United Kingdom

ncumbent PM made joke about Rishi Sunak’s department because of its focus on lifting restrictions, according to diary entries

Prescribed use has been legal in the UK since 2018 but many police officers appear to be uninformed

Asshole company continues assholery. More at ten.

While the story says there is a European wide shortage of drugs due to manufacturing problems, war in Ukraine etc, the extra red tape now enforced for customs imports means it's become harder for the NHS to get the supplies of drugs it needs.

Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5358045

Original link: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2023/11/uk-government-invests-225m-to-create-uks-most-powerful-ai-supercomputer-with-university-of-bristol-and-hewlett-packard-enterprise.html

cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/374990

Amazon and Meta have agreed to not use data collected from their marketplaces to unfairly benefit themselves, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority announced on Friday.

The monopoly watchdog launched separate investigations into both internet giants' business practices, and accused the Big Tech duo of not only gathering up information about sellers using their respective online souks, they also - surprise, surprise - exploited that info to get a commercial advantage.

Exclusive: Special rapporteur Olivier De Schutter to urge ministers to increase welfare spending on visit to country this week

According to Helen MacNamara, the government’s deputy cabinet secretary until 2021, key figures in Whitehall presided over an environment in which junior women were “talked over or ignored”.

Downing Street suffered from a “toxic culture” of sexism, “presenteeism” and “macho posturing” in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, she added.

"When the police drew the line of what was acceptable or not acceptable [regarding the infamous gathering in June 2020 to mark Boris Johnson’s birthday], I am certain that there are hundreds of civil servants and potentially ministers who, in retrospect, think they were the wrong side of that line.

“I really hope there’s been some mature conversation about that, because that sort of thing – if it’s not addressed – it is corrosive in [an organisation’s] culture.”

🤣🤣 proper LOL!

The British were once admired for their statesmanship and tolerance... all gone under Conservative leadership.

Honestly don't know if a person could be more callous and uncaring.

"When you see these figures had such disregard for each other, you can only imagine the disregard they had for us," writes Matt Fowler, co-founder Bereaved Families for Justice Group'.

"Families will have to live with the cost of that inhumanity for the rest of our lives. Meanwhile Johnson has a new handsomely paid TV show on GB News, and is paid hundreds of thousands as an after dinner speaker. Hancock whines that he is a victim of “injustice” while being paid a fortune to appear on SAS Who Dares Wins, fresh from his appearance on I’m a Celebrity…

They ‘fail upwards’ into more money and power, while families like mine are left ripped apart by their callousness and brutality."