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Crime

2026-09-22

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’.

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

UN warns women in public life face increasingly sophisticated online violence

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

Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk’s Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division

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