Juries are not perfect. Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials. But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having. They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.

Nigel Farage thinks the song ‘Gas 'Em All’ is just bants. Pass it on.

A long read, but a thorough analysis which chimes with my observations of right wing evangelicals who refer mostly to the old testament as the gospels are too humane for them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

#NewWaveNovember #MusicChallenge Day 23 (unranked) The Undertones - Get Over You ❤️🎶🎵 youtu.be/7_Axli2C5ew?...

Brilliant Eze hits hat-trick as Arsenal thump Spurs to extend lead in title race

STATEMENT MADE.

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Mahmood/government should say explain *objective* of increasing time to settlement for 15 years for care workers who arrived 2022-24 Is it A) to get them to leave? Why? B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits? C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.

They are hate symbols, no matter what the Coast Guard puts in its revised regulations.

Ukraine to capitulate so that Trump can benefit personally. You have to wonder what hold Putin has over Trump

Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do

Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.

Just disabled this thanks to the reminder.

‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music

Alf Dubs is a 92 year old man who spent his life fighting for refugees, and in particular for refugee children. He fought the Tories tooth and nail during their last three terms, only to see Labour adopt far-right policies on immigration. “But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”

I don’t know what to say anymore other than to remind those in power that refugees are human beings with equal rights who, along with their children, deserve a safe, stable & integrated life in their communities and that what they’re breaking now with this performative cruelty can’t be fixed later.

Not the first time Nestlé has been putting profits ahead of people and in particular the health of babies on Africa. It's why I don't buy their coffee or chocolate. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

He lied. Makes me sad to say it, but he lied.

Hey Labour Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety? We're still over here 👋

My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

So my local Labour Party branch is posting that it is fixing Britain by the "repatriation of migrants". Not even "illegal" ones, just migrants. A once progressive party pandering to hatred and flag waving nationalists. Clear doesn't want my vote.

The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.

Inconvenient facts for malign (often foreign) influencers who try to portray my home city as a lethal no go zone. After more than half a century living here, I’ve never felt safer And kudos to Fraser Nelson for his work on this

This is disgusting. It means people granted asylum will constantly be living with uncertainty, never feeling able to rebuild their lives. On a practical level, it also surely means more work and money, if claims are constantly being reassessed. A repugnant idea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No matter how frustrated I am with the Labour government, this bunch of squabbling Corbynites is not an attractive option

Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”. bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...

It's real, and it's mind-blowing. A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.

To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists. Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

To think I celebrated the election of this government. They have no values, no principles and no humanity.

I can only hope that Mahmood doesn't rise any further post-Starmer, and that Blue Labour acolytes lose traction. They're discrediting any credibility of a Labour government. In the past, UK aid could cover some bad domestic policy. Now? Not even a fig leaf left.

REMINDER: The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) keeps us all safe and free. Every. Single. Day.

'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them' Winston Churchill, 1936

One of the few things that make me want to defend the BBC is the far right media, Johnson and Trump’s attacks on it.

Disgraceful that the BBC alleged that Trump encouraged an insurrection. Poor Crooked Rapey Don.

This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I remember working in partnership with the UK government when it was genuinely invested in supporting peace and rights in Sudan. Now it just takes the cheapest, most tokenistic option. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Ive never been slow to criticise the Reach plc media for their awful clickbait headlines. But this is another level. They know exactly what they're doing with this headline, and it is horrible, divisive and dangerous. Shame on them.

If ever you need proof that age is just a number.......... youtube.com/watch?v=RuUj...

Seventy-five years ago, Britain helped create the European Convention on Human Rights, a promise of life, liberty, and fairness under the law. It has strengthened justice, protected victims, and upheld equality. These rights are ours to defend.

Powerful and shocking report on Sudan on tonight's Sky News. RSF conducting ethnically based murder of huge numbers of civilians in El Fasher news.sky.com/story/tens-o...

Spot on.

Looking after the most vulnerable should be the highest priority. Losing children, probably to traffickers, is a scandal. The agencies responsible, and their political leaders, should be held accountable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“I haven’t seen violence like this since Rwanda. The velocity and ferocity of the RSF killing civilians since Sunday is unlike anything I’ve seen in 26 years of doing this work, and HRL [Yale Humanitarian Research Lab] has been reporting on the RSF and the Sudanese war for a while.”

Following Hurricane Melissa's devastation, Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build financial resilience will be tested. Its $150 million catastrophe bond, triggered by a storm’s low pressure and path, will provide quick relief. Jamaica’s model may serve as a guide for other climate-vulnerable nations.

This right should never have been denied. It's a relief that some Palestinian students will be able to bring their children with them to safety, but allowing this on a "case-by-case" basis is not enough. Families belong together & it’s time the government made that a reality.

Nothing comes from preemptive obedience. Victory comes from opposition.