The Vagrancy Act was law written in the tone of a man irritated that poverty had chosen to be visible. On 29 June, the government repeals the remaining 1824 provisions which criminalised rough sleeping and begging. That ends a 202-year…

The Crown Court backlog has fallen by 37 cases, which is the justice-system equivalent of tidying one teaspoon in a burning kitchen. Fresh court figures show a tiny fall in the Crown Court open caseload while the row over restricting…

The government has decided that nudging users with better settings is no longer doing the job. Ministers plan to ban social media platforms from offering services to under‑16s, with draft regulations expected before Christmas and the regime intended to take…

The AI safety debate has moved from policy panels to product shutdowns. Anthropic says it has been ordered by the US government to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for any foreign national, whether inside or…

Scammers do not need legal qualifications if they can borrow a solicitor’s name. The SRA issued a series of scam alerts in early June, including warnings about emails misusing the identities of genuine solicitors and law firms. In one instance,…

The SRA appears to have concluded that legal AI is best examined in the open, rather than reconstructed later from the remains of a complaint. The regulator has joined the Advisory AI Growth Lab, a government-backed initiative intended to help…