As someone who spent almost my whole life dealing with criminal law & the criminal justice system, I can categorically say that Labour has created an absolute nightmare for the police, CPS & courts. For what, exactly? History will not judge Yvette Cooper favourably.

On Saturday 4th October in London a woman was arrested for holding a sign with “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” on it - a totally lawful statement to make, even under the Labour government’s absurd new laws proscribing the direct action group (source: Defend Our Juries on x)

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Who are the seven hundred and fifty thousand people Kemi Badenoch would like to deport from this country?

*gasp*

America should be absolutely embarrassed by this decrepit old man

I see napalm is woke now

It’s not just you. The internet is getting worse, fast. The services we rely on, that we once loved? They’re all turning into piles of shit, all at once. This is infuriating. Frustrating. And, depending on how important those services are to you, terrifying. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You have people in fucking masks taking other people into custody without any sort of proper identification ... This is not a democracy anymore ... Canada + the rest of the world weep ... #Resist 💙🌊💙

This happened last night and I hadn't heard about it until this post, so went to the BBC News homepage. You have to go all the way down the page, below recipes for 30 minute meals, and you find it as a text link in 'politics'.

When the Tories were last in office - according to international Human Rights Watch - UK was on course to make list of countries that abuse rather than protect human rights. Is it any wonder they want us to join Russia & Belarus as only European countries outside the ECHR youtu.be/ceukUFLBrFo?...

I do not deny antisemitism, any more than other racism. But the fact, that protesting the genocide of another set of people. is being viewed as antisemitic, shows how far antisemitism has been weaponised.

If you’re an Islamophobe you don’t get to complain about antisemitism And if you’re an antisemite you don’t get to complain about Islamophobia. It’s really that simple. (So many shameless hypocrites around.)

Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?

Not the first time Israel kills a Doctors Without Borders doctor, so our media won't even bother to report it. #FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust

As Lemkin knew, genocide hides in plain sight. “Genocide is so easy to commit because people don’t want to believe it until after it happens.” Raphael Lemkin Coined the Word Genocide. What Would He Say Today? | ⁦‪@TheTyee‬⁩ thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

People seem convinced that there is a plan to reinstitute the draft and I think they should take a minute and think of how the entire country went batshit insane over being asked to wear little fabric masks in public for a while

Repeat after me: Labour's. 'Base'. Is. Not. Working. Class.

Fever itself can endanger fetal development—which is why Tylenol remains an important tool for protecting moms and babies.

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that? MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

This is where we need the equivalent of the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB). They can sieze personal assets if they can prove they are derived from illegal activity, even where there has been no convictions. And marking goods as CE when they aren't is a criminal activity.

No. For even if the government cannot recover all its damages and costs here, this case is still a signal to current and potential suppliers that it is willing to enforce it contractual rights. And that is very valuable. Many government suppliers do not believe the government will ever do this.

And was backed by one of them!

Some good news on this, true at least as of 24 Jan 2024 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

People like Mone are surrounded by a coterie of fluffers whose living depends on "yes". Any "no" is an outrage. Criticism filtered. Facts blended and extruded as potato smileys. Similar to The Dictator's Dilemma, soon, they lose touch with reality. The bunker is always last to know the war is lost.

🗞️ JUST IN: PPE Medpro - the firm linked to Michelle Mone - must repay £122m to the UK Government, a judge has ruled. The trial heard that 25 million surgical gowns supplied by the firm to protect NHS staff were UNUSABLE and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’.

Police say they can’t arrest the thieves who cleared out my house as it was my responsibility to opt out of being robbed by them.

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

"If you have bodycams, turn them off." Maybe he should have started with that part.

Oh Martin! why do you expect "Sense" from a government of absolute turds who are experienced at nothing and yet control everything! Take this I.D. fiasco they want to foist upon us under the lie that it is to control Boat People! Those folks operate on the Black Economy, totally irrelevant.

There's a strange message coming from part of the UK government that all negotiations in the common understanding can be finished by mid 2026, which just shows how little some have learnt of previous failures that pace leaves imperfections.

She goes on to say “There’s lots of different ways to contribute, and if you’re working in the NHS, you’re clearly contributing”. Which is not to defend her: it just shows that the policy is so mad that she can’t herself actually defend it when pushed. www.channel4.com/news/chancel...

Also, it's not volunteering if you're forcing people to do it

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

NEW: Keir Starmer's allies hired private investigators to explore the background of an author of a book on Morgan McSweeney and Labour Together, The National has learned. From Peter Oborne and Richard Sanders in today's National www.thenational.scot/news/2550403...

People in my comments are telling me, a physician and scientist, that we should believe what RFK Jr and DJT said last week about Tylenol because we should believe “scientists.” It makes me wonder: do they even know how to tell if someone is a scientist?

Disobeying a 'lawful' order carries severe penalties. The higher the rank the more is being risked: pension, loss of rank and possible dishonorable discharge. The UCMJ spells our the procedure if an officer/enlisted considers an order illegal.

I immediately thought this shindig is planned as a Musk-style purity test, with all the top brass being offered the choice between: a new 'Trump Oath' of Office putting loyalty and obedience to Donald Trump above & instead of the Constitution, or: a set of pre-filled DD Form 214 Discharge papers.

"no criminal record" there are lots of mandatory refusal reasons for ILR applications already. you even have to list non-criminal fines and penalties alongside any criminal consequences, and have had to do so for years. again: maybe someone could, and should, challenge them on some of this?

I’m having the same problem…who pays? The US distributor? 100% of what exactly? This is even more nonsensical than usual.

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This leaflet was enclosed inside my Labour conference pass envelope. Coincidence? I think not #globalconspiracy