Ben Knight
@benjamin-knight.com
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Ex-care kid. State school oik
Legal 500 Barrister (chambers in Manchester and London)
Politics snarker
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1st UK Law podcaster
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Nerd
Ex-care kid. State school oik
Legal 500 Barrister (chambers in Manchester and London)
Politics snarker
Cat dad
🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇫🇷
Music maker
Podcaster/Writer
Joined October 2023r
1st UK Law podcaster
Unexpected Paul Heaton impersonator
centralchambers.co.uk
Roblox blocks children from chatting to adult strangers.
About 👏🏻 Fucking 👏🏻Time
Now...do Facebook, Insta, Quest, Xbox, PS, X, Telegram, WhatsApp, fortnite, and take down Omegle and Kik once and for all. The latter two literally only exist for nonces and drug sales in 2025.
About 👏🏻 Fucking 👏🏻Time
Now...do Facebook, Insta, Quest, Xbox, PS, X, Telegram, WhatsApp, fortnite, and take down Omegle and Kik once and for all. The latter two literally only exist for nonces and drug sales in 2025.
Roblox blocks children from chatting to adult strangers
One of the world's most popular gaming platforms has faced criticism for its child safety record.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Roblox blocks children from chatting to adult strangers.
About 👏🏻 Fucking 👏🏻Time
Now...do Facebook, Insta, Quest, Xbox, PS, X, Telegram, WhatsApp, fortnite, and take down Omegle and Kik once and for all. The latter two literally only exist for nonces and drug sales in 2025.
About 👏🏻 Fucking 👏🏻Time
Now...do Facebook, Insta, Quest, Xbox, PS, X, Telegram, WhatsApp, fortnite, and take down Omegle and Kik once and for all. The latter two literally only exist for nonces and drug sales in 2025.
Time to start standing outside women's toilets and changing rooms and insisting management stop every person who goes in.
This guidance is ridiculous and the only way to end this GERM madness is to show how unworkable it is.
Cis women are ALREADY suffering from this transphobic BS.
This guidance is ridiculous and the only way to end this GERM madness is to show how unworkable it is.
Cis women are ALREADY suffering from this transphobic BS.
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Time to start standing outside women's toilets and changing rooms and insisting management stop every person who goes in.
This guidance is ridiculous and the only way to end this GERM madness is to show how unworkable it is.
Cis women are ALREADY suffering from this transphobic BS.
This guidance is ridiculous and the only way to end this GERM madness is to show how unworkable it is.
Cis women are ALREADY suffering from this transphobic BS.
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UK Trans Day of Remembrance vigils you can attend in person or online
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/20/uk-trans-day-of-remembrance-vigils-you-can-attend-in-person-or-online/?utm_content=1763638250&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/20/uk-trans-day-of-remembrance-vigils-you-can-attend-in-person-or-online/?utm_content=1763638250&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
UK Trans Day of Remembrance vigils you can attend in person or online
Trans Day of Remembrance, which takes place today (Thursday 20 November), honours the memory of the victims of transphobic violence, with vigils across the UK.
www.thepinknews.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
UK Trans Day of Remembrance vigils you can attend in person or online
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/20/uk-trans-day-of-remembrance-vigils-you-can-attend-in-person-or-online/?utm_content=1763638250&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/20/uk-trans-day-of-remembrance-vigils-you-can-attend-in-person-or-online/?utm_content=1763638250&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
France is right.
It is a capitulation to literally hand Russia Ukraine in installments.
And it is timed to be a distraction from Trump's Epstein nightmare.
We live in a disgusting timeline.
It is a capitulation to literally hand Russia Ukraine in installments.
And it is timed to be a distraction from Trump's Epstein nightmare.
We live in a disgusting timeline.
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
France is right.
It is a capitulation to literally hand Russia Ukraine in installments.
And it is timed to be a distraction from Trump's Epstein nightmare.
We live in a disgusting timeline.
It is a capitulation to literally hand Russia Ukraine in installments.
And it is timed to be a distraction from Trump's Epstein nightmare.
We live in a disgusting timeline.
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Users of r/tallgirls share their experiences of measures intended to target trans people:
www.reddit.com/r/TallGirls/...
www.reddit.com/r/TallGirls/...
From the TallGirls community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the TallGirls community
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November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Users of r/tallgirls share their experiences of measures intended to target trans people:
www.reddit.com/r/TallGirls/...
www.reddit.com/r/TallGirls/...
The media coverage of the Burnham non-story is really illustrative of how the broadcasters want to set the story, not report it
Burnham says no. He's given hypotheticals. Still says no. He's then asked if no means 'under any circumstances ever '. Says that's a stupid question.
So.... 1/2
Burnham says no. He's given hypotheticals. Still says no. He's then asked if no means 'under any circumstances ever '. Says that's a stupid question.
So.... 1/2
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The media coverage of the Burnham non-story is really illustrative of how the broadcasters want to set the story, not report it
Burnham says no. He's given hypotheticals. Still says no. He's then asked if no means 'under any circumstances ever '. Says that's a stupid question.
So.... 1/2
Burnham says no. He's given hypotheticals. Still says no. He's then asked if no means 'under any circumstances ever '. Says that's a stupid question.
So.... 1/2
Excessively soft plosives on the radio give me the ick.
So does the pronunciation 'Bizniz'.
So, the Amazon advert followed by the BT one (I think) nearly had me switching it off.
Misophonia is so eurrgh.
So does the pronunciation 'Bizniz'.
So, the Amazon advert followed by the BT one (I think) nearly had me switching it off.
Misophonia is so eurrgh.
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Excessively soft plosives on the radio give me the ick.
So does the pronunciation 'Bizniz'.
So, the Amazon advert followed by the BT one (I think) nearly had me switching it off.
Misophonia is so eurrgh.
So does the pronunciation 'Bizniz'.
So, the Amazon advert followed by the BT one (I think) nearly had me switching it off.
Misophonia is so eurrgh.
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Justice Department quietly replaced ‘identical’ Trump signatures on recent pardons
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Justice Department quietly replaced 'identical' Trump signatures on recent pardons
The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of President Donald Trump’s signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a “technical error.”
www.pbs.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Justice Department quietly replaced ‘identical’ Trump signatures on recent pardons
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Trump: 'Things happen'
Actual response to an American citizen, a journalist, being sawn into pieces by a dictator because he didn't like him asking questions.
America elected this man. On purpose. Twice.
America is not an ally to the UK, Canada, the EU, Australia, NZ, other democratic nations.
Actual response to an American citizen, a journalist, being sawn into pieces by a dictator because he didn't like him asking questions.
America elected this man. On purpose. Twice.
America is not an ally to the UK, Canada, the EU, Australia, NZ, other democratic nations.
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Trump: 'Things happen'
Actual response to an American citizen, a journalist, being sawn into pieces by a dictator because he didn't like him asking questions.
America elected this man. On purpose. Twice.
America is not an ally to the UK, Canada, the EU, Australia, NZ, other democratic nations.
Actual response to an American citizen, a journalist, being sawn into pieces by a dictator because he didn't like him asking questions.
America elected this man. On purpose. Twice.
America is not an ally to the UK, Canada, the EU, Australia, NZ, other democratic nations.
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Members of Patriotic Millionaires with the 'Tax us, the super-rich. Proud to Pay. Here to Stay' campaign bus outside Parliament this morning #TaxTheSuperRich
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Members of Patriotic Millionaires with the 'Tax us, the super-rich. Proud to Pay. Here to Stay' campaign bus outside Parliament this morning #TaxTheSuperRich
Watched the news whilst having lunchtime soup.
Yep. There is a genuinely evil regime in the White House (openly supporting terrorists, murderers, and fraudsters).
The UK government is doing some good stuff but is also normalising racism and transphobia.
Social media is poison.
Nope. Enough.
Yep. There is a genuinely evil regime in the White House (openly supporting terrorists, murderers, and fraudsters).
The UK government is doing some good stuff but is also normalising racism and transphobia.
Social media is poison.
Nope. Enough.
November 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Watched the news whilst having lunchtime soup.
Yep. There is a genuinely evil regime in the White House (openly supporting terrorists, murderers, and fraudsters).
The UK government is doing some good stuff but is also normalising racism and transphobia.
Social media is poison.
Nope. Enough.
Yep. There is a genuinely evil regime in the White House (openly supporting terrorists, murderers, and fraudsters).
The UK government is doing some good stuff but is also normalising racism and transphobia.
Social media is poison.
Nope. Enough.
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"We have become the destination of choice in Europe" according to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"We have become the destination of choice in Europe" according to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
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...And in terms of asylum applications per 10,000 people the UK is lower down, at 16 per 10,000 people in 2024...
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
...And in terms of asylum applications per 10,000 people the UK is lower down, at 16 per 10,000 people in 2024...
Can anybody give a single example of tiktok being anything other than trash?
YouTube is bad enough. Insta is mostly vacuous.
But TikTok is just a firehose of sewage from people with acute personality issues.
YouTube is bad enough. Insta is mostly vacuous.
But TikTok is just a firehose of sewage from people with acute personality issues.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Can anybody give a single example of tiktok being anything other than trash?
YouTube is bad enough. Insta is mostly vacuous.
But TikTok is just a firehose of sewage from people with acute personality issues.
YouTube is bad enough. Insta is mostly vacuous.
But TikTok is just a firehose of sewage from people with acute personality issues.
No sh*t, Sherlock.
Increase SSO availability from 2 years to 3. Save money on prisons. Reinvest in the public service (not private providers) in probation.
Not a vote winner but a solution.
Increase SSO availability from 2 years to 3. Save money on prisons. Reinvest in the public service (not private providers) in probation.
Not a vote winner but a solution.
The Justice Select Committee has published a new report outlining how dire prison conditions are putting the reduction of rehabilitation and reoffending at risk.
Read the report: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
Read the report: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
Ending the cycle of reoffending – part one: rehabilitation in prisons
publications.parliament.uk
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
No sh*t, Sherlock.
Increase SSO availability from 2 years to 3. Save money on prisons. Reinvest in the public service (not private providers) in probation.
Not a vote winner but a solution.
Increase SSO availability from 2 years to 3. Save money on prisons. Reinvest in the public service (not private providers) in probation.
Not a vote winner but a solution.
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Anybody getting tired of feeling like the bad guys are winning, right now?
Yes, there are flickers of hope here and in the US and elsewhere, but the neopopulist right's grip on the media, the web, and all the money is getting tighter not weaker.
Very tired. Fed up.
Frustrated with centre & left.
Yes, there are flickers of hope here and in the US and elsewhere, but the neopopulist right's grip on the media, the web, and all the money is getting tighter not weaker.
Very tired. Fed up.
Frustrated with centre & left.
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Anybody getting tired of feeling like the bad guys are winning, right now?
Yes, there are flickers of hope here and in the US and elsewhere, but the neopopulist right's grip on the media, the web, and all the money is getting tighter not weaker.
Very tired. Fed up.
Frustrated with centre & left.
Yes, there are flickers of hope here and in the US and elsewhere, but the neopopulist right's grip on the media, the web, and all the money is getting tighter not weaker.
Very tired. Fed up.
Frustrated with centre & left.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Wow
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Wow
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Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
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The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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The Trump World View
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Trump World View
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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There are wounds that time cannot heal. Ten years after the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, we do not forget the names of the 130 victims of the Bataclan, the café terraces, and the Stade de France. Nor shall we forget the surge of solidarity and the thirst for freedom that rose against terror.
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
There are wounds that time cannot heal. Ten years after the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, we do not forget the names of the 130 victims of the Bataclan, the café terraces, and the Stade de France. Nor shall we forget the surge of solidarity and the thirst for freedom that rose against terror.