"on a technicality" Not really. A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge. Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

This cries out for a criminal investigation, either by Police or the Local Trading Standards service. The tribunal view does not prevent this happening.

I see the CPS is desperately trying to repair the damage. The claim that their clear errors were down to "changes in definitions" is a lie. Journalists should treat any new estimates with appropriate scepticism. archive.ph/JSo7O#select...

This is chilling.

"cheap foreign labour" is just the ugliest, nastiest phrase.

So, THIS is happening "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment. (tk u @robin.berjon.com)

Don’t listen to #RFKJr. Vaccinate your infants and children. 🧪 #MedSky

George Harrison 1970 Watch out now Take care, beware of greedy leaders They take you where you should not go

A young musician close to me, who had moved from being part time to self employed to full time self employed some months prior to the pandemic, was consequently locked out of support on Sunak’s bizarre claim that to do otherwise would enable fraud. His income dropped to £22 a week. I’m angry.

Me on Hillsborough Law. mailchi.mp/theanfieldwr...

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Because the minister's real answer - the one she simply cannot give - is "Susannah, Richard. We didn't care because you didn't care".

This is becoming a regular thing - the United States murdering suspects rather than letting due process occur. Utterly lawless and likely to encourage other states to discard all established norms of legal interdiction in favour of executions.

I think that you think that 'racist intimidation, calls for ethnic violence and police assault' requires a 'measured response' and not unequivocal condemnation is evidence that you have outsourced your morality to your partisanship.

Suggestion for any parliamentarians who see this. Put down a PQ to the Cabinet Office to ask them if an assessment has been made of whether use of X is compatible with GCS propriety rules, the Civil Service Code and the PSED. And if not, why not.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

In a showpiece event they have been trailing for weeks, with the added publicity boost of this week's murder in the USA (which was all over British social media) they still couldn't get more numbers than Trans Pride. Not only are they smaller than Palestinian solidarity marches...

The people marching in London today are very obviously the ideological descendants of the Mosleyite BUF fascists of the 1930s. The mainstream news and media are too timid to point it out, but that's what they are - and we normalise it at our peril.

In 1984 over drinks in Leipzig I asked a 25 year old East German friend did he think his country would ever reunify? “I hope so” he answered. “I think so. But probably not in my lifetime.”

Worth catching up on and quite funny @josephinequinn.bsky.social (and others) on Hannibal

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

Not asking for his name here but is this young bloke known ? He presumably lives in Norwich like I do and I’d rather like to buy him a pint and check he’s OK, and shake his hand

Re: thugs chasing a man who dared to voice an opinion they didn’t like. Reclaim the streets from racist louts and reclaim the public sphere from their apologists.

Love how he just didn’t give her a chance to a spout A Line about keeping politics out if the arts (as if!) or whatever.

Here’s a short poem called ‘On Falling for a Meteorologist’.

Timeline cleanse

I honestly am beginning to question the power of "Big Pharma."

Angela Rayner’s statement will be of real interest to Family Lawyers. The arrangement she reached with her ex husband sound towards the complex end of what we normally encounter with the combination of a nesting arrangement & various trusts. I really hope the tax implications were not simply missed.

Ten years ago today. A moment of horror, and a moment of hope that Western electorates and state might get past cruelty and indifference and actually live up to their moral obligations. And now, most of our citizens just don't care

This should not be the last we hear of this. Relevant AG guidance (www.gov.uk/government/n...) was published within weeks of him being selected to fight the by-election that got this solicitor in to Parliament. Incredibly irresponsible from the shadow Justice (!) secretary, as Liam says.

Has the “time for simple humanity” passed, Keir?

is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?

I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children. They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.

DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.

Just out on my latest Substack, reflections on @josephinequinn.bsky.social 's brilliant How the World Made the West. Profoundly trashing, in best possible way, with mountains of evidence, claims of “Western civilisation”. Or any distinct civilisation nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...

A social member of US society with a moral right to political membership. Arguments about "birthright citizenship" in the US shouldn't obscure claims of others who were not born in US. (Ditto, for UK, many stigmatized as "foreign criminals" and fast-tracked for deportation are social members.)

A universe of weird cults, obscurantist religions, meaningless violence and eldritch abominations from distant places, and the right still gets fewer people to turn out than a Warhammer event.

The laziness and implied bias of the BBC here is extreme - "No 10 did not comment" presumably because the CPS and courts are independent, but there's no attempt to find anyone who would argue the opposite view, just the unchallenged whine of someone who called for asylum seekers to be burnt to death

Legal hivemind: Has anybody ever encountered this in a targeted consultation? Any case law welcome! In calculating the majority for or against the proposal, any (person) not responding either way within the consultation period as outlined below will be assumed to be in favour of the proposed change

lol the far right are kicking offff about me today, my days! GBNews &Guido have both even written up little articles about how unfair it all is that I am allowed to speak up for the decent people of this country on TV😭 No one tell them I'll be on BBC again this afternoon & GMB in the morning 🤫😉

This is all becoming very dangerous and the Government's failure to show any kind of resistance to it is a disgrace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

This is literally sending loyal paramilitaries to intimidate a political opponent and their supporters. We’ve heard ‘we’re just here to provide security & reassure people’ before and it ended with countries in ruins and millions dead. Lads, lasses, it could hardly be clearer. It’s happening now.

This is such a bad bit of sophistry. I despise racism, xenophobia, intolerance, the scapegoating of minorities, authoritarianism, and lies *because* they harm my fellow countryfolk. If you choose to support & enable these I will think you’re a cunt. Choose not to, or to stop doing so, and I won’t.

Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

FFS. He didn't "kick off". It's not a "jibe". He said, with dignity and restraint, what we were all thinking - that Al-Obeid didn't just "die" - he, like tens of thousand of other innocent civilians, was killed by Israel as part of its ongoing programme of ethnic cleansing.

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

Wow. Bonjour Hugo!

Mo Salah is asking the right questions