It is just under a year and a half ago that I found myself writing a piece called ‘A Black Friday’.
Assisted Suicide
Tom Kendall
Peter Ladd
The government are introducing a new complaints system for university staff that could see institutions fined £500,000 or 2% of their income if they are found to have failed in protecting free…
Freedom of Speech
As part of the government’s consultation on keeping children safe online, the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has called a meeting in Downing Street with senior leaders from the major social media companies.
Pornography
Good Government
The latest data for the U.S. state of Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal, shows that a record number of people received assisted suicide prescriptions last year. It also recorded the second-highest…
Assisted Suicide
Major wins in regulation of online pornography
Pornography
Scottish Parliament rejects Assisted Suicide Bill
Assisted Suicide
CARE for Scotland urges MSPs to reject assisted suicide ahead of…
Assisted Suicide
CARE for Scotland comment: Royal College of Psychiatrists switches to oppose…
Assisted Suicide
Artificial Intelligence
Pornography
The UK government has allocated £25.4 million to charities working to help those with gambling harms over the next two years. The money has been allocated from funds raised by the statutory…
Gambling
Anthropic, the AI company behind the popular Claude chatbot, have announced their latest model, Claude Mythos Preview. However, despite lauding it as their most powerful model yet, they are withholding its release…
Artificial Intelligence
Report Remove, which is a service allowing children and young people to report intimate images of themselves online has reported a 34% increase in reports of blackmail attempts compared to last year.…
Pornography
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said that the women’s category of olympic sports will be restricted to those who are biologically female from 2028. The policy will prevent transgender athletes and…
Transgender
The Finnish Supreme Court has acquitted parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen over a Bible verse which she tweeted in 2019. However, on a separate charge, they found her guilty of “hate speech” in a…
Freedom of Speech
In two landmark trials in the United States, social media platforms have been found liable of causing harm to children. On Tuesday a court in New Mexico found Facebook’s parent company, Meta,…
Pornography
More than 70 MPs and Peers have written to the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, to ask them to “hit pause” on the plans to decriminalise abortions…
Abortion