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The legal challenge comes weeks after asylum seekers at Wethersfield – a remote, 800-acre site in Essex, ringed by security fences, guards and CCTV – saidthey had been “locked up” in solitary confinement for complaining of depression.

Another thirty or so of these and we can finally stop waiting for Sunak to stop squatting in no.10.

Yes. Just what we need....

Ministers announced that the government is partnering with Amazon to offer energy-saving advice through its Echo devices and Alexa voice assistant. Owners of such devices or applications can use phrases including “Alexa, give me tips to conserve energy” to receive the government advice, according to the press release.

José Francisco Mora, who works as a cleaner for Amazon, said the announcement was “frustrating and disappointing” for him and his colleagues “who work hard at night for poverty wages and poor working conditions”.

He said it showed that “Amazon would rather spend its resources on programming a virtual assistant to help those who can afford Alexa-type luxuries, than offer its workers a fair and dignified treatment and a decent pay rise”.

Amazon has not yet responded to a request from the cleaners’ union, United Voices of the World, to be paid the London Living Wage, £11.95 an hour. The cleaners currently earn minimum wage, an hourly rate of £10.42.

The cleaners, who are paid an hourly rate of £10.42, are asking Amazon to raise their wages to the London Living Wage, £11.95 an hour, which Amazon warehouse workers already receive.

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Two weeks ago, The Guardian revealed how the Department for Education is monitoring the social media activity of some of the country’s leading education experts. Now evidence has emerged that the monitoring is much more widespread, covering even the lowest paid members of staff.

Ordinary teaching and support staff said this weekend that they were “gobsmacked” and angry after discovering that the department had files on them. Many outraged educators have rushed to submit subject access requests [SARs] compelling the DfE to release any information it holds under their name, after discovering there were files up to 60 pages long about their tweets and comments challenging government policy or the schools inspectorate, Ofsted.