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Firms will be expected to activate built-in features to stop children accessing sexually explicit images.
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The prime minister has pledged "decisive" measures in response to calls for an Australia-style ban.
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Too many leaders have appeased the rightwing culture warriors. In the wake of the Henry Nowak rioting, the time for a push against toxicity and untruths is nowIt is easy to regard, and thus disregard, the riots following the conviction of Henry Nowak’s murderer as an explosion of reaction by a flammable and motivated minority. The more uncomfortable truth is that a specific notion, that people of colour have been privileged over and above mere equality, and been given dominion over white people,
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Watch live results from Jersey’s General Election as they’re declared, with Matthew Price.
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Exclusive: Practice that includes women fleeing abuse is ‘ripping at social fabric’ of towns in poorest parts of EnglandVulnerable families including women fleeing abuse are being illegally “dumped” hundreds of miles away by London councils in a practice “ripping at the social fabric” of deprived towns, a Guardian investigation has found.Against the backdrop of a deepening housing crisis, the number of homeless people forced out of London has doubled in the past two years. Continue reading...
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Andrew Sparrow has been writing the Guardian’s daily political live blog for more 15 years. How does he cope with the relentless psychodrama of British politics?On Monday at 14:12 BST, the Guardian’s Andrew Sparrow posted two sentences announcing one of the largest government document dumps in British political history:The Cabinet Office has published the Mandelson files.
They are in three volumes.Many people despair at the quality of governance in Britain at the moment, but in one respect we
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Policy U-turns could define her stint at No 11 despite many sure-footed advances on devolved spending to help kickstart growthAn air of unreality settled on a Westminster conference room last week, as Rachel Reeves, upbeat in a powder pink power suit, gave a speech about boosting jobs and growth along the “OxCam corridor”.“If we get this right, working together, this corridor will not just compete globally, it will lead globally. We can do that together!” she told the audience of investors, poli
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An autism school in Wiltshire exemplifies what’s so different about education in a tailored environment, and the outcomes for children speak for themselvesIn the old Wiltshire milltown of Calne, there is an autism specialist school called the Springfields Academy. About 250 children and young people between the age of four and 19 go there. Class sizes are no larger than 12. In each room, every child has their own dedicated table. There are no end of seating options, described by the headteacher,
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Lammy says he told the US vice-president the teen's murder "has got nothing to do with mass migration".
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The local police force wanted to address what it described as online ‘disinformation’ during active court proceedings against Vickrum Digwa, a report saidGood morning and welcome to our live coverage of UK politics. The justice secretary, David Lammy, is being interviewed by the BBC and Sky News this morning and will likely be asked about the future of police reform in the wake of the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak.The case has come under fresh scrutiny today with a report in the Sunday Times
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It will surprise no one that Your Party has split. Why can’t the left stick together? | Zoe Williams
Talk of witch-hunts and personality clashes was very publicly aired, when all we wanted to know was what the party actually stood forLast weekend, Your Party officially split, with 250 members voting to start a second leftwing party, the Socialist Federation. Neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Zarah Sultana represent this new faction, with both remaining in Your Party.While many of those members are part of “Grassroots Left”, Sultana’s faction of Your Party, she has no role in the new party, and is still
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The Defence Investment Plan is now due to be released ahead of a Nato summit early next month.
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The prime minister's position has hardened since Andy Burnham said he would seek to enter any potential Labour contest.
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Brands such as Portmeirion in Stoke welcome £120m package but seek further support to avert fresh closuresOn the floor of Portmeirion’s factory in Staffordshire, staff are hard at work as clays are moulded, glazed and fired – an intricate process requiring precision and specialist skills honed over years of practice – to manufacture the company’s array of tableware.Portmeirion, a homeware brand founded in 1960 that employs 433 people, is based in Stoke-on-Trent, at the heart of British ceramics.
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The police response to the murder of Henry Nowak has triggered a heated transatlantic debate.
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The principle underlying the release of the Mandelson papers is that officials are always ‘on the record’ – but our leaders must be able to speak their minds freelyDid you know a Cabinet Office minister commiserated with Peter Mandelson on his being sacked as ambassador to Washington, saying that he was “so sorry”? How could Darren Jones possibly sympathise with a friend who lost his job? Yet his sympathy was not even on the public record, in the 1500 pages of new revelations about the Mandelson
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The US vice president wrote the "only response is righteous anger" when referring to Henry Nowak's death on X.
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Actors have had their voices cloned by an AI fueled disinformation campaign that's targeting Armenia.
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Lucy Powell calls for tougher laws to tackle misinformation and says Reform UK has benefited from bots and troll farms Reform UK is destabilising British democracy by spreading divisive material that is being amplified by bots and troll farms, Labour’s deputy leader has said.Lucy Powell called for tighter laws on social media giants to tackle misinformation, arguing the online space was “open to wealthy individuals, and bad state actors”. Continue reading...
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Getting children to school is becoming a thorny issue for councils to deal with.