Allison Roche

Britain is increasingly handing taxpayers' money to US firms, namely BCG and Palantir, who have been directly involved in war crimes and genocide. BCG's staff put a price on removing Palestinians from their own homeland: $9,000 a head, for 500,000 people in Gaza. Their model worked out that every Palestinian who was forcibly expelled would be $23,000 cheaper than one who stayed. That firm is now working on Andy Burnham's 10-year plan. In that model, a Palestinian staying in their own home, on their own land, is a cost to be cut, and a Palestinian gone for good is a saving. It assumed three in four of those who left were "unlikely ever to return". Paying people to leave a land Israel had bombed to rubble and starved is called ethnic cleansing. And BCG's staff costed it. BCG in Gaza: - BCG put its own money into setting up the GHF. Its letter to MPs calls it "a pro bono project supported by BCG funding". - Safe Reach Solutions, the firm that ran the GHF's sites, signed a contract with BCG worth over $1m for eight weeks' work, the Financial Times reported. Its founder had been a BCG senior adviser for eight years. - A BCG team did the financial modelling for the GREAT Trust, a post-war plan circulating in Trump's administration that offered every Palestinian $5,000 to leave and set out a "Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands". - By 31 July 2025 the UN had counted 859 Palestinians killed at and around the GHF's sites, most of them by the IOF, but also by BCG-hired mercenaries. - BCG blames two partners it has fired. It told MPs it will not publish the findings of its own investigation. Now in Britain, where BCG has been paid more than £30m: - More than £20m under Conservative governments for Brexit planning and the Cop26 summit. - About £10m for 40 consultants for four months on Covid Test and Trace, at up to £6,250 a day. - Almost £2m under Keir Starmer for at least two months evaluating HS2. - Hundreds of pounds an hour in Greater Manchester while Burnham was mayor. - Burnham's 10-year plan: not disclosed. Labour promised to halve spending on consultants and save £1.2bn by 2026. Burnham's government repeated that promise in the same statement that defended bringing in BCG, and has not said what BCG is being paid or how it was chosen. Starmer had Palantir. Burnham has BCG. A firm whose staff priced the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland at $9,000 a head should not get a penny of British public money, let alone help write Britain's next ten years. Our full investigation, with BCG's own letter and every source: newscord.org/editorials/burn…

It’s hard to grasp the BBC’s systematic attempt to launder Israeli propaganda until you see the sheer scale of it. Here's a compilation of them doing it at 2x speed. The latest was on Newsnight on 4 November. When Bernie Sanders called Israel’s government extremist, Victoria Derbyshire answered for it: “And the Israeli government would deny that they are extremists.” As this video shows, BBC presenters repeatedly do this as guests describe Israel’s crimes: “Israel would say.” “Israel would deny.” “They would reject that.” We counted 70 of these denials and justifications in 52 aired interviews. The BBC calls this impartiality. But in not one of those 52 did a presenter raise any of these words from Israel’s own leaders: - “We are fighting human animals.” Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023 - “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” Isaac Herzog, 12 October 2023 - “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Israel Katz, 13 October 2023 - “Remember what Amalek did to you.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 3 November 2023 - Starving two million people in Gaza until the hostages came back might be “justified and moral”. Bezalel Smotrich, 5 August 2024 On 10 October 2023, Tahani Mustafa told the BBC that Israeli forces were not distinguishing civilians from fighters. The presenter replied: “They would reject that.” Mustafa then had to bring up Gallant’s “human animals” herself. The BBC supplied the denial. The guest had to supply Israel’s own words. That is cherry-picking. The Royal Charter requires the BBC to be impartial, and the public pays for it through the licence fee. In these interviews, it handed its audience Israel’s denials and left out its leaders’ own words, during a genocide streamed live to the world. We have archived the BBC’s coverage for three years, and we are now counting all of it: 50,000 video clips and many more written excerpts. We are calling this first part: "BBC: The Would Say Files". Handing Israel its denials is only one of the ways the BBC launders Israeli propaganda, so we will count every other technique too. Over the next few weeks, we will announce each milestone as we complete the report. These are the first results, with every clip, quote and source: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…