Immigration is an ideological headache for the UK’s Conservative party, caught between its neoliberal new right that champions free markets, and its social conservatism, which immigration is said to threaten. But a restrictive immigration stance has been a winning ticket for the Conservatives since David Cameron’s 2010 pledge to reduceContinue Reading
The latest crisis that rocked the Greek government shows the bloc’s surveillance problem goes beyond the notorious NSO Group.Continue Reading
The two men arrested in connection with the fatal assault incident on Church Street in Athlone in the early hours of Saturday morning have been charged. They will appear before a special sitting of Mullingar District Court this evening, Paul Babs Connolly, 49, from Edenderry in Co Offaly was attendingContinue Reading
Plus: Cisco gets hit by ransomware, Twilio gets phished, a new way to fight email spammers, and much more.Continue Reading
An injection flaw allowed a researcher to access all files on a Mac. Apple issued a fix, but some machines may still be vulnerable.Continue Reading
FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida this week removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as top secret, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday while also disclosing it has probable cause to believe he violated the Espionage Act. The bombshell disclosures wereContinue Reading
As the new Premier League football season gets underway, a few things are certain. There will be goals, drama and excitement, and unfortunately, players will be subjected to vile abuse on social media. My colleagues at the Alan Turing Institute and I have published a report, commissioned by Ofcom, inContinue Reading
Lord Mountbatten, then viceroy of India, meets Nehru Jinnah and other leaders to plan partition of India. Wikipedia, CC BY-NC This August marks 75 years since the partition of the Indian subcontinent. British withdrawal from the region prompted the creation of two new states, India and Pakistan. The process ofContinue Reading
Each year in Japan, people celebrate ohigan, a period of seven days around both the vernal and the autumnal equinoxes, and obon, which stretches over a few days on either side of August 15. Employers grant leave to staff. Trains fill with people returning from big cities like Tokyo andContinue Reading
Women have been playing football for a long time – and for a long time they have had to fight to be respected. In 1969, the Daily Mirror used a photograph of a female footballer’s shorts falling down while she jumped to head the ball. In the 1990s, players reportedContinue Reading
