Journalist Craig Murray sentenced to eight months imprisonment
Journalist and blogger, Craig Murray, has been sentenced to eight months in prison for contempt of court in a vindictive ruling with chilling implications for press freedom and democratic rights.
Murray was found guilty in March this year for his reporting on the 2020 trial of former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond. Murray, a former British diplomat, was found to have published articles which supposedly seriously impeded or prejudiced Salmond s trial by breaching contempt of court legislation preventing the publication of the names and identity and any information likely to disclose the identity of the complainers against Salmond.
Independence in the UK is heading for a constitutional crisis
Last week’s UK local and national election results revealed a country that was radically, and perhaps irreparably, divided.
Labor retained power in Wales; Boris Johnson’s Conservatives achieved tremendous victories throughout England; and in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish National Independentist Party (SNP), won a fourth term in office.
Including the Scottish Greens, the separatists are once again promising the majority of seats in Holyrood, a national legislature left by Scotland in Edinburgh. Both parties – the SNP and the Greens – support a new referendum on Britain’s break-up.
According to former Scottish Prime Minister Sturgeon, it will happen at some point in the next five years – it is a matter of “when not” he told Johnson, who is opposed to the poll, while Johnson is being called. weekend.
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On Wednesday, May 5th the Biden Administration blocked the Trump-Era Rule that would have made it easier to classify gig workers who work for companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash as independent contractors instead of employees. What is a gig worker you may ask? A gig worker is someone who works a temporary job in the service sector as a freelancer. Gig workers have the freedom to set their hours, work from home, and be their own bosses, consistent with what typically was understood to be the classic independent contractor model.
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