With the caveat that it's impossible to know what is really happening from such a short story, this is clearly a terrible idea www.theguardian.com/education/20...

What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.

This is full of mildly astonishing revelations about right-wing influence at the BBC, but foremost among them is the fact that he was advised that writing for the New Statesman was effectively unacceptable but doing so for the Spectator was fine - indeed, advisable. I am flabbergasted.

I wrote about how law defines personal data, and why - in context of multi-party supply chain architectures and the information economy - CJEU decisions (incl EDPS v SRB) mark a major misstep with bad(!) effects for data protection law's purpose and framework Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in: - A 46% false fraud rate - Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped - Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I wrote about how law defines personal data, and why - in context of multi-party supply chain architectures and the information economy - CJEU decisions (incl EDPS v SRB) mark a major misstep with bad(!) effects for data protection law's purpose and framework Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“There will be those who will clap and cheer at the senior BBC resignations … but such elation is misconceived. For the BBC to be this weak as an institution when faced with outside (and politically motivated) criticism is not a sign of a healthy mixed polity.” By @davidallengreen.bsky.social

This as not simply populism, it's an extreme assault on public institutions and structures. The last week has been about the BBC, but comes alongside mounting attacks on judicial independence/the European Court of Human Rights. Treating each issue in isolation will see them killed off one by one.

Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

Chris Mason is what happens when a Hospital Radio DJ, whose sole qualification appears to be a sort of soporific inoffensiveness, is somehow promoted to BBC Politics Editor - a position that demands unflinching insight, objectivity, and sharpness. It's like a puddle trying to be the ocean.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Okay but for weeks I've had 98% of a paper written on EDPS v SRB and how to fix GDPR and just need to find like an afternoon somewhere amongst teaching to finish it, so can they hold off for a bit please

🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests. Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not. This is worse than we feared.

Sheffield Hallam University complied with Beijing demand to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project on supply chains and forced labour being dropped. It was reinstated after threat of legal action but chilling effect remains www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#HostileEnvironment at Home Office. Labour stoking it not controlling it. "23,500 people have received letters from HMRC as part of a crackdown on child benefit fraud launched by cabinet minister Georgia Gould". "Very sorry" doesn't pay bills www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

One down, sixteen to go. No princes, no kings www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

This story gets more ridiculous by the day But now we know airlines are giving passenger data to the Home Office, who are passing information about travel* to HMRC, who then use it to make decisions about stopping benefits (*or, in this case, not travel) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. goodlaw.social/ncfw

Why put the submission deadline this close to the Christmas break. Why do that to people

This is beyond stupid. People flying out from Belfast and back through Dublin having child benefit stopped because HMRC assumes they've left the country I know GB forgets Northern Ireland exists, but what are they playing at www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

And let us be clear: the judge said the Parachute Regiment murdered people and lied about it, in roughly as many words. Because of delay and lies, it couldn’t be proven to the criminal standard which individuals murdered; but those troops murdered and lied. www.judiciaryni.uk/files/judici...

Of course while Powell’s speech was a) repellently racist and b) rightly condemned by the contemporary Tory party, he was only calling for voluntary departures. The current Conservative policy is worse and more unjust, demanding forced removals of legal residents. We’re in a very, very bad place.

This power isn't discretionary or enabling. The clause would *automatically* remove ILR if any of the conditions are satisfied. Parliament can do this, but when it previously has, it's been in unusual/extreme situations. Like WW1 and the deprivation of titles from certain foreign nationals.

This is all horrifyingly cruel but condition 3 is staggeringly awful: “if P OR dependents of P have been in receipt of social protection” So just if a *dependent* of someone with ILR gets any sort of welfare benefit whatsoever the original person can have their ILR revoked? This is insanely evil.

where's the bit where they say it's bad, instead of just repeating what the policy is?

The thing is,we've all now seen who Labour are under Starmer. Even if they pivot left to try to save themselves, we all know they have no principles or values. We know they'd go back to chasing Reform the second they thought it would be better for them Who wants that?

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇 🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com “It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.” #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

Good thing the UK NHS is offering the vaccine to <checks notes> almost nobody under 75 🙄

NEWS: "Wage growth slows slightly over summer" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... UK UNIVERSITY WORKERS: "What is this mythical wage growth of which they speak?"

‘The​ current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.’ In his final piece for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, Conor Gearty writes on the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the HRA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights is clear that if the Equality and Human Rights Commission's guidance on trans people is as expected, it will be essentially impossible to reconcile with the UK's human rights obligations rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

I have not only just learned that this is a pun but also that it's the opposite to this - most English people drop the R from shorn Someone needs to stage an intervention to teach them rhoticity, it's killing me

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

🫧The news is finally asking if we're in an AI Bubble, and when it will pop. Good!🎈 Our data shows how we got here: Big Cloud is frantically investing in AI startups to build cloud market share and justify their *massive* investments in AI infrastructure. How Google, Microsoft & Amazon invests:

This is awful. Most importantly health care is meant to be independent - to be trusted - it's going to make people feel more paranoid about going to seek help and talking freely with their doctors and medical professionals about their circumstances.

It's of course a meme by now that people in GB barely know Northern Ireland exists, but maybe some of the responses to this idea might look to see what happens in the part of the UK where lots of pubs and bars already serve until 1am www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A pure example of BBC balance. On the one side, on the other, all the way through. This leaves a really superficial account of what's at issue with leaving the ECHR and accepts, doe-eyed, that Policy Exchange had a "really detailed proposal" on the GFA, not a hot mess: share.google/qGXg9rHZYfPL...

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

NVIDIA and OpenAi: Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ @bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Aside from anything else, 'who cares!' as an answer to 'how would your policy actually work?' is very Kemi Badenoch

Might try an experiment in criminal law this year where for my public order offences lecture I just read through all the current and proposed protest offences and the students can place bets over whether I can cover them all in 2 hours or if I run out of time.

I don't always agree with Macron, but it's promising to hear him speak of democracy and infrastructure in exactly the right terms. Politics is finally shifting towards the reality of our digital environment.

Unreal disconnect between the kind of economy the UK thinks it has versus the kind of economy it actually has See e.g. all the talk of fishing during the Brexit years, the denigration and ongoing destruction of the higher education sector, etc