WideShut UK

10/01/2024

Computer Misuse Act and Investigatory Powers Act: The Worrying Landscape of Cybersecurity and Privacy:
..one of the big ironies in this milieu is that a government that drags its feet on modern legislation has law enforcement themselves breaching computer systems, and allows innocent Post Office workers to be jailed because of glitchy software, itself has no qualms about invading the privacy of the average citizen under the Investigatory Powers Act...

As police are convicted under the Computer Misuse Act, experts believe the law is outdated, while the UK government attempts to extend mass surveillance.

20/07/2022

Amazon Prime are working on a doc about the News of the World's Fake Sheikh. I spoke with one of his victims and all round hilarious TV prankster Jonathan Royle some time back:

I talk to Alex Smith (aka professional hypnotist Jonathan Royle), about growing up in the circus, how he trolled the media in the 90s by appearing time after...

06/03/2022

Why RT America shut down and the censorship environment as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Lee and Rania both make the case for why this was a result of censorship.

RT America journalists (along with other foreign journalists) were forced in 2019 to register as "foreign agents" while working in the United States.

https://youtu.be/104ZygfOHZg

Our guest on this latest episode of the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast is comedian Lee Camp, who hosted "Redacted Tonight" on RT America for eight years u...

28/02/2022

Current issues aside, this is still an important story:

Shocking UK Ministry of Defence report advocates human augmentation for warfighting purposes

18/02/2022

Two good primer podcasts I did with Pearse Redmond regarding the Manchester Bombing back in 2017. In light of the recent inquiry, there is still some evergreen content here regarding the British state and Nato's ties to Libyan extremists, the Abedis, and prior surveillance of bomber Salman Abedi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnqPB7Zvczg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaPjEEGxcS4

Keelan Balderson of WideShut.co.uk joins me again to discuss the latest developments in the Manchester Bombing case. We begin by briefly discussing how the b...

17/02/2022

The death of the notorious s*x offender led to a wave of questionable narratives

17/02/2022

The declassified papers on notorious pe*****le case shed light on more suspicious details

20/01/2022

The first in a collaborative effort as part of RT's new investigative unit 'The Detail' ... what new documents reveal about Epstein's original alleged su***de attempt and does this shed light on his final outcome?

By Kit Klarenberg, an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. Follow him on Twitter 

08/07/2021

Peter R. de Vries is said to be fighting for his life in hospital. The 64-year-old has long been the subject of threats from underworld organised crime figures.

07/07/2021

16 years since the 7/7 , 16 years of confusion and misleading narratives.

Yearly plug of my attempt to unravel some of this:
https://t.co/0M2NLxrK2K

Playlist of podcasts for a deeper dive:
https://t.co/IXHCNXCtBJ

25/06/2021

Sadly it's that time of year again, RIP Daniel and Nancy...

20/02/2021

High court rules that failure to publish details of contracts within 30 days was transparency breach

19/02/2021

Soooo like 10 years ago I allegedly conducted hate speech against Charlie Veitch by criticising his appearance on BBC; the video has been private for years ... Ohhh kayyy YouTube, you do you 😂

03/12/2020

Feel like the news media and their experts need to do a better job of explaining the science; the how's and whys. There's a lot of trust us and take this vaccine but not a lot of "here's what's in it, here's how it works, here's what the 'some side effects' are".

People don't like being told what to do by an establishment they already don't trust.

Example, hidden in the gov docs is the vague phrasing that they don't know if immune compromised people will react well to the vaccine, yet they're high on the list to get it. So won't it work or will it harm, or both, or don't you know?

Care to elaborate?

I believe the experts and the science, but I'm not an expert or a scientist ... So, you know, explain it. Ignorance doesn't mean stupid.

'Educate and inform'

The public is being let down by dumbed down info, soundbites, and often scary animated graphics of vrisuses for some reason?

It's definitely not a yoghurt though...

16/11/2020

Some great positivity from old WideShut friend Imani Hekima with his new single: Cometh The Hour. Give it a listen:

Written by Imani Hekima. Available from iTunes, Amazon & Spotify on 16 November 2020, though due to these companies furloughing, there MIGHT be a delay. All ...

09/11/2020

Nothing new:

The dramatic controversy surrounding the 2000 presidential election led to sweeping voting reforms, but opened the door to a new set of problems that continu...

02/11/2020

If you had beef with 5G, say hello to SpaceG...

People in SpaceX's Starlink beta are uploading screenshots of their speed tests — and some are getting speeds faster than 95% of US connections.

16/10/2020

Check it out... old friend of WideShut Imani has a new single on the way and if it's like his other stuff, it's bound to have something to say about the current situation we're all in:

Welcome to my page. My new single 'Cometh the Hour' will be available on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon on Monday 16 November. Stay tuned.
Photo by Riaz Ahmed at Studio68 Photography, promo artwork by James Bacon at Piano Recording.

06/09/2020

You've gotta laugh

Another 9/11-style attack may be just around the corner if Joe Biden is elected president, warns Noor bin Ladin, the niece of Sept. 11 terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. “ISIS proliferated un…

16/08/2020

My online confusion with politics...

GW Bush ... The left and a good portion of the right hated the neocon war criminal. Yay!

Obama ... Some of the left got conned, but he continued the war criminal antics and became a Wall Street lacky and it all still made sense, and people still go it.

Trump ... Big chunks of the right and left have gone certifiably insane, everyone is stuck back in a weird version of the left/right paradigm 'n***s' Vs 'antifa', and the elites are winning.

What happened? We should be back somewhere in the Bush era unity. Instead the same people that hated Bush love Trump and the left has gone all wacky and confusing.

14/07/2020

What a shame...

08/07/2020

So I won a student journalism award named after someone who also happened to survive 7/7 ... The universe is a strange place

03/07/2020

Believing Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey didn't get a fair trial is one thing, but believing they are innocent is a leap I'm not willing to take just yet. These are my thoughts on the popular Netflix true-crime series 'Making A Murderer' and the guilty / not guilty debate.

02/07/2020

I think she will worm out of it somehow...

She faces charges including conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal s*x acts.

27/06/2020

Strange Bedfellows: Islamic Terrorists and The West (2013 documentary concept)

The first chapter of an unfinished documentary concept exploring the west's covert relationship with Islamic terrorists before and during the so-called 'war on terror'.

22/06/2020

13 years since the Benoit tragedy and still so many fans unwilling to believe or whom think Chris should be in the HOF. I say induct Nancy, she was a superb manager/valet...

Documentary exploring the Benoit tragedy, his possible brain damage, the media's coverage of roid rage, and online conspiracy theories.

17/06/2020

Jonathan Royle touched on the Daniel Morgan murder and Southern Investigations during our podcast ... this new Channel 4 docu-series is well worth a watch

A crime story spanning London's seedy underworld to the heart of the British establishment

13/06/2020

The right wing, in full WWII protect the name of our hero Churchill mode, were doing N**i salutes? Are they absolute morons and literally don't know any better? Are they sick in the head and winding people up after too much stella? Were they calling the police N**is? Was it a weird tiny minority of actual N**is? Was it an unknown third party pretending to be N**is and agitating for unknown reasons? Is the left and some elements of the media misrepresenting 'football' blokes raising their arms as they sometimes do? Orrr was Churchill essentially a far right racist 'N**i' that just happened to defeat another worse N**i, and these men are still N**is? Is the word N**i unhelpful in the current context? To what degree can all of this be true at once? Tune in next week for more 'there is no objective reality' to watch society crumble further!

07/06/2020

Now imagine if you resigned because of those orders...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/buffalo-police-department-old-man-push-protests-video-a9551941.html

'They were simply doing their job. I don't know how much contact was made'

05/06/2020

Yesterday's show up in MP3 and YouTube: From stitching up singer Tulisa to staging a kidnapping threat on the Beckhams, the ‘fake sheikh’ Mazher Mahmood ruined dozens of lives while working as an undercover journalist in the Murdoch empire.

Today WideShut UK talks to one of his victims, Alex Smith (aka stage hypnotist Jonathan Royle). He discusses growing up in the circus, trolling the media in the 90s by appearing multiple times on daytime TV during the ‘fake guest scandal’, and how his penchant for exploiting the press brought him face to face with the Fake Sheikh. This is the story of what happened when the fake sheikh met the fake guest, with the fake coins.

https://wideshut.co.uk/the-fake-sheikh-jonathan-royle/

Hypnotist Jonathan Royle discusses growing up in the circus, trolling the media in the 90s, and going head to head with disgraced undercover journalist Mazher Mahmood, the Fake Sheikh.