If @andyburnham.bsky.social really wants to be honest with the public about 'defence' spending as he says in today's @thetimes.com, he needs to be clear that it *costs* not *creates* jobs 👇

If @andyburnham.bsky.social really wants to be honest with public about 'defence' spending as he says in today's @thetimes.com, he needs to be clear the it does not create jobs 👇

The situation is terrible’: aid workers on life in Sudanese city pummelled by drone strikes @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

🚨 NEW: Our new analysis has found that the funding settlement issued with the Defence Investment Plan will lead to a net loss in jobs in the UK. 📑 Buying the Dip: The Defence Investment Plan Will Produce Domestic Unemployment Our key findings 🧵👇

"Development, diplomacy, peacebuilding, conflict and atrocity prevention are all essential and underfunded tools in building a safer world." An open letter to the PM on the UK's military spending https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/diverse-coalition-urges-pm-to-rethink-military-spending

For those who missed last night's launch of our new report 'Waste of Space' investigating the #environmentalharm of new military and civil #space race, here's the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipbu...

How the takeover of Goonhilly Satellite Station in Cornwall helps US military dominate the heavens spacewatch.uk/goonhilly-ta...

Join us online tonight at 7pm for the launch of our new report investigating environmental harm from new military and civil space race. Tickets 👇

On the day Starmer announcing £5bn spending on #drones, we're joining the regular protest outside the #Elbit factory in Shenstone. #NotoDroneWarfare #FREEPALESTİNE

Funding for new biological warfare lab at Porton Down revealed as part of Defence Investment www.gov.uk/government/n...

Lucky DIP for some - Drone companies await spending bonanza - our thoughts ahead of publication: dronewars.net/2025/11/18/l...

Keir Starmer to unveil defence plan with £5bn for drones ft.trib.al/t5nMEM7

DIP has become the Drones Investment Plan says @thetimes.com

Do join us online on Wed 1st July for launch of this important new resource on environmental harm of new #space race. Tickets 👇

Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB-2 Breaks Hiatus and Destroys Russian Boats in the Black Sea The Ukrainian TB-2 drone resurfaced once again after being nearly absent from the battlefield, striking what is believed to be Unmanned Surface Vessels. Story: theaviationist.com/2026/06/25/u...

Using #AI to plan a war - what could possibly go wrong?

AI cut the UK's war planning cycle from 72 hours to just one, British Army's top general says - @businessinsider.com #ASGARD www.businessinsider.com/british-army...

Join us next Wednesday (1st July) as we launch our new report investigating the environmental harm of the new military and civil race for #space www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waste-of-s...

@cfi-cambridge.bsky.social @amygaeta.bsky.social Ha! Look what's just emerged from back of our cupboard in time for this week's conference!

Motorway traffic drones are coming to UK roads, but will they drive us to distraction?

Yikes. Pentagon awards contracts to *both* companies who were competing for USAF's new AI-enabled #drones called 'Collaborative Combat Aircraft'. Anduril's FQ-44 Fury and General Atomics' FQ-42 Dark Merlin will be first of at least 1,000 CCA drones to be bought for USAF www.af.mil/News/Article...

Put simply, long-range OWA drones are enabling belligerents to conduct punishment attacks on civilian populations. As these systems spread, we will see more civilians impacted. 'Ukraine hit Moscow with nearly 200 drones in its largest-ever attack on the city' giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

New report by @privacyinternational.org & @paxforpeace.nl out today: 'When algorithms go to war Tech giants, the arms industry and the weaponisation of AI paxforpeace.nl/publications...

Nice recommendation from Jonathan Porritt for our forthcoming report *Waste of Space* looking at the environmental harm of increasing civil and military activity in space. Book your ticket for online launch webinar here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waste-of-s...

Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes?

An important online webinar coming up on 1st July @cnduk.bsky.social @peace-campaigns.quaker.org.uk @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @dougparr.bsky.social

Seriously concerning in this context: "To enable rapid development, the taskforce has exemptions from standard financial and procedural controls." @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social

UK MoD announces Rapid AI Delivery taskforce (Taskforce RAID) to accelerate the delivery of the AI capabilities to Armed Forces. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Defence Investment Plan still not agreed but MoD going ahead with announcement of multibillion pound funding for new #drones at UK's new drone war hub in Swindon on Friday according to @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/41bd...

Drones, drones, drones... Drones are changing the battlefield forever - find out how and why in the latest article on The Broken Rifle blog, from Dutch organisation Stop Wapenhandel: wri-irg.org/en/story/202...

Ahead of the (alleged) publication of the Defence Investment Plan this week, what #drone and military #AI projects are likely to be funded? Here's details of MoD's current drone (dronewars.net/overview-uk-...) and AI development programmes dronewars.net/uk-military-...

No Military Drone Hub in #Swindon. Ahead of the opening of the MoD's new drone test facility in Swindon join us to learn more about the danger of deadly #drones caat.org.uk/events/no-dr... @caatuk.bsky.social

Universities are playing a government and public-funded role in de-risking military R&D while engineering graduates working on renewables are funnelled into the arms industry. As Khem Rogaly argues, our education system and economy are being quietly militarised. 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOup...

The idea that the UK must push ahead with AI weapons suggests that it’s not robots that need to learn ethical judgment, but those advocating for the military to use AI in this way.

New MoD #FoI release: Long delays, cost overruns and as yet unable to carry munitions, the Protector drone shows the UK is as bad at military procurement as ever. High time to do something else! dronewars.net/2026/06/03/p...

For more on Palantir and UK military programmes see our recent briefing: dronewars.net/2026/05/19/k...

Palantir ‘helps Britain decide how to fight future wars’ - The Times www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

With Friday strike, over 200 people killed by US military in alleged drug boat strikes. Overwhelming consensus of experts, myself included, assess these to be murder because no armed conflict (and war crime if it were armed conflict). 200 killed also raises serious question: crime against humanity

The new arms race in computing power - @financialtimes.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

And in 2013 Jeff Bezos said drones would be delivering pizzas within 2 years. Tech bros, always overpromising, forever under delivering.

Killing By Code: New Briefing and Dataset on UK Military AI Programmes - Latest on Drone Wars UK dronewars.net/2026/05/19/k... @caatuk.bsky.social @peace-campaigns.quaker.org.uk

Killing By Code: New Briefing and Dataset on UK Military AI Programmes - Latest on Drone Wars UK dronewars.net/2026/05/19/k... @caatuk.bsky.social @peace-campaigns.quaker.org.uk

Mali drone strikes kill at least 10 civilians at wedding - @ajenglish.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

Pope Leo to issue text on human dignity and AI with Anthropic co-founder - @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

We're participating in this webinar tonight at 8pm UK time - join us to discuss drone warfare in Sudan and Palestine

MoD has no system to detect civilian harm caused by military, study shows @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Khartoum drone strike kills five in Sudan, NGO reports | Sudan war News | Al Jazeera aje.news/9pu9ur via @aljazeera.com

Well worth reading: ""Local populations are abandoned to suffer in an indefinite state of violent limbo while conflict parties sit back and allow machines to wage war on the cheap for years at a time, never feeling the need to take peace negotiations seriously."

Sabotage from Afar: How Undeclared Drone Armies Prolong War and Derail Peace - Small Wars Journal smallwarsjournal.com/2026/04/30/s...

US heavy bombers are still in Britain, poised to once again attack Iran. Join @cnduk.bsky.social, @stwc.bsky.social and Fairford Action at RAF Fairford next Saturday (April 25) to demand that Keir Starmer shuts down the bases and sends the bombers home!