Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat have agree to “strengthen” security checks following reports some asylum seekers are working illegally as couriers. The food delivery companies agreed to increase facial verification and fraud checks in a bid to stop people with no right to work in the UK from using someone else’s account to earn...
Tech platforms could be forced to prevent illegal content from going viral and limit the ability for people to send virtual gifts to or record a child’s livestream, under more online safety measures proposed by Ofcom. The UK regulator published a consultation on Monday seeking views on further protections to keep citizens, particularly children, safer...
PREFACE From the fires of recent events, the palpability of brown anarchy burns brighter than ever. Years in the making, this text aims to provide an accessible introduction to the topic of anarchy, and its relevance to brown people in search of justice and freedom. In it, readers are offered concepts that can enable other...
This is one of those stories you sort of hear about a couple of weeks before, and maybe forget about unless some little nugget of information comes along that makes you want to dig a little deeper into it. Which is exactly what happened to me this morning. I do recall maybe even commenting on...
Guy Lambert Society reporter Francesca Gillett BBC News PA Media The government will meet food delivery companies for talks next week after reports that some asylum seekers are working illegally as couriers within hours of arriving in the UK. The Sun newspaper reported that Channel migrants were able to rent out other people’s Deliveroo and...
This was a twist on the knives that have been plaguing Europe lately, but it sure is a ghastly development and still involves stabbing – random syringe attacks. There was a nationwide music festival, the Festival of Music 2025 (Fête de la Musique), throughout France this past Saturday. For 44 years, the organizers have hosted concerts...
Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. As Donald Trump threatens to further enmesh the U.S. in Israel’s war against Iran with direct strikes, legal...
One of the secrets to not having a heart attack around Donald Trump at least once a week is to realize that he just throws things ‘out there‘ not so much to see what sticks, but to see what blows up. Much of what is perceived as him stepping on himself – or his ‘message’...
Democrats must feel cursed. Harry Enten of CNN did a deep dive into how legal immigrants view Democrats, Republicans, and illegal immigrants, and the news is very bad for the Democrats. When asked, legal immigrant voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on the issue of immigration–by a wide margin. More than that, in just...
Minnesota Democrats are trying to lay the blame on Republicans, and with some reason, but when push came to shove, they caved and are cutting illegal immigrants off from state-subsidized healthcare. The reason? Shockingly enough, there isn’t enough money to spread around to all their favored constituencies after having blown an enormous budget surplus in...
Arrests for illegal work have doubled in a year as police focus on “unscrupulous” employers who exploit undocumented migrants, the government says. Immigration officers arrested more than 6,400 people in the past year in raids at businesses across the UK, data released by the Home Office shows. It said the figure is 51% higher than...
Israeli ministers said the expansion is aimed at preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state. Israeli officials have announced a plan to advance settler colonialism in the occupied West Bank by establishing 22 new settlements, in open defiance of international law. Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who have previously pushed for...
Police are investigating an incident of illegal metal detecting at the historic Lydford Castle and Saxon Town site in Devon. The unauthorised activity, known as nighthawking, involved the digging of multiple holes at the protected 13th Century site, a scheduled monument managed by English Heritage. The site features a 13th Century tower on a mound,...
Mean old Marines. At least that’s the impression you get from the headline the communists at Military.com put on their story. A Woman Drove into a San Diego Military Facility by Mistake. She Now Faces Deportation. Aw, jeez. Well, sometimes life just comes at you the wrong way. The ‘military installation’ in question just happens...
A woman accused of having an illegal abortion has been cleared by a jury. Nicola Packer, 45, cried as she was acquitted of “unlawfully administering to herself a poison or other noxious thing” with the “intent to procure a miscarriage”. Her trial at Isleworth Crown Court heard she took abortion medicine at home during the...