REVEALED: How shadowy unit of government 'thought police' set up by ex-MI6 agent is trying to keep a lid on Britain's simmering racial tensions

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While the streets of Belfast were ablaze with anti-immigration protests last week, behind the scenes a group ofspies, spinners and soldiers were deploying the 'dark arts' to try to defuse tensions.

Thename of the secretive Government propaganda unittrying to manipulate events makes it sound like an innocuous back-office operation –the Research, Information and Communications Unit, or RICU.. But the dull moniker is part of thedeliberate camouflageof an outfit whichuses deceptionand skulduggery totry to manage the 'challenges' of multiculturalism.

Its techniques range from planting stories in the media, using undercover operatives to lay flowers at the scene of terrorist attacks and even,in one case, sending a pop group tosing anti-extremist songs in Muslim schools.

The22-strong unit= was established in 2007 by the late Charles Farr, a former MI6 officer, as part of thePrevent counter-terrorism strategy.

Modelled on the “Information Research Department”(IRD), apropaganda unit establishedby the Attlee governmentin 1948to blacken the name of communists andother political opponents,RICU operates out of the Home Office'sWestminster headquarters.

While itsoriginal purposewas to monitor andchallenge the spreadof Al Qaeda propaganda and to vet the language used by public officials when describing terrorism,its tentacles-now stretch far across Whitehall– tothe extent that critics say it risks strangling free speech.

When the mobs took to the streets of Northern Ireland last week following the stabbing of Stephen Ogilvie, allegedly by Hadi Alodid, a30-year-old Sudanese asylum-seeker, RICU swung into actionto advise the police in the provinceon how to 'control the narrative'.

A source said: 'They are working with the PoliceService of Northern Ireland'sC3 intelligence unittoidentify those posting the online 'calls to protest' in Belfast and other areas, as well asgiving strategic messagesto the police to ensure that theprotesters were portrayed as unsympathetic thugs, rather than activists, and effecting behavioural change.'

The source said thatthe unit had also been advising the policein Southampton following thehorrific murder of Henry Nowakby Vickrum Digwa – who falsely claimed he had been racially abused and had acted in self-defence – saying: 'RICU made sure that the liaison team dealing with the family were well briefed.'

It has also been claimed thatthe unit intervenes to write statements by the families of victimsof potentially “racially linked” incidentsto stop them from inflaming tensions further with their remarks.(I knew it, I posted this last week, I knew the government was forcing the family to make statement like this because the did it the last time.)

The source said: 'You can see their fingerprints all over the statements released by the families of victimsin these volatile situations – they usually have a similar tone.'

However,RICU is regarded by many Whitehall insiders to be 'out of control', after last year putting its name to a Home Officerecommendation that the police should record more 'non-crime hate incidents' – the.controversial, sub-criminal measures used to inhibit peoplefrom makingreference to matters of race, religion, sexual orientation or disability.

Ministers finally bowed to pressure by scrapping the measures,telling the police to stop recording everyday rows and online spats.

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Theunit also claimedthat the prevalence of sexual grooming gangs in Pakistani communities wasbeing exploited by the far-Right to stir up hatred against Muslim communities.

It has along history of 'covertly engineering', in the words of one expert, 'the thoughts of people' at times of crisis, beingquick to spring into action after terrorist incidentssuch as the London Bridge attacks in 2017. Eight people died when a van was driven into pedestrians on London Bridge and the three occupants ran to a nearby market and began stabbing people.

In the immediate aftermath of the atrocity,RICU's undercover operatives handed out flowers in the area, with theaim of perpetuating an atmosphere of 'grief' rather than anti-Muslim 'anger'.

A team in an unmarked van is also understood to have toured the area plastering thewalls with posters bearing hashtags such as #TurnToLove, #ForLondon and #LoveWillWin.

Similarly, after theBritish aid worker Alan Henning was decapitated by Islamic State in Syriain 2014,RICU used a specially created 'front operation' to plant an image of a woman in a Union Jack hijab in the media.

And in one particularly bizarre case, the unitsecretly funded a boyband in 2016to tour Muslim areas of Britainto sing songs with anti-radicalisation themes. The British-American pop trio, known as Mr Meanor, visited schools in Sheffield, Manchester and Runcorn.

They included Parrs Wood High School in Manchester, where aformer student was revealed to have travelled to Syria.

Among the songs sung by the group wereThink About It. which includes references to the 9/11 terror attacks in New York in 2001 and the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005.

It includes the lyrics: 'See these hashtags all night, Turn the TV on and something else ain't right, More people gone don't know how we sleep at night. What I'm hoping is we can lead a precious life, 9/11 changes how we view these things, People want to terrorise, And 7/7 left behind more broken lives right before our eyes.'

In June 2017, Darren Osborne, a recent convert to far-Right ideology, drove a white van into a crowd of pedestrians close to Finsbury Park mosque in north London, killing one person and injuring ten. Reports at the time said that Osborne had been held down and beaten by people at the scene, until an imam appealed to them to stop.

It later emerged that the reports about the peace-making imam had originated after journalistswere approached at the police cordon by a woman called 'Gabbie', whosaid she worked for a company called 'Horizon PR' and offered to introduce them to a third partywho 'stressed to the journalists the role that the mosque's imam had played in protecting Osborne until he could be handed over to police'.

The story was the work of an agency called Breakthrough Media – which had been paid by RICU.

The unit'sfingerprints were also all over the hashtag #WeStandTogetherwhich appeared on Twitter afterwards and was shared by prominent politicians, police commanders and the London Fire Brigade.

RICU frequently uses social media in this way to infiltrate online conversations in 'target communities'.

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However, according to Sir William Shawcross, who published a review of Prevent in 2023,the unit seems more keen to target the far-Right than extreme Islamists.

Sir William wrote: 'The bar for whatRICU includes on Islamism looks to be relatively high, whereas thebar for what is included on the extreme Right-wing is comparably low.'

By way of illustrating his point, in 2023 theunit identified viewing habitswhich it believedindicate that someone could be susceptible to far-Right views. These included Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys, The Thick Of It and Yes Minister, all on the BBC.Works by Shakespeare, Chaucer and Milton were described as 'key texts' of interest to 'white nationalists/supremacists'.

Mr Portillo, a formerTory minister, reactedto the leaked report by saying: 'Why are senior officials, at least, not trying to stop this stuff before it pops upandembarrasses ministers in the Government?' (instead of stopping the bullshitting of labeling people??? What an idiot!)

Security expert Professor Anthony Glees responded: 'The unit that produced this report is called RICU.

'It's based in the Home Office but it's in that kind of shadowy area between what the Home Office does and what the security service MI5 ought to be doing. Or what the. special branch used to do before it was turned into the counter-terrorist police force.'

The unit has also cited work by The Spectator journalists Rod Liddle andDouglas Murrayas contributing to 'negative views about Islam and Muslims via the pages of mainstream publications'.

It also cited a book on the Rotherham rape gangs and work by The Mail on Sunday journalist Peter Hitchens, and aRICU documentfrom 2019 described formerCabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg as being among figures 'associated with far-Right sympathetic audiences and Brexit'.

Sir Jacobaccused RICU of 'wasting efforton elected politiciansscandalously diverting resources from evil-doers'.

When Defence SecretaryDan Jarvis was asked about the unit last year – he was security minister at the time – and its claim that thescandal of grooming gangs was being exploited by the far-Right, he said: 'Many documents are produced across Government that are not implemented and do not constitute Government policy.'

A Home Office spokesman said: 'RICU provides analysis on extremist use of propaganda and exploitation of the internetto inform the UK'scounter terrorism system. We cannot comment on its operations.'

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(this is typical fucking evil shit the UK government does to limit conservatives from freedom. All of this programming is to make the people in the middle between conservative or people in the middle that affirm their belief of right or wrong, or with a conscious, blocked by stating or enacting it. So they are afraid to even have an opinion on Muslims flooding their country, even though the English people are not prejudice, they really are almost too polite, but now they fear to fight against radical Muslims that don’t belong there).

Revealed: Hero bystander who tackled Belfast knife attack suspect with a hurling stick after encountering horrifying incident in the street. 1/3

EDT 10 Jun 2026

Hero Matt McKiernan told today how he battered the Belfast knife attack suspectwith his son's hurling stick, fearing for the victim's safety.

Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, 32-year-old Mr McKiernantold how he and his friend, who only gave his name as Andrebut is trained in Brazilian jujitsu, jumped out of their carto rescue the bloodied victim on the floor.

A 30-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder. Police have previously described thealleged attacker as a Sudanese man who entered the UK in 2023 and was granted leave to remain.

Mr McKiernan and his friend had stumbled across the horrifying incidentby chanceas they took a short-cut to a petrol station last night.

Mr McKiernan, from West Belfast, had been driving, and said: 'I turned into Kinnaird Avenue and I could see another car stopped in the middle of the road a little further up.

'The woman driving then began reversing at speed as though she was trying to get away from something.

'She stopped as I approached and I drove round her, and as I did so we could see what looked to be two men fighting in the street, with one on top of the other.

'This was late at night and so we thought we better go and break it up. Andre was in the front passenger seat and he jumped out first.

'He's trained in Brazilian jujitsu and so he approached them to separate them, but as he got closer he saw the knife. It looked to be a serrated steak-knife but with a broken handle.

'He shouted to methat the man attacking the other had a knife and to get something to help.

'At this point I thought someone was going to lose their life.

'I'd taken my son to hurling practice earlier that evening andso I'd got out of the car, gone to the boot and grabbed his hurling stick.

'Instinct took over and I ran over and Ismashed this guy over the head with the hurling stick. Right on the flat side, about three times. As hard as I could.

'Andre was a few seconds behind and he came running in andtried to subdue the attacker with an ankle-holdso he could free the victim.

'I hit this guy again, hard, but it didn't seem to phase him. He did stumble back, though and dropped the knife. I think another man who'd been watching came in and kicked the knife away.

'We were trying to roll the attacker onto his stomach to subdue him but he was struggling.The police then arrived and four officers took over before armed tactical support turned up.

'The victim was still conscious. But he was weak with all the blood loss.

'When he was taken away, he looked to have a horrible injury to his eye.The knifeman was led away by six officers but they were still struggling with him.'

Mr McKiernan, who runs his own removal company and whose name is spelt Maitiu Mág Tighearnán in Irish, added: 'I'm glad we intervened when we did. It was pure chance that we'd gone that route to the petrol station.

'People have called us heroes but to be honest I'd like to think most people would've got stuck in and helped if they could. I just hope the victim pulls through and manages to recover as best he can.'

Mr McKiernan was armed only with a wooden stick when he led a trio of members of the public who tried to rescue the attacker's victim from certain death.

The young father had grabbed a hurley stick – used for the Irish sport of hurling – to ward off the attacker.

His partner Aoife O'Reilly expressed pride in him and describedMr McKiernan as 'very, very humble'.

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She went on: 'I couldn't be prouder of Matt. This is my partner and the father of my child who stood in and hopefully saved a man's life last night.'

Mr McKiernan was said to have survived his intervention without being seriously injured.

Video of the shocking incident showed him swinging the stick at the migrant several times, appearing to stop the attacker from further injuring his victim.

He was supported by two other men in his efforts.

Mr McKiernan wrote online that hehad stumbled on the attack 'by chance' and that he 'got out to protect a young lad' when he saw what was happening and that the police had yet to arrive.

The hero's identity came to light as police said a Sudanese asylum seeker had been charged over the attack.

PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher said the suspect is believed to have travelled from Sudan to Paris, and then from Paris to Dublinbefore taking a bus to Belfast in February 2023 – taking advantage of the Common Travel Area.

There, he immediately claimed asylum, before he was given leave to remain in the UK in September 2023, lasting for five years.

The suspect had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the horrific attack at 10.30pm last night, which left a man in his 40s in a critical condition with 'significant' eye injuries and wounds to his face, neck and back.

He has now been charged.

Social media footage sowed how heroic bystanders could be seen intervening, including Mr McKiernan, to bring the incident to an end.

Witnesses described seeing the victim 'screaming' before he was taken away in an ambulancewith his head covered in bandages.

What do we know about Belfast knife attack suspect?

Police said a kitchen knife was recovered from the scene on Kinnaird Avenue, in the north of Belfast.They do not believe the attack was terror related.(Bullshit that’s what the UK does to lie about the gov allowing terrorists in the countries!)

Earlier todayNigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch called for the Government to release more information about the attacker's identity and immigration status, with the Reform UK leader saying leave-to-remain status was being handed out 'like Smarties'.

Sir Keir Starmer described the incident as 'sickening' and saidthere would be 'absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets'.

He added: 'My thoughts are first and foremost with the victim, and I thank the first responders, including members of the public who intervened.'

Meanwhile, Northern IrelandSecretary Hilary Benn praised onlookers who intervened to stop the attacker.

He said: 'Amidst the horror of what happened we also saw something extraordinary.

'When confronted with scenes of terrible violence, members of the public did not walk on by. Instead a number of them stepped forward and, at immense risk to their own safety, they intervened to pull the assailant away and protect the victim until police arrived.

'You showed the very best of humanity and you have the profound gratitude of the entire house.'

First Minister Michelle O'Neill also hit out againstclaims Northern Ireland is operating an 'open borders' immigration system.

'I don't know any country that has open borders,' she said.

'I believe in an immigration system that is fair and managed and enforceable and compassionate and human rights compliant, but that is not the debate for today.

'The debate today is about our society, about our inclusive society, our welcoming society. Our conversation today is about our thoughts are very much with that gentleman who finds himself as a victim of that violent and horrific attack last night.

'Our thoughts today are about creating calm in our society.'(she not being calming she still wants open borders!)

Her comments came as anti-immigration activists called for mass protests in Belfast this evening, prompting fears of widespread disorder.

Some posts online called for men over 18 to attend, wear dark clothing and 'be prepared to fight or be arrested'.

Chief Constable Boutcher has urged people to let 'the police do their job unfettered and undistracted'.

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3 days later the UK Government gives a glowing condemnation of citizens. The UK just asked for more protests, give it to them:

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Britain’s Prime Minister for Northern Ireland Says “a Crackdown is Coming” Against Those Who Complain About Beheading

June 12, 2026 | Sundance |

Britain’s minister for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn, delivers a warning to those who complain on social media about their stabbing or beheading. Minister Benn notes the danger created by people online sharing information from Belfast after two days of civic unrest in the city following a migrant stabbing and slicing a local resident.

The need for control is always a reaction to fear. Apparently, the government of Great Britain is very fearful.

“Social media companies have a very heavy responsibility.It’s why we’re going to bring forward new powers next week to make it clear that social media companies need to take down illegal content, particularly when we are facing circumstances such as the ones we’ve seen in Northern Ireland over the last two days.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/12/britains-prime-minister-for-northern-ireland-says-a-crackdown-is-coming-against-those-who-complain-about-beheading/