Dr Iain Overton
@iainoverton
⚔ Investigative journalist and reporting on war - Action on Armed Violence 📗 History of suicide bomber: The Price of Paradise 📘 Global gun harm: Gun Baby Gun ☞ PhD for war-reporting ☞ Write for Byline Times / Declassified / The Guardian
‘They did it for fun’: witness describes alleged prisoner abuse by UK SAS to Afghanistan Inquiry aoav.org.uk/2026/they-di...
The headline is as below. The article "The MoD...insisted no breaches or cyber incidents had occurred and all cyber systems remained protected." Is this journalism or click bait?
I have been called a 'conspiracy theorist' for writing about the military-industrial complex in the UK but here, yesterday, was Wes Streeting talking about this government's relationship with defence and industry. It's military. It's industrial. And it's a complex.
The Military-Industrial complex: why this is of importance to Action on Armed Violence and what it has to do with the erosion of civilian protection aoav.org.uk/2026/the-mil...
In 'fear for public safety' a man was gunned down by an ICE officer. And then they have the temerity to blithely say that 'he passed away from his injuries'. As opposed to 'An ICE officer shot and killed him.'
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Map Shows States Where Right-to-Carry Law Would Have Biggest Impact www.newsweek.com/map-shows-st...
Worth reminding ourselves of the difference in the Daily Mail reporting on Boris in No 10 after May left and the Daily Mail's reporting today on Burnham.
I hope he brings a form of humanistic Catholicism with him. archive.ph/vxMrk#select...
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Ian Cowie here telling you how to make money from the road to war. The military-industrial complex has no moral compass but profit.
Join Us: Investigating the Military-Technological Complex at SOAS - SOAS, University of London - Saturday, July 11 - 10 AM - 4 PM centreforhumanrightsreporting.com/join-us-inve...
NEW: @aoav.bsky.social examines how Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, has supplied weapons reportedly used in Gaza, and explores growing legal scrutiny over alleged violations of international humanitarian law.
Imagine if people were allowed to sue Twitter for any libel stated on that channel - even by anonymous accounts.
Perhaps this might mean cutting back on overseas presence in Kenya, Brunei, Borneo, Belize, Oman, Cyprus and all of the Uk’s post imperial legacy stations. Is this a bad thing?
I am not sure that Baron Moore really knows what persecuted means. Perhaps he might consider his own title before he puts pen to paper.