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Man fathered by police spy wins payout: Scotland Yard agrees substantial compensation over undercover officer who had an affair with animal rights activist he was monitoring in the 1980s Bob Lambert posed as a radical to infiltrate animal rights groups in the 1980s He began a long-term relationship with ‘Jacqui’ and fathered a son known … Read more
Rebel has added actors Kevin Zegers and Sam Palladio to its cast, as the actors will join Katey Sagal on the TV show based on famed legal activist Erin Brockovich. The castings come as ABC has issued a straight-to-series order for Rebel, based on the legal advocacy career of Erin Brockovich, who was portrayed by … Read more
A pimp turned activist who once vowed to ‘go to war’ with Seattle is being paid $150,000 by the city to work as a ‘street czar’ and come up with ‘alternatives to policing’ because he said he can talk to ‘gang members, pimps and prostitutes who won’t sit down with anybody else’. Andrè Taylor, who … Read more
Actress and ‘Defund the police’ activist Alyssa Milano was quick to call cops when she believed an armed gunman was on her Bell Canyon property on Sunday morning. The 47-year-old lives in an 8,000 square foot, $2.5 million home in the upscale gated community that sits just 20 minutes north of Los Angeles The call … Read more
A community activist who campaigned for racial justice has outed herself as a race faker after posing as a black person for years despite being white. Satchuel Cole, born Jennifer Lynn Benton, admitted in a Facebook post to having ‘taken up space as a Black person while knowing I am white’. The activist, from Indianapolis, was … Read more
Iranian anti-hijab activist ‘faces execution or torture’: Protester is arrested in Turkey, raising fears she will be deported to Tehran Maryam Shariatmadari was arrested in Iran in 2018 for protesting without a hijab She was sentenced to a year in jail, but fled to Turkey where she claimed asylum Maryam was arrested in Turkey on … Read more
A British democracy activist has been captured by the Chinese after trying to make a dramatic seaborne escape from Hong Kong to Taiwan. Andy Li, 30, who has worked with former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith and other politicians on pro-democracy campaigns, was intercepted in international waters, along with 11 other activists, as they tried … Read more
Eamonn Holmes and Nigel Farage clashed with activist Femi Oluwole who claimed most people ‘don’t really care’ about whether Rule Britannia or The Proms are sung at the Proms. The trio appeared on ITV’s This Morning to discuss the controversy about whether patriotic songs like Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory should be … Read more
Activist calls for break-up of estate agent Countrywide accusing bosses of mismanagement By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 19 August 2020 Estate agent Countrywide is under attack from one of its largest shareholders who has accused bosses of mismanaging the company and losing the … Read more
A Conservative campaigner who said she had left the party because she was being bullied and was later found dead at the foot of cliffs took her own life, an inquest has ruled. Jade Smith, 21, became well-known after featuring on BBC’s Mighty Redcar programme, campaigning for the Conservative party and talking about her ‘I … Read more