Armand1
@Armand1@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ex-Met Police chief is paid adviser for Palantir 13 hours ago:
Revolving door
- Comment on David Walliams named as celebrity who tried to block publication of sexual misconduct allegations 21 hours ago:
I’ve never heard of this man in my life. Should I have? It was being made a big deal of with all the articles about him not wanting to get named.
- Comment on UK's ICE: Immigration raids without warrants reach record high 1 day ago:
The Home Office’s immigration team is carrying out more “enforcement visits” than ever, at an average of 60 a day
Yet only around a third of these operations, including raids on homes and businesses, resulted in an arrest
Warrants were only used in a quarter of raids, down from 40% a decade ago. Experts say this suggests they are fishing expeditions based on weak intelligence
Raids like this are increasingly common in our high streets. The Home Office has said they are necessary to “restore order” to the immigration system. It posts videos showing migrants being detained, invites journalists on ride-alongs and boasts of arresting people in record numbers.
At the start of the year, home secretary Shabana Mahmood said the government had “surged enforcement activity to the highest level in British history” ensuring “illegal migrants … have nowhere to hide”.
God I fucking hate Shabana Mahmood.
Recent data we obtained, though, suggests this has only worsened. Last year, 89% of leads on “immigration crime” came from the public or from the Crimestoppers, a charity that collects anonymous tip-offs. Around 2% came from the police.
In a local Facebook group, a question about the incident at the restaurant prompted a number of racist and threatening comments.
Of course, Meta banned these people… Right?
When using this power, officers are meant to inform the person of their rights, including the fact that they are free to revoke their consent at any time. But this doesn’t always happen.
- Lanarkshire AI datacentre to fully rely on National Grid despite renewables claimwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 8 comments
- Comment on Job cuts, lost customers and a £22bn debt pile: what has gone wrong at Virgin Media O2? 4 days ago:
In July, Virgin Media was fined a record £28m by telecoms regulator Ofcom after an investigation found millions of calls made by customers between January 2022 and September 2024 were probably mishandled.
The investigation showed that Virgin Media, which has repeatedly been among Ofcom’s most complained about companies in its quarterly reports, used deliberate tactics to repeatedly prevent customers from cancelling their contracts and moving to a new supplier.
- Job cuts, lost customers and a £22bn debt pile: what has gone wrong at Virgin Media O2?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments
- Reform UK councillor promoted collapsed $1.9bn ‘Ponzi scheme’ HyperVerse that left victims suicidalwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on metracropolis 6 days ago:
Yes, I believe so
- Comment on metracropolis 6 days ago:
A good movie, worth a watch. I’m in the crazy revolutionary robot girl’s corner though.
- Milburn review to call for jobs ’revolution’ for young people with disabilitieswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Control of Britain’s 39m smart meters passes to non-profit startup 6 days ago:
“At Capita, we keep the Capital, but you get the ‘L’”
- Comment on MANDATORY! 1 week ago:
Another Armand?! That’s illegal.
- Comment on ‘Progress takes time’: Stonewall CEO on turning down the heat on the trans debate 1 week ago:
Stonewall was not, Blake stressed, aiming to overturn the supreme court ruling. “We understand that this is the law. But we also want to ensure that trans people are protected and, along with other organisations, we are looking at what that would look like.”
And this is is why I don’t like Stonewall. They’ve forgotten about their roots, that the law should not be respected if it is unjust.
- Comment on UK Supreme Court to hear landmark appeal over Palestine Action ban 1 week ago:
Here’s hoping this nonsense proscription is finally shot down. The fact that it stayed in place during appeal seems wild to me.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Thanks friend. I expect you’ll get more traction too.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Says the bot with a 9 day old account and hundreds of comments 😄
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Well, this one is good.
leighday.co.uk/…/trans-led-group-granted-permissi…
Though you could say it’s a followup.
It mentions that Translucent have come to help weigh in, and that 86% of respondents voted to keep it inclusive from back in January, which is covered here:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Lets not link BBC articles about trans topics. They are famously terrible at properly covering them.
For example, calling Sex Matters a charity and not a hate group is a big mischaracterization.
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- Comment on Landlord Forced to Cut Rent by £210 After Demanding £17 Increase 1 week ago:
A corporate landlord’s attempt to raise rent by £17.92 a month has backfired spectacularly after a tribunal forced the firm to instead charge its tenant £210 less.
London-based buy-to-rent firm Get Living was ordered to cut the monthly charge from £2,560 to £2,350 in August after tenant Davide Martinelli took his case to a first-tier tribunal.
Martinelli’s contract had a “rent review clause” under which rent could be increased with inflation, but such clauses were abolished under the Renters’ Rights Act, the tribunal noted. It then went further and ruled that the amount he was already being charged was above market rates.
It is the eighth time a landlord has been made to reduce rent after trying to increase it since the act came into force in May. On average, tribunals have ordered a reduction of £58 a month, according to industry advisory firm LonRes.
- Comment on Can I stop unwanted shit like this being posted through my door? 1 week ago:
Of we all still had fireplaces, then at least these would serve for something.
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- Comment on Man admits asylum seeker hotel petrol bomb attack 1 week ago:
Cam you imagine staying in a hostel for literally months? With children?
- Comment on Mahmood infuriates fellow ministers by failing to reveal impact of UK migration shake-up 1 week ago:
Shabana Mahmood is someone who hates immigrants, refugees and poor people. She’s the most far-right member of the current party leadership. She’s left over from Kier’s government, and for whatever reason has not been fired. I want her out of here so much and all her xenophobic policies revoked. Her and her policies comically clash with Andy Burnham’s whole EU initiative.
- Mahmood infuriates fellow ministers by failing to reveal impact of UK migration shake-upwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
- Comment on HMRC puts 200 billionaires on UK tax crackdown hitlist 1 week ago:
It is genuinely an improvement, we’re just hoping for more. I think that more or less sums up Labour at the moment actually.
- Comment on HMRC puts 200 billionaires on UK tax crackdown hitlist 1 week ago:
Well the problem is we’re not taxing them significantly more, we’re assigning manpower to gently cajol them into paying the small amount we do tax them.
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