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}

Led By Donkeys doing their thing at the Reform Ltd conference ✊

#UKPolitics

Seems like this is the official party line 🤬

#UKPolitics

channel4.com/news/best-route-o…

‘Best route out of poverty is to get into work’, says treasury minister

We’re joined by the treasury minister James Murray.

^{Channel 4 News}

"NEW: We’re suing several top Trump administration officials who discussed high-level national security deliberations over Signal for violations of the Federal Records Act and Administrative Procedure Act"
American Oversight

#SocialMedia #Hegseth #UKPolitics #Signal #Security

americanoversight.org/litigati…

American Oversight v. Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Bessent, Rubio, and NARA Regarding Military Actions Planned on Signal Messaging App - American Oversight

Lawsuit filed against Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Bessent, Rubio, and NARA concerning news reports that a journalist had been added to a Signal group chat among those containing potentially classified information about active military operations.

^{American Oversight}

"Because Pip is a “gateway”, any disabled person who loses the benefit will not only lose that income but other entitlements too, such as free prescriptions & council tax deductions. Most starkly, removing someone’s Pip will mean their unpaid carer losing carer’s allowance – in effect pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once"

#PIP #Disability #UKPolitics
‘I can’t sleep, I’m so scared’: disabled people face benefit cuts domino effect |The Guardian
theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

‘I can’t sleep, I’m so scared’: disabled people face benefit cuts domino effect

Three people tell how knock-on impact of losing Pip on carer’s allowance and other benefits will affect their families

^{Frances Ryan (The Guardian)}

More guerilla anti-government advertising on the Tube.

"Britian flies spy planes from air bases in Cyprus to help Israel to commit war crimes in Gaza"

#UKPolitics #LabourAgentsOfGenocide

🤮

Starmer about Israel: "I think its unwise for politicians to sit in TV studios and pronounce which acts may or not be in accordance with intl law"

Starmer sitting in a TV studio, about Russia: "What I've seen amounts to war crimes"

#UKPolitics #Liebour #TelAvivKeith

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

Brilliant piece by Zoe Williams.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#UKPolitics #DisabilityBenefits

Labour is gaslighting disabled people – and that should terrify us all

The messaging that suggests poverty is caused by low aspiration and that disability is a choice could have come straight from the Conservatives’ playbook, writes Zoe Williams

^{Zoe Williams (The Guardian)}

"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)}

The next battle in the war to remove end to end encryption for UK users seems to be underway

theregister.com/2025/03/05/app…

#UkPolitics #LabourParty #Apple #Encryption Privacy #Encryption

Apple drags UK government to court over 'backdoor' order

A first-of-its-kind legal challenge set to be heard this month, per reports

^{Connor Jones (The Register)}

This fucking country 🤬

Byline Times: "Holocaust Survivor Summoned For Police Interview Over Gaza Solidarity March"

bylinetimes.com/2025/03/04/hol…

Here's an interview with Stephen on Double Down News.

#UKPolitics #FreePalestine #RightToProtest #PoliceState

🚨 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)}