phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦
@crooksontherun.bsky.social
i cook, drink coffee, play tabletop and video games. despairing Labour activist. recovering atlanticist. no, i didn't notice that fucking typo. (he/him)
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Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
Every time I see that bloody ratio I lose a little bit more of my will to live
YourParty (or whatever it's called) has adopted a "pioneering collective member leadership role"
after a...wait for it...52:48 vote in favour
after a...wait for it...52:48 vote in favour
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Every time I see that bloody ratio I lose a little bit more of my will to live
I was wrong when I said relatively nice things about Zarah Sultana even relative to Jeremy Corbyn. The problem is very clearly both of them.
Your Party conference thrown into chaos as Zarah Sultana boycotts first day
Sultana skips Saturday’s proceeding in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other parties
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I was wrong when I said relatively nice things about Zarah Sultana even relative to Jeremy Corbyn. The problem is very clearly both of them.
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Ick. I'm not touching this with a barge pole. Pay voice actors.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
How generative AI in Arc Raiders started a scrap over the gaming industry’s future
The use of AI in the surprise game-of-the-year contender has sparked a heated cultural and ethical debate, and raised existential questions for video game workers
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Ick. I'm not touching this with a barge pole. Pay voice actors.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once
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I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.
I mean come on: we'll ask but reserve right to exclude you on the basis of how you look. Oh, and if you try to use your birth sex specific facilities we'll kick you out of those as well.
Get fucked.
Get fucked.
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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I can usually translate him, but either I’m losing my mind, or he is.
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I can usually translate him, but either I’m losing my mind, or he is.
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Why would Jeffrey Epstein kill himself in jail if he had this much leverage of the one person who could give him a full pardon?
November 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Why would Jeffrey Epstein kill himself in jail if he had this much leverage of the one person who could give him a full pardon?
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One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia.
As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.
Now government policy
As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.
Now government policy
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia.
As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.
Now government policy
As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.
Now government policy
This government makes me ashamed to be a Labour member
This is now a familiar rubric for ideas that are hard to sell on merits.
2019: Boris Johnson’s agenda is the only way to stop Nigel Farage’s.
2024: Nigel Farage’s agenda is the only way to stop Tommy Robinson.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
2019: Boris Johnson’s agenda is the only way to stop Nigel Farage’s.
2024: Nigel Farage’s agenda is the only way to stop Tommy Robinson.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are stirring up anger in the UK. My asylum reforms are our chance to stop them | Shabana Mahmood
I know some of these measures will face opposition. But a country without secure borders is less safe for those who look like me, says Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This government makes me ashamed to be a Labour member
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This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win
This, in spades. What was it for, all the work we did to win last summer?
A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence: Labour has managed to pack so many failures into a single five day period that it's becoming difficult to remember all the details iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...
A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence
Labour has managed to pack so much failure into a single week that it becomes hard to remember all the details.
iandunt.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This, in spades. What was it for, all the work we did to win last summer?
It's like living in an episode of The Thick Of It
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
It's like living in an episode of The Thick Of It
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Dan Hannan was born in Peru.
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Dan Hannan was born in Peru.
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Poland became the largest Army in Europe and 3rd largest Army in NATO not because of Germany, but because of Putin's Russia.
So this old soviet loving turd can bounce off
So this old soviet loving turd can bounce off
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Poland became the largest Army in Europe and 3rd largest Army in NATO not because of Germany, but because of Putin's Russia.
So this old soviet loving turd can bounce off
So this old soviet loving turd can bounce off
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
Anyway, here's an adequate risotto I made in a rice cooker last night. Could have used more salt and some lemon zest, but otherwise pretty good.
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Anyway, here's an adequate risotto I made in a rice cooker last night. Could have used more salt and some lemon zest, but otherwise pretty good.
"I'm surrounded by idiots" - Keir Starmer (probably) (hopefully)
Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over leadership challenge
No 10 said to be in ‘full bunker mode’ over fears of attempt to oust him after budget or May local elections
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"I'm surrounded by idiots" - Keir Starmer (probably) (hopefully)
Zarah Sultana should sack this nonsense off, hand over the whole shebang, and join the Greens. She's better than this. This is just embarrassing now.
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Clash the latest in months of political infighting between the camps of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Zarah Sultana should sack this nonsense off, hand over the whole shebang, and join the Greens. She's better than this. This is just embarrassing now.
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If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
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KEVIN COSTNER: I’m selling eminent British actors to football clubs. Judy Dench to Arsenal. Charles Dance to Wolverhampton Wanderers.
ME: Not Chelsea?
KC: No. Dance is with Wolves.
ME: Not Chelsea?
KC: No. Dance is with Wolves.
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
KEVIN COSTNER: I’m selling eminent British actors to football clubs. Judy Dench to Arsenal. Charles Dance to Wolverhampton Wanderers.
ME: Not Chelsea?
KC: No. Dance is with Wolves.
ME: Not Chelsea?
KC: No. Dance is with Wolves.