Day: August 23, 2025

Activists from Homeland party, which split from Patriotic Alternative, set up groups to spread protests beyond Epping

Members of a far-right nationalist party are helping to organise protests outside hotels used to house asylum seekers across the UK, according to a series of Facebook posts and groups created in recent weeks.

Activists for the Homeland party, which was formed as a splinter organisation from Patriotic Alternative, Britain’s biggest far-right group, have set up a number of online groups in an attempt to spread the protests that recently engulfed a hotel in Epping.

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Former Lib Dem leader and Meta strategist writes in new book that power in tech capital is interlaced with ‘self pity’

Silicon Valley is full of hubris and hugely wealthy and macho men who think they are victims, the former politician and Facebook executive Nick Clegg has said.

The former leader of the Liberal Democrats makes the claim in a new book chronicling his three careers as an MEP in Brussels, an MP and deputy prime minister in Westminster and as a communications and public policy strategist in San Francisco.

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Academic says sample size was too small to claim new sensitivity guidelines have removed racial, gender or age bias

The Metropolitan police’s claims that their use of live facial recognition is bias-free are not substantiated by the report they cite to support their case, a leading expert on the technology has said.

The Met is planning its biggest and most high profile use of LFR yet this bank holiday weekend at Notting Hill carnival in west London.

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‘Gourmand’ fragrances with notes of biscuit or cherries are also trending among young consumers online

A rise in the number of sweet, food-scented perfumes on the market could be linked to an increase in the use of weight-loss medication, according to the market research firm Mintel.

Food-inspired fragrances, with scent profiles that feature vanilla, coffee and caramel and referred to in the industry as “gourmand” perfumes, have surged in popularity in the past three years. Launches of sugary-scented, desert-themed fragrances increased by 24% last year alone, Mintel said.

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