Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ok! Mar-a-Lago

Or he could ask the president.

Just reflexively oppositional, YOU NEGOTIATED THIS DEAL! If you'd not held the election when you did, Rishi would have signed it. YOU WERE IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE AT THE TIME.

This is a huge problem: humans are not wired to cope with this daily torrent of disgust & dismay. It's exhausting & unbalancing. It's tempting just to switch off the news. But that surrenders the political arena - & the lives of all those it affects - to the hooligans & vandals who are trashing it.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.

Which countries could be in Trump's sights after Venezuela? The normalisation of complete and utter insanity at the BBC

I would wager that the actual reason why no prior sitting president has apparently ever taken the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test, is that no prior president or VP since the test's creation in 1996 has ever engaged in behavior that is as suggestive of cognitive impairment as Trump has.

The family court system plays a vital role in tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) so we're calling for investment in, and reform of, the family justice system. Read this excellent write up of our new policy paper in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

Any industry eliminating entry level roles where new, younger employees learn on the job before promotion to more advanced, decision-making roles is sawing through the branch it's sitting on.

80 years since WW2 ended and America and Russia are allies again. This time to bring the Nazis back to power in Germany.

Something is fundamentally wrong with America when millions of dollars can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the respect of your children, the silence of your baby mammas, or a functional penis implant.

A Supreme Court Justice who rules that President Biden can’t forgive student loan debt without an act of Congress, and rules that President Trump and Not An Official Position Musk can cancel any Congressionally-enacted spending they personally dislike, that Justice clearly isn’t ruling based on law.

Wait till the White House starts directing the Marshals Service not to protect judges who rule against the Administration. I’d bet good money that’ll happen at some point.

SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS! THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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It is ALWAYS older men from the business world saying that remote working is a scourge. Fellas, you may have missed your children growing up, but I'd rather not, if it's all the same with you.

No better quote from Merrick Garland summarizes why he was the wrong man for the job than this from his farewell speech. From start to finish, he brought norms to a Trump fight and democracy suffered.

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Positive news never gets a look-in does it?

I can think of no better way to revitalize Britain's flagging economy than by going all in on an enormously expensive technology of doubtful accuracy and reliability, trained on data scraped from the internet without regard to copyright and data protection. What could possibly go wrong?

Telling that Starmer's response focused on the tweets about Jess Phillips rather than himself. Systems and policies matter, but never underestimate the importance of having a genuinely decent human being in charge.

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Sticking this on and missing Mimi 🎄❤️

The criminal court quarterly statistics are (finally) out for July-September and make for really grim reading. www.gov.uk/government/s...

The Family Justice Council (FJC) has published guidance for Family Court judges and those working in the Family Justice System, on responding to allegations of alienating behaviour.   The guidance is snappily entitled ‘Guidance on responding to a... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=29119

Bullies can sense weakness – which is why Labour must not shy away from taking on the global far right | Andy Beckett

There's a big difference between being on the spectrum and being a sociopath

I’m impressed that with all the drinking at FoxNews that goes on these employees were still able to tell it was Pete Hegseth that was the most drunk www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

🔴 Trump's Return & the Farage Blindspot: Dismissing What We Disagree With in the Hope It Will Disappear Isn't the Answer – Reality Proves Otherwise "A Musk-funded Farage as PM? Does that sound outlandish, conspiracist, wild? Sure. That's why we must pay attention to it" @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

What Biden should've done is make his children's existence an official state secret and shoot the first journalist who asks about them. I remain a master strategist.

Another election? Mr Caine is taking the Michael | David Mitchell

Helliwell v Entwistle [2024] EWHC 740 (Fam) and [2024] EWHC 740 (Fam). Francis J. Substantive judgment in ‘paradigm case’ of how not to conduct litigation in a short childless marriage; and the costs judgment. Summary by Rebekah Batt here tinyurl.com/mtv6nsma

Nicholas Allen KC and Andrew Day, alongside Rhys Taylor of 36 Family, are the authors of a new Guide to Neutral Evaluation which has just been issued by the ADR Panel of the Bar Council's Legal Services Committee. www.barcouncilethics.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Pleased to collaborate with @nicholasallen29.bsky.social & @andrewdaylegal.bsky.social to produce this @thebarcouncil.bsky.social guide to private neutral evaluations. They are all the rage in financial remedies & we think might be adopted more widely in other areas. search.app/94KvwZBxwrUm...

"Clarkson could deliver the fatal blow" Especially if you fuck up his sandwich order!

But Emily loved him.

I’m still processing the Nick Cave & TBS show from last week. It was almost transcendent and if I’m still moving with that energy at 67, I’ll be a very lucky man

AI cloning of celebrity voices outpacing the law, experts warn

A lesson for Labour in government. Delivery alone won’t necessarily be enough. The messaging has got to be constant in the face of bad faith attacks from media and opposition

Matt Gaetz as Attorney General is the epitome of trolling. For those who thought he was joking about going after political opponents in the criminal justice system, no one is laughing

I’m intentionally ignoring U.S politics as much as I can, but the appointment of Mike Huckerbee as the Israeli Ambassador is not going to end well for Palestine and the region. Evangelical extremism plugged into the end of days/rapture beliefs.

The U.S election result literally feels like a gut punch. The emblematic democracy of the west has gone. The U.K needs to react accordingly

Pleased to have escaped the fascist hellscape