Dr Iain Overton
@iainoverton.bsky.social
⚔ 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
📗 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
For The Sun, a news-outlet that is at times more patriotism than it is paper, to run this story shows just how much a problem the British Army has with misogyny.
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
For The Sun, a news-outlet that is at times more patriotism than it is paper, to run this story shows just how much a problem the British Army has with misogyny.
On a daily basis I get an alert from Google News on stories relating to the 'arms trade' and if there is a frog being slow boiled in hot water it is us.
A war is coming, lads. A war is coming.
A war is coming, lads. A war is coming.
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
On a daily basis I get an alert from Google News on stories relating to the 'arms trade' and if there is a frog being slow boiled in hot water it is us.
A war is coming, lads. A war is coming.
A war is coming, lads. A war is coming.
Is this why the UK military sent over 40 military missions to Israel since the Oct 7 attacks, to tell the IDF not to use famine as a weapon of war?
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Is this why the UK military sent over 40 military missions to Israel since the Oct 7 attacks, to tell the IDF not to use famine as a weapon of war?
This is a story that never ends.
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is a story that never ends.
British military made at least 49 defence trips to Israel during Gaza war
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November 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
British military made at least 49 defence trips to Israel during Gaza war
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October 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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If only I had the blind self confidence of a posh British former officer.
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If only I had the blind self confidence of a posh British former officer.
Good on so many levels.
October 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Good on so many levels.
My next protest sign
October 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
My next protest sign
Bloody Sunday trial: admissible at last aoav.org.uk/2025/bloody-...
September 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Bloody Sunday trial: admissible at last aoav.org.uk/2025/bloody-...
More a comment on those staring than being stared at
September 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
More a comment on those staring than being stared at
@aoav.bsky.social stands in solidarity with @savethechildren.org's campaign.
September 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
@aoav.bsky.social stands in solidarity with @savethechildren.org's campaign.
Recognising Palestine is just. But it’s going to raise some awkward questions.
August 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Recognising Palestine is just. But it’s going to raise some awkward questions.
It’s just a wider commentary in response to this. His sentiment is fragile against the extended framing - by the UK gov - of what is and is not “mob” violence. That’s all. No need to get huffy.
July 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It’s just a wider commentary in response to this. His sentiment is fragile against the extended framing - by the UK gov - of what is and is not “mob” violence. That’s all. No need to get huffy.
Because Jack Straw in the debate of the 2000 act said it would not be invoked under destruction of property but cases of 'serious violence'. This has not come to pass. And the government then extended the framing of the act - as attached - to 'moral support' even though the act does not say this.
July 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Because Jack Straw in the debate of the 2000 act said it would not be invoked under destruction of property but cases of 'serious violence'. This has not come to pass. And the government then extended the framing of the act - as attached - to 'moral support' even though the act does not say this.
No - I am referring to the extension here (attached) of 12.1 of the act to 'moral support' - especially given that Jack Straw assured at the time of the 2000 debate of the bill that the act would only involve the threat of 'serious violence' and not the destruction of property.
July 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
No - I am referring to the extension here (attached) of 12.1 of the act to 'moral support' - especially given that Jack Straw assured at the time of the 2000 debate of the bill that the act would only involve the threat of 'serious violence' and not the destruction of property.
I wrote this for Byline Supplement: the critic is no longer an arbiter but content; the algorithm eats first. In the race for engagement, judgement now precedes experience. Welcome to the tyranny of the feed.
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July 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I wrote this for Byline Supplement: the critic is no longer an arbiter but content; the algorithm eats first. In the race for engagement, judgement now precedes experience. Welcome to the tyranny of the feed.
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I have a question.
July 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I have a question.
I saw a group of Colombians baptising some of their brethren in a London river today. It was all luminescence.
July 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I saw a group of Colombians baptising some of their brethren in a London river today. It was all luminescence.
July 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Ukraine’s Iron Generation: a conversation with Tom Mutch on his book ‘The Dogs of Mariupol’
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July 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Ukraine’s Iron Generation: a conversation with Tom Mutch on his book ‘The Dogs of Mariupol’
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