6 h. ago Covid fraudsters urged to pay up before December or face ‘hit squad’

The Government has pledged to hit perpetrators with fines of up to 100% of the value of the money they swindled from the taxpayer.

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10 h. ago It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage governmentIn Britain, protest is no longer a right. Instead, it is a privilege that is granted – or withheld – at the whim of those in power. This is the implication of new rules that the Labour government is proposing, which would dictate the time and place that protests are permitted to occur, and carry the risk of prison time for those who defy orders. Successive governments had already chipped away at this right: the last Conservative administration granted the police sweeping new powers, which the United Nations’ human rights chief condemned as “serious and undue restrictions” on democratic freedoms. Taken together, these incremental assaults on freedom have effectively abolished the hard-won right to freedom of protest.The latest assault is justified by last week’s heinous antisemitic attack on a mosque in Manchester. There should be universal agreement that...

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11 h. ago Gavin Henson and Charlotte Church's son turns up on the red carpet and everyone says the same thing

Charlotte Church's rarely-seen son Dexter, 16, made a rare public appearance with his famous mum and there was one very noticeable thing about his appearance

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13 h. ago Kent ‘down to the bare bones’, says care chief amid council tax rise fears

Nigel Farage’s party ousted the Conservatives at Kent County Council (KCC) in May, with a promise to slash ‘wasteful spending’.

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15 h. ago People are only just realising why 'scum' often forms on tea

No matter how good you are at brewing tea, there's a chance you've noticed a nasty 'scum' forming on your tea from time-to-time - and Brits are only just realising why it actually happens

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16 h. ago Top Farage aide hints Conservatives could merge with Reform UK post

Gawain Towler also hinted Reform will have an open-door policy to Tory defectors

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17 h. ago Man walks through crowd at UK pub before people realise it's A

People living in a UK town were astounded this weekend to spot an A-list celebrity gracing their local watering hole, having swapped the LA sunshine for some good, old-fashioned pub grub

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18 h. ago Reform UK 'set to hike Kent council tax by 5% next year' amid claims DOGE

The local authority was one of 10 English councils that Nigel Farage's party seized control of at May's local elections.

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29 h. ago Kevin Maguire: 'Kemi Badenoch's Nigel Farage tribute act will crash Tory party'

Kevin Maguire argues that the Conservative Party veering further to the right, and into Reform UK territory, is an act of blind panic that could cost the Conversative Party even more votes

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36 h. ago People are only just realising the real purpose of the 'tiny shelves' next to front doors

The head-height ledges on either side of a door frame have bamboozled many homeowners with some taking to the internet in search of answers.

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43 h. ago Poll shows Starmer's 'fightback' Labour conference flopping with Reform extending lead to 13 POINTS and PM's personal ratings at another low

Keir Starmer was seen as having given himself some breathing space from mutinous MPs and activists after ramping up attacks on Nigel Farage in Liverpool last week.

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51 h. ago Starmer's chief of staff 'not behind PM's Nigel Farage racism jibe' but 'backs it 100 per cent'

Sources say No10's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney has privately said he was not responsible for the Prime Minister's claim that Nigel Farage's migrants policy was racist.

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59 h. ago Nigel Farage government 'would be disaster' for children, education chief warns

Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union, told The Mirror a 'failure to invest and deliver' was leading to a surge in support for Reform UK

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62 h. ago OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’

Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidationOpenAI launched the latest iteration of its artificial intelligence-powered video generator on Tuesday, adding a social feed that allows people to share their realistic videos.Within hours of Sora 2’s, release, though, many of the videos populating the feed and spilling over to older social media platforms depicted copyrighted characters in compromising situations as well as graphic scenes of violence and racism. OpenAI’s own terms of service for Sora as well as ChatGPT’s image or text generation prohibit content that “promotes violence” or, more broadly, “causes harm”. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Britain's most extreme cleaner has made millions taking jobs 'no

Growing up on a Welsh farm, Ben Giles, 49, realised clean-up jobs other people said no to he could cope with, sparking a lucrative career in biohazard cleaning.

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64 h. ago ANNA TURLEY: 'Nigel Farage’s policies represent a serious threat to Britain’s future'

The Tories ducked the big decisions and Labour is now acting to support families and put more money in people's pockets, the Labour Party Chair Anna Turley writes

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64 h. ago Top London Tory defects to Reform and 'charismatic' Nigel Farage in blow to Kemi Badenoch on eve of party conference

London Assembly member Keith Prince says Reform ‘has a vision’ - while the Conservative party ‘is not the party I joined 49 years ago’

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64 h. ago Tories deny mimicking Farage with plan to quit ECHR criticised by rights groups

Critics say the move would strip UK citizens of fundamental human rights protections.

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65 h. ago Man gets up to sing at bar and people left gobsmacked when the realise who it is

Many people get up to have a sing at a bar if a band is playing. However, punters at one pub who were enjoying their drinks were gobsmacked when a Hollywood A-lister got up to sing a song

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3 d. ago Met chief demands ‘insensitive’ Palestine Action protest called off in wake of Manchester terror attack

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood slammed the demonstration and Nigel Farage called it a ‘celebration of murder’

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