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MPs in the UK received £10m for second jobs and freelance in 2022..

The additional income must be declared and is then published at the register of members' financial interest on the parliament's website. Here's a version from 2022 (pdf).

I personally don't think that the additional income during their membership alone is relevant but also the 'revolving door' policy between industry/lobbying groups and politics, and not to forget the funding and support of campaigns a.d the like (meaning that interest groups support the party, not the individual politician).

But that's just my opinion, and it's not a problem only in the UK imo.

Let's hope they can do both.

The government quietly ditched its plans to help refugees learn English

Suella Braverman's attack on immigrants and refugees “not learning the language” came after the government quietly broke its promise to help people learn English, openDemocracy can reveal.

This week both the home secretary and the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson, publicly condemned people for not speaking English after arriving in the UK.

But openDemocracy has discovered that the government ditched its 2018 pledge to publish a strategy to “improve our strategic approach to English language provision”.

“It is vital that women’s voices are heard in the NHS and the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients are protected.”

As if the PM's and his peers' comments were not enough to clearly show that they don't care about the people: just yesterday, U.S. company Palantir closed in on the UK health data contract with the NHS as per Bloomberg. So where is this privacy and dignity?

“What is sinister, and what we shouldn’t tolerate is [that local councils] police it all with CCTV.”

There has been opposition to 15-minute cities from those who say they are a front for “everlasting surveillance” and designed to restrict people’s freedom.

Is this the same government that introduced the Online Safety Bill?

I don't know. Maybe it's a copyright issue or something like that.

That's weird. What is an embargo in that context?

I'm wondering if Ms. Braverman is aware that according to her own proposed rules her parents probably should have never immigrated to the UK, and she is arguing that international treaties on migration are unfit for purpose in an "age of jet travel" while droves of migrants, including minors, trying to cross the channel in small boats.

@deegeese

The promise of WikiLeaks was exposure of wrongdoing, anywhere. Assange ran it as his personal score-settling service to help Russia.

The US war crimes in Iraq back then didn't help Russia as much as the Russian war crimes in Ukraine now don't help the US. Both are crimes against humanity. It is impossible that they 'help' anyone.

@yildo

Assange is a rapist that works for Russian intelligence.

Do you have any source for that?

Notice how he has never once published anything that puts Russia or US Republicans in bad light

What do you want to say? Even if we assume that's true (I don't, but let's ignore that for now), what does that mean? If someone never published something that puts X in bad light, are they all spies for X then?

It seems that has been going on for some time, UK government bans new Chinese security cameras

What a garbage! I'm sorry, but how out of touch can one get?

@Sodis

It's the whole western world.

That's not limited to the west. Corruption and nepotism may be harder to detect in some non-western countries with authoritarian regimes, opaque (or non-existent) public data and their crackdown on free speech, but it's nevertheless a global phenomenon. If you published an article like that about a government rep in a dictatorship, you quickly ended up in jail or got killed.

I feel somehow that's not just in Britain, unfortunately.

You're right. A blockchain doesn't solve the double-spending problem, so don't create decentralized payment networks. Let's use something like Paypal instead, you know, the one that will sooner or later merge with this single-letter company.

You can also use Google Pay or Apple Pay, and developers can use their stores to monetize their apps. Just 30% or so commission and the apps 'adjusted' to the stores' rules (to be fair, there are not really soooo many trackers, right?).

Proof of provenance isn't a use case either. Use Amazon servers. Microsoft Azure. They store all the data, and it's safe.

We don't need companies like drife.io or particl.io. We have Uber and Amazon. Centralized services are much better. They are so good for humanity that their companies don't even have to pay taxes.

I feel this is not only true for Britain but for Europe and practically the entire world.

The cult of the dead cow has recently announced promising projects. I'm also looking forward to them.

Yeah, but that's what all authoritarian states do.

FYI: There's a study published in March 2023 investigating the Prevalence and predictors of depression among women in Afghanistan (pdf, 9 pages). It is obvious that women are facing a harsh life reality which is far beyond what we can imagine here in our western world.

A recent national survey in Afghanistan reported that 47% of women suffered from mental health illnesses including depression [10]. An earlier survey conducted in 2003 evaluated the depression rate among women in Afghanistan. The survey reported high rates of clinical depression (73–78%) and suicidal ideation among Taliban-controlled regions versus those in a Pakistani refugee camp (28%) [11]. The provision of overall healthcare services including psychiatric services has been halted or inaccessible due to an ongoing political crisis in the country [12]. [...]

Women in Afghanistan face chronic trauma, emotional abuse, and patriarchal community ideals which may lead extreme depression and suicidal thoughts [13, 14]. Gender-based violence against women, forced marriages, and the impact of war are the most important factors for this [14]. Traditional practices and customs, early marriage, and teenage pregnancies make it more difficult for women to obtain an education, learn new skills, and inherit property, all of which contribute to poor mental health outcomes [15].