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The next time someone advocates breaking end to end encryption, remind them that the agency which will have the key to the back door has been taken over by far right loons.

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Good Law Project is supporting a growing portfolio of public interest employment law cases involving high profile defendants implicated in sexual assault, racism and genocide denial. We are looking for an employment solicitor to run this strand of our work. goodlawproject.org/vacancy/seni...

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Tesla sales are tanking. Let's keep the pressure on and make this the most successful consumer boycott in history, people: electrek.co/2025/04/02/t... #TeslaTakedown #LFG

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Parliament needs to do everything possible to keep Musk out of British politics

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Eloquent and compelling valedictory article from Simon Tisdall in diminishing Oberver

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Best analysis I have read on the US UK no longer so special relationship. We do need to stop feeding the monster! Britain has been paying a high price for Uncle Sam’s craziness. It’s time to turn to Europe | Simon Tisdall | Simon Tisdall

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Like all bullies, Trump backs down in the face of people more resolute and braver than him.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

www.wired.com/story/signal... Another great piece from @wired.com, this time from @agreenberg.bsky.social Whatever else this episode is about, it’s not about the security of Signal

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I continue to be appalled at the lack of accountability around the SLAPP case that targeted me. If I can get sued for saying a warlord sanctioned by the EU, UK, and US for his role in Wagner is involved with Wagner then can we really say there's any protection for journalists in the UK from SLAPPs?

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Latest from PMQs on rumours the UK govt will scrap the digital services tax to appease Trump/Musk

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When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

submitted 11 days ago • 624 comments

This satirical post seems to have caught the mood overnight, with heavy likes, and with many seeing it as all too plausible. One worry is that it will now become an urban myth and believed to be true. A greater worry, which cannot easily be dismissed, is that it is actually true.

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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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"The sat nav says it's this way." "But that's a cliff!" "The sat nav's never wro - aaaaargh ...." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Germany urges Britain to rejoin EU customs union Sounds like a plan www.politico.eu/article/germ...

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"Poverty in Britain exists not because we don't have enough money to satisfy the needs of the poor, but because we don't have enough money to satisfy the greed of the rich." My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments

Welsh for cappuccino is spot on ...

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"We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government.... Our problem in part is a failure of imagination. We cannot get ourselves to see how this is going to unfold in its most frightening versions." --Lee Bollinger, former president of Columbia University.

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The lawsuit is by FB shareholders, filed in Delaware. Zuckerberg has threatened to move FB to another state unless Delaware revamps its law to make these challenges less likely/impossible

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Lord Darzi, whose review informed Streetings’ decision to abolish NHS England last week, failed to disclose his own extensive portfolio in commercial private healthcare interests. Darzi is an eminent surgeon and professor at Imperial College London. It’s just woeful apple.news/AFQZADHg7RKW...

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All facts. They put a Russian agent in charge of our intelligence agencies.

submitted 19 days ago • 92 comments

DON’T buy a TESLA from @ledbydonkeys.org www.youtube.com/shorts/ncA8L...

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Completely despicable and insupportable Trump says he’ll speak to Putin tomorrow about ‘dividing up certain assets’ in Ukraine - Bloomberg apple.news/A2vVipFpxRE-...

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Imagine a country's leader speaking articulately and coherently with actual facts and reason—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explains clearly the repercussions of Trump's trade war on Canada and exactly how it's going to cause tremendous pain to Americans.

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NEWS: We got Judge Alsup's memorandum opinion explaining his rationale for the preliminary injunction he issued from the bench in the case out of California over the fired probationary employees. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Listen Iain Dale The government's new plan to combat foreign influence has an impressive name and not much bite www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

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Breaking: Bipartisan Members of Congress to the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal: UK Gag Orders for Surveillance Backdoors Threaten Americans’ Security and Privacy, Impede Congressional Oversight www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-r...

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WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social : “Nothing says something has proved successful like the person targeted by the campaign getting his friend the president to start selling cars.”

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Military chiefs from most NATO and EU countries met in Paris yesterday to discuss new security arrangements. The US wasn’t invited. It was a closed door meeting and there’s been no announcement of outcome but with both Australia and Japan in attendance we seem to be seeing a new alliance forming.

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First piece of cybersecurity advice to high-risk actors: use end-to-end encryption, WHEREVER it’s available. Unfortunately though, the 🇬🇧 Foreign Office is at least complicit in their Home Office colleagues’ war on #E2EE. Brits can of course no longer use Apple’s iCloud version #ADP 🤬

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One odd thing about all this is that that those who shout about wanting "de-regulation" are also clapping and cheering at tariffs, the one of the oldest forms of, well, regulating trade. Words are detached from concepts, no connections are being made. Muddled (lack of) thinking instead of policy.

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europewithoutamerica.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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Trump’s retaliation against law firms is having its predictable chilling effect. Punishing law firms for representing clients the president dislikes infringes on the 6th Amendment right to counsel of one’s choice and the 1st Amendment right to free association.

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Gen Z don’t want dictators. They want functioning democracy. A recent poll was widely misinterpreted, fuelling unnecessary generational panic. Our research tells a very different story | Prof Bobby Duffy & Dr Paolo Morini @eastangliabylines.co.uk

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Following our report on the Home Office’s secret demand to Apple to break its security encryption on iCloud, Apple has just responded. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666190...

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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

submitted 27 days ago • 452 comments

Top trolling by the pub's new owner. 👏

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

Important future moment to focus on

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This is clearly going to survive as a political matter given the existential security crisis facing Europe, and the UK’s ability become part of a nuclear umbrella for its neighbours. Please just don’t take the piss with onward personal data transfers to Trumpland, Starmer 🤦🏻‍♂️ #DAUBill

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Telling, if obvious. Grok estimates "75-85% likelihood that Trump is a Putin-compromised asset, leaning toward the higher end (around 85%) due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties." Nice one, @edkrassenn.bsky.social x.com/i/grok/share...

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French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 31 days ago • 1727 comments

Trump is helping the Kremlin kill even more Ukrainian civilians today. (Ukraine has never targeted Russian civilians, by the way) This is where we are now. The world's policeman has now joined the global gangsters #Rooting4Putin

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

I did exactly the same search on the redirect page. Yes indeed. Is there any guidance left on the NCSC site that would commend encryption and for others at high risk such as international NGOs, journalists and the like?

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.

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