Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
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Nicky Morgan caves in to the pornography lobby
The scrapping of planned laws for age-verification for online porn is a blow for child protection, writes JO BARTOSCH
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
EVEN the most rabid libertarian would struggle to defend the idea that children should be exposed to hardcore pornography, though according to a major investigation by Britain’s chief censor, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), by the age of 11 at least half will have been.
The BBFC research found that children as young as seven were accessing pornography, with 18 per cent of those between the ages of 11 and 13 having intentionally sought it out.
To combat this the Digital Economy Act, passed in 2017, promised to introduce age-verification technology to safeguard children from pornographic content.
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