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[Link] England and Wales police bosses will not admit to institutional racism in their forces
Read: 1/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Police leaders in England and Wales will decide not to accept that their forces are still institutionally racist, as they try to battle their way out of a race crisis.
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[Link] We Followed a Foreign Fighter on His Way to Join the War in Ukraine
Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com
PRZEMYŚL, Poland - In the dead of night outside the Polish town of Przemyśl, an ex-British soldier named Luke hopped into a taxi after flying from Birmingham, England earlier that day, and made his way to a nearby border checkpoint with one goal in mind: Joining the Ukrainian war effort.
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[Link] UK Revives Dangerous Attempt to Verify Age of People Who Watch Porn
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
The bill would require social networks, and any websites that allow users to upload content, to enact a “duty of care” that would require sites to proactively remove harmful or illegal content.
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[Link] ‘Thought About Going Back to Peru?’ – Council Asks Family in UK Since 2004
Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com
According to an audio recording from the 22nd of November obtained by VICE World News, a housing officer from the Labour-run Southwark council asks the woman, “Have you thought about going back to Peru?” during a consultation for priority social housing.
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[Link] Iran nuclear talks pulled back from brink as Tehran shifts stance
Read: 9/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal have been hauled back from the brink of collapse as Tehran revised its stance after pressure from Russia and China and clear warnings that the EU and the US were preparing to walk away.
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[Link] Normal Island: UK Loses It Over ‘Illegal’ Christmas Party at Boris Johnson’s House
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Work Christmas parties are usually just a bit of fun – a chance to drink on the company buck and catch your married colleague kissing the office manager.
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[Link] Trump voices old grievances in freewheeling interview with Farage
Read: 2/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump attacked Boris Johnson’s plans for clean power, slammed the Duchess of Sussex as “disrespectful”, and voiced a litany of old grievances during a freewheeling interview with UK politician-turned-broadcaster Nigel Farage aired on British TV on Wednesday night.
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[Link] ‘Head of propaganda’ for UK neo-Nazi group faces jail after conviction
Read: 1/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
A man has been convicted of acting as “head of propaganda” for a banned neo-Nazi terror group set up to wage a race war in Britain.
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[Link] Queen congratulates Barbados as it becomes a republic
Read: 30/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
As Barbados removes the Queen as its head of state and becomes a republic, the monarch has sent her congratulations on the nation’s “momentous” day.
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[Link] A Snowstorm Trapped 50 People in a Remote Pub With an Oasis Tribute Band for 3 Days
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
Dozens of people may be looking back in anger at their decision to visit Britain’s highest pub after a dramatic winter storm and freezing temperatures prevented them from leaving for three nights and counting.
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[Link] UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s ‘embarrassing’ Spycatcher files
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Cabinet Office has been accused of “delay and deception” over its blocking of the release of files dating back more than three decades that reveal the inside story of the intelligence agent Peter Wright and the Spycatcher affair.
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[Link] Australian TV reporter Matt Doran gives lengthy on-air apology after he ‘insulted’ Adele
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australian TV reporter Matt Doran has made a lengthy, unreserved apology to Adele for failing to listen to her new album before an exclusive interview with the singer, calling the bungle a “terrible mistake”.
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[Link] 27 People Drowned Trying to Reach the UK
Read: 27/11/2021 www.vice.com
At least 27 people drowned crossing the Channel in an attempt to reach the UK from France.
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[Link] Jeremy Corbyn Paid ‘Substantial’ Damages Over Photoshopped Suicide Bomber Tweet
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Paul Nickerson also apologised for the photograph, which showed Corbyn laying a poppy wreath next to a burning taxi outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital and was captioned with the word “unsurprisingly”. Corbyn said the damages would be donated to charity.
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[Link] The young loyalist who dared contemplate the idea of a ‘new’, united, Ireland
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
He was the teenage supermarket worker who shocked MPs examining loyalist anger in Northern Ireland by claiming that sometimes violence “was the only tool you have left”. Joel Keys left the committee chair, Tory MP Simon Hoare, “chilled and appalled” and he faced a media backlash.
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[Link] Adele Reportedly Denies Ch7 Access To Footage Of Interview It Paid $1M For After Journo’s Snub
Read: 22/11/2021 www.pedestrian.tv
Oopsie, ballad queen Adele (via Sony) has reportedly denied Channel Seven access to footage of an interview it paid $1M for after their reporter admitted to the artist he hadn’t heard of the very album he was flown to London to interview her about.
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[Link] Taxi Explosion Outside UK Hospital Declared Terrorist Incident
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
An explosion that took place outside a hospital in Liverpool on Sunday has been declared a terrorist incident, UK police have said. The male passenger died in the explosion while the driver managed to escape the car and was treated in hospital before being released today.
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[Link] Five police officers injured in clashes with protesters in Parliament Square
Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Five police officers have been injured after clashing with hundreds of anti-establishment protesters in Parliament Square on Bonfire Night. Demonstrators wearing Guy Fawkes-style masks had gathered at nearby Trafalgar Square at the annual Million Mask March with some throwing fireworks at officers.
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[Link] Johnson will not declare Spanish holiday in MPs’ register, says No 10
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Boris Johnson will not declare a free luxury holiday he received at the Spanish villa belonging to the Goldsmith family in the register of MPs’ interests, Downing Street has said, meaning he does not have to detail the value of the gift.
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[Link] English town mourning Derek the Goose to erect statue in her honour
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A West Country harbour town famous for its links to an albatross is to erect a bronze statue in tribute to another bird – Derek the Goose.Residents of Watchet in Somerset are coming to terms with the loss of Derek, actually a female, who had lived in their harbour for more than a decade.
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[Link] Article 16 ‘very much on the table’ in Brexit row, says Frost
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
David Frost, the UK’s Brexit minister, has said triggering article 16 to suspend post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland is “very much on the table”, as he met his EU counterpart in Brussels.
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[Link] Police attacked in Belfast at protest over Northern Ireland protocol
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police in Belfast have been attacked with missiles and fireworks following a demonstration against the Brexit protocol in the north of the city. The disorder on Wednesday night took place on Lanark Way in the loyalist Shankill Road area close to the peace wall.
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[Link] ‘Nine Eyes’? Bill Would Look at Adding Four Countries to Intel-Sharing Pact
Read: 4/11/2021 www.defenseone.com
The United States’ “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing pact is a World War II relic that needs updating to better keep tabs on China, the chairman of a key house subcommittee on intelligence told Defense One. Arizona Democrat Rep.
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[Link] Data-breached Guntrader website calls in liquidators, is reborn as Guntrader 2 Ltd
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A British firearms sales website's owner has called in the liquidators as his company faces data breach lawsuits – while continuing to trade from a newly incorporated business. Guntrader Ltd entered a creditors' voluntary liquidation on 22 October.
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[Link] Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly contact a child as a result of the illegal images they watched online.
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[Link] Jellyfish Keep Attacking Nuclear Power Plants
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Jellyfish are continuing to clog the cooling intake pipes of a nuclear power plant in Scotland, which has previously prompted a temporary shutdowns of the plant.
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[Link] Cops Admit Sharing Images of Murdered Sisters on WhatsApp
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Two Metropolitan police officers have admitted to taking, altering and sharing images of two sisters who were found dead in a London park this year.
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[Link] Australians to be able to travel to the UK, US, Italy, Greece and more without having to quarantine
Read: 28/10/2021 www.9news.com.au
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has provided a list of countries in which Australians can travel to without having to spend time in mandatory isolation.
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[Link] British defence chief reveals new AUKUS security pact could expand to include other allies
Read: 22/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The UK's departing Chief of the Defence Staff has signalled the new trilateral AUKUS security pact with the United States and Australia could be expanded to include other allies such as Japan.
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[Link] Motorist fined after CCTV confuses his number plate with woman’s T-shirt
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
David Knight was baffled when he received a fine for driving in a bus lane in Bath – about 120 miles away from his home.
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[Link] Women Who Dressed as Couriers With Pink Backpacks to Deliver Drugs Over Lockdown Jailed
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Each of the women, all Brazilian nationals aged 24 to 33, wore a courier uniform, with distinctive pink backpacks, each with a “team” number written on (1, 2, 3 and 4), and a different coloured wallet inside with the driver’s name on.
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[Link] Tributes Paid After Stabbing of ‘Kind and Good’ UK MP David Amess
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Politicians and public figures have paid tribute to a “hugely kind and good” MP, Sir David Amess, who has died after being stabbed in a church while meeting local constituents. “I am so deeply, deeply saddened by the tragic news that Sir David has passed away,” Khan wrote on Twitter.
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[Link] Afghan refugee stabbed to death in London in front of schoolchildren
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A teenage Afghan refugee was stabbed to death on a sports field in south-west London in front of schoolchildren playing rugby.The victim, named by the Evening Standard as 18-year-old Hazrat Wali, was attacked at about 4.
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[Link] Coronavirus report warned of impact on UK four years before pandemic
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE, a computerised contact tracing system and screening for foreign travellers, the Guardian can reveal.
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[Link] Fifty police officers contacted woman arrested at Sarah Everard vigil on Tinder
Read: 6/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A campaigner whose photograph during her arrest became the defining image of the vigil for Sarah Everard has said she felt afraid after about 50 police officers and security guards then “liked” her profile on the Tinder dating app.
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[Link] What may happen if article 16 of Northern Ireland protocol is triggered?
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The UK Brexit minister, David Frost, has stepped up demands on the EU to renegotiate the Northern Ireland protocol, a linchpin of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. At a speech to the Conservative party conference, Frost said “tinkering around the edges” of the protocol would not be enough.
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[Link] Boris Johnson admits he has six children
Read: 22/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Boris Johnson has admitted for the first time that he has six children, claiming in an interview on US television that he “changes a lot of nappies”. The prime minister has previously tended to avoid questions about his notoriously complex family life.
[Link] Australia tries to calm diplomatic bust-up with France over submarine deal
Read: 19/9/2021 www.9news.com.au
The Federal Government has responded to France's decision to recall its ambassadors to Australia and the US.
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[Link] France recalls ambassadors to US and Australia after Aukus pact
Read: 19/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
France has recalled its ambassadors to the the US and Australia for consultations sparked by the “exceptional seriousness” of Canberra’s surprise decision to cancel an order for French-built submarines and its security pact with Washington and London.
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[Link] UK Police Shut Down Pirate IPTV Network With “Hundreds of Thousands” of Customers
Read: 16/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
West Midlands Police and the Federation Against Copyright Theft say they have dismantled a major illegal streaming operation in the UK. Two men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of copyright infringement, fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.
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[Link] Fact-checking works to undercut misinformation in many countries
Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com
In the wake of the flood of misinformation that's drowning the US, lots of organizations have turned to fact-checks. Many newsrooms set up dedicated fact-check groups, and some independent organizations were formed to provide the service.
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[Link] Scotland to trial a four-day week
Read: 1/9/2021 www.bbc.com
Getting back to work is going to take some time, partly through resistance from office workers. Returning to where we were more than 18 months ago seems highly unlikely.
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[Link] Sky Subscribers’ Piracy Habits Directly Help Premier League Block Illegal Streams
Read: 29/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
UK ISP Sky Broadband is monitoring the IP addresses of servers suspected of streaming pirated content to subscribers and supplying that data to an anti-piracy company working with the Premier League.
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[Link] Boy, 12, makes £290,00 in non-fungible tokens with digital whale art
Read: 28/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
A 12-year-old boy had made about £290,000 after creating digital pictures of whales and selling tokens of their ownership which are stored on blockchain.Benyamin Ahmed’s collection of pixelated artworks called Weird Whales went viral during the school holidays.
[Link] Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free to all
Read: 26/8/2021 www.sciencemag.org
The United Kingdom currently has one of the highest rates of open-access publication in the world, with many researchers posting their research papers on websites that make them publicly available for free.
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[Link] U.S. chip start-up says its work with UK’s biggest plant came to a ‘screeching halt’ after Chinese takeover
Read: 26/8/2021 www.cnbc.com
Pennsylvania-based Ideal Semiconductor told CNBC it was getting silicon wafers processed at the Newport Wafer Fab in Wales up until the fab was acquired by Dutch firm Nexperia, which is 100% owned by Shanghai-headquartered Wingtech Technologies.
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[Link] Activist raided by police after downloading London property firm's 'confidential' meeting minutes from Google Search
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theregister.com
A man who viewed documents online for a controversial London property development and shared them on social media was raided by police after developers claimed there had been a break-in to their systems.
[Link] Nazis and incels are using Gotye and MGMT to evade TikTok's auto-moderators, report finds
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
While it's hardly surprising fringe groups have used social media platforms to post hateful material, experts say TikTok has birthed creative ways to distribute the content and avoid auto-takedowns.
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[Link] Actors ‘told they’re too disabled’ for disabled roles in UK television
Read: 24/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Actors have been told they are “too disabled” to play disabled roles in popular television series, with parts instead going to able-bodied people, according to a leading screenwriter who has called for television companies to adopt quotas for people with disabilities.
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[Link] Nosedive in UK-US relations is another casualty of Afghanistan’s fall
Read: 23/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
So much for the special relationship. As the Afghanistan crisis has unfolded, it has precipitated a high-speed deterioration in Anglo-American relations.
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[Link] WB Yeats, the Spanish flu and an experiment in quarantine
Read: 22/8/2021 www.irishtimes.com
WB Yeats’s December 14th, 1918 letter to New York lawyer John Quinn alludes to the dramatic impact of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 on the Yeats family.
[Link] British Student ‘Lord Miles’ Evacuated from Afghanistan
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
Miles Routledge, the 21 year old university student who traveled to Kabul on Friday just before the Taliban overthrew Afghanistan's government, has been evacuated to Dubai, according to updates and video he posted to his Facebook page.
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[Link] The UK finally got Big Tech to boost teens’ privacy
Read: 17/8/2021 www.protocol.com
Social media platforms are suddenly all increasing privacy standards for teen users. Why now, after all these years? It looks like new U.K. privacy rules got the ball rolling.
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[Link] Swift Taliban takeover proves US and UK analysis badly wrong
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Joe Biden could not have been clearer: a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was “not inevitable”, the US president said on 8 July.
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[Link] Police Visit Pirate IPTV Suppliers’ Homes to Serve Cease-and-Desist Notices
Read: 15/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Police officers across the UK have visited the homes of people reportedly involved in the supply of pirate IPTV services. The operation, which involved the organized crime-focused Eastern Region Special Operations Unit, was carried out in conjunction with the Federation Against Copyright Theft.
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[Link] Sam Pepper investigated by LA police in July
Read: 14/8/2021 www.bbc.com
Police in Los Angeles have told Newsbeat they investigated YouTube star Sam Pepper in July on suspicion of a sexual offence against a woman. LAPD have confirmed he was not contacted, questioned or arrested.
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[Link] Happy snaps: ‘There’s a lot of bad stuff from Covid, but it gives you a sense of community’
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
When a hard lockdown was announced for the Canterbury-Bankstown local government area in Sydney, preventing residents from leaving the council for non-essential work, all of Cara O’Dowd’s jobs disappeared.
[Link] ‘Pub Testers’ Being Recruited To Clamp Down on Football Piracy
Read: 8/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
With the new Premier League season due to kick off in less than a week's time, pubs across the country will be showing matches to their customers.
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[Link] What do many terrorists have in common? They abuse women
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Five years ago, I began to notice that the perpetrators of some of the worst terrorist attacks had something in common.
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[Link] Johnson makes ‘unbelievably crass’ joke about Thatcher closing coal mines
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
On a visit to Scotland on Thursday, the prime minister made a number of provocative comments, stating that a second referendum on Scottish independence is “about as far from the top of my agenda as it is possible to be”.
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[Link] Pakistani Man Live-Tweets His Loving Search For an Indian Man After Finding His Wallet
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
When educator Ghazi Taimoor was strolling down London’s Shoreditch High Street, he stumbled upon a brown wallet on the ground. Right away, he scanned the area to see who could be its owner, but it seemed they were already lost in the bustling crowd.
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[Link] Noel Clarke quits his own production company following sexual misconduct allegations
Read: 6/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Noel Clarke has left his production company, Unstoppable Film and TV, after allegations of bullying and sexual misconduct first reported in the Guardian in April.
[Link] Baby turtles ingest more plastic than adults due to how they eat, where they live
Read: 5/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Baby turtles are more likely to consume plastic waste polluting the ocean than adults because of their eating habits, an international team of researchers has found.
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[Link] Ship that blocked the Suez canal docks in UK – four months late
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The container ship that caused global disruption after blocking the Suez canal earlier this year has finally docked in the UK – four months later than planned.
[Link] Racists told ‘stay away’ from Ben Nevis after banner unfurling
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Racists have been warned to stay away from Ben Nevis after a far-right group unfurled a “white lives matter” banner at the top of Scotland’s highest mountain peak on Sunday.
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[Link] Vigil held in London park for murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Large crowds lit candles and laid flowers at a vigil to remember murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman on Tuesday evening on what would have been Nicole’s 29th birthday.
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[Link] Iranian state-backed hackers posed as flirty Scouser called Marcy to target workers in defence and aerospace
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Iranian state-backed hackers posed as a flirty Liverpudlian aerobics instructor in order to trick defence and aerospace workers into revealing secrets, according to a newly-published study.
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[Link] The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot
Read: 28/7/2021 www.bbc.com
A mysterious marketing agency secretly offered to pay social media stars to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines. Their plan failed when the influencers went public about the attempt to recruit them.
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[Link] Tobacco firm Philip Morris calls for ban on cigarettes within decade
Read: 26/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The chief executive of tobacco business Philip Morris International has called on the UK government to ban cigarettes within a decade, in a move that would outlaw its own Marlboro brand.
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[Link] Assange fiancee rejects US proposals over possible extradition
Read: 14/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
US assurances that Julian Assange would not be held under the strictest maximum-security conditions if extradited from the UK have been rejected by his fiancee, who described them as a formula to keep him in prison for the rest of his life.
[Link] Brexit ‘divorce bill’ higher than UK’s forecasts, Brussels estimates
Read: 14/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The UK’s Brexit “divorce bill” is €47.5bn (£40.8bn) according to estimates from Brussels that are higher than the government’s forecasts. The first tranche, €6.8bn, is due for payment by the end of the year.
[Link] Ransomware-hit law firm gets court order asking crooks not to publish the data they stole
Read: 12/7/2021 www.theregister.com
A barristers' chambers hit by a ransomware attack has responded by getting a court order demanding the criminals do not share stolen data.
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[Link] Trident, aid and spies: key points in UK's integrated review
Read: 26/3/2021 www.theguardian.com
Trident: Cap on the nuclear warhead stockpile to increase for first time since the end of the cold war, to 260, ending a previous target of reducing it to 180 by the mid-2020s.