Cool, they've invented something that can run their own spearphishing campaigns with malicious code, that'll help society - OpenAI and Anthropic models ‘went rogue’ during UK cybersecurity test www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI and Anthropic models ‘went rogue’ during UK cybersecurity test

AI Security Institute says tools engaged in potentially harmful activity and incident reveals new type of risk

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Excl: A former Pakistani state minister has been arrested on suspicion of raping vulnerable young girls in Manchester in the 1990s. Rukhsar Ahmed, who was re-elected as an MP in Pakistan last week, is on police bail in the UK as part of a grooming gang inquiry. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Former Pakistani minister arrested over alleged child rape in 1990s Manchester

Exclusive: Rukhsar Ahmed was re-elected as an MP in Pakistan last week despite being on police bail in the UK

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What about not enough water for the public? While millions of us face hosepipe bans, AI datacentres are gulping down millions of litres of fresh drinking water every single day.

There’s more or less no plausible (stable) coalition that would emerge from this result, unless a British “Grand Coalition” (LAB + CON) were on the table - and few would say that’s a likelihood at present.

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 8h ago

MRP Poll | Labour 81 Seats Short: LAB: 245 (+138) | 26% RFM: 174 (-112) | 23% CON: 99 (+19) | 21% LDM: 67 (-17) | 11% SNP: 25 (-8) | 2% PLC: 8 (-2) | 1% GRN: 7 (-13) | 10% Via @convergent-opinion.bsky.social, 25-30 Jul. Changes w/ 15 Jun MRP.

"Human rights commissioner removed from role after giving reference for paedophile cousin. "He has now lost his role as Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC)." [Belfast Telegraph]

One in five people arrested during the 2024 anti-migrant riots have since been reported to police for domestic abuse, adding to earlier findings that two in five had already been reported for domestic abuse before the disorder took place. [June 2026 report] #FarageRiots

Police data shows 1 in 5 men arrested during 2024 riots have since been reported for domestic abuse | End Violence Against Women

Joint statement from Southall Black Sisters (SBS), Hibiscus, Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS), Imkaan, End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW), Women for Refugee Women, Asylum Matters...

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'Eight of the biggest oil companies amassed profits of more than $90bn (£67bn) in just three months as the Iran conflict sent energy prices soaring and the emissions-fuelled climate crisis caused deadly heatwaves.' www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Jordan is convening an emergency meeting of foreign ministers from Arab and Islamic world over what it says is an “imminent” threat of an Israeli takeover of the most important Muslim site in Jerusalem, with the potential to “trigger a religious conflict”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Jerusalem’s most important Muslim religious site facing ‘imminent’ threat of Israeli takeover, says Jordan

Country convenes emergency meeting of ministers from Arab and Islamic world, fearing such a move could ‘trigger a religious conflict’

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In June Foxglove’s FOI, covered by the FT www.ft.com/content/a3e9... revealed all wasn't as it seemed with Palantir's and the NHS's stats about the performance of Palantir's Federated Data Platform. - Full FOI www.foxglove.org.uk/wp-content/u... - Blog summary www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/06/17/n...

How we revealed NHS England claims about Palantir's FDP delivering benefit for the NHS are dubious, cherry-picked and should come with a serious health warning

NHS England cannot, and should not, say the data they have made available proves hospitals delivered more operations because of Palantir.

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Good old Carter-Fuck. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...

“The senators pointed to prediction market platforms, including Polymarket, which have attracted millions of dollars in wildfire-related wagers. According to the letter, more than $1 million was wagered on the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires alone”

Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com · yesterday

There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

Ex-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · yesterday

The campaign of harassment and intimidation Raise the Colours have undertaken against council staff, contractors, and members of the public as reported by the Clarion today is shocking if not surprising. Excellent reporting. oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

"Were Farage to accept the pact, then Lowe would have dragged him reluctantly towards his own position and set himself up as a power player on the hard right. Were he to reject it, he’d be sending a hefty signal that the most radicalised right-wing voters should jump ship and follow Lowe."

Even the Royal Navy can't save Nigel Farage

A pact with Restore would be a win-win for Rupert Lowe

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#VoteBinface www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...

‘A 99 with a Flake? That will be £7, please’: what’s behind the surge in ice-cream van prices?

From the cost of milk and chocolate to diesel and electricity, every part of producing the summer treat has been hit by the climate crisis and other shocks

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The abolition of the DSIT initially looked like a demotion. Now it appears to be something far more consequential. 👀 Inside the UK's AI government overhaul, from @mc00.bsky.social and @charlienotold.bsky.social 👇 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/at-the-cen...

While wildfires rage, oil bosses are laughing all the way to the bank thanks to Donald Trump’s idiotic Iran war. People across the country are facing sky high energy bills. If Burnham is struggling to find the money to help families with those bills, I’d start here.

Sky News@news.sky.com · yesterday

Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again

you can't build a big enough coalition if Gavin Barwell is too radical for you but an ex-Neo Nazi who broke into a police station isn't

This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms

Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterday

news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest

🔴 Reform Council Leader’s Firm Advised £95 Million Project Which His Own Council Is a Partner In Exclusive: Cllr Paul Mackings’ consultancy has advised on the South Tyneside College relocation since 2021 and his firm gave £111,000 to Reform UK weeks before he stood as a candidate

Reform Council Leader’s Firm Advised £95 Million Project Which His Own Council Is a Partner In

Cllr Paul Mackings' consultancy has advised on the South Tyneside College relocation since 2021 and his firm gave £111,000 to Reform UK weeks before he stood as a candidate

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More evidence that Reform voters are not like other people in the UK. Show them some potential corruption and they’re all in.

Far right thug who marched as "defender of women" battered his own mum Alan Miller took to streets on march to "Protect Our Women and Kids". We can now reveal that he was convicted of assaulting his own mum at her home www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/far-rig...

Far right thug who marched as "defender of women" battered his own mum

Alan Miller took to streets on march to "Protect Our Women and Kids". We can now reveal that he was convicted of assaulting his own mum at her home

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it's a big club and you ain't in it

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · yesterday

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

ICE is beginning to outfit Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors after the Trump admin ended their deportation protections www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

ICE begins outfitting Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors, attorneys say

Haitian immigrants in Ohio with temporary protected status are being called to ICE offices for check-ins after federal officials said their protections had ended.

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there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

I mean yes he called a Jewish MP a rodent, founded a Neo Nazi group and assaulted a police officer, but on the other hand he's very sound on the ECHR

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP A former neo-Nazi activist with convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP has been selected as a Conservative candidate for a local election in Somerset. Joshua Bonehill-Paine, the creator of the viral Crewkerne Gazette series of AI clips, is due to stand for election to Somerset council next year in a new Crewkerne South district. He told the Guardian he was an executive member of the Tories’ Yeovil branch, working as an events organiser. Continue reading...

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Nigel Farage taking time out from campaigning against a bin to claim a Reform government would land Royal Navy boats on French beaches without French consent.

Reform's latest proposals display many features of pro-Brexit arguments, including bogus but technical-sounding claims (here, UNCLOS, cf 'CTA', 'WTO terms', 'GATT 24'), and assumptions aboutt what other countries/ EU will/ should/ must do. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/2

France hits out at Reform UK plan to return migrants using Royal Navy

It comes after the party said it would override French objections to return migrants to France.

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