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Opinion

Britain is sacrificing its war-fighting edge to save a rounding error

The Ministry of Defence has reportedly halted major war-fighting training for 3 (UK) Division until 2027 to save £30 million, around 0.01 per cent of the annual welfare budget. Deterrence depends on an adversary believing that you can and will fight. Britain appears determined to learn Russia's lesson from a spreadsheet.

Vicky Richter · 7 September 2026
Legal

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
Grassroots

"People Power Can Win": Great British PAC Joins Grassroots Fight Against Council Shake Up Sweeping the East Midlands

Dozens of Leicestershire towns and villages face absorption into an expanded Leicester City authority under government reorganisation plans. Backed by Great British PAC, residents, parish councils and MPs are fighting back with weekly street stalls, packed meetings and a parliamentary petition, and the revolt is spreading to Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

Vicky Richter · 2 September 2026
Immigration

Great British PAC Warns Christian Britain Is Being Sold Short as Barnet Hands Public Money to School That Veils Seven-Year-Old Girls

Barnet Council has quietly approved voluntary-aided status for Barnet Hill Academy, an independent Islamic primary where a white hijab is "compulsory" for every girl from Year 3, meaning British taxpayers will now fund the religious veiling of children as young as seven. The Great British PAC says the decision is a safeguarding failure, a betrayal of Britain's Christian foundations, and a case study in how councils bury contentious changes behind four-week consultations that residents never see.

Vicky Richter · 2 September 2026
Legal

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
Opinion

Great British PAC Welcomes Burnham's Pledge: Wealth Creators Must Stay in Britain

Andy Burnham has vowed to keep Britain's wealth creators on home soil, ruled out taxing the rich into exile and signalled fresh North Sea drilling, as the Prime Minister seeks to calm business nerves ahead of October's Budget. We at the Great British PAC welcome his recognition that those who build, hire and invest deserve encouragement, not punishment.

Vicky Richter · 27 August 2026

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