Sex offenders will be “locked in” to new restriction zones to prevent them approaching their victims, under a new law.
Those who commit violent or sexual crimes will be ordered to remain in a certain area after they have been released from prison, for the remainder of their sentence.
The Ministry of Justice has announced plans to change the law to introduce “restriction zones” designed to limit the freedoms of the most serious offenders.
The new pornography taskforce will propose legislation this autumn aimed at banning a type of “barely legal” content produced by the porn star Bonnie Blue, the Guardian has learned.
Can’t have people doing what they want now, can we?
The Home Office tried to silence Robert Jenrick after he said terror suspects had arrived in Britain on small boats.
In an article for The Telegraph last year, Mr Jenrick, the former immigration minister, claimed that individuals linked to Islamic State had “waltzed right in” to Britain across the Channel.
It can now be revealed that a fortnight later, the Home Office’s most senior civil servant reprimanded him over the disclosure.
Sir Matthew Rycroft, the department’s then permanent secretary, wrote to Mr Jenrick to tell him the information “should not have been made public” and warned him against “any further disclosure” of sensitive information from his time in government.
Every child in the UK under the age of 13 must be barred from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and X, the Technology Secretary has said.
Can’t have young, impressionable, minds exposed to information now, can we? Propaganda is a state monopoly through the school system!
Europe is exploring using frozen Russian assets to pay for Donald Trump’s $10 billion (£7.4 billion) weapons package for Ukraine, the Telegraph can disclose.
Under the plan, profits generated from almost €200 billion (£173 billion) of Russian Central Bank assets seized by the European Union could be used as part of the bloc’s contribution to the new war chest.
Tends not to work out well when governments do that.
First it’s Russia, then it’s Russians, then it’s anyone called Ivan and finally anyone who squints funny.
They’re thieves, all of ’em. They may be stationary bandits but bandits all the same.
It argued that lives would be at risk if the media or Parliament revealed the existence of the leak, or the asylum scheme that followed, because the Taliban would be alerted to the existence of the list and would target those who had helped the US-led coalition before its withdrawal in 2021.
Instead of being in place for four months
Up to that point I support it.
as originally requested while the MoD organised an airlift of those affected – the Sunak government, and then the Labour Government that replaced it last year, kept the injunction in place for nearly two years.
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In October, a Cabinet sub-committee chaired by Pat McFadden, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster – and attended by Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, Mr Healey, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, and Shabana Mahmood, the Lord Chancellor – decided provisionally to expand the asylum scheme.By then, the projected costs had increased to £6 billion, and at another hearing last November, when Mr Justice Chamberlain was told how much public spending was being concealed, he spluttered: “I am starting to doubt myself – am I going bonkers, because it really is £6 billion?
And there we have the return of the usual lying scumbag behaviour. Both lots, obviously.
Sure, you don’t announce you’re flying planes into Entebbe. But demanding no one ever reveal that you have done so? Fuck off.
Free speech is under threat because Britons feel they cannot speak out for fear of offending others over race, religion and immigration, a study has found.
Nearly half of those polled (49 per cent) believe people are too easily offended, particularly if they speak out on race and immigration issues, according to research for the Commission for Countering Extremism, which advises the Government.
The more outspoken people’s views, the more likely they were to feel constrained by the risk of offending others. Older, white males without a university education are among the groups who feel the most restricted.
The restrictions upon speech bite on the older working class male because that’s who the restriction upon speech are aimed at, the older working class male. They’re the most socially conservative part of the population and the anti-free speech is all about suppressing social conservatism. Therefore that it works out this way is obvious.
And?
Make assisted dying work, Starmer tells Streeting
Are we going to have targets? Quotas? Tractor production statistics?
Insistences that that’s yer lot because we must overfill the quota? Comrade?
A former Conservative councillor who was recorded saying that every white man should have a black slave has been banned from public office for four years.
Andrew Edwards, who was a Tory councillor on Pembrokeshire county council in Wales, was heard making the comments in a 16-second WhatsApp voice clip.
He referred himself to the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales when it emerged, but claimed the recording may have been a “deepfake” hoax.
However, he has been banned from standing as a council candidate for four years after the watchdog ruled that it was his voice.
In the clip, Mr Edwards said: “Nothing wrong with the skin colour at all. I think all white men should have a black man as a slave or black woman as a slave, you know.
“There’s nothing wrong with skin colour, it’s just that they’re lower class than us white people, you know.”
Yer wha‘?
Thought we’d sorted this all out with John Wilkes?
The only people who get to decide whether someone’s views are inconsistent with public office are the voters. This then extends to criminal offences – which he’s not been charged with anyway – and even then only if sentenced to a year and a day in pokey. Even that only applies to the year while they’re an MP. Haviong been sentenced and served in the past doesn’t count.
How in buggery have we ended up with purity tests for public office? And, what are all the other ones?
“Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter. What does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal of current events to tax-paying citizens,” Trump said.
“Today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options. Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.”
Civil servants will be given “dangerous” powers to access the public’s bank accounts under Government plans branded a “snoopers’ charter”.
Privacy campaigners and peers have raised concerns about the legislation, which would give mid-ranking officials powers that are usually reserved for police investigators.
The new fraud Bill will allow civil servants to ask banks to provide personal information about a person’s account without a court order, and extract funds if they “reasonably believe” that money is owed to the taxpayer.
The crayon eaters can just take money from your bank account whenever?
Tower Hill for whoever thought that one up then. And their horse.
Léo Lins was found guilty of inciting intolerance with a 2022 stand-up routine that made fun of black people, indigenous people, fat people, gay people, Jews, evangelicals, disabled people and those with HIV.
During the performance, which was uploaded to YouTube and has more than three million views, Lins told a 4,000-strong crowd in Curitiba, in southern Brazil: “Prejudice, to me, is a primitive thing that shouldn’t exist any more. Just like indigenous people. Enough already.”
Wearing a bright red shirt and yellow trousers, he warned the audience that he “jokes about everything and everyone”.
He told them: “What show could be more inclusive? I even hired a sign language interpreter just to be able to offend the deaf-mute.”
Anyone got a translation?
Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero, says thinktank
Exclusive: Common Wealth report argues debt, pollution and underinvestment justify process known as special administration
The mechanism he suggests using is “Steal it”.
“Would I have been prosecuted if I’d set fire to a copy of the Bible outside Westminster Abbey? I doubt it.”
The CPS said that Coskun was not being prosecuted for burning the book.
They argued it was the combination of his derogatory remarks about Islam and the fact that it was done in public that made it an offence.
The CPS originally charged Coskun, who is an atheist, with harassing the “religious institution of Islam”.
Do public blasphemy is illegal, private is not. That’s not actually much of a solution, is it?
A handful of “small but dirty” public affairs and law firms in Europe are enabling pollution by lobbying extensively for big oil, an analysis has found, with most major companies in the industry working for at least one fossil fuel client.
Several of the top spenders on activities to influence EU policymaking are on the payroll of oil and gas companies, according to an analysis of the EU Transparency Register by the Good Lobby nonprofit, but fossil fuel clients represent just 1% of the industry’s revenue.
The researchers said it showed that public affairs companies could cut ties with the big polluters who pay them to influence policy without hurting their bottom lines – but warned there was little public or regulatory pressure on lobbyists to go green.
Those bad people over there shouldn’t have free speech. Because we’re perfect, we are…..
The French justice system chose courage over surrender. The law was clear, and so was the court in its sentencing: no special treatment for Marine Le Pen, no deference to the powerful, no using a candidacy for office as an excuse to break the law with impunity.
For more than a decade, from 2004 to 2016, Le Pen’s reactionary rightwing party – named the Front National until 2018, when it became the Rassemblement National (RN) – operated an organised scheme to embezzle public funds by creating fictitious parliamentary assistant jobs at the European parliament, and to break other financial rules, in effect using European public money to finance a debt-ridden party domestically. Under a French anti-corruption law passed in 2016, the guilty verdict rendered against Le Pen comes with a sentence of ineligibility to run for office.
The Guardian columnist actually approves of the law passed after the act prosecuted under the law.
In the name of anti-fascism, of course.
Romania has banned the far-right frontrunner in the country’s presidential vote from taking part in the election, in a move that comes despite warnings from the US to respect voters’ wishes.
The country’s electoral bureau said on Sunday it was invalidating Călin Georgescu’s candidacy after receiving objections that he had violated laws against extremism.
Only the right sort of people are allowed to compete, of course…..can’t have the people actually choosing something we don’t want now, can we?
Assisted dying would be provided by private companies under plans to stop a flood of requests hampering efforts to bring down NHS waiting lists.
Options to contract out assisted death to the private sector are being considered in government in an effort to ease pressure on NHS clinics while dealing with doctors’ insistence that a separate service is needed to help patients to end their own lives.
No, go on, just imagine…..
I’ll start with the most straightforward case. X should be banned outright, for precisely the reasons that the US Congress tried to ban TikTok, and for its general evil and toxicity. We already have alternatives in Bluesky and, more appealingly, the Fediverse. An important additional step would be the establishment of an official platform, open only to legitimate public and non-profit organisations for the kinds of public service functions that have migrated to X, and also to Facebook – weather alerts would be an obvious example.
Sigh.