Charles Thomson
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Newsquest Crime & Investigations (Essex) — 4x Weekly Reporter of the Year — 2x Crime & Investigative Reporter of the Year
This is president of @Google - a company accused of illegally harvesting copyrighted work - saying journalists need to learn to use AI or ‘risk missing out’. He’s just been appointed to the board of @guardian. I hope every journalist in the org watches this & asks: why?
Lawyers acting for the mother of a man subject to a series of hearings in the Court of Protection have told three senior judges that Mr Justice Poole made a “serious procedural irregularity” by allowing an observer access to their written submissions. mouseinthecourt.co.uk/2026/03/25/ope…
Excellent Sunday Times leader on the kneecapping of the public right to know currently being floated by officials Our secrecy-addicted state is at it again. It must be stopped thetimes.com/article/82a918…
Joe Rogan: " One of these high-level commanders says, 'don't be worried [about war with Iran] because Trump is anointed by Jesus Christ to bring back [his] return on Earth' … Those [guys] are just as scary as suicide bombers."
Is this a spoof? A short list of 6 people, 5 of them women and they pick the man? Google alum Matt Brittin heavily tipped to succeed Tim Davie as BBC chief | News | C21Media c21media.net/news/google-al….
Magnificent article & investigation by Alan Rusbridger on how the utterly useless Ofcom allowed one of its regulated TV channels, GBNews, to be taken over by a political party.
Here's the programme-by-programme dossier in which the @TheNewWorldmag reviewers tracked the breaches of broadcasting codes which @Ofcom seems happy to ignore thenewworld.co.uk/the-gb-news-sc…
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: don't miss this important @TheNewWorldmag report by editor-at-large Alan Rusbridger into GB News and Ofcom's dismal failure to regulate its broadcasts @arusbridger thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbridge…
A massively consequential investigation by Alan Rusbridger into GB News: how "one political party in Britain has effectively ended up with its own television station". Raises deep questions about hi-jacking of British media/political culture: thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbridge…
A massively consequential investigation by Alan Rusbridger into GB News: how "one political party in Britain has effectively ended up with its own television station". Raises deep questions about hi-jacking of British media/political culture: thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbridge…
David Lammy MP has been hammering home that his proposed jury restrictions are for victims of crime. Yesterday, over THIRTY organisations across the VAWG sector wrote David a letter. And it was clear: They do not support the restriction of jury trial. rightsofwomen.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
The UK government released its progress report on AI & copyright today. The good news for creatives is that the government formally dropped its preferred option of a broad copyright exception with an opt-out. This was unworkable and hugely unpopular. It's good that they've recognised this. The bad news is that weakening copyright law is very much still on the table. They haven't actually ruled out that hugely unpopular opt-out proposal, and they are explicit that they are still considering other forms of copyright exception too. We are obviously in a better position than we were eighteen months ago, when the government was clearly in the pocket of big tech and was actively proposing an extremely harmful policy. Credit should go to the many, many creatives who fought that proposal, and to the new leadership at DSIT for listening. But it's important not to see this as more of a win than it really is. The government is still considering weakening copyright law to favour AI companies, and those AI companies will continue to lobby very hard for them to do so. Until the government rules out weakening copyright law, people need to keep making their voices heard. Our work is not the government's to give away. Speaking up works. Read the report here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69ba6922…
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: The Electoral Commission tells Byline Times it wants tough new legal powers to prevent overseas donors from secretly bankrolling British political parties - because it doesn't know where Reform's crypto donations are coming from bylinetimes.com/2026/03/16/the…
