Cakes and drinks sweetener neotame can damage gut wall, scientists find(theguardian.com)
US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio(theguardian.com)
World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers (I think that 2% is way too low, but at least they are talking about it now)(theguardian.com)
Chemical industry used big tobacco’s tactics to conceal evidence of PFAS risks. (The Guardian, 2023)(theguardian.com)
Chemical industry used big tobacco’s tactics to conceal evidence of PFAS risks. (The Guardian, 2023)(theguardian.com)
A well-connected Russian deputy defence minister has been charged with bribe-taking, in the highest-profile corruption scandal in the country in years, triggering speculation about a possible purge within Moscow’s elites. Timur Ivanov, 47 ... was detained by the FSB services late on Tuesday evening(theguardian.com)
We need an exodus from Zionism | Naomi Klein | ‘Zionism has brought us to our present moment of cataclysm and it is time that we said clearly: it has always been leading us here.’(theguardian.com)
Belgian man whose body makes its own alcohol cleared of drunk-driving(theguardian.com)
These astroturf libertarians are the real threat to internet democracy. (The Guardian, 2010)(theguardian.com)
Jimmy Savile: timeline of his sexual abuse and its uncovering. (The Guardian, 2014)(theguardian.com)
Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency Unrwa are members of terrorist organisations, an independent review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said.(theguardian.com)
We are ashamed of the role psychology played in gender care - Sixteen senior psychologists reveal how their profession failed young people at Gender Identity Development Service clinics(theguardian.com)
‘Lost for words’: Joe Biden’s tale about cannibals bemuses Papua New Guinea residents - President’s suggestion that his ‘Uncle Bosie’ was eaten by cannibals harms US efforts to build Pacific ties, say local experts(theguardian.com)
Nestlé has fought off investor proposals that would have forced the world’s largest consumer goods company to cut back on high levels of salt, sugar and fats in its food and drinks.(theguardian.com)
Thousands protest against Canary islands’ ‘unsustainable’ tourism model(theguardian.com)
Nestlé, the world’s largest consumer goods company, adds sugar and honey to infant milk and cereal products sold in many poorer countries, contrary to international guidelines aimed at preventing obesity and chronic diseases.(theguardian.com)
An Italian council has come under fire for banning people from climbing trees. Anyone caught climbing a tree in public spaces in the centre of Oderzo, a town in the northern province of Treviso, risks fines of between $26 and $530.(theguardian.com)
The House speaker, Mike Johnson, is pushing ahead with his plan to hold votes on four separate foreign aid bills this week, despite threats from two fellow Republicans to oust him if he advances a Ukraine funding proposal ... Johnson indicated final votes on the bills were expected on Saturday(theguardian.com)
UK professor suffered discrimination due to anti-Zionist beliefs, tribunal rules. (The Guardian, February, 2024)(theguardian.com)
The US isn’t just reauthorizing its surveillance laws – it’s vastly expanding them(theguardian.com)
‘Eat the future, pay with your face’: my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint(theguardian.com)
British army created an army of social media shills in order to use psyops in order to engage in unconventional warfare online. (The Guardian 2015)(theguardian.com)
Democrats bank on abortion in 2024 as Arizona and Florida push stakes higher(theguardian.com)
‘This isn’t how good scientific debate happens’: academics on culture of fear in gender medicine research - Cass review found professionals in the field are scared to discuss views amid risk of reputational damage and online abuse(theguardian.com)