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UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s
  • Not at all enforcable.

    So of course they'll do it.

  • Conservatives set for worst election result yet, research shows
  • I think they'll get somewhere in the region of 160 seats at the least. Maybe even 200 depending on Events.

    Labour have got to be seen as doing something in the next 5 years though, else it might well swing back again in 2029.

  • Labour 'committed' to assisted dying vote, Sir Keir Starmer tells Dame Esther Rantzen
  • He's hardly the only MP who does that (Tim Farron and Simon Hughes, famously, over same sex marriage for two Lib Dem examples).

  • Faith school banning parts of geography lessons, Ofsted finds
  • That could be any number of places!

  • UK set for eight-day snow event with just two places spared
  • No. And forecasts of snow are barely reliable 10 hours out.

  • UK set for eight-day snow event with just two places spared
  • No one can forecast snow in the UK unless it's already snowing.

  • Disgraced singer Gary Glitter refused jail release
  • This is hardly a surprise, given that the first thing he did when released before was try to circumvent the restrictions placed on him.

  • Scientology-linked UK drug rehab left vulnerable people ‘traumatised’
  • Then whoever was overseeing said "rehab" should be arrested. Right?

  • Brianna Ghey's killers named
  • The girl got life with a minimum of 22 years (and a comment saying it would "take a lot of work" for her to be released), The boy got life with a minimum of 20.

  • Has anyone used MLA format outside of high school ?
  • Would be kind of hilarious if they didn't use Chicago Style.

  • UN expert condemns UK crackdown on environmental protest
  • I do think though that a lot of people are going to be quite disappointed when the next government don't actually do very much.

  • Scientists Identify The Optimal Number of Daily Steps For Longevity, And It's Not 10,000
  • Which is what the app on my phone is based on already. I manage it most days easily by walking from the bus station to work and back, which is ~1 mile. And that doesn't include the time I'm actually at work, because I can't wear my smart watch actually in the office.

  • Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election
  • This is going to carry on until we get a Phil Woolas situation and some election results get overturned.

  • How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse
  • Furthermore, what's even the point of open standards if you don't want them to be adopted.

    Well, yes. There does seem to be a lot of "we want open standards but we don't want big companies to use them" among fediverse users.

  • How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse
  • I'm pretty sure most people don't want it to...

  • BBC News - Blackpool Tower 'fire' was actually fluttering orange netting
  • The BBC followed this up with an article about similar stories, including the two different "soft toy mistaken for an escaped tiger" ones.

    It does also remind me of the (in)famous "false leg mistaken for paedophile" incident.

  • Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’
  • It might have changed, but at one point you could only sell pre-sliced bread in 400g or multiples of that.

  • Peter Bone MP loses seat as recall petition triggers by-election
  • I wouldn't put it past him to stand in the by election just to spite the Tories

  • Covid lockdowns had ‘catastrophic effect’ on UK’s social fabric, report claims
  • Yeah, and having no lockdowns would have had an even more catastrophic effect.

  • www.bbc.co.uk Stephen Lawrence: BBC names new suspect in UK's most notorious racist murder

    Evidence about Matthew White, now dead, implicates other suspects and reveals more police failings.

    Stephen Lawrence: BBC names new suspect in UK's most notorious racist murder
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