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- Comment on AI-based automation of jobs could increase inequality in UK, report says 1 day ago:
I watched Conclave last night and that would save them so time researching the headwear of the Pontiff.
- Comment on Neurodiverse people on benefits to be helped into work in bid to cut welfare bill 1 day ago:
Sir Stephen Timms cited a reluctance among employers to introduce adjustments as a reason behind the low employment rate.
It’s this that will help reduce those “negative experiences”. And improving the whole recruitment process too. They’ve made progress with gender and race on this front, they need to do better.
- Comment on Gen Z far less likely to be atheists than parents and grandparents, new study reveals 3 days ago:
The survey also shows they’ve rejected organised religion.
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- Comment on Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in UK, says leaked report 3 days ago:
I was friends with a number of Hindus at university many moons ago. We always got on well but then they’d boast about going out and smashing up the cars of white people. All very odd. I suspect the problem now is, with the rise of Modi, there’s a lot Hindu nationalism and anti-Mualim sentiment. The report seems to especially focus on the Hindu-Muslim clashes in Leicester.
Home country politics playing out here isn’t exactly new - here in Liverpool we had a branch of the Ulster Volunteer Force and I’ve had (distant) family members in the IRA. The Orange marches still cause tension - I had a friend whose granny always took him down so he could turn his back on them (which I am sure he could.have done from the comfort of his own home).
- Comment on Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in UK, says leaked report 3 days ago:
Oh boy. When people hope that Lemmy kills Reddit, I hope it doesn’t so all the frothers stay over there.
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- ‘Serious concerns’ about DWP’s use of AI to read correspondence from benefit claimantswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Review into Axel Rudakubana will criticise Prevent for rejecting his case three times 5 days ago:
Yeah if the primary focus is on Prevent then its scapegoating.
Indeed, it says it right at the start:
Prevent’s assessment of the danger posed by Axel Rudakubana followed policy at the time
Now it could be argued that other services binning dangerous kids onto them because they don’t have the budget has forced them to strictly apply their criteria but it is there to prevent terrorism not assess everyone who poses a threat.
I’d hope it would lead to more systematic reform but I fear a few heads will roll and that will be deemed to be suitable action. While I am aure Labour would love to pin the blame in the Tories, any solutions to the mess from the previous administration will be expensive and the cupboards are bare.
- Comment on Review into Axel Rudakubana will criticise Prevent for rejecting his case three times 5 days ago:
Rudakubana had been deemed unsuitable for Prevent because he did not follow any ideology.
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Fahy said cuts to other services have led to more work for Prevent: “More referrals are going into Prevent as other services have been cut because of austerity.”
That’s the problem. A lot of people are being referred to Prevent who aren’t terrorists and really need better mental health care but the funding gets cut.
That’s why we need holistic solutions because cutting services in one place can just push people onto the books of more expensive ones.
- Review into Axel Rudakubana will criticise Prevent for rejecting his case three timeswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 5 days ago:
Well we don’t know anything about them, so…
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 5 days ago:
So you can get a greater profit from captive markets with little competition. Odd that.
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- World's largest iceberg on crash course with island, putting millions of penguins in dangernews.sky.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Britain will not recognise Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexico 1 week ago:
And while you are at it… put your left leg in.
- Comment on Britain will not recognise Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexico 1 week ago:
Thanks for that but, as we are a link aggregator and everything revolves around the link, it is better to have the main URL as the original article and add the archive to the body of the text. That way, if others post the same link, Lemmy detects it and provides a link over to the other community (which also helps us spot when the same link is posted twice to the same community).
- Comment on Axel Rudakubana: 'Evil' Southport killer jailed for minimum 52 years 1 week ago:
No. The death penalty is no deterrent and we’ve seen on numerous occasions how flawed the justice system is, so we can rarely be 100% sure we have the right person (unlike in this case which is unequivocal). I also hope that they can undergo some kind of rehabilitation, perhaps not to the point that they realise the horrific nature of their crimes and have to spend their years with that knowledge eating away at them.
- Comment on Axel Rudakubana: 'Evil' Southport killer jailed for minimum 52 years 1 week ago:
Stan Reiz KC, mitigating, told the court Rudakubana had appeared to have been a “normal child” until he reached 13.
Mr Reiz said: "There is no psychiatric evidence before the court that could suggest that a mental disorder contributed to the defendant’s actions.
“However, he did make a transition from a normal, well-disciplined child to someone who was capable of committing acts of such shocking and senseless violence.”
The description of what happened is horrifying and I’d just like to know what happened to him that turned him into someone capable of that.
- Comment on Strongest storm in generations predicted as Éowyn to hit UK and Ireland 1 week ago:
Depends where you are. It’ll be dangerous around here - in previous storms there was a video of someone jogging along the promenade as the waves crashed. Looked fancy but the debris the next day included plenty of bricks and rocks, and an old car tyre, so they could easily have been brained.
- Comment on Strongest storm in generations predicted as Éowyn to hit UK and Ireland 1 week ago:
I’m out and about in that mess tomorrow, so I’m going to need more than a stiff upper lip. Perhaps a pair of weighted trousers.
- Comment on Strongest storm in generations predicted as Éowyn to hit UK and Ireland 1 week ago:
A rare red weather warning covering Northern Ireland and Scotland was issued on Thursday before what could be the strongest storm in generations.
The Met Office said the arrival of Storm Éowyn on Friday could bring gusts of up to 100mph and “flying debris resulting in a danger to life”.
The red warnings, an upgrade of existing amber warnings, covered all of Northern Ireland and parts of central and southern Scotland, including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ayr and Peebles.
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Northern Railways, which operates across northern England, advised passengers to “avoid travelling where possible” as it cancelled services before the storm. The company said it was expecting “severe disruption” and had cancelled services across the network including trains across the Pennines, down the Cumbrian coast and between Carlisle and Newcastle.
LNER said there would be no services north of Newcastle in either direction from 11am on Friday. Avanti West Coast advised passengers not to travel north of Preston or on its North Wales route.
Blimey, we’re in for a rough one.
- Comment on Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin blames 'dinner party classes' for pubs crisis 1 week ago:
The landlord of my local will buy spirits from the supermarket when they are on offer as it is cheaper than getting it wholesale.
- Comment on Benefit cheats could lose driving licences in anti-fraud drive 1 week ago:
That’s a weird punishment.
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- Comment on 'Terrorism has changed', says Starmer on Southport attacks 1 week ago:
Yes, it’s long been known that Prevent has been hoovering up a lot of young ND or mentally ill boys and, as an expert said on Radio 4 today, the current system is hammering round pegs through square holes and needs changing to system that assesses the level of threat someone presents. A lot of those in the system need help, not demonising.
- Comment on An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off 1 week ago:
Life?
- Comment on An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off 1 week ago:
So sit your kids, and their grandparents, down. Tell them not to believe anything they see on Facebook, Twitter, Threads or Amazon TV without checking it somewhere reliable. Make your family into a little Lindisfarne for this era of lies, somewhere we can wait out the information dark age, like monks poring over illuminated manuscripts as the black dragon sails of Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos flutter on the horizon, until the future fascists either tear themselves apart, or slaughter objective truth wholesale.
So keep our heads down and hope it will all blow over? Classic British response but I’m not sure it’s good enough. A boycott is wise as it looks like all the large social media sites are bending the knee to Trump but that also doesn’t bode well for the future as they can distort the political landscape because a lot of people only get their news from them. Unfortunately, abandoning all social media means they can get organised while everyone else bunkers down. Does that make us the resistance? Now there’s a responsibility and a half!