Toby Young – The Daily Sceptic June 14, 2026
A secretive Home Office propaganda unit, RICU, founded by a former MI6 officer in 2007, has been covertly advising police on “controlling the narrative” during race riots in Belfast and Southampton. Critics say the 22-strong outfit – which plants media stories, deploys undercover operatives and reportedly ghost-writes victims’ family statements – is now ‘out of control’. The Mail has the story:
While the streets of Belfast were ablaze with anti-immigration protests last week, behind the scenes a group of spies, spinners and soldiers were deploying the ‘dark arts’ to try to defuse tensions.
The name of the secretive Government propaganda unit trying 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 the deliberate camouflage of an outfit which uses deception and skulduggery to try 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 to sing anti-extremist songs in Muslim schools.
The 22-strong unit was established in 2007 by the late Charles Farr, a former MI6 officer, as part of the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy.
Modelled on the Information Research Department (IRD), a propaganda unit established by the Attlee government in 1948 to blacken the names of communists and other political opponents, RICU operates out of the Home Office’s Westminster headquarters.
While its original purpose was to monitor and challenge the spread of Al Qaeda propaganda and to vet the language used by public officials when describing terrorism, its tentacles now stretch far across Whitehall – to the 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, a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum-seeker, RICU swung into action to advise the police in the province on how to ‘control the narrative’.
A source said: “They are working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s C3 intelligence unit to identify those posting the online ‘calls to protest’ in Belfast and other areas, as well as giving strategic messages to the police to ensure that the protesters were portrayed as unsympathetic thugs, rather than activists, and effecting behavioural change.”
The source said that the unit had also been advising the police in Southampton following the horrific murder of Henry Nowak by 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 that the unit intervenes to write statements by the families of victims of potentially racially linked incidents to stop them from inflaming tensions further with their remarks.
The source said: “You can see their fingerprints all over the statements released by the families of victims in 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 Office recommendation that the police should record more ‘non-crime hate incidents’ – the controversial, sub-criminal measures used to inhibit people from making reference 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.
The unit also claimed that the prevalence of sexual grooming gangs in Pakistani communities was being exploited by the far-Right to stir up hatred against Muslim communities.
Worth reading in full.
Hitler freemason
oh not this bollox again
The third reich issued a statement saying they had the names of every UK mason
Rixon you should not be putting up misleading articles like this
you know a lot and know there is bullshit here
Written by the daily fail, so nuff said.
I wonder what percentage of people now know these events are all fake. During your scamdemic most people believed it, now most say they don’t. It must be the same with this.
The difference with these events is that the only effect they have on you is to make you argue constantly. So the point can only be to distract you. So distract you from what? For that you have to look at what’s actually happening.
Data centres, endless immigration (and it is endless), endless new laws. At the same time, daily spewings from the filth in government about the threat from Russia. The data centres are already being and will increasingly be used to control you. The immigrants are there to destroy your country, turning it into their country. Russia is the main country you will die fighting against in the upcoming war.
But don’t worry, some gay from Manchester and a poof from the peerage are going to save you.
If whites have been defeated, here is how it happened
…Mosley ms took over prisons from the inside, thence the prison service and judiciary, thence the politics and gov, and thence the country. Before all this, banker jews wanted them to do it
…”Exploited by the far-Right to stir up hatred against Muslim communities”
and it’s no surprise Robinson/Watson are two names ringing mega alarm bells on this issue.
maybe they even had already their hands in
the Manchester bombing aftermath .
Richard Hall should reconsider !
Bwitish “Authorities” have been so exposed as devious, duplicitous cawk-suckers that it’ll take a lot more than some pimply-faced ponces from MI6 to stop the ‘Ship Of State’ from crashing into the rocks…
and SINKING!!!!😊
B’bye!! 🖐
Goebbels was honest enough to call his outfit the Ministry of Propaganda. Knowing how cheap our lot are prepared to go, like the British Army’s 77th Brigade whose levels of English grammar and spelling amongst its soldiers are sometimes just appalling when their medium is the written word in alt-media and MSM comments sections, they could call their new outfit the Ministry of Troof.
“A secretive Home Office propaganda unit…”
Well that I can believe, but the BBC dwarfs all these other initiatives…
The majority of the people everywhere are fed up with the fraudulent ways we are governed and taxed to death. They all want a radical change from all of the constant lying, cheating, stealing, insider trading, bribes, blackmailing, intimidation, psyops, suppression of free speech, outright mass murders, and the unjust wars all coming from the totally depraved ruling class. Without full and immediate disclosure of the truth by those who wield power over us on every issue relative to our interest there is no freedom or justice for the people to right anything. Their denial of this most fundamental right cancels all other rights including the right to life, freedom of speech, and even democracy itself.
If Hitler was one of “them”, then Germany wouldn’t have been treated so demonically and hatefully before, during, and after the war.
The events as they actually happened rather point to Hitler as having been an obstacle for some agenda.
J wrote ‘If Hitler was one of “them”, then Germany wouldn’t have been treated so demonically and hatefully before, during, and after the war.’
It is highly likely that Hitler was a double agent. He did NOTHING to help Germany but he did do everything possible to ensure defeat. His severe meth and heroin psychosis explains a lot. And then there is his very mysterious private doctor who administered the drugs daily: one of WW2’s most important characters that most have never heard of.
Good morning 77th Bwigade! 😘
POLICE ARE
FREEMASONS,
DON’T CALL
THEM POLICE, ?