*Alastair Campbell* pontificating about how what upsets him most about Mandelson is that it feeds a "They're all the same" narrative is just too much. If there is one single person to blame for that narrative it's Alastair Campbell. Post-1997 New Labour was its genesis.

Parents can do this with an app. There is no justification for banning VPNs and regulating what features social platforms may or may not have when the easy solution for any parent who thinks this is an issue is staring them in the face and available now.

BREAKING: Swiss commentator kept on reminding viewers of the war crimes the pilot has openly supported, while the Israeli bobsleigh team was racing on the Olympics.

"This judicial distinction between terror and crime matters". theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Germany's CDU wants to end anonymous speech online. Register with your real name, verify your ID, or lose your voice in the public square. Merz's party calls this "accountability." It's a government registry of everyone who speaks.

Meta wants to scan the face of every person who walks past its glasses, even complete strangers. People who never agreed to anything. Their own internal doc says release it while civil liberties groups are too distracted to fight back. They can't defend it on the merits so

The British government wants to scan everyone’s photos before they’re sent. Tech Secretary Liz Kendall floated blocking “potentially nude” images, which means government-mandated client side scanning on your device before encryption.

Daniel Johnson MSP Could you detail how the SNP being informed of the scale of the amount that their former CEO has been charged with embezzling from the party has resulted in a political disadvantage to Labour in an election year?

Weapons and surveillance. The real risks of AI to us are risks posed *by* government, not ones government protects us from. Remember that Shabana Mahmood wants us to live in Bentham's Panopticon. If that's what they want, that's what they're steering us into accepting.

Merz wants mandatory real names on social media. What he didn't mention: Germany already lets politicians file criminal complaints over online insults, and he's personally filed hundreds of them. Real names just means no more anonymous criticism of the people who can have you

Hi there The New York Times. Vis-a-vis yesterday's Spelling Bee, "concomitant" is a word and would've been a pangram and I think I should be due some kind of compensation. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Ben-Gvir is one of the most racist brutal psychopaths in the world. In any civilised, law abiding country he would be in jail. In Israel he is a senior government Minister

Ukrainian March in Glasgow tonight. Chanting "thank you Scotland, thank you Glasgow!". And "Independence, Free Ukraine!".

The UK's age verification push just got a real-world test with Xbox. It kicked players out mid-game, rejected their government IDs, and locked them out of apps like Discord. This is what UK Prime Minister Starmer wants to roll out across all social media in months.