‘Wild west’: experts concerned by illegal promotion of weight-loss jabs in UK: Companies are effectively flouting the ban on marketing prescription drugs direct to the public.
Crime
2024-12-26
2024-12-07
Rape trials collapse as victims abandon cases amid long court delays: Some of the measures designed to improve the experience for complainants may have backfired.
2024-11-26
Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info: A Japanese government agency was phished.
2024-11-26: From The Register: A local Japanese government agency dedicated to preventing organized crime has …
2024-11-17: One more failure in care: locking up children in dangerous places
2024-11-17
Fears grow over UK children at risk placed in illegal care homes: Many children subject to Deprivation of Liberty orders are being locked up in wholly unsuitable places.
2024-11-09: 📚 Finished reading Rough Justice by Wendy Joseph.
2024-10-29
Hundreds of ballots possibly burned after Vancouver ballot box arson: FBI investigating: Doesn’t bode well for next week’s US election.
2024-10-21
The ‘Internet of Things’ helping to provide key evidence in criminal trials: The Crown Prosecution Service’s take on the utility of our data-gathering gadgets.
2024-10-15
Armed man arrested near Trump’s California rally was plotting to kill him, police say: Are there usually quite so many assassination attempts on a US presidential candidate?
2024-10-04
Digital Content Piracy Is on the Rise: Not very surprising given ‘legitimate’ services are raising prices, reducing libraries, adding adverts and generally making the experience of using them worse.
2024-09-27
Eric Adams charged with taking bribes and foreign campaign contributions: Another US politico-crime first - Adams is the first sitting New York City mayor to be subject to criminal charges.
2024-09-22
Criminal Investigative Analysis: Part 1 of 4 of a Law Enforcement Bulletin article I found when looking up whether the Behavioural Analysis Unit from “Criminal Minds” was real - it is, but what they do is usually rather different.
2024-09-19: Now Hezbollah's walkie-talkies are exploding
2024-09-07: Fake streamers listening to fake music by fake artists on Spotify allegedly made a single fraudster at least $10 million
2024-08-14: So far in 2024, one woman in the UK has allegedly been killed by a man every three days on average. …
2024-08-13: The UK far right riots show the days of overt and violent racist behaviour in the UK are far from over
2024-07-16: 404 Media reveals the “Face Fraud” marketplace, wherein for a few dollars you can buy a …
2024-07-14: Contra the New Yorker, Christopher Snowdon gives us some reasons to believe that the case …
2024-07-02: Last month Ticketmaster got hacked by a group known as ShinyHunters, the same group that previously …
2024-06-29: New scandal dropped: The Conservative officials who bet on the election date based on inside knowledge
2024-06-24: Another huge NHS data leak following a ransomware attack
2024-05-30: Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his historic …
2024-05-22: The New Yorker suggests there was little evidence behind the conviction of Lucy Letby
2024-05-19: In reassuring news, it turns out that the security code needed to get into the UK’s National …