In charge of food at this Woodcraft camp and one of our 7 year old campers is calling for smoked tofu ❤️

Not sure if this is one of my most rightwing or my most leftwing takes, but if you believe there is such a thing as “excessive profits” in a sector you really should just go ahead and insource the service you’re paying for:

7. These trends are connected. Record revocations displace workers, tighter rules close the front door, and trebled fines punish employers at either end. What the government has not published is any data on what happens to the workers caught in the middle.

Long thread alert 🧵 1. Work visas are down 59% from their December 2023 peak, but the headline figure masks far more dramatic collapses at sector and nationality level. We've looked at what the latest statistics and transparency data reveal.

Call on (Irish) political elite to stop normalising racism

big turnout calling for justice for Yves Sakila, killed in Dublin

Also (and cf competency-based assessment) the people who are very good at working out how to make a case that they have the competency/perform well aren’t necessarily the ones who have the competency/perform well.

Uh.....Cuba is famously 90 miles from NATO.

The lawyers I know who use AI a lot, use several providers.

Can confirm

History in real time! Delighted to contribute a chapter (on immigration policy) to this. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/keir-star...

I’m not saying this to be dismissive of the impact of tHe gUiDaNcE on trans people but this is a win for the religious and far right. They know they can steal hard won rights now. So unless you’re a cishet white man, you’re up next, it’s just a matter of time (and we should still care when it’s

“Providing” me with a separate gender neutral toilet is not respectful or dignified, it is humiliating, degrading, discriminating and denies my very being. I am a woman and forcing me to pretend i’m not for bigotry’s sake is fucking egregious

12/ 🇳🇱 ⚖️ This case is based on the Dutch duty of care rooted in the Dutch civil liability law requiring that while private parties can pursue their own interests, they must take the interest of others into account. 👉 The duty of care sets boundaries preventing inconsiderate pursue of profits.

7/ We then turn to what is at the core of the case: the company recognizes climate change, but yet denies that it is legally required to take action of its own... Yet the CO2 emissions attributable to Shell's conduct are higher than those of any individual State except for the four largest emitters…

⚖️ 🌍 ⚡ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 🇳🇱 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞: 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, @milieudefensie.bsky.social et al. v. Shell. #ClimateJustice #ClimateCaseShell 🧵 ⬇️ analysis in thread below

The Labour government has just further emboldened the worst people on the planet to intimidate, harass and threaten any woman they see in a toilet who doesn't meet their weird standards of femininity. The most transphobic government the UK has ever had.

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

The whole point of protection of rights to belief was originally created out of a need to prevent persecution of religious and philosophical minorities, such as committed pacifists being pressed at gunpoint to become soldiers or people being victimised by state enforced religion.

If I'm honest. The reason why I think gender critical belief was allowed to become a protected belief is that it is the default belief of the patriarchal cisgender citizen. And one of the reasons why it shouldn't be protected is default beliefs (ie prejudices) have plenty of protection already.

Tip No 1 reminds me how HARD I found it to write documents that were simultaneously intended to appeal to different managers with very different priorities / knowledge / etc

I’ve managed to turn 1 blog post into 6 so now i have to scale back and figure out wtf im on about

Some questions for Sophie Corcoran: - if you applied to 10000 Interns for Barrister experience, why aren't you describing yourself as an aspiring barrister? - are you doing the GDL next year? Your degree isn't in law. - why no posts about your interest in law? - or was this all to wreck the scheme?!

Unnerving to me that literal MPs do not see why “security vetting gets a veto on whether elected MPs should take their seats” is not a good idea.

me, receiving too many emails: leave me alone me, not receiving any emails: have I been forgotten?

National law in the UK? The relevant EU law requires the employer of irregular migrant employees to pay their back pay.

Alternative headline: UK GETS TURBORACIST - STILL DOESN'T MAKE RACISTS HAPPY

Worth noting perception gap - people do not realise immigration started falling from the peak levels - does not prevent most people maintaining 'balancer' attitudes Support for reducing overall numbers is 55% would (40% would not) while majorities would prefer not to reduce work or study visas

*Taps screen open.substack.com/pub/saturday...

This would be a pointless and vindictive move which would shame those who propose it for the rest of their careers.

Fantastic photos here

Some children - up to the age of 15 - to travel for free on some buses in England over the summer. Why not all children all of the time and on all buses? Like pensioners?

This headline is fuel for the right-wing anti-migrant reaction machine, but the article reveals the employer knowingly brought her to the UK under a visitor visa to employ her, then denied her a work permit—and most importantly!—refused to pay her any wages. This looks approximate to modern slavery

Iran takes US to international tribunal over ongoing war insights.doughtystreet.co.uk/post/102mvbu...

Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader sentenced ‌to 22 years for seditious conspiracy over the January 6, 2021 riot, said he planned to apply to the Trump administration's $1.776 billion 'weaponization' fund, assuming he could get between $2 million and $5 million reut.rs/43mKggy

Most of Britain thinks net migration is still rising — when it has actually fallen by more than three-quarters From our new 2026 @britishfuture.bsky.social study of public attitudes to immigration, published online here www.britishfuture.org/britain-thin...

BREAKING: Sen. Ed Markey calls for Trump's impeachment.

🔥 the 🇺🇳 UN General Assembly is about to be called upon to #VoteYesForClimateJustice as it considers an important resolution tabled by 🇻🇺 Vanuatu (and others) to welcome and build upon the historic #ClimateJustice ruling by the 🌐 ⚖️ International Court of Justice! 🧵⬇️ follow proceedings in thread below

How can Reeves and Starmer present themselves as the adults in the room after this?

Just how much were those Celtic fans celebrating after Saturday to get *this* lost?

This would mean shoppers buying other items would subsidise essentials, because supermarkets would raise prices to protect margins. Which is not terrible but it's more efficient to raise Universal Credit www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“Lecka, 23, was jailed for eight years last September but was deported to Poland in February after serving 14 months… parents… are now calling for child abusers, and other serious offenders, to be ineligible for early release”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Merkel is the last person to consult on Putin. For decades she underestimated him. (She may be one of the few real leaders Europe has had, but she just has this one wrong.)

“Being undetectable and unaffected by HIV for more than four decades has often felt like running naked through a house on fire – and somehow not getting burnt.” Worth reading

also just going to say that I'd put a medium amount of money on Trump thinking he could trust Ahmadinejad bc he tends to wear western style clothing. do i have anything beyond a gut feeling. no. but.

Two GOP-backed justices prevailed in today's supreme court elections in Georgia. No sitting justice has lost reelection here in over a century, but a pair of liberal attorneys had aimed for an upset by stressing the role of state courts. NEW in Bolts:

Hi, tax law professor here. Trump and sons are NOT exempt forever (or anytime) from tax audits. Writing these words on paper signed by Todd Blanche doesn't make it a thing. In fact, I'm absolutely certain they'll all be audited in the future.

Brussels to finalise tougher migrant returns and costly detention centres outside EU

All right, let’s keep the pretentious train going: Everything once in a while, read a book from somebody you disagree with. You will: A: learn better how your enemy thinks B: Be more equipped to intellectually defeat them C: (my favorite) Feel better about yourself knowing your enemy is trash.

Doing social movements in tutorials this week. Have been finishing my presentations with a stupid meme most weeks, but this week, somewhat self-indulgently, they can have an awful picture of 16yo me off to my first protest (a Stop the War one in 2007ish).