Politics (Page 394)

Regulators are using an AI system to scan websites and messaging apps to find pornography. Creators face fines and potential prison sentences.Continue Reading

Within days of the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the resulting war. On March 17 2023, the ICC issued its first arrest warrants against two Russian government officials. While significant attentionContinue Reading

Ian_Stewart/Shutterstock Baroness Louise Casey has found that London’s Metropolitan police force is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. We heard similar 24 years ago when, after the incompetent investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Sir William MacPherson reported that the Met was institutionally racist. The Met’s commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley,Continue Reading

The 15-minute city has, in recent months, become the focus of conspiracy theories. Politicians and pundits have described it variously as “an international socialist concept”, a “dystopian plan” and a surveillance tool “that would make Pyongyang envious”. Quite what this longstanding urban planning idea actually results in, however, has beenContinue Reading

Everett Collection Historical / Alamy Stock Photo Before the US-led coalition’s occupation of Iraq starting in March 2003, there was at least one subject upon which certain advocates and opponents of the war agreed: that the invasion was imperialistic. Both sides weaponised the historical role western imperialism played in theContinue Reading

World sport has been convulsed over the past few months – indeed years – by questions about trans athletes, especially trans women, competing in their acquired gender. Most recently, World Athletics announced its “preferred option” of a reduced 2.5nmol testosterone limit for trans women to compete, with a final decisionContinue Reading

In an episode of HBO’s Real Time in March 2023, comedian Bill Maher hit the nail on the head when describing the current debate over Donald Trump v Ron DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination. Conventional wisdom is that lots of voters want Trump’s policies without Trump – so FloridaContinue Reading

Jacek Wojnarowski/Shutterstock The landmark Casey review has found the Metropolitan police institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. This language – “institutionally” – means that these are not problems isolated to a few bad apples, like David Carrick or Wayne Couzens. These officers, and many others whose problematic conduct was known toContinue Reading

A man, aged in his 30s, has been hospitalised after he was stabbed in an incident outside a premises in Courtown, Co Wexford. The incident took place at approximately 2.30pm on Saturday. The man was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital by ambulance, and his injuries are not thought to beContinue Reading

The arrest warrants issued recently by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and his children’s commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, represent the first time officials of a permanent member of the United Nations security council have been indicted for a war crime. The charge is that theyContinue Reading