6 d. ago TikTok urged to clarify how it will moderate content amid proposed job cuts

MPs said planned job losses in the app’s trust and safety teams are ‘concerning’.

Politics

6 d. ago Protests against Palestine Action ban to take place in Wales

Event organisers estimate that around 1,500 people could join in the action next month

Events

7 d. ago Palestine Action activist accused of breaking into RAF base led anti

A pro-Palestine activist accused of vandalising an RAF base with Palestine Action spoke to anti-Israel protesters gathered outside his jail using a prison telephone.

Politics

7 d. ago Protests against Palestine Action ban planned in 18 UK towns and cities

More than 2,000 people have already been arrested for alleged support of the group, which is banned under terrorism laws.

Events

1 week ago Liberal Democrat peer Lord Taverne who quit Labour in row over Europe dies aged 97

The peer was the Treasury minister as the UK prepared to move to decimal currency and championed the introduction of the 50p coin to replace the 10-shilling note.

Events

1 week ago House of Lords peer rolls back claims that Oasis will play five nights Knebworth

The Labour peer told the press that she was only speaking "hypothetically"

Politics

2 w. ago 'Palestine Action protesters' deny breaking into a weapons factory in Kent and causing £1.4Million of damage

Activists allegedly filmed themselves breaking into Instro Precision in Sandwich in the early hours of June 17, 2024, throwing stock to the ground and smashing computers with a crowbar.

Events

2 w. ago Group denies causing £1 million of damage in alleged Palestine Action attack

Activists allegedly filmed themselves breaking into Instro Precision in Sandwich in the early hours of June 17 2024, throwing stock to the ground and smashing computers with a crowbar.

Economics

2 w. ago Palestine Action's bid to challenge its status as a terror organisation CAN proceed, judges rule, as they dismiss Home Office appeal

Palestine Action's co-founder can proceed with a High Court challenge against the Government over the group's ban as a terror organisation, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Events

2 w. ago Palestine Action legal challenge over group’s terror ban allowed to go ahead

The Court of Appeal ruled Palestine Action’s co-founder can proceed with a High Court challenge against the government

Events

2 w. ago Palestine Action given green light to challenge ban as Home Office loses court bid

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Society

2 w. ago Palestine Action cases placing ‘big burden’ on counter terror police, Met chief admits

Sir Mark Rowley said he fears the ‘justice system isn’t moving fast enough’ as he revealed the toll of policing those defying the terror ban

Events

2 w. ago Stirling Council urged to halt 'tourist tax' plans until Scottish Government clarifies law

The Federation of Small Businesses has called for Stirling Council to either drop its plans for a 5-per cent overnight accommodation charge or wait until the Scottish Government clarifies the law.

Politics

3 w. ago Cracking down on repeat protest means ‘giving succour to haters’ – MP

Shabana Mahmood was not proposing the ‘removal of the right to protest’, she told the Commons.

Events

3 w. ago Brexiteer Gove ‘knows all about crazy mathematics’, says Treasury minister

The Conservative peer and Spectator editor had challenged the Labour front bench over the decline in the number of teachers in state education.

Politics

3 w. ago Who are Palestine Action? Labour peer urges more clarification on terrorist proscription

Hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested for holding signs saying they ‘oppose genocide and support Palestine Action’

Events

3 w. ago Campaigners welcome Scottish legal challenge to ‘draconian’ Palestine Action ban

Campaign group Defend our Juries said it planned to escalate the “mass defiance of the ban” on Palestine Action next month.

Politics

3 w. ago No way back to government role for Mandelson after Epstein scandal, Starmer says

Labour peer sacked as amabassor to Washington over continued links to Jeffrey Epstein

Politics

4 w. ago Voices: ‘Undemocratic and unlawful’: Readers react to police crackdown on repeat protests

Most readers condemned the government’s move to bolster restrictions on protests, arguing it is conflating Palestine Action demonstrations with antisemitism

Events