The paedophile doctor and the GMC (Spotlight video)

Chris Moore investigates why child psychiatrist Dr. Morris Fraser, a convicted paedophile, was not struck off by the General Medical Council. Password: imincorrigible Video © BBC Worldwide Reporter Chris Moore Producer Denise O’Connor Deputy Editor Gwyneth Jones Editor Jeremy Adams …

The Channel programme: helping vulnerable people or nudging them towards radicalisation? (The Conversation) (video)

Stephanie Petrie, University of Liverpool Referrals to the British government’s deradicalisation programme Channel are on the rise, it has been reported. The Channel programme was imposed on all local authorities in England and Wales as part of the 2015 Counter-Terrorism …

Kincora (Part 1): MI5 and the child abuse cover-up (video)

The Kincora Boys’ Home was a children’s home in Belfast, Northern Ireland that was the scene of a notorious child sex abuse scandal. The Belfast News Letter reported that files on Kincora were “conspicuously absent” from the routine January 2013 …

Raising the UK terror threat level from “be afraid” to “panic” feeds public fear and that is what the government wants (video)

Theresa May has raised the UK government‘s official measure of the likelihood of a terrorist attack on British soil to “severe” from “substantial”.  Exactly what are ordinary members of the public supposed to do with that information?  There is nothing meaningful …

Does refusing to pay ransoms to ISIS prevent further terrorism? (video)

The US Treasury Department estimates that various European nations have paid around US$168m in ransom money to jihadist abductors, including Islamic State (IS), since 2008 – an average of US$28m per year.  This number is denied by the German, French, …