegen die kapitalistischen Verhältnisse und ihre Vertreter*innen demonstriert haben, auf die Anklagebank gezerrt. Nach über 20 Verhandlungstagen soll nun Ende August das erste Urteil im sogenannten Rondenbarg-Verfahren gesprochen werden. 84 weitere Personen haben die gleiche Anklageschrift. Gegen mindestens 17 davon wird der Prozess alsbald beginnen. Der Vorwurf: die Demonstrant*innen sollen an einer Versammlung teilgenommen haben, bei der es zu vereinzelter einfacher Sachbeschädigung kam. Das Besondere: Die Staatsanwaltschaft wirft den Beschuldigten keine eigenständigen Handlungen vor. Sie sollen allein für ihre Anwesenheit nach §125 Landfriedensbruch verurteilt werden. Damit würde ein nicht unerheblicher Präzedenzfall geschaffen, der dazu dient, das Demonstrationsrecht zu verschärfen und die so viel gelobte Versammlungsfreiheit langfristig massiv einzuschränken. Das prangere ich an! Der Prozess zeigt den Verfolgungseifer der Hamburger Justiz. Bei Neonazis ist dieser Eifer bundesweit nicht ausgeprägt. Die Zahl von Neonazis, die per Haftbefehl gesucht werden, bewegt sich seit Jahren im höheren dreistelligen Bereich. Momentan liegen nach Angaben des Bundesinnenministeriums 798 offene Haftbefehle gegen Personen vor, die dem politisch rechten Spektrum zuzurechnen sind. „Die Zahlen gesuchter Neonazis und Rechtsextremisten bleiben trotz erheblicher Bemühungen der Sicherheitsbehörden besorgniserregend hoch.“ sagt die Bundestagsabgeordnete Martina Renner. Aktuell bestätigt die Bundesregierung in einer Anfrage die Zunahme von Angriffen auf NS-Gedenkstätten und Erinnerungsorte. Vandalismus, Hakenkreuz-Schmierereien und Leugnung von NS-Verbrechen sind dabei die wesentlichsten Tatbestände. Im letzten Jahr hat es fast jeden Tag einen Angriff auf eine Gedenkstätte gegeben. Insgesamt hat die Bundesregierung 324 Fälle unter dem Angriffsziel „Gedenkstätte“ erfasst. In England greifen von der English Defence League organisierte Neonazis derzeit Flüchtlingsheime an, es kam am Wochenende zu Massenunruhen. Antifaschistische Selbsthilfe ist das Einzige das hilft. Unsere Themen heute: +++ Umwelt- und Verkehrsverbände äußern sich zum Klimamonitoring-Bericht 2024 Schleswig-Holstein: Landesregierung verspielt gewonnenes Vertrauen in die Mobilitätspolitik +++ Kein Raubbau für Soja-Tierfutter! Der Futtermittel-Riese Agravis steht in der Kritik +++ Geo-Park Ferienaktion in Travemünde: Schätze am Meer entdecken und: Fahrradtour für Kinder ins Heuhotel am Nord-Ostsee-Kanal +++ Tour de Verkehrswende 2024 Musik: Act the Fool (Ulm) Dos minutos (AR) Cannonball (UK) Boom Boom Kid (AR)

Merseyside police have said members of the far-right English Defence League took part in the riots in Southport on Tuesday night. The clashes followed the spread of misinformation and hatred online after three children were killed in a knife attack. John Harris talks to the Guardian correspondent Hannah Al-Othman, who is in Southport. Plus, our political editor Pippa Crerar's exclusive report on bullying allegations against the Conservative party leadership frontrunner Kemi Badenoch. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

En maskerad 17-åring tog sig i måndags in på en danskurs med Taylor Swift-tema och började attackera deltagarna med kniv. Tre flickor dog och flera barn och vuxna vårdas på sjukhus med livshotande skador. Staden Southport i England skakas nu av dådet, och kravaller har brutit ut efter att supportrar till organisationen English Defence League attackerat en moské. Både sorg och ilska sprider sig i Storbritannien. Vad kommer det att få för konsekvenser? Vad vet vi om gärningsmannen och motivet till dådet? Och finns det risk att upploppen sprider sig? Gäst: Petter Larsson, Aftonbladets London-reporter. Programledare och producent: Olivia Svenson. Klipp från: ITV News och Sky news. Kontakt: podcast@aftonbladet.se

Trump turned up at the national association of black journalists yesterday and they just laughed at him. He took questions from a panel and found himself saying Kamala Harris had “turned herself black“. Cue hoots of outraged derision. And a former president complaining about the “horrible“ questions. Is there any strategy here or is it all going a bit wrong ? Later, should the English Defence League be a proscribed terror group or would that give too much credence to a bunch of thugs? We talk to the former head of counter terrorism about the impact of these knife edge decisions. And we hail the release of Wall street journalist Evan Gershkovich - held in a Russian cell on trumped up spying charges.Editor: Tom HughesProducers: Natalie Indge & Zeynel Can YuceDigital Editor: Michaela WaltersSocial Media Editor: Georgia FoxwellVideo Production: Rory Symon & Shane FennellyYou can listen to this episode on Alexa - just say "Alexa, ask Global Player to play The News Agents"The News Agents is brought to you by HSBC UK - https://www.hsbc.co.uk/https://store.global.com/collections/the-news-agents

A vigil for the victims of this week's deadly stabbing in Southport was disrupted by protestors, resulting in destruction and injuries. Protesters, believed to be supporters of the far-right English Defence League, threw bricks at a local mosque, set vehicles on fire and threw bottles and bricks at police. UK correspondent Gavin Grey says unconfirmed reports about the 17-year-old behind the attack may have prompted this attack. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson was arrested in Calgary moments after delivering a speech on censorship and government overreach. Plus, a recently updated animal-human influenza pandemic agreement between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. lists vaccine mandates, border measures and travel restrictions as part of its mandate. And the head at a public library in British Columbia boasted that applications from white people were wholly disregarded when hiring for every executive position except her own. Tune into The Daily Brief with Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Lindsay Shepherd! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://urbanscoop.news/supportus/ Support our work here.Back in 2009 a grass roots movement was formed off the back of 'The United People of Luton', that organisation was the English Defence League.The EDL was formed as a response to radical Islamists who drove radicalisation rates in the Muslim community, and increased terror threats through their preaching of hate and intolerance for anything un-Islamic.The English Defence League always had a non-white speaker at their events, one of those speakers was EDL co-leader Guramit Singh.Guramits presence at EDL demonstrations had the the press and their race grievance Marxist co-conspirators in a bind, but it did not stop them from labelling the EDL as a 'Far Right' organisation.This podcast not only dispels the media narrative of the EDL being a group of far right white extremists, it also shows a level of respect and camaraderie between two friends who fought against 'Far Right' influencers and antagonists who infiltrated the organisation, wanting to take the EDL in a different direction.Guramit speaks of his experiences within the EDL and talks about life after leaving the organisation.This is a candid conversation between two friends who helped educate English youth about our wartime allies, the Sikh community, a community who have honour, who are brave, who have integrated very well into British society.The Sikh community have first hand knowledge of 'grooming gangs' and how to deal with them.

In the fourth and penultimate episode of The42's exclusive podcast series ‘On the Right Wing', Enda Coll explores the role that former football hooligans played in the establishment and rise of the right-wing group The English Defence League. With Professor Jon Garland from the University of Surrey, they track the birth of the group, the overlap in those involved with previous football firm members, and the EDL stands out as a unique occurrence. Plus, Senior football news reporter with the Athletic, Matt Slater joins to discuss the improvement in fan behaviour through the 1990s and beyond, but how there was fear that antisocial behavior was on the rise in the post-COVID seasons.

It started as an accident of geography: after one RAF runway closed, the bodies of British soldiers killed in action were repatriated from Iraq and Afghanistan to RAF Lyneham and then through the Wiltshire market town of Wootton Bassett, on their way to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. From April 2007 until August 2011 the town became the site of unofficial national mourning: relatives, tourists, foreign media, politicians and dignitaries came to pay their respects as the funeral corteges made their way down the high street. In 2010 the town became a site of political conflict: Anjem Choudary's Islam4UK threatened to protest the murders of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, and was met by a pre-emptive rally of Tommy Robinson's far-right English Defence League. In this rich and deeply reported long read, the New Statesman's editor, Jason Cowley, revisits the aftermath of the 2003 Iraq invasion. He tells the story of one fallen soldier – a relative – and of the town at the centre of England's response to wars that were increasingly unpopular. He talks to Tony Blair, who justifies the invasion as an opportunity for Britain to redefine its role in the world; and to the former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt, who describes it as a “disaster... because Blair used his presentational skills to persuade people of something that turned out not to be true, namely the existence of weapons of mass destruction”. Twenty years on, the consequences are still being felt, in the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 – and in the small market town of Wootton Bassett. Written by Jason Cowley and read by Hugh Smiley. This article originally appeared in the 17 March edition of the New Statesman, and is an edited extract from the new edition of Jason Cowley's Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England, published in paperback on 31 March (Picador). You can read the text version here. If you enjoyed this episode, you might enjoy listening to “Nothing prepares you”: a journey through Ukraine at warSubscribers can get an ad free version of the NS Podcast on the New Statesman appPodcast listeners can subscribe to the New Statesman for just £1 a week for 12 weeks using our special offer. Just visit newstatesman.com/podcastoffer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Please check out AJ Roberts Insiders World for all the latest uncensored info and to be part of a fantastic growing community with weekly community calls, meditations, and all the resources you need to help you break from of the system. www.insiders-world.com My guest on the AJ Roberts Show today needs no introduction. Former head of the English Defence League and one of the most censored people in the UK, Tommy Robinson joins us to share all about his past life compared to what he is doing now - bringing grooming gangs and traffickers to justice. A truly gripping account of a man's desire to go to hell and back to help the victims and their families from these harrowing crimes. Please be sure to SHARE this episode with as many people as possible. Follow Tommy on: GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/tommyrobinson1 Telegram: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews

Not many producers can create new aliases after 10+ years and still manage to drop something completely unexpected and refreshing. Peter Rogers' Wardown project did just that in 2020, debuted on the respected Blu Mar Ten label, the self-titled album found admirers from a cross-section of music styles; spanning Jungle, Drum'n Bass and a strong atmospheric element. Wardown / Wardown was consequently one of my most played and admired albums of the year (finding a sweet spot in the Reflection on 2020 and Atmoteka mixes). I found it near impossible to stop the album once it started, as it flowed easily between stories, styles, and sentimental reflection. Peter is now set to drop his second album under the Wardown alias, simply titled Wardown II, but those who absorbed the nostalgia from his first, will undoubtedly be confident that despite its modest title, the conceptual approach is as strong as ever, and the music will once again be left to do the storytelling. Continuing with this brilliant reflective approach from the first album, Wardown II can be considered another vivid capture of one of Peter's undoubtedly many memories he has begun to create with this alias. And just like his productions, his isolatedmix is a natural extension of this approach. As is the case with many producers in this genre, DJ'ing is integral to the culture, so it's of no surprise for us to be treated to a little bit of a masterclass with this latest installment…~ASIP: Many people may know you as one half of the d&b duo Technimatic (and even making an appearance as Technicolour on our Energostatic comp which we were proud to host a few months back). Can you tell us a bit about how you got into producing music and your background?Pete: I started making electronic music in about 2002. I'd been into jungle and drum & bass as a teenager growing up in Luton, and played in a jazz funk band for many years too. But 2002 - after I'd finished studying graphic design at university and moved to London - was the first time I had the opportunity to buy a computer of my own and actually start trying to create stuff with it.You debuted the Wardown project on the Blu Mar Ten label in 2020. What inspired this new alias after years under others?I started Wardown because I had quite specific things I really needed to express and put into music that I didn't have to the opportunity to elsewhere. Technimatic is my main musical focus of attention and I love it, but sometimes there are things unique to you that you need to be able to say, that might not fit within the canon of music you're making as a duo. Things much more personal. I've known Chris Blu Mar Ten for many years and have huge respect for the vision and A&R of his label, so it felt like the perfect fit. Thankfully he was really enthusiastic about putting it out. Wardown by WardownVignettes of people talking about your hometown of Luton open your first Wardown album, (which was a surprise for me to hear, as I grew up in a nearby town). How would you describe your formative years there? How did it impact your music?Luton has a very chequered past. It's regularly featured in the kinds of ‘shittest towns in the UK' lists that appear online. It's been home to the English Defence League, Islamic terror cells, and is generally thought of as a fairly ugly, non-descript town on the outskirts of London that has an awful airport. But as a kid, I had a really good upbringing there. And crucially, being near London and the M25 motorway, back in the 90s it had a very strong connection with rave, hardcore, and jungle music. Legendary hardcore DJ Swan-E was from Luton, Blame was from just down the road in Dunstable, there were pirate radio stations broadcasting the music 24/7 in the area, and most importantly for me, there was an amazing record shop called Soul Sense where as a teenager I spent a lot of my time, learning and being inspired by 90s underground music.I assume you made several trips to London back in the day like most music lovers living in the Shires, for the big nights and DJs in the capital. Who, or what was your mecca back in the day? And which record stores were you gracing?Absolutely. Once I was allowed to go into Luton town centre on my own without my parents, it wasn't long before me and my friends were getting on the train and heading into London to buy records. This was the mid-90s and obviously long before smartphones and the internet, so on several occasions we went with the intention of going to Blackmarket Records in Soho, but ended up coming back empty-handed as we simply couldn't find it! But eventually, we worked it out and it was always a huge buzz. Section 5 on Kings Road in Chelsea was another favourite.In 2000 I moved to London and that's when my real clubbing experiences began. Swerve at The Velvet Rooms on a Wednesday, Movement at Bar Rumba on a Thursday, but the real Mecca for me and my friends was The End. It's still my favourite club that's existed and so much of my dance music education happened there. We went to most d&b nights but the key event for us was LTJ Bukem's Progression Sessions, which ran monthly there throughout most of the noughties. I think I went to every single event from about 2002 - 2007.The Wardown debut was one of my favorites from 2020. A wide spectrum of sounds, running from lush ambient pieces to extremely energetic tracks. The narrative aspect pulled me in, giving off a nostalgic mixtape type of vibe. It felt like it was a pivotal album for you to get out into the world given how personal the elements contained within were - almost a ‘letting go' kind of feel?Absolutely. During the start of 2019 I returned to Luton quite a bit. My granddad, who was the last remaining family member living there, was ill. So I went to visit him at his home, and then the hospital until he eventually died. He was 98 so it was no huge shock, but when I was back there, these ideas started forming in my mind. Luton was my home town but the last remaining Rogers had now left and there was nothing left linking me to it. But despite losing those roots and living away from the town for over 20 years, it still had this strange power over me and I felt a really deep connection. Obviously, some of that was down to simple nostalgia for my childhood. But there was something else tied up in it. Something a bit more complex. And making that first album was an attempt to try and express those feelings. That first track on that album (Culverhouse) has to be one of the most euphoric moments to kick off an album in recent memory of mine. I was definitely keeping it locked for the remainder after that beginning! What was the intention with the sequencing of the album?I honestly can't remember much about the sequencing of the first album. It wasn't like I made 30 or 40 tracks and then whittled them down and picked my favourites. It's a 10 track album and I think I made 11 tracks, and decided to ditch one of them. I wanted it to be a mix of jungle and ambient soundscapes as I think despite the two genres being in some ways at the opposite ends of the spectrum, they also work beautifully together. When I was initially buying records in the 90s, I used to be obsessed with the intros and breakdowns of certain jungle records. There was a run of releases on DeeJay Recordings from DJ Crystl and Future Sound Of Hardcore that had these sprawling instrumental openings that I used to play over and over again. And obviously LTJ Bukem and a lot of those early releases on Good Looking Records are on the same page. That aesthetic felt like a really good way to try and manifest the ideas I was having.According to your first album notes, Wardown is an attempt to capture what the Germans call 'sehnsucht', an "inconsolable longing in the heart for we know not what". Where did this attachment come from?That quote is from the author CS Lewis, attempting to describe the sense of longing he felt for much of his life. And I've been kind of obsessed with that feeling for quite a long time too. ‘Sehnsucht' is a German term that gets somewhere close and there are others in various languages. But it's a very hard thing to accurately pin down and describe. I sometimes feel as though to get a sense of it I have to look out of the corner of my eye, as when I try and focus directly on it, it disappears. It's often a very fleeting feeling brought on by certain scenes in the world, weather, photographs, old films. A kind of bittersweet, melancholy feeling about the past and things that have been lost. But quite often it's a longing for things I've never personally experienced or may never have even happened. “at its simplest, Wardown II is a vision of the future from the past.” Wardown II by WardownThe new album is a subtle shift in concept from the original and perhaps a continuation chronologically. The nostalgia is still there, but I'm getting a look at the future instead of back like the first album. Maybe the artwork is subliminally pointing me in that direction too. Is this Luton today or in the near future?!With the first Wardown album I was trying to evoke those feelings of loss and yearning I felt for my home town and earlier life. And that got me thinking about nostalgia in a wider sense and why it's so alluring, particularly as you get a bit older – but also why it's so pervasive everywhere you look these days. TV, film, music, advertising, even politics draws on the past, utilises it, and sometimes even weaponises it. It's an incredibly powerful thing, and for me it can create a strange kind of ‘uncanny valley' feeling, as though today's popular culture has become unmoored from history and its once-definitive eras and epochs. So much of what we consume today is full of anachronism, a kind of rehash of what's come before. I found myself wondering: what happened to the future I imagined when I was a kid?I think nostalgia is incredibly alluring right now because the future no longer looks bright. We live now with the looming threat of climate change and a catastrophic loss of biodiversity across the world, not to mention war, economic instability and the rise of populism and nationalism. It all feels just too much sometimes, and nostalgia is always there, showing us how better things were in the past – even if the safe, optimistic world it portrays didn't actually exist in the first place. In that way, nostalgia is dangerous because it stops us looking forward and taking responsibility for the future, with all its challenges – something we all need to do.Of course, all this is strongly culturally inflected, and when I say ‘we', I'm coming from a white, Western and affluent perspective; the relationship between nostalgia and progress is likely to be very different for someone born in the global south. But as someone who came of age in Britain in the 90s, the future means a different thing today than it did when I was a child. Back then it felt like there was still a kind of general, unwavering optimism about the coming years, a faith in progress and a belief that society was on the path to an increasingly better place. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of communism in the USSR and other Eastern European countries, New Labour, the impending Millennium, which felt like the epitome of all things futuristic – all these things pointed to the fact the future was something to look forward to.So at its simplest, Wardown II is a vision of the future from the past. I decided to give it quite a strong 1950s / 60s flavour, as to me it seems like that is when the idea of ‘the future' was at it's most potent. After the devastation of two world wars came the rise of modernism and its belief that, rather than just being an aesthetic, it could literally improve people's lives through the creation of a new kind of architecture and design. There were the American and Russian plans to send people into space. Film and TV that painted the future as a shiny kind of utopia, with flying cars, and machines that allowed humans to forget the horrific memories of war and enjoy a life of comfort and leisure.Samples are obviously a big part of your work (and your isolatedmix). It sounds like your first album was more personal, collected soundbites and samples. And this new album seems a little more abstract in its samples and direction. Can you describe your process for the sample-heavy tracks such as Instant Money? Do you build a track around a sample, go looking for something specific, or have a bank of samples ready to go?I've always been a fan of collage. Art that brings lots of different, often disparate sources together to create something fresh. As a kid I used to cut up catalogues and booklets that came through the front door and make these mad, stuck together images with them. And at university, I was fascinated by the work of artists like Robert Rauschenberg. So when it came to making music, growing up through an era of sample-heavy jungle and hip-hop (‘Entroducing' by DJ Shadow is one of the most important albums in my life), I adopted a similar technique.However, with Wardown the approach is slightly different to when I'm working on other things. I initially try and establish quite a strong conceptual starting point before I've made any music. I do lots of reading, watch things, and generally think about the world I'm trying to create before anything is made. Obviously things change and develop through the process of actually creating the music, but by starting out like that, I try and attune myself to what I'm looking for, samples wise. It's like I put little antennas up and then go about my usual life of reading, watching films and documentaries, and listening to music. But because my antennas are up and scanning for quite specific things I'm able to isolate sounds that can potentially work a lot better; sounds that would probably pass me by if I had just been taking it all in in a more general sense. And once I've had a strong idea for something I'll then dive a little deeper, in terms of second-hand records, tapes, online archives and the like. Wardown II by WardownI'm also a little gutted that Instant Money didn't make it onto the mix in full here (i hear a quick sample only!) It's one of my faves and extremely addictive (reminds me a bit of Roni Size's Dirty Beats in how the vocal burrows deep inside your brain for hours after listening if I dare compare). What was your intention/concept for the mix overall?The idea for the mix was essentially an extension of what I've done with the two albums. A collection of jungle and electronic music combined with longer ambient passages. There are a few personal favourites in there, as well as some lesser-known stuff I thought worked well. I've also taken apart elements of some of the music from Wardown II and used that throughout. More collage!The drum'n bass / jungle mixtape is of course an iconic piece of music culture and by the sounds of it, you've perfected your skills at putting one together. Do you consider yourself a DJ? Do you enjoy this aspect of your music?Well I've just come off the back of playing a summer of festival shows as Technimatic, so in that regard, definitely. I do think these days however, there is quite a big difference between being a DJ who plays live shows, and someone who puts mixes together online. Years ago you would just press record and essentially recreate what you do in a live setting. But because of the changes in technology and what you're now able to do with sequencers, recorded mixes feel like they've become a separate thing in their own regard. They definitely are to me, anyway. I love putting together online mixes that pull apart tracks, alter tempos, have multiple elements working at the same time to create something really unique. Maybe a really talented DJ could do it live, but I definitely can't!What have been some of your fave mixes over the years that we could go check out? A favorite of all time?I can't really discuss jungle and Wardown without mentioning LTJ Bukem's ‘Essential Mix' for Radio 1 in 1995. It really was such a defining mix, one that created a kind of blueprint for a whole new musical sub-genre. All the classics are there, and it still sounds fresh and exciting to me. In terms of more recent times, Visible Cloaks' ‘Music Interiors' from 2013 is another really important mix for me. It's a collection of 80s ambient and experimental music from Japan, and it totally blew my mind when I first heard it. The fact there was this huge, rich, inspiring area of music I had no idea existed before listening was really extraordinary. And it just flows so well. I'm eternally thankful for VC for creating it; I've played it more times than I can remember.~ astrangelyisolatedplace · isolatedmix 119 - WardownListen on Soundcloud, Mixcloud, or the ASIP Podcast.DownloadTracklist:01. Soft Robot - ‘Point Nemo'02. Kerguelen - ‘Proxemics'03. Sycamore Investments - ‘Cherry Bomb'04. Wardown - ‘Stimulus Progression Pattern'05. LTJ Bukem - ‘Rainfall'06. Offthesky -‘Insofar, In So Far'07. Freedive - ‘Watering A Flower On The Moon'08. Photek - ‘Complex'09. Ki One - ‘Life At The End Of The World'10. Micronation - 'Photographs of Clouds'11. Wardown - ‘The Ideal City'12. Advanced Sound & Vision - ‘The Engineered Yes'13. Wardown - ‘Lifespan'14. Fisher Associates - ‘Scorched Earth'15. Wardown - ‘Graphite and Glitter'16. The Architex - ‘Altitude'17. Creative Innovations Inc. - ‘Stone Tape Theory'18. r beny - ‘Eistla'19. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - ‘Song Of Forgiveness Pt. 1'~Wardown | Bandcamp | Discogs | Twitter | Instagram

What happens when a journalist investigates one of the biggest scams in history? My guest on this episode, Jamie Bartlett is the author of ‘The Missing Cryptoqueen', which tells the tale of his multi-year investigation into the disappearance of Dr Ruja Ignatova.Dr Ruja is the founder of OneCoin, a cryptocurrency that sold itself as an alternative to Bitcoin but was instead a pyramid-style scam which relieved people from 175 countries of at least £4 billion.The Missing Cryptoqueen is also the title of a BBC podcast that Jamie presents which explores the astonishing story behind OneCoin. In our conversation, Jamie explains how the One Coin scam worked, how he came across the story and what happened when he began to investigate it. We begin our conversation by exploring Jamie's early research into the Dark Net and how technology impacts our decision-making. He explains to my why, in many respects, algorithms prompt a reaction in us that is not dissimilar to religion.In that discussion, we talk about the English Defence League. More on them here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/understanding-the-english-defence-league-life-on-the-front-line-of-an-imagined-clash-of-civilisations/To hear the BBC podcast on The Missing Crypto Queen - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84To learn more about Jamie's book - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/112/1120307/the-missing-cryptoqueen/9780753559581.html

Jake was on Blethered in June 2020, and told me all about making documentaries in North Korea, getting up close and personal with ISIS executioners, and spending time with the far-right English Defence League. This time, we talk about Jake's podcast company Message Heard and their new projects, including the phenomenal ‘Finding Natasha'... We reflect on the success of Message Heard's ‘Conflicted' podcast, hosted by Thomas Small and former Blethered guest Aimen Dean… We have a laugh about the weird people who want to get the green M&M pregnant... And as always, plenty more. www.dontfretaboutdebt.net/blethered/ Contact: seanmcdonald.podcast@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/seanmcdonald01

Jeff Schoep & Acacia Dietz interview Dr. Criag McCann discussing the controversy over his recent article "Beware the Anti-Fascists, for they have become what they oppose." (https://beyondbarriersusa.org/beware-the-anti-fascists-for-they-have-become-what-they-oppose/) and the importance of challenging all forms of political violence regardless of the ideological motivation. Dr Craig McCann is an independent specialist adviser and researcher. As the Director of S.P.E.C.T.R.U.M. (Strategic Preventative Expertise to Counter Terrorism Risks using Upstream Measures) Universal Ltd. he provides consultative services for domestic clients and international development programmes with an emphasis on preventative counter terrorism strategy and delivery. He also writes, advises, lectures and provides commentary on the U.K. Prevent strategy, de-radicalisation / disengagement programming, online approaches to counter terrorism and responses to right wing extremism. Dr McCann holds a Law Degree and an MA in Criminology from the University of Kent at Canterbury. At the same university he completed his PhD which explored how the U.K. Prevent Strategy has been applied to right wing extremism since 2011. He subsequently converted this thesis into a book titled “The Prevent Strategy and Right-Wing Extremism: A Case Study of the English Defence League” which has been published as part of the Routledge Extremism and Democracy range. (https://www.routledge.com/The-Prevent-Strategy-and-Right-wing-Extremism-A-Case-Study-of-the-English/McCann/p/book/9781138320673) In this episode we discuss Dr McCann's article and more. Jeff Schoep is the Founder of Beyond Barriers. From 1994 until early 2019, Jeff Schoep was the leader of the largest neo-Nazi organization in the United States, the National Socialist Movement (NSM). In March 2019 he became the highest profile former white nationalist to ever walk away from far-right extremism in the USA. Since then, Jeff has been an outspoken advocate against the ideology that he had been part of for 27 years, making him uniquely qualified to understand extremism and extremist ideologies. Jeff now works as an inspirational public speaker helping to educate communities and policy makers on how to effectively counter and prevent violent extremism. https://jeffschoep.comFollow Jeff Schoep on Social Media https://linktr.ee/jeffschoepTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/SchoepJeff LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-schoep-126472213/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeffschoepofficialhttps://www.facebook.com/TheOfficialJeffSchoepPageInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeff_schoepBeyond Barriers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to a new approach of countering and preventing extremism. For more information on Beyond Barriers: https://beyondbarriersusa.orgTo donate to Beyond Barriers: https://giv.li/r8xtpcFor media inquiries: info@beyondbarriersusa.orgBeyond Barriers on Social Media:Telegramhttps://t.me/beyondbarriersusa1https://t.me/beyondbarriersusaInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/BeyondBarriersUSATwitterhttps://twitter.com/_BeyondBarriersAcacia Dietz is the Managing Director of Beyond Barriers (https://beyondbarriersusa.org/team/directors/acacia-dietz) follow Acacia on Twitter and Instagram: @SilencedMediaThis video was produced by Beyond Barriers Media in association with Underground Media Productions.

#BeyondBarriersPodcast hosts Jeff Schoep & Acacia Dietz interview Dr. Criag McCann Jeff Schoep & Acacia Dietz interview Dr. Criag McCann discussing the controversy over his recent article "Beware the Anti-Fascists, for they have become what they oppose." and the importance of challenging all forms of political violence regardless of the ideological motivation.. Dr Craig McCann is an independent specialist adviser and researcher. As the Director of S.P.E.C.T.R.U.M. (Strategic Preventative Expertise to Counter Terrorism Risks using Upstream Measures) Universal Ltd. he provides consultative services for domestic clients and international development programmes with an emphasis on preventative counter terrorism strategy and delivery. He also writes, advises, lectures and provides commentary on the U.K. Prevent strategy, de-radicalisation / disengagement programming, online approaches to counter terrorism and responses to right wing extremism. Dr McCann holds a Law Degree and an MA in Criminology from the University of Kent at Canterbury. At the same university he completed his PhD which explored how the U.K. Prevent Strategy has been applied to right wing extremism since 2011. He subsequently converted this thesis into a book titled “The Prevent Strategy and Right-Wing Extremism: A Case Study of the English Defence League” which has been published as part of the Routledge Extremism and Democracy Range. In this episode we discuss Dr McCann's article and more. Jeff Schoep is the Founder of Beyond Barriers. From 1994 until early 2019, Jeff Schoep was the leader of the largest neo-Nazi organization in the United States, the National Socialist Movement (NSM). In March 2019 he became the highest profile former white nationalist to ever walk away from far-right extremism in the USA. Since then, Jeff has been an outspoken advocate against the ideology that he had been part of for 27 years, making him uniquely qualified to understand extremism and extremist ideologies. Jeff now works as an inspirational public speaker helping to educate communities and policy makers on how to effectively counter and prevent violent extremism. https://jeffschoep.com Follow Jeff Schoep on Social Media https://linktr.ee/jeffschoep Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/SchoepJeff Beyond Barriers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to a new approach of countering and preventing extremism. For more information on Beyond Barriers: https://beyondbarriersusa.org To donate to Beyond Barriers: https://giv.li/r8xtpc For media inquiries: info@beyondbarriersusa.org Beyond Barriers on Social Media: Telegram https://t.me/beyondbarriersusa1 https://t.me/beyondbarriersusa Instagram https://www.instagram.com/BeyondBarriersUSA Twitter https://twitter.com/_BeyondBarriers This video was produced by Beyond Barriers Media in association with Underground Media Productions. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beyondbarriersradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beyondbarriersradio/support

Hol’On Podcast episode 43 is out now! As the English Defence League clash against Black Live Matter protestors in central London, we look into the possibility of a race war. In the second half of this episode we also discuss the insecurities you and your partner may have and how it effects the relationship.#WaitStopHolOn #HolOnHolOn#BlackLivesMatter Hosts: @dkfocused@cwest_official @cassiusgeneral@mash_amillian@kohini01Official page: @hol.onpodcast

Jake is a documentary maker who has worked for Vice, the BBC, Channel 4 and many others - going into places like North Korea and Liberia, and getting up close and personal with Islamic preachers and the far-right English Defence League, more commonly known as the EDL.We talk about Jake’s experience in North Korea and the relationship he’s managed to cultivate with the North Korean government, you’ll hear about the best garlic naan bread he’s ever shared with an ISIS executioner and we talk about Message Heard, the phenomenal podcast company he founded and one of its shows, Conflicted.Support Blethered on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/BletheredContact: seanmcdonald.podcast@gmail.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/seanmcdonald01 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Peter Adams is a remarkable and courageous man of peace. He plays a crucial role in building community relations and sustaining genuine peace through dialogue and relationships in a very fractured context. Luton, on the northern edge of London is where Peter works and has been known as a place where both the far right English Defence League emerged, and a small group of extremist Muslims operated. Peter is one of a number of amazing faith leaders from both the Christian and Muslim communities who are leading the way in building bridges in their community. Peter has been awarded the Outstanding Citizen award by the mayor among other commendations. His whole work can be summed up as “creating a space of grace”. Follow Peter on @pgmadams or @stmaryspeace and his blog is reconciliationtalk.org/

In March 2009, an Islamic extremist group called Al-Muhajiroun staged a demonstration as 200 soldiers paraded through the town of Luton after returning from Iraq. The radical Islamists fuelled anger in the local community, and these tensions led to the formation of the English Defence League by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - aka Tommy Robinson. Ten years on, we speak to the people who were there as Luton faced a global media storm and find out how they have been working to beat extremism ever since. Producer: Georgia Coan Editor: Philly Beaumont Mixed by Nico Raufast

Tommy Robinson var med på å stifte islamfiendtlige "English Defence League", han mener BBC er korrupt og han har sympatisører over hele verden. Vi prøver å komme til bunns i hvem Tommy Robinson er.

In our first episode, Niall Paterson sits down with Caolan Robertson - a young, hard-right film-maker who made his name working for the likes of former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson - to talk about immigration, Islam and the media.

When Saffiyah Khan stood smiling in the face of a screaming member of the English Defence League in Birmingham, little did she think she would become the face of a multicultural, confident youth in the face of racism. Recorded in the summer of 2018 a year after that picture went viral, we catch up with Saffiyah, now signed to model agency Elite and a photographer and activist.  Now volunteering with Off the Scale Vintage, a mental health charity reaching out to students, we caught up with Saffiyah to find out how she has been using her moment in the spotlight as a force for good, tackling the growing mental health crisis in the youth, and building unity on the left. Follow Saffiyah Khan on Instagram @saffiyah__khan. Follow Future Heist on Instagram and Twitter @future_heist for episode updates, news and giveaways.  Produced and recorded by Rena Niamh Smith Theme music by Benjamin TassieArtwork by Fleur BeckSpecial thanks to Chloe Vasseghi

Our hosts Simon and Jason are joined by three great guests: Joost Lobbes, Product Manager at Rabo Bank, and Diana Paredes, CEO of Suade Labs. First up, CYBG cans Virgin Money deal with Anthony Jenkins startup. The new owner of Virgin Money has canned a long-term deal with a digital banking start-up launched by Anthony Jenkins, the former Barclays chief executive. Not entirely unexpected, since David Duffy, CYBG's chief executive, had hinted since securing a £1.6bn deal to buy the bank that it was likely to use its own technology platform. Confirmation that CYBG is ditching the 10x deal may deal a blow to Mr Jenkins, who has been in talks with investors for several months about a substantial new funding round for his venture. Virgin Money is understood to have committed tens of millions of pounds to creating a digital platform with 10x's support, and CYBG's decision to terminate the deal is likely to trigger a sizeable payment to 10x. Fintech startup Revolut is in talks to raise $500M from Softbank. Several sources have told City A.M. that the deal is set to close early next year, as Revolut tries to launch its banking app in the US, one of fintech’s most notoriously hard to crack markets. Comes less than seven months since Revolut closed its last funding round at $250m, which valued the London startup at $1.7bn as a so-called unicorn company. Not known if previous backers such as Index Ventures, Draper Esprit and DST Global will sign on to this round. Softbank said earlier this year that it was looking to deploy around $200m into fintech from its $100bn Vision Fund, and was reported by Sky News to have explored a similar investment in UK challenger bank Oaknorth. We spoke to Emily Nicolle, the author of this article for City AM to give us her thoughts on this story. Digital bank Starling to roost on the high street. Digital bank Starling is heading to the high street, announcing a tie-up that will enable its personal and business customers to withdraw and deposit cash over the counter at all 11,500 Post Office branches nationwide. Despite falling cash use across the UK, the app-only challenger bank said it was responding to customer needs. “Our customers still want to pay in cash and take money out,” said Julian Sawyer, head of banking services at Starling Bank. “The Post Office has more outlets than all the other banks combined, so it became a very obvious channel to link up with.” The digital bank’s move to the high street comes as larger banks shift customers online, closing hundreds of high street bank branches and free-to-use cash machines in the process. We caught up with Megan Caywood at Xerocon yesterday to tell us more about this announcement and what it means for their users. Simple attracts Amazon exec as new CEO. US neo bank Simple has named a former Amazon executive as its new CEO, in a rare example of talent returning from Big Tech to the banking industry We interviewed the Co-Founder of Simple Bank, Shamir Karkal in ep. 254. David Hijirida moved from Washington Mutual to help build Amazon’s online payments business in 2007 before acting as a director of AWS. Hijirida takes over from Dickson Chu who was working as the interim chief executive of the bank after founding CEO Josh Reich who quit in May. Fluidly raises £5M in Series A Funding. Fluidly is an applied AI business that combines machine learning and financial modelling to automate the forecasting and management of cashflow for SMEs. The £5m Series A funding round was led by New York-based fintech investor Nyca Partners. Existing investors Octopus Ventures, Anthemis and tech angels including Simon Murdoch and Charlie Songhurst also participated in the latest financing round. We caught up with Fluidly CEO Caroline Plumb at Xerocon yesterday, to find out more about what this money will be used for. Alibaba sets new Singles Day record with more than $30.8BN in sales in 24 hours. Alibaba smashed through its Singles Day sales record on Sunday. The gross merchandise value (GMV) hit over $30.8 billion in sales in the 24-hour shopping event. That topped the $25.3 billion record set in 2017. Singles Day got off to a strong start with sales hitting $1 billion in one minute and 25 seconds. BofA faces trademark suit over Erica chatbot. Bank of America has been sued by a man over the use of the name "Erica" for its in-app AI-powered virtual assistant chatbot. Rolled out to BofA's millions of customers over the summer, Erica helps users with a host of simple transactions such as money transfers and balance enquiries. Erik Underwood registered his own virtual assistant, called E.R.I.C.A (electronic repetitious informational clone application) in Georgia in October 2010. PFM app Fintonic to fund interest-free deferred payments at Amazon. Financial management app Fintonic is collaborating with Amazon to provide Spanish clients with the option to fund interest fee purchases at the e-commerce store. Under the agreement, Fintonic's 500,000 Spanish users will be able to defer payments ranging between €200 and €1,000 for up to four months. Marketed as taking 3 minutes and users are given a reusable gift card for Amazon.es that lasts up to 10 years max PayPal bans Tommy Robinson from its platform. PayPal has told the former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon it will no longer process payments on his behalf. The online payments system said its services cannot be used to "promote hate, violence, or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory". Online petitions calling for companies like PayPal to stop processing his payments have gained thousands of signatures. All this and so much more on today's episode of Fintech Insider! ​ Subscribe so you never miss an episode, leave a review on iTunes and every other podcast app. Spread the fintech love by sharing or tweeting this podcast. ​ Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at www.fintechinsidernews.com ​ This week's episode was produced by Laura Watkins, written by Dhanum Nursigadoo and edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guests: Caroline Plumb, Diana Paredes, Emily Nicolle, Joost Lobbes, and Megan Caywood.

. In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. Gabriel Gatehouse offers a personal reflection on the strong feelings of antipathy recently directed at the BBC - and him - by supporters of Tommy Robinson - for many years associated with the far-right organisation, the English Defence League - and what this says about the changing media landscape. Martin Gurdon introduces us to Slasher, the star of his flock of chickens, and explains how her quirks and distinctive character reveal much about the dramas witnessed by Britain's army of amateur hen keepers. Rebecca Ford in the Potteries celebrates the founder of modern circus and reveals how locals there are planning to use his legacy to promote the area as a centre of excellence for this ever-evolving form of entertainment. In the wake of the tense summer Test series between England and India, Mihir Bose regrets the way both teams - and their supporters - behaved and wonders if cricket can retain its status as a 'special' team sport. And Travis Elborough, long puzzled by a road notice in his native Worthing, finally unravels the mystery and finds it's a sign of the times. Producer Simon Coates

** Årets sterkeste storm - supertyfonen Mangkhut - har truffet Filippinene med full kraft. Og i Nord-Carolina i USA er det tre meters stormflo seks mil fra kysten på grunn av ekstremværet Florence. ** Han ryddet opp kroppsdeler etter terrorangrepene på Londons t-bane i 2005. Da bestemte Martyn Sculpher seg for å bli med i islamkritiske English Defence League. ** Svært spent i Øst-Ukraina etter at separatistlederen i utbryterrepublikken Donetsk ble drept i et attentat. ** Og i dag er det 10 år siden investeringsbanken Lehmann Brothers gikk konkurs. Var det finanskrisen som egentlig ga oss Donald Trump?, spør Tove Bjørgaas i ukas utgave av podcasten Krig og fred.

Please support this vitally important Kickstarter campaign here: http://bit.ly/notoneway  Support ambitious filmmaker David Kenny with a feature film that is going to disrupt once released. Introducing ‘It Is Not One Way’ where direct action is swapped for dinner, we took a high-profile figure in the English Defence League, a member of ANTIFA and a Muslim Labour councillor for a meal to air their differences… This film comes at a time where the world’s cultural and political landscape is changing. Divisions and differences cause conflict between communities, and often these conflicts are taken to the streets. What we want to achieve with this film is to convey the message that discussion is an alternative, even if we aren’t all in agreement. We hope that anyone watching It Is Not One Way pauses and considers the other side of their own viewpoint and that they can have meaningful, and hopefully productive and enlightening conversations of their own.   The documentary is made and is ready for release, which is why David is crowdfunding to help raise the finance for the films distribution and impact campaign. Act fast though as you only have until Sunday, 17th June at 23:55 BST to back this vitally important documentary. Kickstarter works where it is all-or-nothing meaning if the money raised at that time is £5999, the campaign will fail and no money will come David’s way. This is no charity either as there is a wide assortment of rewards up for grabs. To check out the campaign and find out all about the people and what goes on, including the trailer go to http://bit.ly/notoneway . For those into hashtags use #itisnotoneway   Twitter: @dkennyfilm

Opening Monologue. Nuclear Summit with North Korea is back ON, only days after President Trump had called it off. In spite of considerable MSM crowing over the cancellation, Kim Jong Un quickly crawled back to the table, again pledging full denuclearization. Hardest Hit -- Democrats. Meanwhile, the NFL bans "kneeling" on the field, handing off another ineluctable victory to culture-warrior Trump. Incredibly, Republicans have pulled ahead in "generic" polling data, leading to speculation of a Red Wave Election in 2018. Dems and MSM feeling faint? Also, the UK government goes rogue, arrests Tommy Robinson, anti-immigration activist and founder of the English Defence League. Pondering pernicious UK involvement in the American election, we begin to ask what's gotten into the British Ruling Class of late. King George moments ahead? A Mexican-American caller offers praise for Trump and speculation on the upcoming election in Mexico. Handcuffs for Harvey Weinstein, trouble for Morgan Freeman. Plus, vignettes on Polka, Lawrence Welk and the Vogeltjesdans -- a.k.a. The Chicken Dance -- along with the last family skiing weekend of the season at Arapahoe Basin. Apres Ski with The Big Onions. With Listener Calls & Memorial Day Music from the Zac Brown Band. Great new country singles from Dwight Yoakam and Clare Dunn.      See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joel Busher is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), Coventry University. His research examines, 1) the social ecology of political violence and anti-outsider politics, and 2) the implementation of counter-terrorism policy and its societal impacts. His work centres on the micro- and meso-level processes of collective action – the rituals that shape and comprise our everyday lives; the cognitive and moral orders that we make, break and patch together again; and the emotional rules and rhythms of our lives – and how these give rise to, exacerbate or mitigate divisive social relations. In his work on anti-minority mobilisations he addresses questions about how and why people become involved in anti-minority protest, and what sustains, energises or undermines such protests. His book, The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest: Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League (Routledge) was joint winner of the British Sociological Association’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, 2016. His other current research interests include: the processes of interactive escalation, non-escalation and de-escalation between movements, counter-movements and the state; the implementation of the Prevent duty in schools and colleges in England and Wales; and how Brexit is playing out in British ‘expat’ communities living in Spain. Some research that has influenced Joel's career Kathleen M. Blee (2012). Democracy inthe Making: How Activist Groups Form. Deborah B. Gould (2009). MovingPolitics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS. Roger Hewitt (2005). White Backlash and the Politics of Multiculturalism Some of Joel's key research What the Prevent duty means for schools and colleges in England: An analysis of educationalists’ experiences. With Tufyal Choudhury, Paul Thomas, P. and Gareth Harris (2017) The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest: Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League. (2016) Micro Moral Worlds of Contentious Politics: A Reconceptualization of Radical Groups and Their Intersections with One Another and the Mainstream. With John F. Morrison (In Press)

So much has changed in far right politics. The British National Party have come and gone, the English Defence League have disappeared, and lord knows what's going on at UKIP. As part of Hate Island, our special investigation into the far-right, Simon Childs, VICE UK's Home Affairs Editor, is in conversation with journalist James Poulter, Broadly Editor Zing Tsing, and Henry Langston, VICE Producer. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will Ernie Rea and guests sing William Blake's "Jerusalem" at Last Night of the Proms? In Beyond Belief this week Ernie discusses how the poem of a fiery non-conformist has become the beloved anthem of such disparate groups of people - from union-jack-waving Promenaders to the English Defence League and the Women's Institute. Billy Bragg tells Ernie why he would like "Jerusalem" to be England's National Anthem. Ernie is also joined by the novelist Catherine Fox, poet Malcolm Guite and historian William Whyte. Producer, Rosie Dawson.

Will Ernie Rea and guests sing William Blake's "Jerusalem" at Last Night of the Proms? In Beyond Belief this week Ernie discusses how the poem of a fiery non-conformist has become the beloved anthem of such disparate groups of people - from union-jack-waving Promenaders to the English Defence League and the Women's Institute. Billy Bragg tells Ernie why he would like "Jerusalem" to be England's National Anthem. Ernie is also joined by the novelist Catherine Fox, poet Malcolm Guite and historian William Whyte. Producer, Rosie Dawson.

In May 2017, NJOHSP hosted over 250 federal, state, and local intelligence and law enforcement, academic, and private-sector partners for the 2nd Annual Domestic Terrorism Conference. The event provided a forum to discuss the threat of extremists and groups aligned with race-based, single-issue, anti-government, and religious ideologies in the United States. Over the next several weeks, you will hear from some of the experts who shared their research and insights at the conference. In this episode, Analysis Bureau Chief Dean Baratta is joined by Dr. Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens to discuss the growth of right-wing movements in Europe. The two explore how far-right movements, such as the English Defence League, have been able to garner support.

The winner of the British Sociological Association/Thinking Allowed Ethnography award 2017 is Hilary Pilkington, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. She talks to Laurie Taylor about her study of the English Defence League. What beliefs and goals animate this right wing populist group? What ethnical issues are raised by studying the extreme Right? She's joined by the celebrated American sociologist, Arlie Hochschild, who took a similar journey to the white heartlands of the American Right. Producer: Jayne Egerton.

The English Defence League: A study of the individuals who comprise this far right movement. Hilary Pilkington, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, provides fresh and timely insights into a politics built on English identity and opposition to 'Islamism'. They're joined by Nasar Meer, Professor of Comparative Citizenship and Social Policy at Strathclyde University, Who's a 'real' immigrant and who's 'not really' an immigrant? Martina Byrne, Lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Social Policy and Social Justice at University College, Dublin, discusses her study into middle class attitudes to immigration. Why do white Irish professionals consider that white Eastern Europeans are immigrants but white French and Australians are not? Producer: Jayne Egerton.

Tommy Robinson was the most high profile figure in the English Defence League. Then he apparently abandoned his hostility towards Islam and aligned himself with the counter extremism think tank Quilliam. Now he is back on the anti-Islam beat, helping to launch the UK branch of the German pressure group Pegida, with the first rally planned to take place in Birmingham. Reporter and Birmingham resident Adrian Goldberg spends time with Robinson and gets him to meet some of his fiercest foes in the city. Producer: Smita Patel Researcher: Holly Topham Editor: Innes Bowen.

Matt is joined by former leader of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson. For future dates please visit http://www.mattforde.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week saw the surprising exit from the English Defence League of its leaders Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll. Instrumental in their decision to leave was Essex-born Maajid Nawaz, a former activist for the Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir. Arrested in 2001 for attempting to revive the group in Egypt, he served four years in a Cairo jail. Today, he has renounced his old beliefs and now runs the Quilliam Foundation, a 'counter extremism' think tank run by former activists. He has also been selected by the Liberal Democrats to fight a marginal parliamentary seat in 2015. Mark Coles looks at his life.Producer: Ben Crighton.

Tommy Robinson speaks exclusively to 5 live Breakfast's Nicky Campbell about why he's chosen to stand down from the far-right English Defence League.

n recent years several European states have seen the emergence of 'counter-Jihad' movements, which in contrast to the established populist radical right eschew electoral politics and put stronger emphasis on mobilizing opposition to Islam and Muslims. Despite attracting attention, counter-Jihad movements and the predictors of their support are under researched. Drawing on a new survey and sample of self-identified supporters, we investigate the predictors of public support for the English Defence League (EDL), the inaugural 'defence league' in Europe.

Velkommen til Verden på lørdag - på denne siste dagen i mars måned. Følg med oss i den neste timen, så skal du få mange opplevelser (kutt) En vanskelig situasjon er i ferd med å utvikle seg i vårt naboland Danmark - for første gang skal anti-islamske grupper med bakgrunn i English Defence League ha en felles markering Og vi skal høre mye fra Hans Willhelm Steinfeldt i dag- (kutt) Vår mann i Moskva har fulgt den russiske marineinfanteribrigaden på øvelser - det skal du få høre mer om litt ut i sendingen - og det er Hans Willhelm som har levert brevet denne uken Dette - og mer - i Verden på lørdag.

In October, hundreds of people in East London celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. Coming only a month after the English Defence League tried to march into Tower Hamlets, councillor Rania Khan spoke about how people now should learn from how the community reacted in 1936.

Following the massacre in Norway and amid concerns over contacts between the killer and supporters of the English Defence League, the Government is reviewing its policing of right-wing terrorism. James Silver examines far right extremism in the UK and reports from some areas with large Muslim populations where fears of 'Islamistion' are fuelling tensions between communities. We hear of the targeting of gay men in East London, as well as attacks on a mosque in Luton. Is there a disenfranchised minority who feel they have no political voice and are now looking to networks like the English Defence League? And are the EDL right to suggest that the threat of anti-Muslim terrorism in the UK could grow? Please note there has been a change to this programme since the original broadcast because of an erroneous reference to the English Democrats. Producer: Samantha Fenwick.

With the far right making political gains in France, Denmark and the Netherlands, and now the terrorist atrocity in Norway, what's the state of the far right in the UK?

The revelation that the man responsible for Sweden's first suicide bombing had lived and studied in Luton provided the latest link between the Bedfordshire town and terrorist activity. The accusation that Luton has become a 'hotbed of extremism' dates back to the late 1990s, when it was claimed that one of the men alleged to be involved with a terrorist plot in Yemen in 1998 had lived in the town. Links with Luton have also been cited in other major planned terrorist atrocities since, including the fertiliser bomb plot of 2003 which aimed to blow up British nightclubs and shopping centres, and the July 7th London bombings. The Report investigates whether Luton has a problem with militant Islam and if it is doing enough to stop its young residents from being radicalised. The programme also asks why Luton has proved fertile territory for the extreme right. The English Defence League was born in Luton in the spring of 2009 in response to the abuse faced by members of the Royal Anglian Regiment - who had returned from a tour of duty in Iraq - from a small group of extremist Muslim protestors. Phil Kemp speaks to community leaders who reject the impression painted of their town as a divided place. Producer: Hannah Barnes.

EDL, English Defence League, har sen 2009 hållit manifestationer mot det som organisationen ser som en islamiseringen av Storbritannien. Deras aktioner har ofta lett till upplopp när våldsamma fotbollshuliganer förenat sig med islamkritikerna. I helgen kommer EDL demonstrera i Amsterdam och det är första gången man beger sig utanför landets gränser. Frilansjournalisten Lisa Bjurwald har mött EDL anhängare och berättar i Människor och tro om organisationens mål och Sveriges Radios Londonkorrespondent Johan Prane berättar om EDLs aktioner i Storbritannien.  Här kan du lyssna till ett tidigare Människor och tro reportage från september 2009 där vi besökte ett av Sverigedemokraternas antiislamiserinsgmöten och där en av de internationella gästerna var finansmannen Alan Lake som utpekas vara en av finansiärerna av EDL. I reportage från Malmö kan man bland annat höra hur Alan Lake ger rådet till den svenska publiken att utöka antimuslimska demonstrationer med fotbollssupportrar. På söndag avgörs det vem som blir Braziliens nästa president efter den färgstarke Lula da Silva. Striden står mellan socialdemokraten José Serra och arbetarpartiets Dilma Rousseff. I den andra valomgången har abortfrågan, som har en religiös dimension i det övervägande katolska Brazilien, fått stor betydelse.  Frilansjournalisten Henrik Brandao Jönsson, journalist stationerad i Rio de Janeiro berättar om retoriken i valet. "Det finns inget judiskt folk. Hela konceptet med den judiska exilen är en etnocentrisk myt som hotar förgöra Israel ", i alla fall enligt författaren och historieprofessorn Shlomo Sand, som är en kontroversiell kritiker av de myter som ligger till grund för staten Israel. Nu är han på Sverigebesök för att lansera sin senaste bok "Skapandet av det judiska folket" och Människor och tros Anneli Rådestad har träffat honom. Utrikeskrönikan kommer från Sveriges Radios sydeuropakorrespondent, Alice Petrén. I veckan har Sveriges katolska stift lanserat en ny Beredskapsplan för att förhindra sexuella övergrepp mot barn och ungdomar. I skuggan av pedofilskandalerna försöker Sveriges Unga Katoliker värva fler medlemmar. Vi har besökt en av deras ledarutbildningar och talar med ordförande Alexander Kegel om förbundets förhållande till kyrkan och dess konservativa hållning i frågor som rör sexualitet och samlevnad. Reportage från ledarskapsutbildningen i Västerås. Programledare: Tithi Hahn, tithi.hahn@sr.se Producent: Åsa F Vestergren, asa.f.vestergren@sr.se

Problems with Philip Schofield's poppers, Piers Morgan runs a Mosque, the English Defence League has tourettes... Roger Agogo goes mad