There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.

E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.

This is how "This side says X, but the other side says Y" balance ends up distorting journalism. Instead of being based on the journalist's own independent, impartial analysis this question really just ventriloquises a partisan opposition stance and gives the impression the BBC fully agrees with it.

Some good news:

MPs voted 104 to 402, majority 298 to reject the Conservatives’ motion which stated the Government should “put the national interest first and not to row back on Brexit, for example by re-introducing free movement through a EU youth mobility scheme”.

Free speech latest.

This is why I watch European news. They don't both sides things.

I think this the first time Brexit has appeared as an attack line in a major English speaking political campaign.

How a false Net Zero claim became ‘news’

…a tweet by Reform MP and GB News presenter Richard Tice caught my eye. He was claiming that Net Zero was the cause of the Heathrow shutdown, and that the issue was a “refusal to have diesel generators”.

RFK at his confirmation hearing: “I am not anti-vaccine”

After RFK confirmed as HHS head:
- CDC flu vaccine campaign pulled
- Childhood vaccine schedule reviewed
- Federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates withdrawn
- Meeting to update flu vaccines cancelled

Emma Trimble, "1 in 12 people in London are illegal immigrants"

Professor Jonathan Portes, "Emma has taken that figure from a story in The Telegraph.. That story was a lie.. The Telegraph has corrected it, The Times has corrected it.. The Sun has corrected it.. And The Daily Mail has corrected it"

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I’m neurodivergent and have always struggled with emotional empathy; feeling what people are feeling. However I also have a brain and it’s not hard to figure out what hurts people and what doesn’t and to avoid those things if you actually want to. These people just don’t want to.

Agreed. UK must be made to implement an accessible asylum system. Channel crossings could have been stopped if UK gov had accepted French offer of a clearance centre in Calais. Torys never wanted a clearance centre coz 75% of claims succeed... and that wouldn't do, would it?

Where's our Referendum?

Left: Michael Westwood who started a petition for another general election because, "What they promised and what they're delivering is a different thing"

Right: That time Brexit Daniel Hannan promised that we would not leave the EU Single Market if people voted for Brexit

🚨🚨 The "concrete" and continuously harmful implications of #brexit. Stark words from @pmdfoster.bsky.social but he knows this reality better perhaps than any other journalist having reported on UK biz and Brexit for very long time. I strongly recommend his great State of Britain newsletter. 👇

Andrew Tate got banned from Bluesky in less than one day.

Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.

355 giant estates in the UK making up nearly 40% of its land including the King, Dukes, Lords and Barons are exempt from Inheritance Tax because their lands have 'historical value'.

This is a load of BS and it needs to be cancelled too.

🔥 Dominic Grieve: “Leaving the ECHR would be a disaster for Britain that Conservatives cannot contemplate”

Essentially it would boot us out of European transnational crime data sharing frameworks. So much for deporting criminals -we’d be importing them!