UK smoking ban becomes law as anyone born after 2009 banned from buying cigarettes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-smoking-ban-becomes-law-33860363

Rishi Sunak Reluctantly Tries Cheese Ice Cream For The First Time, Watch His Reaction

Rishi Sunak is a big fan of cheese and ice cre…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #CelebrityFoodDiaries #cheeseicecream #FoodTopics #fruitcakeicecream #icecreamflavour #laceyscheese #Localtraditions #rishisunak #rishisunakfood #simonlacey #theudderone #wensleydalecheese #yorkshirefood
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2603191/rishi-sunak-reluctantly-tries-cheese-ice-cream-for-the-first-time-watch-his-reaction/

Kaum war dieser Dreiteiler Anfang 2024 in Großbritannien ausgestrahlt, ging ein politisches Erdbeben los. Diese Miniserie von James Strong und Gwyneth Hughes hat nicht nur ihr Fernsehpublikum bewegt, sondern auch eine längst überfällige Debatte wieder angeheizt und zu politischen Konsequenzen geführt. Wann hat Fernsehen das eigentlich zuletzt „bei uns“ vermocht? (ARTE, Wh.)

Reading about the Covid Inquiry and feeling a need to quote my own song again!

"It's the favour of your backers at stake
Our health is a sacrifice you're happy to make"

https://single-bass.bandcamp.com/track/cant-bullshit-a-virus

(Content note, song includes pointed language about death and callous behaviour)

#CovidInquiry #NHS #UK #Tories #AlexanderBorisDePfeffelJohnson #RishiSunak

(this programme mentions the "National Physical Laboratory" which is another of Rishi Sunak's fucked-up projects)

Is it legal for police to use live facial recognition technology?
The Law Show

The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says she makes “no apology” for announcing the roll-out of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) to all the police services in England and Wales.

Under a government white paper on policing, the number of Live Facial Recognition vans will increase from 10 to 50.

Police say it’s groundbreaking technology in the fight against crime, but civil liberties groups say it’s authoritarian and a step towards a "surveillance state".

Facial recognition cameras are already used in shops; the difference with LFR is that the software used by police tracks faces against a watchlist - a specific database of faces - from a live video feed.

But the legal framework regulating the use of the technology is a patchwork of common law, human rights legislation and police guidelines, which has been challenged in the High Court.

There is also concern about a lack of oversight over how police watchlists are compiled, and why the number of people on the list now stretches into the thousands.

So is LFR legal?

Presenter: Dr Joelle Grogan
Producers: Ravi Naik and Charlotte Rowles
Editor: Tom Bigwood

Contributors:
Sonja Jessup, BBC London’s home affairs correspondent
Professor Karen Yeung, Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics, Birmingham Law School
Dr Asress Gikay, Senior Lecturer in AI, Disruptive Innovation and Law, Brunel, University of London
Richard Ryan a barrister from Blakiston’s, specialising in drone and unmanned aviation law

#FacialRecognition #UKPol #BBCRadio4 #BBCTheLawShow #RishiSunak #NationalPhysicalLaboratory

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sf5p

I do go on about #RishiSunak being a complete dunderhead ("fuckwit") who is greatly responsible for Palantir shit in the UK and genius moves like use of #VerificationProcess for no discernible reason other than mass authoritarian perving but one can never forget #FidoDarding ... I mean #DidoHarding who also is a massive idiot.

Dido is to tech as #LizTruss was to the economy.

Saturday, February 28, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/saturday-february-28-2026/

Ex-UK PM Rishi Sunak To Speak At India AI Impact Summit Curtain Raiser

Ex-UK PM Rishi Sunak To Speak At India AI Impact Summit Curtain Raiser #RishiSunak #ExUKPM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #IndiaAI #AIImpactSummit #TechNews #DigitalIndia #TechnologySummit #SunakInIndia #FutureTech #Innovation #OTV #OdishaTV #OdiaNews #OTVNews #LatestNews #WorldNews #TechUpdate #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #TrendingNow #TechTrends…

https://www.odnews.in/ex-uk-pm-rishi-sunak-to-speak-at-india-ai-impact-summit-curtain-raiser/