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Commenters on Guido “create their own language” to dodge algorithms and post antisemitism slurs

Commenters on Guido Fawkes have been accused of being so racist they create their own language to be antisemitic and get past the algorithms. Last night after right wing blog Guido Fawkes published a secret recording of a private Passover seder ceremony that Jeremy Corbyn attended to attack all those present for supporting the Labour leader, eagle eyed people started questioning some of the comments on the blog. While the Jewdas organisation that the blog describes as "radical" has a history of...

Girl, 17, shot dead and a boy, 16, critically injured in a night of unrelated shootings in London

Police have launched two separate investigations after a teenage boy was shot and critically injured - and a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed. The Met Police say the two incidents are unrelated, after another night of violence in London. The 17-year-old girl died after she was shot in Tottenham, north London, at around 21:30 on Easter Monday. A Met Police spokesperson said: "Officers attended along with the London Ambulance Service and found the teenage girl suffering from a gun...

FOI request reveals London boroughs have higher homicide rates than major UK cities

By James Gale  Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been urged to tackle gun crime after a freedom of information request revealed that some boroughs have higher homicide rates than major UK cities. There have been 53 murders in the capital since 2012, with London's murder rate overtaking New York City's for the first time ever in February according to a new report. An FOI request submitted on behalf of The London Economic found Brent is the capital’s highest borough for gun murders, with...

Jeremy Corbyn attacked for celebrating Passover with Jews – but apparently Jewdas are the wrong sort of Jews

  Tonight in perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the Jeremy Corbyn anti-Semitism row, he has come under criticism from the usual suspects for celebrating Passover with Jews in his constituency. But these are the wrong sort of Jews apparently. - Left wing Jews. According to right wing political blog Guido Fawkes which leaked photos and a secretly made audio recording of the Passover seder attended by the Labour Leader, who brought some beetroot from his allotment as a gift,...

The most amazing underwater pictures in the world have been revealed

The most amazing underwater pictures in the world have been revealed - including a close-up snap of an angry crocodile. More than 6,000 pictures were entered for the underwaterphotography.com contest across 17 categories - from macro close-ups to wide angle shots, with two Brits claiming gold medals. A lemon shark glides through the late-afternoon sunlight off the coast of Grand Bahama Tanya Houppermans One of these was Tom St George who scooped a gold in the Wide Angle/Marine Life category...

Giant dinosaurs bigger than buses once roamed the Isle of Skye

Giant dinosaurs bigger than a double decker bus roamed the Isle of Skye 170 million years ago, say scientists. Dozens of footprints belonging to early sauropods - the largest animals ever to walk the planet - have been unearthed in a lagoon on the remote Scottish hideaway. Others were made by the older theropod cousins of T Rex as herds splashed about in the muddy shallows off the north east coast. They were identified by their claws. The discovery adds...

Antarctica is shrinking because the sea floor is being eroded by warm water at an extreme rate

Antarctica is shrinking because the sea floor is being eroded - by warm water. Global warming is causing vast swathes of the land underneath the frozen continent to be carried away - leading to structural instability in the great ice sheet. Now entire cliffs of ice that have stood for millions of years are breaking off and falling into the ocean, because the land they were built on has been subject to rapid erosion. Research by the UK Centre for...

Astronomers have captured an image of the most distant star ever seen – nine BILLION light years away

Astronomers have captured an image of the most distant star ever seen - nine BILLION light years away. The star, named Icarus, is so far away that the light the boffins saw was twice as old as planet Earth. Experts at UC Berkely in California discovered the star thanks to a rare cosmic alignment, which provided a window of opportunity to view the star. The sighting was made possible due to a phenomenon called 'gravitational lensing', which allows far away...

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