@jackir.bsky.social
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This is off the top of my head.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is off the top of my head.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
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UK Covid-19 Inquiry, day 1 hearing: strong and consistent calls for making the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child fully part of UK law
article39.org.uk/uk-covid-19-...
article39.org.uk/uk-covid-19-...
UK Covid-19 Inquiry Module 8 hearings - day 1 (29 September 2025) | Article 39
article39.org.uk
September 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
UK Covid-19 Inquiry, day 1 hearing: strong and consistent calls for making the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child fully part of UK law
article39.org.uk/uk-covid-19-...
article39.org.uk/uk-covid-19-...
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Our new report: local political parties are renting out office space to MPs — who claim the cost on expenses.
But in most cases, they pay no tax on that income — or on rent from local businesses.
We reviewed 630 sets of accounts. What we found is a systemic failure. 🧵
But in most cases, they pay no tax on that income — or on rent from local businesses.
We reviewed 630 sets of accounts. What we found is a systemic failure. 🧵
May 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Our new report: local political parties are renting out office space to MPs — who claim the cost on expenses.
But in most cases, they pay no tax on that income — or on rent from local businesses.
We reviewed 630 sets of accounts. What we found is a systemic failure. 🧵
But in most cases, they pay no tax on that income — or on rent from local businesses.
We reviewed 630 sets of accounts. What we found is a systemic failure. 🧵
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📊 17 additional buildings over 11m with unsafe cladding identified in March 2025.
🔎 Still no data on other life-critical fire safety defects.
🔎 Still no data on buildings under 11m.
MHCLG's partial monthly data release 👉 gov.uk/government/p...
🔎 Still no data on other life-critical fire safety defects.
🔎 Still no data on buildings under 11m.
MHCLG's partial monthly data release 👉 gov.uk/government/p...
April 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
📊 17 additional buildings over 11m with unsafe cladding identified in March 2025.
🔎 Still no data on other life-critical fire safety defects.
🔎 Still no data on buildings under 11m.
MHCLG's partial monthly data release 👉 gov.uk/government/p...
🔎 Still no data on other life-critical fire safety defects.
🔎 Still no data on buildings under 11m.
MHCLG's partial monthly data release 👉 gov.uk/government/p...
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🗨️ "I am trapped in a shared-ownership flat, which is proving impossible to sell because the fire safety engineer who surveyed the block is accused of forging fire safety certificates (...)
This is my first home, but it’s beginning to seem like a prison"
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...
This is my first home, but it’s beginning to seem like a prison"
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...
An expelled fire safety engineer has made my flat unsaleable
My prospective buyers’ lenders view the property as risky because the expert who certified it stands accused of malpractice
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🗨️ "I am trapped in a shared-ownership flat, which is proving impossible to sell because the fire safety engineer who surveyed the block is accused of forging fire safety certificates (...)
This is my first home, but it’s beginning to seem like a prison"
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...
This is my first home, but it’s beginning to seem like a prison"
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...
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Let me tell you how means testing goes.
First they means test it.
Second they means test it some more.
Now most people don't receive it, so they can get rid of it.
So when someone says they want to means test something, really what they want to do is get rid of it.
First they means test it.
Second they means test it some more.
Now most people don't receive it, so they can get rid of it.
So when someone says they want to means test something, really what they want to do is get rid of it.
April 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Let me tell you how means testing goes.
First they means test it.
Second they means test it some more.
Now most people don't receive it, so they can get rid of it.
So when someone says they want to means test something, really what they want to do is get rid of it.
First they means test it.
Second they means test it some more.
Now most people don't receive it, so they can get rid of it.
So when someone says they want to means test something, really what they want to do is get rid of it.
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How will this improve waiting lists and help with the crisis in emergency care?
@GoodLawProject reckons our Health Secretary has taken £58,000 from groups linked to private healthcare.
Our #NHS can’t be defunded to open the door to private interests.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
@GoodLawProject reckons our Health Secretary has taken £58,000 from groups linked to private healthcare.
Our #NHS can’t be defunded to open the door to private interests.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Hospitals in England could shed 100,000 jobs in response to cost-cutting orders
Exclusive: Scale of looming job losses prompts NHS leaders to ask Treasury to cover costs
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
How will this improve waiting lists and help with the crisis in emergency care?
@GoodLawProject reckons our Health Secretary has taken £58,000 from groups linked to private healthcare.
Our #NHS can’t be defunded to open the door to private interests.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
@GoodLawProject reckons our Health Secretary has taken £58,000 from groups linked to private healthcare.
Our #NHS can’t be defunded to open the door to private interests.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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If your dog poos on the beach you get fined £1000.
If the Water Companies dump millions of tons of poo, YOU get fined £1,000,000,000.
If the Water Companies dump millions of tons of poo, YOU get fined £1,000,000,000.
March 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
If your dog poos on the beach you get fined £1000.
If the Water Companies dump millions of tons of poo, YOU get fined £1,000,000,000.
If the Water Companies dump millions of tons of poo, YOU get fined £1,000,000,000.
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🎯 "Fresh thinking and action cannot come fast enough."
"A home that was meant to be a refuge has, for many blameless householders, become a cruelly unsaleable trap: the government’s pressing priority must be to help them out of it."
⏳ @alexjjnorris.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...
"A home that was meant to be a refuge has, for many blameless householders, become a cruelly unsaleable trap: the government’s pressing priority must be to help them out of it."
⏳ @alexjjnorris.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...
Residents trapped by the cladding scandal deserve more help
To be immobilised in a disaster not of your own making, and whose remedy lies beyond your control, is a particular form of hell. Yet this is the experience of up to three million people affected by
www.thetimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🎯 "Fresh thinking and action cannot come fast enough."
"A home that was meant to be a refuge has, for many blameless householders, become a cruelly unsaleable trap: the government’s pressing priority must be to help them out of it."
⏳ @alexjjnorris.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...
"A home that was meant to be a refuge has, for many blameless householders, become a cruelly unsaleable trap: the government’s pressing priority must be to help them out of it."
⏳ @alexjjnorris.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...
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As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”.
The man is a fraud.
The man is a fraud.
March 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”.
The man is a fraud.
The man is a fraud.
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⚡️ 'There is an aggressor, which is Russia,' says Macron after Zelensky-Trump clash.
"There is an aggressor, which is Russia, and an attacked people, which is Ukraine," French President Emmanuel Macron said after President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump's clash at the White House.
"There is an aggressor, which is Russia, and an attacked people, which is Ukraine," French President Emmanuel Macron said after President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump's clash at the White House.
'There is an aggressor, which is Russia,' says Macron after Zelensky-Trump clash
French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized that Russia is the aggressor in its war against Ukraine following a heated exchange between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald...
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
⚡️ 'There is an aggressor, which is Russia,' says Macron after Zelensky-Trump clash.
"There is an aggressor, which is Russia, and an attacked people, which is Ukraine," French President Emmanuel Macron said after President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump's clash at the White House.
"There is an aggressor, which is Russia, and an attacked people, which is Ukraine," French President Emmanuel Macron said after President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump's clash at the White House.
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I've now seen the full thing, and it's even more hideous. Zelensky comes out well, though. As for Trump and Vance, and some of the press corps, it's a mark of their cowardice, quite as much of their allegiances, that they would never talk to Putin in this way.
This is really disgusting. Naked bullying by Vance and Trump of a far better and more courageous person than either of them.
Vance: "Just say thank you"
Zelensky: "I said a lot of times to the American people".
Vance: "You're wrong. You know you're wrong.
Trump: "You have to be thankful... Your people are lying."
Zelensky: "I said a lot of times to the American people".
Vance: "You're wrong. You know you're wrong.
Trump: "You have to be thankful... Your people are lying."
February 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I've now seen the full thing, and it's even more hideous. Zelensky comes out well, though. As for Trump and Vance, and some of the press corps, it's a mark of their cowardice, quite as much of their allegiances, that they would never talk to Putin in this way.
Thank you for your humanity & sacrifice. May you rest in peace
23 February 1941 | A Pole, Edmund Wojciechowski, perished in Auschwitz. A lawyer, a son of the President of Poland Stanisław Wojciechowski.
He was arrested in connection with the refusal to expel Jewish lawyers from the Warsaw Bar.
In #Auschwitz from 15 August 1940.
No. 2297
He was arrested in connection with the refusal to expel Jewish lawyers from the Warsaw Bar.
In #Auschwitz from 15 August 1940.
No. 2297
February 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Thank you for your humanity & sacrifice. May you rest in peace
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Important and sobering research from @fairness.bsky.social
Could growing wealth inequality in the UK lead to societal collapse? Experts at our workshop with Future Threats Lab
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @policyatkings.bsky.social all thought it was feasible. Report at fairnessfoundation.com/inequality-k... and write-up in today's Observer below👇
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @policyatkings.bsky.social all thought it was feasible. Report at fairnessfoundation.com/inequality-k... and write-up in today's Observer below👇
Nearly two-thirds of Britons say very rich have too much influence on politics
Opinium survey of 2,000 adults found concern about the impact of growing wealth inequality in the UK
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Important and sobering research from @fairness.bsky.social
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We're in the FT today:
“It’s utterly disgraceful that after 35 years of bonus scandals, sewage spills, and huge dividends, water firms are set to be rewarded by Ofwat with huge inflation-busting bill hikes”
Bring Thames Water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
www.ft.com/content/9216...
“It’s utterly disgraceful that after 35 years of bonus scandals, sewage spills, and huge dividends, water firms are set to be rewarded by Ofwat with huge inflation-busting bill hikes”
Bring Thames Water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
www.ft.com/content/9216...
Why UK water regulator’s decision on bills is set to stoke turmoil
Ofwat has not given heavily indebted Thames Water the increase in customer payments it was seeking
www.ft.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:29 AM
We're in the FT today:
“It’s utterly disgraceful that after 35 years of bonus scandals, sewage spills, and huge dividends, water firms are set to be rewarded by Ofwat with huge inflation-busting bill hikes”
Bring Thames Water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
www.ft.com/content/9216...
“It’s utterly disgraceful that after 35 years of bonus scandals, sewage spills, and huge dividends, water firms are set to be rewarded by Ofwat with huge inflation-busting bill hikes”
Bring Thames Water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
www.ft.com/content/9216...
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Ofwat need pumped down a sewer pipe. Another corrupt regulator, stuffed with water company insiders. We live in one of most corrupt nations in the world, and Labour's doing nothing about it, because Starmer's part of the system. #labour #ofwat #nationlise
We're in the FT today:
“It’s utterly disgraceful that after 35 years of bonus scandals, sewage spills, and huge dividends, water firms are set to be rewarded by Ofwat with huge inflation-busting bill hikes”
Bring Thames Water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
www.ft.com/content/9216...
“It’s utterly disgraceful that after 35 years of bonus scandals, sewage spills, and huge dividends, water firms are set to be rewarded by Ofwat with huge inflation-busting bill hikes”
Bring Thames Water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
www.ft.com/content/9216...
Why UK water regulator’s decision on bills is set to stoke turmoil
Ofwat has not given heavily indebted Thames Water the increase in customer payments it was seeking
www.ft.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Ofwat need pumped down a sewer pipe. Another corrupt regulator, stuffed with water company insiders. We live in one of most corrupt nations in the world, and Labour's doing nothing about it, because Starmer's part of the system. #labour #ofwat #nationlise
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State of child protection in England. Parents asked to sign agreements with social workers not to hit their children, because the law allows parental assault.
The ‘reasonable chastisement’ common law defence for child assault is from a case in 1860.
The ‘reasonable chastisement’ common law defence for child assault is from a case in 1860.
🔺NEW: The father of the murdered Surrey schoolgirl had signed agreements not to use physical chastisement on his children ⬇️
Sara Sharif’s father Urfan Sharif was accused of abuse before she was born
The father of the murdered Surrey schoolgirl had signed agreements not to use physical chastisement on his children
www.thetimes.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:42 PM
State of child protection in England. Parents asked to sign agreements with social workers not to hit their children, because the law allows parental assault.
The ‘reasonable chastisement’ common law defence for child assault is from a case in 1860.
The ‘reasonable chastisement’ common law defence for child assault is from a case in 1860.
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Not long now until our brilliant Blooming Change group attends #CYPNowAwards.
Members have all experienced detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 as children.
📝 Their briefing on priorities for the Mental Health Bill also landing with Peers ahead of Second Reading debate on Monday.
Members have all experienced detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 as children.
📝 Their briefing on priorities for the Mental Health Bill also landing with Peers ahead of Second Reading debate on Monday.
November 22, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Not long now until our brilliant Blooming Change group attends #CYPNowAwards.
Members have all experienced detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 as children.
📝 Their briefing on priorities for the Mental Health Bill also landing with Peers ahead of Second Reading debate on Monday.
Members have all experienced detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 as children.
📝 Their briefing on priorities for the Mental Health Bill also landing with Peers ahead of Second Reading debate on Monday.
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⬇️ One of the reasons we are intervening in an upcoming Court of Appeal case to stop local authorities having power to deprive children of their liberty: article39.org.uk/2024/11/15/c...
❗️See also number of 15, 16 and 17 year-olds housed in unregistered/illegal care-less accommodation.
❗️See also number of 15, 16 and 17 year-olds housed in unregistered/illegal care-less accommodation.
November 17, 2024 at 10:12 AM
⬇️ One of the reasons we are intervening in an upcoming Court of Appeal case to stop local authorities having power to deprive children of their liberty: article39.org.uk/2024/11/15/c...
❗️See also number of 15, 16 and 17 year-olds housed in unregistered/illegal care-less accommodation.
❗️See also number of 15, 16 and 17 year-olds housed in unregistered/illegal care-less accommodation.