‘Rattled’ Farage lashes out at Musk & Lowe

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‘Rattled’ Farage lashes out at Musk & Lowe

An irritable Nigel Farage has lashed out at Restore Britain and Elon Musk. And he’s got good reason to be angry, because it looks like the Reform breakaway party could prevent Farage from winning in Makerfield: Let's see what happens next Thursday, shall we? — Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) June 10, 2026 Reform, Restore, Retreat In the clip above, Sky News’s Beth Rigby put the following to the hard-right leader: When it comes to Makerfield, Restore are doing well here and it could really hurt you. A tetchy Farage asked “are they?” before Rigby finished: What’s Rupert Lowe got that it’s appealing…

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Consortium representing child refugees speaks out against Labour’s AI plans

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Consortium representing child refugees speaks out against Labour’s AI plans

The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium (RMCC) has spoken out against government plans to access asylum seekers’ age using AI. On Friday 29 May, the Home Office announced plans to use AI in cases when an asylum seekers’ age is in dispute. However, the RMCC warned that the scheme could lead to yet more wrongful detentions of vulnerable children in adult facilities. The news follows April’s revelations from the independent Humans for Rights Network, which exposed the fact that the Home Office routinely detains so-called “age-disputed children” as adults. Of the 76 age-disputed detainees at the time, 26 had been —…

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Polanski calls out the back door between the AI industry and the Labour government

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Polanski calls out the back door between the AI industry and the Labour government

Green leader Zack Polanski has published a letter calling out ex-Labour leader Tony Blair’s links to the atificial intelligence (AI) industry and government. The news comes after war criminal Blair published an essay, via his Tony Blair Institute (TBI) think tank, calling for Labour to essentially shape all future policy around AI. Of course, this policy recommendation has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Larry Ellison gave £250m to the TBI. Ellison just happens to be the CEO of AI-specialist company Oracle. He’s also a good buddy of Donald Trump, at whose feet Blair all but worshipped in his…

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Activists call out Labour’s ‘dangerous militarisation of higher education’

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Activists call out Labour’s ‘dangerous militarisation of higher education’

Labour’s Defence Universities Alliance (DUA) would be a “a dangerous militarisation of higher education“, according to the campaign group Demilitarise Education (dED), which is calling on universities, students, staff, trade unions, and local communities to oppose the initiative.  Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 The DUA was initially announced in September 2025 in the Defence Industrial Strategy, which said:  We will establish a Defence Universities Alliance (DUA) to form a more strategic relationship between defence and the higher education sector.  The DUA will build on existing connections between the sectors to support careers in the defence sector and encourage ethical defence and security…

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