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| Feb 10, 2023 | UK Government Still Looking For Ways To Criminalize Encryption | The across-the-pond Chris Wray analogues are still at work trying to undermine encryption for the sole purpose of greasing exceedingly squeaky law enforcement wheels. Friction is unacceptable, UK officials appear to believe, as they move fo... |
| Apr 29, 2022 | Iran Says UK Funds Have Arrived, But It Still Chases Other Overseas Assets | View across the Iranian capital Tehran on February 3, 2016 getty |
| Nov 17, 2021 | Under-Pressure U.K. Struggles To Explain Delay In Paying Iran $537 Million Debt | Richard Ratcliffe pictured on day 18 of his hunger strike outside the UK Foreign Office, on November ... [+] 10, 2021, to press the UK to secure the return of his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from Iran (Photo: Dominic Dudley)Dominic Dudle... |
| Oct 27, 2021 | ‘Alienated But Streetwise’ Hunger Striker Demands U.K. Does More To Rescue Wife From Iran | Richard Ratcliffe holds up a photo of his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe outside the U.K.'s Foreign, ... [+] Commonwealth and Development Office in central London on October 26 2021, on day three of his hunger strike to demand action t... |
| Aug 12, 2021 | Good Energy : The IPCC climate report and what you can do to help tackle the climate crisis | In a summer that has brought record breaking heatwaves, wildfires and floods that have claimed lives and destroyed communities, it is clear to many of us that climate change is already here.
The first part of the Intergovernmental Panel on ... |
| Aug 4, 2021 | Lawyers are trying to convince a judge to allow the Scottish government to investigate the Trump Organization under a ‘McMafia’ order, citing the New York criminal case | President Donald Trump at Trump Turnberry Luxury Collection Resort on July 15, 2018 in Turnberry, Scotland. Leon Neal/Getty Images
Lawmakers in Scotland are exploring whether to investigate the Trump Organization’s finances.
Lawyers cited N... |
| May 29, 2021 | Boris Johnson has told friends he is broke and has to accept free holidays and meals from donors. But the truth is likely very different | Is Boris Johnson really hard up? Getty
Multiple reports suggest Boris Johnson is experiencing serious money problems.
They claim that his recent divorce, multiple children, and reduced income have left him severely hard up.
The reports come... |
| May 29, 2021 | Boris Johnson has told friends he is broke and has to accept free holidays and meals from donors | Is Boris Johnson really hard up?
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Multiple reports suggest Boris Johnson is experiencing serious money problems.
They claim that his recent divorce, multiple children, and reduced income have left him severely hard up.
The reports come... |
| May 18, 2021 | Why do Trump’s foreign golf resorts lose millions of dollars every year? Experts say it could be incompetence, vanity, or something more sinister | Donald Trump’s golf courses lose millions of dollars every year, according to financial documents. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Donald Trump’s flagship foreign golf resorts posts massive losses every year.
He has said they are “not really g... |
| May 12, 2021 | Meet David Cameron’s new business minister Matthew Hancock – 10 things you need to know | Amid high-profile Cabinet switches for ex-education secretary Michael Gove and former defence secretary Philip Hammond was the news Sevenoaks MP and energy, business and enterprise minister Michael Fallon had been promoted to Hammond's... |
| May 10, 2021 | Boris Johnson under investigation over who paid for his luxury Caribbean holiday with fiancée Carrie Symonds | Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fianc Carrie Symonds cast their votes in the loc council and mayoral elections at on 6th May 2021 in London, UK. (Photo byTejas Sandhu/MI News/NurPhoto via Images) Getty
The UK’s sleaze watchdog is inves... |
| Feb 16, 2021 | A Tory MP is under new investigation by the UK’s anti-corruption watchdog after it rejected his appeal demands | Conservative MP George Freeman is under investigation for further potential breaches of the ministerial code. Getty
EXCLUSIVE: A Conservative MP and former health minister is under fresh investigation by the UK’s anti-corruption watchdog af... |
| Feb 15, 2021 | A Tory MP is under new investigation by the UK’s anti-corruption watchdog after it rejected his appeal demands | Conservative MP George Freeman is under investigation for further potential breaches of the ministerial code. Getty
EXCLUSIVE: A Conservative MP and former health minister is under fresh investigation by the UK’s anti-corruption watchdog af... |
| Jan 26, 2021 | Conservative MP George Freeman received cash from PPE firm founded by former government appointee | George Freeman MP Getty
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The UK government's anti-corruption watchdog has found that a former minister in Boris Johnson and David Cameron's governments broke the ministerial code by failing to declare his position with a... |
| Dec 4, 2020 | Britain Says It Will Cut Emissions 68% By 2030, But Experts Ask How | Parents and children holding handmade wind turbines call for a green economic recovery from the ... [+] coronavirus pandemic, at a protest in London in July.Barcroft Media via Getty Images |
| Oct 26, 2020 | How A Footballer Brought The U.K. Government To Its Knees | Marcus Rashford stars for Manchester United, but it's his efforts on behalf of disadvantaged ... [+] children that have most endeared him to the public (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| May 29, 2020 | Iranians And Iraqis Dominate Attempts To Enter UK Via Perilous Cross-Channel Route | A dingy with a group of migrants is escorted to the English Border Force by a French patrol boat on ... [+] the English Channel, 12 miles from Dover on May 27, 2020. The dingy was carrying 13 migrants and is believed to have been attempting... |
| Feb 18, 2020 | A UK politician is asking for sleepovers in Londoners' homes in his bid to be the city's mayor | Rory Stewart, Conservative MP, at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2019 on October 12, 2019 in Cheltenham, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)
British politicians Rory Stewart has asked Londoners to invite them into their home... |
| Dec 14, 2019 | Could Boris Johnson’s Landslide Majority Be Good For LGBT People? | The Conservative party does not have the most reliable political record on voting for LGBT rights. |
| Nov 2, 2017 | Theresa May’s Claim that the SNP has ‘Broadband Powers’ Debunked | Theresa May’s claim that the SNP is not using powers which it has to influence better broadband coverage across Scotland has been mostly debunked by investigative journal The Ferret. An investigation was launched by the Ferret Fact Service ... |
| Sep 21, 2017 | Scotland’s Broadband: Scottish Minister Responds to UK Government Criticism | In a Parliamentary Q&A session held last Thursday (14 September), Digital Minister Matt Hancock blamed the Scottish Government for Scotland’s alleged lack of accessibility to super-fast broadband. His comments came in response to a quer... |
| Dec 15, 2016 | Social media sites may need to apply age checks under UK anti-porn law | Social media sites such as Twitter face being regulated in the UK under anti-porn proposals, as part of the government’s Digital Economy bill proposal.
If the bill passes into law unamended, social media services could be scooped into needi... |
| Oct 24, 2016 | BPI Reports Quarter Billion ‘Pirate’ Links to Google, Ask UK Govt. For Help | Despite the growing availability of legal music services in many countries, record labels are facing a constant stream of pirated music.
In an attempt to prevent these infringements, BPI and other music industry groups send millions of take... |
| Sep 16, 2016 | UK Court Says Lauri Love Can Be Extradited To Face Hacking Charges In The US | Lauri Love, the British hacker the DOJ has been dying to get its hands on, has just been handed over to the US by his own government. The decision issued today [PDF] basically states that honoring extradition agreements is more important th... |
| Feb 1, 2016 | Security breaches at MoD up 40% in 2015, says UK defence minister | BBC reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating
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The UK's Ministry of Defence saw a significant spike in security breaches last year, the government has confirmed.
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| Jan 27, 2016 | The UK is hardening its stance against kids watching porn online | hansol reader comments 30 with 25 posters participating
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| Nov 2, 2012 | Any Hint Of Evidence Based Copyright In The UK Seen As Nefarous Plot By Parliamentary Copyright Maximalists | The laws governing intellectual monopolies in the UK are in a state of flux at the moment. After the previous government in its dying hours rammed through the shoddy piece of work known as the Digital Economy Act, the present coalition gove... |
| Feb 14, 2012 | Two Contradictory Paths In The UK When It Comes To Copyright Issues | It’s been a bit hard to understand what’s been going on in the UK concerning copyright reform when we keep hearing two very contradictory messages. On one side, there’s the ridiculous Digital Economy Act, which was proposed by the unelected... |
| Mar 2, 2010 | Anti-Piracy Lawyers “An Embarrassment To Creative Rights Industry” | “I’ve been sent a letter from Tilly Bailey & Irvine, they say i’ve been downloading porn and want £800 or they’re going to take me to court,” said an email to TorrentFreak early February, which was quickly followed by another – and anot... |
| Dec 11, 2009 | Outvesting announces winner – Irish politics site KildareStreet.com | [Ireland] KildareStreet.com, a website that hopes to keep Irish politicians in check, has been announced as the winner of the inaugural €5,000 Outvesting fund.
The fund was a grassroots effort started by James Corbett and John Keyes and des... |
| Dec 11, 2009 | Digital Economy Bill: Lords Want To Stamp Out Piracy Chasers | Last week it was reported that Lord Lucas had criticized elements of Peter Mandelson’s Digital Economy Bill, noting that many problems being faced by the entertainment industries are of their own making.
“The industry has been extremely slo... |
| Sep 22, 2009 | Tom Steinberg of mySociety.org to Give Keynote Address at Government 2010 | Tom Steinberg of MySociety.org is to give a keynote address at Government 2010 on October 22nd, 2009.
mySociety is a non-profit, open source organisation that runs many of the best-known democracy websites in the UK. These include the Parli... |
| Dec 12, 2006 | When will Politics 2.0 happen? | Given that one of the questions posed by Loic Le Meur at Le Web3 was how will the web change the political system, I thought this link from Stuart Bruce’s was apt. Simon Dickson who writes the brilliant theyworkforyou.com has created a new ... |
| Government kicks off business rates review: how you can get relief today | Key takeaways:
A new government review into pub and hotel business rates is underway, with changes expected to be implemented by 2029Pubs are subject to a different tax system from other businesses, as they are currently taxed based on turn... |
| 11 Tory leadership candidates' donors and war chests analysed ahead of £300,000 contest | Frontrunner Rishi Sunak NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images
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| Business rates are set to increase by 52%. Here’s how to get your MP’s attention | Business rates are still on track to rise by 52% over the next three years across England’s retail, hospitality and leisure sector. On 7 July, Parliament’s Business and Trade Committee pushed back on a government response that only fully ac... |
| Meet David Cameron’s new business minister Matthew Hancock – 10 things you need to know | Amid high-profile Cabinet switches for ex-education secretary Michael Gove and former defence secretary Philip Hammond was the news Sevenoaks MP and energy, business and enterprise minister Michael Fallon had been promoted to Hammond's... |
| Who is Peter Kyle, the new business secretary? | Image credit: Peter Kyle ©House of Commons
The Secretary of State for Business and Trade, and President of the Board of Trade is now Peter Kyle. He takes over the role from Jonathan Reynolds, who has become the chief whip.
A member of parli... |
