With plans to install cameras in UK cities, towns, and even villages, the government is looking to increase police use of face recognition technology to combat crime. Ministers are looking into new laws about the use of the technology to pave the way for a major expansion, putting cameras in every police force area. AContinue reading “Should Facial Recognition Be Used Countrywide In Britain?”
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Punch-ups Before Lessons
Without a doubt, the situation in our schools has gotten really bad. Teachers are leaving the profession en masse, as they battle impossible workloads, toxic work environments, a ‘broken’ Special Educational Needs System, and surges in pupil brutality. Earlier this year, the Teachers’ Union estimated there were 30,000 violent incidents involving a student attacking aContinue reading “Punch-ups Before Lessons”
The ‘Spiralling’ Benefits Bill Is Unsustainable, Warns Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak unveiled a ‘moral mission’ to get Brits off benefits today as he warned that numbers out of the workforce are ‘unsustainable’ and ‘tragic’. In a major speech drawing dividing lines for the election, the PM pledged to crack down on the country’s ‘sick note culture’, insisting normal ‘life worries’ are not a reason to be signed off. HeContinue reading “The ‘Spiralling’ Benefits Bill Is Unsustainable, Warns Rishi Sunak “
Pensioners Should Be Taxed More: Rachel Reeves, Tax Tsar
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s new tax tsar previously called pensioners ‘codgers’ who had it ‘ridiculously good’. Sir Edward Troup, a former Tory Treasury special adviser, also said it was ‘ridiculous’ that pensioners received free TV licences and argued for them to be taxed more. His remarks became public earlier this month following his appointment byContinue reading “Pensioners Should Be Taxed More: Rachel Reeves, Tax Tsar”
MAX PEMBERTON: Indulgent Benefits Encourage Idleness
People who work in mental health frequently see people who are genuinely disabled by mental illness and who desperately need PIP payments to ensure they can get on with their lives, but not everyone would agree and that makes my blood boil. These individuals are not abusing the system, but people and the government wouldContinue reading “MAX PEMBERTON: Indulgent Benefits Encourage Idleness”
To Holiday In Europe, Brits Will Have To Provide Their Fingerprints
Travellers face enormous queues while entering Europe from next autumn with the introduction of strict post-Brexit border controls. British passport holders will have to go through fingerprint checks and face scans as part of the new EU Entry/Exit System (EES). It will replace the stamping of passports, which started after Brexit when the United KingdomContinue reading “To Holiday In Europe, Brits Will Have To Provide Their Fingerprints”
A Child Sleeps On A Chair In A ‘Grossly Overcrowded’ A&E After A Patient Waits 99 Hours For A Bed
It’s emerged that an A&E patient was forced to wait for 99 hours before obtaining a bed and parents have told how their ailing children were forced to sleep on chairs as the NHS encounters a worsening crisis this winter. The unidentified patient was brought to Swindon’s Great Western Hospital by ambulance but was leftContinue reading “A Child Sleeps On A Chair In A ‘Grossly Overcrowded’ A&E After A Patient Waits 99 Hours For A Bed”
State Pensions
With the cost of living spiralling, people across the country need certainty about their pensions. Most pensioners have a fixed income and millions of over 66s depend on the state pension as their primary source of money to buy life’s necessities. The UK state pension is the worst in the developed world, with nine outContinue reading “State Pensions”
THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO 