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06.12.25 - 14:45
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UK Sanctions Russia After Inquiry Holds Putin Responsible For 2018 Novichok Poisonings (ZeroHedge)
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UK Sanctions Russia After Inquiry Holds Putin Responsible For 2018 Novichok Poisonings
Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times,
The UK issued new sanctions on Russia on Dec. 4, after a public inquiry into the death of a woman poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok in the UK in 2018 held Russian President Vladimir Putin responsible for her demise.
London also summoned the Kremlin's ambassador for a response to the inquiry's findings and over what it called an “ongoing campaign of hostile activity” against the UK.
The public inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess concluded that Putin had ordered the 2018 Novichok attack by GRU agents on Sergei Skripal, a Russian defector and former GRU colonel, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, which eventually resulted in the death of Sturgess, who had no connection to Skripal or Russia.
“The Salisbury poisonings shocked the nation and today's findings are a grave reminder of the Kremlin's disregard for innocent lives,” British Prime Minister Keir Starme...
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06.12.25 - 13:48
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Just How Dystopian Could Starmer′s Britain Become? (ZeroHedge)
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Just How Dystopian Could Starmer's Britain Become?
Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com,
Scaling back trial by jury, further attacks on lawful speech, the nationwide deployment of deeply flawed facial recognition systems… The list just keeps growing longer.
We first asked this question — Just How Dystopian Could Starmer's Britain Become? — just over a year ago. At that point in time, with the government just four months in office, all we could offer as an answer was: how long is a piece of string? Now, 13 months later, it is clear that said string is very long indeed, and is getting longer by the day.
On his election, in July 2024, Starmer promised that his Labour government would “tread (stomp?) more lightly” on the lives of voters. It is one of a growing multitude of pledges Starmer has broken during his 17 months in office. In this particular case, it took just two months for Starmer to change course, telling delegates at the 2024 Labour Party Conference...
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