A Question of Entitlement and Cost The question of whether pensioners should receive a free television licence has circulated in British public life for many years, periodically flaring into political controversy and subsiding again without resolution. What has changed in…
A Large-Scale Finding With Clear Policy Implications A study drawing on responses from more than 58,000 adolescents across 21 countries has produced a finding that should focus the minds of policymakers and community leaders alike: unstructured free time — defined…
Britain’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom has made what it describes as “urgent contact” with TikTok following a deeply disturbing livestream in which celebrity blogger Perez Hilton appeared to self-harm on camera, raising immediate and pointed questions about the platform’s capacity —…
A modest but well-structured initiative operating across England and Wales is demonstrating how creative activity, combined with a straightforward market mechanism, can contribute meaningfully to prisoner rehabilitation without placing additional demands on the public purse. The programme enables incarcerated individuals…
A federal court’s decision to certify a class-action lawsuit against Apple over its Photos application’s face-recognition feature represents one of the most consequential privacy litigation risks in American corporate history — and it illustrates, with uncomfortable clarity, the financial exposure…
A dispute between a women’s advocacy organisation and one of Ireland’s largest community festivals has ended without a court ruling, after both parties reached a settlement on the morning a High Court hearing was due to begin in Belfast. The…
A rape trial at Lewes Crown Court collapsed mid-proceedings after the complainant admitted to using artificial intelligence to prepare her answers for cross-examination, prompting the Court of Appeal’s criminal division to order a retrial and issue broader guidance on the…
There is something quietly telling about the fact that this is the fourth set of formal allegations brought against TikTok by European regulators in the space of two years. The European Commission’s latest preliminary findings, issued under the Digital Services…
A vote in Paris this week drew a line that no European legislature had previously crossed. French lawmakers approved a bill on Tuesday banning children under the age of 15 from using social media, making France the first country in…
A sophisticated and apparently ongoing campaign to harvest British government credentials represents more than a one-off embarrassment. It is evidence that the gap between state-sponsored cyber aggression and the UK’s institutional readiness to counter it remains dangerously wide. The FortiBleed…