Teesside thug with samurai sword threatened to 'kill all Poles' before slashing man. Gareth Devlin was photographed waving weapon around in the streetThe 28-year-old threatened Polish national before slashing him in backPhotos were used as evidence in case against the father-to-beHe was jailed for five years over racially aggravated attack By Jennifer Smith for MailOnline Published: 17:14 GMT, 1 December 2014 | Updated: 19:22 GMT, 1 December 2014 This is the terrifying moment a racist thug waved a samurai sword in the street threatening to 'kill all the Poles' before slashing a man in the back.
In photographs handed to police by a bystander, Gareth Devlin is seen with the weapon in his hand while walking in the street in Teesside. The 28-year-old was jailed for five years after a court heard how he frightened children by waving the weapon around one summer afternoon. Gareth Devlin was photographed waving a samurai sword in the street before striking it down on the back of a Polish national he threatened to kill 'That at the time proved to be the best evidence. Britain now has almost as many Poles as KRAKOW: New figures reveal 1.3m eastern Europeans have come to UK More than a quarter of the five million foreigners in UK from eastern EuropeAlmost 700,000 Poles are in the UK - the biggest group of foreignersBut Britain is not Europe’s top destination for migrant workersGermany attracting four times as many EU workers than the UK By Tom McTague, Deputy Political Editor for MailOnline Published: 14:32 GMT, 1 December 2014 | Updated: 17:09 GMT, 1 December 2014 Britain is now home to 1.3 million eastern Europeans, an international study has revealed.
More than a quarter of the five million foreigners living in the UK are from the 10 eastern bloc countries which joined the EU in 2004 – sparking the biggest immigration surge in British history. Poles are the biggest group of foreigners in the country – with some 679,000 having set up home in Britain, according to the respected Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It means there are almost as many Poles in the UK as there are in the country's second city of Krakow - home to 750,000 people. Desk_or_phone. Racist Plymouth man Zack Collins who abused stranger was left with a fractured jaw after single punch.
Zack Collins was staggering home from a nightclub in Plymouth at 6am He insulted strangers and also racially abused brother of Sami KrasniqiKrasniqi later saw Mr Collins insult a black man, who was walking byHe said 'red mist came down' and punched Mr Collins in random attackMr Collins was knocked out, lost six teeth and suffered a fractured jawHe was in such pain he could not even drink blended food through strawKrasniqi pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm and was jailed By Claire Carter for MailOnline Published: 17:26 GMT, 1 December 2014 | Updated: 18:27 GMT, 1 December 2014 A man who had racially abused a stranger was knocked out by one punch and left unable to even drink through a straw after his victim's brother 'saw red' and hit him from behind. Zack Collins had made insulting remarks to random people in the street as he staggered home from a nightclub in Plymouth with a friend. Scroll down for video Krasniqi was arrested and jailed for eight months for the attack.
Yulia Marushevska on fighting for Ukraine's freedom and going viral. "We are civilised people, but our government are barbarians… That is why I ask you now to help us," says Yulia Marushevska, speaking into the camera. She is shivering so much from the bitter cold of the Kiev winter that she is struggling to talk. Within a matter of days though, the video that Marushevska had made and uploaded to YouTube had gone viral and she was taking calls around the clock from international media outlets.
"I didn't sleep -- I didn't have any time for anything because people were being killed. I understood that my small contribution would be to tell their story," says Marushevska, speaking on stage at WIRED2014 in London. "I believe that only crazy ideas can influence the world and make our life meaningful. As a result, explains Marushevska "millions of us went to the street and spent months in the winter staying there. "We were a part of a big movement and each one of us were equal -- it was kind of a big social network. What we'll be doing once the robots take our jobs.
Robots have loomed over the future of labour for decades -- at least since robotic arms started replacing auto workers on the assembly line in the early 1960s. Optimists say that more robots will lead to greater productivity and economic growth, while pessimists complain that huge swaths of the labour force will see their employment options automated out of existence. Each has a point, but there's another way to look at this seemingly inevitable trend. What if both are right? As robots start doing more and more of the work humans used to do, and doing it so much more efficiently than we ever did, what if the need for jobs disappears altogether? What if the robots end up producing more than enough of everything that everyone needs? The redefinition of work itself is one of the most intriguing possibilities imagined in a recent Pew Research report on the future of robots and jobs.
"Detecting complaints is an AI problem. This article originally appeared on Wired.com. How many female science and technology role models can you name? This is a guest post by Chantal Bowman-Boyles, Vice President of Technology Practice at Waggener Edstrom, a worldwide Digital PR agency. Today, science and technology are still very male dominated sectors. If you ask your friends and relations to name a woman famous for her contribution to science you quickly get, Marie Curie, and maybe Florence Nightingale -- after that we all struggle. And if you ask for names of women who are alive now, and famous for their contribution to science or technology, it doesn't get any easier. Perhaps Martha Lane-Fox, Baroness Susan Greenfield? Why, when women have had the vote for nearly a hundred years, and have equal access to education and opportunity (at least on the face of it), is this the case?
Discrimination still plays far too big a role. The problems begin at school, where children are exposed to stereotypes and often lack the right female role models. And they continue through higher education too. Image: Sausages / Stefano A. / CC BY 2.0. Pakistani human rights group sues UK government for discriminatory GCHQ surveillance. A Pakistani human rights group is suing the UK government for breaching its privacy and discriminating against it while carrying out mass surveillance under the Tempora programme. Bytes for All (B4A) defends digital rights in Pakistan and is partnered with Privacy International, a European campaign group that filed a similar suit last year, also with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. The Tribunal was setup specifically to deal with complaints about surveillance carried out by UK public bodies in conjunction with the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), including the GCHQ agency under which Tempora was operated.
B4A claims that UK surveillance of its online activity is in direct breach of the parameters outlined in Ripa that allow for lawful surveillance, and in breach of privacy and discrimination laws outlined in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It begins, however, by slating the entire Tempora operation, understandably. "B4A is in a similar position. Pakistani human rights group sues UK government for discriminatory GCHQ surveillance. Pussy Riot joins Julian Assange whistleblower foundation. Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina have joined forces with Julian Assange to support the Courage Foundation, an international organisation that raises legal funds for whistleblowers like Edward Snowden leaking information in the public interest.
Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina met Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy – yes, he's still there – and agreed to sit on the advisory board of the foundation, of which the Wikileaks founder is a trustee. Slavoj Žižek and Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg are also members of the board. You wouldn't necessarily expect members of a feminist punk protest group to team up with Julian Assange; after all, the Wikileaks founder is still wanted in Sweden on charges of sexual assault. But apparently they found that they had "more in common than we expected" (and presumably it didn't involve hiding in an embassy to escape extradition). Darren Wilson supporters crowdfund racist billboard. As Ferguson braces itself for grand jury's decision on whether police officer Darren Wilson will be indicted by shooting Michael Brown, pro-cop demonstrators have helpfully thrown a tank of petrol onto the already blazing fire.
How? By crowdfunding a racist billboard in Florrisant, the place where most of the Ferguson protests have occurred. They've already raised $3,579 on Indiegogo with 28 days to go. The plan is to buy a billboard with the text #PantsUPDontLOOT, a riff on the "hands up, don't shoot" chant adopted by Ferguson protesters. The tag is also lifted from a National Review article of the same name.
Don Alexander, the man behind the fundraising campaign, told Raw Story: “Whatever funds we receive will go directly to keeping the billboard campaign up as long as possible. On his Indiegogo project page, he describes the billboard as such: "This crowdfunding campaign is for the purchase of a billboard in the Ferguson, MO area. The truth about East European migration but statistics don't even show latest influx | Daily Mail Online. Statistics show 1.3 per cent of Eastern Europeans living anywhere in Europe are now in the UKBritain is giving citizenship to more migrants than any other EU country, figures showSince 2000, more than 2.1m migrants have acquired British citizenship Data compiled by independent Migration Observatory at Oxford UniversityRomanian and Bulgarian migrant numbers have also continued to increase By Jack Doyle And James Chapman For The Daily Mail Published: 23:36 GMT, 19 November 2014 | Updated: 23:40 GMT, 19 November 2014 The astonishing scale of Eastern European migration to Britain is revealed today in figures uncovered by the Daily Mail.
They show that 1.3 per cent of Eastern Europeans living anywhere in Europe – including in their native countries – are now in the UK. It means one in 75 of those born in eight former communist nations that joined the EU in 2004 is resident here – and the true numbers are likely to be even greater as the figures are three years old. Can We Change Hollywood’s Pattern of Gender Inequality? In this month’s edition of The Hollywood Reporter, writer Gregg Kilday wrote about the coming award season, and a strange phenomenon happening among experts attempting to predict who will be nominated for Academy Awards.
He noted, “handicappers have been scratching their heads trying to figure out which actresses could be drafted to fill out the best actress category.” Kilday points out that this year, there were so many strong performances in roles written for men, some insiders suggested expanding the best actor category from five to 10. Meanwhile, in modern Hollywood “actresses appear mostly in supportive roles as wives, girlfriends and mothers,” he writes. This year, the issue was so notable that it’s been hard to predict who would even be featured in the category of Best Actress. (Though Kilday and several others suggested Reese Witherspoon, Jenny Slate and Julianne Moore would be among the frontrunners.)
Women Make Up Just 23% of Independent Film Directors. #DamnILookGood invites women to snap selfies in hijab. You can't talk about the hijab in the Western world without somebody butting in to yell about how it's repressive or anti-feminist. But Pakistani-American artists Qinza Najm and Saks Afridi are putting a whole new spin on how people look at the veil – by inviting women to take selfies of themselves in full hijab or niqab and instagramming them under the hashtag #DamnILookGood. The New York-based pair debuted the project in Brooklyn at the Dumbo Arts Festival in September and were adamant that the hijab is often misrepresented by cultures that don't understand it – chiefly, that many people don't grasp that wearing the veil can be an active expression of choice, personal style and beauty.
"A woman wearing full hijab and taking selfies of herself may to some people seem like a pointless exercise, but it isn't," Najm explains in a video about the project. "A selfie is more than just a picture. It's a product of a moment when one is feeling beautiful and confident. " Want to go and work for ISIS? They're hiring | Dazed. You probably won't be offered the position by your job centre advisor, but a word to the wise – ISIS is hiring. According to the Times, ISIS wants someone to manage its array of oil refineries, so if you've got experience in the field and aren't terrified of being beheaded, maybe try and fill out an application. However, you'll need good connections to the underworld – ISIS is advertising for the role through the black market. The group has captured 11 oil fields in Syria and Iraq but has perhaps understandably seen interest in working for ISIS tail off as the caliphate embarked on a violent takeover mission across the Middle East.
The group wants to arrest a financial slump in their potentially lucrative oil business, perhaps caused by its determination to only hire professionals who are dedicated to the ISIS cause. "The money is good, but it’s not that good," said Robin Mills, of Dubai's Manaar Energy. Church of England to have female Bishops next year. | Around the World. Debrief Staff | Writer | 5 hours ago The Debrief: It's about bloody time.
In religious women news, the Church of England is all set to finalise plans to start ordaining female Bishops next year. While there are still some traditionalists in the synod (the lawmakers within the Church, with possibly the best name ever) who believe that placing females in a position of power within the church goes against their values, because they have no concept of the term 'moving ahead' or 'things changing for the better', for the first time in history, the Church has voted for women to start getting ordained as bishops in July. While women have been able to be priests since 1994, they've never been able to take the senior roles - the BBC's religious correspondent Caroline Wyatt sees it as 'a mainly symbolic stage in this long process', but added 'it's clearly an immensely historic and really significant one'.
Read More: Things You Only Know If You're A Christian In The 21st Century Like this? At work? The gender gap narrows almost everywhere except UK | Dazed. There's good news and bad news. The good news is that the global gender gap is narrowing, with 105 countries in the world becoming more equal and providing a better place for women to live. The bad news? The UK isn't among them. According to the new Global Gender Gap Report from the World Economic Forum (WEF), we've dropped out of the top 20 countries for gender equality as the gap between men and women in this country widens. The country also failed abysmally to make the top 20 for improving equality in the economy, education, health and politics.
The worst part? The WEF commented on the findings: "(In the economic participation subsets the UK) appears to remain some way off, with the country ranking 48th in terms of both labour force participation and wage equality and 66th for estimated earned income. " Don't get too cocky over that last bit. For more of our coverage on feminism and women's rights, head here. Disobedient Objects. Thousands of protesters hit London for Million Mask March | Dazed. Racially Diverse Emojis Will Be Rolled Out In Mid-2015 | Around the World. Boko Haram Leader Says Kidnapped Girls Were Married Off Long Ago | Around the World. Nigel Farage Doesn’t Want Women To Like Ukip? Fine By Us | People. Baroness Karren Brady attacks Nigel Farage over women in workplace comments | Daily Mail Online. Development Has Lifted Millions out of Extreme Poverty, But There’s Still Far to Go. IDENTITY - visual concept by Jeffrey Wang.
Can We Change Hollywood’s Pattern of Gender Inequality? Report: One in Every 30 American Children Is Homeless. There’s More to Social Justice Than Just ‘Awareness’ Police clash with student protestors as thousands march on Parliament Square and Tory party headquarters in anger over tuition fees and graduate debt | Daily Mail Online. Racially diverse emojis are on the way | Dazed.