The Secret Barrister takes apart the online myths about Britain having two-tier justice. "Disinformation is easily and automatically spread on social media using bots, fake stories, fake bits of information and video clips. Anything digitised can be manipulated. Governments have known this for a long time. But 2024 has been, thus far, a 'super-year' of elections across the globe ... All have faced an onslaught of online disinformation and this threatens to increase in intensity in the run-up to the forthcoming US election."Juliet Lodge asks what can be done to stop thugs and bots gaming democracy. "As local jails have ...
The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: Welcome to the 122nd edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP) which diverts from 'proper' opinion polling to take a look at the Conservative leadership surveys run by ConservativeHome. Find out more by reading this edition of The Week in Polls here, and you can sign up below to receive future editions direct to your email inbox:
Sun 18th
16:25
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The new Labour government is showing commendable vigour in pursuing the latest batch of racist rioters, the courts are correspondingly raising their game in rapidly hearing cases and sentencing, and sufficient prison places have been made available, so it seems that it is possible for the judicial system to work when the political will is there, a refreshing change. So I wonder if the government can show an equal willingness to address the longstanding outrage of women and girls not having their cases of sexual violence and rape heard in court. Many are waiting as long as 3 years to ...
Laura Marling is wondering whether to sacrifice her career for motherhood, she recently told Rachel Aroesti in the Guardian: The 34-year-old singer-songwriter, who first found fame with her enchanting yet earthy folk as a teenager, has decided to stop touring completely after becoming a parent. In fact, she might pack in the whole music thing entirely. "One of the great privileges of my life is turning out to be that I started my career early, and I can sort of wind it down," says Marling with cool-headed contemplation: her conversational trademark. But she's issuing a new album later this year, ...
United States Kamala Harris, asserts Donald Trump, "is a communist." The assertion is, of course, another blatant falsehood. And the fact that the former president is resorting to the well-tried, but somewhat discredited, tactic of red-baiting demonstrates how desperate the Trump campaign has become since Harris took over from President Joe Biden. Kamala Harris does have certain political beliefs and policies that run counter to those of Donald Trump, conservative voters and the Republican Party. The one that rankles most with conservatives is her support for America's limited social safety net. Vice President Harris supports the universal retirement benefits (ie ...
Sun 18th
07:00
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design Masters Show #dundeewestend #djcadmastersshow
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design's annual Masters Show is returning from next Saturday - 24th August - until Sunday 1st September. The show will be open from 10am to 4pm each day, with an extended late opening until 8pm on Wednesday 28th August. Explore a range of outstanding work across 14 varied and complex subjects. All welcome! For more information, visit the website at https://buff.ly/3kdVxsL
Following on from headlines about Nigel Farage's £1.2m a year GB News salary, the Mirror dives into the declarations of interests by other MPs, with Reform MPs continuing to raise eyebrows. The paper says that Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice, who has frequently railed against 'globalists' and "elites", accepted a long weekend in Germany paid for by Le Cercle - an allegedly CIA-funded secret society which supported Apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s and whose membership has allegedly included heads of state, intelligence operatives, industry chiefs and envoys from the Vatican.. They say that it has existed since the ...
