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2026-10-26 17:15:46 UTC

The EU is changing #GDPR to explicitly allow #BigTech companies to misuse your personal data for training #GenAI
#EUPol
https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-approve-digital-expropriation-europeans-ai-companies

2026-10-23 11:30:43 UTC

"The latest data saw a two-point drop in support for Nigel Farage’s #ReformUK, as they fell to 20%. This is the lowest vote share Find Out Now has ever recorded for Reform."
" #Labour are five points clear at the top, thanks to a one-point increase in support combined with a one-point fall for the #Tories."
"The #GreenParty jumped back to 13%, despite recent controversy over the party’s ‘Zionism is racism’ motion."
#UKPol
https://www.joe.co.uk/politics/reform-drop-to-record-low-in-new-poll-as-labour-surge-clear-552987

2026-10-21 21:05:43 UTC

Jesus Christ.
#CanPol #Crimestoppers #DataProtection
Wonder if the UK one has outsourced data protection too.
Hrm...
https://crimestoppers-uk.org/privacy-policy
Sounds a bit less horrific, hopefully?
#nevent1q…vtqx

2026-10-21 19:19:29 UTC

"The raid on Omar’s house “raises serious questions about the continued corrupt weaponisation of the federal government against Donald #Trump’s adversaries”."
#USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/20/trumps-obsession-with-ilhan-omar-has-reached-a-dangerous-new-level

2026-10-14 19:50:06 UTC

" #ReformUK has been rocked by a fresh crisis after councillors and election candidates for the party were caught on film making graphic threats of extreme violence and expressing racist and misogynistic views."
"The first clips from ITV’s year-long undercover investigation showed Alan Feeney, a Reform councillor and deputy mayor of Solihull, calling Asian homeowners “parasites,” and stating that “no more than 1% of [the] British population can be non-white”."
#UKPol
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/14/reform-uk-councillors-and-candidates-filmed-making-racist-and-extreme-comments

2026-10-14 18:40:28 UTC

"Quite frankly, the people who want to get upset about [the #Tories claiming #NetZero would cost £1tn] should be upset more about the fact that net zero is costing us £500bn."
~ Kemi Badenoch
It's actually predicted to cost £110bn.
#UKPol
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/oct/14/pmqs-andy-burnham-kemi-badenoch-zelenskyy-uk-politics-latest-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6acf7ec98f087455c311b97e#block-6acf7ec98f087455c311b97e

2026-10-04 14:34:21 UTC

"In a vote at the #GreenParty’s annual conference in Brighton about whether to back a motion which calls for #Zionism, the movement for a Jewish state, to be “treated as any other form of racism”, it passed by 1,022 votes to 813. The motion, which is now formal policy for the #Greens in England and Wales, also calls for a single Palestinian state in place of Israel “with equal rights for all”."
#UKPol
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/04/green-party-votes-adopt-policy-zionism-racism

2026-10-02 18:40:25 UTC

"A man who blew up a ultra-low emission zone (#ULEZ) camera in south-east #London has been jailed for 15 years."
#UKPol #Terrorism
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6gr8j0n9g7ro

2026-10-01 16:53:41 UTC

"Kyiv has just suffered its first co-ordinated attacks on the city's energy grid since the end of last winter, and commentators believe #Russia has stepped up its campaign seeing that #Ukraine is suffering from a shortage of air defences."
#Politics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmn8e8344v5qo

2026-09-29 08:59:33 UTC

"Since Oct. 8, 2023, #Israel’s war on #Gaza has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians and injured more than 175,000, most of them women and children, while damaging 90% of the territory’s infrastructure."
"Netanyahu asked UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed during a secret meeting Sunday to deny a report that he had warned Netanyahu of an imminent Hamas attack before Oct. 7, 2023."
#Politics #Palestine
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260928-netanyahu-asks-uae-president-to-deny-report-on-oct-7-warning-during-secret-visit-report/

2026-09-25 10:15:37 UTC

“I think that this is small penis behaviour, quite frankly. This is a bunch of guys who want to feel like big men because the missus says they can’t see the kids anymore.”
#UKPol #AsylumSeekers #Protests
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26580999.ash-sarkar-hits-far-right-activists-bbc-question-time/

2026-09-23 17:09:57 UTC

"Nigel #Farage has attacked the Government's plans for a new #Russia misinformation unit. The #ReformUK leader claimed it is “targeted directly” at his party."
What an interesting conclusion to draw 😄
#UKPol
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-farage-russia-misinformation-unit_uk_6ab3e906e4b043d6b56a6107

2026-09-22 21:44:06 UTC

"Some Pentagon personnel knew within hours that the United States had hit the school, and they described a cascade of preventable failures that included an overreliance on an AI tool built by #Palantir."
#USPol #Iran
https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-investigators-say-overreliance-on-palantir-ai-tech-contributed-to-u-s-strike-that-killed-123-iranian-children-2000814477

2026-08-13 18:52:53 UTC

"A #TalkTV presenter has been found guilty of assaulting a fossil fuel protester who disrupted a dinner marking President Trump's state visit to the UK. The 47-year-old presenter, who later claimed he was trying to protect artwork in the building, was convicted of assault by beating."
#UKPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyj2q1vqy2o

2026-08-06 14:31:58 UTC

"A coalition of leftwing councils has agreed to defy new rules around single-sex spaces on the grounds that they are “harmful to the rights of #trans people”. The leaders of six #London councils – #Hackney, #Haringey, #Lambeth, #Lewisham, #Southwark and #WalthamForest – have now said in a letter to women and equalities minister Bridget Phillipson that they will not enforce the policy."
#UKPol
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/06/leftwing-councils-pledge-to-defy-transphobic-code-on-single-sex-spaces/

2026-07-23 15:28:26 UTC

"Just 22% have a favourable view of the #ReformUK leader, while 68% are unfavourable – including 56% who say they are very unfavourable. That 46% gap between his negative and positive rating is bigger than the 45% recorded by Starmer before he announced he was stepping down."
#UKPol #Farage
https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/23/nigel-farage-now-even-less-popular-starmer-just-resignation-29206444/

2026-07-16 22:03:12 UTC

"16% thought #Farage was right to resign as an MP and to stand in the resulting by-election. But another 16% thought he should not have called it, while 54% thought he should have resigned and left parliament."
#UKPol #ReformUK #Clacton
https://theconversation.com/could-count-binface-actually-win-287611

2026-07-16 10:00:53 UTC

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(Side-note to this whole thing; it's interesting to me that British English treats organisation names as a plural whereas American English treats them as singular - "Palantir haven't altered their behaviour" vs "Palantir hasn't altered its behaviour" - something intriguing there about explicit collective responsibility vs the obfuscation thereof? And weird that this article from a UK source - @nprofile…g0xj - uses the American singular form.)

2026-07-16 07:54:14 UTC

"Palantir hasn’t altered its behaviour in the face of criticism. Peter Thiel, the firm’s Trump-supporting co-founder, has joked about using a drone to spray sceptical market analysts with ‘light fentanyl-based urine’. In April, a 22-point manifesto heralding the dawn of AI-enabled US military supremacy was posted on #Palantir’s X account by Alex Karp, Thiel’s business partner and classmate at Stanford."
#Politics
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n13/peter-geoghegan-and-lucas-amin/this-looks-absolutely-rubbish

2026-07-15 15:27:17 UTC

"It is an unprecedented attack on the Court’s authority and legitimacy, targeting one of the last EU institutions that answers to no political majority and, with it, on the legal infrastructure on which the EU’s citizens, companies and rights depend."
#EUPol #CourtOfJustice
https://euobserver.com/228381/eus-top-court-is-the-hard-rights-next-target-and-mep-weimers-report-just-pulled-the-trigger/

2026-07-15 15:23:15 UTC

"The argument about #Brexit has changed. For many people now, this is no longer about rerunning the battles of 2016. It is about whether Brexit has made Britain more prosperous, more confident and more in control. It hasn’t."
#UKPol
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/the-10th-anniversary-of-brexit-was-a-damp-squib-yorkshire-post-letters-8779093

2026-07-14 20:41:26 UTC

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@nprofile…rxg6 Sounds like adding direct financial support to the other ways they were already supporting the AfD etc.
On the bright side, anybody Vance visits to show his support for seems to lose elections (Orban) or even die (Pope) shortly afterwards, so clearly some sort of balancing force of the universe at work there. People must be getting nervous about him offering to show his face by now 😉

2026-07-11 10:19:31 UTC

"Count #Binface has committed to donate 50% of his proceeds from the sale of this merchandise to the homeless charity Shelter."
#UKPol
https://www.binfaceshop.co.uk/

2026-07-08 06:28:22 UTC

#UKPol #Clacton #BinFace
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/882/927/269/906/457/original/c395936caf7180ce.png

2026-07-02 21:14:19 UTC

"The UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”."
"The culture secretary’s department is the UK’s second to quit the Elon Musk-owned platform over increasing concerns about the way it highlights and prioritises often inaccurate far-right and racist content and is used to incite violence and division."
#UKPol #DCMS #Xitter
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/02/lisa-nandy-culture-social-media-x-abuse-misinformation

2026-07-02 14:54:10 UTC

"Rather than working for us, Keir Starmer and his ministers are acting against us. They have rammed through parliament a sweeping law that will, independent experts agree, harm the public; and they have done so without even coming clean on the costs or the consequences."
#UKPol #Labour #NHS
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/keir-starmer-britain-pharma-deal-covid

2026-06-30 18:08:15 UTC

“#Surveillance technology has historically always been abused. Now the technology is more advanced and more frightening than ever, and more available than ever, so abuse is more possible.”
#Politics #Privacy
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/1/surveilled_spyware

2026-06-26 10:42:21 UTC

"#Starmer enjoyed the backing of scarcely a fifth of eligible voters, in what was the second-lowest turnout since 1885. By contrast, Starmer’s much more leftwing predecessor as #Labour leader, Jeremy #Corbyn – roundly dismissed by mainstream media as “unelectable” – secured 40% of the vote in 2017. It was the party’s biggest surge in votes since 1945."
#UKPol #Burnham
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/burnham-must-break-with-starmers

2026-06-22 12:35:29 UTC

#USPol
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/793/771/418/337/593/original/d996e177ad184b46.png

2026-06-22 05:37:56 UTC

"Millions of us might have to share some official ID which includes our date of birth, in order to access a whole range of platforms from next spring."
"The ban could make young people less likely to seek support for online harms if they do encounter them, as well as isolating them from communities and information."
"For many young people social media is how they communicate with their friends. Some people view social media as a lifeline."
#UKPol #AgeVerification
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jy512r19ro

2026-06-14 08:45:25 UTC

Robert Kenyon: “women can’t ref, drive or give instructions”
#UKPol #ReformUK #Makerfield
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/farage-dismisses-reform-candidates-sexist-comments_uk_6a2a6abde4b02d9edc7fc468

2026-06-05 17:06:40 UTC

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"The Remain campaign was mocked at the time as “project fear”, spreading gloom by warning that Britain outside the EU would be poorer, to the tune of 6% of GDP. Yet here we are a decade later and, if anything, Remain was not pessimistic enough. The drop in GDP is now estimated to be between 6% and 8%, with investment down by as much as 18%. Trade is on course to be 15% less than it would have been had we stayed in the EU."
#UKPol #EUPol #Brexit

2026-06-05 17:00:51 UTC

"The entire political and cultural landscape we now inhabit, are informed or were shaped by that event. We are living in #Brexit Britain."
#UKPol
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/05/britain-lies-disinformation-brexit-bus-economy-vote

2026-06-04 12:34:19 UTC

"Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups are using anger over the murder of the white 18-year-old student Henry Nowak by a Sikh man as a recruiting ground for their cause, with prominent members taking part in violent protests on Tuesday."
#UKPol #Southampton #Portswood #Racism #NeoNazis #UKIP #BritainFirst #RestoreBritain #SouthamptonPatriots #ChristianNationalism #RaiseTheColours #TommyRobinson #LaurenceFox
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/03/the-neo-nazi-and-far-right-coalition-that-converged-on-southampton-over-henry-nowaks-murder/

2026-06-01 09:29:21 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq I had to migrate my personal account a few years ago, when mastodon.technology closed, and it was all painless from my point of view.

2026-05-25 20:01:25 UTC

"Today, a coalition of locally elected district attorneys and prosecutors from across the United States have officially put the #Trump administration on notice: any federal agent who shows up at a polling place in violation of state or federal law will be investigated and prosecuted under the laws of the jurisdiction in which they act. And they will be jailed, if needed."
#USPol #ICE #FAFO
https://www.defiance.news/p/local-prosecutors-warn-trump-if-you

2026-05-22 18:02:50 UTC

"Netanyahu returned to power in November 2022 at the head of the most extreme government #Israel has ever seen, dominated by racist demagogues, settler leaders, and advocates of annexation and ethnic cleansing."
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/22/uloi-m22.html

2026-05-22 09:00:37 UTC

"We must use our own expertise to keep patient and medical data within the #NHS. In 2025, #Manchester University NHS Trust advised that the data system in use within its Hospitals was significantly more advanced than the #Palantir offering. So there is at least one UK data system ready to roll out. Probably there are more."
#UKPol
https://www.opendemocracy.net/opendemocracy-readers-on-the-chaos-in-westminster/

2026-05-20 18:31:01 UTC

"#Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has sparked a diplomatic crisis by publishing footage of Israeli security forces abusing international activists who were detained as they tried to sail to #Gaza with aid."
#Politics #Palestine #Occupation #Apartheid
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/20/israeli-security-minister-itamar-ben-gvir-stirs-diplomatic-outrage-with-flotilla-activist-abuse-video

2026-05-19 09:24:08 UTC

"At least half of Keir Starmer’s front bench accepted Israeli or pro-Israel cash. Starmer’s government is elbow-deep in the innocent Palestinian blood Israel spills every day."
#UKPol #Labour #Israel #Palestine #LFI
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/05/19/peter-kyle-lfi/

2026-05-19 08:59:28 UTC

"Jenny Jones, a veteran Green activist who is one of the party’s two members of the Lords, has argued that the party is “not a pressure group” to be stood down when needed."
“We are a political party that owes it to voters to give them the chance to vote Green. Plus, this is a mess of Labour’s own making. They are playing games. We are looking to replace them.”
#UKPol #GreenParty #Makerfield #Manchester
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/18/greens-andy-burnham-makerfield-byelection-reform

2026-05-18 21:28:48 UTC

“There is a strategic need for the EU and the UK to work together, but I don’t think there would be an appetite for opening up new decades of British exceptionalism. The price of re-entry would be membership on normal terms.”
#UKPol #EUPol #Brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/18/no-tailor-made-deal-uk-eu-brexit-officials-rejoin

2026-05-16 17:24:43 UTC

"#Russia. the #UnitedStates, and #Israel are all trapped in military impasses at this moment. None of them can convert their military superiority into political victory."
~ @nprofile…r978
#Politics
https://youtu.be/-N3t4lMlUag

2026-05-15 16:45:29 UTC

"Robinson has chosen his demo date not to unite the kingdom of course but to maximise divisions by facing off against the annual #Nakba demonstration, commemorating the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes during the establishment of the state of Israel and demanding the UN-recognised right of return denied them and their descendants ever since."
#UKPol #Protest #Labour #Burnham
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-and-myth-twin-extremes

2026-05-15 12:51:30 UTC

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"Research shows people are worse at detecting #AI fakes than they think, and the more AI content they see, the more likely they are to distrust authentic material."
#UKPol #Propaganda

2026-05-15 12:49:21 UTC

"The "Great British People" Facebook page, which purports to be from Yorkshire, has had 1.3 million views for its latest video of an elderly white British man crying about his pension. Other videos show reporters discussing "the overwhelming scale of mass #immigration" and asking viewers if they miss "the Britain we used to know". But it is not clear whether the creator knows the UK at all: the account is really run by someone based in Sri Lanka."
#UKPol #Propaganda
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgpyn30dp3o

2026-05-15 09:37:15 UTC

"Millions of pounds have been saved by replacing a #Palantir IT system which helps to find homes for Ukrainian refugees with one built by its own experts, a government department has said."
"When given suitable resources the Civil Service can often outperform private companies like Palantir."
#UKPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o

2026-05-12 20:46:10 UTC

“The public will be astonished to learn that in the British justice system a protester can now be convicted of criminal damage for disrupting an arms factory and then be sentenced as ‘terrorists’ without having been convicted of terror charges and with this having been kept secret from the jury.”
#UKPol #Protest #PalestineAction
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/12/palestine-action-activists-elbit-protest-terrorist-connection-ruling

2026-05-10 08:53:50 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq I live in Hackney, one of the areas whose council has just made a dramatically near-complete switch from Labour to Greens. Social care was definitely mentioned in Greens pre-election output, and was one of the three big areas explicitly mentioned in the mayor's victory interviews etc. Her previous career was in the NHS.

2026-05-08 16:45:04 UTC

"#Lewisham voters have elected Liam Shrivastava as #Green mayor, with 35,265 votes. #Labour came in with 30,374 votes and #ReformUK took 7,288 votes."
#UKPol #London
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c62rmlprxlpt?post=asset%3A07de9c2f-7e73-4910-8702-c800386790be#post

2026-05-05 08:40:28 UTC

"Residents, council staff and councillors have been subject to rising “abuse, harassment and intimidation” directly linked to the removal of unauthorised #flags, #Shropshire council has said."
#UKPol #Nationalism
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/04/shropshire-council-rising-abuse-removal-of-union-jack-and-st-george-flags

2026-05-01 17:05:02 UTC

"The British billionaire behind a record donation to #ReformUK has insisted Sir Keir Starmer's planned crackdown on political finance will not stop him from giving money to the party."
#UKPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5pe068dyyo

2026-04-27 09:01:15 UTC

"Leaflets distributed by local politicians across England are claiming that only their party can win, or that another party “can’t win here”, when there is no good evidence to show this is true"
#UKPol #EngPol #Tories #LibDems #Labour #Greens #ReformUK
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/26/voters-contend-with-grotesque-leaflets-and-dodgy-data-in-english-local-elections-say-analysts

2026-04-26 08:02:44 UTC

"It was on 13 September, at that very first protest, when Tolland first witnessed women being abused by men who claimed they wanted to protect women. Throat slashing and shooting gestures were common at protests along with obscene language and threats of violence. Men would throw Nazi salutes and single out women in the crowd, taunting them and shouting through megaphones."
#UKPol #ScotPol #Immigration #Refugees #FarRight #Misogyny
https://www.theferret.scot/women-abused-far-right-scotland/

2026-04-22 20:00:14 UTC

"In England, #Labour could lose “well over” 1,000 councillors in May’s crunch local elections"
"In Wales, Labour is on course to lose its grip over Welsh politics after more than a hundred years"
"In Scotland, a huge pro-indy majority is predicted at Holyrood"
"In Northern Ireland, John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, used an interview with the Irish News to tell his fellow unionists that it was time to prepare for a united Ireland."
#UKPol #PlaidCymru #SNP
https://fiftysixdegreesnorth.substack.com/p/anthems-and-requiems

2026-04-22 14:59:37 UTC

> “Left” means a political movement that wants political power to be shared by many sectors of society.
> “Right” means a political movement that wants political power to be concentrated in a few hands.
#Politics
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=223

2026-04-17 17:36:07 UTC

"The Home Office has refused to pay compensation for more than half the claims made by victims of the #Windrush scandal, new analysis by the UK’s public spending watchdog has shown. The scheme was set up in 2019 to compensate mainly Black Britons whose lives were upended by being wrongly classed as illegal migrants by the Home Office."
#UKPol
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/17/windrush-scandal-compensation-home-office-report

2026-04-16 06:36:25 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq I think you mean deprivation? London probably has the highest rate of depravation 😉

2026-04-10 19:04:30 UTC

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#EUPol #Hungary
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/381/952/358/200/706/original/15f8933691205cd1.jpg

2026-04-10 14:13:07 UTC

"In the past 12 months, anti-Trump sentiment in both #Canada and #Australia has been credited with preventing right-wing conservatives from winning general elections. And, according to the latest polls coming out of #Hungary, Team #MAGA might just go and make it a hat-trick."
#Politics
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/when-is-hungary-election-2026-orban-magyar-trump-vance-404956/

2026-04-10 10:33:16 UTC

"Between March 2024 and March 2026, online activity describing the capital as a dangerous city in decline increased by between 150% and 200%, while migration-related narratives referencing #London surged by more than 350%, the report said. These trends emerged despite the mayor's assertion that London's per capita homicide rate has fallen to its lowest level on record."
#UKPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3l4kwer5ko

2026-04-08 08:40:44 UTC

"#ReformUK has said it would deny new visas to people from countries seeking slavery reparations from Britain, if it formed the next government.
"Nigel Farage's party said this would apply to any country developing a formal approach and the ban would cover all visa types, including ones for visitors and work.
"Britain transported an estimated three million African people across the Atlantic before abolishing the practice in the early 1800s."
#UKPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4w722peyo

2026-04-07 19:45:44 UTC

"We call on the Government to hold a parliamentary vote on the decision to grant the United States permission to use British military bases for strikes on Iranian missile sites."
#UKPol #USPol #Iran
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762994

2026-04-03 09:03:07 UTC

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@nprofile…8mxe The sad thing is that the other 'grown-up' parties are letting them set the tone and even the direction of the debate, in multiple policy areas.
We have managers in charge when we need leaders (or both, ideally). I thought boring was going to be an improvement over evil, but it's just left an open goal instead.

2026-04-02 21:48:25 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq I'm kind of surprised by how badly they're doing, they seemed quite savvy until recently. I guess it's the transition from yelling on the sidelines to playing in the game... suddenly there are a lot of minor details that turn out to be not so minor any more.

2026-03-30 19:43:17 UTC

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state."
~ Bruce Schneier

2026-03-26 20:38:54 UTC

"A man who was filmed as part of a mob intimidating Al Jazeera journalists reporting on an arson attack in #London has been identified as a serving #MetPolice officer."
#UKPol
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25971239.man-filmed-calling-al-jazeera-journalist-a-dog-met-police-officer/

2026-03-21 17:37:41 UTC

"She is too scared to use her real name, or allow the school to be named. She fears that the school will try to take legal action against her and does not want to become a public figure, where she worries she may be targeted. Considering the abuse levelled at librarians in the USA for defending their collections, she may have a point."
#UKPol #Censorship #Books #Libraries #Education
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school-book-banning-escalates-in-the-uk-as-greater-manchester-secondary-school-censors-scores-of-books/

2026-03-19 19:18:03 UTC

"The #MetPolice arrested pro-#Palestine activists against its own internal guidance, documents seen by Declassified suggest. The files also show that the force is cracking down on the use of Arabic words far beyond its controversial policing of the term #intifada."
#UKPol #Protest #Policing
https://www.declassifieduk.org/met-police-failed-to-follow-internal-guidelines-on-policing-palestine-protests/

2026-03-19 11:55:23 UTC

"As part of its 2026 manifesto, the Scottish #GreenParty will limit how much land can be bought by any individual or company to a maximum of 500 hectares, unless it can be proved that ownership will make a significant contribution to the common good."
#UKPol #ScotPol
https://greens.scot/news/put-land-back-into-the-peoples-hands

2026-03-19 07:35:59 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq The username here didn't link properly

2026-03-09 17:01:32 UTC

"Dozens of MPs and peers have signed a letter calling for a formal British apology over the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which paved the way for the creation of Israel in 1948 and the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the Nakba. Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran, Labour's Nadia Whittome and Green MP Carla Denyer are some of the 45 MPs and peers who have signed a letter so far.."
#UKPol #Israel #Palestine
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-british-mps-and-peers-back-call-uk-apology-over-balfour-declaration

2026-03-08 13:15:03 UTC

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@nprofile…cmq0 👍 Voting is literally the least effortful thing most people can do that has a credible theory of change.
Sure, it's less likely to be impactful than local community organising etc, but it comes first on the list because it's trivially easy, not because it's best.

2026-03-03 23:05:44 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y Just what's in the initial post and the article it links to.

2026-03-03 19:52:18 UTC

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"Multiple UK universities have secured injunctions against persons unknown (that is, anyone), pre-emptively ordering such persons not to carry out protest activity on university property, on pain of a two-year jail sentence, a £2,500 fine, or both. The process is extremely anti-democratic, going ahead without a defendant who can be legally represented and often with an extremely short notice period."

2026-03-03 19:48:46 UTC

“This system, while far-reaching, concentrates deliberately on sectors fundamental to shaping public discourse and holding public trust. The repression strategically targets the core pillars of the solidarity movement: its intellectual foundation, its public organisers, and its trusted public voices.”
#UKPol #FreeSpeech #Israel #Palestine #UKLI
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/03/tawg-m03.html

2026-03-01 09:57:46 UTC

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"The attacks on the #Greens are going to be staggeringly vitriolic, hostile, and abusive and most likely racist, whilst also potentially inciting violence. #Reform and #Restore will both do this, but you can be sure the #Tories and #Labour will join in."
#UKPol

2026-03-01 09:56:48 UTC

"We know the far right are very bad losers, not least because they think they have a natural right to be winners, which democracy does not recognise, which is why they hate it so much."
"#Labour is scared stiff by the #Greens, because it removes the age-old assumption that the left has no choice but to vote Labour."
#UKPol
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/28/we-have-to-deal-with-a-new-world-of-toxic-politics/

2026-02-28 18:31:59 UTC

"The #GreenParty’s historic byelection win was earned by listening to voters, not ignoring them as #Labour has done."
#UKPol
https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/people-power-led-the-greens-to-victory-in-gorton-and-denton

2026-02-27 19:56:37 UTC

"Democracy Volunteers has claimed the #GortonAndDenton by-election was rife with what they called "family voting," which influences how people conduct their vote."
#UKPol
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-02-27/what-is-family-voting-and-was-it-an-issue-in-the-gorton-and-denton-by-election

2026-02-25 19:18:33 UTC

"Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage. Thames Valley police had used automated #FacialRecognition software which matched him with footage of a suspect of a £3,000 burglary 100 miles away in Milton Keynes."
#UKPol #CCTV
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/facial-recognition-error-prompts-police-to-arrest-asian-man-for-burglary-100-miles-away

2026-02-18 23:10:26 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq I think you have 4 typos in that last sentence. New record? 😆 5 including the trailing period.

2026-02-12 10:44:56 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq Do you mean 'reduce' here?

2026-02-10 16:06:29 UTC

"Many states are increasing restrictions on civic space. By making it hard or dangerous for citizens, NGOs and journalists to challenge abuses of power, they are reducing transparency and accountability. This allows corruption to flourish."
#UKPol #Protest
https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025

2026-02-07 12:14:27 UTC

"Many years on from the first use of facial recognition technology by police in the UK, and half a decade since the Court of Appeal ruled against South Wales Police in Liberty’s world-first legal challenge to the technology, the public is finally being given the chance to have its say on facial recognition."
#UKPol #Surveillance #CCTV #FacialRecognition
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/facial-recognition-consultation-have-your-say/

2026-02-05 20:47:25 UTC

"With #Palantir now expanding its #AI-powered technology into British #policing, the government is facing calls to freeze its involvement with the Denver-based company, which was co-founded by the Donald #Trump-backing billionaire Peter #Thiel, who also had a relationship with #Epstein."
#UKPol #Labour
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/05/calls-to-halt-uk-palantir-contracts-grow-amid-lack-of-transparency-over-deals

2026-02-05 17:25:43 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq I'm increasingly of the opinion that late-stage capitalism is entirely based on finding and exploiting externalities. The whole mess with food delivery platforms fits into this theory, and before that the taxi apps. None of them has reduced prices OR improved service quality - they've both done distinctly the opposite, once they got past their initial 'burn seed funding to monopolise the market' stage. It's systemic at the level of the entire economy, one sector after another.

2026-02-01 10:23:46 UTC

"12% of 2024 Labour voters in the capital would now back the Greens, 8% Reform, 6% the Lib-Dems, and 4% the Tories."
#UKPol #London
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/labour-record-low-london-starmer-green-reform-rise-farage-polanski-conservatives-b1265029.html

2026-01-29 09:43:25 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq And the economic system that drives them, maybe.

2026-01-25 09:19:56 UTC

"Every police officer in England and Wales will be required to hold a licence to be able to continue working, the Home Office has said. They will have to prove they have the right skills in issues such as tackling violence against women and girls or face being removed from their job, under the terms of a phased scheme similar to ones for lawyers or doctors. "
#UKPol #Policing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0kelpx734o

2026-01-24 20:28:01 UTC

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@nprofile…zlca The Met's TSG and PaDP have their moments, but it's not a daily occurrence like over there.

2026-01-23 16:58:27 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y It is increasingly concerning how unashamedly blatant and consistent they are about blocking camera angles of their use of excessive force and unnecessary/excessive restraint.

2026-01-21 10:30:10 UTC

"Many poor Americans today 1) express progressive views on health care and social welfare, 2) say that economic issues are their top concern, and 3) nonetheless vote for the party hellbent on cutting their Medicaid and food stamp benefits."
#USPol
https://www.vox.com/politics/475325/cable-news-culture-war-social-media-trump

2026-01-21 09:54:30 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y Is there any recent polling for his Clacton constituency? I have friends with relatives there, and they despondently claim that the vast majority of local people still haven't realised that he's a terrible MP yet.

2025-12-09 14:21:55 UTC

"What we found is a sharp, and potentially deadly, escalation in the incidence of online violence escalating to “real-world” harm. This is most acute for female journalists, where we see a dramatic acceleration in this trajectory."
#UKPol #Politics #VAWG #Misogyny
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/09/online-abuse-women-violence-un-report-public-life

2025-12-04 18:09:31 UTC

"The UK and #Norway have signed a defence pact that will see them operate a combined fleet to hunt Russian submarines in the North Atlantic. The deal is designed to protect undersea cables - which British officials say are increasingly under threat from Moscow, with a 30% rise in Russian vessels spotted in UK waters over the past two years."
#UKPol #Russia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v152ep9l0o

2025-11-29 15:45:32 UTC

“Even as he leverages his presidency to make himself millions, perhaps even billions of dollars, Donald #Trump is also funneling Republican donor money into his own cash registers through the political committees he controls.”
#USPol
https://www.alternet.org/trump-donors-2674355138/

2025-11-25 19:58:04 UTC

"#Justice Secretary David #Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial."
#UKPol #Labour #DefendOurJuries
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7vdvrnnvzo

2025-11-24 16:01:34 UTC

"Keir Starmer challenged #ReformUK leader Nigel Farage to set up an investigation into Reform UK's Russian links, adding that Gill's action "undermines our country"."
#UKPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd74x8z9920o

2025-11-22 11:48:36 UTC

"Families of the #Covid bereaved have lashed out at Boris #Johnson for being “beyond contempt” after he used his column in a national newspaper to lampoon those “still wrangling on” about the deaths in the pandemic
"The disgraced former prime minister has refused to apologise for the 23,000 extra covid deaths he has been accused of causing by delaying taking action but instead launched a blistering attack into the pandemic inquiry itself."
#UKPol
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-covid-inquiry-column-b2870380.html