UK Ministers to weaken proposed cap on corporate political donations. A profit-related or £100,000 cap means that the rich can buy political parties, power, influence; won't check political corruption. Must ban political donations. Let parties be funded by membership fees archive.ph/vKn6e

Watch Law Professor Segall for an always great take on the US Supreme Court and its impact on life across the US and if you live outside the US, watch too - and think about how your Supreme Court may well be doing the same to your laws & politics present or future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNHM...

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

The Sen. Kennedy + @wyden.senate.gov Open Courts Act now has a bill number: S. 4667. Text here www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/_cach... + Fix the Court reaction (we like it!) here: fixthecourt.com/2026/06/fix-...

More news on the satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagle that 'disappeared' on a grouse shooting estate in the North York Moors National Park. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/06/03/m...

#NaturesRights - yes they are urgently needed www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Say what now?

Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissent of the 3 Liberal Justices, Allows Alabama to Use Maps that a Lower Court Found to Be Intentionally Discriminating Against Black Voters (Now Updated with Analysis–This is a Significant and Very Bad Ruling) electionlawblog.org?p=156541

Data Centre developers claim the 'monster' data centre will be a £2bn investment in Scottish economy, 145 long-term jobs & £12m for Borders a year - same old PR .. local politics & deals in the Borders is well dodgy - shut up & don’t make a fuss or else .. 🤝🤑 www.thenational.scot/news/2615707...

British politics just lurches from one screaming fit to another. Politicians have no ideas, policies or vision but they brim with hatred, resentment and spite. I truly believe we’d be better ruled by lottery. Pull the names of 1000 citizens out of a hat and let them rule. It can’t be worse than this

Wow. A convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioter has been hired to work in a Pentagon office that handles classified military information. Elias Irizarry was hired to work in the DOD’s Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, and internal alarms are going off. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

A lot can change in a month. When Toto arrived at our Ithumba Reintegration Unit on 20 April, he was overwhelmed. Two trusted Keepers, Sammy and Lekoli, stayed on to help him settle. By the end of the month, he was the one leading the group home. Hands up if you remember Toto's rescue?

Former UK technology secretary Peter Kyle agreed to include “more positive language about artificial intelligence” in a speech last year on the advice of Lord Peter Mandelson, co-founder of an advisory firm that worked for OpenAI and Palantir www.ft.com/content/1b3e...

A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability. www.wired.com/story/uk-gov...

BLANCHE: Who the president chooses to pardon is not a problem, period IVEY: What's the legal basis for that statement? BLANCHE: The Constitution IVEY: The Constitution does not give him the authority to pardon in exchange for payments. It does not permit bribery

Wyden and Kennedy introduced a bill to modernize PACER

NEW: Imagine saving 12 years for your dream home, only for oily black water to surge through the foundation overnight. This is the reality for one Oklahoma family. Watch their story in “Toxic Ground,” a documentary from @readfrontier.bsky.social and ProPublica:

This is a historic moment: the first time the rights of Nature have entered the UK parliamentary process. The Bill recognises Nature as a legal subject, reorders the hierarchy of rights, creates a duty of care towards Nature and embeds Nature’s rights into UK decision-making across all sectors.

The most important cases yet to be decided

Local news reporting from the Border Telegraph in the Scottish Borders on Roxburghe Estates & the Duke of Roxburghe's Monster Data Centre plan for Longformacus www.bordertelegraph.com/news/2615347...

'Monster' Data Centre for Scottish Borders plans by Roxburghe Estates & landowner Duke of Roxburghe Campaigners said "We believe that the data centre will be a monster, consuming vast resources of electricity, and draining the life and beauty from the landscape .." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office scandal victims. 7 schemes. £1.5bn paid from public purse, could hit £3.5bn. Zero contribution by Fujitsu, PO execs, lawyers, accountants, advisers, other perpetrators. No one charged for false criminal convictions.

What I'm covering today: A federal judge in Boston will hear a bid by Democratic-led states and voting rights groups to block U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order aiming ​to tighten rules for mail-in voting. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Young White-tailed Eagle 'disappears' from grouse shooting estate in North York Moors National Park. Police think its disappearance is 'suspicious'. No shit. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/06/01/y...

There’s no one more motivated to achieve meaningful solutions, than someone working to correct injustices they personally experienced. 💪 Happy 4th 🎂birthday, @thelap.bsky.social ! 🎉 youtube.com/shorts/4e56g...

Not content with the unprecedented act of economic self-harm that was Brexit, Nigel Farage’s party now wants to kill this off too, and a million jobs with it.

Reeves examines using private sector funds to build new towns. It is PFI renamed as public-private partnerships (PPP). The state guarantees corporate profits for decades. £1 private investment results in £6 govt repayment. Cheaper for govt to borrow. It can issue public bonds.

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

Let’s put debating on the Scottish school curriculum We all worry about the decline in critical thinking and the refusal to accept differing opinions, across all generations - so why not equip our children with the tools needed to be rational in the age of unreason? In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Life is built on cooperation, not competition. Including some of the most beautiful. So much to #unlearn www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why Farage's 'White Lives Matter' speech and Reform's increasingly desperate descent into explicitly far-right rhetoric is a sign of the party's growing fears that their time at the top of British politics may soon be coming to an end bylinetimes.com/2026/06/02/n...

Cartoonist: Rick McKee

Farage engaging in precisely the form of shit-stirring that Henry Nowak’s family implored politicians to avoid.

'Monster' Data Centre for Scottish Borders plans by Roxburghe Estates & landowner Duke of Roxburghe Campaigners said "We believe that the data centre will be a monster, consuming vast resources of electricity, and draining the life and beauty from the landscape .." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On 22 July 2025, while serving as ambassador to US, Mandelson emailed Starmer’s chief-of-staff Morgan McSweeney to ask whether the prime minister would like to meet Peter Thiel while the Palantir chair was in the UK. Palantir was a major client of Global Counsel, in which Mandelson owned a 21% stake

"It's dead for now," a senior administration source said. Scoop by @marcacaputo.bsky.social: Trump Admin Plans to Drop "Weaponization" Fund Pro tip on the law: This should not stop Judge Williams looking into whether a fraud was committed on the court.

BREAKING: we are NOT accepting media reports as proof that the $1.8B slush fund & "settlements" associated with it are dead That's why we @democracydefendersfund.org have just filed a new lawsuit to make sure this ENDS --on behalf of former J6 prosecutors with Platkin LLP, WLG & Heaphy Smith

Cartoon by Steve Breen

Catching the people illegally killing Britain's birds of prey - BBC film goes behind the scenes with RSPB Investigations team. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/06/01/c...

Happy 4th birthday to @thelap.bsky.social!

Clearly Meta co-founder Mark Zuckerberg (or his lawyers) know nothing of the Streisand effect.

#PalantirOut We know how President Trump will weaponise any tool he can lay his hands on www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The rule of law isn't just about statutes and courts—it’s about the fundamental promise of equal protection under the law. ​

Exciting update! Nikai is officially back on our webcams.🐺🎉Over the past couple of months Nikai's enclosure received several modifications and he is now settling into his new space with a den, pond and plenty of space to explore! 🎥Stay up to date live: https://nywolf.org/meet-our-wolves/webcams/

The tiny Danish island of Bornholm was the site of one of the world’s first offshore wind turbines back in the 1940s. Now its citizens claim Scotland can learn from their fight to build one of the largest community wind farms ever. https://bit.ly/4dCLJFA

The gamebird shooting industry argues that the RSPB persecution data are misleading. But a closer look demonstrates that it's the shooting industry that's misunderstood & misrepresented the figures! #SchoolboyError Details⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/05/29/s...

Well, well, well. It looks like the judge in the case agreed there was a real prospect of fraud on the court, and a proper inquiry into the crooked slush fund will begin! Bring it on. Good news.

This is the story of which I was proudest while I was at the Press & Journal. Erika Schulhof’s story was tragic, but she had so many good memories of the kindness shown to her by Scotland. I only got the chance to talk to Erika months before her death! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...

Scotland’s leading public intellectual on the state of university education: 🎓literature, history, philosophy at risk 🎓languages in crisis 🎓students reluctant to do independent study 🎓huge grade inflation 🎓key elements (eg Shakespeare in English degrees) can be avoided In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

In 2008, Jud. Cmte. Chair Conyers appointed a 12-member task force (6 Ds, 6Rs) to review misconduct allegations against a judge & see if there were grounds for impeachment. Given Judge Ross' false statements & judiciary's underwhelming response, HJC shld do it again fixthecourt.com/2026/05/fix-....