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👁️Police are using live facial recognition in #Westminster and #Barking + #Dagenham boroughs today Our director @silkiecarlo tells us why this Orwellian tech is undemocratic, intrusive and disproportionate. YOU can take action #StopFacialRecognition⤵️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop…

🆔A social media ban would be a trojan horse for more surveillance & censorship in the UK It would require government mandated ID checks on each of us putting our rights & online freedoms at risk Have your say on a proposed ban using our guide⤵️ bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/respond-t…

Tesco can fuck off with their little tokens to vote for which local good cause will be funded. You made several billions of profit last year, just give all three the money you bastards.

GB News loves pushing ableist bs, anti-migrant hysteria & endless culture war whining... …all while claiming to be the “voice of real Britain”. 🤦‍♀️ Really??? They’re funded by Dubai-based investment firm Legatum + hedge fund billionaire Sir Paul Marshall (who also owns The Spectator & UnHerd). Not exactly your average bloke down the pub. 🍻 Watch who actually owns them 👇

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🚨 Europe's top human rights chief has just torn apart the case for banning under-16s from social media. Michael O'Flaherty, the human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe, has issued a stark warning to politicians rushing to ban teens from the internet, declaring that such draconian measures are neither "proportionate nor necessary". Instead of taking the easy way out, perhaps our government should listen to what the human rights experts have to say: 💬 "We haven't remotely tried hard enough yet to ensure effective oversight of the platforms". Banning kids lets tech monopolies completely off the hook for their predatory addictive algorithms. We must demand genuine corporate accountability, not lazy prohibition.

Reminder: AI is not a fleet of alien spaceships overpowering earth's defenses. It's a handful of mentally ill billionaires desperate to get even richer by impoverishing millions. And a corrupt administration colluding with them. We've fought tyranny before. We can do it again.

By 1968, the psychedelic movement had seeped into every corner of pop culture - music, film, art, and even cartoons. One of the strangest and most delightful examples was “Psychedelic Pink”, the 39th episode of the Pink Panther series.

Finland QUITS plan to move its election platform to Amazon servers. They want to maintain control over their own critical infrastructure, not outsource it to countries that may not have its best interests in mind!

The US Navy sent its two most powerful warships to fight Iran. Both are now gone from the front. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the most expensive warship ever built at $13.2 billion, left the Red Sea after a fire broke out in its laundry room. That’s the official story. The real story is what a Pentagon testing report quietly revealed at the same time. The Ford’s jet launch system is unreliable. Its radar is unreliable. Its weapons elevators, the lifts that move bombs and missiles to the flight deck, are unreliable. Pentagon testers said there is simply not enough data to assess whether the ship can keep operating if it takes enemy fire. Fixes for these combat systems have been identified. Most remain unfunded. The ship also doesn’t have enough bunks. It needs at least 159 more. This is the Navy’s flagship. Delivered years late. $13.2 billion. Deployed into a war zone with systems the Pentagon itself cannot certify as combat-ready. Then there’s the USS Abraham Lincoln. Iran claimed repeatedly that its missiles forced the Lincoln to retreat. The US called it propaganda. What’s not disputed: the Lincoln moved from 350 kilometers off the Iranian coast to over 1,100 kilometers away. Both carriers are now parked far beyond the range of Iranian anti-ship missiles. The Pentagon calls it “tactical repositioning.” The Ford has been at sea for nearly 11 months, one of the longest carrier deployments in modern US history. Maintenance on nuclear carriers takes months under normal conditions. After a fire, an 11-month deployment, and a backlog of deferred repairs, analysts are now talking about 12 to 14 months out of action. America went into this war with two carriers. It now has zero operating near the fight. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

"Frankly terrible for the credibility for the American government and American capital markets in general" The FT's Gillian Tett on insider trading speculation after massive oil bets were placed minutes before Donald Trump announced the US would delay strikes on Iran #Newsnight

A major change in policy from France, all French gold now withdrawn from the USA for the first time in over 150 years.

Streeting is entirely wrong here - McSweeney must have known that his messages would be needed because it is the law to retain them. The Commons vote to publish them now (ahead of the usual 20 year rule) may have been unprecedented, but the need to retain such messages is not. >

BANK OF LONDON DISCOVERS CAPITAL IS EASIER TO RAISE WHEN YOU JUST MAKE IT UP The Bank of London and its parent, Oplyse Holdings, have been fined £2 million after the PRA found they misled the regulator over their capital position, handed over fabricated documents, stayed less than candid about their worsening solvency, and failed to keep adequate financial resources in place. The really inspiring part is that the watchdog said the misconduct was bad enough for a £12 million penalty, then cut it to £2 million because paying the full amount would cause financial hardship. Which is a marvellous advert for a bank, really. Trust us with your money, we just can’t survive the bill for lying about having enough of our own. Source: Bank of England, March 24, 2026 –

A former Conservative justice minister has just pleaded guilty to possessing crystal meth, GBL and cannabis at Westminster Magistrates' Court. Crispin Blunt. MP for Reigate 1997–2024. The man who helped make the laws.

Privatisation going well is it

🚨 Fun Fact: Birmingham City Council has spent around £33 million dealing with the bin strike. The strike started because the council wanted to save £1.2m in staff costs. £33m… to save £1.2m. This is how badly our councils are run.

I agree with everything in this article. The cuts to particle, nuclear and astro physics research in the UK will be devastating, not only to the fields themselves but also to universities more widely and, in the longer term, to industry and therefore the economy as a whole. They were not thought through, there was little or no consultation, and I do not believe they have the support of parliament. The SI&T select committee has been ignored, indeed pretty much everyone who knows anything about the successful but delicate research ecosystem in the UK has been ignored.

I’m sick of this “we can’t feed the whole world we should be looking after our own” argument from the same people who want benefits slashed

Are we barking mad? Krill are essential food for penguins, seals, whales and albatross. Now, we've introduced two new species to the Antarctic food chain to compete with these creatures by catching krill to feed to our cats and dogs. qrillpet.com/product @NatGeo