UK is becoming Airstrip One (like the US is Gilead)

"Mr Allen and Ms Levine's daughter, nine-year-old Sascha, suffers from epilepsy and is neurodivergent, but the couple say they were not allowed to meet teachers about her medical conditions.

Mr Allen told Sky News: "When you watch the doorbell footage, you think, what are these six police officers doing? What is this operation?"

news.sky.com/story/couple-arre…

#Whatsapp #UKPOL #UKpolitics #HertfordshirePolice #Disability

Couple arrested after school WhatsApp chat messages say they 'cannot fathom what happened'

Maxie Allen, 50, and Rosalind Levine, 46, were detained in January by Hertfordshire Police and left in a police cell for eight hours after a dispute with their eldest daughter's school.

^{Sky News}

So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos.

"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in."

#UKpol #USpol #auspol theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it

We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

^{George Monbiot (The Guardian)}

Report: Protesters disrupt UK Trade Secretary's talk

As Jonathan Reynolds began to speak, a protester accused him of being “complicit in genocide” and demanded an end to the sale of F-35 parts to Israel.

thenational.scot/news/25042296…

#ukpol #stoparmingisrael #GazaGenocideNotWar #ukcomplicity .

Jonathan Reynolds speech interrupted by pro-Palestine protesters

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators calling for an end to F35 exports to Israel disrupted a talk by Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds on Thursday ...

^{Lucy Jackson (The National)}

I know I post a lot of photos of clouds but honestly, I think we should all spend more time looking to the skies. They speak a rare and valuable truth to us all.
*nods wisely*

#taxTheRich #UKPolitics #UKPol

"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"

The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.

The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.

Other services will be hit.

therecord.media/google-refuses…

Sign our petition ➡️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

#e2ee #encryption #apple #google #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpol #ukpolitics #tech

Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government

U.S. lawmakers say Google has refused to deny that it received a Technical Capability Notice from the U.K. — a mechanism to access encrypted messages that Apple reportedly received.

^{therecord.media}

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship call for the secret Tribunal into the UK Home Office's encryption-breaching order against Apple to be held in PUBLIC 🧑‍⚖️

There's a significant public interest in knowing why the UK government believes it can compel a private company to undermine the privacy and security of its users.

Read our joint letter ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org/press-rele…

#encryption #e2ee #Apple #investigatorypowersact #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol

Make the Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Apple Encryption a Public Hearing

Rights groups call for Apple’s closed appeal against the Home Office’s encryption-breaching order to be opened to the public.

^{Open Rights Group}

Whisper it, the showdown over Apple encryption is THIS WEEK ⏱️

🤐 A secret tribunal will hear the appeal against the UK government’s order to carve a backdoor into Apple’s encrypted services.

🛑 Our cybersecurity and privacy shouldn’t be decided in the shadows.

computerweekly.com/news/366620…

#encryption #Apple #privacy #cybersecurity #security #e2ee #ukpolitics #ukpol

Secret London tribunal to hear appeal in Apple vs government battle over encryption

Campaigners call for High Court hearing to be held in public as tech giant appeals against UK government order to open a backdoor into its encrypted iCloud service

^{Bill Goodwin (ComputerWeekly.com)}

@Snowshadow

#CANpoli #USpol #EUpol #UKpol
#CETA #NATO

ICYMI:

mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1141…

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

2025-03-06 21:39:41

@EUCommission
@EUCouncil

#CETA
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli

(3/n)

#CEUM
The rift b/w the #US and its #NorthAmerican, neighbors, #Canada and Mexico, offers huge chances for a new world order.

As #MAGA #DonaldTrump singlehandedly keeps alienating the US stauchest, quite like erstwhile Allies, the remaining #NATO members can reshape the Alliance to their purposes

Furthermore, amalgamating the economies of the other 2 erstwhile #European colonies to the #EU might even...

#GeoPol #UKpol

(2/3)

... certain, the #UK surely does not want to be left out alone in the cold when the remaining 27 #EU members (26?--#HUN) all regroup under #France's #NuclearUmbrella to
finally form a #EuropeanDefenseForce.

That must be equipped and financed. A "#DefenseUnion' is indispensable now.

Also, in economic terms, as I don't disagree with your current #UKpol assessment, and as I do believe that 👉ALL European countries...

@Lassielmr

#GeoPol #UKpol

(1/2)

I don't disagree with your assessment of the current situation.

However, in a world where the German chancellor elect says rearmament will be done "whatever it takes," where the #CAN #PM all but calls the #POTUS dumb on prime time TV, and the President of #Uraine gets thrown out of the #WhiteHouse, I forecast enough fluidity also in the #UK for things to change in many respects until years end.

One thing is...

@EUCommission @EUCouncil

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Apple appeals the UK government’s order to backdoor its encrypted services.

The fight to save encryption continues. Why? Backdoors are a gift for criminals and predators.

We must keep our personal data and family photos secure. We need encryption.

theverge.com/news/623977/apple…

#Apple #encryption #privacy #security #e2ee #ukpolitics #ukpol

Apple reportedly challenges the UK’s secretive encryption crackdown

Apple is pushing back against the UK’s “backdoor” encryption order with an appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, according to a report from the Financial Times.

^{Emma Roth (The Verge)}