3 d. ago Class should be ‘protected characteristic’ as arts world too posh, report says

A review carried out in Greater Manchester found working class people are struggling to get in to and stay in the arts world.

Politics

3 d. ago Being working class should be protected by law to create more acts like Oasis, says report

A new paper has said class should become a protected characteristic like race or religion in a bid to create more bands like Oasis - after pathways to success dried up for the working class

Politics

4 d. ago Patsy Kensit reveals she is selling the diamond earrings gifted to her by ex

The actress, 57, married the Oasis frontman in 1997, but they split in 2000 just months after the birth of their son Lennon.

Politics

1 week ago Anas Sarwar makes Milly's Law vow for child cancer patient who died from hospital

Sarwar vowed to establish Milly's Law which he said "would create an independent public advocate with the authority to investigate incidents and establish the truth".

Science

1 week ago Liverpool and Manchester mayors lead backlash at Starmer's Hillsborough law changes which 'create too broad an opt

Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram and Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnhamsaid the amendment 'risks undermining the spirit of the legislation'.

Society

2 w. ago People who create vile 'weapons of abuse' online face new law

People who create or try to create non-consensual intimate images will be committing a crime from this week amid an explosion of sexualised deepfakes on Elon Musk's X

Events

2 w. ago Victoria Beckham FINALLY gets her way! Holly Ramsay tasked designer with creating one of her wedding dresses after estranged daughter

It's long been known that Victoria Beckham intended on designing her daughter-in-law Nicola Peltz's wedding dress when she married Brooklyn in April, 2022. 

Culture

2 w. ago Victoria Beckham FINALLY gets her way! Holly Ramsay tasks designer with creating one of her wedding dresses after estranged daughter

It's long been known that Victoria Beckham intended on designing her daughter-in-law Nicola Peltz's wedding dress when she married Brooklyn in April, 2022. 

Culture

2 w. ago Right to protest is under attack in England and Wales, reports warn

Human Rights Watch and Justice say recent legislative changes have had a chilling effect and should be repealedThe right to protest is under attack in England and Wales with laws trampling over human rights protections and more oppressive restrictions in the pipeline, two major reports have warned.Both Human Rights Watch and the cross-party law reform organisation Justice say recent legislative changes have created a chilling effect on lawful protest and should be repealed. Their reports, simultaneously published on Thursday, also say that proposals for more curbs should be halted. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Now Musk’s Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won’t stop it, perhaps his investors will | Sophia Smith Galer

The owner of X has grown used to acting with impunity – but this may be a red line for those with ‘conservative values’ who fund his adventures in free speechIt’s a sickening law of the internet that the first thing people will try to do with a new tool is strip women. Grok, X’s AI chatbot, has been used repeatedly by users in recent days to undress images of women and minors. The news outlet Reuters identified 102 requests in a 10-minute period last Friday from users to get Grok to edit people into bikinis, the majority of these targeting young women. Grok complied with at least 21 of them.There is no excuse for releasing exploitative tools on the internet when you are sitting on $10bn (£7.5bn) in cash. Every platform with AI integration (which now covers almost the entire internet) is planning for the same challenges; if you want to enable users to create images and even videos with generative AI, how do you do so without letting the same people cause harm? Tech companies spend mo...

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