Farage claims Reform UK local election gains ‘beginning of the end’ for Tories: The election results were pretty horrific in many ways.

Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests

A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store: They aren’t allowed to stop apps offering non-app store commission ways of paying elsewhere.

Gender ruling could ‘gravely affect very vulnerable prisoners’ – solicitor

Government will ban trans employees from toilets that reflect their gender, minister says: Implications of the recent Supreme Court ruling.

Brexiteer Ben Habib vows to ‘unite the right’ as he prepares to launch ‘super PAC’: Please no.

Was it the courts, the cops, or The Sun who killed Just Stop Oil?: ‘…the hammer of the state had simply flattened the organisation.’ - certainly some of the prison sentences activists got are pretty outrageous.

‘The message is clear. Trump and Putin want to destroy Europe’: ‘Trump and Vladimir Putin hold a worldview where “mighty” powers get to carve up the globe at will.’

A week after a major hack brought down 4chan and doxxed all its users, it seems like it may be dead for good

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan Arrested by FBI in Immigration Dispute

Trump lets the press know exactly what kind of questions he considers ‘good’: ‘He has certain expectations about what quality journalism looks like, and it involves asking him how awesome his awesomeness is’

ICE Can Now Enter Your Home Without a Warrant to Look for Migrants, DOJ Memo Says: ‘…anyone labeled an “Alien Enemy” is “not entitled to a hearing, appeal or judicial review.”’ - plus all police officers are basically immigration officers now.

2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects

We Are at Peak ‘Yep’ and It’s Wonderful: Word.

Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs: Not only have they saved only a tiny fraction of what they promised but also there’s ‘a rough estimate that firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.’

Trump’s Crimea Proposal Would End a Decade of U.S. Resistance: Officially recognising Crimea as being Russian would break the principle ‘that no country can change the borders of another by force’.

Farage sparks furious backlash after claiming children with special educational needs are ‘over diagnosed’

The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case: ‘Facebook is being watched, and it cannot be as cavalier about its efforts to monopolize markets.’

A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right: Lonely people, into nonsensical ‘race science’.

Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over: Who needs actual friends when you’ve got “the general idea of entertainment and learning about the world and discovering what’s going on”.

Lib Dems back ban on playing music and videos on public transport in England: A ban on playing things out loud, to be clear.

RIP to the Google Privacy Sandbox: Third-party cookies will continue in Chrome.

Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China

Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning

There’s a Reason the World Is a Mess, and It’s Not Trump: Economic stagnation.