Systems and strategy

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[Betty @BettyDoesBangor]

Public outrage at Crown Estate @TheCrownEstate regarding the controversial Marine Gardens car park in Bangor. Now Council has ruled out alternative sites @andrewlownie @RepublicStaff @ANDborough #FreedomOfInformation #MarineGardens #SaveOurGreenSpace

https://t.co/vRZiwXSIOu

[Betty @BettyDoesBangor]

Urgent FoI request to @TheCrownEstate regarding the controversial Marine Gardens car park in Bangor. Now Council has ruled out alternative sites, we urgently need full transparency @ANDborough #FreedomOfInformation #MarineGardens #SaveOurGreenSpace

https://t.co/vRZiwXSIOu

[Betty @BettyDoesBangor]

Ards and North Down Council @ANDborough want 81 space seafront car park at Marine Gardens. Alternative Bangor city centre locations ruled out, developers lying the £72m Queen's Parade project is under threat without it. #Bangor #NorthernIreland @thecrownestate @andrewlownie

[Stanzin @stanzinnangmo]

For decades, Tibet hs been CCP’s testing ground fr high-tech authoritarian control.
Nw China is packaging & exporting this stability maintenance model worldwide through police training & Global Security Initiative, a threat to freedom everywhere
#FreeTibet
https://t.co/gXOVZm1QMC

[Lord (David) Alton @DavidAltonHL]

On Thursday afternoon @UKParliament @UKHouseofLords will debate my Motion on the Government’s response to Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and Atrocity Crimes. @Lord_Collins will respond for the Government. @LordSpeaker @CommonsSpeaker @HumanRightsCtte

[Priti Patel MP @pritipatel]

Shocking, but not surprising, to see how Keir Starmer's friend Peter Mandelson was promoting his business interests across government before becoming US Ambassador. Labour are weak on China and Mandelson has been influencing this position. https://t.co/5o56fJhCzh

[Richard Holmes 🕵🏻‍♂️ @Richard_AHolmes]

BREAK: Foreign Office staff advised Peter Mandelson to mislead vetting officers about his foreign connections in order to obtain the highest level of security.

New documents released by the Cabinet Office reveal extra scrutiny was placed on Mandelson’s connections to foreign nations by vetting officers.

In response to a request for a detailed list of his overseas connections during the process, the then-Head of US Global Issues and Canada Team at the Foreign Office advised Mandelson send a “handful of names” even though he didn’t consider them “close contacts”.

“That will reassure the vetting team that you’ve been comprehensive,” the Foreign Office official told Mandelson, “even if it’s all quite artificial”.

Big questions about how this process was managed under severe time (and political) pressures.

[The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation @thecfhk]

In a timely question as @YvetteCooperMP touches down in #Beijing, @BrendanOHaraMP asks @FCDOGovUK what diplomatic steps she is taking to secure the release of #FreeJimmyLai?

Foreign Office Minister @SeemaMalhotra1's response? A referral to an answer given in April.

#FreeJimmyLai remains behind bars. Parliament is asking legitimate questions. Yet the U.K. government appears unable — or unwilling — to provide an update. If ministers claim to be working tirelessly on freeing the world’s most prominent political prisoner, they should have something more substantive than a recycled answer to show for it.

[Digital Citizens for Human Rights @dc4_humanrights]

China’s new “Ethnic Unity” law is not about unity. It is the legal codification of forced assimilation.

In Tibet, the CCP is intensifying its campaign to erase Tibetan identity through Mandarin only colonial boarding schools, suppression of Tibetan language, demographic engineering, and criminalization of cultural expression. Tibetan children are being separated from their roots from preschool age under state controlled indoctrination.

This law openly prioritizes a Han centric identity over ethnic diversity, turning “unity” into a weapon against Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Mongolians. Parents can now be punished for teaching Tibetan history, religion, or identity outside CCP approved narratives.

Beijing calls this “progress.” The world should call it what it is: cultural eradication under authoritarian rule.

https://t.co/KIBQf1UYgJ

#FreeTibet #Tibet #HumanRights #CCP #China #Tibetan #TibetanLanguage #CulturalGenocide #ColonialBoardingSchools #ReligiousFreedom #Uyghur #Mongolia #StandWithTibet #DalaiLama #SaveTibet

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Palantir will be allowed to bid for contracts to build the NHS's new Single Patient Record, the health secretary James Murray signals

Unison has called for Palantir to be banned from taking part

Murray says that it is a 'very different sitution' to the federated data platform, where Palantir's involvement is currently under review

'The Single Patient Record will be operated in a very different way. There will be contracts with many different providers to de-risk delivery. This is a very different project. It is a very different mechanism of delivery'

[纽约时报中文网 @nytchinese]

研究人员表示，一家中国公司正在开发使用AI审查位置数据和互联网使用情况的产品，以预测哪些人可能成为异见人士。这项似乎还处于研究阶段的工作简直如同出自反乌托邦科幻小说，让我们得以一瞥一个威权国家在公民尚未公开表达异议之前就对其采取行动的世界。https://t.co/kT66cniJxI

[Systems and strategy @sysstra]

@pritipatel Mandelson drew significant criticism, but Starmer ignored vetting warnings about his commercial links to China, including his role as Honorary President of the Great Britain-China Centre (GBCC) and his little pre ambassador gig

[Betty @BettyDoesBangor]

Where did Gary Lightbody go?! #SnowPatrol wipe out ... WtF ??? @snowpatrol @snowpatrolfans #Bangor

[Systems and strategy @sysstra]

@lukedepulford Prior to his formal start date, the FCDO and the Cabinet Office, Starmer etc were explicitly aware that #Mandelson planned to participate in a remunerated private engagement at the UBS Greater China Conference in Shanghai ...

[Systems and strategy @sysstra]

@lukedepulford Prior to his formal start date, the FCDO and the Cabinet Office, Starmer etc were explicitly aware that #Mandelson planned to participate in a remunerated private engagement at the UBS Greater China Conference in Shanghai ...

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

Why would the disclosure of emails between the Speaker of the House of Commons and a foreign power accused of genocide be prejudicial to the conduct of public affairs? It would better facilitate public affairs to know what our public officials are up to in this murky area.

[Systems and strategy @sysstra]

@dailybritainonx Palantir Federated Data Platform Contract
https://t.co/QUlbaFipws

[Systems and strategy @sysstra]

The V&A Museum has confirmed that content in two exhibition catalogues, Fabergé and The Music is Black, was altered following censorship demands from printers in China #censorship

https://t.co/JFi50nXDoj

[Systems and strategy @sysstra]

@NME @V_and_A The V&A Museum has confirmed that content in two exhibition catalogues, Fabergé and The Music is Black, was altered following censorship demands from printers in China.

https://t.co/JFi50nXDoj