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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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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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