Financial Times warns that the export of Chinese surveillance creates a dystopian future for ‘smart cities’ as one official warns that the technology allows the monitoring of a whole society, enabling “an Orwellian society,” in European cities.

Financial Times warns that the export of Chinese surveillance creates a dystopian future for ‘smart cities’ as one official warns that the technology allows the monitoring of a whole society, enabling “an Orwellian society,” in European cities. Exporting Chinese...

1984 meets 2021 in Uighur concentration camps

George Orwell understood the ideas that have shaped the Chinese Communist Party. Little wonder the CCP imprisoned a Hong Kong bookseller who sold copies of 1984 to members of their Party. Insultingly, the Chinese Communist Party, in a Tweet, says that incarcerated...

Lord David Alton

For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.

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Forty year campaign demanding justice for British servicemen used as guinea pigs in atomic tests in the 50s – with one Commons debate in the 80s taking place in the middle of the night, at 3.50 am. Today just 1500 of the 20,000 servicemen put in harms way are still alive. The Defence Minister, Earl Minto, deserves thanks for his straightforward reply in the Lords yesterday. However long it takes, injustices must be put right.

Throughout the 80s I campaigned for justice for British servicemen used as guinea pigs in atomic tests. On one occasion I initiated a debate in the Commons at 3.50 am in the middle of the night - a debate that the Government didn't want. Today just 1500 of the 20,000...