"Mr Carns later said that all teenagers should "Get their bleeding hair cut". When asked to elaborate, he claimed he "didn't want a nation of youngsters poncing about like Jason Bloody King all over the place".
Professional racist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (“Tommy Robinson”) was questioned under Schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism Border Security Act 2019...
... Which concerns persons who may be “engaged in hostile activity” “in the interests of a State other than the UK.”
He had just returned from Russia.
You couldnt make Herman's Head today. Everyone knows people don't have little people in their heads now
another sad example of government failing to understand technology. Bluesky is a user-to-user platform whose purpose is to enable misunderstanding jokes.
NEW: Meta is testing facial recognition for its smart glasses using software built by a Pentagon and police surveillance vendor with deep ties to the US intelligence community.
My latest w/ @dmehro.bsky.social
In addition to all the below..by design a bunch of 18 year olds are suddenly out of the family home in some form of work or tertiary education, and we keep shunting the 'here's a bunch of painful lessons you learn as you get older' further into people's lives, when they are more catastrophic.
We have somehow built a society which treats people without capital as children into their 30s, but then as unemployably past it by their late 40s. The whole thing is completely fucking borked.
It is quite reasonable to combine all this with a housing market in which people live at home and abide by parental rules into their 30s. I am very smart.
The Children's Commissioner wants the social media ban extended to 18. Even though people will be able to vote at 16. The Beatles first went to Hamburg when George Harrison was 17. You can also decide to take on £50k of tuition fee debt at 17.