The Queen of shops who accidentally helped wreck the great British high street: ‘The same YouGov survey that revealed 78 per cent of us supposedly value our high streets also revealed that we don’t necessarily value them enough to actually use them: only 28 per cent of respondents said they used their local high street at least once a week, and only 53 per cent of people said they used theirs even once a month.’

Four months in Poland: Keenan moves to Poland.

The next Post Office scandal? Meet the fishermen fighting an ecocide

The Transatlantic Myth: ‘America was never the partner Europe imagined - nor should we want it to be.’

we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas: ‘This is what we get when any hint of “thinking outside the box” gets slapped down as socialism/communism/anti-business/un-American, generally.’

‘You are a humanitarian also, sir’: the US feeds Putin with lies as Ukraine’s children take cover and die

Orangutans prefer food associated with sounds of laughter, study suggests: ‘Orangutans base their food choices on whether others appear to be having a good time’

Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world

The Media ‘Manufactured’ Millionaire Exodus From UK, Campaigners Tell IPSO in Open Letter

turfgrass brain: ‘Throw off your chains, my American brethren, and consign the turfgrass lawn to Revolutionary oblivion’

Commercial kitchen staff exposed to high levels of air pollution, study finds

UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows

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OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

Women ‘more likely to be told autoimmune conditions are psychological’: A ‘stark gender divide in misdiagnosis, with women also waiting longer for treatment’.

Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report: ‘…what I think’s interesting about the nationalists is that they want to take up the cross at marches, and display it, but there’s less of an interest in denying themselves and following Jesus.’

Money stolen by scammers hijacking UK social media accounts rises 400%

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Thousands of child-on-child sexual offences reported at schools in England and Wales | Schools

Meet the ‘burglars’ paid to break into businesses: ‘As cyber-defences improve, physical entry to premises is emerging as one of the best ways to hack into systems.’

Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence

To the people voting for Nigel Farage: is this really the finger you want on the red button?: ‘Anyone who judges that this intemperate psychological liability should have access to the nuclear codes and other top-level information must have a subconscious wish for their answer to the question “where do you see yourself in five years’ time?” to be “living in Britain’s catacombs and distilling drinking water from my own urine”.’

What If We Just Stopped?: ‘…there has to be a better way of connecting and sharing and existing together, a way that isn’t locked into the exploitative doom loops and psychic death of what we currently have.’

Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit: ‘Pope Leo has warned against losing humanity in a “paradise of machines”’

New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN