#video-nasties

#video-nasties

Sky intends to use the information obtained from a court case to take legal actions against the resellers and some of the end users, marking the first time end users could face legal action.

"This 'AI slop' harms children's development by distorting their sense of reality, overwhelming their learning processes and hijacking their attention, thereby extending time online and displacing offline activities necessary for their healthy development."

Looking back from 2026, it's almost impossible to believe that video games were once treated as a flippant, dead-end hobby reserved for burnouts and social outcasts.

A woman has been charged with outraging public decency following an investigation by the Met Police. Tia Billinger, 26, of Draycott in Derbyshire, was charged via postal requisition on Monday, March 16. She will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, April 22. The charge relates to an incident in Great Peter Street, Westminster, on Monday, December 15.

Forensic examination of a hard drive connected to a laptop revealed 15 images and 15 videos of extreme pornography with creation dates between February and May 2022. Officers also found 18 still images and six videos featuring child sexual exploitation, some of them of the most serious kind and featuring both boys and girls aged between four and 10.

The politics never go away; they just change form. All the same things go on. There's always this emergency that needs to be dealt with, a fear of otherness, a fear of things you can't control. With that, you get complicity or apathy. It's cyclical.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

I posted a rave review of the new Sam Raimi film, Send Help, the other day and triggered a debate I didn't expect: is it OK for Christians to watch horror films? Send Help a gore-laced plane-crash survival face-off, according to the Guardian review (which was less kind than mine) is more comedy-horror than horror, or maybe horror/thriller. But there's definitely horror there you get the point.

In the film, a murderous cult known as the Jimmies stalk the ruins of postapocalyptic Britain. Led by Sir Jimmy Crystal, played by Jack O'Connell, the sect are instantly recognisable for their cheap tracksuits, bleached blonde wigs and particular mannerisms. For viewers in the UK, Crystal is unmistakably reminiscent of the entertainer Jimmy Savile, whose decades-long history of sexual abuse was only revealed after his death.

Two graveyard shift nurses pray their patients pass overnight simply to cure their boredom. A crazed therapist tries to convince a victim that the perfect coping mechanism is matricide. The government rounds up and ships off the infected to a quarantined archipelago named Hell Gay Land. Forty years on from its release, the first notable feature-length film to tackle the AIDS crisis-dark German comedy A Virus Knows No Morals -undoubtedly remains the most provocative.