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Privacy is online safety ✊️
That's why the UK government gets it so wrong with ever more online ID checks.
Either sensitive data gets stockpiled for attack, or people are driven to riskier parts of the Internet. It's lose-lose.
⏰️ We have the chance to tell them in the consultation by 26 May.
Have your say ➡️ gov.uk/government/consultation…
#onlinesafety #privacy #digitalID #ageverification #consultation #ukpolitics #ukpol
Growing up in the online world: a national consultation
We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change.Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (GOV.UK)
Palantir should have no place in the UK's digital systems.
The government must completely break our dependency on US tech firms.
It'll deliver better value for money and protect our national security from foreign interference.
Invest in open source, not Trumpian tech bros!
Sign our petition ⬇️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…
#digitalsovereignty #palantir #opensource #sadiqkhan #metpolice #ukpolitics #ukpol
Stop the "Kill Switch": Demand the UK takes back control of our technology.
From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Help us demand digital independence.38 Degrees
So #trans people in the #UK can't legally use most public toilets, & can't safely use hospitals.
Gender vigilantes will be empowered. Most of their victims will be non-conforming cis women. There will be violence.
Forget the small print in the new code of practice. #Apartheid is the new reality.
Yes, a case will be brought to the ECtHR. But that takes years, and a victory will be the casus belli for the UK to withdraw from the #ECHR.
Thanks, a bunch #LabourParty. You utter scum.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan shows Palantir the door 🚪
This decision recognises that Big Tech has been grifting the UK for years, by locking us into their exclusive products, jacking up the fees and exporting profits.
The future is open source, NOT shady US spyware companies.
It's time for Digital Sovereignty 🌱
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…
#digitalsovereignty #palantir #opensource #sadiqkhan #metpolice #ukpolitics #ukpol
London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir
Exclusive: Scotland Yard had been in talks to use Palantir’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysisRobert Booth (The Guardian)
Report: The judge in the Filton 6 trial "secretly ruled that, despite not being charged with terrorism, there was a terrorist connection with the six, due to the activists attempting to influence the Israeli government."
The so-called “terror connection" is highly likely to lead to punitive jail terms at sentencing on 12 June.
It was illegal for the British press to report the fact.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/a…
#USPol #EUPol #Filton6 #UKPol #UKRepression #News #palestine #palestineAction .
#AndyBurnham does NOT support #ProportionalRepresentation #PR. 😡
Burnham supports #SupplementaryVote, also known as #AlternativeVote #AV, which is NOT a proportional system
And he will NOT scrap the current #FirstPastThePost #FPTP before the next general election #GE2029. So #ReformUK could win a huge overall majority on 30% of votes.
That makes a vote for #Burnham pointiess. He's a #Blairite who won't even introduce fair votes. 😡
There's no point to Burnham. Reject him, #Makerfield!
"Trying to appeal to an American audience"
well that's who pays his bills, why would he play to the penniless British thug? Tatty crowdfunders from Flagwankers will never pay out as much as cunts like Elon Musk
#TommyRobinson #Fascism #FarRight #EpsteinClass #WhiteChristianNationalism #ElonMusk #Musk #UKPol #UKPolitics #UniteTheKingdom #HopeNotHate #AntiFascism
"less than half...."
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…
#UniteTheKingdom #TommyRobinson #London #Fascists #FarRight #WhiteNationalism #UKPol #UKPolitics
Police arrest 43 at ‘unite the kingdom’ and pro-Palestine marches in London
Officers were allegedly racially abused at Tommy Robinson march, which failed to draw huge numbers it was hoping forVikram Dodd (The Guardian)
I KNOW the Fash online are upset by how 'low energy' the march was on Saturday, and the Nabka march was far larger than theirs...
#UniteTheKingdom #TommyRobinson #London #Fascists #FarRight #WhiteNationalism #UKPol #UKPolitics
"The "Great British People" Facebook page, which purports to be from Yorkshire, has had 1.3 million views for its latest video of an elderly white British man crying about his pension. Other videos show reporters discussing "the overwhelming scale of mass #immigration" and asking viewers if they miss "the Britain we used to know". But it is not clear whether the creator knows the UK at all: the account is really run by someone based in Sri Lanka."
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgpyn…
Anti-immigration AI videos traced to overseas fakers, BBC finds
"Patriotic" UK anti-immigration social media accounts have been traced to Sri Lanka and Vietnam.Marianna Spring (BBC News)
“The public will be astonished to learn that in the British justice system a protester can now be convicted of criminal damage for disrupting an arms factory and then be sentenced as ‘terrorists’ without having been convicted of terror charges and with this having been kept secret from the jury.”
#UKPol #Protest #PalestineAction
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…
Palestine Action activists in Elbit protest could be sentenced as terrorists
Judge’s ruling was not disclosed to jurors in two trials and can only now be revealed after reporting restrictions liftedHaroon Siddique (The Guardian)
Green Party wins 6 seats from Labour in Cambridge. Council moves from Labour to No Overall Control.
#ukpol #greenparty #localelections2026 #cambridge
“What first attracted you to the racist Reform Party?” #UKpol
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ref…
The Reform councillors who face calls to resign in furious racism row
Daniel Devaney topped the poll in his Bradford ward despite a post in which he described Muslims as 'pure scum'. He told his local paper: "I said it while I was in a bad mood and watching TV. It was on and I just let off steam"Jeremy Armstrong (Daily Mirror)
All together now! ... "But Nige did take five million quid, and Nige would take five million more!" 🎶🎵
Brilliant and 🔥🔥
#UK #UKpol #UKpolitics
"You won’t be able to move this weekend for commentators gravely intoning that #Starmer lacks a vision for government. What they won’t say is that he eschewed any vision to get into government. His very lack of politics is how he became politically successful. It was the essential precondition for him to be judged by the right wing papers and others as no threat"
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
As Labour heads for a wipeout, a lesson: never fall for the ‘adults in the room’ line again
Presenting himself as a serious, sensible ‘grownup’ was essential to Starmer’s rise to power. His premiership has revealed how hollow that message is, says Guardian columnist Aditya ChakraborttyAditya Chakrabortty (The Guardian)
The dissolution of the UK is getting closer
The poll indicated that if a referendum were held tomorrow on a united Ireland in the EU, 59% in Ireland would vote in favour and 22% against, with 63% voting in favour in Northern Ireland and 29% against.
archive.today/2026.05.06-05365…
#IrishReunification #ScottishIndependence #WelshIndependence #EnglishIndependence #UKPol #IrishPol #ScotPol #WalesPol
I can't believe how swiftly most of the UK media has skirted over the fact that a political party expected to do well at tomorrow's polls is proposing literal concentration camps. WTF?!?
morningstaronline.co.uk/articl…
‘Straight out of Donald Trump’s playbook’
CAMPAIGNERS slammed Reform UK’s attempts to spread division with their “Trump-style ICE plan” for mass deportations as they pledged to put detention centres in Green-voting constituencies.Morning Star
"We oppose genocide so we support Palestine Action"
"We oppose genocide, & therefore we support whatever nonviolent action might be required to stop it & to shut down the UK-based weapons manufacturers that are helping to enable it."
"We support Palestine Action, & we call on all people of conscience & goodwill to join us in doing so."
3 May letter to British government officials from UK Law profs
statecrime.org/2026/05/03/we-o…
#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #Palestine #PalestineAction #GazaGenocide .
We oppose genocide so we support Palestine Action
UK law professors declare support for Palestine Action in this open letter opposing genocide and defending the right to nonviolent protest.statecrime.org
RE: mastodon.scot/@patrickhadfield…
the gringolarchy’s obsession with “backwards colonizing” England ―not necessarily the UK, btw― is reflected on their takeover of the NHS and funding of Reform UK to expand their prison-industrial-complex.
this isn't new but it has been uncharacteristically relentless for the past 10-15 years.
gringolada, agringados are neologisms we’ve used in Latin America to refer to the OG #enshittification : the gringofication of everything.
“We’re not gringos, stop Reform UK” should be a #UKpol slogan.
Patrick Hadfield (@patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot)
Reform UK Ltd has released a new policy (possibly illegal were it enacted). "In order to deport all illegal migrants in Britain, a Reform government will build detention capacity for at least 24,000 illegal migrants at a time.Patrick Hadfield (mastodon.scot)
Report: London's Metro Police refuse to "investigate 10 British nationals accused of war crimes & crimes against humanity" in Gaza.
The crimes included “targeted killings of civilians & aid workers, indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, attacks on hospitals & protected sites, & the forced transfer & displacement of civilians”.
It follows the closure of a unit tracking Israel's breaches of international law in Gaza & Lebanon.
middleeasteye.net/news/london-…
#UKPol #EUPol #USPol #IsraeliCrimes .
London police refuse to investigate British nationals accused of war crimes in Gaza
London's Metropolitan Police will not investigate 10 British nationals accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting with the Israeli military in Gaza.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Palestine Action defendants say the govt has made a fair trial impossible & they will represent themselves:
“The court hasn't permitted [my barristers] to represent me in a way that does us all justice. So I’ve had to represent myself.”
~Charlotte Head
“This is not everything that I’d like to tell you, but I’m so scared of the consequences of saying something I’m not permitted to, that I hope this is enough."
~Kamio
novaramedia.com/2026/04/30/pal…
#UKPol #filton6 #USPol #news #EUPol #Repression .
Palestine Action Defendants Represent Themselves Due to ‘Court Decisions’
Five of the six Filton24 defendants being retried on the charge of criminal damage in connection to a Palestine Action raid on an Elbit Systems factory in 2024 have chosen to represent themselves. Simon Childs reports.Novara Media
20% of women "might" regret a sterilization procedure, so the NHS often denies access.
1) The "regret" bogeyman is rolled out for any procedure deviating from social norms. For example, gender affirming care has an almost 0% regret rate, but "regret" is still used to gatekeep care. The rate of regret is not the factor. It is resistance to the idea people can choose not to follow the "norm".
2) People can choose things in life knowing they might regret them. The possibility of regret is part of our freedom. Only the person undergoing the procedure can decide if the risk is acceptable to them.
3) A life with regrets is not a lesser life. A life paternalistically shielded from regret is a diminished life.
theguardian.com/society/2026/m…
Woman’s fight for sterilisation raises questions over access to procedure
Critics say women face unequal treatment but others say tighter controls reflect legitimate medical concernsSarah Marsh (The Guardian)
DECRIMINILIZE ABORTION
this is the way
❝ It's official: No woman in England or Wales can be prosecuted for an abortion any more
cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a7…
#UKpol #abortion #healthCare #GoodNews
It's official: No woman in England or Wales can be prosecuted for an abortion any more
The new decriminalisation of abortion in England and Wales explained as law officially changes (and no, this does not mean 'abortion is now legal up until birth')Jennifer Savin (Cosmopolitan)
“Party politics isn’t working
But we love a good party, don’t we?”
"Purge Palantir" is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."
"Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."
thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-…
#USPol #EUPol #UKPol #Palantir #Fascism #Racism #Democracy #PurgePalantir #news .
Purge Palantir: The Campaign Against Peter Thiel's Spy Firm
And how I got permanently banned from XGil Duran (The Nerd Reich)
" Indeed, I’m wondering how Keir Starmer, Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage would have greeted the prospect of a 10-hour flight in the immediate, closed vicinity of a security operation involving a desperate, volatile figure with guards who clearly couldn’t control him."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
#UKPol #UKPolitics #NigelFarage #Immigration #KemiBadenoch #ShabanaMahmood #KeirStarmer #IslandOfStrangers #FarRight #Whiteness
A brutal wrestle on a plane, passengers outraged, attendants helpless: I saw the UK’s deportation policy at work
On the runway at Gatwick, the visceral reality of forced removals was laid bare. If only more could see what is done in our name, says Hugh Muir, executive editor, OpinionHugh Muir (The Guardian)
Purge Palantir is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."
"Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."
thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-…
#USPol #EUPol #UKPol #Palantir #Fascism #Racism #Democracy #PurgePalantir #news .
Purge Palantir: The Campaign Against Peter Thiel's Spy Firm
And how I got permanently banned from XGil Duran (The Nerd Reich)
Report: Britain is pulling out all the stops to persecute Palestine Action.
The defendents are forbidden from explaining their motivations or mentioning Israel or its genocide.
The jury is told there are criminal charges, but not that the judge can sentence for "terrorism."
The British press has been ordered not to report on the terrorism aspect.
voicemedia.global/article/brit…
#UKPol #EUPol #USPol #Press #UKCensorship #Palestine #PalestineAction .
Britain is turning into a Zionist police state to protect Israel
The UK is pulling out all the stops to persecute a pro-Palestine activist group, including blanket gag orders and courtroom deceptionBy Tarik...Independent News Roundup (www.voicemedia.global)
The UK isn’t a vassal state of America.
Yet Trump wants to punish us over a digital services tax.
This can be resolved by ditching US Big Tech from our digital infrastructure.
We should invest in open source to promote economic growth through greater innovation and a more competitive tech sector.
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…
#digitalsovereignty #trump #digitalservices #tech #bigtech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol #tarrif
Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn’t drop digital services tax
President accuses Britain of trying to ‘make an easy buck’ from American tech firms, weeks after warning UK–US trade deal can be changedMark Sweney (The Guardian)
Israeli soldiers have been looting civilian property on a large scale from homes and businesses in southern Lebanon with the knowledge of their commanders, Haaretz reported on Thursday.
As Israeli troops leave Lebanon, they openly load stolen goods onto their vehicles without attempting to conceal them.
#israel #zionism #Lebanon #us #usa #uspol #eu #eupol #uk #ukpol #Iran
