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OPINION - Psilocybin is different to other antidepressants — the Government is blocking patients who need it

Psilocybin saves lives. I have seen it with my own eyes on a clinical trial in London. One of the participants, a woman in her forties who had spent decades depressed, taking medications that left the illness untouched, felt bright and alive for the first time in years after just…

Evening Standard

Police to be able to run face recognition searches on 50m driving licence holders

Exclusive: Privacy campaigners say clause in new criminal justice bill will put all UK drivers on ‘permanent police lineup’

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak considers curbing social media use for under-16s

Reports suggest a ban is among potential options to protect young people from online harm

The Guardian - UK

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Facial recognition can 'revolutionise policing' says minister as rape suspect caught with tech

Policing minister Chris Philp says use of technology should be expanded significantly to help protect women and girls from sex predators

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak accused of giving Rwanda millions ‘for nothing in return’

PMQs clash comes as Suella Braverman expected to heavily criticise government’s immigration plans

The Guardian - UK

Sunak rules out quitting ECHR as Braverman attacks PM in Commons speech

PM has been warned of rebellion by Tory MPs on both left and right – and possible resignations – over plans to get around human rights law

The Independent UK

Prince Harry's claim that his police protection 'unfairly' changed dismissed by Home Office minister

Asked about the allegation by the Royal’s lawyers in a court battle, police minister Chris Philp told LBC Radio: 'I don’t accept that.'

Evening Standard

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New Rwanda legislation will be 'legally watertight', minister says after treaty signing

Bill due to come after Home Secretary James Cleverly travelled to the East African country to sign the new treaty following a Supreme Court defeat

Evening Standard

UK Government pledges not to 'interfere' in Scotland's drugs consumption room pilot

THE UK Government "will not interfere" with plans to set up a drug consumption room in Scotland, a Tory minister has said.

The National (Scotland)

Suella and Rishi hope for hate, locked in her death spiral leadership campaign

The home secretary lit the blue touchpaper on extremism as the PM continued drifting ever further to the far right

The Guardian - UK

Suella Braverman ‘encouraging extremists on all sides’, says Labour

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper led the criticism of Ms Braverman during an urgent question in the House of Commons.

The Independent UK

Police Scotland use of controversial facial recognition triples over five years

POLICE Scotland’s use of a controversial form of facial recognition has tripled over the past five years and is on course to rise even further in…

The National (Scotland)

Police urged to double use of facial recognition software

Policing minister Chris Philp suggests target of more than 200,000 searches over next six months in England and Wales

The Guardian - UK

Policing minister urges forces to double use of facial recognition software

It comes despite a cross-party group of MPs and peers calling for the use of live facial recognition technology to stop immediately.

The Independent UK

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Major UK retailers urged to quit ‘authoritarian’ police facial recognition strategy

Human rights campaigners say the Pegasus initiative wrongly criminalises people of colour, women and LGBTQ+ people

Evening Standard

OPINION - Facial recognition vans: the case for and against

A minister and technology advocate go head-to-head over facial recognition technology

The Independent UK

Police pledge shoplifting crackdown with facial recognition to make ‘hostile environment’ for thieves

Policing minister declares zero-tolerance approach as shoplifting offences surge by 25 per cent in a year

The Guardian - UK

Under cover of a shoplifting panic, the Tories are pushing through a shocking expansion of facial recognition

This widespread use in shops would be a sudden and dramatic increase of government and police surveillance powers , writes Akiko Hart from Liberty

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The Independent UK

Ministers say Hamas support in UK ‘repugnant’ and call for full force of law

Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she wants officers to use the full force of the law against ‘glorification of terrorism’.

The Guardian - UK

MPs and peers call for ‘immediate stop’ to live facial recognition surveillance

UK police forces and private firms urged to drop technology due to impact on human rights

The Guardian - UK

UK passport images database could be used to catch shoplifters

Civil liberty campaigners warn Chris Philp’s plans to integrate databases are an ‘Orwellian nightmare’

Evening Standard

Police minister Chris Philp is in anti-Ulez Facebook group that praises camera vandals

The Met previously said it recorded 510 crimes relating to the cameras from April 1 to the end of August

The Independent UK

HS2: Five Labour mayors to demand PM keeps project on track

On Tuesday, Home Office minister Chris Philp said Mr Sunak was reviewing how the cost of HS2 could be ‘controlled’.

The Independent UK

Labour’s Andy Burnham warns he could sue Sunak government if HS2 axed

‘We’re not going to take things lying down – they will be hearing from us,’ says Manchester mayor

The Independent UK

Why Sunak wants to scrap HS2 – project bosses wasting millions ‘like kids with golden credit card’

PM believes ‘ballooning bill is far worse than anyone knows’

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