Brown Bag
@asmaap144.bsky.social
Writer/Lawyer. Mother. (Reposts not necessarily an endorsement).
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Apparently “leading” lawyers and “experts” say that the Good Friday Agreement is no obstacle to UK leaving ECHR.
Me, being neither, merely sets out what the Good Friday Agreement expressly says.
davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...
Me, being neither, merely sets out what the Good Friday Agreement expressly says.
davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...
Why the United Kingdom government cannot leave the ECHR without either breaching or re-negotiating the Good Friday Agreement
1st July 2023 * The overlooked obstacle to the United Kingdom withdrawing from the ECHR * From time to time the demand comes from a government minister, or from one of their political and media sup…
davidallengreen.com
August 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Apparently “leading” lawyers and “experts” say that the Good Friday Agreement is no obstacle to UK leaving ECHR.
Me, being neither, merely sets out what the Good Friday Agreement expressly says.
davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...
Me, being neither, merely sets out what the Good Friday Agreement expressly says.
davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...
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Well I have slept on it.
But I can‘t get over it.
"Island of Strangers“ is a horrible thing to say.
And honestly, as someone who spends her professional life trying to see the British side, constantly agonising whether I am too harsh or judgemental, I am deeply upset today.
(I don‘t live in 🇬🇧.)
But I can‘t get over it.
"Island of Strangers“ is a horrible thing to say.
And honestly, as someone who spends her professional life trying to see the British side, constantly agonising whether I am too harsh or judgemental, I am deeply upset today.
(I don‘t live in 🇬🇧.)
May 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Well I have slept on it.
But I can‘t get over it.
"Island of Strangers“ is a horrible thing to say.
And honestly, as someone who spends her professional life trying to see the British side, constantly agonising whether I am too harsh or judgemental, I am deeply upset today.
(I don‘t live in 🇬🇧.)
But I can‘t get over it.
"Island of Strangers“ is a horrible thing to say.
And honestly, as someone who spends her professional life trying to see the British side, constantly agonising whether I am too harsh or judgemental, I am deeply upset today.
(I don‘t live in 🇬🇧.)
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This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible
Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.
arstechnica.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
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Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
May 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
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Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment.
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
May 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment.
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
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He thinks there’s a cargo ship full of VCR tapes steaming toward the Port of Blockbuster that he’s going to exact these tariffs upon, doesn’t he
May 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
He thinks there’s a cargo ship full of VCR tapes steaming toward the Port of Blockbuster that he’s going to exact these tariffs upon, doesn’t he
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Given that most, if not all MAGA merch is made in China, I'll be really curious to see what happens to their pricing and availability 😁
May 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Given that most, if not all MAGA merch is made in China, I'll be really curious to see what happens to their pricing and availability 😁
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HE’S TALKING ABOUT HIS F*CKING GOLF GAME AS AMERICANS ARE LOSING EVERYTHING
April 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
HE’S TALKING ABOUT HIS F*CKING GOLF GAME AS AMERICANS ARE LOSING EVERYTHING
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Oil drops further as fears of global recession rise
https://www.ft.com/content/0ecfd40e-f73c-4cb2-b7e4-ca2f2a6c7c12
https://www.ft.com/content/0ecfd40e-f73c-4cb2-b7e4-ca2f2a6c7c12
Oil drops further as fears of global recession rise
Trump’s signal to push ahead with sweeping tariffs hits crude
www.ft.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Oil drops further as fears of global recession rise
https://www.ft.com/content/0ecfd40e-f73c-4cb2-b7e4-ca2f2a6c7c12
https://www.ft.com/content/0ecfd40e-f73c-4cb2-b7e4-ca2f2a6c7c12
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While I see all your conspiracy theories I regret to inform you that the horrible truth is that an old man with a tariff obsession has been given almost unlimited power in the world's richest country.
April 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
While I see all your conspiracy theories I regret to inform you that the horrible truth is that an old man with a tariff obsession has been given almost unlimited power in the world's richest country.
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In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
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Murphy: This is also a political tool for Trump. You see what he’s doing with these universities and law firms... I think it’s likely the same thing could happen with the tariffs: each big company or industry will have to come to Trump to get tariff relief in exchange for political loyalty…
April 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Murphy: This is also a political tool for Trump. You see what he’s doing with these universities and law firms... I think it’s likely the same thing could happen with the tariffs: each big company or industry will have to come to Trump to get tariff relief in exchange for political loyalty…
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Keir Starmer repeatedly insisted, just last week, that there will be "no return to austerity" under his government
March 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Keir Starmer repeatedly insisted, just last week, that there will be "no return to austerity" under his government
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The decisive test of our society in my lifetime was the 2024 election and our failure was spectacular and total. I will never again have any faith in the American electorate to do the obviously right thing.
March 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The decisive test of our society in my lifetime was the 2024 election and our failure was spectacular and total. I will never again have any faith in the American electorate to do the obviously right thing.
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“Welfare reform was always going to be difficult, and would always be controversial. But Labour has borrowed all the worst habits of Conservatives in how it’s gone about it – rushing it, doing it for the sake of Treasury spreadsheets, justifying it with lies, and covering up the details.”
How Labour conservatively cut welfare
Rushed welfare cuts backed up with dodgy statistics is a shoddy - and all too familiar - way to run the UK
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
“Welfare reform was always going to be difficult, and would always be controversial. But Labour has borrowed all the worst habits of Conservatives in how it’s gone about it – rushing it, doing it for the sake of Treasury spreadsheets, justifying it with lies, and covering up the details.”
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YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
March 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
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“Tax our wealth” – that’s the message from millionaires across the UK whose campaign is hitting the road ahead of the government’s spring statement...
More taxes? Yes please! Patriotic Millionaires want to do more for the country
“Tax our wealth” – that’s the message from millionaires across the UK whose campaign is hitting the road ahead of the government’s spring statement
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
“Tax our wealth” – that’s the message from millionaires across the UK whose campaign is hitting the road ahead of the government’s spring statement...
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Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?
March 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?
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Hello he lied
Elon Musk says "10% of federal expenditures" are due to people having fake Social Security numbers, claiming it is "half a trillion dollars."
March 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Hello he lied
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St David's Day
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi
Artist: H Woolley (1954)
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi
Artist: H Woolley (1954)
March 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
St David's Day
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi
Artist: H Woolley (1954)
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi
Artist: H Woolley (1954)
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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
March 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
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Zelenskyy knows what it is to fight for something bigger than yourself. Trump does not.
March 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Zelenskyy knows what it is to fight for something bigger than yourself. Trump does not.
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