Marian Kennedy
@marianjk.bsky.social
International lawyer, reviewer of theatre and dance at London Theatre. Escapee from Musk. Hi again!
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This is very good: a must read by anyone concerned about the constitutional implications of this case.
New blogpost: The Afghan super-injunction case: Some constitutional implications publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/17/t...
The Afghan super-injunction case: Some constitutional implications
Following a catastrophic administrative errors placing the lives of thousands of Afghans at risk, the UK government obtained a super-injunction, enabling it to attempt to clear up the mess it had c…
publiclawforeveryone.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is very good: a must read by anyone concerned about the constitutional implications of this case.
This is the first piece to tell me the Court of Appeal in May 2024 ordered, what should be a temporary injunction, to stay in place until July 25, when the issue would have to be considered again.
New blogpost: The Afghan super-injunction case: Some constitutional implications publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/17/t...
The Afghan super-injunction case: Some constitutional implications
Following a catastrophic administrative errors placing the lives of thousands of Afghans at risk, the UK government obtained a super-injunction, enabling it to attempt to clear up the mess it had c…
publiclawforeveryone.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This is the first piece to tell me the Court of Appeal in May 2024 ordered, what should be a temporary injunction, to stay in place until July 25, when the issue would have to be considered again.
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When Mr Justice Chamberlain lifted the first super-injunction ever granted contra mundum (“against the world”) at 12 noon yesterday, news outlets published instant and highly detailed coverage. Many hundreds of journalists must have known about the data breach
rozenberg.substack.com/p/respecting...
rozenberg.substack.com/p/respecting...
Respecting reporters
Free speech restored as court lifts unprecedented super-injunction
rozenberg.substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
When Mr Justice Chamberlain lifted the first super-injunction ever granted contra mundum (“against the world”) at 12 noon yesterday, news outlets published instant and highly detailed coverage. Many hundreds of journalists must have known about the data breach
rozenberg.substack.com/p/respecting...
rozenberg.substack.com/p/respecting...
There were 8 media organisations represented against the injunction yesterday-‘unusually the BBC was not a party.’
When Mr Justice Chamberlain lifted the first super-injunction ever granted contra mundum (“against the world”) at 12 noon yesterday, news outlets published instant and highly detailed coverage. Many hundreds of journalists must have known about the data breach
rozenberg.substack.com/p/respecting...
rozenberg.substack.com/p/respecting...
Respecting reporters
Free speech restored as court lifts unprecedented super-injunction
rozenberg.substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
There were 8 media organisations represented against the injunction yesterday-‘unusually the BBC was not a party.’
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Superbly written, detailed account of this extraordinary case @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social
Well worth a read for those who care about both privacy/security of those at risk of harm and responsible journalism/free speech. And demonstrates how impressive are our senior judges
Well worth a read for those who care about both privacy/security of those at risk of harm and responsible journalism/free speech. And demonstrates how impressive are our senior judges
When Mr Justice Chamberlain lifted the first super-injunction ever granted contra mundum (“against the world”) at 12 noon yesterday, news outlets published instant and highly detailed coverage. Many hundreds of journalists must have known about the data breach
rozenberg.substack.com/p/respecting...
rozenberg.substack.com/p/respecting...
Respecting reporters
Free speech restored as court lifts unprecedented super-injunction
rozenberg.substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Superbly written, detailed account of this extraordinary case @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social
Well worth a read for those who care about both privacy/security of those at risk of harm and responsible journalism/free speech. And demonstrates how impressive are our senior judges
Well worth a read for those who care about both privacy/security of those at risk of harm and responsible journalism/free speech. And demonstrates how impressive are our senior judges
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My evidence on Prevent to the House of Commons home affairs select committee yesterday is here – starting after the break at 15:44 parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/....
Parliamentlive.tv
Home Affairs Committee
parliamentlive.tv
July 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
My evidence on Prevent to the House of Commons home affairs select committee yesterday is here – starting after the break at 15:44 parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/....
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Physician associates and anaesthesia associates, who assist doctors in GP surgeries and hospitals, should be known as "assistants" to avoid confusing patients.
#BBCBreakfast Health Editor Hugh Pym provides details of the independent review
#BBCBreakfast Health Editor Hugh Pym provides details of the independent review
July 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Physician associates and anaesthesia associates, who assist doctors in GP surgeries and hospitals, should be known as "assistants" to avoid confusing patients.
#BBCBreakfast Health Editor Hugh Pym provides details of the independent review
#BBCBreakfast Health Editor Hugh Pym provides details of the independent review
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These are the links to the judgments for the super-injunction revealed today:
www.judiciary.uk/judgments/mi...
www.judiciary.uk/judgments/mi...
July 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
These are the links to the judgments for the super-injunction revealed today:
www.judiciary.uk/judgments/mi...
www.judiciary.uk/judgments/mi...
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That said, if I and others seized of the matter understood that significant numbers of Afghans who'd helped the British military were leaving the country, then I'm sure the Taliban understood from an early stage what was happening 3/3
July 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
That said, if I and others seized of the matter understood that significant numbers of Afghans who'd helped the British military were leaving the country, then I'm sure the Taliban understood from an early stage what was happening 3/3
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I sit across from our Elon subject matter expert in the office and he just got up, put on his TV appearance blazer, and ran off
Elon is crashing out in a way that is erasing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of value from his company.
June 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I sit across from our Elon subject matter expert in the office and he just got up, put on his TV appearance blazer, and ran off
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Trump has a new enemy in town.
June 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Trump has a new enemy in town.
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Wheee
Tesla has lost 10% in just the last 20 minutes or so. Still dropping, too.
June 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Wheee
Looking forwards to this today
May 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Looking forwards to this today
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Can't recommend this strongly enough. A great read. And one of great personal interest for me because my grandfather was a manager at these steel mills in Scunthorpe back in the 1940s/50s.
✍️I visited British Steel last week - just as workers were discovering that the plant's Chinese owners were effectively planning to starve the blast furnaces to death.
It was a strange, unsettling experience. With deep ramifications. Some thoughts: edconway.substack.com/p/the-strang...
It was a strange, unsettling experience. With deep ramifications. Some thoughts: edconway.substack.com/p/the-strang...
The Strange, Unsettling Story of British Steel
Why the fate of a blast furnace in Scunthorpe might have much deeper implications for this country
edconway.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Can't recommend this strongly enough. A great read. And one of great personal interest for me because my grandfather was a manager at these steel mills in Scunthorpe back in the 1940s/50s.
The sky in the City of London tonight is filled with pin sharp stars, markers for constellations. Here’s a night map of those lights that have travelled across time to arrive outside, visible from inside, me sitting on my bed.
April 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The sky in the City of London tonight is filled with pin sharp stars, markers for constellations. Here’s a night map of those lights that have travelled across time to arrive outside, visible from inside, me sitting on my bed.
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The tariff debacle has no more to do with wanting to return manufacturing to the US than his attacks on universities have to do with sincere concerns about antisemitism. These are mere pretexts to hide darker agendas of greed and grievance, power plays and corruption.
April 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The tariff debacle has no more to do with wanting to return manufacturing to the US than his attacks on universities have to do with sincere concerns about antisemitism. These are mere pretexts to hide darker agendas of greed and grievance, power plays and corruption.
Bluesky is replacing twitter with intelligent information. My X is a miss mash of the banal accompanied by too big photos (words out) and too many adverts none of which have the slightest relevance to me.
April 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Bluesky is replacing twitter with intelligent information. My X is a miss mash of the banal accompanied by too big photos (words out) and too many adverts none of which have the slightest relevance to me.
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The White House. The actual White House.
This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.
This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.
April 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The White House. The actual White House.
This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.
This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.
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But it's a good indication of why the idea of banning things is always so popular: it pretends there are simple answers to complex problems. It means you don't really have to think.
April 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
But it's a good indication of why the idea of banning things is always so popular: it pretends there are simple answers to complex problems. It means you don't really have to think.
I like the taste of meat but on no count is it worth it when we have many other options which I also enjoy. Those counts include but are not limited to the industrialised 24/7 killing of animals since supermarkets showed up, human health and ecology.
Despite being advised by the Climate Change Committee to reduce the production & consumption of meat/dairy, the UK government has funded, every year, campaigns to *increase* their consumption: shorturl.at/mWMkq
So here's a petition to ask for the promotion of plant-based foods: shorturl.at/HS5Ig
So here's a petition to ask for the promotion of plant-based foods: shorturl.at/HS5Ig
WHY ARE WE STILL BEING TOLD TO EAT MORE MEAT?
CEO CIWF
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April 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I like the taste of meat but on no count is it worth it when we have many other options which I also enjoy. Those counts include but are not limited to the industrialised 24/7 killing of animals since supermarkets showed up, human health and ecology.
‘Further, no company would undertake the big capital costs associated with reshoring its factories without having more clarity about the post 2028, post Trump future of the United States. In addition, many countries would find other ways to keep manufacturers within their borders.)’
Trump again showed how weak he is but threats remain both to the economy worldwide and to democracy in America and they ought to focus our attention. In fact, the peril is so great, there is really only one issue before us all. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
The Markets Have the Whip Hand Over Trump
The President again revealed his weakness. But great danger remains.
open.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
‘Further, no company would undertake the big capital costs associated with reshoring its factories without having more clarity about the post 2028, post Trump future of the United States. In addition, many countries would find other ways to keep manufacturers within their borders.)’
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Feels almost cruel to point out that all the bollocks about our 10% tariffs being a 'Brexit benefit' lasted for about four days. But here we are...
April 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Feels almost cruel to point out that all the bollocks about our 10% tariffs being a 'Brexit benefit' lasted for about four days. But here we are...
‘The big systemic danger is what’s happening in the US bond market. Something v unusual is happening to US govt debt: typically, in any moment of economic crisis, investors demand for US bonds goes up.’ But now global financial markets are averse, treating the US as if a problematic emerging market
In economics, as in geopolitics, Trump fundamentally misunderstands the limits of American power. It is at the centre of everything he does. The markets, the only real impediment to him now, may be about to teach him how wrong he is.
New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Again and again, Trump misunderstands the limits of American power.
And as a result is taking us to a global financial precipice.
open.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
‘The big systemic danger is what’s happening in the US bond market. Something v unusual is happening to US govt debt: typically, in any moment of economic crisis, investors demand for US bonds goes up.’ But now global financial markets are averse, treating the US as if a problematic emerging market
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To be honest my first thought when I saw that Trump "buy" post yesterday was that there would be movement on tariffs by the end of the day. If I was a stock market investor I'd have been tempted by a flutter.
April 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
To be honest my first thought when I saw that Trump "buy" post yesterday was that there would be movement on tariffs by the end of the day. If I was a stock market investor I'd have been tempted by a flutter.
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Remember Trump is using emergency legislation for the tariffs.
So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary.
If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.
So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary.
If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.
April 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Remember Trump is using emergency legislation for the tariffs.
So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary.
If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.
So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary.
If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.