Never underestimate the power of one determined person. What Carole Cadwalladr has done to Facebook and Big Data and Edward Snowden has done to the state security complex, the young Kazakhstani scientist Alexandra Elbakyan has done to the multi-billion dollar industry that traps knowledge behind paywalls. Her pirate webscraper service, Sci-hub, has done more than...
Is it any wonder that councils across the land—of all political stripes—fail when they employ so many absolutely useless staff? In the private sector, employers tend to look at the record of interviewees and do "due diligence" on their CV's, but local government is a law unto itself, and...
In referring to Israeli soldiers as ‘our heroes’, Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis not only has Palestinian blood on his hands but potentially Jewish blood too
Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, spoke at a public event at a synagogue last Sunday to extol the “outstanding” performance of the Israeli military in Gaza....
A recent study uncovered a significant drop in traffic from Facebook to news sites, plunging by nearly 50% in 2023. The annual Trends and Predictions Report from the Reuters Institute, based on input from 134 media leaders across 56 countries, sheds light on this concerning trend. Data from Chartbeat...
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Leonard Farruku, a young Albanian discovered deceased aboard the Bibby Stockholm ship in Great Britain, is reported to have taken his life approximately 12 hours before being found, according to his roommate interviewed by The Guardian.
The asylum seeker was found in a shower cubicle on...
Nottingham has been Nadia Whittome's home her whole life. This city, its people, and its communities have made her who she is today.
Before her election, she was a hate crime worker and, prior to that, a care worker while she studied law at the University of Nottingham.
It was the...
Be sure, despite its obsessive revisiting of the events of October 7 in Israel, the BBC won't be reporting on this latest development: Families of those killed in Kibbutz Be'eri that day are demanding an official investigation into the growing body of evidence that their loved ones were killed...
Yet another store closes in this dying town. Over the last few years, shop after shop has shut down as the high streets have become a hinterland. A place where life begins and ends. Children have no future and move away to university or work, rarely returning if they...
Something about James Cleverly’s recent interview reminded me of Hancock….. and Johnson!
Amongst the vast array of heinous Tory lies, many of you will remember Matt Hancock crowing that their target of 100,000 COVID tests/testing 100,000 people per day by 30th April 2020 had been reached. Of course, it immediately...
A quick taster:
Crimea Annexation: Farage criticised the West's response to Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, suggesting that the West provoked Putin by expanding NATO too close to Russia's borders. (For the record, I agree.)
Russian Sanctions: Farage has spoken against imposing heavy sanctions on Russia, arguing that they could...
