Police force accused of withholding evidence in rape investigation of one of its officers
PC Ryan Canning was cleared of rape after meeting the alleged victim on a dating website
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Cambridge Analytica hacked our social lives to drive populist agendas – that’s why this is a big deal
Late last year before news of the Facebook data mining scandal broke Cambridge Analytica told Campaign magazine that getting people to vote is "no different from marketing toothpaste". The shameless brag by commercial vice-president Richard Robinson gave an unvarnished view of how the company works, by "understanding people's motives", what their "attitudes ...
UPDATE: generous public help cancer nurse start terminal cancer treatment not available on NHS
An NHS oncology nurse forced to crowdfund treatment for her own terminal cancer - as the drug is not available on the NHS has raised tens of thousands of pounds in days and is commencing treatment today. As we reported three days ago brave Laura Harris, 42, has devoted ...
“Modern slavery in London” – Romanian jailed for keeping 14 of his countrymen in squalor as slaves
Romanian David Lupu, 29, lured fellow nationals into the country with the promise of demolition work for £50 a day and free accommodation
Labour and anti semitism: Let us not hide behind the smear
"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 ...
Historic vote stops internet companies using loophole to sell women and children online for sex
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 ...
Britain’s post-Brexit blue passport to be made by EU firm
Britain's post-Brexit blue passport, which has been used by politicians to symbolise the country's break from the European Union, will be made by a Franco-Dutch firm after they won the race for the £490m printing job. UK-based firm De La Rue, which makes the current burgundy version, lost the contract to make ...
“Instead of throwing dead fish in the Thames, Farage should have done his job as a member of the fisheries committee”
Guy Verhofstadt has lashed out at Nigel Farage on Twitter over his river Thames fishing stunt, pointing out that if he cared about the British fishing fleet he would have bothered to turn up for them as a member for the fisheries committee in the European Parliament. - A role ...
Leaked spending figures show Conservatives can no longer rely on “cash for votes”
New research of the Electoral Commission spending figures show the Conservatives paid over 50p more per vote than Labour, with Theresa May's embattled party outspending Jeremy Corbyn on all fronts. Each vote cost the Tories £1.36p compared to just 80p for Labour, with the Lib Dems having to shell out a ...