An Australian Police Officer in Melbourne speaks out ! - The 'ANZAC Digger' spirit lives on !
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UK's Johnson invites Bill Gates, JPMorgan's Dimon, others to dinner -The Telegraph
Oct 15 (Reuters) - UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host a dinner with world business leaders, including Bill Gates and JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, The Telegraph reported on Friday.
Around 20 executives are expected to attend the dinner in a bid to establish "Global Britain," on Oct. 18 at 10 Downing Street, the report added.
UK's Johnson invites Bill Gates, JPMorgan's Dimon, others to dinner -The Telegraph | Reuters
Dennis Hutchings: Tributes as ex-soldier dies of Covid during trial over John Pat Cunningham shooting
Veteran passed away hours after court case was halted
Tributes have been paid to a Troubles veteran who died in Belfast from Covid-19 on Monday night hours after his trial for a fatal shooting in 1974 was halted.
Dennis Hutchings passed away hours after his non-jury trial for attempting to murder John Pat Cunningham (27) in Benburb, Co Tyrone was paused.
Mr Cunningham was shot in the back as he ran from an Army patrol in a field.
The 80-year-old’s trial had been adjourned for three weeks after the defendant contracted coronavirus.
Mr Hutchings, who denied all charges, had been suffering from kidney disease and the trial had been sitting only three days a week to enable him to undergo dialysis treatment between hearings. It’s understood he also suffered from heart failure and fluid on the lung.
His death is likely to reignite the heated debate over ending the prosecution of Troubles veterans that has been raging for years. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had vowed to end them, but as his Government’s plans would also mean an end to the prosecution of paramilitaries, others had opposed the effective ‘Troubles amnesty’ for equating soldiers with terrorists.
NI Veterans Commissioner Danny Kinahan said it had been “incredibly sad to learn of the passing of veteran Dennis Hutchings”.
“I got to know Dennis over recent years. An elderly man, in poor health, he was determined to clear his name once and for all,” he said.
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP said the death was “desperately sad news”.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the Hutchings family,” he said.
“We have said all along that Dennis should never have been brought to trial again, not least because of his health but also a lack of compelling new evidence.
“There are serious questions to answer here.”
Fellow DUP MP Carla Lockhart had attended the trial to support Mr Hutchings.
“Such sad news that he never got to live out his last days in peace. Awful,” she tweeted.
“Spent last months of his life being hounded by a political show trial. My thoughts are with his family, friends and his loyal friend (Conservative MP and former veterans minister) Johnny Mercer.”
TUV leader Jim Allister has said that the court case “has had a very sad end with the passing of Mr Hutchings”.
“The strain on this man was cruel, with him requiring regular dialysis, while being brought to Belfast to face a trial of dubious provenance,” Mr Allister said in a statement.
“My thoughts and prayers tonight are with his family and friends who may understandably feel that what he was put through contributed to his decline.”
Mr Hutchings’ defence barrister James Lewis QC had yesterday informed Belfast Crown Court his client had Covid as proceedings in the non-jury trial were due to commence on Monday.
He told judge Mr Justice O’Hara that Hutchings’ condition had been confirmed by a PCR test on Saturday.
“I regret Mr Hutchings is not well with regard as one would expect with his other comorbidities of renal failure and cardiac malfunction,” he said.
“And we are unable to presently take instructions as he is currently in isolation in his hotel room.”
Mr Lewis applied for an adjournment which was not opposed by the Crown barrister.
Mr Justice O’Hara said: “Things have obviously deteriorated over the weekend with his positive test for Covid. It is simply not possible to continue the trial in his absence.”
The former member of the Life Guards regiment from Cawsand in Cornwall also denies a count of attempted grievous bodily harm with intent.
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Chanie Rosenberg obituary - Trotskyist Socialist Workers party.
My friend Chanie Rosenberg, who has died aged 99, was a remarkable and inspiring revolutionary socialist, active in Britain for more than seven decades after arriving in 1947 with her partner, Tony Cliff. She was one of the last surviving members of the Revolutionary Communist party (1944-49), and then in 1950 helped found and build what became the Socialist Workers party.
Chanie was born to a middle-class Lithuanian Jewish family in Cape Town, South Africa (one relative was the poet and artist Isaac Rosenberg). The anti-black racism disgusted her as did antisemitism amid the rise of fascism in Europe.
Initially drawn to leftwing Zionism as an antidote, she studied Hebrew at Cape Town University, following schooling at the Good Hope Seminary, and in 1944 moved to Palestine to live on a kibbutz, where she witnessed anti-Arab racism.
Chanie defied rightwing stereotypes of Marxists as dour and humourless. She worked as a maths teacher, in primary schools in Islington and Hackney, and then for 12 years at the John Howard school (now Clapton girls’ academy), and was secretary of Hackney National Union of Teachers. As the principal breadwinner, Chanie combined family life, trade union activity, writing, art, sculpture, music, swimming and political activism, with a verve few could match.In Palestine she met and in 1945 married Ygael Gluckstein, a Palestinian Jewish Trotskyist, better known under his pseudonym Tony Cliff. She joined the tiny Trotskyist movement herself and, after the couple moved to London, was a courageous and determined activist in the Socialist Review Group (where her brother Michael Kidron also played a leading role), later the SWP.
She remained politically active her entire life, from the Aldermaston marches against the bomb in the 1950s to the Stop the War coalition in the 2000s; from confronting Oswald Mosley’s fascists in Ridley Road market in the 40s to the mass Anti-Nazi League protests against the National Front in the 70s.
I remember travelling to Burnley with Chanie (aged 80) in 2002 for an ANL protest against the BNP. While some of us were anxious, she was utterly fearless. Tear gas, water cannon, fascists and riot police posed no obstacle for the indefatigable Chanie, who travelled to Prague in 2000 and Genoa in 2001 as part of the huge anti-capitalist mobilisations.
Throughout she was cheerful, warm and supremely optimistic about struggles for a better society.
Tony died in 2000. Chanie is survived by her four children, Elana, Donny, Danny and Anna, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/07/chanie-rosenberg-obituary
UUP’s Doug Beattie: Why I wouldn’t have posed with Hutchings
Doug Beattie has said he wouldn’t have posed for photographs with the ex-soldier facing charges related to the fatal shooting of a vulnerable young man in Co Tyrone in 1974.
DUP MP Carla Lockhart, and Tory MP and ex-Army captain Johnny Mercer, were pictured outside Belfast Crown Court with Dennis Hutchings as his trial began for the attempted murder of 27-year-old John Pat Cunningham who had “the mind of a child”.
Saturday, October 02, 2021
Heading to Belfast tomorrow with Dennis - he is dying, and would have been travelling alone. I’ve realised whatever Prime Ministers and Cabinet Ministers say for the crowds, no-one really gives a shit. Read his experiences, and you’ll understand why.
An old soldier, Dennis Hutchings, being prosecuted in Northern Ireland for an incident almost 50 years ago. When he has been found innocent of any wrongdoing, on THREE occasions in the past. All to placate Sinn Fein/IRA.
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