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How Facial Recognition Technology Threatens Our Civil Liberties

Facial recognition technology is one of the many areas in which AI is changing our society. Here Gwen Jones explores the implications it has for our civil liberties. In the UK, we have become accustomed to the freedoms associated with a limited state. We vote as we please, we are free to speak our minds, and we maintain our innocence...

Published on 09 Jul 2019

Let's Talk About Oppression, Ms Widdecombe...

Another day, another moment where you can’t believe Anne Widdecombe isn’t an actual zombie from an apocalyptic Brexit-dystopian future sent to the present to kill us all, according to Renew member Paul Gerken. Strictly’s Anne Widdecombe has taken to the Brexit limelight like, as she may put it, an oppressed slave to a 17th-century transatlantic trading vessel. Shackled, bound, beaten,...

Published on 08 Jul 2019

You Wouldn't Trust Boris. Would You?

Boris Johnson as your therapist? That's what the United Kingdom is facing as a result of its Brexit breakdown. It’s 7pm on a Wednesday evening. You’ve been going through a bit of a crisis recently and need to talk to someone. Luckily, your friend has recommended you a new counsellor - a bit of a “rogue”, in her words, but...

Published on 05 Jul 2019

Northern Areas Braced for Huge Spending Cuts After Brexit

Despite being more sympathetic to Brexit, England's northern communities are facing spending cuts after Brexit. That's a problem.Between Leavers and Remainers, urbanites and country dwellers, old and young, rich and poor, those who put the milk in before(!) and after, it can often seem as though there is more that divides us in Britain than unites us. But in a...

Published on 04 Jul 2019

Shock As Brexit Party MEP Actually Has to Go to Work

What would you give to be an MEP? More than newly-elected Brexit Party representative David Bull, if his morning-commute meltdown is anything to go by.To add to the ever-growing list of Brexit Party embarrassments, freshman MEP David Bull threw a tantrum this week after realising that his election means actually going to work. Lamenting the fact that he has to...

Published on 03 Jul 2019

Duck and Cover: Farage’s Air Force is Coming for a House Near You

At a Brexit Party rally the other evening, Nigel Farage entered the hall to the sound of air raid sirens. What on earth did it all mean? What the party was getting at with this Budget Blitz Experience was not entirely clear. Were they warning the crowd of an impending strafe? Was Farage about to rain death and destruction on his...

Published on 01 Jul 2019

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How Facial Recognition Technology Threatens Our Civil Liberties

Let's Talk About Oppression, Ms Widdecombe...

You Wouldn't Trust Boris. Would You?

Northern Areas Braced for Huge Spending Cuts After Brexit

Shock As Brexit Party MEP Actually Has to Go to Work

Duck and Cover: Farage’s Air Force is Coming for a House Near You