It's the "some of my best friends are black" defence.

Facial recognition to be 'rolled out' across UK after human rights challenge fails Minister says 'law abiding citizens have nothing to fear' after judges rule in favour of police use of live facial recognition technology in London.

The government have carried out their consultation, totally ignored the responses and are introducing country wide facial recognition

Those masks serve a number of purposes😷

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Speaking as a straight white man, it's always straight white men.

Great minds and fools ...

"I've just sat on my nuts"

British universities paid security firm to monitor pro-Palestine students - Liberty Investigates Horus provided reports about student protesters' social media use and undertook background checks on a Palestinian guest speaker

University of Nottingham is one of 12 university who hired a private security firm to spy on staff, students and guest speakers who voiced support for the Palestinian people.

@uonucu.bsky.social

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We are so back. 65% voter turn out 76% say yes to strikes 87% say yes to asos UoN UCU says yes to industrial action and no to cuts, closures, and redundancies. Again.

The results are in. And it's a massive win for our union.
(📷: @tregenza.bsky.social)

border village of Mais al-Jabal and set fire to ambulances belonging to the al-Rissala Scouts civil defense, affiliated with the Amal movement, according to L’Orient Today’s correspondent. 🔸 Israeli artillery fired twelve shells in minutes against the villages of Deir Siryan, al-Hujeir, and Slouqi on the south bank of the Litani River, according to the state news agency and L’Orient. 🔸 Israeli forces carried out multiple large detonations in Shamaa, a border village in the Sour (Tyre) district of southern Lebanon — the second such strike there today. Haaretz cited senior IDF commanders describing an ongoing plan to raze Lebanese border villages several miles inland in an operation referred to internally as “Silver Plow.” 🔸 The Israeli army claimed its Paratroopers Brigade killed fighters in the Bint Jbeil area and that Golani Brigade forces killed others near the Litani, saying both groups “violated ceasefire agreements” and posed an “immediate threat.” No independent evidence was provided. The IDF said its 98th and 36th Divisions are continuing operations “in order to prevent an imminent threat against Israel’s northern communities.” 🎥 The Israeli army sets fire to the homes of residents in villages in southern Lebanon. Via @tamerqdh

See new posts Conversation Tamer | تامر @tamerqdh Translated from Arabic The Israeli army sets fire to the homes of residents in villages in southern Lebanon.

💢 NEW: Israeli Forces Burn Ambulances, Shell Villages & Claim Kills During Lebanon Ceasefire

Israeli military attacks continued across southern Lebanon Mon. evening despite a 10-day ceasefire in effect.

🔸 Israeli troops entered the Imam al-Sadr sports complex in the border village of Mais...

Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.

The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

"Angry Starmer"

UK child poverty rose to 31% between 2012 and 2024.

Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: BBC to cut up to 2,000 jobs Press Gazette will update this page throughout 2026 with any journalism job cuts and redundancies announced in the UK or US.

Sixteen unionised employees have reportedly been laid off at Conde Nast amid changes and closures including the closure of Self, a restructure at Glamour and winding down of its operations in Germany, Spain and Mexico, and the closure of Wired in Italy pressgazette.co.uk/news/journal...

Pretty much every character in Slow Horses.

This is deep

Nadia on... why we should care about Palantir Nottingham MP Nadia Whittome discusses powerful tech company Palantir and why we should care about them accessing our data.

In last month’s @leftlion.bsky.social column, I wrote about why the government must end its relationship with Palantir, the powerful tech company involved in deeply unethical contracts.

Proposed new police powers ‘a draconian threat to the right to protest’

The government’s Crime and Policing Bill returns to the commons for its final stages on Tuesday 14 April. MPs will consider lords amendments, including a proposal that will grant the police sweeping new powers to restrict or…

Consecutive Israeli strikes kill 4 Lebanese medics as Israel-Hezbollah war grinds on Paramedic groups say the Israeli military has killed four Lebanese rescue workers and wounded six others in three consecutive, targeted strikes.

Israel attacked multiple ambulances in Lebanon yesterday, murdering four medics.

As Keir Starmer has very strong feelings on ambulances being attacked I'm sure he will be making a statement any moment now....

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Ask yourself "Who has benefitted from the massive cuts to BBC journalists in recent years?"

A: the licence payer
B: our democratic process and society at large
C: far-right politicians and rich media owners who rely on ignorance for their success.

Radical idea: rather than banning under 16s and forcing everyone to hand over sensitive id information to companies notorious for the misuse of data ...

Why don't we make social media a safe space for kids by punishing companies that allow Nazis and pedophiles on their platform?

A year under attack – and a year fighting back Jess O’Thomson and Jolyon Maugham reflect on what has happened in the year since the Supreme Court’s judgment, and how the trans community has courageously fought back

It's a year today since the Supreme Court decision on the meaning of "sex" under the Equality Act 2010.

Jolyon Maugham and I have written a reflective piece with our thoughts on the judgment, everything that has happened since, and why it's so important that we are still fighting - together 👇

I have written to the Foreign Secretary about the escalation of deadly Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and Israel's systematic demolition of Palestinian homes.

The letter urges the government to make diplomatic interventions and impose sanctions.

Graphic of a redacted newspaper frontpage imagining what it could look like "if legal bullies have their way".

Today, the NUJ and its UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition partners are bringing attention to SLAPPs. These are abusive legal threats & lawsuits filed to silence critical speech, which can target journalists, whistleblowers, campaigners, academics, and more. #StopSLAPPs

Looks good.

Not sure apps are the way to go for promoting photographers but great for small news organisations.

So glad this story is gaining traction & wanted to highlight that @andrewdeck.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org broke the news that NYT/Guardian/USA Today were blocking IA earlier this year. Encourage all to read: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...

If you are not paying attention to the Iranian propaganda videos, then you should be.

They will be in the history books as the perfect zeitgeistian car crash of technology and global culture.

Tonight MPs will vote on the govt's latest attempt to crack down on the right to protest - this time through restricting recurrent protests.

Myself and fellow Green MPs will be voting against these plans; peaceful protest is a cornerstone of our democracy and must be defended.

It's easy to lose the substantive win here in the Government's transphobic framing. Last summer, we expected the Code to be forced through without scrutiny. Instead, they have had to amend it and recognise they got their legal analysis wrong. It was our community's hard work that achieved this.

Woman "Flags went up before the potholes were sorted. You could not tell the truth if your life depended on it. So get your silly little racist flags and stick them where the sun doesn't shine. It's pathetic. You're pathetic"

Lee Anderson "It's very nice to meet you"

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Have the courts given any justification for the order not to report?