RT MI5 Secret Agent Turns Whistleblower
Interview with Annie Machon: Abby talks to former MI5 agent and Whistleblower, Annie Machon, about the her experience from the inside, the roll of intelligence in global affairs, and the impunity for government crimes.
Margaret Thatcher’s War on Acid House
by Michael Holden | pub. Apr. 9, 2013 | vice.com
First she came for the milk. Then she came for the mines. Then she ran out of things to come for, so she went after the soccer fans and acid house.
It might sound unlikely in an age where there are a pair of TV screens showing Sky Sports in every pub in the UK, but if you wanted to go toe-to-toe with the establishment at the tail end of the Thatcher years, the fast track to getting a beat down from the police was to watch soccer or listen to a series of repetitive records with the intention of dancing.
Today I learned: Phone-hacking whistleblower is now dead (TY reddit)
LONDON (AP) — Police say Sean Hoare, the whistleblower reporter who alleged widespread hacking at the News of the World, has been found dead.
Police said Hoare’s death at his home in England was not considered to be suspicious [oh you don’t say] according to Britain’s Press Association news agency.
Hoare was quoted by The New York Times as saying that phone-hacking was widely used and even encouraged at the News of the World tabloid under then-editor Andy Coulson.
