Technology | The Guardian US‘Brilliant for work-life balance’: how Britain is embracing the ‘workation’ https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/jan/08/work-life-balance-britain-embracing-workation #WorklifeBalance #WorkCareers #Business #Technology #DigitalBritain #Travel #UkNews
World news | The Guardian‘Brilliant for work-life balance’: how Britain is embracing the ‘workation’ https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/jan/08/work-life-balance-britain-embracing-workation #WorklifeBalance #WorkCareers #Business #Technology #DigitalBritain #Travel #UkNews
My sister was found dead. Then I discovered her search history – and the online world that had gripped her https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/28/my-sister-was-found-dead-then-i-discovered-her-search-history-and-the-online-world-that-had-gripped-her #Internetsafety #DigitalBritain #Mentalhealth #Digitalmedia #Socialmedia #Technology #Society #Health #Books
My sister was found dead. Then I discovered her search history – and the online world that had gripped her
Adele Zeynep Walton’s sibling Aimee was a talented artist who loved music. It was only after her death that Walton realised Aimee had been lured into a dangerous community – and that others may also be victims of it
Rural internet deserts in England and Wales to finally get fast broadband https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/07/rural-internet-deserts-in-england-and-wales-to-finally-get-fast-broadband #Telecommunicationsindustry #DigitalBritain #Technology #Broadband #Internet #Business #England #UKnews #Wales
Nearly half of UK families excluded from modern digital society, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/17/half-uk-families-excluded-modern-digital-society-study #Socialexclusion #DigitalBritain #Inequality #Technology #Internet #Poverty #Society #UKnews
The Digital Divide: could you live without the internet? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2024/mar/13/the-digital-divide-could-you-live-without-the-internet #Internet,phones&broadband #GovernmentDigitalService #Socialexclusion #DigitalBritain #Familyfinances #Mobilephones #Mentalhealth #Olderpeople #Technology #Broadband #Broadband #Internet #Society #Family #UKnews #Health
The Digital Divide: could you live without the internet?
Could you live without the internet? Doctors’ appointments, job applications, personal banking, key services and more are today mostly managed online. While the UK government details its plans for a digital future to transform public services, one in seven Britons are forced to live without the internet. This film is voiced by three individuals experiencing digital exclusion, revealing how varied and complex the repercussions can be.
Cory Doctorow#15yrsago #DigitalBritain report proposes to save Britain’s future by destroying the Internet https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/digital-britain-leaving-consumers-out-of-the-picture/
#15yrsago UK fingerprints foreign six-year-old children at the border https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/jan/29/eu-idcards
#10yrsago Not just Environment and Health: Canadian government attacks libraries from 12 ministries https://web.archive.org/web/20140303074337/www.desmog.ca/2014/01/27/loss-librarians-devastating-science-and-knowledge-canada
#10yrsago Republican Congressman threatens to kill reporter after State of the Union https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/01/29/1273288/-GOP-Congressman-Threatens-to-Kill-Report-After-SOTU
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Grant GoddardAn elite academy for aspiring rent-a-gob politicians : 1976 : Durham Union Society
“I’m sorry but you must wear appropriate attire to attend,” the usher told me sternly.
I thought I had been dressed normally enough, but apparently not. I was waving my club membership card, having paid the annual subscription during Freshers’ Week. Only then did I learn that it was insufficient merely... [continues]
#BBC #DigitalBritain #DurhamUniversity #GrantGoddard #Strodes #student
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