Britons of all ethnicities feel racial inequality is worsening, study shows

About 1,500 Britons a day quitting their jobs to become unpaid carers: ‘…they try to balance their vulnerable relatives’ growing care needs with declining access to state-funded social care services.’

The perilous economic conditions facing the UK can be traced back to Trump: Primarily 1) war in Iran, 2) tariffs. Anyone who loves Britain should loathe Trump.

Who are the 514 people accused of starting French wildfires and what motivates them?: Responsible for an unspeakable amount of damage this year.

Monarchs, MPs and merchants: the register laying bare Britain’s slave-trading past

Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can: Not the first time I’ve seen this sort of claim.

Councils pay more than £125m a year placing vulnerable children in illegal care homes in England: Private companies inevitably getting in on this lucrative ‘business’.

What is Patriot Platform, the far-right group that descended on Dover and Portsmouth?: Another England-hating group of cowards led by another convicted criminal.

Majority of Tory and Reform voters do not back cuts to disability benefits, survey finds: It’s a shame then that Reform have so little respect for their membership.

‘Army of patriots’: how a black-clad Christian vigilante group swarmed Portsmouth: Important story, bad headline - these people are not patriots or Christians as far as I can tell.

Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI

The “Taylor’s Version” generation is not gonna let Big AI steal her stuff

The real impact of the European Convention on Human Rights: The ECHR isn’t just some abstract notion, so of course we shouldn’t abolish it.

Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England: ‘The number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak world” dominated by austerity, the pandemic and social media.’

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.’

UK houses near top state secondary schools cost £40,000 more, research reveals: ‘The £40,574 extra, a premium of about 11%, can be compared with an average annual fee of £23,000 charged by private schools…’

Statins can reduce dementia risk by up to 15%, long-term study suggests

Arms and the £5m man: Farage megadonor Christopher Harborne’s military empire: Cryptocurrency isn’t the only enterprise making Reform’s number one donor very rich.

From “lanyardians” to “Yookay”, the strange new language of Britain’s right: ‘Reform UK voters are far more likely than those of any other party to wrongly think they have public opinion on their side.’

Have you got 10 minutes?: ‘…we must present a firm, united front to the hordes trying to convince us that we do.’

Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day: ‘In many ways - no, actually, in every way - Hardcore IndieWeb mirrors the very same web publishing practices that were used in the 90s when the web was brand new.’

AI is coming for your glasses: ‘Critics call it cringe stalkerware’, seems right, given Meta make them.

Who watches the Watchman? Reform UK’s new ‘investigative journalism’ front revealed: As ever, the reason the alt right claim to think there’s a ‘liberal establishment’ media conspiracy contaminating our mainstream news cycle is because they themselves are doing it.

Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn: ‘…changes included time limits, stopping notifications during school, a block on the app during critical overnight hours, bans on plastic surgery filters and more.’