At a news conference in Quito on Wednesday, Mr Patino said a letter from the UK government was delivered through a British embassy official. "Today we received from the United Kingdom an express threat, in writing, that they might storm our Embassy in London if we don't hand over Julian Assange," he said.
Nedskärningar 1 100 medarbetare sägs upp och 230 budgetmiljoner försvinner. 2013 ser ut att bli ännu ett dystert år för de brittiska biblioteken, visar en ny rapport.
Ett av de drabbade biblioteken, det i Friern Barnet i Norra London, togs för ett tag sedan över av medlemmar av Occupy-rörelsen som återöppnade det och driver det vidare. Detta har felaktigt i medierna kallats för en ”delseger” för biblioteksrörelsen. Snarare handlar det om ett bakslag. För hur behjärtansvärt det än är med volontärer som tar över och hur bra det än kan bli så förstärker det hos ansvariga politiker bara känslan av att bibliotek inte behöver vara professionellt drivna. Ett biblioteksväsende där den professionella vinkeln urholkas skapar bilden av att det är själva bokrummet som är det viktiga, snarare än det arbete som biblioteket faktiskt ska utföra. Ett bokrum kan vara nog så viktigt, men ett bibliotek är ju så mycket mer. Inte minst i dessa dagar, när dessutom idén om det fysiska bokrummet utmanas i och med e-böckernas intåg på marknaden.
Supporters of Friern Barnet People's Library in Barnet, North London, are to return to court at 09:30 on Monday 17 December as Barnet council seeks possession of the building and the surrounding green land. [1] "Join us in Barnet and show Barnet council that libraries and communities matter more than profits for big business."[...]
The Guardian 19.9.1999 av Andrew Smith. In the final analysis, I wonder if he feels British or Indian. Or is that to miss the point? Sawhney looks pensive. 'No, it's salient. That question guided the whole album. What I've had to realise is that I am who I am. I'm not defined by concepts of nationality or religion, or anything else that anyone wants to apply to me. The BJP would probably want to define me through religion, and the BNP would probably want to define me by the colour of my skin.'
Thousands of rules affecting business are to be scrapped or amended, David Cameron has told a Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) conference. More than 3,000 rules will be dropped or changed, saving more than £850m a year, he told the FSB. They include 640 pages of cattle movement guidance, 286 pages of hedgerow regulations and 380 pages of waste management rules.
David Omand The Guardian, Tuesday 11 June 2013 As former GCHQ chief I believe we should set down some principles that would help guide the public debate on privacy
26Oct99 - BBC Intranet entry for BAP: "The British American Project (BAP) was founded in 1985 to encourage 'transatlantic friendship' between 'future leaders' of Britain and the United States. It is funded by donations from large corporations and was originally known as the 'British-American Project for the Successor Generation'. Each year BAP invites 24 American and 24 British delegates to take part in four days of dinners, parties and discussions. The aim is to "create, at a time of growing international strains and stresses, a closer rapport between Britain and the United States among people likely to become influential decision-makers during the next two decades". Delegates are nominated by existing fellows. They include George Robertson, Chris Smith, Mo Mowlem, Peter Mandelson, Jonathan Powell, Trevor Phillips, Charles Moore, James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Critics of BAP, such as John Pilger, have suggested that it constitutes a type of right-wing "casual freemasonry". "
TRNN Scotland votes on independence in 2014 and may tell UK to remove Trident missiles - July 8, 2012 Faslane is a deep water harbour where they can go safely...
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th September 2014 How the media shafted the people of Scotland. Perhaps the most arresting fact about the Scottish referendum is this: that there is no newspaper – local, regional or national, English or Scottish – which supports independence except the Sunday Herald. The Scots who will vote yes have been almost without representation in the media.
15 jan 2014 "Jason led a Westminster Hall debate on the UK's relations with the Kurdistan region of Iraq. As an RAF Officer Jason served on the No Fly Zone over Northern Iraq in the 1990s protecting the Iraqi Kurds from Saddam Hussein. He returned to the Kurdistan Region last summer to see a peaceful, progressive and democratic society. In the debate closer economic, educational and diplomatic ties were urged. In November the inaugural event of the Huddersfield University Kurdish alumni took place in Erbil as 130 Kurdish students have studied at our local University."
Involve are experts in public participation. We design and deliver high-quality public and stakeholder engagement processes, carry out research and provide training. Involve inspires citizens, communities and institutions to run effective participation processes and to participate in dialogues, consultations and community engagement. We believe passionately in a democracy where citizens are empowered to take and influence the decisions that affect their lives.
This new discussion document highlights the overwhelming evidence for major changes to national food and farming policy. It’s been written by a collaboration of 10 UK organisations: the RSPB, Friends of the Earth, the National Trust, the Food Ethics Council, Sustain, the Wildlife Trusts, the Soil Association, Eating Better and Compassion in World Farming working with the Food Research Collaboration.
This guide is intended for all broadcasters and producers. With the objective of the creation of a committee of higher representation of all estates interested in audiovisual communication media in order to involve them in the policies of normalization of the image of people with disabilities.Increasing and improving portrayal of people with disabilities in the media
Diskreditieren Sie Personen und Organisationen! Das ist eines der Ziele des britischen Geheimdiensts. Geheime Dokumente zeigen, wie der GCHQ im Internet für die Zerstörung Einzelner sorgt. (Von Stefan Schulz)
HIV & AIDS information focusing on regional and global responses to the epidemic. AVERT also provides HIV and AIDS education resources, sex education and advice for people of all age groups.
Curt Rice, Guardian Higher Education Network: "Are politicians stealing our academic freedom? Is their fetish with open access publishing leading to a 'pay to say' system for the rich? And will the trendy goal of making publicly financed research freely available skew the world of scholarship even further towards the natural sciences? I don't think so. But it took me a while to get there."
The Huffington Post UK | Posted: 25/04/2013 Last year the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that the UK was doubling the number of armed RAF drones in Afghanistan to 10 with the five new aircraft to be operated remotely from RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.On Thursday the MoD confirmed the new aircraft, known as 13 Squadron, which were officially "stood up" in October, started flying missions over Afghanistan this week. The hi-tech Reaper drones are primarily used to gather intelligence on enemy activity on the ground, but they also carry 500lb bombs and Hellfire missiles for precision strikes on insurgents.
10 MAY 2013 - JESSICA HATCHER, IAN COBAIN The British government is negotiating payments to thousands of Kenyans who were detained and severely mistreated during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency.
25.5.: "Shortly after the killing of Drummer Rigby [in Woolwich], 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo was filmed by a passer-by saying he had carried out the attack because British soldiers killed Muslims every day [...] A friend of Mr Adebolajo, Abu Nusaybah, was arrested on Friday night on BBC premises following an interview with BBC Newsnight. The arrest was not directly related to the murder of Drummer Rigby, the Met Police said. Mr Nusayabah told the programme that Mr Adebolajo had rejected an approach by MI5 to work for them around six months ago."
Goldman Sachs and UBS have been chosen to oversee the planned flotation of the Royal Mail later this year. The stock market listing, the largest UK privatisation in two decades, is expected to value the postal operator at about £3bn. Michael Fallon, the Business minister, insisted "all options" remained open for the Royal Mail. He said: "It is important that we are in a position to move ahead swiftly with our chosen route once we take the final decision.
The British government will on Thursday agree an historic compensation payment to victims of one of the darkest episodes of the country's imperial past and express its "sincere regret" for the torture inflicted upon thousands of people imprisoned during Kenya's Mau Mau insurgency. bildtext: Captured Mau Mau fighters in Kenya awaiting trial in 1954. Photograph: George Rodger/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images In a statement to MPs, William Hague, foreign secretary, is expected to announce payments of £2,600 each to more than 5,000 survivors of the vast network of prison camps that the British authorities established across its colony during the bloody 1950s conflict: a total of about £13.9m.
"The US military’s use of depleted uranium in Iraq has led to a sharp increase in Leukemia and birth defects in the city of Najaf – and panicked residents are fearing for their health. Cancer is now more common than the flu, a local doctor tells RT."
Ian Warrell, a Turner expert and curator at the Tate Britain, says that a painstaking trawl through Turner's work has led him to conclude that most, if not all, the erotic art still remains in the collection and that the bonfire, said to have occurred in 1858, almost certainly never happened. By SARAH LYALL Published: January 13, 2005
Monbiot in the Guardian 5.8.2013 about the role of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in spreading and defending the use of neonicotinoids: " So here we have a department staggering around like a drunkard with a loaded machine gun, assuring us that it’sh perfectly shafe. The people who should be defending the natural world have conspired with the manufacturers of wide-spectrum biocides to permit levels of destruction at which we can only guess. In doing so they appear to be engineering another silent spring.
On Sunday the 8th September, the Occupy movement will take action against the Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEi) arms fair in East London, which is billed as “The world leading defence and security event”.
Why go all the way to Valduc? Because the UK and France signed the ‘Teutates Treaty’ in 2010, to share advanced facilities at Valduc and Aldermaston AWE to research Nuclear weapons for the next 50 years. The French radiology facility (Teutates EPURE) will be at Valduc, in France. The UK Teutates Technological Development Centre (TDC Facility) will be built at AWE Aldermaston, Berkshire. The radiographic/hydro-dynamics facilities will permit design of new generations of nuclear weapons. This is contrary to the aims the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, Article VI, ‘the elimination of all nuclear arsenals’ and and the spirit of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Over the past three months the Guardian has made a series of disclosures about the activities of GCHQ and its much bigger American counterpart, the National Security Agency. Two of the most significant programmes uncovered in the Snowden files were Prism, run by the NSA, and Tempora, which was set up by GCHQ. Between them, they allow the agencies to harvest, store and analyse data about millions of phone calls, emails and search engine queries." Guardian 6 Oct 2013 Huhne said Prism and Tempora "put in the shade Tony Blair's proposed ID cards, 90-day detention without trial and the abolition of jury trials". He added: "Throughout my time in parliament, the Home Office was trying to persuade politicians to invest in 'upgrading' Britain's capability to recover data showing who is emailing and phoning whom. Yet this seems to be exactly what GCHQ was already doing. Was the Home Office trying to mislead?
John Lanchester The Guardian, Thursday 3 October 2013: "When I first read Foucault's account of the panopticon, where the individual at the centre can simultaneously see and judge a whole multitude of other individuals, I thought it was brilliant but overheated. Now, it actually seems like somebody's plan. That's what we risk becoming: a society which is in crucial respects a giant panopticon, where the people with access to our secrets can see, hear, intercept and monitor everything." "If we are going to remake society in the image of the fight against terrorism, and put that secret fight at the heart of our democratic order – which is the way we're heading – we need to discuss it, and in public." We are right on the verge of being an entirely new kind of human society, one involving an unprecedented penetration by the state into areas which have always been regarded as private. Do we agree to that? If we don't, this is the last chance to stop it happening. Our rulers will say what all rulers everywhere have always said: that their intentions are good, and we can trust them. They want that to be a sufficient guarantee."
David Cameron told MPs: "I don't want to have to use injunctions or D notices or the other tougher measures. I think it's much better to appeal to newspapers' sense of social responsibility. But if they don't demonstrate some social responsibility it would be very difficult for government to stand back and not to act." The D-notice system is a voluntary code between government departments with responsibility for national security and the media.
Gives a relatively detailed account of the events that shaped the creation of the United Kingdom from 1543 onwards with a particular focus on the Acts of Union of 1707 and 1800. Part of the BBC History website.
A collection of multimedia learning materials focused on the industrial and social history of Leicester in the 20th century - curated by the University of Leicester and released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license . Focused on 4 main themes: Conservation and Urban Reg
Collection of documentary audio and video clips from the BBC Archives. Focused on the second half of the 20th century and organised in 6 main sections: Overview; Rebuilding Britain; End of Empire; Social Change; Windrush; and Jubilee
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) is the largest umbrella body for the voluntary and community sector in England. We give voice and support to civil society.
We provide the content of legislation in XML format using a Legislation Schema that includes both metadata and the content of legislation. The Legislation Schema uses Dublin Core for metadata, XHTML for tables and MathML for formulae.
The gulf between schools educating the well-off and the disadvantaged has never been bigger. And things are only likely to get worse in the coming years (tags: schule erziehung uk)
Iceland won a landmark court case on Monday over its refusal to immediately cover the losses of British and Dutch depositors who lost money in Icesave, a failed Icelandic bank.
On November 19, 1807, British chemist and inventor Humphry Davy reported to the Royal Society about the isolation of potassium and sodium from different salts by electrolysis. Davy was one of the pioneers in the field of electrolysis using the newly invented voltaic pile to split up common compounds and thus prepare many new elements.
Das Kabinettsbüro in London hat Prinzipien für offene Standards für die öffentliche Verwaltung aufgestellt, wonach auch potenziell enthaltene Patente unwiderruflich vergütungsfrei mit zur Verfügung zu stellen sind.
The National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) preserves and provides online access to archived digital datasets and documents from UK central government departments. Our collection spans 40 years of recent history, with the earliest available dataset dating back to about 1963.
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