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HALF A MILLION PEOPLE WERE DEFRAUDED Imagine you are behind on your store card payments. You are already struggling. Then the bank quietly adds an extra charge on top of what you owe. Not because it costs them that much. Just because .. they can. And because they think nobody is watching. Someone was watching. Nicholas Wilson was a debt recovery lawyer. He goes by Mr Ethical @nw_nicholas on X. His old boss meant it as an insult. In 2003 he noticed that @HSBC subsidiary HFC Bank was adding an illegal 16.4% charge onto the debts of people who were already in financial trouble. Store cards from John Lewis, Currys, B&Q, Dixons, PC World. Ordinary people. Struggling people. Being quietly robbed. He told his boss it was illegal. His boss started calling him "Mr Ethical" as a joke. Then they sacked him. He reported it to the regulators. @TheFCA ignored him for years. When a researcher separately wrote to both HSBC and the FCA asking about the fraud... ... both wrote back with responses in the exact same wording, same punctuation, same paragraphs. The bank and the regulator were sharing the same script. FCA's own independent Complaints Commissioner eventually investigated. He called it the worst case of regulatory failure he had ever dealt with. FCA's response was to appoint Ruth Kelly, an HSBC director, and Baroness Hogg from John Lewis, onto its own board. The two people they were supposed to be investigating were now sitting inside the regulator. You actually cannot make this up. After 13 years of Wilson refusing to go away, HSBC quietly agreed to pay some money back. FCA announced 6,700 victims. Wilson says the real number is closer to 500,000. HSBC has now set aside £223 million for repayments. No fine. No criminal charges. No one went to prison. No one was even publicly named. Wilson has spent the last 20 years unemployable. Blacklisted. Living on state benefits. Fighting to keep his home. Someone even anonymously reported him to the DWP for benefit fraud while the actual billion pound fraud went unpunished. The bank that robbed half a million people kept its licence. The man who caught them lost everything. Source: @guardian | @BBC | @PrivateEyeNews | @SundayMirror | @realmediauk | nicholaswilson com | @nw_nicholas and others.

Israel killed Maryam today in Saksakiyeh, South Lebanon. She was only 2 years old. They killed her mother too — Jana, 24 years old. A baby and her mother. This is what Israel’s bombs do. This is who they kill.

@SloughCouncil how have you mitigated against this pollution and consumption? Slough trading estate thanks to @SEGROplc is a now the Data Centre capital. Whilst SBC attack Taxi drivers and residents for poor air quality!

BBC News criticise Zack Polanski for expecting better standards from the police when apprehending the man who stabbed two British Jews and one British Muslim But BBC News did NOT show that the officers kicked him in the head five times, when he was immobilised and down on the ground after being tasered And of course BBC News did not mention that 2 hours before he stabbed two Jewish men, he stabbed a Muslim man Neither did Keir Starmer, not once across the two days of constant press conferences, and not even during his statement from Downing street Why is Labour Keir's Starmer and so much of the media whitewashing the stabbing of a British Muslim?

Sir Mark has every right to practice his politics as a private citizen. But if he wants to make them part of his public role, then he is obliged to resign as a police officer and run for elected office himself tribunemag.co.uk/2026/05/mark-r…

Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised. RT if you know it has to be.

Reform UK is not the patriotic alternative to the corrupt political elite which sold you out. The Reform UK funders I have found have two things in common: they all have businesses based in Tax Havens, and they all funded the Conservative Party.

Remember when the Panama Papers came out, revealed that all rich people in the world are part of enormous criminal network to dodge taxes and hoard stolen wealth in offshore accounts, and the journalist who reported was murdered by a car bomb, and no one was held accountable, and literally nothing happened. This is what will happen with the Epstein Files if we don't unite against child rapists.

Statement by Barristers Chambers re Prosecution of Rajiv Menon Kc Rajiv Menon KC, a highly respected silk at Garden Court Chambers and a former head of chambers, is facing proceedings for contempt of court. The alleged contempt concerns a closing speech that Rajiv delivered to a jury at the Woolwich Crown Court in January 2026. The trial involved pro-Palestine activists causing criminal damage to weapons and other property at a factory in Filton, Bristol belonging to Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer. Not only is this the first time in English legal history that a barrister is being prosecuted for contempt in respect of a closing speech at a criminal trial, but the procedure being used to prosecute Rajiv is wholly novel and without historical precedent. Until this week, any publication about Rajiv being prosecuted for contempt has been prohibited by various court orders. As a result of reporting restrictions now being lifted, Garden Court Chambers is at last able to comment publicly on this matter. We have supported Rajiv throughout the proceedings, including significant numbers of our members attending court hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice. Rajiv is independently represented by solicitors and leading counsel who have made powerful arguments about the jurisdictional legality and procedural propriety of the contempt proceedings being brought against Rajiv. Judgment is currently awaited from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division). It is hoped that the arguments being advanced will prevail, and that the proceedings against Rajiv will be swiftly concluded without Rajiv having to stand trial. Whatever the outcome, Garden Court Chambers will continue to support Rajiv. It is important to note that the prosecution of Rajiv for contempt has wider constitutional implications. We are extremely concerned about the chilling effect on the Bar of the state seeking to criminalise barristers for their representation of their clients. Such action is bound to undermine the confidence of the public that those charged, particularly in political and controversial cases, can receive the committed representation that they would expect to be provided.

At the time I wrote of Rajiv Menon KC's closing speech for the defence of Charlotte Head: "This is the one of the greatest legal speeches – including historical speeches – I have ever read." He now faces loss of career and two years in jail for it. craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/…

I am now under investigation for a 'Racially Aggravated Public Order' offence following an allegation of 'Holocaust Denial.' This is a calculated conflation designed to criminalise my anti-Zionism by falsely framing it as Holocaust denial and 'antisemitic.' I have been hesitant to share anything on social media recently, as I am currently navigating the immense weight of an oncology referral. For weeks, I have existed in a state of torturous limbo and psychological paralysis - teetering on the edge while awaiting medical confirmation. Last night, I was met by police upon disembarking the train from an Oncologist appointment in London. A passenger (who had apparently overheard a conversation I was having with another passenger) reportedly contacted the British Transport Police by text, stating they felt 'uncomfortable' because they claim I had allegedly made reference to - and specifically 'denied' - the Holocaust. I will state categorically: I have, for some time, absolutely expressed my deeply held anti-Zionist beliefs in criticism of a nationalist and racist ideology. I continue to draw a clear, vital distinction between Judaism and Zionism. This is not 'Holocaust denial.' As I stated to the police, my own grandfather was Jewish. We are living in the prophecy. The Orwellian enforcers are no longer fiction. Free speech is dead. Two-tier 'justice' is the new standard. And eventually, the hammer falls on everyone. I am living the warning, and have been for 6 years: once you're in their sights, the cycle is eternal. That said; I am not, in any capacity, a racist or 'antisemite.' I have spent over half a decade relentlessly fighting for truth, justice, peace, and freedom for all people - regardless of faith or race. While I am drowning in the weight of a constant, killing obligation - a life spent tired, broke, and broken by sacrifices that the system uses to bury me... I still continue the fight.

NHS DESTROYED THE WOMAN WHO CAUGHT ITS DOCTORS STEALING FROM IT Sharmila Chowdhury @sharmilaxx gave 30 years of spotless service to the @NHS. Not one disciplinary mark. Not one complaint. She was the budget holder for radiology at Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, which means she could see exactly where the money was going. What she saw was two consultant radiologists billing the NHS for shifts they were spending at a private hospital down the road. The Trust lost £250,000 of public money through those arrangements. She reported it to her line manager. Her medical director. HR. Counter Fraud. The Department of Health. The Treasury. Number 10. She had a paper trail so airtight that @ITV undercover surveillance later caught the same consultants still absent during paid hours, and caught Miranda Harvie and Akkib Rafique taking direct cash payments from patients for private ultrasounds inside the NHS building, money going straight into their own account. So what did the Trust do with this documented, camera-confirmed, publicly broadcast fraud? They sacked her. On fabricated counter-allegations from a subordinate she had herself reported for breaching patient safety. The man who filed those allegations later sent an email signed off with "0800-F***-YOU-B****." He received a Top Mentor award from the Trust that same year. Sharmila won the Interim Relief Hearing. She won the internal appeal. The judge asked the Trust to reinstate her. The Trust said no and refused to let her return. She was blacklisted. Job offers were withdrawn the moment employers discovered who she was. She settled out of court in 2012 with two years pay, out of which she had to pay £77,500 in legal fees alone. 38 Degrees38 Degrees In July 2013, she was diagnosed with breast and lung cancer. Multiple consultants believe this is a direct result of the sustained stress of her treatment as a whistleblower. The consultants she reported kept their jobs. George Osborne said he could not get involved. Andrew Lansley said he could not get involved. David Cameron said he could not get involved. Every single official body, every single minister, every single department looked at a proven, camera-documented NHS fraud case and decided it was an employment matter. Read Sharmila's full case: sharmilachowdhury com Sources: Health Select Committee written evidence | @DailyMail | @Independent | @BBCNews | @Channel4 | @guardian | @thetimes | @DailyMirror | @Channel4News | @ITV

Challenge Starmer by Monday or I will, Labour MP tells cabinet. Why delay the inevitable? Must change policies. Immediate £1,000 rise in personal allowance. Decouple energy price from gas, nationalise energy. Nationalize water. Build social housing. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

He’s very rattled about this and rightly so. It’s a scandal.

One part of the travesty of the Filton 6 actionists’ trial and retrial that has received less attention but is very important: Rajiv Menon, King’s Council, barrister for a member of the Filton 6, is being persecuted on a wholly unprecedented charge of contempt of court, carrying a punishment of up to two years imprisonment, for mentioning legal history and principles of law that allow juries to make independent decisions on conscience that Judge Johnson ruled out. In the first trial’s closing statement to the jury, Menon pointed out the case that established this principle from 1670 and quoted the public plaque outside the Old Bailey (the central court in London) commemorating the case. He also reminded the jurors six times that the judge could not direct them to convict. The jury exonerated all the defendants in that first trial. Now they have been retried and convicted on some charges. It sounds like Rajiv Menon is being punished for being extremely good at his job and for explaining the actual law relevant to the rights of the jury that this establishment judge close to the UK police and security services unethically suppressed to secure a political conviction to protect Elbit Systems. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Judge Johnson set up the rules and judgments precisely to engineer a conviction to circumvent the propensity of juries to acquit actionists. Then he plans to sentence them under extremely harsh terrorism laws by manipulating unjustly what jurors could know. Rajiv Menon initially disrupted that plan in the first trial. So now the judge and state are going after him. We must support Rajiv Menon, a fantastic and principled barrister, and the actionists against the UK state’s punitive crackdown on those using democratic rights to protest and stop the Israeli arms industry from facilitating war crimes, illegal occupation and genocide. The corrupt and complicit political establishment in the UK has shown themselves willing to evacuate rights to free speech and assembly, jury trials, press freedom and a host of democratic rights for all citizens simply to protect Israel’s impunity and their own complicity in the genocide. Support Rajiv Menon for defending pro-Palestine actionists and condemn what the UK courts and injustice system have done to jury trials and democratic rights!

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Prominent Journalist Max Blumenthal confirms UK ordered a total media blackout to hide a rigged trial against Palestine Action activists. He reveals the presiding judge is literally a former lawyer for MI6! British justice system is completely compromised by the Zionist lobby.

The head of the newly-formed Reform Friends of Israel, Jason Pearlman, was until December a media adviser to Israel’s president Isaac Herzog. Pearlman claims Israel has not committed a single war crime in Gaza. declassifieduk.org/no-war-crimes-…

We've been investigating the deal between Palantir and the NHS for years. Now we're ready to tell the real story. Listen to The Shadow Contract now 🎧 goodlaw.social/c22b7d

@SloughCouncil can you confirm that a councillor in Slough is being investigated for bribery and corruption? Our intelligence suggests it’s the reason why the council leader resigned - he was complicit in the cover up? #brownenvelopes