Huh so it turns out that it is possible for amateurs to score a tennis point against the best pros. I always said, I'd never have the skill, but they can always make a mistake. www.skysports.com/tennis/news/...

Swapping his Sandals for Jackboots ?

Remarkable that these people apparently want to trumpet the UK’s independence while appearing to wish that Germany had successfully annexed it in 1940

I find this surprising. The Israeli team's fans have a well documented history of causing trouble. Just last month they were fined & had a (suspended) fan ban imposed by UEFA following trouble by their supporters. Residents of Brum shouldn't have to put up with them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

Carter-Ruck solicitor seeking £1M from SRA who say this would have a "chilling" effect on its work. Good! A chilling effect would be a good thing. They can't charge solicitors incredible fees and then complain when the same thing bites them in the arse. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/carter-...

David Lammy wants the mags to pick up the Crown Court's slack. I made an application to adjourn my mags court hearing today and was told that, if successful, the next available traffic court slot would be October! Yes, I know the CC isn't hearing traffic cases, but it's the same mags, staff etc.

You can always tell that somebody loves the UK when they us famous symbols associated with other countries as their emblem.

Gotta love the mags. Hardship to avoid totting up ban. Refused an app to adjourn to allow me to gather more evidence, saying that they don't need to hear anything more than what D has to say. Then refused my application saying they hadn't had any evidence from people who might be harmed!

I remain of the view that the UK is ungovernable. The alternatives to Starmer are a hard right drunk, who has never delivered on anything, yet manages to pick up the 30% of racist Britons with his “immigrants to blame” card, and a left wing idealist who tells his 20% what they want to hear. /1

In the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement with Denmark, the US unambiguously recognized ‘the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark’ over Greenland.

It won't, because delays aren't caused by juries and the proposals won't fix a crumbling criminal justice system. But who are they speaking to?! What imaginary voter wants to give up a core civic right, held for centuries, for the promise of jam in a decade? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

I think this is very poorly misunderstood. The reason why the 'the UK, a dangerous crimehole' stuff matters is that people in other countries who might invest in the UK see it online and believe it, not because the electoral constituency for it is particularly large or significant.

Do courts bother to consider applications to vacate hearings any more? I've had multiple cases where we've applied to change a hearing date, chased the court multiple times, but no response has been received and no decision has been made by the time of the hearing.

What's genuinely fascinating is how immune she is to any sort of internal reflection.

kemi badenoch has just discovered [checks notes] population density

A Tory spokesperson goes in two-footed: "Reform is fast becoming the party of has-been politicians looking for their next gravy train. Their latest recruit used to say he'd be 'frightened to live in a country' run by Nigel Farage, which shows the level of loyalty for sale."

And Sarah Sackman has already undermined Lammy's reasoning - they would do this even with zero backlog. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ministe...

Great! Now show us the evidence. Because so far you’ve point blank refused. Which some might think looks a little suspicious.

Keir Starmer's spokesman says X limiting deep fake images to paid users "simply turns a feature that allows the creation of unlawful images into a premium service. It's not a solution.. it's insulting the victims of misogyny and sexual violence." Still won't commit to a ban or to stop posting there

Look at this. Uproar over Elon Musk's Grok AI because of nude photos And what does this bastard do! He's restricting the taking of such photos to paying users so he can get even richer. Big middle finger 🖕 to everyone, damn it. Shitkicker Musk

Turner/Constable exhibit. Only painting behind perspex so that you cant see it properly because of the reflection. A condition imposed by the gallery lending to the Tate. Presumably, other galleries are now refusing to lend at all. Thanks a lot Just Stop Oil.

Exclusive: I obtained testimony from the Dec. trial where Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, describes an incident in June where he smashed a car window, is dragged 100 yards, and tased a Guatemalan man 10 times. "I feared for my life," he said.

just done a pre-rec for the BBC World Service (think it was for Newshour, which goes out at 2) on the response to Grok's appalling AI images. Feel really strongly that governments, institutions and businesses should come off X now: it's crossed a red line; there's no value there for them.

Jesus the guy's such a loser. It's amazing that he can somehow combine being the most powerful man on earth with being an actual billionaire and yet still be a complete loser. Remarkable skill there.

Dear USA. After every school shooting you've been wanging on about your constitutional "right to bear arms" to keep your guns. That "right to bear arms" was to protect yourselves from a tyrannical government. That day has arrived. Where the fuck are the 400 million guns now eh? Late to every war.

For the first time in months, my inbox is completely clear!!! Give it two minutes though and I'm sure it'll fill back up.

I don't think the New York Post has quite worked out the problem with its own position. First, whether she was part of ICE Watch is irrelevant to whether it is okay for the government to murder her. Secondly, the fact that she was murdered by ICE clearly indicates they are a group who need watching!

It’s worth asking: what would be too much for these people? What would they not be willing to do, if this is fine. And the answer, realistically, is “nothing, all is terribly possible”.

Ironically, I think the government's recent Internet Safety Act makes this harder since so many people are now using VPNs that even if X were blocked in the UK it would affect almost nobody.

banning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world this is not a difficult call to make

Sometimes I can't help but scream at my computer when I read evidence. I have a one page statement in front of me. It details a PACE interview for a drunk in charge of a car allegation in which D sets out a defence clear as day. The officer then concludes that D "raised no defences to the offence."

A coup from within or CIA bullshit? I'd have thought that if this were true then Trump would be bragging about how he was so clever etc etc.

To be clear: if there is a clear breach of international law, someone responds by stating they support international law and you then claim that person is thereby explicitly supporting the action, you either lack comprehension or are being disingenuous for clicks. Neither is serious. Both weary.

Some facts: Trump says Maduro has emptied the prisons and "insane asylums" of Venezuela and those people have come into the USA. There is no evidence whatsoever to support this claim. There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that Trump thinks "asylum seeker" means someone who was in an asylum.

US Counter-narcotics agencies confirm that Venezuela is a very minor player in the drug trade. Colombia produces almost all of the cocaine that enters the USA. Mexico produces almost all of the Fentanyl smuggled into the USA. Almost all these drugs come by land NOT small boats in the Carribean.

This government U turns more than Alexander de Pfeffel Johnson did when he was Prime Minister. www.ft.com/content/cb5d...

So according to the Epstein files, Trump may have witnessed the victim's uncle murdered her newborn baby ad then dumped it into a lake. One, Hell is too good for either shits. Two, way to go pro-lifers, he's your guy. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... #Epsteinfiles

Set myself a goal to get all the duolingo badges for 2025. Much to my surprise I just managed it!!!

Among other things, they put you in a wheelchair basically regardless of what your mobility issue is. But more importantly: something odd and troubling is happening, so much 'disabled people are faking it!' stuff in the air.

I've been asked to witness a contact remotely, without seeing the parties sign. Has anyone come across this? I don't see how i can be a witness if I haven't seen the document being signed. Any ideas?

The Dems have a new batch of Epstein estate photos - not the stuff DOJ is supposed to release by tomorrow - and it includes photos of lines from Lolita written on a girl’s body. www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cl62l...

Couple of years ago the Labour Party conference accreditation featured HRH as an option which, well.

When I was applying for pupillage, the drop down included "Lord Chief Justice", which seemed unlikely to be necessary.

Maybe you have to be American to understand, but I honestly have no idea whether Americans are more likely to prefer cats or unicorns? I mean cats are annoying little pricks, but unicorns have a big horn that'll take your eye out and I bet they'd do enormous shits all over the living room.

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Alright, this is an interesting theory. I've no idea if it's true; but, Trump is incapable of not bragging about things he builds. If it were a data centre I'm sure it would be "a big beautiful data centre.. probably the biggest one out there". Also, why under the WH? Seems a daft place for it.

Lots of complaints about this, but claims like "they got things wrong" and a "performer using a cucumber in a very provocative manner," makes me wonder if this was their first panto! BBC News - Audiences walk out on 'awful' Christmas show www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...