3 d. ago Pub renamed The George Orwell and projects 'Big Brother is watching you' slogan to punters in protest over Labour's digital ID cards

Signage with Sir Keir Starmer 's face has been placed on the building of the rebranded The James Atherton boozer in New Brighton, Merseyside.

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3 d. ago The Three B***ends pub renamed again to 'The George Orwell' in response to digital ID plans

The James Atherton pub, in Victoria Road, New Brighton, Wirral, was given its new name by owner Daniel Davies in response to the government's introduction of digital ID

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6 d. ago The big brother local council: It's using facial recognition, AI surveillance and even drones to combat fly

He might have been dead for 75 years, but it's been a hell of a month for George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and its vision of the ultimate authoritarian state.

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2 w. ago Trump pub opens in London as safe haven for MAGA punters with Charlie Kirk room

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump MAGA fans gathered in a West London boozer to raise a glass to their hero after the landlord renamed the pub the Trump Arms and opened a wing dedicated to assassination victim Charlie Kirk

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2 w. ago Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown

Homes without heating, bedrooms with beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisiveRun-down housing estates in Britain’s former industrial heartlands remind us of the poverty described by George Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier in 1937 – but these days there is no Orwell to chronicle what the arithmetic of deprivation means for families condemned to lives of poverty.Millions of children, as the children’s commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, told us this summer, are faring very badly, living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty”. And what she calls the striking awareness children have of being poor requires us to find a modern-day Dickens to hear their voices.Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010 Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Is this Britain's biggest trans rights bully? The disgraced former police officer whose complaint led to the arrest of Graham Linehan at Heathrow and is hell

The events which unfolded when Father Ted creator Graham Linehan stepped off the plane at Heathrow last week could have been scripted by George Orwell.

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3 w. ago Snapchat allows drug dealers to operate openly on platform, finds Danish study

Social media platform accused of failing to filter out obvious usernames such as ‘coke’, ‘weed’ and ‘molly’Snapchat has been accused by a Danish research organisation of leaving an “overwhelming number” of drug dealers to openly operate on Snapchat, making it easy for children to buy substances including cocaine, opioids and MDMA.The social media platform has said it proactively uses technology to filter out profiles selling drugs. However, research by Digitalt Ansvar (Digital Accountability), a Danish research organisation that promotes responsible digital development, has found evidence of a failure to moderate drug-related language in usernames. It also accused Snapchat of failing to respond adequately to reports of profiles openly selling drugs. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Snapchat allowing drug dealers to operate openly on platform, says Danish research body

Social media platform also accused of failing to filter out obvious key usernames like ‘coke’, ‘weed’ and ‘molly’Snapchat has been accused of leaving an “overwhelming number” of drug dealers to openly operate on Snapchat, making it easy for children to buy substances including cocaine, opioids and MDMA, by a Danish research organisation.The social media platform has said it proactively uses technology to filter out profiles selling drugs. But research by Digitalt Ansvar (Digital Accountability), a Danish research organisation that promotes responsible digital development, has found evidence of a failure to moderate drug-related language in usernames. It also accused Snapchat of failing to respond adequately to reports of profiles openly selling drugs. Continue reading...

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