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To help Honest Bob Jenrick - whose video completely misrepresents the cab rank rule and the duties on barristers not to discriminate against politically unpopular clients - here’s something from last year. thesecretbarrister.com/2024/03/24/i...
Is it fair to criticise Keir Starmer for representing terrorists? Ten things you should know.
Following a series of attacks by the government and parts of the media against the leader of the opposition based on his career as a barrister, it appears necessary to sprinkle some facts into the …
thesecretbarrister.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
To help Honest Bob Jenrick - whose video completely misrepresents the cab rank rule and the duties on barristers not to discriminate against politically unpopular clients - here’s something from last year. thesecretbarrister.com/2024/03/24/i...
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New petition: "Immediately stop all arms exports to Israel & seek ceasefire in Gaza"
Deadline 5 June 2025, created by Patrick Madden
#NewPetition
Deadline 5 June 2025, created by Patrick Madden
#NewPetition
New petition: Immediately stop all arms exports to Israel & seek ceasefire in Gaza
We ask you to:
•Immediately suspend all arms licences and exports to Israel.
•Do everything in your power to seek an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
Just 30 out of around 350 licenses to Israel have been suspended. We do not believe this is enough.
petition.parliament.uk
December 5, 2024 at 9:46 AM
New petition: "Immediately stop all arms exports to Israel & seek ceasefire in Gaza"
Deadline 5 June 2025, created by Patrick Madden
#NewPetition
Deadline 5 June 2025, created by Patrick Madden
#NewPetition
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🚘 FREE DRIVING LESSONS FOR REFUGEES?!
If you've seen those headlines and felt a twinge of outrage, you're not alone.
But let's take a closer look at who's actually getting these lessons and why.
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If you've seen those headlines and felt a twinge of outrage, you're not alone.
But let's take a closer look at who's actually getting these lessons and why.
🧵
1/16
May 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🚘 FREE DRIVING LESSONS FOR REFUGEES?!
If you've seen those headlines and felt a twinge of outrage, you're not alone.
But let's take a closer look at who's actually getting these lessons and why.
🧵
1/16
If you've seen those headlines and felt a twinge of outrage, you're not alone.
But let's take a closer look at who's actually getting these lessons and why.
🧵
1/16
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So now that the EU is on the same 10% tariff as the UK, could we please hear from all those who tried to portray the previous scenario as a 'Brexit benefit'...
April 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So now that the EU is on the same 10% tariff as the UK, could we please hear from all those who tried to portray the previous scenario as a 'Brexit benefit'...
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Why would you move your manufacturing to America when next week the tariffs might half, or disappear, or double, or grow wings and fly, or be turned into a goblin, or become an emotion, or
April 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Why would you move your manufacturing to America when next week the tariffs might half, or disappear, or double, or grow wings and fly, or be turned into a goblin, or become an emotion, or
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Just Trump admitting he crashed the economies of multiple countries to enrich himself and his friends.
Where’s fraud-hunting DOGE when you need it!
Where’s fraud-hunting DOGE when you need it!
April 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Just Trump admitting he crashed the economies of multiple countries to enrich himself and his friends.
Where’s fraud-hunting DOGE when you need it!
Where’s fraud-hunting DOGE when you need it!
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Great but it needs to come with extra money so that you are not just displacing European applicants. The goal should be to minimise the fall in European + US research.
“Two weeks after the [Aix-Marseille University] programme was launched there have been about 100 applications, with researchers from Yale, Nasa and Stanford among those who have expressed interest. The university continues to receive about 10 applications a day” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts
Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Great but it needs to come with extra money so that you are not just displacing European applicants. The goal should be to minimise the fall in European + US research.
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The thing about the Rule of Law is it applies to everyone or no-one
The second thing about the Rule of Law is if you don’t agree with a decision then you appeal it, you most certainly don’t attack the judge for applying it
The third thing about the Rule Of Law is without it, you have chaos
The second thing about the Rule of Law is if you don’t agree with a decision then you appeal it, you most certainly don’t attack the judge for applying it
The third thing about the Rule Of Law is without it, you have chaos
March 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The thing about the Rule of Law is it applies to everyone or no-one
The second thing about the Rule of Law is if you don’t agree with a decision then you appeal it, you most certainly don’t attack the judge for applying it
The third thing about the Rule Of Law is without it, you have chaos
The second thing about the Rule of Law is if you don’t agree with a decision then you appeal it, you most certainly don’t attack the judge for applying it
The third thing about the Rule Of Law is without it, you have chaos
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One odd thing about all this is that that those who shout about wanting "de-regulation" are also clapping and cheering at tariffs, the one of the oldest forms of, well, regulating trade.
Words are detached from concepts, no connections are being made. Muddled (lack of) thinking instead of policy.
Words are detached from concepts, no connections are being made. Muddled (lack of) thinking instead of policy.
March 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
One odd thing about all this is that that those who shout about wanting "de-regulation" are also clapping and cheering at tariffs, the one of the oldest forms of, well, regulating trade.
Words are detached from concepts, no connections are being made. Muddled (lack of) thinking instead of policy.
Words are detached from concepts, no connections are being made. Muddled (lack of) thinking instead of policy.
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Remember: the televised punishment & humiliation meted out to Zelensky just now could be done to any NATO ally facing similar aggression. The sense of sneering hostility & contempt by Trump & Vance isn’t specific to Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Remember: the televised punishment & humiliation meted out to Zelensky just now could be done to any NATO ally facing similar aggression. The sense of sneering hostility & contempt by Trump & Vance isn’t specific to Ukraine.
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European Parliament member 👇🏽
February 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
European Parliament member 👇🏽
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This could be the UK. It won't be. But it could be.
(Remember that when someone else seizes the opportunity instead.)
(Remember that when someone else seizes the opportunity instead.)
There is a tremendous arbitrage opportunity for a country to give US scientists amnesty or fast-track citizenship to become an intellectual and research leader.
Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.
February 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This could be the UK. It won't be. But it could be.
(Remember that when someone else seizes the opportunity instead.)
(Remember that when someone else seizes the opportunity instead.)
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Amazing how quickly the security element of 'Project Fear' turned out to be an almighty bloody understatement...
February 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Amazing how quickly the security element of 'Project Fear' turned out to be an almighty bloody understatement...
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Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified…
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
February 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified…
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
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If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
February 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
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📈Lots of charts doing rounds re market jitters in the UK.
Here's one I find quite helpful 👇
It's the cost of insuring UK debt against default.
Two things to note:
1. People ARE more concerned. The CDS spread HAS jumped up recently.
2. It's nothing like what happened in 2022.
Here's one I find quite helpful 👇
It's the cost of insuring UK debt against default.
Two things to note:
1. People ARE more concerned. The CDS spread HAS jumped up recently.
2. It's nothing like what happened in 2022.
January 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
📈Lots of charts doing rounds re market jitters in the UK.
Here's one I find quite helpful 👇
It's the cost of insuring UK debt against default.
Two things to note:
1. People ARE more concerned. The CDS spread HAS jumped up recently.
2. It's nothing like what happened in 2022.
Here's one I find quite helpful 👇
It's the cost of insuring UK debt against default.
Two things to note:
1. People ARE more concerned. The CDS spread HAS jumped up recently.
2. It's nothing like what happened in 2022.
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'As it becomes ever harder for legacy news organisations to provide serious coverage & analysis of legal developments, courts themselves must do all they can to create improved lines of communication with those of us who cover their work & with the public at large'
open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...
open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...
Open justice
Open courts, open reporting, open decisions and open documents
open.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
'As it becomes ever harder for legacy news organisations to provide serious coverage & analysis of legal developments, courts themselves must do all they can to create improved lines of communication with those of us who cover their work & with the public at large'
open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...
open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...
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As Badenoch, Farage and others seem to have forgotten - we already had a national inquiry in child sexual exploitation.
It reported in Feb 2022.
The Tory Govt responded in July 2022.
When Badenoch was a minister.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
It reported in Feb 2022.
The Tory Govt responded in July 2022.
When Badenoch was a minister.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
IICSA: child sexual exploitation by organised networks
Report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), chaired by Professor Alexis Jay.
www.gov.uk
January 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
As Badenoch, Farage and others seem to have forgotten - we already had a national inquiry in child sexual exploitation.
It reported in Feb 2022.
The Tory Govt responded in July 2022.
When Badenoch was a minister.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
It reported in Feb 2022.
The Tory Govt responded in July 2022.
When Badenoch was a minister.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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We don't defeat populists by calling out their lies. We tried that. Facts are complicated, and the audience for populism wants simplicity. It won't work.
We defeat populists by enacting bold political ideas that improve lives for the disenfranchised, and make the world seem less grotesquely unfair.
We defeat populists by enacting bold political ideas that improve lives for the disenfranchised, and make the world seem less grotesquely unfair.
December 31, 2024 at 12:27 PM
We don't defeat populists by calling out their lies. We tried that. Facts are complicated, and the audience for populism wants simplicity. It won't work.
We defeat populists by enacting bold political ideas that improve lives for the disenfranchised, and make the world seem less grotesquely unfair.
We defeat populists by enacting bold political ideas that improve lives for the disenfranchised, and make the world seem less grotesquely unfair.