Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said she will proscribe Palestine Action under anti-terror law. It comes days after activists from the group broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and spray-painted two military planes red – an incident Cooper called “disgraceful”. The move effectively brands the group a terrorist organisation and, if passed in Parliament,…

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Why is it seemingly impossible to stop phone thieves?

London is a phone-theft hotspot Jeff Blackler/Shutterstock Even if you have never had your smartphone stolen, you probably know someone who has. In London, 80,000 phones were stolen last year alone. And as victims of phone theft know, while the loss of a pricey gadget can sting, the dreary administrative slog in replacing a device…

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