It is just under a year and a half ago that I found myself writing a piece called ‘A Black Friday’.
Assisted Suicide
A child under the age of twelve, who was seriously ill, has been euthanised in the Netherlands, in the first case of its kind since the law was changed two years ago.
Assisted Suicide
The ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US have warned that powerful artificial intelligence models are ‘months away’ from wreaking havoc in cyber attacks.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
The UK’s Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Eleanor Lyons, has called for a public inquiry into potential ‘exploitation’ of women on the online platform OnlyFans, after a BBC investigation exposed threatening and exploitative behaviour.
Sexual Exploitation
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
Labour MP for Rochester and Stood, Lauren Edwards, has said that she plans to bring an assisted suicide bill back to Parliament as a Private Member’s Bill. The legislation proposed will be…
Assisted Suicide
Police have warned that hundreds of people’s homes are being taken over each week to deal drugs by criminal gangs in a process known as ‘cuckooing’.
Modern Slavery
The percentage of those who called the National Gambling Helpline so far this year for help with online gambling has risen to the highest rate since 2021, with four out of five…
Gambling
The Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, revealed today that the government are giving big tech companies three months to implement technical solutions to detect and block nude images for children.
Pornography
Dr Michael Foran, an associate professor of law at Oxford University has been forced to cancel a series of talks after facing abuse for his views on gender from pro-trans activists.
Transgender
The government is launching a new consultation on family law that proposes to strengthen financial rights of unmarried couples if they split up.
Marriage and Family
Jack Clark, one of the founders of artificial intelligence company Anthropic, has said that AI systems are nearing the point where it no longer needs human input to develop and that we…
Artificial Intelligence