a) a century is not a long time in the context of the UK parliament and the law b) it's only a century old if you count the 1911 Parliament Act and ignore the 1949 Parliament Act which amended it c) Parliament Acts are established parts of the UK system- reporting them as "old" is a weird framing

Hampstead Ponds will remain inclusive. Our analysis of the judgment.

MOVING: Former hostage Avera Mengistu at his brother’s wedding. Avera, a disabled Ethiopian man, entered Gaza by accident and was held hostage by Hamas for over a decade. Now he is finally back where he belongs: with his family, for the most special moments of their lives 💜

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...

This is the spirit.

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the intimidation and interference at a Berlin polling station from our apartment window above.

BREAKING: The European Union is set to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.

Effective HIV treatment means NO RISK of HIV transmission during sex. We call this Undetectable means Untransmittable or U=U. U=U challenges stigma, reducing barriers to testing and treatment and improving the lives of those of us who live with HIV. Say it loud, like this Taiwanese Hospital.

New: Tesla 4th quarter profit plunges 61% year-over-year; annual profit down 46% the brand damage: -1 million lost vehicle sales, per study -Declining revenue, profits, deliveries in 1st half of '25 -Lower total production/deliveries than '24 -Lost crown as world's leading EV seller wapo.st/3LYTef1

I have done a quick post on Rwanda proceedings against the UK - and below the line(£) I have set out working out as to what Rwanda position is (and a possible UK defence). On the face of it, it is remarkable that UK did not terminate the agreement in time. emptycity.substack.com/p/why-rwanda...

If we held one minute of silence for every Holocaust victim, we would be silent for 11 and a half years. Never again.

NEW Why Rwanda is bringing a legal challenge against the United Kingdom The claim is that the United Kingdom failed to terminate the agreement in time By me - paywall removed: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-rwanda... Includes a possible defence for the government to the claim

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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More than 75% of EU teachers have seen antisemitism in their classrooms, according to UNESCO. Hate speech, including Holocaust denial, is at levels not seen since World War II. Schools must act. A safer world starts in the classroom.

BREAKING: In a new post, Trump again threatens the Islamic Republic in Iran to stop the killing and negotiate a deal. The US president says, like with Venezuela, the US armada heading toward Iran is “ready, willing and able to rapidly fulfill its mission with speed and violence”

Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here. What he said was fine. Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough. I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.

81 years later, the Jewish population still hasn't returned to pre-Holocaust levels. Let that sink in. We mourn not only the lives lost, but the family trees severed for good.

Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.

A journalist investigating what’s been officially described as the “harmful pseudo-science” of “parental alienation syndrome” has been allowed unprecedented access to expert reports provided by a clinical psychologist in four family cases. rozenberg.substack.com/p/a-window-w...

The Criminal Cases Review Commission has asked the appeal courts to consider the cases of five men who are still serving indefinite prison sentences for offences committed as long as 20 years ago. The offenders were under 21 when convicted in separate cases. rozenberg.substack.com/p/new-hope-f...

I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do.

Uh oh. Repeatedly asked by the Today programme, the First Minister of Wales won’t say whether or not Keir Starmer is a good Prime Minister. “Keir Starmer is not on the ballot paper”, Eluned Morgan will only say.

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

Keep in mind that after the killing of Renee Good, Trump went out and egged on ICE to be a force for "RECKONING AND RETRIBUTION" in Minnesota. It was no accident that Alex Pretti was executed, it was almost inevitable because of Trump's actions. He is to blame, no one else.

Sina Haghshenas, 27, a florist from Gorgan in northern Iran, was killed by security forces during the protests. In a final act of defiance against the regime, his family danced at his funeral. The courage and resilience of Iranians are truly remarkable.

Terrorists in Gaza are killing their own people. If the world cared about Palestinians even half as much as it hates Jews, it would condemn Hamas and PIJ instead of looking the other way.

I know we're all bored with the Tim Robinson "man in a hotdog suit" meme now but I honestly don't know how else we're going to describe Reform's next election campaign.

This headline is completely false. Hamas did not return anything. It took months, and intel from an Islamic Jihad terrorist, but the IDF found Ran themselves. Why did Sky News Australia feel the need to give kudos to Hamas?

More photos from the return of fallen hero Ran Gvili, z"l, from Gaza to Israel yesterday. We wish the end had been different. All of Israel was waiting for Ran to come home 🇮🇱

We finally got gun-control.

Hamas captivity survivor Elkana Bohbot removes his wife’s necklace symbolizing the fight for the hostages. The endless nightmare ended. It still doesn’t even feel real.

HORRIFIC: Testimonies from Iran reveal that wounded Iranians are being placed in body bags and left for dead in morgues, simply for daring to protest against the regime. No one can fully grasp the scale of the massacre currently unfolding in Iran. USE YOUR VOICE. SPEAK UP NOW.

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

Today at 5:30, after 844 days, the clock at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv will finally stop counting. It took over 20,200 hours, more than 1.2 million minutes, and around 73 million seconds, but all the hostages are finally home. Now Israel can begin to heal.

All eyes are now on the judicial review, brought by the @goodlawproject.bsky.social, on the EHRC's hasty actions in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling It's striking to me that this shift is happening before that significant ruling 👇

A year after her release from captivity, Hamas survivor Agam Berger played her violin for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This isn’t just music. It’s the sound of Jewish resilience.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

The hallowed legal principle of FAFO.

This development would've been extraordinary, especially coming from Chief Judge Schiltz, even *before* last week's contretemps over DOJ's (now-dropped) attempt to strong-arm him into signing arrest warrants for the other five Cities Church protestors. Schiltz isn't just talking about *this* case.

👀 Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appeal personally in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders. “The court’s patience is at an end.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge says ICE has been violating court orders repeatedly — detaining noncitizens or rushing them to Texas despite judges' commands. He wants ICE's director to answer for it "personally," and could level contempt sanctions. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

“The 6 million people murdered by the Nazi regime”. Only the BBC could manage to erase Jews from Holocaust Memorial Day. Waiting for yet another apology… 3, 2, 1 action! 🎬

today is #HolocaustMemorialDay. Here is Dr Jacob Bronowski at Auschwitz in episode 11 of the Ascent of Man (1973) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltjI...

To put the magnitude of the Holocaust in perspective, there are five billion more people alive today than there were in 1939, but two million fewer Jews.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Well.

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.