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Adults and accompanied children granted asylum in the UK will receive 30 months’ permission to stay, with protection reviewed and renewed if their home country remains unsafe.
The Home Office said it will amend Immigration Rules later this week and the new regime will apply only to new claims, while existing cases remain under previous rules.
Family reunion remains paused while new criteria are developed.
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🚨 BREAKING: UK Government ministers are considering legislation to REMOVE Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the royal line of succession after his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
-He’s still 8th in line despite being stripped of titles/duties.
-YouGov: 82% public support.
-Palace won’t oppose.
Full story 👇
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🚨 REPLAY: Fake News Now Seen as Biggest Threat to UK Democracy
Ipsos/State of Democracy 2025:
• Fake news & false information ranked #1 threat — ahead of extremism, corruption, foreign interference
• 94% of Brits have encountered misinformation on social media
• Just 9% trust politicians to tell the truth
• Trust in news media at 36%
Deepfakes, influencers, collapsing trust; yet almost no one is taking formal steps to spot fakes.
Who do YOU trust to tell the truth these days? 👇
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The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.
A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.
Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.
The @demishassabis film The Thinking Game is brilliant, has already been watched 160m times - and is probably the best advert for the UK’s centrality to the future of high level globally important research and therefore for the world economy… from AI itself to its applications in every corner of frontier science… the film is a great introduction for any young people in your life to this frontier.
Both a former PM and a current Cabinet minister told me, separately, that Demis’ insistence on staying in the UK as a condition of Deepmind sale amid attempts from Musk, Google & others to move him and it over to Silicon Valley has been of critical importance to the UK… I asked a number of related questions when I visited Google HQ including inside DeepMind’s US HQ last month including a visit to its academic library below… will tweet out some of the details you may have missed from that in the next few days, in the mean time, very much worth watching the film… perhaps even more than Elf!
Merry Christmas… and a happy NY!