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A Bedfordshire magistrate has been given a misconduct warning following a comment in a private WhatsApp group. Derek Muhammad – JP of the Bedfordshire bench – was having a “private intellectual discussion about the complex legacy of Winston Churchill and the colonial history of Britain”. But another member of the WhatsApp group took umbrage, saying it was racially prejudiced and reported experiencing distress as a result of the comment. The experienced magistrate of nearly 20 years denied this was the case, saying it wasn’t racist and had been taken out of context. Winston Churchill (Image by Simon Goodall/Pixabay) During the hearing, Mr Muhammad said his comment had been taken out of its context and had been a criticism of colonial exploitation. He cited his own heritage and argued it isn’t credible to suggest he harbours racial animus toward people with whom he shares ancestry. He cited his long, unblemished record of public service – and suggested the complaint was vexatious and insincere. But following an investigation under the Judicial Conduct (Magistrates) Rules 2023, a nominated committee member of the South-East Region Conduct Advisory Committee found "Mr Muhammad’s comment was racially inappropriate as it could be interpreted as expressing a negative

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Why the security review ritual is broken, and what it actually looks like to earn vendor trust. Every vendor in security claims their customers trust them. The 891-question security questionnaire sitting in someone’s inbox says otherwise. The third-party risk review process was built on a reasonable premise: before you hand sensitive data or critical infrastructure over to a vendor, you should have some confidence they’re doing what they say they’re doing. What it became, in practice, is something closer to a paper trail — a ritual that transfers liability without producing confidence, and burns enormous amounts of time on both sides of the transaction while solving almost nothing. The vendors and practitioners who’ve been thinking hardest about this problem have arrived at a common conclusion: Trust between vendors and customers isn’t a questionnaire problem. It’s a visibility problem. You can’t trust what you can’t see. And for most of the industry, the security posture of your vendors is still something you have to ask about, periodically, reactively, with a spreadsheet. Three conversations from our past ‘ Security You Should Know’ episodes point toward what changes when that model breaks down — and what it looks like to build something better.

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It’s common for a young professional like Spencer Jones, who graduated from Stanford in 2024, to take to LinkedIn and share a story on the business-oriented social media platform about a challenge he dealt with at work. “Everybody wants the moment,” he wrote in a post last week. “Nobody talks about being on the wrong side of it.” But the challenge that Jones, a second-year forward with the Denver Nuggets, faced is one that even his NBA peers might struggle to relate to. “Last week, I had two game-winning shots hit on me,” he wrote. “And yeah… that’s the part no one signs up for.” Earlier this month, Los Angeles Lakers All-Star Luka Dončić and reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder both hit game winners over Jones in the span of a week. “It comes with the job,” Jones wrote. Jones, who has started 36 games for Denver this season, opted to share his account of those rough days at the office on the professional networking site and use it to motivate others. The 24-year-old even included photos of the pivotal shots, with Dončić and Gilgeous-Alexander releasing the ball over his outstretched arm in both instances, in

Plans have been revealed to install outdoor padel courts at a Lancaster leisure centre. Soul Padel Ltd have submitted a planning application to Lancaster City Council to install outdoor padel (racket sport) courts with canopies, boundary fencing and a clubhouse at Salt Ayre Leisure Centre. Planning documents said: “The site forms part of Salt Ayre Leisure Centre. The land subject to this application is currently a small mini-golf area and balance bike track forming part of the leisure centre facilities, the main building for which is located directly to the east and the associated car park to the south west. “The proposal is for the installation of four covered padel courts with a clubhouse facility which will replace the existing mini-golf and part of the balance bike track. An aerial photo of Salt Ayre Leisure Centre with the planned location of the padel courts highlighted in red.“The play area to south will remain unaffected. “The padel courts comprise the playing area which are surrounded by wire mesh fencing and tempered glass panels which range in height from 3m high along the sides and 4m high at the end of the courts with integrated court lighting columns.  » Read More

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – NM State Athletics announced today a landmark partnership with Inn of the Mountain Gods, which will become the exclusive jersey patch partner for Aggie Athletics beginning with the 2026-27 seasons.   The three-year agreement marks a historic moment as it introduces the first jersey patch partner in NM State history and also establishes NM State as the first institution in Conference USA to announce a jersey patch partnership. This also stands as the largest annual partnership commitment NM State Athletics has ever received.   As part of the partnership, the Inn of the Mountain Gods logo will appear on official NM State football, men's basketball, women's basketball, volleyball, baseball and softball uniforms, placing one of New Mexico's most iconic establishments alongside the tradition of Aggie Athletics.   Joe Fields , NM State Director of Athletics, on the importance of the partnership:   "This partnership marks a groundbreaking moment for NM State Athletics. Inn of the Mountain Gods is an organization that represents the heritage and excellence of New Mexico, and we're proud to have their brand featured on our uniforms. Being the first program in Conference USA to announce a jersey patch partnership speaks to the

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Home Daily News Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors in… Trials & Litigation March 23, 2026, 9:35 am CDT Technology billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk committed securities fraud with false or misleading statements about Twitter’s fake bot accounts as he attempted to scrap or renegotiate the $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform, a California jury for a civil trial unanimously found Friday. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/Getty Images) Technology billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk committed securities fraud with false or misleading statements about Twitter’s fake bot accounts as he attempted to scrap or renegotiate the $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform, a California jury for a civil trial unanimously found Friday. Law360 has the story. After deliberating for 20 hours over four days, the jury found that in May 2022, Musk posted two misleading tweets and one in-person statement, the story said, including a May 13, 2022, post stating that the deal was “temporarily on hold” while he gathered information on the amount of bots and spam on the platform now known as X. The jury, however, didn’t find Musk liable based on the investors’ claim of an overall “scheme to defraud Twitter investors,”

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