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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) have banned advertisements for gambling firms featuring Formula 1 star Sir Lewis Hamilton, and the logo of Chelsea football club because they would appeal to children.
Gambling
Conservative MP George Freeman has reported a video to the police which appears to show him denouncing the Conservative Party and joining Reform.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Around 40% of hospices in England could be forced to make cuts in patient care if new funding is not secured in the coming months. This would put half of children’s hospices…
Assisted Suicide
Artificial Intelligence
The Princess of Wales has written a warning that digital technology, while having benefits, adds to an “epidemic of distraction.”
Marriage and Family
An estimated 1.4 million adults in Britain are experiencing gambling-related harm, according to a major new study by the Gambling Commission.
Gambling
The government has introduced sweeping reforms to marriage law in the UK, giving couples more choice over where they can marry.
Marriage and Family
A campaign group has found that TikTok’s algorithm recommends pornography and sexualised content to accounts for children.
Pornography
The NHS health board at the centre of a complaint about the use of single sex spaces has instructed staff to use facilities based on their sex at birth.
Transgender
Communities Secretary Steve Reed has stated that any official definition of Islamophobia must not compromise freedom of speech.
Freedom of Speech
Scientists in the US have created egg-like cells from human skin in a step towards new fertility treatments.
Abortion