Mastodawn

#FakeAI. #DigitalGrifters.
#GriftersGonnaGrift. The #UKGov has been swindled out of billions by those #WorkingTheDigitalGrift going back at least two decades now. This is just the latest chapter. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/britain-fake-numbers-ai-investment-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

British politics is hooked on flashy fake numbers – and the AI investment debacle proves it

A claim that the UK is attracting billions of pounds in AI investment has been debunked. That’s no surprise when our establishment runs on dubious ‘good news’, says Jonathan Portes, a professor at King’s College London and former senior civil servant

The Guardian

LentenWax 5d ago

And then?

https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk

@mullvadnet
#Censorship #Surveillance #UKLabour #UKGov

And then? And then Mullvad was censored in the UK.

UK ramps up censorship & surveillance. Mullvad's critical TV ad "And Then?" was banned. Watch it here.

Mullvad VPN

Richard R Lee 5d ago

By now the #UKElectorate should be painfully aware that there is NO LEADERSHIP in the #UKGov. There hasn’t been for decades, only #ToxicNarcissists have held this mantle. Regardless of party or circumstances in which they arrived as #PM they all have been #rubbish at their jobs and #Liars at their core. Does the country want this to continue to be the #Norm? I wonder at times. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/12/peter-mandelson-papers-prime-minister-dissenting-voices-keir-starmer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The Mandelson papers reveal a prime minister who would rather not hear from dissenting voices

Warnings were ignored because No 10 had already made up its mind to let Peter Mandelson sail through, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian

The Daily Perspective 6d ago

A £100K band-aid for critical UK aviation forecasting software

#UKGov #LegacyIT #Aviation #AusNews

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-12-a-100k-band-aid-for-critical-uk-aviation-forecasting-software-afc4fe97

A £100K band-aid for critical UK aviation forecasting software

Department for Transport seeks programmer to maintain decades-old NAPAM forecasting system, highlighting £2.3bn legacy IT crisis in UK government.

The Daily Perspective

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Claire McNab 6d ago

Note that the #UKgov press release on the passage of the #HereditaryPeersBill makes various promises of further reform, such as minimum participation levels. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hereditary-peers-bill-passes-in-house-of-lords-paving-the-way-for-further-reform

But it makes no mention of replacing the #HouseOfLords with an elected upper house. #Democracy isn't even suggested for a future menu.

#ukpol

Hereditary Peers Bill passes in House of Lords, paving the way for further reform

The Hereditary Peers Bill has passed in the House of Lords in one of the biggest reforms to Parliament and UK democracy in a generation.

GOV.UK

zimpenfish Mar 11

Hilarious - iOS 26.4 now requires 18+ age verification to twiddle certain settings (thanks UKGOV, you gibbering bunch of cholesterol ridden bigots) which gives you the options of 1) a credit card (don't have one), 2) a driving licence (don't have one) or 3) a national ID card (don't have one.)

Which means, thanks to the spluttering love juice we laughingly call a "government", I'm now partially locked out of some of my phone's settings despite being, and I promise you I'm not lying, considerably older than 18.

In fact, it wasn't even the same damn century when I was 18. You mouth frothing curtain rails.

#UKGov #Apple #iOS26IsHorrificallyBadInManyWays #AgeVerificationIsDumbass

Claire McNab Mar 10

Keir #Starmer appears to be trying to destroy the #devolution settlement which his #LabourParty created in 1998.

Welsh journalist #WillHayward has scooped a leaked memo from Starmer to all members of the #UKgov Cabinet. He advocates overriding opposition from devolved government's.

screenshot from https://x.com/WillHayCardiff/status/2031368917663281291

Full text of memo in reply to this toot >>

#ukpol #scotpol #senedd

Pete the Gopher Keeper Mar 10

FINALLY! Someone stood on the tail of a Brontosaurus months ago, and its tiny brain has only just registered it!

"'Big Tech’ fears and confusion dominate dialogue over UK digital ID scheme - Consultation launches with inter-government conflict raising more questions"

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202603/big-tech-fears-and-confusion-dominate-dialogue-over-uk-digital-id-scheme

#privacy #digitalid #ukgov #lulz

‘Big Tech’ fears and confusion dominate dialogue over UK digital ID scheme | Biometric Update

The government is likely to find that people don’t understand what the digital ID plan is, or how it can help individuals.

Biometric Update | Biometrics News, Companies and Explainers

Colin-Roy Hunter Mar 10

"In reality, the ‘Law of Unintended Consequences’ is the justification used by successive administrations for social policies which were always destined to cause preventable harm, and guarantees that no administration will be held to account for what is government-induced human suffering on a vast scale."

#UKGov #DWP

Without #DisabilityRights
there is #DisabilityDiscrimination
which permits #DisabilityHate
and ultimately #DisabilityDeath.

https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/system/files/paragraphs/cw_file/2026-02/The%20law%20of%20unintended%20consequences.pdf

John Leonard Mar 10

The government has proposed new legislative amendments that would give ministers far-reaching authority to change online safety rules without the need for full parliamentary approval. With comment from @neil

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/government/government-seeks-sweeping-powers-to-tackle-online-harms?utm_source=mastodon_org&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=Mar_GovSweeping

#technews #uk #ukgov #ukpol #osa

Government seeks sweeping powers to tackle online harms

The government has proposed new legislative amendments that would give ministers far-reaching authority to change online safety rules without the need for full parliamentary approval.