Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data: A well-deserved outcome for a company that ‘used “various tricks” to ensure location history and web and app activity were enabled’.
Crime
2026-09-22
2026-09-20: Person of Interest - an action sci-fi show from 15 years ago - raises questions about AI and surveillance we still need to urgently grapple with
2026-09-20
Thousands of pregnant women in England are reporting domestic abuse. Midwives are struggling to cope: An estimated 20,000 report per year.
2026-09-19: An investigative journalist describes how one of the most consequential acts of sabotage in recent history (probably) took place, and what came next
2026-09-14: Political high-ups accusing everyday people or fraud are simply telling you what they themselves would do
2026-09-14
Who are the 514 people accused of starting French wildfires and what motivates them?: Responsible for an unspeakable amount of damage this year.
2026-09-01
Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny: ‘Dry day spills will almost always be deliberate and illegal’
Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs: ‘The plaintiffs claim they are victims of “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’
2026-08-13: Obviously, the violent and racist mob plaguing Thetford must be condemned in the strongest terms.
2026-07-04
UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears: ‘The average parent or carer does not post a picture of a child online thinking that it might be scraped to be turned into CSAM’.
2026-06-27: Patriot: the memoirs of the incredibly brave Russian anti-corruption campaigner, Alexei Navalny
2026-05-02
2026-02-16
Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core: ‘Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 6.5% of the true number of cases’
2026-02-08: Where to view and download the recently released 'Epstein files'
2026-02-05: Despicable sex crimes aside, Jeffrey Epstein aimed to orchestrate 'the downfall of the global order'
2026-01-04: Yet more of the apparent hypocrisy: November 28 2025: Trump issues a full pardon to ex-Honduran …
2026-01-01: Reform's defence of your right to tweet 'controversial' opinions only extends to their ideological friends
2025-12-09
Brits keep getting arrested for tweets. Elon Musk is (part of) the reason.: ‘…by refusing to even attempt to regulate social media networks directly, the government has tacitly accepted that police will be left to police unmoderated social networks directly’
2025-10-29
A strange brew: the case of the man behind an audacious Scottish tea fraud: Real tea, but not from Scotland.
2025-10-15
London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why: Thousands of stolen phone shipped abroad for resale with little likelihood of being caught.
2025-09-18
2025-09-13
Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster: ‘Escalating political violence corrodes democratic norms and poses a unique threat to the Left.’
2025-09-11: 'The Mauritanian' tells the story of one person's horrific experience of Guantanamo Bay
2025-09-07: The dominance of the right in recent US political violence
2025-08-30: Two out of every five protestors arrested at last years anti-immigrant protests had a history of domestic abuse