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		<title>Is Starmer making the UK a fascist Country?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 14:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fascism is a system of politics in which a government, leader, or movement gradually concentrates power into a central authority while weakening or bypassing the normal democratic restraints that are supposed to limit it. It does not usually begin with tanks in the streets. More often, it develops through a steady erosion of institutions, norms, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Plan to Restrict Jury Trials, a Direct Violation of Human Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[David Lammy&#8217;s Plan is a Constitutional Red Line The proposal reportedly under consideration by David Lammy — to remove the right to a jury trial for offences carrying sentences of under three years — strikes at the heart of the British justice system. It is not a minor procedural reform. It is not an efficiency [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THE HIDDEN TAX RAID OF THE AUTUMN BUDGET 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A forensic breakdown of how fiscal drag, frozen thresholds, and new levies quietly strip thousands from ordinary households &#8211; and how the BDA propose to fix this Executive Summary The Autumn Budget 2025 was sold to the public as “fairness, stability, and responsibility.”In reality, it delivers one of the largest cynical stealth tax increases in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Budget 2025 Commentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Britain’s Productivity Crisis: A Problem Made in Westminster How 16 Years of Mismanagement — and Two Labour Budgets — Have Punished the Public Instead of Fixing the Economy The UK’s productivity crisis did not emerge by accident, nor is it the fault of working people. It is the predictable outcome of sixteen years of governmental [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT / PRESS RELEASE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>When does a society surrender its freedom in the name of “security”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.” – George Orwell, 1984 Slowly, Quietly, with each government measure framed as “reasonable” and “for your own [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The State of the Crown Courts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 23:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Crown Courts are in a parlour state. They have suffered system underfundeing for decades, there have been a systemic lack of funding for training for administration staff, Judges and even for recruitment, coupled to buildings maintenance and the systems used by the HMCTS it is a wonder the system has even managed to maintain [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reforming the DBS and Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 14:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Justice After Judgment Reforming Britain’s Criminal Record System British Democratic Alliance Policy Statement “Vengeance and retribution are brothers of hatred that harms society” – Francis Bacon. The statement captures the metaphysical way of how vengeance and retribution, both born of hatred, corrode the fabric of society. They perpetuate cycles of punishment, harden divisions, and make [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>1984 &#8211; George Orwell&#8217;s Cautionary Tale of Authoritarianism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The research team have been beavering away, and produced another article for you to read. This is a cautionary tale of the slide, by Western Democracies toward authoritarian states &#8211; this is part 1 of a two part series. It is sobering reading and a call to arms (not literally) to stand up for Freedom, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Case of the Chinese Spy trial Collapse</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JMF]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; The Chinese Spying Affair The collapse of the prosecution of Christopher Cash and Steve Berry, both accused of spying on behalf of China, is a damning indictment of the Government’s failure to maintain and correctly apply up-to-date national security laws. Government has one overriding duty: to ensure the safety and security of the British [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Public Statement &#8211; Response to Restore Britain Publication on Illegal Immigration.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JMF]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Restore Britain, a group founded in the Independent MP Rupert Lowe, has, today, published a details prospectus on its view of tackling the illegal immigration issue that has so gripped the UK for the last decade. Their publication, Mass Deportations, Legitimacy, Legality &#38; Logistics, addresses many salient points and they have clearly put a lot [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Convergence of Control: How Secondary Legislation Is Expanding State Surveillance in the United Kingdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[British Democratic Alliance – Policy Division Interim Policy Briefing (7 October 2025) The Convergence of Control: How Secondary Legislation Is Expanding State Surveillance in the United Kingdom Executive Summary This briefing examines the accelerating convergence of surveillance powers across multiple strands of UK legislation, including the Criminal Justice Bill (2024–25), the Online Safety Act 2023, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Religion, Conflict, Authoritarianism and the duopoly of shared power</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m completely in favour of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. George Carlin Religion, Power, and the Case for Separation The history of religion and political power reveals a recurring truth: wherever faith [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Respect Without Hypocrisy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The British Democratic Alliance believes that respect for faith and culture must be rooted in honesty — not in hollow gestures. When political leaders step into churches, synagogues, or mosques purely for the cameras, wearing the symbols of faith they do not share, it becomes theatre. It is performance politics, designed to harvest headlines rather [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Government’s Digital ID Response</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Masterclass in Contradiction The government has published its official response to the petition against the introduction of Digital IDs in the United Kingdom. Almost three million people signed that petition — an unmistakable signal that the public has deep concerns about this scheme. The response, however, is a polished piece of double-speak that attempts [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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