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Nottinghamshire council’s administration says it will no longer deal with local paper, in unprecedented move A Reform council leader’s decision to ban his councillors from engaging with a prominent local newspaper is a “massive attack on local democracy” and a sign of things to come should the party form the next government, the outlet’s editor has warned. In an unprecedented move, Nottinghamshire county council’s four-month-old Reform administration has said it will no longer deal with the Nottingham Post, its online edition and a team of BBC-funded local democracy journalists that it manages. Continue reading...

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based

Watchdog’s new codes of practice are not strong enough, says children’s commissioner The communications watchdog is prioritising the interests of tech companies over the safety of under-18s, according to the children’s commissioner for England. Dame Rachel de Souza said she warned Ofcom last year that its proposals for protecting children under the Online Safety Act were too weak. New codes of practice issued by the watchdog on Thursday have ignored her concerns, she said. Requiring social media platforms to deploy “highly effective” age checks to identify under-18s; Ensuring algorithms filter out harmful material; Making all sites and apps have procedures for taking down dangerous content quickly; And ensuring children must have a “straightforward” way to report content. Continue reading...

An airstrike on a school in northern Gaza kills dozens of sheltering civilians as Israel ramps up its offensive on the enclave.

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"No Other Land," a film about Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community, won the documentary feature film Oscar on Sunday, and its directors appealed to the world to help end the conflict and accused the United States of blocking a solution.

Election winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia as he bids to take Europe in a new direction.

Dressed in a black ‘MAGA’ cap, black t-shirt and overcoat, the Tesla tycoon defended his actions in the White House.

Report finds that democratic “gaps” in responses to lough crisis “undermining public confidence in proposed solutions”

Masses of displaced Palestinians began streaming towards the north of war-battered Gaza today after Israel and Hamas said they had reached a deal for the release of another six hostages.