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’.

‘Incredibly encouraging’: healing the scars of traditional anchors in Dorset’s seagrass meadows: Eco-anchors work, it seems.

Reαd carefully: how to spot – and avoid – a homoglyph attack: URLs that contain characters that look like letters that they’re not.

Thousands of pregnant women in England are reporting domestic abuse. Midwives are struggling to cope: An estimated 20,000 report per year.

UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge: Bad for democracy, terrible for those of us who are not billionaires.

Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors: It’s stored without end-to-end encryption who-knows-where on Microsoft Azure that many employees can access

‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias

Resist the anti-disability propaganda: The cruel and harmful rhetoric from supposed Christian Nationalists is in fact very unchristian.

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…’