By Roger Cottrell, PhD At 8.00 pm on March 23, 2018, 18 officers of the Information Commission Office led by Elisabeth Denham raided the headquarters of Cambridge Analytica in Mayfair, London, having secured a warrant to do so from a Judge in less than 48 hours. This may seem like ...
"It can be hard for people on the Left to admit that our movement has a problem with bigotry", Abi Wilkinson wrote in the Telegraph at the height of the last anti-semitism smear waged against Jeremy Corbyn's Labour in 2016. It is true that as politic's "good guys" those of a ...
Hundreds of thousands of students marched across the US and in cities across the world to demand an end to school shootings that have occurred on average once a week this year in the United States. 500,000 students were expected in the main march on Washington DC led by pupils ...
A web page linking Leave.EU to Cambridge Analytica has been leaked online after being deleted in the wake of the Facebook scandal. The data-mining company was exposed by whistleblower Christopher Wylie in the Observer for harvesting 50 million social media profiles of US voters which was used by Donald Trump's adviser Steve ...
Former Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis used the madness and conflict of Shakespeare's characters to demonstrate how we can humanise economics in a powerful speech delivered at the Rose Theatre. The leading economist highlighted the seminal influence Shakespeare has had on his thinking as he took centre stage following an invitation ...
The US Senate just passed an important bill to tackle the loopholes used by internet companies that facilitate ads for sex trafficking. Senators voted yesterday to pass the historic FOSTA-SESTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act). This bill establishes criminal and civil liability for websites that ...
In Have a Nice Day, Liu Jian has created a world of multiple dimensions in the 2D renderings of a seedy southern China fringe town where lives intersect over a bag of cold hard cash. A suitable alternative title for this pulpy, crime-caper animation would be, “In the Mood for ...
An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses of the company were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers. The murky world of big data and using social media to spread political messages to millions ...
Credit where it is due to Theresa May. Her latest tough stance towards the Russia allegations may be rash, it may have resurfaced Cold War tensions and it may not be in the national interest, but it has done no damage to her approval ratings. A swathe of positive sentiment ...