from #OpenRightsGroup:

Far-reaching powers over Internet access are being rushed through.

Last minute amendments have been shoved into the UK Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

Ministers will be able to force anyone over 13 to use unsafe and unregulated age-ID services to access whatever content the government wants.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/13-year-olds-could-be-compelled-to-use-unregulated-age-verification/

#ageverification #privacy #freedomofexpression #internet #ukpolitics #ukpol #press #news

#UKfascism #UKpoliceState 🤬😡

https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116284214703731537

13 year olds could be compelled to use unregulated age verification

Last minute amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill will have huge implications for freedom of expression and privacy in the UK, Open Rights Group has warned.

Open Rights Group

Reform is eminently beatable. Every time things settle down toward normal absent some big event that sets things to chaos, we close the gap.

Providing Starmer survives past the local, Scottish, and Welsh elections in May, I don't think we'll have cause to fear a Reform victory in Westminster.

#UKPolitics #UKPol

Great conversation last night about Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal with the independent #artist and researcher Seth Wheeler for the Minor Compositions #podcast, hosted by Stevphen Shukaitis.

At a time of #political upheaval, institutional #crisis and growing disillusionment with #liberal #democracy, Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal argues that the problem is not simply that #culture is underfunded - but that it is funded in the wrong way, by the wrong structures, for the wrong ends.

So we explored the #politics of cultural funding and what a more radical (less white, male and #middle-class) approach to creating culture might look like.

Should go live soon. In the meantime, the book is here:

Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal: https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal

And you can listen to the Minor Compositions podcast series here: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?page_id=1102

#DefundCulture #UKPolitics

Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal

mediastudies.press

He's not wrong, is he?

And if you think Trump is unpopular in the UK now, wait until the price hikes from his stupid war hit us all....

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/24/ed-davey-lib-dems-reform-uk-tories-trump-style-politics-local-elections

#EdDavey #LibDems #UKPol #UKPolitics #Trump #tories #ReformUK #Fascism #FarRight

Ed Davey accuses Reform UK and Tories of importing ‘Trump-style divisive politics’

Lib Dems will focus on ‘rolling up their sleeves and getting things done’, leader says at launch of local election campaign

The Guardian

Cool, so Trump's war which the Yanks are powerless to stop is going to be COVID level crisis for those of us in the UK who did not have a vote in that stupid election and yet suffer the consequences of it.
Cheers.

#IranWar #OperationEpicFuckUp #EnergyCrisis #UKPol #UKpolitics #USPol #USPolitics #COVID #TUC

The Colonial Press has done a good job of negging the Scots and making them feel inadequate and lesser to the English....just as Westminster wants.

"Propaganda doesn't work on me!"

#ScotPol #Colonialism #UKpol #UKpolitics #Press #Journalism

Does Reform vet these people at all?

Remember this clown from yesterday? Hours after that terrorist attack on the ambulances as well.

And if you want to see 'cosplay' look at the clowns who hunt foxes on horses, now there's some 'Dressup!'

#ReformUK #UKPol #UKPolitics #Hampshire