"I note that online safety was exempt from the [Ofcom] growth duty before April 2026, and that due to ongoing discussions about future duties and priorities it was agreed that it was not the right moment to agree a growth goal related to online safety"
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Douglas Alexander has apologised for late declaration of a meeting with Global Counsel - as revealed by @transparencyuk.bsky.social and the PM has accepted his apology... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a2939...
Not to be all "what are you doing" but is there going to be any actual practical changes arising from a series of far right riots leaving people afraid and trapped in their own homes?
I wish academics would stop doing this insipid punditry. If people are acting like Nazis I'm going to call them Nazis!
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well, doctor who may have died on its arse but at least my last memory of it is forcing an imaginary baby on a woman who didn't have one because the doctor decided it was time to kill himself
“They sent through this list of allergens, it was so Gen Z” (posh boomer in cafe)
you need to be a specific kind of bastard to go "you remember johnson? what if we did that again, made everything better on the last go round after all"
An update on the future of Doctor Who:
All buses are stopping in Belfast after 5pm and no trains after 6pm.
Get yourself home folks.
Also feels like almost no one is willing to say the blindingly obvious
‘What happened in Belfast is awful and - right now - there is no evidence that it was anything other than an isolated evidence. All this stuff about communities ‘not being safe’ isn’t based on any evidence’