Mastodawn

The UK government has collapsed competition regulation, shifted data protection to favour business needs over personal data and promised Big Tech all the help they need to establish themselves at every level of government.

There's an alternative – a strategy for digital sovereignty that prioritises UK open source.

Public money, public code.

Tell your MP to back a #DigitalSovereignty strategy ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-britain%E2%80%99s-digital-backbone-%E2%80%94-ask-your-mp-act

#opensource #tech #techpolicy #tonyblair #bigtech #ukpolitics #ukpol

Protect Britain’s Digital Backbone — Ask Your MP to Act

Take action! What’s the problem? The UK’s digital backbone. The cloud services, data systems, and platforms that underpin government, public services, and democratic processes is dangerously reliant on a small number of foreign tech companies. Much of this critical digital infrastructure is controlled by US-based firms such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Palantir, whose services are embedded across government and the public sector. Other key providers are based in Israel and China. Together, these companies operate systems that are essential to how the UK state functions day to day.

Open Rights Group

Open Rights Group 1d ago

Predatory Big Tech is being brought into the UK economy on Big Tech's terms.

Adding Tony Blair Institute and Ellison Institute officials into government "who know how to do Big Tech’s bidding is just one more sign that the UK is being asset-stripped and locked into a future of permanent rent extraction by Big Tech."

🗣️ ORG Exec Director @jim

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/dsit-civil-servant-revolving-door-between-government-and-tony-blair-institute/

#DigitalSovereignty #tech #techpolicy #tonyblair #bigtech #ukpolitics #ukpol

Top civil servant yo-yo’d between govt and Blair Institute

Exclusive: Tech firms such as TBI are embedding staff in government, sparking fears AI policy is being ‘outsourced’

openDemocracy

Martin 6d ago

#JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #TonyBlair #Evil #TheEpsteinFiles

Darren Fower Mar 13

#MandelsonFiles - Bill Clinton and Peter Mandelson set up a meeting between the then-prime minister #TonyBlair and #Epstein, the files reveal, with the ex US ambassador describing the financier as both "𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵" and "𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦".

#MandelsonSAGA #PeterMandelson #EpsteinFiles #KeirStarmer #UKlabour

The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment Mar 13

Dunblane gunman left a 'scene from hell' now families warn it could happen again

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dunblane-gunman-left-scene-hell-36857298

News Beep Mar 11

The UK is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years

LONDON (AP) — Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Generalnews #JeffreyEpstein #KeirStarmer #KingCharlesIII #Legislation #NicholasTrue #NickThomas-Symonds #PeterMandelson #Politics #Royalty #TonyBlair #UnitedKingdom #World #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/429230/

quangobaud Mar 10

2026-03-09 1145-1200

Shock and War: Iraq 20 Years On
1. The Decision

Why did the US want regime change in Iraq? Was it really about the threat of terrorists getting hold of weapons of mass destruction after the September 11th 2001 attacks, or was the desire much deeper? And what was the British government's reaction?

This series was first broadcast in March 2023, to mark the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq.

Presenter: Gordon Corera
Series Producer: John Murphy
Producers: Ellie House, Claire Bowes
Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore, Naked Productions
Production coordinators: Janet Staples, Brenda Brown
Series Editor: Penny Murphy

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#BBCRadio4 #GordonCorera #Iraq #GeorgeWBush #TonyBlair #SaddamHussein

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k0cg