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Great British PAC Warns Labour's Lawfare Failures Are Undermining Britain's SAS as Troops Shun High-Risk Missions

Serving SAS officers have delivered an extraordinary warning: experienced soldiers in Britain's elite special forces are becoming reluctant to volunteer for missions where they may have to open fire, because they fear the investigation that could follow years later. There have been no refusals of orders and no hesitation under fire, but some experienced personnel are reportedly choosing to leave or not extend their service. The £58m Afghanistan inquiry has run for three and a half years without a single finding. More than two years into Labour's Government, ministers have yet to demonstrate that their response matches the scale of the problem.

Vicky Richter · 12 November 2026
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IMF warns against blanket subsidies ahead of Healey's first Budget

The International Monetary Fund has cautioned against blanket cost-of-living subsidies before John Healey's first Budget on 28 October, saying support should be targeted and temporary and that an urgent need to cut borrowing means help must be used "sparingly". It raised its forecast for UK growth in 2026 to 1.3 per cent but lowered its 2027 estimate to 1.2 per cent, citing higher energy prices and long-term interest rates. Andy Burnham's government has already cut VAT on household electricity at a Budget cost of £850 million and restored a £2 bus fare cap in England.

Vicky Richter · 14 October 2026
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More than 60,000 arrested in five years for what they said online

More than 60,000 people have been arrested in the UK for "communications offences" over the past five years, according to a report to be published this week by the civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch. Of those arrested, 18,510 were charged and 12,292 convicted. Fewer than one in five were ultimately convicted.

Vicky Richter · 7 September 2026
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Great British PAC: How Britain's Prisons Became a Recruiting Ground for Islamist Extremism

Muslims now make up nearly a fifth of the prison population in England and Wales, and the number of white converts behind bars is rising sharply. Drawing on first-hand testimony from inside the high-security estate, and on the government's own reviews, the Great British PAC examines how coercion, fear and the collapse of prison authority have turned jails into recruiting grounds, and sets out what must be done to stop it.

Vicky Richter · 29 August 2026
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Great British PAC Welcomes Light at the End of the Tunnel as Justice Secretary Vows Pc Harper's Killers Will Stay in Jail

The Justice Secretary has told police chiefs he is "confident" that Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole will be excluded from the early release scheme, after a million strong petition and relentless campaigning forced a Government rethink. The Great British PAC, which first revealed the pair were among 6,000 criminals eligible for release, has welcomed the move as "light at the end of the tunnel", but warns the domestic abuse loophole must not be ignored.

Vicky Richter · 27 August 2026
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Great British PAC says no to Labour’s legal drift on single-sex spaces

Great British PAC says no to Labour’s quiet tolerance of six Left-wing London councils, Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest, that have declared they will keep services “inclusive” in defiance of new EHRC statutory guidance on single-sex spaces. With the Supreme Court already clear that “sex” means biological sex, who is Labour really protecting?

Vicky Richter · 12 August 2026
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Apple Escalates Legal Fight Against UK Home Office Over Encrypted iPhone Access, Reigniting Global Privacy Debate

Apple has opened a new front in its long-running confrontation with the British Government, filing a fresh legal complaint at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over Home Office demands for access to encrypted iCloud back-ups belonging to UK customers. The move deepens a transatlantic dispute that has drawn in the White House and raised sharp questions about the future of digital privacy.

Vicky Richter · 5 August 2026
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Operation Oak: Nine Men Face 41 Historical Child Rape Charges in South Wales, Yet All Walk Free on Bail

Nine British men, aged between 54 and 76, appeared at Newport Magistrates' Court on Friday to face a combined 41 historical sexual offence charges, many of them alleging the rape of children, in a case Gwent Police describe as one of the most significant group-based child sexual exploitation investigations ever mounted in south Wales. Despite the gravity of the allegations, which span an eleven-year period between 1985 and 1996 and involve eight female complainants who were children at the time, every single defendant walked free on bail, a decision now reigniting a fierce national debate over whether the judiciary is treating grooming gang suspects with appropriate severity.

Vicky Richter · 4 August 2026