I remember when Columbia exploded during Sunday morn cartoons. This is too much stress.

Dazibao writer commits ideological errors; is subject to cadre re-education efforts.

The British government just lost its case to deport Chagossians from their homeland. Read this and tell me that they should not be thoroughly ashamed.

Karl Turner is an infinitely better lawyer and MP than Sir Keir Starmer.

I currently live with someone who is dying of stage 4 brain cancer. People who resort to emotional blackmail like Mr Stanley can fuck off (no points for the block either).

I'm happy he hasn't abolished the common law in Lower Canada yet

Devastating dunk if modern medicine allowed you to predict whether someone has six months or less to live with any confidence.

If she wasn't disabled would you feel the same way or would you want to get her help?

The Maldives are officially opposed to the Chagos surrender deal. Take that, British global standing! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good. A dreadful bill full of holes that would have endangered disabled people and those vulnerable to coercion. Am so proud of every MP and peer who stood firm and continued to raise their concerns in the face of smears and intimidation.

Since we are making demands, MPs who support assisted suicide must state precisely how many deaths due to coercion they consider acceptable. 100? 1,000? A year?

I don’t think I quite agree with all of this, but I do agree with a lot of it. I agree that *some* Supreme Court judgments before Reed’s presidency were hard to understand and defend legally, and I think he’s made it more legally impressive and harder to criticise legally speaking. I am a fan.

Lord Reed will retire from the post of President of the Supreme Court. Here is my writeup of his career, for The Critic Magazine: thecritic.co.uk/the-man-who-...

Noelia Castillo Ramos has died.

The Spanish state failed this rape victim. So it will help her to kill herself instead. There are no depths to this horror. news.sky.com/story/gang-r...

Can't have a settlement if you keep killing Iran's leadership...

The Government of Alberta has introduced Bill 18, which aims to clamp down on the open-ended expansion of MAiD in Canada, which the federal government has condoned. It's an excellent bill full of common-sense provisions. Thread:

Just checking on this

Wonderful news from Scotland. So many congratulations to my colleagues campaigning against assisted dying who never gave up.

This is such poor, desperate, spin. The bill passed stage 1 with a large margin and it has been defeated in stage 3 with an equally big margin. It is almost if scrutiny kills assisted suicide! bsky.app/profile/paul...

Over 100 MPs, Mayor of London, trade unions and others want a rethink An intervention tomorrow from Bishops, Rabbis & Imams: a Labour government is not doubling but *quadrupling* the settlement wait for those granted refugee status, tripling it for many workers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Good for Rayner. Glad to see someone in the party stand up against what I agree is ‘un-British’ - changing the rules arbitrarily on people who made big life commitments. It’s about keeping your word.

The Scottish assisted suicide bill is defeated! 57 to 69. This is a great day for human dignity in Scotland but also everywhere in the world.

You can get away with criticising Ibrahim X Kendi in the New York Times nowadays. Maybe peak woke is truly over.

TIL Newfoundland and Labrador still gives government staff a holiday on The Twelfth (that's the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne).

To my Scottish followers particularly: tomorrow the Scottish Parliament is having its last vote on the McArthur bill to legalise assisted suicide. The outcome will depend on a few MSPs. Please let them know what you think.

Yes.

To my Scottish followers particularly: tomorrow the Scottish Parliament is having its last vote on the McArthur bill to legalise assisted suicide. The outcome will depend on a few MSPs. Please let them know what you think.

For eight millions Indians, Paul Ehrlich meant forced sterilization.

"The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate..." Paul Ehrlich.

It's ghastly that this needs to be said. It's even ghastlier that there are those who won't heed it.

I spoke to @henrymance.ft.com at the @financialtimes.com on the Chagos deal. It's a reasonably fair piece which pushes back against the most absurd claims by Philippe Sands even if I don't agree with his conclusion (the deal is the lesser of two evils). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Classic Maugham. Bollocks.

The hereditary peers provided a very useful foil for the House of Lords's life peers. Once the dukes and earls are gone, people are going to wonder what the likes of Ann Limb and Matthew Doyle have done to deserve seats in the upper house.

The bill to expel the remaining hereditary peers has passed. Instead we will have the likes of the Labour life peer who lied about her academic qualifications and the Labour life peer who defended a paedophile because he was a political ally. And that is just in the most recent peerage list.

Has David Lammy explained why he u-turned on juries, an institution he lovingly defended in the Lammy Review on the criminal justice system not five seconds ago?

Distressing to hear that the government has tried to muzzle the Society of Labour Lawyers over the issue of jury trials. The Society of Conservative Lawyers would not hear of such nonsense if the Tories had tried.

Personally, I think it's bad to coerce people to kill themselves.

Thanks, Yuan. Here is Lord Sumption's response, by the way www.ft.com/content/0061...

I spoke to @henrymance.ft.com at the @financialtimes.com on the Chagos deal. It's a reasonably fair piece which pushes back against the most absurd claims by Philippe Sands even if I don't agree with his conclusion (the deal is the lesser of two evils). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

When I teach the session on the laws of armed conflict I begin by telling my students that LOAC does not forbid killing in wartime. It is a surprisingly overlooked and widely misunderstood point.

One prominent source of misinformation is prominent academics who stray outside their lane of expertise. Your stuff on the politics of geography might be elite level, but your understanding of the law of armed conflict still sucks.

Warships are rarely unarmed, and even if they are unarmed they are still subject to attack as they are valid targets. I know it's not pretty but that's what war is like.

The law concerning the legality of a given war and the laws governing the practice of war are separate. There is a good reason for this. Even if the war itself is illegal, the combatants still have to obey the laws of war.

Under the Treaty of Guarantee of 1960 the United Kingdom pledged to ”guarantee the independence, territorial integrity, and security of Cyprus”. But now it cannot even defend its Sovereign Base Areas let alone the entire island of Cyprus.

You are telling me than an austere religious scholar is dead?

Quick can someone call the Board of Peace?

It occurs to me that Iran having attacked Jordan unprovoked their right to self-defence kicks in, alongside collective self-defence.