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As the latest hearings of the Uninquisitive Publicity Campaign for Secret Policing (@ucpinquiry) get underway, a reminder that it wasn’t just #spycops targeting activists and campaigners. Police employed informers - including this paedophile:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists
Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
As the latest hearings of the Uninquisitive Publicity Campaign for Secret Policing (@ucpinquiry) get underway, a reminder that it wasn’t just #spycops targeting activists and campaigners. Police employed informers - including this paedophile:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The struggle against fascist ideas continues: solidarity with everyone out on the streets today opposing far right marchers.
#OnThisDay in London anti-fascist history, 1992: nazi skinheads meeting at Waterloo Station for a Blood & Honour gig get a pasting from Anti-Fascist Action and friends
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Today in London anti-fascist history, 1992: nazi skins meeting for Blood & Honour gig get a pasting from Anti-Fascist Action
Blood and Honour was a national socialist (Nazi) music organisation run by Ian Stuart Donaldson of the band Skrewdriver ((since, happily, deceased in a car crash). It developed out of the National …
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September 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The struggle against fascist ideas continues: solidarity with everyone out on the streets today opposing far right marchers.
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#OnThisDay in festive history, 1817: Panicked by rumours that a radical insurrection is planned to start at Bartholomew Fair, soldiers & the Lord Mayor search for weapons among the 'oyster-tubs, sausage-stalls, & gingerbread baskets'.
A short history of Bartholomew Fair:
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A short history of Bartholomew Fair:
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Today in London’s festive history: the eve of St, Bartholomew, traditional date for the opening of Bartholomew Fair
Bartholomew Fair, was the most prominent and infamous London fair for centuries; and one of the most important in the country. Over the centuries it became a teeming, riotous, outpouring of popular…
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September 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
#OnThisDay in festive history, 1817: Panicked by rumours that a radical insurrection is planned to start at Bartholomew Fair, soldiers & the Lord Mayor search for weapons among the 'oyster-tubs, sausage-stalls, & gingerbread baskets'.
A short history of Bartholomew Fair:
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A short history of Bartholomew Fair:
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#OnThisDay in festive history: St Clements Day, celebrated with singing and begging for beer.
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Today in festive history: St Clements Day, celebrated with singing and begging for beer.
On the 23rd of November, the old Feast of St. Clement used to be celebrated, long associated with an ancient custom of going about that night to beg drink to make merry with. Pope Clement I is the …
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November 23, 2024 at 9:53 AM
#OnThisDay in festive history: St Clements Day, celebrated with singing and begging for beer.
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