Southport, Grenfell, Windrush – all scandals defined by i... The report into the stabbing of three young girls exposes another depressingly familiar raft of systemic failures and lack of official accountability

Southport, Grenfell, Windrush – all scandals defined by institutional indifference

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AI psychosis: a mental health crisis for the 21st century Chatbot dependence is reportedly affecting hundreds of thousands of people every week, leading to depression, breakdown and even death. As tech lawsuits stack up, what needs to be done to make AI safe...

AI psychosis: a mental health crisis for the 21st century

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Is AI the greatest art heist in history? New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

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This is what building resilience looks like.

Netanyahu-ism has achieved nothing for Israelis – and come at a monstrously high price | Jonathan Freedland It is the voting public in Israel that will settle their PM’s fate later this year. But all they have heard are promises of ‘total victory’ that prove to be hollow, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Fr...

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This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥

Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

Young people ‘more likely to leave for health reasons when in low-paid, insecure jobs’ Research for TUC analyses link between job quality and economic inactivity, as UK youth unemployment rises

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‘Unconstrained’ Trump seems to be on a quest to name most everything after himself President has affixed his name to institutions and edifices, and his visage now glowers from several federal buildings

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As Team Trump wage unceasing war on Iran, evangelical nationalists are destroying any moral world order we once had | Simon Tisdall The brutalisation of global norms by figures like Pete Hegseth has become a fight against chaos, and all major religions must play a role, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

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It’s the silver lining from this terrible age of Donald Trump: he is pushing Britain closer to the EU | Gaby Hinsliff Ten years after the Brexit vote, Trump’s disdain and insults are fuelling the belief that the UK should renew ties with Europe, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs Vice-president promises ‘to get to the bottom of’ reports of US government files about unidentified flying objects

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Yeah right. There’s a war on mate! 🙄🤪

‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall War is testing operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it

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‘People died’: Meta failed to heed warnings about harms t... Former UK minister and Meta adviser reveals he sent numerous memos to executives about platform risks, yet no changes were implemented

‘People died’: Meta failed to heed warnings about harms to children

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Zoë Hitzig: ‘AI is gambling with people’s minds’ The poet and Harvard economist quit OpenAI citing fears of political and psychological manipulation. She explains why time is running out to define our relationship with artificial intelligence

Zoë Hitzig: ‘AI is gambling with people’s minds’

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School system is creating a ‘wasted generation’ which is ... As a rising number of children miss more education, a cohort of up to 400,000 unemployable young people are set to have ‘catastrophic consequences’

School system is creating a ‘wasted generation’ which is unprepared for work

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‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel Ruling that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products marks possible watershed moment for big tech

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The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?

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Governments controlling prices? It has long been unthinkable – but may now be inevitable | Andy Beckett In Mexico and Spain, leaders who have capped public costs have been rewarded at the ballot box. As another cost of living surge arrives, it may be a policy our leaders are unable to resist, says Guard...

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At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder | Jonathan Freedland The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightback, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Just a thought. Would one way of regulating social media for under 16s be to make it illegal to give them a separate account and have their use fully visible to the adult who pays for the phone through a sub-account? #bbcaq

Spot on that caller. Regulation (in this case of social media use) sends a message and informs behaviour. It doesn’t need to be 100% successful to be a very good idea. #bbcaq

The government has already shifted some levies from energy to general taxation - hence the planned reduction in prices in April. Shouldn’t this be recognised in the interests of balance? #r4today

Overseas political funding capped and crypto donations blocked in blow to Reform UK Legislation subject to MPs’ approval but will be backdated due to urgency of threat to UK democracy, says minister

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Good decision to protect our democracy from foreign influence. Now implement the other recommendations as well…

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Well said Wes Streeting. Honest and passionate on the NHS and challenges ahead. #bbcqt

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Nigel never ever said this. Apparently.
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There are two people on this panel who are really not doing much to help the reputation of politicians. Their arguments are based on untruths and desperate rewriting of history. Clue: they are either side of Caroline Lucas. #bbcqt

Energy bills are coming down in April due to government shifting levies to general taxation. Fact. #bbcqt

Reeves plans to give England’s regional leaders a share of national tax revenues Chancellor seeks ‘genuine break with the past’ in tackling centralised and ‘geographically unequal’ country

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Why so many missed the point of the Economist’s Khamenei ... The furore over the obituary shows how literalism – and the loss of context, irony and satire – is reshaping debate in an age of internet stupidity

Why so many missed the point of the Economist’s Khamenei obituary

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