"and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid" Audre Lorde

Chongqing , a multilayer city.

So, yet again my small high street cookshop in a rural English town has paid more tax than Starbucks entire UK operation.   Cynically, Starbucks is more than profitable enough to pay £40m of royalties to its US parent company, thereby incuring a loss of £35m. Global revenue for 2024 was $36billion.

'Good chance' of US-UK trade deal, says JD Vance What chance does the UK have of ensuring that the US meets its obligations when neither Mexico or Canada could? #uspol

Metadata; Infomation used by law enforcement to surveil Facebook/WhatsApp/Insta users. #BadDadJoke

When they come for the Quakers you know your country is really in trouble. How can the Quakers be a threat to this or any other democratic government?

Quakers

Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House

Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

The fixes come after Amnesty alerted Google, following the analysis of a Serbian student protester's phone. Ekk!

TechCrunch

Researchers uncover unknown Android flaws used to hack into a student's phone | TechCrunch

Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools. On

If you take 'Don't look up', add a dose of sci-fi, then put it on steroids, you'll end up with 2073. tbh, it's dystopian and disturbing. British made 2024.

2073

2073

Not sure about giving UK Police the power to search homes without a search warrant. Which focus group dreamt that one up? #ukpol