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Terrorist atrocities often bring calls for tougher crime laws. But some of these laws have seen hundreds of people locked away for minor crimes for decades, with little prospect of release. ▶️ DTube ▶️

Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, is being held at Belmarsh Prison in connection with a US extradition request on espionage charges. This is the price demanded for doing the job that the mainstream

We have a general election coming up in the UK on 12th December, and I'm not going to vote for any political party or politician. I'm going to vote None. I've done this in the last two or three general

Uluru, Australia's most iconic mountain – formerly known as Ayres Rock – will be subject to a climbing ban from October of this year. As a result, thousands of tourists have been climbing it recently,

Transcript Every year as the 12th July approaches, I see an event marked in the calendar which brings back unsettling memories for me. And that event is the Battle of the Boyne (Northern Ireland), because

To cryptocurrency enthusiasts, Bitcoin represents freedom and decentralisation. On the surface, Libra Coin, Facebook's planned cryptocurrency, could have a similar appeal - but in fact, it's completely

A 17-year-old Scottish schoolboy was thrown out of his class and reprimanded for saying that there are two genders, in contradiction to what his teacher was saying. His teacher took him to a private room

A Scottish school pupil was recently kicked out of his class and reprimanded for saying that there are two genders, in contradiction to what his Personal and Social Education teacher was saying. The pupil

YouTube has recently de-monetised many content creators deemed controversial, including Dan Dicks of Press for Truth, and in the past it has temporarily banned numerous accounts of people who dare to speak

This is about the European elections that take place tomorrow (Thursday 23rd May) if you live in the UK or the Netherlands. I'll be voting tomorrow. I did vote for Brexit – I'm not happy with the way the

I usually post on Steemit about my hillwalking adventures, or health subjects. But this is me being very opinionated, and so as not to confuse my followers, I'm posting it from my other Steemit account.

This is one of the charges often levied at the EU. But is there any truth in it? Yes and no. As with many EU issues, there is no clear-cut answer. The EU is goverened by four key institutions: The European

The war for our minds has seen a new development with the news that a British charity has been given the job of fact-checking UK Facebook posts. Full Fact is targeting information that it sees as being

Article 50, Lisbon Treaty, Canada Plus, customs union... What does it all mean? How exactly are we goverened by this sprawling set of institutions? Most people have a vague idea that the EU is a good thing

Voices in the independent media have been warning about the dangers of a cashless society for decades, but these concerns seem to be going more mainstream. A report chaired by the former financial ombudsman

Yet another batch of news headlines connecting the British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with anti-Semitism flooded the British media this morning. I should start by saying that I am no fan of the Labour