Lib Dem MP says way figures were compiled on ‘non-British-sounding’ surnames in court was ‘frankly racist’ GB News has been accused of risking inflaming tensions over crime committed by migrants after presenting unscientific research that counted the number of defendants with “foreign-sounding names”. Ofcom, the UK’s media regulator, has received complaints about a segment on the rightwing news channel last week that drew a link between “non-British” names and those in court charged with sex offences. Continue reading...

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Journalist rebuts accusation of obtaining sexual images by deceit in documents submitted to high court The journalist Dan Wootton has denied he catfished a man who claims to be a former colleague in documents submitted to the high court, it has been reported. It is alleged that Wootton exchanged sexual messages in 2010 with the claimant – who cannot be identified for legal reasons – while pretending to be “Maria Joseph” and encouraging him to send explicit photographs and a video. Continue reading...

Donald Tusk tells parliament that C-4 explosives were used also used in the attacks at the weekend Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk has just told lawmakers that the authorities investigating the rail sabotage incidents over the weekend identified two main suspects. He says the suspects are both Ukrainian men, who crossed into Poland from Belarus this autumn, and are believed to had been working with Russian intelligence services. Continue reading...

US company that defends millions of websites against malicious attacks suffers unidentified problem A key piece of the internet’s usually hidden infrastructure suffered a global outage on Monday, causing error messages to flash up across websites. Cloudflare, a US company whose services include defending millions of websites against malicious attacks, suffered an unidentified problem on Tuesday, which meant internet users could not access some customers’ websites. Continue reading...

More than 10,000 people reported issues linked to the internet network services business Cloudflare on Tuesday morning.

The normalisation of racism and dog-whistles will only get worse if the press continues to treat Farage as an entertaining figure representing the ‘real views’ of the British people – it must stop, wr...

Sabine Goodwin, director of IFAN, asks what is next for Labour's manifesto commitment to end dependence on food banks.

The Observer and Guardian journalist explains how the Russian President Vladimir Putin won the first phase of his war on Europe, by convincing us it wasn’t happening