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UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s

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  • Not at all enforcable.

    So of course they'll do it.

    • Conservatives set for worst election result yet, research shows

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  • I think they'll get somewhere in the region of 160 seats at the least. Maybe even 200 depending on Events.

    Labour have got to be seen as doing something in the next 5 years though, else it might well swing back again in 2029.

    • Labour 'committed' to assisted dying vote, Sir Keir Starmer tells Dame Esther Rantzen

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  • He's hardly the only MP who does that (Tim Farron and Simon Hughes, famously, over same sex marriage for two Lib Dem examples).

    • Two charged for pouring porridge and jam on Queen Victoria bust in Glasgow

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  • Most Scottish

    • Faith school banning parts of geography lessons, Ofsted finds

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  • That could be any number of places!

    • UK set for eight-day snow event with just two places spared

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  • No. And forecasts of snow are barely reliable 10 hours out.

    • UK set for eight-day snow event with just two places spared

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  • No one can forecast snow in the UK unless it's already snowing.

    • Disgraced singer Gary Glitter refused jail release

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  • This is hardly a surprise, given that the first thing he did when released before was try to circumvent the restrictions placed on him.

    • Scientology-linked UK drug rehab left vulnerable people ‘traumatised’

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  • Then whoever was overseeing said "rehab" should be arrested. Right?

    • Brianna Ghey's killers named

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  • The girl got life with a minimum of 22 years (and a comment saying it would "take a lot of work" for her to be released), The boy got life with a minimum of 20.

    • UN expert condemns UK crackdown on environmental protest

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  • I do think though that a lot of people are going to be quite disappointed when the next government don't actually do very much.

    • Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election

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  • This is going to carry on until we get a Phil Woolas situation and some election results get overturned.

    • BBC News - Blackpool Tower 'fire' was actually fluttering orange netting

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  • The BBC followed this up with an article about similar stories, including the two different "soft toy mistaken for an escaped tiger" ones.

    It does also remind me of the (in)famous "false leg mistaken for paedophile" incident.

    • Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’

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  • It might have changed, but at one point you could only sell pre-sliced bread in 400g or multiples of that.

    • Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat

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  • "Britain is one of the oldest democracies"

    Is it?

    We didn't have full and equal universal suffrage until 1924. Even ignoring that, elections before about 1832 were barely democratic in a lot of places.

    • Peter Bone MP loses seat as recall petition triggers by-election

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  • I wouldn't put it past him to stand in the by election just to spite the Tories

    • Covid lockdowns had ‘catastrophic effect’ on UK’s social fabric, report claims

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  • Yeah, and having no lockdowns would have had an even more catastrophic effect.

    • the Sun reacts to Zephaniah applying for a Cambridge visiting fellowship

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  • Kelvin McKenzie is a cunt, film at 11.

    • It's ba-ack... UK watchdog publishes age verification proposals

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  • If they actually do this then a list of people watching will be hacked within days and will quite strongly backfire on MPs...

    • Rishi Sunak vows to face down Tory rebels on smoking ban

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  • He's the one who suggested it, so I'd assume he's in favour, although I suppose you never can tell with this government.