Linklog

2025-03-23

All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns: Labour need to correct this asap.

2025-03-22

Trump is abandoning democracy and freedom. That creates an opening for Europe – and Britain

How do Britons feel about Brexit five years on?: Poll shows 55% of us would support a complete undoing of Brexit.

Trump weighs in on report King Charles will offer U.S. commonwealth membership: I did not see this one coming.

2025-03-21

Enjoy the Silence: ‘Your life is not a movie, so stop soundtracking it 24/7’

Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention: I’m sure this will please the rabid Holocaust deniers out there.

After Trump DEI order, Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites: Not even being a war hero will save you from deletion if you don’t happen to be a White Man.

2025-03-20

GLP-1 Side Effects Only One Factor Driving Patient Discontinuation Rates: Other factors include affordability, availability, doctor medication switches and achieving one’s weight loss goals.

Man Whose Daughter Died From Measles Stands by Failure to Vaccinate Her: “The Vaccination Has Stuff We Don’t Trust”: An unnecessary tragedy.

‘Deplorable’: French scientist denied US entry over text messages criticising Trump: Rapidly approaching the point where it makes sense to take a burner phone if you’re travelling to the US.

Britain Issues Travel Warning for US: Essentially: be sure your paperwork is perfect if you don’t want to end up in jail.

Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement: Really not something to be proud of.

Greenpeace must pay at least $660m over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury: I hope they appeal and win against what seems like an unjust verdict.

2025-03-19

Do Republicans really believe this stuff?: Is the difference between the early days of Trump’s previous presidency and this one that they got high on their own supply and truly believe every unhinged tweet they see?

Have humans passed peak brain power?: ‘Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning’.

JFK Assassination Records - 2025 Documents Release: The final batch of government documents relating to the the assassination have been released.

2025-03-18

This thing will fail: ‘Trump will not restore the “strong gods” of community, family, and faith.’

The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers: Big tech will start mistreating its programmers as much as its warehouse workers the minute it can get away with it.

The World’s Most Invasive Apps: I’m not particularly convinced by the methodology, but, even so, hardly a surprise Meta apps come out as particularly terrible for keeping your personal data private.

Keir Starmer to unveil drastic disability benefit cuts despite opposition: Awful - putting people into poverty is not going to solve their health issues.

US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order: The Trump administration openly defy the US courts.

2025-03-16

We can’t move for therapists but do they help or harm mental health patients?: It’s very hard to argue that this industry doesn’t need some serious regulation.

2025-03-15

Trump Is Fighting His Court Losses With a Surprising Legal Tactic: Trying to end the practice of universal injunctions against the federal government when they lose.

2025-03-12

Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia’s Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits

2025-03-11

America is turning on Trump: Again, we can but hope - his approval ratings have certainly been dropping.