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My fear, when these proposals were mooted then adopted, was that the effect of making citizenship contingent for some citizens would be to make those same citizens second class: how can you confidently exercise your full range of democratic rights against a Government which can remove them?
We commissioned lengthy legal advice on the history, effect and legitimacy of provisions which made it easier to remove the contingent citizenship held by large numbers of Black and Brown people. goodlawproject.org/nationality-...
The Nationality and Borders Bill is racist - we want Government to think again | Good Law Project
Today, we are publishing advice about the extension to the powers to strip Britons of their citizenship in the Nationality and Borders Bill. The advice was commissioned from some of the country’s lead...
goodlawproject.org
December 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My fear, when these proposals were mooted then adopted, was that the effect of making citizenship contingent for some citizens would be to make those same citizens second class: how can you confidently exercise your full range of democratic rights against a Government which can remove them?
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Reform are calling for someone with historic anti Jewish comments to have their a British citizenship removed.
December 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Reform are calling for someone with historic anti Jewish comments to have their a British citizenship removed.
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make sure you grab this and play it, this game is so good! very fun and some surprisingly spooky bits.
SKALD: Against the Black Priory is free on Epic Games Store for the next 24 hours. Another mystery freebie tomorrow buff.ly/aadJJDg
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
make sure you grab this and play it, this game is so good! very fun and some surprisingly spooky bits.
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Dear Roy, Before Christmas you had a Wheelie Bin pinched. I have just had a Satellite Dish taken from my garden. I used this as a Parabolic Reflector for recording Birdsong. So if anyone sees this at a car boot sale, be careful as it may be Radioactive.
December 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Dear Roy, Before Christmas you had a Wheelie Bin pinched. I have just had a Satellite Dish taken from my garden. I used this as a Parabolic Reflector for recording Birdsong. So if anyone sees this at a car boot sale, be careful as it may be Radioactive.
Watching this battle of the sexes tennis match. Nobody sends to be taking it seriously, or having any fun either. Just an utterly joyless event.
December 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Watching this battle of the sexes tennis match. Nobody sends to be taking it seriously, or having any fun either. Just an utterly joyless event.
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i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen
Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Beautiful new translations of some remarkable clear-headed writing. It might be trite to say, but these essays could have been written fifty years ago or last week, they still have immense power.
new today: for the first time in English, two brilliant essays by Natalia Ginzburg, "Universal Pity" and "The Jews," translated by Gini Alhadeff, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra www.equator.org/articles/our...
Our Monstrous Ideas • EQUATOR
In these two essays, newly translated for Equator, the Italian writer articulates a powerful moral vision of what it means to belong, and to whom we owe our compassion
www.equator.org
December 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Beautiful new translations of some remarkable clear-headed writing. It might be trite to say, but these essays could have been written fifty years ago or last week, they still have immense power.
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I'm friends with some of Walliams' family and they said Christmas was awful at his house this year. This was the first time he didn't do any of his accents. Spare a thought for those targeted by the bitter wokerati.
December 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I'm friends with some of Walliams' family and they said Christmas was awful at his house this year. This was the first time he didn't do any of his accents. Spare a thought for those targeted by the bitter wokerati.
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Public service announcement
Just so we're all clear, this week the bins go out on Fratunday morvening, with the exception of mixed glass clippings and general garden food. Those go out on Modnesday, before 15.87am.
Just so we're all clear, this week the bins go out on Fratunday morvening, with the exception of mixed glass clippings and general garden food. Those go out on Modnesday, before 15.87am.
December 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Public service announcement
Just so we're all clear, this week the bins go out on Fratunday morvening, with the exception of mixed glass clippings and general garden food. Those go out on Modnesday, before 15.87am.
Just so we're all clear, this week the bins go out on Fratunday morvening, with the exception of mixed glass clippings and general garden food. Those go out on Modnesday, before 15.87am.
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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Merry Christmas to all our readers. Everyone else can fu(the rest of this post has been deleted on the grounds of taste)ck off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q68x...
12 Days of Christmas. Jeremy Lion
YouTube video by TheComedyNight
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Merry Christmas to all our readers. Everyone else can fu(the rest of this post has been deleted on the grounds of taste)ck off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q68x...
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Pretty pleased with my first day as head of security at Nakatomi Plaza.
December 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Pretty pleased with my first day as head of security at Nakatomi Plaza.
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I wouldn't trust an IT department that didn't hate computers
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I wouldn't trust an IT department that didn't hate computers
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Ugh, imagine how excited an illustrator would’ve been to work on this (especially one with some kind of person connection to the topic), and it wouldn’t have been expensive, instead a BBC producer just typed prompts about an enslaved woman hiding in the woods, looking sad in a ship, etc
this is an incredible and very touching story but unsure what the BBC felt those weird AI images added to it?
December 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Ugh, imagine how excited an illustrator would’ve been to work on this (especially one with some kind of person connection to the topic), and it wouldn’t have been expensive, instead a BBC producer just typed prompts about an enslaved woman hiding in the woods, looking sad in a ship, etc
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this is an incredible and very touching story but unsure what the BBC felt those weird AI images added to it?
December 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
this is an incredible and very touching story but unsure what the BBC felt those weird AI images added to it?
"Has no intention of" doesn't mean "won't", so what is the point of this? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Russia ‘ready to legally confirm it has no intention of attacking EU or Nato’ – as it happened
Comments from deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov carried by state news agency
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Has no intention of" doesn't mean "won't", so what is the point of this? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Sadiq Khan cancelled Christmas in Leeds 🚫🎄
December 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Sadiq Khan cancelled Christmas in Leeds 🚫🎄
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when AI tech is mature next year, i will create a video of a white blonde woman getting fired from her job for refusing to apologize for being white. video will go viral. next, i will start a gofundme, which will earn me $2M in tax free income, allowing me to buy a home in a walkable neighborhood
December 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
when AI tech is mature next year, i will create a video of a white blonde woman getting fired from her job for refusing to apologize for being white. video will go viral. next, i will start a gofundme, which will earn me $2M in tax free income, allowing me to buy a home in a walkable neighborhood
If governments got their way, the whole justice system would work like this
Disturbing findings from a year-long @thelondonstandard.bsky.social investigation
- Magistrates routinely sit in secret to approve utility warrants
- They don't even look at most applications
- Rule breaches aren't investigated
Chief Magistrate looking into this
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/magi...
- Magistrates routinely sit in secret to approve utility warrants
- They don't even look at most applications
- Rule breaches aren't investigated
Chief Magistrate looking into this
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/magi...
Fresh fury over secret courts allowing energy firms break into homes
The Chief Magistrate is investigating after concerns about the utility warrant system were uncovered by The Standard
www.standard.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
If governments got their way, the whole justice system would work like this
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Disturbing findings from a year-long @thelondonstandard.bsky.social investigation
- Magistrates routinely sit in secret to approve utility warrants
- They don't even look at most applications
- Rule breaches aren't investigated
Chief Magistrate looking into this
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/magi...
- Magistrates routinely sit in secret to approve utility warrants
- They don't even look at most applications
- Rule breaches aren't investigated
Chief Magistrate looking into this
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/magi...
Fresh fury over secret courts allowing energy firms break into homes
The Chief Magistrate is investigating after concerns about the utility warrant system were uncovered by The Standard
www.standard.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Disturbing findings from a year-long @thelondonstandard.bsky.social investigation
- Magistrates routinely sit in secret to approve utility warrants
- They don't even look at most applications
- Rule breaches aren't investigated
Chief Magistrate looking into this
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/magi...
- Magistrates routinely sit in secret to approve utility warrants
- They don't even look at most applications
- Rule breaches aren't investigated
Chief Magistrate looking into this
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/magi...
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UK lacks 'coherent' social mobility plan, govt adviser says.
Need to reduce income/wealth inequality; excessive inherited wealth; better access to healthcare, education, jobs, housing.
Govts captured by corporations/rich, practice regressive taxation, slaves to arbitrary fiscal rules.
Need to reduce income/wealth inequality; excessive inherited wealth; better access to healthcare, education, jobs, housing.
Govts captured by corporations/rich, practice regressive taxation, slaves to arbitrary fiscal rules.
Starmer lacks coherent social mobility plan, top government adviser says
The chair of the Social Mobility Commission has called on the prime minister to set out a clearer strategy.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
UK lacks 'coherent' social mobility plan, govt adviser says.
Need to reduce income/wealth inequality; excessive inherited wealth; better access to healthcare, education, jobs, housing.
Govts captured by corporations/rich, practice regressive taxation, slaves to arbitrary fiscal rules.
Need to reduce income/wealth inequality; excessive inherited wealth; better access to healthcare, education, jobs, housing.
Govts captured by corporations/rich, practice regressive taxation, slaves to arbitrary fiscal rules.